Treetop Teaching

Do you want a beginning of the year activity that gives you real information about how your students think, perceive, process, and learn best from the very first days in your room? This Left Brain vs Right Brain Test will guide your students through a series of questions, and they will record their answers on a "map of their brain". You can read the questions aloud, have the list printed for groups or individuals, or use the task cards included to make a task card scoot around the room. I know

Mastering the rules for capitalization can be tricky for students. After struggling to teach capitalization in way that students understood and could apply to their own writing naturally and effortlessly, I created this resource to teach the rules to capitalization in a way that was easy and fun through editing sentences. Students get one rule at a time and master it before adding on a new one. Each page introduces one new capitalization rule and reviews those previously taught and practiced. T

These commas rules worksheets condense the most common instances that commas are used to 8 simple commas rules so students can confidently master and understand them one at a time, adding a new rule each day after mastery. My students struggled knowing and using comma rules correctly every year (because commas are tricky!), and I knew something had to change. After noticing a huge deficit specifically in the understanding of when to use commas and where to place them correctly, I got to work to

Echo drawings require students to replicate the pattern or design they see. This activity engages both sides of the brain as students notice the visual spacing and shapes and then draw it themselves. Echo drawings help fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination in a simple way. There are different levels of difficulty, so you can start your students with the easiest echo drawings and work your way up to level 3. Each page contains 8 echo drawings with space for the students to replicate and a

This bundle includes of back to school activities I use in my classroom for the first week of school. Included in this bundle: 5 Math Puzzle Warm-ups: I use these as morning work every day for the first week of school. The format is similar from day to day, but the skills change. The pictures and puzzle format really excite the students. Reading Interest Survey: I use this coloring activity to discuss genres, give a tour of our classroom library, and get to know what the student like and disli

This resource has everything you need to help your students MASTER the rules for commas in a genuine and lasting way that will translate into their own writing. This bundle includes two resources Comma Rules Scaffolded NotesCommas Rules Posters and ReferencesThis resource includes the following items to help you teach and review rules for comma usage in your classroom: 8 comprehensive comma rules2 color choices- brights and neutrals3 printable sizes for each color schemePicture examples and ide

This interactive activity has students identifying parts of speech in sentences by moving digital pieces (or simply labeling) over each word depending on its function in the sentence.  Have you been teaching the 8 parts of speech to your students only to have to explain how “run” can be a noun in one sentence, a verb in another, and an interjection in yet another? Help your students really master parts of speech by having them identify them in the context of different sentences. It works in any

This resource includes the following items to help you teach and review the 8 parts of speech in your classroom: - Parts of Speech Poem- This is a fun rhyming poem to help students master and remember the definitions and examples for each part of speech. Adding motions to when reciting this poem about the parts of speech will take engagement to a whole new level. Two different versions are included making it easy to print just the portion or few parts of speech that your students need. - Parts

Need daily grammar activity that has high student buy-in with no prep for the teacher? This set is guaranteed to get your students thinking in a way that feels fun and challenging with spiral review of grammar skills needed for writing. This bundle will grow to include 32 weeks (8 sets of 4 weeks) of slides covering a variety of grammar and word skills that you can cover with your class in 5 minutes or less a day. Each set varies in the activities in the activities it utilizes to ensure that s

These task cards offer a new and interactive way for students to practice identifying misspelled words. Students learn to use a dictionary or online reference tool to discover AND correct the misspelled word. This resource for identifying misspelled words contains: *90 Total Task Cards *70 regular task cards *20 challenge cards *Answer Sheet for students to record answers *Answer Key for teacher use Tips for using this resource: These work great in a writing/grammar/reading

These logical math puzzles with pictures will give your students the opportunity to use their understanding of basic mathematical operations and problem solving skills to discover the value of each symbol. They are an easy way to engage your students in genuine and meaningful math conversations about math properties while fostering their algebraic understanding. This set of logical math puzzles with pictures are perfect for advanced 5th graders and most middle school math students. Each set incl

This product includes two different downloads: PDF version of the To-Do lists with 8 different styles and 3 different sizes that fit in the Large, Classic, and Mini Happy PlannersPPT editable version of two of the styles (4 & 5 sections) in all three sizes that fit in the Large, Classic, and Mini Happy Planners.For best results: Choose the list(s) that will work best for your needs and your plannerIf using the editable version, add in your own sub titles in your own fontsPrint on colored card

This Echo Drawings Bundle will grow to include 10 echo drawing sets each with 3 levels of difficulty covering a variety different themes throughout the year. This is a growing bundle which means after you purchase, you get access to any and all additions for free. Echo drawings require students to replicate the pattern or design they see. This activity engages both sides of the brain as students notice the visual spacing and shapes and then draw it themselves. Echo drawings help fine motor skil

How many times have to started to grade a student's written work only to see the wrong 'your' or 'to' used in his sentence? I knew there had to be a fun way for students to practice and master using the correct homophones besides plain old homophone worksheets. This resource includes a reference guide that has the homophones with meanings and sentence examples for each and can be printed front and page on just one page. The homophone reference guide is a perfect companion to the task cards that

These leveled magic square puzzles are sure to excite and challenge your students! With 10 levels varying and increasing in difficulty, your students will solve the magic square puzzles and progress to the next level.  What is a magic square? The premise of a magic square is that anyway you could get tic-tac-toe in a 3X3 magic square must add to the magic number. This means any vertical, diagonal, and horizontal line of three numbers must add to the magic number (which will change from puzzle to

This resource includes the following items to help you teach and review rules with comma usage in your classroom: 8 comprehensive comma rules 2 color choices- brights and neutrals3 printable sizes for each color schemePicture examples and ideas for using in your classroom- Rules for Commas Posters (Large)- There are two different versions of these posters for parts of speech: one bright color version and one neutral color version. Each poster covers a different comma rule and is sized to print p

If your students need some extra practice with capitalization, but seem to check out for the boring capitalization worksheets, this is for you (and them!). Students will break the code by deciding if a word needs to be capitalized, and if so, WHY! The capitalization rule number is what will break the code, so they can answer the joke at the bottom of the page. They get progressively more tricky because not every word with a symbol needs to be capitalized - these are spaces in the answers- and n

Getting to know a whole group of new reading at the beginning of the year is not for the faint of heart. This print & go activity will give you the information you need in a format that your students will love! Sure there are lots of reading surveys, but it is the format (it doesn't look like a test) that is going to be way more exciting! There is something about coloring (and with NEW SUPPLIES) that just gets students excited. The best part is that this reading interest survey is totally cus

Make identifying misspelled word fun! Students find the correctly spelled words on each page to reveal the coloring code. Then they use that code to color the themed coloring page. Students can use a dictionary or internet search to find the correct spelling of the words. There are lots of tips included for helping differentiate the use of dictionaries for your students who may be struggling with using reference materials. I highly suggest encouraging your students to use a dictionary for even

This freebie includes this capacity conversions worksheet that accompanies well with a hand-on activity of measuring out ounces, cups, pints, quarts, and gallons. An answer key is also included. I had students cut out the pieces for the Gallon Person prior to the lesson so that they could use the pieces to see that 2 cups fit perfectly over 1 pint piece. Or 4 quart pieces fit perfectly over 1 gallon piece. And so on! Then, using that information, they solved the trickier conversions at the bo