Use this set of verb cards which feature present tense and past tense of irregular verbs as a memory game, verb flash cards, or as a flip book. The verb pairs here are: blow, blew, build, built, choose, chose, dig, dug, drink, drank, grow, grew, make, made, sit, sat, eat, ate, break, broke, catch, caught, cut, cut, do, did, draw, drew, find, found, give, gave, buy, bought, bring, brought, drive, drove, fall, fell, feed, fed, get, got, hold, held, hide, hid. For the memory game, cut out each card, then shuffle them for a random order. For the flip book, print each page, then bind them together along the tops. After this, cut each vertically along the center to divide the flip book in half so that your students can flip the pages on the left and right to match the pages on the right.

These are five lesson plans for the writing process using descriptive writing. This engaging unit takes students through the stages of writing from start to finish, by developing and refining their own ideas into a well published final product. Descriptive Writing is a means of expressing one's environment through the perceptions of his senses. Sight, smell, touch, sound and taste, are used to vividly describe the environment so that the author can transport the reader into his environment. It is compulsory that a child is taught the necessary skills to develop a good descriptive story structure, which will improve their writing skills across the curriculum as well as develop their self-esteem and promote literacy. Fulfils requirements for: CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.3.4 With guidance and support from adults, produce writing in which the development and organization are appropriate to task and purpose. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.3.5 With guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, and editing. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.4.4 Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development and organization are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.

Classroom jobs can teach students about responsibility, teamwork, and the value of keeping things organised. Just write your students’ names on clothespins and clip each one onto a job card. If a student is absent, the ‘substitute’ fills in and does that student’s job. The last set of cards are editable for you to add your own personalized label text. This file contains rectangular labels that are 9.5cm x 12.7cm each. They print on 8.5” x 11” (letter) sized paper with 4 cards per page. This is a PowerPoint file. Please make sure that you have Microsoft PowerPoint (not PowerPoint viewer). Nyla's Crafty Teaching

3D Shape Sorting Activity. Use these 3D shape Venn diagram rings in conjunction with these 3D Shape Flash cards to keep your students engaged in a self-checking Attribute Matching Activity for 3D shapes. The 3D Shapes used are: cubes, cuboids, pyramids, cones, prisms, cylinders and spheres. Here’s what you can get from this set: -Revision Flash Card Ring Set - To revise the attributes of the each of the 3D shapes. Just punch a hole in each of the triangular tips and keep them on a key ring. -Large Venn Diagram rings for Attribute Sorting - To get your students proficient in sorting, start off by using one attribute ring at a time. After each attribute type is mastered, move on to using two rings, then interloping them like a Venn Diagram. It is best for students to use real 3D manipulatives but if you do not have any available, you can cut-out, print and laminate the ones found on the last page. Students can check their own work for errors by comparing the data on the flash cards with what they have matched. Your fast learners can be given more challenge by having to sort up to three or even four attributes using the interlocking Venn Diagrams. - You can also use the flash cards as labels to label shapes in the classroom!

Recycling Activities and posters for sorting pictures of different kids of trash into the following categories for recycling: compost, metal, glass, plastic, and paper. The sorting mats are to be used by sticking the trash items unto the correct mats (which are provided). Your students can also use large containers as recycling bins for sorting the pictures. I added bin labels for such an activity. The posters can be used to add to your classroom recycling unit or Earth Day theme. It contains: recycling posters, sorting bin labels, material poster sets, sorting mats, and picture cards for sorting bins and sorting mats. This zipped file contains the colourful version and the black and white version.

Multiple Meaning Words - Illustrated Word Wall: includes a large sentence strip which displays the definition of multiple meaning words for you to add above your word wall area. There is a total of 33 word cards. Each multiple meaning word card has a fitting pair of pictures to match the word. Each page has three word cards and they are to be printed on 8.5 x 11 (letter) sized paper. Nyla's Crafty Teaching

Use this set of Dienes block clip art to make your Base 10 Blocks place value worksheets, games and printables for commercial or classroom use. Contains: - A total of 32 images: eight different colours of the unit, tens, hundreds and thousands base 10 blocks. Each of the colours are black and white, classic blue, green, yellow, orange, red, pink, and purple. - An editable worksheet template. All images are 300 dpi in png format with transparent backgrounds. Terms of Use Use this for for commercial or classroom use. If you include them in your digital downloads (free or priced) all you have to do is credit Nyla's Crafty Teaching by including a clickable link to my TES Resources Store. Redistributing, editing, selling, or posting these graphics or any part there of (by themselves and not in a resource or product) on the Internet are strictly prohibited without first gaining permission from the author. Violations are subject to the penalties of the Digital millennium Copyright Act. Please contact me directly through my blog or TES Resources Store if you wish to be granted special permission. Nyla's Crafty Teaching

