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.
Help your students Create an Invention with this 8.5" x 14" legal-sized activity sheet! It walks your students through the Engineering Design Process step-by-step.
Included in this packet:
1. Design an Invention Poster Activity Sheet (8.5" x 14")
2. Sharing Page: Have your students take a picture of their invention and write a synopsis on this page. Makes a great Bulletin Board! (8.5" x 11")
3. Reflection Page: Includes questions so that students can reflect on their work. (8.5" x 11")
I have used this poster with groups of fourth grade students in the Media Center to encourage them to invent something with the materials available in our Makerspace Center. It took them six weeks to plan and make their inventions. Afterwards, each class voted for the top inventions and we had the best of the best set up in the Media Center for classes to come see.
April Fools' Day Word Searches. (These are REAL word searches...not a joke ones).
Word Search #1 Words are horizontal and vertical only.
Word Search #2 Words are horizontal, vertical, diagonal and backwards in this hard puzzle!
Both versions come in Full Color for those that like to laminate and reuse. I like to put them in one of those reusable dry erase pockets with a vis a vis marker. Easy center in my Media Center.
Also in B&W reproducible! Kids LOVE to decorate and color the word search when they are done.
Both levels help you to differentiate for your students. They look the same, but the directions at the top help you know which version you gave them!
Here is an 8.5" x 11" activity sheet for the researching a Planet.
AND a 8.5" x 14" legal sized Poster Activity as well!
They vary slightly since there was more room for items on the larger version.
There are 2 options for letter size and 4 options for the legal size.
Some of the topics include:
1. Planet Description
2. Sketch their planet
3. Sketch the planet's symbol
4. Temperature
5. Interesting Facts
6. Time
7. Solar System: Moon & Sun
8. Cite their sources.
9. The legal size has an extra box that asks students whether or not we could survive on that planet and to support their answer with details.
Students can add their own decorative touches to it after they fill it out! Great for a bulletin board.
These Valentine’s Day themed bookmarks include a bookworm, a penguin and superhero kids, for your classroom or library.
The message “You’re #1 in my book! Happy Valentine’s Day!” is used on several. Great for a teacher to give out to students!
See the Preview for everything included.
5 are reproducible friendly B&W ready for your students to decorate. Including one special one they cut out, fold over and decorate. This one has room for writing favorite books or books they want to read.
3 are Full Color for extra impact.
Here are 3 pages of Groundhog Day Bookmarks.
The first two pages feature the basic facts of Groundhog Day - one with color clip art and one with B&W reproducible friendly clip art the kids can color!
The third page has 4 different designs in a reproducible friendly format for kids to choose and color.
Here is a Ready to Go Guided Research project for Black History Month. Answer questions about the month and research any person on this 8.5" x 11" activity sheet for Black History Month.
There are 3 variations. One for US, one for UK, and one for Canada.
**It asks the students to: **
Sketch a person of their choice.
Identify what month they celebrate in their country.
Math question: Figure out how many years it has been celebrated in their country.
List their 3 Important Facts.
Fast Facts Box.
Identify an important achievement.
Describe their person.
Find and write a Famous Quote.
Write their Sources.
Students can add their own decorative touches to it after they fill it out. Great for a literacy center!
This MLK Day Activity Poster helps students learn about Martin Luther King, Jr. and the MLK Holiday. This 8.5" x 11" activity sheet for Martin Luther King, Jr. asks the students to:
Use the calendar to determine the date of the holiday
Figure out how long it has been a holiday
List 3 important facts
Illustrate and define a vocabulary word
Name and give an example of a character trait
List some Fast Facts about MLK, Jr.
Find and write a famous quote.
Write their Sources.
Students can add their own decorative touches to it after they fill it out. Great for a literacy center!
Here are 16 snowman themed papers to add to your Writing Center. This Writing Paper Pack for elementary students includes:
1 Acrostic Poem page with Snowman in the background.
3 different How To Build a Snowman activity page choices.
6 half sheets with B&W clip art with snowman - 2 styles in 3 choices of lines each.
6 half and full lined pages with snowman and snowflake borders.
This activity has students create a movie to go with one of two provided character snowmen or a snowman of their own design.
They fill in the movie title and write a short review that includes the characters and the plot - without giving away the ending! They must also convince the audience whether they should go see it or not by giving a specific example to support their opinion.
Includes:
1 instruction Sheet
2 reproducible sheets with different snowmen characters
1 blank reproducible for the students to make their own themed movie review
Lots of Snowman Bookmarks in Color and B&W reproducible! Spread the love of reading!!
These feature a Poem called “I’m a Little Snowman” Poem:
“I’m a little snowman,
round and fat.
Here are my mittens,
here is my hat.
When the sun comes out
I melt away.
See you next year
on a snowy day.”
~Author Unknown~
**Here are some activity sheets to print and use after you’ve read Squirrel’s New Year’s Resolution, by Pat Miller, to your students.
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Comprehension Sheet - This sheet asks students to draw and write about their favorite part, list five characters, two settings, and write their own New Year’s Resolution.
Story Map - Students use words and/or pictures to fill in the characters, setting, problem, and solution of the story.
Five writing pages. Students can choose the one they wish to write their New Year’s Resolution on. There is room to draw a picture of them following through on their resolution.
My New Year activity page allows students to brainstorm things they want to do, read, and learn in the New Year. After they brainstorm, there is a place for them to formulate their New Year’s Resolution.
Word-Making Activity standalone reproducible using the word “resolution.”
Word-Making Center “I Can” sign, a second reproducible, and letters to print on cardstock and cut out for the word “resolution.”
An EASY fun, printable, primary snowman word search to go with your unit on Snowmen this winter. This word search puzzle has students searching for snowmen parts. The words themselves have clip art with them to help beginning readers. Great for Primary grades as it it across and down only.
In full color if you like to laminate and use over and over with a vis a vis marker.
Also in black line master ready for photocopying.
Words are ACROSS and DOWN ONLY. No diagonal words. No backwards words.
Includes Answer Key.
Get 2 Word Searches in this bundle and differentiate for the levels of students in your classroom.
This pack includes 2 levels of word search to celebrate Groundhog Day.
Both come in color as well as reproducible friendly B&W that the students can color in!
#1 The Easy version has words only horizontally or vertically.
#2 The Hard version has words in ANY direction!
Get 2 Word Searches in this bundle and differentiate for the levels of students in your classroom.
This pack includes 2 levels of word search to celebrate Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.
Both come in color as well as reproducible friendly B&W that the students can color in!
#1 The Easy version has words only horizontally or vertically.
#2 The Hard version has words in ANY direction!
Get 2 Word Searches in this bundle and differentiate for the levels of students in your classroom.
This pack includes 2 levels of word search to celebrate Presidents' Day!
Both come in color as well as reproducible friendly B&W that the students can color in!
#1 The Easy version has words only horizontally or vertically.
#2 The Hard version has words in ANY direction!
Get 2 Word Searches in this bundle and differentiate for the levels of students in your classroom.
This pack includes 2 levels of word search to celebrate the New Year!
Both come in reproducible friendly B&W that the students can color in and write their New Year's Resolution on after they finish the puzzle!
#1 The Easy version has words only horizontally or vertically.
#2 The Hard version has words in ANY direction!