Welcome to my online store! I'm passionate about creating downloadable, printable classroom resources and clip art images that make teaching easier and more enjoyable. As a fellow educator, I understand the challenges of planning engaging lessons and decorating your classroom on a budget. That's why I design high-quality, creative, and fun materials that you can instantly access and print at your convenience.
Welcome to my online store! I'm passionate about creating downloadable, printable classroom resources and clip art images that make teaching easier and more enjoyable. As a fellow educator, I understand the challenges of planning engaging lessons and decorating your classroom on a budget. That's why I design high-quality, creative, and fun materials that you can instantly access and print at your convenience.
Spring Writing: A Springboard of Writing Ideas for Young Writers:
This is a set of 7 Spring-themed writing activities for your budding writers .
There are 4 graphic organizers and some suggested words and phrases for each writing theme.: The set contains the following:-
GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS
The 5 Ws + H
Story Plan- Characters, Setting, Problem, Solution
Story Plan- Beginning, Middle, End
Story Writing Sheet-First Draft
Story Writing Sheet-Publishing- Lined Sheets
8 Story picture prompts with suggested words and phrases to use
Prompt 1 - Sally Catches Butterflies
Prompt 2 - Sue and The Little Bird
Prompt 3 - Brad and The Caterpillar
Prompt 4 - Liam in The Butterfly Patch
Prompt 5 - Lillian Flies The Kite
Prompt 6 – Isabella and Her Umbrella
Prompt 7- Jacob and Isabella
Prompt 8 - Cameron Loves Spring
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(c) 2013 Nicole Hernandez
A Teacher's Idea
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Health: This resource is great for work on the topic of personal hygiene and healthy habits. These posters and cards can be used to spark discussions and can be used as writing prompts also. This set includes:
4 Posters:
Don't just sit! Get fit!
Eat lots of Fruits and Vegetables
Cover your mouth
Properly wash your hands
17 Healthy Practices cards:
Eat lots of fruits
Eat lots of vegetables
Exercise
Use a tissue
Take baths regularly
Cover your mouth...
Floss your teeth
Brush your teeth
Wash your hands
Visit the dentist
Get plenty of rest
Cover your cough
Don't sit! Get fit!
(c) 2013 Nicole Hernandez
A Teacher's Idea
Loop Games: Collective Nouns: Collective Perspective! I Have...Who Has...? {Animal Collective Nouns}: Get yourself in order with this fabulous Back To School activity for teaching collective nouns.This is a fun activity for kids to practice collective nouns. In the traditional "I Have..? Who Has..?" style, this game spells hours and hours of fun! It can be played with a select number of students or the entire class can participate. Just print on cardstock, laminate and cut cards.
This game activity contains:
76 collective noun ANIMAL cards
1 blank template for your customization
Nicole Hernandez
A Teacher's Idea
This is an excellent resource that is useful for covering the topic family tree with your students. There are apple cards depicting multicultural families that your students can have fun with while learning the basic and modern structure of a family. The apple tree mat can be used to build the family unit on and can be placed in a folder in plastic sleeves or laminated for longevity.
The multicultural apple family cards include - African-American, Caucasian (Brunette, Blonde, Red), Latino and Asian. Simply print the cards, laminate and cut the cards apart. Your students will build families with any combination of cards as they wish. The parent and big teen cards can be used to represent other members of the modern family.
Also included are vocabulary cards with a header depicting family words that are bordered in blue, red and black to sort according to gender: male, female and gender neutral words. A colored and black ‘n white “My Family Tree” worksheet is included for students to complete about their own family as well. The multicultural family unit is available as a blank version, for your children to colour in and the apple tree mat is included as a low ink alternative.
Goal Setting
Students are encouraged to write goals by creating S.M.A.R.T. goals. As they do so it is helpful for them to have a visual aid to help them think along the lines of creating sound goals. These posters are a great classroom display for them to refer to whether setting goals for a day, a week, a month or a year.
Included are three (3) classroom general posters:- one with a boy playing soccer, one with a girl playing soccer and one with a simple breakdown of the S.M.A.R.T. goals.
