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Use these signs to help students choose centers while maintaining an effective number of students in each space. This helps students make decisions, make choices, problem solve, and even deal with disappointment. Includes directions and file for creating student picture cards for the signs.

Tic Tac Toe choice boards, graphic organizers, recording sheets, and writing paper to guide students through reflecting on the past and developing a goal for the upcoming year. You might also like:Bubblegum Praise and Goal SettingClassroom Procedures: Journal Pages, Prompts, and Minibook

This freebie contains a cut and paste sheet for plant parts, a cut and paste for plant needs, two garden/plant picture dictionary pages and a writing page.

Time to the hour and half hour game and practice sheet.

A quick and easy craft with student hand prints to create Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. It can be a stand alone or used as a topper for writing topper.

Gingerbread people math mats for numbers 3 through 10. Great for composing and decomposing numbers. Spill out buttons, sequins, or other counters onto the mats and write an equation to go with it.

Several years ago, a hurricane passed through my state. While We received quite a lot of damage, other places in the country were much more severely impacted. As my students returned to school, I realized that they had been exposed to quite a bit of media, including images and stories of destruction and death in the wake of the storm. Many of them were frightened and upset. So I decided to help process through some of those feelings with some discussion drawing and writing activities. Some o

Detailed instructions for making a literacy station rotation wheel. The file includes editable inner wheels in several sizes.

A ladybug math mat to use when practicing composing and decomposing numbers. Place the target number of 2 color counters in a small cup and spill them out on the mat. Separate the colors on each side of the ladybug and record the combination. Students should repeat this until all combinations have been discovered or until the student begins to develop an understanding of number relationships and patterns.

I Have, Who Has Shapes game using circle, square, triangle, rectangle, hexagon, oval, heart, crescent, star, octagon, rhombus, pentagon, and trapezoid.