This pack has a total of nine posters and seven worksheets. The worksheets include writing and cut and paste activities. The posters explain subject nouns, singular subjects, plural subjects, and subject pronouns. This pack also explores singular and plural verbs and the rules for subject and verb agreement. An answer key is included for all worksheets. Here's what you get: *A Subject Definition Poster *Noun Subject Worksheets *Subject Pronoun Poster *Subject Pronoun Worksheets *Singular and Plural Subjects Poster *Singular Verbs Poster *Singular Verbs Worksheets *Plural Verbs Poster *Plural Verbs Worksheet *Subject Pronoun and Verb Agreement Posters *Subject Noun and Verb Agreement Posters It fulfills the requirements for: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.1.1.C and CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.3.1.F Nyla's Crafty Teaching

I made these free printable eye masks for students to wear in celebration of Groundhog Day! Your students can assemble the parts and stick them together as a craft activity. Students who wear tested lenses can wear them on their hair I made these free printable eye masks for students to wear in celebration of Groundhog Day! Your students can assemble the parts and stick them together as a craft activity. Students who wear tested lenses can wear them on their hair (like a Bando). This pack includes four different styles in full color: One face mask with a happy groundhog. One face mask with a frightened groundhog. One face mask with a ground hog predicting six more weeks of winter. One face mask with a ground hog announcing the arrival of spring. Just print and laminate the pages then cut out your props. These pages are to be printed on legal sized paper (long) because of the long width of the glasses. Instructions for folding the spectacles are included. For grades 1-3. Four pages. (c) Nyla's Crafty Teaching 2012

Use these Illustrated Homophone Dominoes Cards to keep your students engaged in a fun activity that encourages reading and matching. This game is ideal for re-teaching and reinforcement of homophones. These cards have fifty pairs (including a few triplets) of homophones, some of them are: aloud/allowed, eight/ate, flower/flour, mussel/muscle, cellar/seller, doe/dough, night/knight, rose/rows, rite/right/write, no/know, raise/rays, see/sea, you/ewe, pour/pore, bored/board, scene/seen, peace/piece, etc. The illustrations are there to help visual learners to remember the words by their images. Encourage students to read the homophone pairs when they match them out loud especially the auditory learners. For grades 3-5. Fifty homophone pairs. 12 pages. (c) Nyla's Crafty Teaching 2012

Fraction Strips - these will help you teach about equivalency among fractions, decimals, and percents. Each card is colour-coded allowing students to make connections when they see relational card values for proper fractions, percents, and decimals. For example, ¼, 25%, and 0.25 are always yellow. Fraction word name cards are also included to help students learn how to pronounce the numbers correctly. The cards included can be used to focus on just one skill (e.g. decimals) or use the cards together to learn equivalencies. Extra copies can be made to allow students to cut out the fraction tiles and use them to create word problems. All Fraction Strips are available in whole, halves, thirds, quarters, fifths, sixths, eighths, tenths and twelfths. The same goes for their decimal, percent and word-name counterparts. Everything here is also included in black and white form for ease of making photocopies.

Simple Machines: Levers - Sorting Activities for the Three Classes of Levers. Everything you need to know about levers is presented in this activity booklet. When teaching about Simple Machines, levers are usually taught first because students can clearly use them to identify the effort, load and fulcrum. This booklet explores the the first class lever, second class lever and third class lever, and illustrates them in posters, diagrams, a sorting table and a labeling activity. Real world examples of tools which are levers are also included as labelled pictures, e.g. a pair of scissors is a first class lever, a wheel barrow is a second class lever, and a pair of tweezers is a third class lever. An answer key is included for the activities.

