THE LEARNING BEACH

Get your Third Graders ENGAGED and EXCITED about Grammar Instruction with my Rainbow Grammar Resources! You can use Rainbow Grammar to SUPPLEMENT and ENHANCE the grammar program that you already use in your classroom. Rainbow Grammar will ENGAGE your students because they will use crayons or colored pencils to color-code parts of speech daily! It's all about REPITITION and REVIEW with Rainbow Grammar! Rainbow Grammar will get your students EXCITED about grammar instruction because ev

If you have a tropical, beach themed classroom, these EDITABLE Meet the Teacher postcards are PERFECT to send to your new students for Back to School. Get your students excited for your beach classroom with these beautiful postcards. There is a space for you to tell them about yourself, your favorite things, and your experience. Just type your information into the text boxes, print onto card stock front to back, cut the post card out, add a stamp, and drop them in the mail. Imagine how excit

If you are a beach or dolphin lover, this welcome sign if for you. I hope you enjoy this adorable dolphin sign to welcome students to your beach classroom. **Font does not show up in the thumbnail.

If you use the 2014 version of the **CCSS** aligned HMH Journeys reading series, this vocabulary power point is for you. I created this power point to make introducing the weekly vocabulary words to my class a bit more exciting. This presentation is to be used with Unit 1 Lesson 2: The Trial of Cardigan Jones. I am a firm believer in allowing my students many opportunities to share their thinking with a partner, so I included opportunities a "turn and talk" slide for each word. This presentatio

If you use the 2014 version of the **CCSS** aligned HMH Journeys reading series, this vocabulary power point is for you. I created this power point to make introducing the weekly vocabulary words to my class a bit more exciting. This presentation is to be used with Unit 1 Lesson 1: A Fine, Fine School. I am a firm believer in allowing my students many opportunities to share their thinking with a partner, so I included opportunities for a "turn and talk" slide for each word. This presentation in

This 'year at a glance' planning template will keep you on track for the entire school year! You can edit this template to meet your planning needs by adding your school dates on the left hand side. The subjects you teach can be added to the top of the template. Add the skills you teach underneath the subject headings. This template can be completely customized to meet your planning needs for the entire school year.

This reading interest inventory is a great resource for teachers to use at the beginning of the year to learn more about their students as readers. It is a great tool for teachers who use Daily 5 or any reading workshop model where students are reading independently. In the primary grades, you can read the statements aloud and have your kids color accordingly. In the upper grades, students can complete this inventory independently. With this simple inventory, you can find out the reading interes