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Make Shakespeare engaging from Day One! This hands-on, highly interactive Character Mixer is the perfect way to introduce students to Romeo & Juliet before reading the play. Students step into character roles, interview classmates, and explore relationships, motivations, and conflicts — all before ever opening the text. By the end, they’ll already understand who’s who, why they matter, and how their choices drive the story. This resource includes everything you need to run the activity success

Worksheets with templates for acrostic poems for the names Capulet & Montague as well as the following characters from Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet: Romeo, Juliet, Nurse, Tybalt, Benvolio & Mercutio

ABCs of music book template for students. Great for sub plans. Students choose a music term, write the definition and draw a picture. They can also put their own touch by coloring the letters in creative designs.

Activity sheet to accompany the book When the Beat Was Born by Laban Carrick Hill.

This is part 3 of the Romeo & Juliet Character Mixer bundle.

This is part 2 of the Romeo & Juliet Character Mixer bundle.

This is part one of the Romeo & Juliet Character Mixer activity.

Help your students learn technology vocabulary with this fun technology bingo game. The game features technology related subjects such as hardware, icons, tools, and accessories. The download includes 35 student cards, 1 caller sheet, and directions.

ABCs of theatre book template for students. Great for sub plans. Students choose a theatrical term, write the definition and draw a picture. They can also put their own touch by coloring the letters in creative designs.

This is a worksheet that allows students to brainstorm and create their own mnemonic device to remember the note names in the Treble Clef. It shows the notes and their names, gives students a box to brainstorm words to create their saying and then a box to draw a picture of the saying that they created. The second side allows students to do the same thing with F, A, C, E or they can just leave it as FACE and draw a face in the picture box. Some of my students enjoyed coming up with something

This is a 12-page book about the moon for students to cut, color and read. I created it specifically for 1st grade but it could also be used in K or 2nd.

Activity sheet that accompanies the story Never Play Music Right Next to the Zoo by John Lithgow. Great for music class and for sub lesson plans.

Fun worksheet for students to share how music touches their lives.

Frayer model notes for students to use for classifying musical instruments using the Hornbostel–Sachs method. These worksheets include aerophones, chordophones, membranophones and idiophones.

Activity sheet with several different activities supporting the book Click, Clack Moo Cows That Type.

A game for students modeled after the popular Scattergories board game. 18 categories for students to play all centering around technology. Great for any technology class when the power goes out, the internet is down or you have a sub. If you enjoy, please leave positive feedback, I'd sure appreciate it.

20 Would You Rather questions to engage your theatre students in lively discussion about what types of theatre experiences they would rather participate in.