This is a set of 25 Idiom Posters which display common idioms, their definitions (both literal and figuratively), with pictures and examples with the idioms being used in a sentence related to the picture shown. Your students will have a lot of fun learning about idioms! This file is a wonderful tool for teaching idioms because it has idioms that are current and presented in an attractive format. It incorporates simple definitions and examples of common idioms. Idioms are very difficult for English Language Learners but the illustrations are a huge help for preventing students from taking the literal meaning of each idiom. You can also use it to make a bulletin board of idioms. You can also print them out on a smaller scale so that they can be used as revision flash cards. I included as many pictures (clip art) as I could because I like to have students make connections between the new vocabulary and the everyday situations that they are already familiar with. Fulfills: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.3.5.A Distinguish the literal and nonliteral meanings of words and phrases in context. Fulfills as it related to idioms CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.4.5.B and CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.5.5.B Recognize and explain the meaning of common idioms...

Practice matching equivalences among fractions, decimals and percents by playing this card game like Dominoes! The first page contains cards with fractions and decimals only. This is ideal for beginners. The second page has cards with fractions, decimals and percents. Students should move on to matching the entire set of cards after they have mastered matching the ones on the first page. 32 Cards. Grades 3-6.

Valentine's Day Glasses and Bookmarks: Reading Motivation! Let's celebrate our love for reading with these Valentine's Day themed reading props to keep our students in the mood to read a book. These are only to be worn at reading time and students can choose a different prop to be used with each new book they master reading. On Valentine’s Day however, students get to wear the ‘love reading glasses’ for the entire day in class*. *Students who wear tested lenses can wear the ‘love reading glasses’ on their hair (like a Bando). This pack includes: - One pair of coloured line Valentine's Day themed spectacles. - One pair of black line Valentine's Day themed spectacles. - Two coloured and very stylish Valentine's Day themed spectacles - Two coloured Valentine's Day bookmarks in different sizes and also in black and white. Just print and laminate the pages then cut out your props. These pages are to be printed on legal sized paper (long) because of the long width of the glasses. Instructions for folding the spectacles are included. Clip Art images by Nyla’s Crafty Teaching and textured fills by Sassy Designs, Inc.

These are 15 lined paper templates with Valentine's Day themed borders that can be used for both creative writing and handwriting practice. The first section has the Valentine's Day accents (all kinds of heart designs) on blank-lined pages for story writing, letter writing or journal writing. The last three pages are for handwriting practice with the tracing of numbers and letters. The templates for the the line formats include a combination of D'Nealian, and manuscript lettering for the handwriting practice sheets.

For the Valentine’s Day, here are a eight free hilarious Bookmarks. Each one has a riddle on the front and the answer on the back. These Free Valentine’s Day Bookmarks can be used as rewards or just to share some love and laughter.

Here are exciting ways to teach your students about the parts of a flower and the function of each part. It includes: -A D.I.Y. craft activity for assembling the flower parts together to make a complete flower. This can be printed on paper or card stock or traced onto coloured sheets of felt or foam sheets. Available in colour and in black and white. Pages 3 -8 -Parts of a flower diagram labeling activities with answer key. Pages 9 - 11 -A set of 15 colourful illustrated definition cards. Pages 12 - 15 -A 'Roll and Answer' worksheet with questions about the functions of each part of the flower. Includes an answer key. Pages 16 - 20 -18 large illustrated word wall cards of parts of the flower key terms. Pages 21 - 26 26 pages. Grades 3-5

Use these multiple meaning word cards as a memory game or as a flip book. It includes 30 multiple meaning word pairs: cold, right, light, band, bar, bark, bat, chest, leaves, saw, scales, well, orange, coat, watch, fly, flies, bowl, row, jam, glasses, wave, store, fry, box, ship, shed, spoke, bill, groom, green, tie, and date. For the memory game, cut out each card, then shuffle them for a random order. You can use only the cards that have the multiple meaning words words that you want your students have more practice with. More instructions are included in the file. For the flip book, print each page, then bind them together along the tops. After this, cut each vertically along the center to divide the flip book in half so that your students can flip the pages on the left and right to match the pages. 33 pages. Grades 1-4.

This is a five-lesson unit plan for grade 3 - 5 students which re-introduces the concepts of force, effort and load and develops them into group activities which explore the world of simple machines. Students apply the use of these simple machines (gears, pulleys, levers)to their real world applications. Co-operative learning is emphasized in these lessons as many of the manipulatives to be used are inexpensive, easily available and are simple everyday items that can be found in the kitchen. Assessment methods to be used are both formative and summative. Worksheets and pictures of materials that I have used for these lessons are included. 40 pages. Grades 3-5.