I enjoy making educational products students can use independently for lessons, centers and research. My goal is to provide teachers with Ready To Go products that save or provide teachers precious TIME. I have decades of experience as a classroom teacher, Resource Teacher and elementary Media Specialist.
I enjoy making educational products students can use independently for lessons, centers and research. My goal is to provide teachers with Ready To Go products that save or provide teachers precious TIME. I have decades of experience as a classroom teacher, Resource Teacher and elementary Media Specialist.
This is a monster themed I Have...Who Has Game Template.
You use this template to type in your own content and print the game.
This is an editable pdf if you have Adobe Acrobat Professional.
Or, you may choose to simply print and write on the cards.
I've included instructions how to type on the cards yourself, using Adobe Acrobat Professional, to make your own games.
There are 8 different monster cards to make the game as a loop, where it does not matter who starts. However, I did include a START and END card if you wish to format your game in that way.
One set of cards has color monster clip art on a white background for economical printing.
The second set of cards is the same, but with B&W monsters for photocopying.
If you need more cards, simply save this as different file names to work on.
These cards are made as 1 to a full page. When printing, you can choose the option to print 4 to a page which makes these a great game size and saves ink.
Summer themed writing papers.18 summer themed and a couple generic writing papers. Full and half sheets. Some pages duplicated with different sized lines for your individual student needs.
My elementary students love the Knuffle Bunny series, so we decided to use the illustrative technique ourselves.
In this packet you will get directions for the activity and two full-sized playground pictures ready to photocopy in black and white. The students make colorful cartoon characters to put into the setting and tell a story about their illustration.
I've included a scan of the reproducible I purposely drew by hand for the students. This took the fear of drawing out of the activity. Many even came up and added more to the projected copy for the class to see!
Main directions are in PDF and the pictures are in a PowerPoint file.
Everyone likes to make a snowman!! This is an exciting introduction to the Super 3 Research Process for your Kindergarten-2nd grade students. During an excellent snow year, my husband and I went outside and made an awesome snowman following the steps of the Super 3: Plan, Do, Review. We ran into problems to solve along the way, too!
Use this PowerPoint to introduce your students to the process. At the end of the lesson, let them make their own snowmen!
I've had students make snowmen on a computer drawing program, with paper and glue, and on black paper with chalks. I found snowman parts to print with a simple Google search and cut them out for my special education students to make a snowman. They still got to plan because they had to choose the parts and how to glue them on. So many ways to make a snowman!
I left it editable if you want to add your own twist to the presentation!
This Earth Day Pack covers Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Trash, and Compost.
* 9 Writing Templates (with clip art)
* 1 Generic Writing Template
* 7 Acrostic Poem templates
* "I Can Help the Earth by... signed..." Reproducible Bulletin Board Activity. Includes 6 Peek Over Versions: boys & girls, a generic head for kids to draw themselves & even a ninja!
* Which Is It? Sorting Game Instructions
* Which Is It? 4 pages of clip art to get you started
* 5 full-page Sorting Posters (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Trash, Compost)
* Memory Game: Sorting Posters are one to a page, so in print options they can be printed as game cards.
* "What I Can Do" Reproducible Worksheet (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle)
This is a FUN way for your students to review finding call numbers in your library!
There are 3 sets of Scavenger Hunt Task Cards to cover the Easy, Fiction and Nonfiction areas of your library. Each set has 12 task cards to find, so there are 36 Task Cards total. For the questions, I used books and book series that would most likely be found in the majority of elementary libraries.
Blank answer sheets are provided in which the clip art matches the card they are hunting.
Answers are included.
EDITABLE!! These are PowerPoint files and totally editable since I used Creative Commons clip art. Add or change anything you wish to meet the needs of your library!
* Please note: This file has a license for one teacher to use/modify for his/her classroom only. This file is not for commercial use and may not be modified and resold.
**These Bookworm Bookmarks go great with Mr. Wiggle’s Books and your lessons on Book Care.
They come in full color as well as B&W. Students love to color their own, and it’s economical to photocopy them!
Spread the love of reading!!**
Revised August 2021. Original version is still included.
Writing doesn't have to be boring! Get this pack of writing papers for your students to choose from.
This Writing Paper Pack for elementary students includes animals such as dogs, cats and ocean animals. It also has ocean animal themed papers as well as generic papers.
18 half sized pages with clip art.
5 half sized generic pages with no clip art.
4 full sized generic pages with no clip art.
Farm Animal Themed Writing Paper Pack: 27 pages for elementary students includes barnyard animal papers as well as generic papers.
