If you are implementing a study of the different traditions of Christmas Around the World, this informational text article is for you! This article is approximately 800 words long and gives information in regards to Christmas traditions in Australia complete with dinner menus, decorations, and favorite pastimes. Additionally, the articles contains several illustrations complete with captions that compliment the text. At the conclusion of the article, there is a formative quiz complete with multiple choice questions as well as open-ended questions regarding the article. The last question is a performance based question where students will create a dinner menu for twenty-five guests based on relevant information in the article. Your students are sure to enjoy this study of Australia!

You are sure to engage your students with this informational text article entitled, "Will your shoes be filled with goodies or twigs?" This article is approximately 800 words long and includes text illustrations including captions with each. At the conclusion of the article, there is a formative quiz with nine different questions including multiple choice questions, open-ended questions, and performances-based scenarios. If you and your class are engaged in a study of Christmas Around the World, you will not want to miss this article!

You will absolutely engage your students with this wonderful informational text article that most every child can relate to. This is an informational text article about the Home Alone mansion being on the real estate market. The article is approximately 680 words long and is completed with several illustrations, including captions, to motivate any reader. At the conclusion of the article, there is a ten question formative quiz that ranges from multiple choice questions regarding vocabulary to open-ended questions which require inferencing and multi-step thinking! You can't go wrong in working on vocabulary and comprehension utilizing this informational text!

As your students prepare to go back to school from the Christmas holidays, this is an exciting resource that your students can make connections with for sure! This resource is an informational text article about the famous iconic series "The Love Boat." This year is the fiftieth anniversary of the show and the celebrations are being kicked off at the Rose Bowl Parade where the original cast members will be on "The Love Boat" float! This article is approximately 790 words long and includes a formative quiz which includes ten questions that range from multiple choice to open-ended formats. This is an awesome resource to review comprehension and get back into school after a long Christmas break!

As the 100th day of school approaches, get all of your students excited about what they have already accomplished this school year as well as what is in store for them for the rest of the school year. In this resource, you will find a mini-poster for students to all involve themselves in some writing activities that include: a self portrait of what they believe they would look like in 100 years, a listing of the games that they believe that children will play in 100 years, a writing activity about what their hope is in the world of medicine in the next 100 years, a writing activity about what they believe will be available in the world of technology in 100 years, a writing activity about what life was like for a student 100 years ago, and what they predict their world will be like in 100 years. Many of these exercises are meant to be springboards for further research and study and more extended writing activities as well as performance based projects. Students will all enjoy this activity. When complete, you might display each students’ poster!

A mini-poster your students are sure to enjoy! It's All About 100! *I can do 100... *I wish I had 100... *On the 100th day of school, I will... *In the last 100 days, I have... *In the next 100 days, I will... *A fact I can tell you about 100 is... *If I had 100 dollars, I would...

It’s the 100th day of school! In this resource, students are given $100.00 to spend with sample ad circulars. As well, there are two shopping lists provided in the packet. Students use the following ads and prepare their budget! Students are asked: "What do you think that you need to purchase on the 100th day of school? You have $100.00 to spend and you may not go over your budget! Make your list on the shopping list given to you by your teacher. Make sure that you get the most for your money! Show your work on your notebook paper!" Students will enjoy making their list, adding up their products, and doing their best not to go over $100.00.

You are sure to want to use this informational text article with your students! This is an article about Abe Lincoln and his rise to the presidency. It is approximately 1,400 words long and has illustrations that match the text. As well, there is a ten question formative quiz at the conclusion of the article. Questions range from multiple choice to open ended short answers. Your students are sure to enjoy this text!

This resource is a mini-poster to celebrate the 100th day of school with your students. Each component of the mini-poster sets the stage for a thought-provoking response. Students must figure out what year they will be 100. They must say where they think that they will live and how they will travel. They must tell what they will be famous for as well as how they will communicate with family and friends 100 years from now. Finally, they must describe or draw a self-portrait of what they believe they will look like! Students will have a great time with this activity!

In this packet, there are eight writing prompts focusing on Abraham Lincoln. There are two prompts on each page and can be easily set up to use in writing centers or in whole group instruction. These are great tools as well for research and investigation. The prompts range from Lincoln's campaign to Presidency to his assassination. They are all somewhat open-ended in nature so that you, as the teacher, can dictate the length. Your students are sure to enjoy them!

