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The end of the school year is a bitter sweet time for both teachers and students. Use this activity to help your students reflect upon their past year and look forward to the new school year to come! This activity will serve as a writing activity for the current students in your class to reflect and answer questions about how they navigated their way through this school year. Then you will save their answers to the questions and leave them on, in their desks until the new school year, so your n

Snow Days can be fun for both teachers and students. However, losing a day of routines and education may be frustrating for parents. This is the perfect opportunity to have a home-school connection across all the curricular areas. For this activity, students choose activities that they can do from home, to continue to practice some of those key skills they are learning in school. However you chose to use this activity, you will have your students complete a given number of activities during the

Is it hard for you to keep track of your students work while they are absent? Do your students misplace their work when you give them a nice stack of papers when they return? Look no further! With this easy printable, you can write down the assignments your students are missing throughout the day, while you pass out papers. Just place this cover page on top of the pile of missing work, staple it, and add a short description for each assignment and you'll be good to go. There is a section on the

Easter is such a fun time for students, especially because of Easter break! Do you need to fill a few days of E.L.A. before Spring Break or Easter Break? Make writing more fun by having your class publish their own short stories! This package will guide your students through the pre-writing/ brainstorming, rough draft, and final draft process. Your students will also love the added touch of snacking on their very own marshmallow peep! Included in this download you will find: -1 teacher instructi

When I worked in a PrePrimary Classroom, this is a very similar Progress Report that we would use to send home student growth throughout the year. We would also use this document to guide conversation during parent-teacher conferences. We were a Montessori based school, so some of the content of this report will reflect upon those curricular skills. This is an editable document, so feel free to add or take away subject matter that applies to you and your specific group of students. Included in t

If you are anything like me, you LOVE to hang student work! I created these bulletin board letters so I could hang my students artwork for a Dot Day activity found on TPT (https://tinyurl.com/dhzj5awc). All you will need to do is print these letters on colored construction paper and laminate. I hung mine on my whiteboard, so I added magnets to the back so I can reuse these letters next year. This resource ONLY CONTAINS BULLETIN BOARD LETTERS, not the dot activity. If you are interested in the do

Do you need to spice up your math centers/ activities? This is an easy way to use manipulatives while teaching area and perimeter. Students will use Cheez-Its to help them measure the shape of a rectangle. They will use the crackers to help them check their work as well as create addition and multiplication problems to represent both the area and perimeter of their shapes created. Included in this download you will find: -1 handout where students will draw their shapes as well as their equation

This is a fun and easy way to teach opinion writing to your class! Use the O.R.E.O. acronym to generate interest and hook your students (maybe even use Oreos too!). This writing activity will have your students smiling all week. Students will get to pick their own topic to write an opinion piece on, or you could assign one to them. This download will guide your students through the brainstorming, rough draft, and final draft process. It even includes a rubric you can use to grade their finished

Snow Days can be fun, for both teachers and students. Once you come back to school, all your students want to do is share with you and their friends al of the exciting things they did with their extra day off. This may be hard for teachers who are trying to catch up on the day of instructional time they already missed out on. For this activity, students will think about what about their favorite activities they did on their extra day from school. This can be used as a quick sharing activity for

Do you need a fun way to make writing more interesting? Make writing more fun by having your class publish their own newspaper articles! This package will guide your students through the prewriting and rough draft process. Either assign topics for your students to write about, or let their creativity flow and let them choose their own past/ current events to research and write about! Included in this download you will find: -2 K.W.L charts pre-writing/ brainstorming activity for students to org

Snow Days can be fun for both teachers and students. However, losing a day of routines and education may be frustrating for parents. This letter can be attached to any work that you plan to send home in case of a snow day. This way families are provided with materials that are relevant to what is being taught at school. However you chose to use this letter, you will have to attach work to be given to your students to complete during their snow day. Included in this download you will find: -9 gr

Help your students calm their test day nerves! These cute and simple tags can be paired with a Lifesavors Mint the morning of an important testing day. Included in this download you will find: -1 sheet of 4 "A Little Encourage-MINT" tags to print and copy for each of your students.- 1 sheet of "You were MINT to Ace This Test" tagsI am Mandy from S'more Teaching. Find me on Instagram and I'd love to connect! Earn TPT Credits for future purchases• Go to your “My Purchases” page and click on the

The end of the school year is a bitter sweet time for both teachers and students. A lot of classes have some sort of countdown until the end of the year. In our class we count down the last 10 days of school by popping a balloon at the end of each day, revealing what fun activity or theme we will have the next morning. Included in this download you will find: -Letter to Parents -Letter to Parents (with fill in sections) - Calendar Template- Editable Calendar (with fill in sections) I am Mandy f

The end of the school year is a bitter sweet time for both teachers and students. A lot of classes have some sort of countdown until the end of the year. In our class we count down the last 10 days of school by popping a balloon at the end of each day, revealing what fun activity or theme we will have the next morning. Included in this download you will find: -Example Template-Editable Calendar (with fill in sections) I am Mandy from S'more Teaching. Find me on Instagram and I'd love to conne

This resource is a quick reference guide for you 3rd grade teachers out there trying to familiarize yourselves with the Common Core State Standards. Inside this pack you will receive: - Binder Cover- Outlines of all ELA, Science, Social Studies, and Mathematics Ohio Common Core State Standards - Checklists of all ELA, Science, Social Studies, and Mathematics Ohio Common Core State Standards ** all subject area checklists have 3 sections for the teacher to mark down dates the subject matter was

Included in this download are both leveled spelling lists (on level and beyond level) that correlate to the 3rd grade WONDERS curriculum in Unit 1, 2, & 3. In Unit 1, 2, & 3 there are a total of 15 weeks. List a is the on-level spelling word list, while list b is the beyond level list. You can use these worksheets for spelling practice or spelling homework. Included in this download you will find: UNIT 1-List a & b Week 1 (short a & i) -List a & b Week 2 (short e, o, u) -List a & b Week

Spring Break has come and gone. We all wish it were just a few days longer, but alas- school is back in session. Do you need to fill a few days of E.L.A. you get back into your groove? This writing activity will have your students smiling all week. Students will get to pick their favorite memories, or "snapshots" from their break and share it with the class! This package will guide your students through the brainstorming, rough draft, and final draft process. Included in this download you will f

Do you need a fun way to make writing more interesting? Make writing more fun by having your class publish their own newspaper articles! This package will guide your students through the pre-writing/ brainstorming, rough draft, and final draft process. Either assign topics for your students to write about, or let their creativity flow and let them choose their own past/ current events to research and write about! Included in this download you will find: -2 K.W.L charts pre-writing/ brainstorming

If you are looking for an editable Take Home Folder template, look no further! Print these out use them to label your students folders so they do not get mixed up! Included in this download you will find: -3 individual pages of boho themed covers with the ability to edit the students name, teachers name, school, and grade levelI am Mandy from S'more Teaching. Find me on Instagram and I'd love to connect! Earn TPT Credits for future purchases • Go to your “My Purchases” page and click on the “

Thank you for your interest in my parent donation template! If you have a different theme in your classroom such as 'bears' and you would like me to cater this template to your theme such as having cubs on the donation cards, post a suggestion in the Q & A section and I will try to accommodate to your theme! Included in this packet you will find: - “Welcome to Our Hive” sign for the table - 2 Different bee templates- Description cardsOnce you print and cut out as many bees and descriptions as yo