1 Activity Sheet with illustrated farm animal Word Bank
1 full page farm animal Word Bank with extra blanks
4 farm animal coloring sheets with room for story
7 half sized pages with farm related clip art
3 half sized generic pages with no clip art
1 full sized generic page with no clip art
10 Acrostic Poem pages with background clip art
This St. Patrick's Day Pack includes 68 pages. There are loads of Writing Papers with St. Patrick's Day themed clip art with 3 types of writing line choices to meet your students' needs!
Also:
2 Beginning, Middle, End Planning sheets with box for illustration and lines for writing each.
1 Create a Leprechaun Activity
Pot of Gold writing pages in 3 line choices
2 Peek Overs - a boy and girl with several types of lined writing paper to choose from
Rebus Word Searches for K/1
Bookmark Word Search for elementary.
Preview PNGs give you a sample of what's in this file.
Easy center idea for upper elementary students. I have used this successfully with 3rd graders in my Media Center. They LOVE being able to research a topic of THEIR choice!
This reproducible gives students a structured research process for them to follow using an ONLINE ENCYCLOPEDIA entry.
They are guided to pick a topic, ask questions about it, locate the online encyclopedia your school uses, write notes on the back, and write the bibliographic information for their article.
Includes I Can statements to post at your center.
This reproducible is a print and go activity. Students choose a book about inventions to read from. They cite their source by finding the information prompted, write about some interesting facts and draw and label an invention on the back.
Great for an independent activity, center, or for a substitute, too!
This reproducible is a print and go activity. Students choose any book to research from. They cite their source by finding the information prompted, write 3 interesting facts and an "I wonder.." statement.
Great for an independent activity, center, or for a substitute, too!
These 20 Buddy Reading Task Cards cover the basic parts of a story that you would want your students to know as well as some interesting discussion starters for them.
This file includes:
1. 20 Task Cards
2. Task Check Off Cards
3. Cover Cards
4. Blank Task Cards for you to add additional questions
I made the Task Check Off cards real simple since the tasks require talking, not writing. You can photocopy them for one time use with pencil or print & laminate them to reuse with Vis-a-Vis markers.
This Listening Center file comes with Ready to Go AND Editable Response Sheets to make your own response sheet for primary grades.
I Can statement poster
Response sheet with room for picture: “My favorite part was when…”
Response sheet with room for picture: “My favorite character is…because…”
2 Generic Response Sheets with different choice of lines
EDITABLE Response Sheet PowerPoint file! 2 pages you type your own prompt and print. AND, a page that is TOTALLY Editable! You can move around, delete and add what you would like.
Book Report form - students fill out basic information and outline the beginning, middle, and end of the story.
This Bundle includes all of my Just Right Book Activity Sheets, Writing Papers and Bookmarks. Use for your Just Right Unit or after you read Goldie Socks and the Three Libearians, by Jackie Mims Hopkins. Great items for your Literacy Center, too!
Product #1: Activity Sheets for after reading Goldie Socks and the Three Libearians.
1. Comprehension Activity Page: It asks them to draw their favorite part, identify antonyms, define the word “browse”, and answer some questions. Answer Key included.
2. Beginning, Middle, End Activity Page: Students write what happened at the beginning, middle and end of the story.
3. Draw & Write Page: Students draw and write to your Teacher Prompt. Or, place this in your Literacy Center for their choice writing topic.
4. Design a Book Cover: Goldie Socks loved books! Let students design a cover of a book they would love!
5. Retell the Story Activity: Choose the puppets that work best for your kiddos.
* Finger Puppets in Color & B&W
* Popsicle Puppets in Color & B&W
* House Setting on 8.5″ x 11″ paper in Color and B&W
Product #2: Just Right Book Word Search. Comes in Color as well as B&W format. Easy – Words are only across or down. (Based on Goldie Socks and the 3 Libearians book.)
Product #3: Activity Sheets and Writing Papers
Activity #1: Identify an easy, hard, and Just Right book.
Activity #2: A writing assignment that asks them to justify WHY a book is Just Right for them.
Writing Activity: How to Choose a Just Right Book with First, Next, Then and Finally prompts.
Writing Paper: The three Bears and Goldie Socks 1/2 coloring and 1/2 writing paper. Comes with 3 line variations to meet the needs of your students.
Writing Paper: Goldie Socks 1/2 draw your own illustration and 1/2 writing paper. Comes with 3 line variations to meet the needs of your students. Great for your Teacher Writing Prompt in a Literacy Center!
Product #4: Just Right Bookmarks:
5 Finger Rule with 3 bookmarks to a page. B&W only
Just Right Book with 3 bookmarks to a page. B&W and Color
Also included is a 2nd printable version where each of the above B&W versions comes with 4 bookmarks to a page that can print back to back and save paper!e looking for in a Just Right book.