How many of us have great intentions when it comes to placing on our "To-Do" list making a positive call, email, text, etc. to one of our students' parents to communicate with them something great their child has achieved. While we have great intentions, all too often, it "slips to the back burner" and doesn't happen as often as it should. Use this resource to make sure this happens, and use it as a tool to make sure that within a given amount of time most all of your students have received that magic "bellsouth" call expressing something that everyone can be proud of... we know that many times the not-so-positive phone call, email, text, etc is received so much better and more positive when a positive piece of news has been shared as well along the way. Use this log to keep track of your communication as well as a tool to utilize at parent conferences-- great tool to begin the year with not to mention how much students will love your efforts!

In this packet, you will find approximately thirty-three pages of photo props. The props include the following: (1) Liberty Bell; (2) God Bless America statement; (3) Uncle Sam Top hat: (4) Betsy Ross; (5) bouquets of fireworks; (6) Rockets; (7) the American Flag; (8) the Statue of Liberty; (9) Uncle Sam; (10) a July 4th Emogi; (11) an American cupcake, and many more! There is at least eight of each photo prop so you shouldn’t lack for everyone having a great choice as to what he/she might want to use in making his or her perfect photo. Are you planning a summer get together in the back yard? Are you working with a summer enrichment program and want to create a photo booth for your kiddos? Are you looking for a fun activity to do with your own kiddos? If any of these scenarios apply, look no more… you have found the perfect activity. Everyone loves to make selfies and other pics with family and friends to cherish forever! If you have boas or other props to put with these, the more the merrier. All you need to do is to print these on heavy cardstock, cut them out, and glue to a dowel or even a skewer in some instances. For young children, please be sure to use dowels in that skewers sometimes have sharp ends! Happy Independence Day!

Start the school year off right with a creative, top-ten countdown activity! Your students will love it! Students are able to introduce themselves to you and their classmates with a list of ten things to learn about them. Have fun and use this as an ice-breaker activity to get the year cranked up!

This resource packet is a must for heading back to school. It’s uses are multiple! The first fifteen slides are for each child in your classroom to celebrate his or her uniqueness as he/she comes back to school to get started with a new school year. Students are able to draw a portrait of themselves in the middle oval of the crayon template and then write a message about themselves somewhere on the crayon! Finally, they can color the entire crayon template for an awesome bulletin board to begin the year with a community of learners! Next, there are six slides of colored crayons that can be used for class name tags, a classroom door, desk plates, or a class bulletin board. The final six slides are templates of boxes of colors that can be utilized for the same purposes! Begin the year with a colorful theme! The students will love it!

This resource packet will serve one well all year. Enclosed you will find each day of the week in uniquely different designs. These can be used for many different activities such as: learning the days of the week, understanding the order of the days of the week, and working with a big group with the calendar. These day of the week plates might also be used in a writing center in learning to write each day of the week. Finally, these day plates might be helpful in a literacy center in learning how the calendar works!

This is an awesome PowerPoint training on classroom management. This resource contains forty-seven slides and is appropriate for all teachers, administrators, and other educators. This can be used in a focused faculty meeting, a professional development session, or even a small professional learning community! This training is full of strategies that are researched and recommended by Harry and Rosemary Wong! You don't want to miss grabbing this resource for a back-to-school session with your colleagues!

For all of you owl lovers out there getting ready to start back to school, this resource is a set of approximately fifty name plates that can be utilized for each student that follow an owl theme! Brighten your classroom with these versatile name plates that will make each one of your students feel special and important. Each name plate can be laminated to each students’ desks and lockers. They can also be used to personalize announcements and schedules! Have an awesome school year!

For all of you beach, ocean, and fish lovers out there getting ready to start back to school, this resource is a set of thirty name plates that can be utilized for each student that follow an fish, ocean, and beach theme! Brighten your classroom with these versatile name plates that will make each one of your students feel special and important. Each name plate can be laminated to each students’ desks and lockers. They can also be used to personalize announcements and schedules! Have an awesome school year!

For all of you sock monkey lovers out there getting ready to start back to school, this resource is a set of approximately ninety student name plates that can be utilized for each student that follow a sock monkey theme! Brighten your classroom with these versatile name plates that will make each one of your students feel special and important. Each name plate can be laminated to each students’ desks and lockers. They can also be used to personalize announcements and schedules! Have an awesome school year!

What child does not love sock monkeys? This resource is a set of seven classroom rules with a sock money theme! You may only want to use four or five of the rules or change the rules out to suit the needs of your classroom and the challenges that it presents!