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A year's worth of daily morning icebreakers to engage students in a quick and meaningful way! Fully EDITABLE to fit your needs and wants! These were made with no student contact in mind. Quotes and questions can be used for class discussions and/or journaling. If you’re distance learning, they can be projected and utilized if you share your screen. Motivational Monday - inspirational sayings!Trivia Tuesday - fun trivia questions with embedded answers! (just click the board to reveal!)Would Y

A year's worth of daily morning icebreakers to engage students in a quick and meaningful way! Fully EDITABLE to fit your needs and wants! Motivational Monday - inspirational sayings!Trivia Tuesday - fun trivia questions with embedded answers! (just click the board to reveal!)Wow Wednesday - crazy, cool facts to blow your students' minds!Tricky Thursday - jokes/riddles with embedded answers! (just click the board to reveal!)Fun Friday - games with little to no prep involved!

The Pumpkin Box by Angela Johnson is a story that introduces 4 main skills - inferring, clarifying by rereading, questioning, summarizing. This is a perfect beginning of the year activity or a filler before or around testing to reinforce skill knowledge. This resource was made with virtual learning in mind, but this would also work in-person learning. The best part is that everything is completely EDITABLE through Google! What this pack includes: - Student-friendly objectives and The Pumpkin

A year's worth of morning meetings to engage students in a quick and meaningful way! Fully EDITABLE to fit your needs and wants! The Morning Meeting routine includes a Greeting + Activity, Sharing, and Our Agenda. Greeting + Activity: a musical or movement activity/game Sharing: Motivational Monday - inspirational sayings!Trivia Tuesday - fun trivia questions with embedded answers! (just click the board to reveal!)Would You Rather Wednesday - intriguing questions that make students think and c

Help your students stay accountable for their learning and time during Math with trackers! Although I use the acronym TIME to organize my Math block, these are completely EDITABLE so they can meet your needs. How the tracker works: I distribute one tracker to each student per week. They have choice time after we meet together as a class to learn our new topic and take notes. They must complete Technology daily for 20 minutes, Independence daily, Making Meaning (playing a hands-on game; games

A fun way to review critical skills before Winter Break! Countries featured: -Australia -Mexico -Germany -Egypt -China Country slides include: -map with country circled -country video/site with generic fun facts -skill & objective featured -skill practice Skills covered: -Comparing two texts on the same topic -Finding answers using text evidence -Putting events from the text in sequential order **Please note that my students' assignment (not included) will have the featured country's holida

Is your class reading Phineas L. MacGuire Gets Slimed!? Engage your class with these vocabulary and comprehension activities for each chapter of the book! FULLY EDITABLE to meet your needs! Each comprehension page includes two options, one creative activity and one straight-forward activity. The following skills are addressed: · Point of view · Character analysis · Text evidence · Writing in complete sentences/paragraphs · Text features · Cross-curricular connections · Text structure

Do you and your students have trouble keeping track of what they need to do and what they've already done during guided reading or reading workshop? This tracker will take away of the guess work and provide a concrete list of what students have completed. Notice the "Must Do" section at the bottom helping students check off what's completed! **Note: I only do Guided Reading Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday. There is no Wednesday listed on the sheet, but it can be easily edited to add/change

This simple document is to keep students accountable while reading ANY piece of text and thinking about theme. It reviews the concept of theme and gives them thinking points to help them stay on track while reading. Then it asks for the theme of the text and how they know! This can just be an in-class activity or used as an exit ticket.

Students can apply for classroom jobs with this easy to use form!

Do your students have trouble with their times tables? Just print, cut the pages in half, and hand out to your students! Can be used for practice or timed drills.