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.
Here are some Bat Research Activity sheets to print and use. Great to go along with your picture book study of Stellaluna.
KWL Chart – This sheet asks students to write what they Know, what they Want to Know and what they Learned about bats.
Bat Research Pages – In this poster project, students research what bats look like, their diet, habitat and interesting facts. They then cite their sources.
Includes: Flying Fox Bats, Fruit Bats, Vampire Bats and a Generic Bat Research Page.
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!
This is for a lesson plan to go with Wordle.net or any word cloud making website. I have used this successfully with 3rd-5th graders.
This lesson includes skills like typing into MS Word, saving, copy/pasting words, and printing by saving as a doPDF. (For the older students I go a step farther and teach them how to email it to themselves.)
This packet includes:
1. Lesson Outline.
2. Word Cloud Reproducible
3. Sample Word Cloud
These activity sheets are great to review Story Elements after animal-themed stories!
Please note that these are 8.5" x 14" Legal-Sized Poster Activity Sheets!
Animal-themes included in this packet:
1. Zoo
2. Farm
3. Forest
4. Arctic
5. Ocean
Students write or draw in each box based on their abilities. Then, they color and decorate the poster.
Great for displaying on a bulletin board or putting out for Open House!
My students have loved the larger sheets of paper for activities and I'm sure yours will too!
Promote reading! These reproducible B&W bookmarks inspire students to write down books they want to read. Print them on colored cardstock to make them extra special!
Want to put editing back into the student's hands and stop pestering them about capital letters, spacing and spelling?
I use these edit sticks in our Media Center whenever our students type up their work. It has definitely cut down on my verbal reminders.
Just print, cut and tape onto popsicle sticks!
Here are two “How to Catch a Leprechaun” themed “How To” writing activities for your St. Patrick’s Day unit.
“How to Catch a Leprechaun” is 2 pages long and walks your students through the process of procedural writing. Page 1 asks them to simply sketch their trap. Page 2 asks them to write or draw the materials needed and explain how to build it with first, next, then and finally prompts.
The 2nd option, “How to Catch a Leprechaun”, is one page and encourages students to sketch a trap design and write how to build it in a paragraph below the illustration.
Bonus Writing Pages included!
1 lined full page.
a half page design with a box for an illustration and 3 different writing line options.
This is a reproducible for students to try out different genres of books. As they read a genre, they write the title in the box and move to the next box of their choice. Ultimately, they end at the star and become an "All Star Reader"!
This Dental Word Search Bundle has both the Easy and the Hard version of this Dental Word Search if you need to differentiate within your classroom.
Words include: tooth, floss, cavity, enamel, sealant, cleaning, teeth, root, crown, jaw, molar, canine, smile, plaque, tongue, gums, toothpaste and toothbrush.
Both puzzles come:
Full color for those who like to print and laminate for repeated use.
Also in B&W reproducible.
Answer Key provided.
Here are 2 LEVELS of a Ready to Go Winter Word Search for Elementary students. These No Prep Printables are Great for Word Search Lovers, Early Finishers, Sponge Activity, Morning Work, Literacy Centers and More!!
They look exactly alike except for the search itself! Easy to Differentiate for your students!
Easy Level: Words are horizontal and vertical (forward direction only) in an all uppercase puzzle.
Hard Level: Words are in vertical and horizontal (frontwards and backwards). They are also diagonal from the left down to the right only in an all uppercase puzzle.
Words include: boots, scarf, coats, cold, hats, quilt, chilly, windy, winter, sleigh, icicles, skates, freeze, heater, shovel, holidays, blanket, fireplace, mittens, blizzard, hibernate, migration, sledding, snowflake and snowman.
✅ Easy to Differentiate
✅ Full Color
✅ B&W reproducible
✅ Answer Key
**Have your students write to your Spring prompts with these Spring themed writing papers which have birds, butterflies, frogs and daisies. ** Or, place copies of these at your Literacy Center for students to write on their own topic of choice!
Available in 3 different writing line options to meet the needs of your students.
Includes 12 pages:
1st Flowers with Butterflies Design in 3 writing line options
2nd Daisy Design in 3 writing line options.
3rd Bird with Nest in 3 writing line options.
4th Frog in the Marsh in 3 writing line options.
Permission for Clip Art Usage per
Kate Hadfield Designs Extended License #20/135368215/T
**Here are 2 LEVELS of an Earth Day Word Search for Elementary students. **These No Prep Printables are Great for Word Search Lovers, Early Finishers, Sponge Activity, Morning Work, Literacy Centers and More!!
They look exactly alike except for the search itself! Easy to Differentiate for your students!
Easy Level: Words are horizontal and vertical (forward direction only) in an all uppercase puzzle.
Hard Level: Words are in vertical and horizontal (frontwards and backwards). They are also diagonal from the left down to the right only in an all uppercase puzzle.
Words include: April, air, bags, cans, glass, reuse, clean, trees, paper, water, plants, protect, energy, plastic, trash, recycle, habitat, planet, bottles, reduce, Earth Day, resources, pollution, conserve and compost.
✅ Easy to Differentiate
✅ Full Color
✅ B&W reproducible
✅ Answer Key
Here are 2 LEVELS of a Sea Turtle Life Cycle Word Search for Elementary students which includes life cycle, anatomy and other sea turtle related words. These No Prep Printables are Great for Word Search Lovers, Early Finishers, Sponge Activity, Morning Work, Literacy Centers and More!!
