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Lesson plans, activities, and poster to accompany the book, After the Fall: How Humpty Dumpty Got Back Up Again by Dan Santat

Includes 10 printable activities to be used in a packet or on their own. Plus lesson plans and a book list. 22 pages total Activities: Weather Watch The Wild Scavenger Hunt Scavenger Hunt Graph Everybody Needs a Rock Stream Life Stream Life Poem Bird Watchers at Work One Inch World One Inch World cont. I Spy in the Sky Map the Nature Trail

Poster, activities, and lesson to go along with the book My Mouth is a Volcano by Julia Cook.

Parents are constantly asking for ways to help their child with reading at home. This is a small packet to send home to help parents know how to help. This is not a guide to teach parents how to instruct their children. Teaching reading should be done at school, practicing reading can be done at home with parents. What is included: Packet Cover Parent Letter Reading to Your Child Helping your Child Read Sample Questions What about a Bad Attitude? This is a great resource to send home with your

Lap book: Color and black and white 4 Major Native American Tribes of Tennessee Food, Homes, Tools, Clothing Vocabulary Cards Text on each tribe (4 readings)

Ready to start using an interactive Science Journal? Need some help to know where to start? This is your resource. Get started with the basic scientific processes and you will see how easy the process can be. This product includes: Interactive Notebook Cover Lesson Plan with resources; What is a Scientist? Lesson Plan with resources; Scientist Tools Lesson Plan with resources: Scientific Method Song Bulletin board resources Hands on Center Activity Book List

Includes: 4 weeks of plans- Water Cycle, Clouds, Severe Weather, Forecasting Interactive Science Journal Inserts, Experiments, Cloud Finder, Diorama Project, Assessment Over 30 pages of Resources

*This resource is for those who have read Teaching to Strengths, Supporting Students living with Trauma, Violence, and Chronic Stress By: Debbie Zacarian, Lourdes Alvarez-Ortiz, and Judie Haynes. The resources in this product are built around the basic ideas listed here: “We have to give as much attention to acknowledging and building positive qualities as we have given a to repairing damage.” Identify students’ existing strengths Honor value and acknowledge these strengths Help students becom

Working in a group requires important skill. These skills are not always innate, they must be taught. Taking the time to facilitate proper groups will help your year role smoothly and successfully. I like to keep groups of 5 or fewer students. I rather have a group of 4 than 6 so I will make more groups instead of more kids within a group. Every student should have a role within the group. Each role has a responsibility. Emphasis the responsibility. Make sure only that student does their

Spend a day celebrating pies because, come on, who does not love pies? This is a whole day of lessons and activities organized around the theme of pies. Students will read, write, do math and science all through the pie topic. Have students and teachers where an apron! This is a great day of fun before Thanksgiving or National Pi Day. Reading- read aloud, cause/effect lesson, small group activities Writing- How to Writing Math- Multiplication or Fraction pie activity, surveying and graph maki

Sharing through the Season is a non-religious project for students to complete in December as a fun way to share their traditions and favorite parts of the season with their classmates. This is a fun way for students to practice reading fluency, comprehension and reading aloud. It provides students with ownership of a projects. Yet it is simple enough that a student that may not have help at home can still complete it and be successful. This project can be done at home as a home project or with

This homework chart and graph can be used to keep track of completed homework. The results are then automatically graphed. The results can be used as an incentive for the students. This excel document creates a graph from a basic chart that can then be hung in the classroom or attached to a blog. -Jessica Jarrett Homework Chart and Graph