This Food Web Building Kit first teaches the basics of making a food chain, then food webs. It's a tutorial and group activity. Food webs and food chains can be easily created using the six steps that are detailed in this package. It also has everything you need to make your own food chains and food webs. Here's a list of what's inside: A 10 page illustrated step by step tutorial Food chain-making worksheets with answer keys. Build-a-food-web bulletin board or activity sets for making a... *savannah food web*, *forest food web*, *garden food web*, *wetland food web*, *ocean food web*, and *Arctic food web* with suggested answer keys. Arrows and poster labels for each food web habitat. 56 Pages.

These are printable ruler templates in both cm ruler templates and inch ruler templates. The inch rulers come in sets of half inch, quarter inch, one eighth inch, and one sixteenth inch increments. The metric rulers are available in mm and cm increments. Each page has five rulers and they are to be printed on 8.5 x 14 (legal) sized paper. Printing tip: To make sure that they print to scale, always select 'Print actual size' in the printing window. Once they are laminated you can use them over and over again. 14 Pages. (c) Nyla's Crafty Teaching 2013

Measurement Task Cards for Inches! Use these measurement task cards to introduce the inch. The set includes a tutorial about measuring with an inch ruler. There are a total of 12 task cards, each with two pictures of everyday objects and a brief statement about the length, height or width of the object to be expressed in inches. Your students can measure each object directly from the card because they are drawn to scale, and fill in the blanks to complete each statement. They can also fill out their answers on the record sheet. The game 'Scoot' can be played with these as well. These task cards include: - 2 tutorial cards - 12 object to be measured in inches only - 6 objects to be measured in half inch increments – for third grade students - 6 objects to be measured in quarter inch increments – for third grade students - 2 student recording sheets - Answer keys *Printing tip* To make sure that they print to scale, always select 'Print actual size' in the printing window. 13 pages.

Use this pack of Illustrated Latin Roots with definitions to keep your students engaged in fun activities that reinforce the definition of each Latin root with examples of words that take on the meaning of the roots that they contain. Instructions are included for two games your students can play with these cards; 'Say It, Keep It' and 'Root Buzz'. There are 31 Latin roots in this set. Each card has a root and two word examples that feature the latin root. The roots are: ambi, aqua, aud, bene, cent, circum, contra, counter, dict, duc/duct, fac, form, fort, fract, ject, jud, mal, mater, mit, mort, multi, pater, port, rupt, scrib/scribe, sec/sect, sent, spec, struct, vid/vis, and voc. These cards are created in two different sizes. The original set has 8 cards per page and the larger set has 2 cards per page. The small set will save you ink and paper but many teachers have indicated to me that they preferred to have a larger set to make a bulletin board display. So, that's why I added the larger version. A storage box template is also included for these cards. Aligned to Common Core Standards (CCSS): L.4.4b and L.5.4b. 25 pages. For grades 4 & 5.

These are 15 lined paper templates with Valentine's Day themed borders that can be used for both creative writing and handwriting practice. The first section has the Valentine's Day accents (all kinds of heart designs) on blank-lined pages for story writing, letter writing or journal writing. The last three pages are for handwriting practice with the tracing of numbers and letters. The templates for the the line formats include a combination of D'Nealian, and manuscript lettering for the handwriting practice sheets.

This has activities for teaching Place Value with numbers from ones to thousands. It contains: Introductory Cards - For introducing how units are represented. Call any number from 1 to 9,999 and let students represent them using the cards. Place value worksheets - Using the blocks to write values in numerals and words. Game Time - Using the place value chart to represent values in a fun way. The game is set up in such a way that the students who are getting in right would finish faster and the weaker students would be in the game longer to get more practice. Question Time - A quick question and answer review. For grades 3-4. 14 pages.

Simple Machines: Levers - Sorting Activities for the Three Classes of Levers. Everything you need to know about levers is presented in this activity booklet. When teaching about Simple Machines, levers are usually taught first because students can clearly use them to identify the effort, load and fulcrum. This booklet explores the the first class lever, second class lever and third class lever, and illustrates them in posters, diagrams, a sorting table and a labeling activity. Real world examples of tools which are levers are also included as labelled pictures, e.g. a pair of scissors is a first class lever, a wheel barrow is a second class lever, and a pair of tweezers is a third class lever. An answer key is included for the activities.

