This is a free set of activities for New Year’s Day. This is a PDF file. 9 Pages. It is kid friendly and an enhancement to teaching character traits in ELA. It’s also a great way for students to be aware of their qualities and how they can work to achieve their goals. You can turn it into a bulletin board when your students are done. Sample pictures are included. A new updated version will be uploaded here for next year. - Nyla.

For the Valentine’s Day, here are a eight free hilarious Bookmarks. Each one has a riddle on the front and the answer on the back. These Free Valentine’s Day Bookmarks can be used as rewards or just to share some love and laughter.

I made these free printable eye masks for students to wear in celebration of Groundhog Day! Your students can assemble the parts and stick them together as a craft activity. Students who wear tested lenses can wear them on their hair I made these free printable eye masks for students to wear in celebration of Groundhog Day! Your students can assemble the parts and stick them together as a craft activity. Students who wear tested lenses can wear them on their hair (like a Bando). This pack includes four different styles in full color: One face mask with a happy groundhog. One face mask with a frightened groundhog. One face mask with a ground hog predicting six more weeks of winter. One face mask with a ground hog announcing the arrival of spring. 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. For grades 1-3. Four pages. (c) Nyla's Crafty Teaching 2012

The Princess and the Pea - Story Retelling Worksheets - with picture writing prompts. This mini-book is for your students to retell the traditional story of The Princess and the Pea. It is for grades 2-4 and makes a great addition to any fairy tales unit (black and white version also included). Instructions for the teacher: Just print out either the colour or black and white version and make copies of each page. Then guillotine them across the middle. That’s it. The instructions on page two are for your students to be able to do the rest for themselves. I kept it as simple as possible for them to easily make their own mini-book story retelling. Pages 2-7: Mini-book pages for the story of The Princess and the Pea. Pages 8-11: Longer sheets for older students e.g. grade 4, who may not need the picture prompts. Pages: 12-19: Black and White versions of everything above. *Note*This issue is shorter than my other story retelling worksheets because the story line is much simpler, so the price is less than the others in the series.

This phonics foldable worksheet provides engaging ways for students to practice reading and writing words beginning with the TH blend. The first word wheel shows the unvoiced TH sound words and the second shows the voiced TH sound words. Everything is made in both printable black and white form and colourful versions of the word wheels are also included for optional use. 8 Pages. Your students can use the foldables to: Name the item in each picture. Open the flaps and trace the words beneath each flap. Sound out the TH blends. Read the words they traced.

PH Sound Word Wheel and foldable worksheet: This phonics foldable and word wheel provides engaging ways for students to practice reading and writing words beginning with the PH blend. Everything is made in printable black and white form for your students to colour them and a colourful version of the word wheel is also included for optional use. Your students can use the foldables to: Name the item in each picture. Open the flaps and trace the words beneath each flap. Sound out the PH blends. Read the words they traced.

This CK Word Wheel and worksheet provides engaging ways for students to practice reading and writing words ending with the CK sound. Everything is made in printable black and white form for your students to color them and also colourful versions of the word wheels are included for optional use. Your students can use the foldable worksheet to: Name the item in each picture (with the ending CK sound). Open the flaps and trace the words beneath each flap. Sound out the ending CK blend. Read the words they traced.

This phonics foldable and word wheel provides engaging ways for students to practice reading and writing words beginning with the WH blend. Everything is made in printable black and white form for your students to colour them and a colourful version of the word wheel is also included for optional use. Your students can use the foldables to: Name the item in each picture. Open the flaps and trace the words beneath each flap. Sound out the WH blends. Read the words they traced.

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.

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 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

This phonics foldable and word wheel provides engaging ways for students to practice reading and writing words beginning with the SH blend. Everything is made in printable black and white form for your students to colour them and a colourful version of the word wheel is also included for optional use. Your students can use the foldables to: Name the item in each picture. Open the flaps and trace the words beneath each flap. Sound out the SH blends. Read the words they traced.

This phonics foldable worksheet and word wheel provides engaging ways for students to practice reading and writing words beginning with the Qu sound. Everything is made in printable black and white form for your students to color them and a colourful version of the word wheel is also included for optional use. Your students can use the foldables to: Name the item in each picture. Open the flaps and trace the words beneath each flap. Sound out the Qu sounds. Read the words they traced.