I have found that my elementary students need a little bit of structure and accountability during their Makerspace time in my elementary library. Thus, this kit addresses that need by giving them a structure via a Mission sheet that they guides them, gives them time limits (set by you), and assesses their group work with a rubric.
This Makerspace Bundle has the printables you need for a Poetry Performance Green Screen Makerspace Center in which students create a video by performing their own poem or one of their choice in front of the green screen. In a nutshell, students use the Mission Log sheet to guide them through the process of procuring, practicing, and performing their poem in front of the green screen. The student instruction handouts help them to figure out how to produce their videos independently without you needing to hold their hand every step of the way. Finally, they write a review statement, fill out a rubric on their individual performances with you, and share their video.
The technology I use in this kit includes a green screen and an iPad with the DoInk (TM) Green Screen app (a minimal fee in the iTunes store).
A lot of the resources come in an editable format so that you can make them your own depending on your environment and needs.
1. Materials list
2. Poetry Mission Log - This is a Step-by-Step Instruction Sheet for the students to follow at the center. It follows the Plan, Do, Review format. There are two versions that differ in the type of Review you'd like to have your students do. I've included both as a PDF and as Editable Excel documents should you need to make changes to fit your situation.
3. 2 Page How to Make Your Video Handout for students (PDF and editable PPT file)
4. Poetry Performance I Can Poster
5. Finding a Poem Poster (PDF & Editable PPT file)
6. Makerspace Rubric (PDF & editable versions) I created this rubric as a way to hold students accountable for their time. It includes the goals of: staying on task, being responsible, producing quality work, working cooperatively, and cleaning up. Again, I've included an editable Excel file should you wish to make changes.
7. Poetry Performance Rubric - Easily gives you a grade by scoring posture, volume, speed, expression and memorization. (PDF & editable Excel file)
I have found that my elementary students need a little bit of structure and accountability during their Makerspace time in our Media Center. Thus, this kit addresses that need by giving them a structure via a Mission sheet that they guides them, gives them time limits (set by you), and assesses their group work with a rubric. They still have all the Creativity that is the cornerstone of Makerspace, but with some accountability!
This Makerspace Bundle has the printables you need for a Construction Makerspace Center in which students build a structure of their choice. In a nutshell, students use the Mission Log sheet to plan and build. Then, they incorporate technology by taking and printing a picture of their creation. The student instruction handouts help them to figure out and do this independently without you needing to hold their hand. Finally, they write a review statement about their creation and post their items on the Makerspace Sharing Board or publish it in the class Makerspace Book.
You will need to provide building materials whether they be commercial block kits or recycled materials.
***A lot of the printables come in an editable format so that you can make them your own depending on your environment and needs.
1. Building Center Materials list
2. Building Mission Log - This is a Step-by-Step Instruction Sheet for the students to follow at the center. It follows the Plan, Do, Review format. There are two versions that differ in the type of Review you'd like to have your students do. I've included both as a PDF and as Editable Excel documents should you need to make changes to fit your situation.
3. Information on Sharing and Publishing
4. A Class Makerspace Notebook Cover
5. I Can Statements Poster
6. Idea Starter Poster
7. iPad Printing Instruction Handout (PDF & editable versions)
8. Makerspace Rubric (PDF & editable versions) I created this rubric as a way to hold students accountable for their time. It includes the goals of: staying on task, being responsible, producing quality work, working cooperatively, and cleaning up. Again, I've included an editable Excel file should you wish to make changes.
Make a class book with this cover and writing pages. Great activity to use in a center, for a substitute, or homework.
Includes:
1. Color cover to print "Needs vs. Wants"
2. 2 writing pages with prompt "I want.....but I don't need it."
3. 2 blank writing pages with primary and regular lines for your own prompt.
This Monster Writing pack comes with:
1. 6 half sheets with monster B&W clip art. 2 versions with three choices of line spacing each.
2. 1 MONSTER Acrostic poem page.
3. 2 Monster Characters pages - Color and B&W. Students can name the monsters, color them in, cut out and create a story with them.
4. 2 Monster Character pages - larger B&W monsters to color and cut out.
5. 2 Character Traits printables - Color and B&W
6. 1 Story Planning Sheet - monster themed with beginning, middle and end prompts.
7. 2 Book Covers "What Are Monsters Scared Of?" in Color and B&W
8. 2 Book Covers - generic - You write your own title in Color and B&W
9. 1 Book Activity Page - "My monster's name is___. He is scared of ________ ."
10. 9 generic writing sheets - no clip art
11. Editable Physical Traits page (PPT file)