They look exactly alike except for the search itself! Easy to Differentiate for your students!
Words include: eggs, hatchling, juvenile, adult, swim, dig, nests, sand, water, beach, tail, claws, beak, scales, scute, egg tooth, caruncle, flippers, migrate, species, sea turtle, incubate, predator, life cycle and camouflage.
Easy Level: Words are horizontal and vertical (forward direction only) in an all uppercase puzzle.
Hard Level: Words are in vertical and horizontal (frontwards and backwards). They are also diagonal from the left down to the right only in an all uppercase puzzle.
Easy to Differentiate
Full Color
B&W reproducible
Answer Key
Here are 2 LEVELS of a Memorial Day Word Search for Elementary students. These No Prep Printables are Great for Word Search Lovers, Early Finishers, Sponge Activity, Morning Work, Literacy Centers and More!!
They look exactly alike except for the search itself! Easy to Differentiate for your students!
Words include: May, flags, defend, war, honor, medal, Monday, America, bravery, salute, freedom, history, respect, soldier, sacrifice, service, flowers, military, parade, half mast, ceremony, cemetery and monument.
Easy Level: Words are horizontal and vertical (forward direction only) in an all uppercase puzzle.
Hard Level: Words are in vertical and horizontal (frontwards and backwards). They are also diagonal from the left down to the right only in an all uppercase puzzle.
Easy to Differentiate
Full Color
B&W reproducible
Answer Key
**Here are 2 LEVELS of a Ready to Go Happy New Year Word Search for Elementary students. **These No Prep Printables are Great for Word Search Lovers, Early Finishers, Sponge Activity, Morning Work, Literacy Centers and More!!
They look exactly alike except for the search itself! Easy to Differentiate for your students!
Easy Level: Words are horizontal and vertical (forward direction only) in an all uppercase puzzle.
Hard Level: Words are in vertical and horizontal (frontwards and backwards). They are also diagonal from the left down to the right only in an all uppercase puzzle.
Words include: holiday, tradition, future, clock, first, goals, memories, resolution, New Year, streamers, mask, music, dancing, midnight, countdown, hat, party, confetti, fireworks, prosperous, kiss, parade, balloons, sparklers and noisemaker.
Easy to Differentiate
Full Color pages
B&W reproducible pages
Answer Keys
Here are 2 LEVELS of a Ready to Go Valentine’s Day Word Search for Elementary students. These No Prep Printables are Great for Word Search Lovers, Early Finishers, Sponge Activity, Morning Work, Literacy Centers and More!!
They look exactly alike except for the search itself! Easy to Differentiate for your students!
Easy Level: Words are horizontal and vertical (forward direction only) in an all uppercase puzzle.
Hard Level: Words are in vertical and horizontal (frontwards and backwards). They are also diagonal from the left down to the right only in an all uppercase puzzle.
Words include: love, card, party, red, pink, white, candy, hearts, caring, poem, Cupid, arrow, friends, flowers, holiday, admirer, kindness, tradition, be mine, balloons, Valentine, February, fourteenth, happiness and chocolate.
Includes:
Color version
Print-friendly B&W version
Answer Key
**Here are 2 LEVELS of a Ready to Go Summer Word Search for Elementary students. **
These No Prep Printables are Great for Word Search Lovers, Early Finishers, Sponge Activity, Morning Work, Literacy Centers and More!!
They look exactly alike except for the search itself! Easy to Differentiate for your students!
Easy Level: Words are horizontal and vertical (forward direction only) in an all uppercase puzzle.
Hard Level: Words are in vertical and horizontal (frontwards and backwards). They are also diagonal from the left down to the right only in an all uppercase puzzle.
Words include: fun, play, ocean, beach, grill, picnic, hot, pool, hats, lotion, family, friends, summer, sunshine, fishing, vacation, ice cream, no school, camping, baseball, swimming, sandcastle, sunglasses, watermelon and lemonade.
Easy to Differentiate for your Students
Full Color
B&W Reproducible
Answer Keys
Here is an 8.5" x 11" Poster Activity Sheet for Groundhog Day. Your students will research and answer questions about groundhogs as well as Groundhog Day.
It asks the students to:
Sketch a groundhog. It provides an outline to help them get started.
Identify where he lives and what it means if he sees his shadow or not.
Research groundhogs and give 2 Interesting Facts
Vocabulary Word: Choose a vocabulary word to illustrate and define.
Calendar Question: When is Groundhog Day?
Make a prediction whether he will see his shadow or not.
Write their Sources.
Students can color it in and their own decorative touches to it after they fill it out. Great for a Literacy Center and for an easy Bulletin Board!
**Here are 2 LEVELS of an Easter Word Search for Elementary students. **These No Prep Printables are Great for Word Search Lovers, Early Finishers, Sponge Activity, Morning Work, Literacy Centers and More!!
They look exactly alike except for the search itself! Easy to Differentiate for your students!
Easy Level: Words are horizontal and vertical (forward direction only) in an all uppercase puzzle.
Hard Level: Words are in vertical and horizontal (frontwards and backwards). They are also diagonal from the left down to the right only in an all uppercase puzzle.
Words include: April, Easter, spring, holiday, decorate, dye, Sunday, brunch, children, tradition, eggs, family, church, bonnet, chocolate, grass, dinner, basket, dresses, jelly beans, hunt, candy, rabbit, flowers and celebration.
Each one comes in Color, B&W reproducible.
Answer Key included.