Check out this great writing activity for Flag Day. Presented in eight short answer questions, this worksheet will probe student thinking and push them to reflect on what the flag is and why it is so important. Many of the questions provide creative questions such as why do places have flags or what are some patriotic songs and which is their favorite. This is a great way to allow students to think critically and reflect in a meaningful way!

Check out this fun and engaging pennant creation activity! With a clear outline, students record some of the most important things about them. Their favorite food, any pets, their favorite subject and their goals and aspirations are all included in a well organized manner. Students can color it as they please and then cut it out. There are string holes that are marked to turn this simple template into a classroom decoration where students feel valued and a part of their classroom community. This is a great beginning of the year activity to both decorate your classroom and allow the students to feel valued. Have fun!

Take your documentation to the next level with this template to track parent and guardian contacts. With this simple but user-friendly format, you are able to track the parents you talk to, the format you communicate with them through (such as email, text, call, visit, or note). There are also sections for the concern and the results from the communicaiton. This serves as a great format for data collection during conversations with administrators, co-teachers, and parents as you reference the dates for progress monitoring. Be sure to check out my "Simple Parent-Guardian Contact Log Form" as well for a simpler format.

Take your classroom communication to the next level with these accountability posters that pushes your students to challenge each others thoughts and ideas in a respectful and responsible way. Whether it be adding on to thinking, pushing back against ideas, questions understandings, or echoing and summarizing thoughts, these posters can do wonders for the oral communication development for all grade levels. Whether they are printed and laminated, hung around the room, or the mini versions attached are distributed to children, accountable talk posters will turn your classroom into a bunch of higher level thinking and talkers!

Engage your students in the natural world around them with this fun and engaging activity. Students will identify and "adopt" a tree in which they will fill out an adoption certificate. Students will fill out some basic information about the tree and then can take care of, observe and track the tree throughout the year. It is incredible how excited students will get about thei tree, protective, worried, and attached as well! This is a great way to help students understand and be aware of nature, tree life cycles, symbiosis and more! Directions are invcluded as well as the certificate template!

Presented in a multitude of formats, this extensive lesson packet includes objectives, and interactive questions related to place value, patterns, additions, subtraction, as well as comparing numbers. There is a tiny bit of multiplication and division, but if students aren't there yet, this can be easily omitted. With a strong focus on completing number patters, this packet will challenge students to apply their learned concepts of place value and mental math. This can be used for classwork, homework, internvetions or even an assessment!

Check out this differentiated pack of templates that are to be used for acrostic poems. Presented in a fun and student-friendly design, each of the pages comes with a different amount of lines. These allows for different words to be used, implementation with different grades, or simply differentiation. Be creative and take your lesson on poems to a new level!

Check out this awesome assessment that is aligned the EngageNY and Eureka Math curriculum for the 3rd 9 weeks in fifth grade. In this diverse assessment students will come across word problems, short answer, solution-based, simple problems and more. Covered in this topics are addiing and subtracting mixed numbers, using tape diagrams and models to solve fractions of whole numbers, use of rectangular fraction models and more. This can easily be used as a study guide, assessment, workshet and so much more!

Check out this awesome list of various jobs that can be implemented in your classroom starting tomorrow! Transfer the accountability, responsibility, and leadership to your students by delegating various tasks to them. In this product you will find a list of 25 ideas with clear descriptions and job titles including components such as lumber jacks who sharpen the pencils, computer technicians that turn on and off the computers and far more with far great descriptions. Have fun and enjoy!

Check out this extremely supportive step by step directions template that supports students understanding of multiplying 2 digit numbers by 2 digit numbers. With clear procedures, highlighted areas, and a sample problem, this template can be used again and again while students refine their skills. A second page is included with solely blank templates that students can plug in their own numbers. This can be laminated so it can be used again and again. This serves as a great differentiating tool for struggling students, or the class as a whole! Be sure to also check out our 2 digit by 1 digit template as well!

Check out this extremely supportive step by step directions template that supports students understanding of multiplying 2 digit numbers by 1 digit numbers. With clear procedures, highlighted areas, and a sample problem, this template can be used again and again while students refine their skills. A second page is included with solely blank templates that students can plug in their own numbers. This can be laminated so it can be used again and again. This serves as a great differentiating tool for struggling students, or the class as a whole! Be sure to also check out our 2 digit by 2 digit template as well!

Check out this awesome packet that includes 10 different worksheets with correlating answer keys. This mental math coaching exercise covers the topics of addition and subtraction and each sheet includes six problems. It is meant to be played one student vs one student in which student 1 coaches student 2 to find the sum. The sixth question on each one has the sum but is missing a box and students need to figure out what is missing. This is a great student-centered activity in which students support, explain, and teach each other while building number fluency, place value understanding and mnetal math skills. Directions are included!