Valentine's Day Glasses and Bookmarks: Reading Motivation! Let's celebrate our love for reading with these Valentine's Day themed reading props to keep our students in the mood to read a book. These are only to be worn at reading time and students can choose a different prop to be used with each new book they master reading. On Valentine’s Day however, students get to wear the ‘love reading glasses’ for the entire day in class*. *Students who wear tested lenses can wear the ‘love reading glasses’ on their hair (like a Bando). This pack includes: - One pair of coloured line Valentine's Day themed spectacles. - One pair of black line Valentine's Day themed spectacles. - Two coloured and very stylish Valentine's Day themed spectacles - Two coloured Valentine's Day bookmarks in different sizes and also in black and white. Just print and laminate the pages then cut out your props. These pages are to be printed on legal sized paper (long) because of the long width of the glasses. Instructions for folding the spectacles are included. Clip Art images by Nyla’s Crafty Teaching and textured fills by Sassy Designs, Inc.

This is a set of 25 Idiom Posters which display common idioms, their definitions (both literal and figuratively), with pictures and examples with the idioms being used in a sentence related to the picture shown. Your students will have a lot of fun learning about idioms! This file is a wonderful tool for teaching idioms because it has idioms that are current and presented in an attractive format. It incorporates simple definitions and examples of common idioms. Idioms are very difficult for English Language Learners but the illustrations are a huge help for preventing students from taking the literal meaning of each idiom. You can also use it to make a bulletin board of idioms. You can also print them out on a smaller scale so that they can be used as revision flash cards. I included as many pictures (clip art) as I could because I like to have students make connections between the new vocabulary and the everyday situations that they are already familiar with. Fulfills: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.3.5.A Distinguish the literal and nonliteral meanings of words and phrases in context. Fulfills as it related to idioms CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.4.5.B and CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.5.5.B Recognize and explain the meaning of common idioms...

Use these Illustrated Homophone Dominoes Cards to keep your students engaged in a fun activity that encourages reading and matching. This game is ideal for re-teaching and reinforcement of homophones. These cards have fifty pairs (including a few triplets) of homophones, some of them are: aloud/allowed, eight/ate, flower/flour, mussel/muscle, cellar/seller, doe/dough, night/knight, rose/rows, rite/right/write, no/know, raise/rays, see/sea, you/ewe, pour/pore, bored/board, scene/seen, peace/piece, etc. The illustrations are there to help visual learners to remember the words by their images. Encourage students to read the homophone pairs when they match them out loud especially the auditory learners. For grades 3-5. Fifty homophone pairs. 12 pages. (c) Nyla's Crafty Teaching 2012

This pack has a total of nine posters and seven worksheets. The worksheets include writing and cut and paste activities. The posters explain subject nouns, singular subjects, plural subjects, and subject pronouns. This pack also explores singular and plural verbs and the rules for subject and verb agreement. An answer key is included for all worksheets. Here's what you get: *A Subject Definition Poster *Noun Subject Worksheets *Subject Pronoun Poster *Subject Pronoun Worksheets *Singular and Plural Subjects Poster *Singular Verbs Poster *Singular Verbs Worksheets *Plural Verbs Poster *Plural Verbs Worksheet *Subject Pronoun and Verb Agreement Posters *Subject Noun and Verb Agreement Posters It fulfills the requirements for: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.1.1.C and CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.3.1.F Nyla's Crafty Teaching

Food Chains and Food Webs illustrated definition cards are a handy reference for your students to memorize all of the terms associated with Food Chains and Food Webs. Each card is color coded in green, red and brown to match the theme of the words used. The green cards have pictures and definitions for the words producer, herbivore and photosynthesis. The red cards are presented in the same way but are for words such as carnivore, consumer, predator, prey, etc. There are also brown cards for organism, omnivore, decomposer, scavenger, micro-organism and fungus. The rest of the cards are mostly non-living things like habitat, energy, food chain and food web. Nyla's Crafty Teaching

This is a colourful Spring themed Compound Word Dominoes Game. Students are to play in groups and match the cards end to end to form compound words. The cards are to be matched end to end by picture to picture for younger students or by word to picture for older readers. Page 3 is a reference guide for students to follow if they need the extra help. The compound words to be made include (but are not limited to): ladybug, raindrop, butterfly, rainbow, dragonfly, honeybee, grasshopper, and bullfrog. Six printing pages. For Grades 1-3. Nyla's Crafty Teaching

These are worksheets and activities for St. Patrick’s day that you can do with your class. All of the worksheets are no-prep to save you time. It is most ideal for Grades 2-4. It has many literacy activities that teach about the St. Patrick’s day history and customs. This booklet encourages lots of writing and presents it in a fun way. It also includes a math board game for division facts for the numbers 2 to 5. Answer key pages are also included. Contents: St. Patrick’s Day Writing Pages Countdown to St. Patrick’s Day Making Words Worksheet Pages St. Patrick’s Day Bracelets Math Board Game for Division Facts with cards and directions St. Patrick’s Day Word Search and Answer key St. Patrick’s Day Alphabetical Order Sort with Answer Key St. Patrick’s Day Crossword Puzzle with Answer Key 20 Pages Nyla's Crafty Teaching

