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.
This set of posters is designed to help students develop and reinforce problem-solving strategies in mathematics. Each poster focuses on a different strategy, such as:
Guess and Check
Work Backwards
Break It Down (Decompose)
Solve a Simpler Problem
Make a List
Use Logic Reasoning
Work with a Friend
Act It Out
Use a Number Line
Guess, Estimate, and Check
Check for Extra Information
Use Equations
The posters include helpful examples, visuals, and a “Thinking Out Loud” section to encourage students to articulate their thought processes. These vibrant and easy-to-understand posters can be displayed in classrooms to support students in using a variety of methods to approach and solve math problems. Ideal for elementary and middle school settings, they provide students with key problem-solving techniques that are essential for success in math. Also included are colored and black and white bookmarks.
The vowel digraphs depicted are only those that can be explained using the rhyme “When two vowels go walking, sometimes, the first one does the talking.” These are:-
ai
ay
ea
ee
ie
oa
ue
These are ready for you to print out, place on your word wall as an easy reference for your students. Also included are blackline versions and a notebook version in black and white.
It's A New Year Mini Book For Serious Kids **Revised for New Year 2018** This mini book helps kids to understand the meaning of resolutions and how important it is to make one. Your kids will enjoy coloring activities as they explore different aspects of resolution making. Although the poem may be difficult for some kids to read, its flow and rhyme makes it a great piece for guided reading activities.
Nicole
A Teacher's Idea
Are you looking for ideas to teach cause and effect to your students? Look no further that these Activities and Posters. This skill always seem to be a difficult concept to teach to the young ones. This is why I created this resource which will help to bring about a greater understanding for your students. I suggest that you start with the Effect then Cause rather than Cause and Effect to get them to start with the facts first then think creatively to give a reason behind the facts.
My set includes the following;
2 Posters
24 sets of effect/cause cards
1 matching mat
1 mix and match writing sheet
1 blank printable for students to draw and write their own sentences
The matching capabilities and possible crazy sentences is all but funny and enjoyable. This is a fantastic addition to your literacy center and game corners.
Compound Words: Compound Words...Loop game With Picture Cards Set: This is a two-in-one resource that will make any literacy center bloom. It contains a set of 44 I Have Who Has game cards along with 1 blank template for your own customizing efforts. Along with that is a set of Picture cards containing the compound words that are covered in the game. There is also a blank Picture card template just for you. That makes a total of 88 cards of fun-filled activities.
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For more Compound Words Sets click below:
Compound Words...I Have Who Has With Picture Cards Set
Compound Wordpecker Fun! A Matching Activity for Elementary Grades
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(C) 2013 Nicole Hernandez
A Teacher's Idea
Community Helpers: People in Our Community Chit Chat Cards-For Social Studies 'n Writing Activities: This resources contains picture cards with vocabulary that can be used for both Social Studies and Writing activities. They are great for stimulating ideas and focusing students on community-based themes.
The set contains 12 pages each containing 6 cards. That is a total of 72 cards. There is also 1 blank page for any additional pictures you may want to include.
(C) 2013 Nicole Hernandez
A Teacher's Idea
Martin Luther King Day: Dove Facts About Dr Martin Luther King Jr. With 5 PostersThis is a set of fact cards that paints a picture of the life of Dr Martin Luther King Jr. There are also a writing and a coloring activity for your students. Included in this resource is also a set of 5 posters entitled ' We Are Living A Dream'. These posters are student friendly and of course eye catching!
(C) 2013 Nicole Hernandez
A Teacher's Idea
Even and Odd Numbers: Even Steven Thinks That Todd is Odd- Posters n Matching Activity For First Grade: This is a set of 4 Posters that also includes a Card activity. This is a fun-filled and easy graphic that helps to explain even and odd numbers. You can place the posters in your Math centers or print for individual students as an aid or guide in your lessons.
(C) 2013 Nicole Hernandez
A Teacher's Idea
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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This is a set of 92 Fraction cards that can be sorted and matched according to number, name, fractions of a whole and fractions of a group. They can also be used in oral exercises also both in small groups and whole class activities.
This product contains fractions UP TO SIXTHS ONLY.
There are:
21 Fractions of a Whole Cards (Pizzas)
21 Fraction Cards (Symbols)
21 Fractions of a Group Cards (Sweet peppers)
29 Fraction Word Cards
1 Sorting Mat
Your students can have fun playing my Fraction Match game which involves two players. They can also engage in making their own fraction word problems to show their understanding of this concept.
(C) 2013 Nicole Hernandez
A Teacher's Idea
These colorful reading genre posters are designed to help students understand various reading genres. Each poster features kid-friendly explanations of genres like adventure, fairy tales, biographies, mysteries, and more. The illustrations and characteristics make genre identification fun and accessible for young readers. Perfect for classrooms, libraries, and reading corners, these posters not only enhance literacy lessons but also encourage students to explore different types of texts. Use them to spark discussions about favorite genres, or as a reference guide during book-related activities.
INCLUDED GENRE POSTERS:
Adventure
Animal Fantasy
Animal Stories
Anime
Argument
Autobiography
Autobiography Fiction
Ballads
Beast Tales
Biography
Categorical
Collection
Comedy
Comic Book
Comic Strip
Concrete Poetry
Cumulative Tales
Crime
Discussion
Drama
Dystopian
Epic
Expository Text
Fable
Fairy Tale
Fantasy
Feature Article
Fiction
Folk Tales
Free Verse
Graphic Novel
Graphic Nonfiction
Haiku
High Fantasy
Historical Fiction
Horror
Humor
Hybrid Texts
Informational Text
Legend
Limerick
Low Fantasy
Lyrical Poetry
Manga
Memoir
Modern Fantasy
Multigenre Text Sets
Mystery
Myths
Narrative Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Noodlehead Tales
Nursery Rhymes
Persuasive Texts
Poetry
Pourquoi Tales
Procedural Texts
Realistic Fiction
Recount
Report
Romance
Satire
Science Fiction
Sonnet
Short Story
Tall Tales
Traditional Literature
Trickster Tale
Westerns
Help students practice making inferences about character traits with this FREE set of task cards! Each card presents a short, relatable passage, followed by a simple multiple-choice question asking students to infer the kind of person the character is.
What’s included:
12 task cards featuring real-life scenarios
Multiple-choice questions focused on character traits like patience, kindness, and more
Perfect for grades K-2
Use these cards for quick practice, centers, or group activities to build comprehension skills in a fun and simple way!