This resource packet is a must for heading back to school. It’s uses are multiple! The first fifteen slides are for each child in your classroom to celebrate his or her uniqueness as he/she comes back to school to get started with a new school year. Students are able to draw a portrait of themselves in the middle oval of the crayon template and then write a message about themselves somewhere on the crayon! Finally, they can color the entire crayon template for an awesome bulletin board to begin the year with a community of learners! Next, there are six slides of colored crayons that can be used for class name tags, a classroom door, desk plates, or a class bulletin board. The final six slides are templates of boxes of colors that can be utilized for the same purposes! Begin the year with a colorful theme! The students will love it!

Are you working on trying to reinforce nouns, adjectives, facts versus opinion phrases, and synonyms? Is it necessary in your classroom to scaffold instruction in terms of rigor level? If so, this packet is for you and your classroom. This packet contains ten absolutely gorgeous fall scenes from which students can create cinquains. After each fall scene is cinquain pattern one, two, or three. Pattern one tends to be less difficult, patten two follows a parts of speech pattern, while pattern three focuses on syllables. This poetry packet on cinquains is great for whole group instruction, small group instruction, as well as in a poetry center. Students will be very proud of their poetry they create. Upon completion, publish a book of cinquains for fall. The beautiful, fall scences serve as a springboard students’ thinking and constructing. Students might also take the opportunity to recite their poetry to the class and focus on their speaking and listening skills!

Here is an October word bank that will completely come in handy for a Writer's Notebook. This word bank is comprehensive of the many words that come to mind during the month of October and are sure to get your students' creative juices flowing! There are approximately 20-25 words that spur your students' brains for all kinds of writing-- narrative, expository, argumentative, etc. Use this October word bank for writing, ABC order, poetry, etc. It's uses are only limited by your imagination!

How many of us have great intentions when it comes to placing on our "To-Do" list making a positive call, email, text, etc. to one of our students' parents to communicate with them something great their child has achieved. While we have great intentions, all too often, it "slips to the back burner" and doesn't happen as often as it should. Use this resource to make sure this happens, and use it as a tool to make sure that within a given amount of time most all of your students have received that magic "bellsouth" call expressing something that everyone can be proud of... we know that many times the not-so-positive phone call, email, text, etc is received so much better and more positive when a positive piece of news has been shared as well along the way. Use this log to keep track of your communication as well as a tool to utilize at parent conferences-- great tool to begin the year with not to mention how much students will love your efforts!

You are sure to love this product! This is a packet of six reinforcement menus with a fall candy corn background to serve as a reward for great behavior. Oftentimes, in terms of universal screening for behavior, there are students who need more reinforcement than others. This product is ideal for those students who are on Tier II for behavior as well as those students who just need that extra “booster shot” in terms of working on his/her behavior and making great choices! The reinforcement menus relate to different areas such as academic activities, helping roles, praise/recognition, prizes/ rewards/privileges, and recreation. Your students are certain to work hard to be able to pick from one of these menus! This is a great product for Response to Intervention as well as reinforcing established behavior contracts!

WOWZA! You are going to be able to build some confidence with these motivational notes – that’s for sure! What child doesn’t want to feel great about themselves and their abilities to be successful on any given day? This resource can be utilized several different ways… (1) Use as the school year begins on “beginning of the year work” for a job well done; (2) Use as a possible header to showcase student work using the theme, “The BFG” in a bulletin board; (3) Use this set as a token to give to the parents of the students in your classroom to begin the process of establishing a great relationship in that parents can place these small tokens in their students’ lunch boxes; and (4) Use these small tokens of confidence to share with the counselor and/or the administrator for them to use as they determine they might be needed! This is only a few of the many, many ways to capitalize on these small confidence builders, and it is quite possible that everyone will have seen the new movie, “The BFG,” as the year begins! There is a total of 135 motivational notes!