Place Value: Base Ten Matching Picture Cards 'n Number Cards 0 to 100: This is a set of Number and picture cards for students to match. The number cards range from 1 to 100 with three bonus cards- numbers 101 and 110. These cards can be matched, sorted or arranged in numerical order. The picture cards are in the range 1 to 20 only. This set is the perfect addition to your Math centers.
Homophones
This is a set of 35 display posters featuring some of the most common homophones including contraction homophones (contractions that sound like words). The posters are colorfully designed and include an example that helps the children to understand the difference between each of the words.
The homophones included are:
by/bye/buy
where/wear/we're
which/witch
whose/who's
we've/weave
aren't/aunt/ant
I'd/eyed
he'd/heed
we'd/weed
I'll/isle/aisle
you'll/yule
he'll/heal/heel
we'll/wheel
here's/hear
what's/watts
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Homophone Posters: Set 1 (10 Posters Including There/They're/Their)
Homophone Posters: Set 3 (42 Posters Including Knows / Nose)
This is a set of 42 display posters featuring some of the most common homophones that you students encounter in their reading. The posters are colourfully designed and include an example that helps the children to understand the difference between each of the words.
The homophones included are:
be / bee
bean / been
hear / here
hour / our
hair / here / hare / hear
know / no
knows / nose
mail / male
meat / meet
plain / plane
prince / prints
right / write
road / rode
sail / sale
sea / see
son / sun
steal / steel
tail / tale
wood / would
ate / eight
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Homophone Posters: Set 1 (10 Posters Including There/They’re/Their)
Homophone Posters: Set 2 (35 Colored Posters Including By/Buy/Bye)
Just like adults, children also have rights and certain responsibilities that come with them. These printables highlight 12 of the rights and responsibilities explained in the UN Charter. I created these posters with kid-friendly graphics and simple sentences to make a clear distinction between both terms. There are 12 Rights and Responsibilities that come in black and white and color. These posters work well as notebook pages or anchor charts for social studies or character education lessons. I included mini version for you to use as reading cards also. This set works well with Children’s Day which is recognised on various days in many places around the world, with Universal Children’s day celebrations or it can be used all year round to enhance social skills.
These picture writing prompts with sequencing cards are great for young writers who need more support in early writing. Your students get an opportunity to use their visual discrimination skills to help them pay attention to details in pictures. They will write sentences about the picture. They also get to colour their pictures and sequence the sheets to create their own little book as a keepsake. Simply print the page/s and review the directions with them. Encourage them to write one or two sentences that describe the picture on any given sheet. I also included a blank writing sheet for extended writing should it be necessary. The sheets are great for homework or small group work in which case they can each be given a different page to prepare a group book instead.The picture cards can be laminated and sequenced first and the sheets can be ordered accordingly to match them. I included little circles on the cards where students can write the number in the sequence with dry erase markers. Individually, your students can work on one writing scenario at a time.
The writing scenarios are:-
Getting ready for school
Getting ready for bed
Washing my hands
Packing a lunch
Making Jelly Toast
Crossing the street
At Lunchtime
Setting the table
Washing the dishes
Starting the School Day
Making my Breakfast
Cleaning my bedroom
How can your students get meaning from nonfiction texts? This can be done by checking for THIEVES. THIEVES is an active prereading strategy that allows students to skim and scan then summarise the information from informational texts before they actually begin reading the text. The acronym is explained as: “T” for title, “H” for headings, “I” for introduction, “E” for every first sentence, “V” for visuals and vocabulary, “E” for end of chapter questions, and “S” for summary. Your students can use this strategy to preview textbooks and other informational texts when they do not have an opportunity to read the entire selection. Although this is very useful remind your students that making time for the full reading of a text is the better way to go!
Are you ready to get your students super excited about writing? With this product added to your writing activities you’ll get your students pumped up about writing lines and letters of the alphabet. Handwriting Patterns – Lines and Letters is a set of pre-writing posters, cards, mats and worksheets that help students to practice the writing patterns needed to form the letters of alphabet correctly. This set encourages students to start drawing different type of lines - the first step in pencil control and enhances both motor planning and fine motor skills.
Included in this set are varying handwriting line formats for differentiated practice, letter and word mats, posters and alphabet cards.