Homophones - Flash Cards for Homophones: Keep these Illustrated Homophone Cards on a ring binder in your reading stations as a handy reference for your students. They are ideal for re-teaching and reinforcement of homophones. There are different definitions of homophones in many dictionaries. I stick to the basic rule: If the prefix 'homo' means 'same' and 'phone' comes from the word 'phoneme' which means 'sound', then the term 'homophone' means 'same sound'. This definition is simple and easy to remember. These are 46 cards which include fifty pairs (including a few triplets) of homophones, some of them are: aloud/allowed, bare/bear, eight/ate, flower/flour, mussel/muscle, cellar/seller, doe/dough, night/knight, rose/rows, rite/right/write, no/know, raise/rays, see/sea, you/ewe, pour/pore, bored/board, scene/seen, peace/piece, etc. The illustrations will help visual learners to remember the meaning of each word. Each card measures 7.5 cm by 9 cm and they fit on landscape letter sized paper (six to a page). Nyla's Crafty Teaching

Synonyms Word Wall. This Illustrated Synonym Word Wall set includes 60 word wall cards with pairs of synonyms and a large ‘definition of a synonym’ sentence strip, plus extra blank cards. Each word card has a pair of synonyms as well as corresponding pictures which portray the meaning of each word. Also included is a black and white version. Each card is just over a foot wide, that's 33cm by 6cm. They are laid out as three cards per page on landscape legal sized paper. Here is a complete list of the cards in the order that they appear. They have been divided into two sets; Set 1 for grades 2 to 3 and Set 2 for grades 3, 4 and over. Set 1: Object/thing, observe/watch, angry/mad, assist/help, begin/start, bad/awful, below/under, bother/annoy, buy/purchase, close/shut, connect/join, combine/mix, easy/simple, equal/same, smart/intelligent, law/rule, lucky/fortunate, calm/peaceful, name/title, silent/quiet, rescue/save, trash/garbage, raise/lift, unusual/strange. Set 2: Accomplish/Achieve, answer/reply, artificial/man made, bargain/deal, choose/select, collect/gather, complete/finish, danger/hazard, empty/vacant, faithful/loyal, genuine/real, job/occupation, last/final, value/worth, order/sequence, reliable/dependable, brief/concise, casual/informal, clear/transparent, country/nation, enlarge/magnify, previous/former, instructions/directions, float/drift, hurry/rush, many/numerous, praise/compliment, dive/plunge, inspect/examine, necessary/required, beg/implore, amiable/friendly, gallant/brave, annul/cancel, abandon/forsake, sad/melancholy.

These are 13 fun CVC Whirly Word Wheels which help students to merge the beginning consonant sound to the VC ending in one-syllable words for beginners who can identify letter sounds but need practice to merge the sounds together to form words. Each word wheel has illustrations of some of the words in the wheel and each wheel uses each of the vowels a,e,i,o and u as the middle sounds.

Celebrate Easter Time by making Easter Math Clocks. These clocks have numbered Easter eggs as hours and a chick on the hour hand and the minute hand. They also have a panel at the base for showing digital time to mach the analog time. Hour strips ranging from 1 to 12 and minute strips ranging from 00 to 59 are included for analog to digital matching. TeacherNyla Nyla's Crafty Teaching

These are Mother's Day Cards with with writing activity prompts inserted. It includes a collection of beautiful Mother’s Day Cards for grandmothers, aunts, and moms. All cards are available in black and white for your students to colour and fill out. One of the cards has a pocket full of writing prompts for your students to write loving messages in it for mother. Two Mother’s Day colouring pages are also included.

Prefix Word Wall: 36 prefix word wall cards, each prefix word card has a matching picture with its meaning in brackets. It can be used as headers for doing ‘prefix of the day’ focus walls or it can be used as a stand alone word wall. Each page has three word cards and they are to be printed on 8.5” x 11” (letter) sized paper. These cards incorporate simple definitions and examples of common prefixes. Prefixes are tricky for English Language Learners but the illustrations are a huge help for getting students to make connections to each prefix and its real world applications and meaning. You can also use this set to make a bulletin board of prefixes. For Grades 4-6. Over two dozen of the most commonly used prefixes are used in these cards: mis, de, a, ab, abs, fore, tri, pre, re, dis, in, dif, semi, micro, ex, un, im(1), sub, inter, pro, im(2), tele, bi, super, under, uni/mono, bi/duo, tri, tetra/quad, quint/penta, sex/hexa, hepta/sept, oct, nona, deca, hecto, and kilo. TeacherNyla Nyla's Crafty Teaching