Our classrooms are full of native digital learners. Learners who do not know life any different than being connected 24/7– they have unlimited data, face-time, snap chat, and utilize many, many other applications. Because of this, students must continually be educated about proper on-line etiquette and procedures for on-line behavior. In this resource, you will find six mini-posters that are perfect to place above your whiteboard. Each expresses a statement of proper etiquette/on-line procedures for the web. In this information age of technology, it is so completely important for students to be able to think rational and logical where on-line procedures are concerned. These posters are reminders of expected on-line behavior.

Your students are absolutely going to love this community building activity! In this resource, you will find many different photo props that your students will love to choose from to make the perfect “beginning of the school year” photo to cherish all year! Props include sayings such as (1) I’m a hot mess! (2) Say Cheese; (3) I’m Ready to Learn! (4) “I’m Only Here for Recess!” and many, many others (see entire list of photo props below)! There are approximately seventy-five photo props to choose from or choose multiple ones for different photo combinations. These photos can be used in conjunction with an “All About Me” activity, a poetry writing session about "Our New Classroom", and many many other classroom community building activities! Most of all, they can be used just to have simple plain fun as the school year gets cranked up and ready to go! Each photo prop is ready to go. One needs to simply download, copy on card-stock, laminate if possible for future year’s use, and glue or tape to a popsicle stick or any other type of short dowel, etc. Have an awesome time setting up your background to use these props! List of Photo Props: ** "I Look Good and I Know It!" ** Most Likely to Succeed ** Bookworm ** 1st Day of School 2016 (each grade level from kindergarten to 6th grade ** Class Clown ** WhooHoo! ** "I'm a Hot Mess!" ** OMG!! ** Photo Bomb ** "That's What He Said!" ** "That's What She Said!" ** "Say Cheese!" ** 2LEGIT 2QUIT ** LIKE! ** DISLIKE! ** Best Hair ** Most Athletic ** #1 Finger Sign ** Books ** Bow Ties (four of these; different colors) ** Eyeglasses (four of these; different patterns) ** #backtoschool (multiple copies; different colors) ** #BFF (multiple copies; different colors) ** apple cut-outs ** "Ready to Learn!" (multiple copies; different colors) ** "I'm Only Here for Recess!" (multiple copies; different colors) ** "I'm a Genius!" (multiple copies; different colors) ** "I Believe I Can Fly!" (multiple copies; different colors) ** "The Sky is the Limit!" (multiple copies; different colors) ** "I'm not fitting in when I was born to stand out!" (multiple copies; different colors) ** "Oh, the Places I'm Going!" (multiple copies; different colors)

Students absolutely love to hear their teachers talk about them in a great, positive way. This packet reinforces that concept that we all know to be true. In this packet, you will find several ways of delivering hand written positive messages to your students. There are notes entitled, “You got caught doing something good!”, “Here’s To You,” and “You Make Me Proud!” Additionally, there are two sets of notes entitled, “It’s the Little Things That Mean So Much.” In these sets, you can check off the things that your students have done well and reward them with just a simple note of praise!

This is a packet of six mini-posters which presents six comprehension strategies for readers. These mini-posters can serve as a great bulletin board or placed above the white board for easy reference. Strategies include: making connections, questioning, visualizing, inferring, synthesizing, and determining importance.

In this packet, you will find thirty sets of cue cards for students to use at their desk to alert you to how they are working independently. As you are monitoring the room, it is very easy to spot the yellow and red cue cards which let you know that some students are having a bit of difficulty. After establishing the “boundaries and ground rules” for using the cue cards, this tool can serve as a great instructional/classroom management tool. The green card indicates the student is working fine, the yellow card indicates the student is still working; however, he/she is having some difficulty, and the red card indicates that the student can not progress without help!

In this packet of mini-posters you are sure to find the literary device that you need to use with your students. Specifically, you will find Fourteen Mini-Posters each Depicting a Literary Device to include: alliteration, allegory, irony, personification, hyperbole, imagery, simile, metaphor, idiom, onomatopoeia, oxymoron, pun, and palindrome~ These mini-posters are valuable tools in using on bulletin boards, center rotations, and as reference tools all year long in a language arts classroom! Your students are sure to love them!

This simple comprehension strategy is sure to help each of your students answer open-ended questions. This is a set of three mini-posters each with a component of the comprehension strategy ~~ ANSWER ~~ CITE ~~ EXTEND. Use these mini-posters as references when students are working at constructing answers to comprehension questions with clarity as they make sure that they answer the questions being asked, cite evidence in how they derived their answer, and then finally how they extend their answer to include examples from their prior knowledge and personal experiences! Use these reference mini-posters, they are sure to ACE an awesome response!

This instructional resource is a packet centering around the poem, Polka Dot Pajamas. Children will delight in the rhyme, rhythm, and pattern of this poem. Included are several literacy extensions that reinforce many Common Core State Standards to include choral reading, response and chant, constructing a similar poem, identifying adjectives, and sequencing the events in the poem. There is also a formative assessment with ten statements about the events in the poem for the students to sequence.

This timeless Caldecott winner is sure to bring our the imaginations of all of your students. Students absolutely love this story of fantasy and will delight in engaging in all of the teaching and learning activities. In this literature study, you will find a total of twenty-five teaching and learning activities all connected with this great piece of literature! Activities are all correlated to Common Core State Standards. Additionally, there is a formative comprehension check with ten questions. You don't wanna miss this literature study particularly during the month of October while potentially doing a study of "wild things and monsters!"