—❀❀❀—Handwriting Pattern Mats and Worksheets - The Handwriting Pattern Mats contain tracing lines for multiple practice opportunities. The patterns include: straight, horizontal, diagonal, zig zag, curved, wavy, castle top and lots more! Each mat also hast check boxes for students to keep their posture and hand grip in check!
—❀❀❀—Letter Characteristics Posters -These posters depict both the UPPERCASE and lowercase letters of the alphabet according to these characteristics:
Straight letters
Tall letters
Short letters
Donut letters
Diagonal letters
Letters with tails
Letters with curves
Letters with humps and closed humps
I also included the grouping uppercase (capital) and lowercase (common).
These groupings are particularly useful for the teaching and revision of letter and can be used as a sequence for the introduction of the letters. Once the similarities of movement are pointed out, then students are able to develop a metacognitive awareness of letter formation that can support their practices of letter writing.
—❀❀❀—The “Letter Looks Like” Cards is my own creation in which each letter is fixed to an object, animal or person as a visual reminder of form. I have tried to align them based also on initial sound to make a meaningful connection for students.
—❀❀❀—Letter Form Visual “Make It!” Cards - There are 26 cards (2 per print) that show students how to make their own model of the letter using either straight lines, curved or circular shapes.
—❀❀❀—Letter and Word Practice Mats - These mats are geared towards guiding students to write freely within grids or frames. There are 2 x 2 grids (large letters); 3 x 2 grids; multiple grid rows and large single lines then soft double guide lines for more precise handwriting. I also included a handwriting free style sheet and letter formation sheets with start points for students to keep in their writing folders.
—❀❀❀—Fillable Letter Mats - With these letter mats your students can use play doh (playdough), chain links or any medium to fill the space within the letters. These work well as write on and wipe off mats that can be laminated or placed in plastic sleeves.
Are you teaching your students about the seven types of energy? Do you use the acronym MRS CHEN? Then you've come to the right place. This poster is perfect for classroom reference in any Science or Physics lesson. The mnemonic MRS CHEN stands for mechanical, radiant, sound, chemical, heat, electrical and nuclear types of energy. I created one poster with a cute couple (Mrs Chen in the foreground) to help your students to make a meaningful connection with the acronym. I also included an alternate version with Mrs Chen as a female cartoon light bulb if this suites you better. Included are also black and white versions of both. Choose one.
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SUGGESTED USES FOR POSTERS:
Classroom posters can be used as a teaching tool to recognize goals, set expectations or to introduce or review concepts. They can be used as standalone aids to help students master particular strategies and techniques.
The following are different ways of using classroom posters:
1) They can be printed standard size (8.5x11 inches) and binded into a booklet as a study resource for students as an individual or small group activity.
2) As anchor charts
3) They can be used as reference books for small group use. Simply print and slide pages in sheet protectors to compile a binder or folder document.
They can be used as individual reference charts. Simply print the black-line version (if available) onto colored paper for students to stick in their notebooks or interactive journals.
This is a set of 30 Diverse Kids Faces Clipart. These realistic yet simple images are suitable for elementary and middle school products especially if you’re looking for less cartoon-like clipart. Images are high resolution (300 dpi). Files are easily re-sizable with any design/editing software.
This is a mini book that serves as a template for any animal research for young researchers, kindergarten to grade 2. I included pages with headings and lines along with a blank page for drawings. The following headings are included:
*are/can/have pages ………………..5-7
*Picture/Drawing …………………... 8
*Physical Characteristics ……………9
*Locomotion/ Movement ……………10
* Unusual Features …………………11
* Behavior …………………………..12
*Habitat ……………………………. 13-16
*Living Habits ………………………. 17
* Diet …………………………….....18
* Life Cycle (lined page and graphic organizer)…19-20
*Food Web (lined and blank page)..21-22
* Special Facts …………………..23
*Adaptations (lined and blank page) ..24-25
* Enemies …………………………26
* Defence/Offence ……………….27
* Glossary …………………………28
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This mini book template is formatted as 2 mini books per print. I also included both a colored and a black and white cover pages. The pages are not numbered so that you create your own set. To create this mini book simply select the pages that you want included then print. Guide your students into completing each page that you included. At the end of this exercise you can staple all the pages together to form multiple mini books for each animal that you choose. In the end your students will have a keepsake as well as a great little mini book that they created themselves.