Use this set of verb cards which feature present tense and past tense of irregular verbs as a memory game, verb flash cards, or as a flip book. The verb pairs here are: blow, blew, build, built, choose, chose, dig, dug, drink, drank, grow, grew, make, made, sit, sat, eat, ate, break, broke, catch, caught, cut, cut, do, did, draw, drew, find, found, give, gave, buy, bought, bring, brought, drive, drove, fall, fell, feed, fed, get, got, hold, held, hide, hid. For the memory game, cut out each card, then shuffle them for a random order. For the flip book, print each page, then bind them together along the tops. After this, cut each vertically along the center to divide the flip book in half so that your students can flip the pages on the left and right to match the pages on the right.

Father's Day Cards with a writing activity. It has cards for grandfathers, uncles, and dads. 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 their father. Two Father’s Day colouring pages are also included. 19 Pages

Story Retelling Worksheets for Beauty and the Beast with picture writing prompts. This mini-book is for your students to retell the traditional story of Beauty and the Beast. It is for grades 2-4 and makes a great addition to any fairy tales unit (black and white version also included). Instructions for the teacher: Just print out either the colour or black and white version and make copies of each page. Then guillotine them across the middle. That’s it. The instructions on page two are for your students to be able to do the rest for themselves. I kept it as simple as possible for them to easily make their own mini-book story retelling. Pages 2-14: Mini-book pages for the story of Beauty and the Beast. Pages 15-17: Longer sheets for older students who may not need the picture prompts. Pages: 18-33: Black and White versions of everything above. Nyla's Crafty Teaching

Cube Lesson Plan for ages 8 to 10. If you are teaching about solids, have a lesson plan ready to go for introducing cubes. This lesson has activities for small groups that follow the 5E lesson model. A worksheet is also included with an answer key. 7 printable pages. By TeacherNyla Nyla’s Crafty teaching

Use this set of Dienes block clip art to make your Base 10 Blocks place value worksheets, games and printables for commercial or classroom use. Contains: - A total of 32 images: eight different colours of the unit, tens, hundreds and thousands base 10 blocks. Each of the colours are black and white, classic blue, green, yellow, orange, red, pink, and purple. - An editable worksheet template. All images are 300 dpi in png format with transparent backgrounds. Terms of Use Use this for for commercial or classroom use. If you include them in your digital downloads (free or priced) all you have to do is credit Nyla's Crafty Teaching by including a clickable link to my TES Resources Store. Redistributing, editing, selling, or posting these graphics or any part there of (by themselves and not in a resource or product) on the Internet are strictly prohibited without first gaining permission from the author. Violations are subject to the penalties of the Digital millennium Copyright Act. Please contact me directly through my blog or TES Resources Store if you wish to be granted special permission. Nyla's Crafty Teaching

Multiple Meaning Words - Illustrated Word Wall: includes a large sentence strip which displays the definition of multiple meaning words for you to add above your word wall area. There is a total of 33 word cards. Each multiple meaning word card has a fitting pair of pictures to match the word. Each page has three word cards and they are to be printed on 8.5 x 11 (letter) sized paper. Nyla's Crafty Teaching

These Food Chain Puzzles can be used to practice making food chains with organisms in a garden habitat. This is a Spring themed Food Chain puzzle. The cards are perfect for group work and stations. Each puzzle card has an organism name and picture on it. Each of the first five pages has three puzzles and each of these puzzles has a producer (plant or plant part), a primary consumer, and a secondary consumer. The sixth page has more consumer organisms that can be spliced in to make longer food chains. After the cards are cut apart for the students, the page six puzzle cards can be mixed and matched with them. 15 Puzzles. 6 Pages. Grades 2-4. The producers (plants or plant parts), in this set include: grass, leaf, bush, seeds, nectar from flowers, and fruit. The consumer organisms in this set are: caterpillar, bird, grasshopper, lizard, snake, bee, dragonfly, aphid, ladybug, rabbit, eagle, chicken, man, rat, owl, cow, fly, frog, rat, cat, sheep, toad, butterfly, and goat. Nyla's Crafty Teaching