In this set of mini-posters, you will find four posters for each of the basic operations– addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. On each mini-poster, there are key words that serve as cues for the students when trying to persevere and solve math word problems and develop habits of mind for the Standards for Mathematical Practice. These posters are the perfect size for a bulletin board or placement right above the white board to reference to as one is teaching! The posters are designed to be eye-catching and definitely engage the students!

This unit is a literature study of The Greedy Triangle. In this unit, there are eight teaching and learning activities with opportunities for extending the literature study with eight additional activities. In the reading and math activities, there are approximately sixteen Common Core State Standards addressed and covered in the teaching and learning sequence. There are questions written at the remembering, understanding, applying, analyzing, evaluating, and creating levels of thinking to formatively assess comprehension. There is also a quiz at the end of the literature study to help gauge success in mastering math geometry vocabulary. Your students will absolutely love this literature study!

This resource is a great icebreaker for welcoming each child back to school and it will also help to establish a community of learners in your classroom. Students will enjoy decorating these t-shirts with unique personality characteristics about them, illustrate, color, and then attach them to a clothesline already hung in the classroom. Get some really colorful clothespins to attach them to the cord serving as the clothesline! There are three different types of reproducible t-shirts included for the students to have a choice. One of the t-shirt patterns has established lines for those students who choose to write about themselves instead of draw, color, and illustrate important things about them! Kids will have a blast!

This informational text selection is a must have for your reading and/or language arts classes! This timely and relevant article is about the dangers of energy drinks and is designed to make your students think before they drink. The article has several illustrations complete with captions to aid in rich discussion. It is perfect for sixth through eighth grades depending on varying reading levels. There is a formative quiz attached with DOK 1, 2, and 3 questions. This 1000 word article is sure to be a hit with your classes!

This selection is an informational text article designed to enhance science and/or reading classes. This informational text focuses on the rabbit, the jackrabbit, and the hare and how they are alike and different. The article features different illustrations with captions to help explain the text. This article is about 800 words long.There is a formative quiz attached with DOK 1, 2, and 3 questions. As well, Bloom's Taxonomy is evident in looking at the questions for the quiz! All students love to read about rabbits and this article is a great resource for an animals unit or some or science context as well as language arts! This is sure to be a big hit with your class.

I am hoping this resource will be most helpful to all of you! This is a set of incentives and reward coupons specifically for middle and high school students. For example, some of the rewards and incentives include: (1) being able to work in the front office for one class period; (2) gaining free admission to one ballgame; (3) earning the opportunity for you, as the teacher, to write a postcard to the students parents with a positive note in regards to the student, and many, many others. Many students need that extra boost just for someone to notice that they have done the right thing. Obviously, we all strive for our students to be able to self-regulate their behavior and ultimately that is our goal in using incentives and coupons that we can get to the point where external motivators are not needed! These incentives carry a March theme; however, there are others available for other months throughout the school year! Use these these incentives and rewards to help motivate students in your classroom. They can be laminated, cut apart, and placed in a storage container for safe keeping. There are hundreds of different ways for you to establish a management system for how a student will earn one of these so that is your task! There are seventeen different pages of incentives and rewards, and each page contains approximately 6-9 coupons/incentives on each page!

This is a packet of mini-posters for the “rules of the rug!” Young children in preschool, pre-kindergarten, kindergarten, and even first grade will delight in learning the “rules of the rug!” Teach them the rules and procedures and they will not forget them all year! You will find seven mini posters with eye-catching borders that are sure to grab the attention of the learners!

This pennant is sure to get your students back in the groove of school after the Christmas break. On the pennant, students are asked to write a five to seven sentence paragraph about what they did over their Christmas break. Also, they are asked what was their most favorite present and who did they receive it from. Also, they are asked if they traveled anywhere during Christmas break and if so, where did they travel? Finally, on the perimeters of the pennant, students are asked to write an acrostic for winter as well as create a shape poem for a snowman! Students are sure to enjoy this activity as they "get in the groove" of school again in January!

This resource is perfect for the time between Thanksgiving and Christmas. Enclosed you will find five pages of a short narrative story that has a certain rhyme and rhythm to it that students will enjoy! It is a story told from a young girl’s point of view about how she wishes for a horse for Christmas. She is reminded in the story that she will still have a great Christmas even if she doesn’t get a horse; however, she is convinced that one secretly hides in the barn for her. Her mom reminds her about many other children whose parents might very well be away for Christmas. This is a very old Christmas story and was published through Scholastic in 1968. Again, the students will love many teaching and learning activities associated with the story! This story lends itself to several teaching and learning endeavors such as: (1) the use of personification; (2) great vocabulary instruction; (3) sequencing; (4) point of view; (5) Descriptive Writing; (6) research and investigation of several different states discussed in the story; (7) the use of similes to make comparisons; and (8) making predictions about what will happen next in the story based on the context clues provided! Have a great time with your students! And… Merry Christmas!

Okay my teacher friends! This is for you! It’s time to think about what YOU want to do this summer to rejuvenate! Increase that dopamine and serotonin! It’s a must to be your best and be able to return in August with your “A-Game!” Use these bucket list cards to choose and write down goals for the summer – professional and personal! Go out have a great day and locate an awesome bucket to “house your goals”! Get a pack of clothespins and clip your goals to your bucket! As you accomplish them, unclip them and drop them in the bucket! Remember that you MUST have professional and personal goals… all work and no play is not healthy! But, most importantly, have fun and relax -- this time is about you and your family so that in August you can be your absolute best!

This resource consists of sixty-eight slides to serve as training and support materials for rejuvenating your passion for teaching. Many of the strategies discussed originate from the book, Unshakable, by Angela Watson. All educators will enjoy being a part of this training in helping themselves to rejuvenate at a grade level meeting, a professional development session, or a professional learning community!