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 3 pages of Groundhog Day Bookmarks.
The first two pages feature the basic facts of Groundhog Day - one with color clip art and one with B&W reproducible friendly clip art the kids can color!
The third page has 4 different designs in a reproducible friendly format for kids to choose and color.
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!
Have your students write to your Groundhog Day writing prompts with these themed writing papers. Or, place copies of these at your Literacy Center for students to write on their own topic of choice!
Groundhog Day Writing Paper in 2 designs with 3 types of writing lines for each design.
Includes 6 pages:
Happy Groundhog in 3 writing line options
Grumpy Groundhog in 3 writing line options.
**Here are 2 LEVELS of a Ready to Go Spring 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: kites, birds, bees, rain, melt, chicks, chirp, eggs, grass, frolic, Easter, Spring, friends, garden, sprout, breeze, flowers, sunshine, blossom, butterfly, cleaning, growing, celebrate, umbrella and puddles.
Easy to Differentiate for your students
Full Color
B&W Reproducible
Answer Keys
**Have your students write Acrostic or Haiku poetry with these Spring themed poetry activity sheets. Great for your Writing and Literacy Centers, Early Finishers and Substitute packets. **
A generic sheet for each type of poetry is included to expand the possibilities!
Includes 6 pages:
SPRING Acrostic
FLOWER Acrostic
Choose a Topic Spring Acrostic
Flower Haiku #1 Choice
Flower Haiku #2 Choice
Choose Your Own Spring Topic Haiku
Permission for Clip Art Usage per
Kate Hadfield Designs Extended License #20/135368215/T
Have your students write Acrostic or Haiku poetry with these Spring Earth Day themed poetry activity sheets. Great for your Writing and Literacy Centers, Early Finishers and Substitute packets.
A generic sheet for each type of poetry is included to expand the possibilities!
Includes 5 pages:
EARTH DAY Acrostic
RECYCLING Acrostic
Choose a Topic Earth Day Acrostic
Recycle Haiku
Earth Day Haiku
Permission for Clip Art Usage per
Kate Hadfield Designs Extended License #20/135368215/T
Students get to choose from 4 Race Cars with this Sticker Chart set. They also come in B&W reproducible as well as color. Students write their name, the goal and the reward on the front. Then, they mark their reading or behavior progress using stamps, stickers or even just coloring in a box.
Charts are half a page and there are 2 charts per page.
Permission for Clip Art Usage per
Kate Hadfield Designs Extended License #20/135368215/T
This reproducible is a print and go activity. Students choose any book to research from. They cite their source by finding the information prompted, write 3 interesting facts and an "I wonder.." statement.
Great for an independent activity, center, or for a substitute, 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!
1. Character Reproducible This page makes a great center activity or time filler. Your students will enjoy making up their own characters! You can give them a prompt for writing below their illustration, on the lines provided, or let them decide what to say about their creation.
2. You Can Draw! Reproducible Many students feel discouraged when asked to draw, so I made this handmade reproducible to help them feel confident enough to get started.
3. Character Traits Handout
4. Editable Character Traits Handout - I'm including an editable (PowerPoint) version as well so you can put traits on that you have talked about with your class.
This Make Words kit for the word "snowman" includes options for printing and handing out a reproducible sheet or utilizing this in a Literacy Center.
Includes:
1. A standalone reproducible worksheet
2. Make Words Center "I Can" sign
3. An Answer Chart for the center with boxes based on word length.
4. Answer Key for the Answer Chart
4. "Snowman" cut out letters in lower and upper case.
Velveteen Rabbit story related words/vocabulary hidden in this puzzle. Words are in any direction!
Comes in Full Color for those that like to laminate and reuse.
Also in B&W reproducible & Includes Answer Key.
16 Santa’s Reindeer related words hidden in this puzzle. Words are horizontal and vertical only.
Comes in Full Color for those that like to laminate and reuse.
Also in B&W reproducible & Includes Answer Key.
Check out the bundle to get both the easy and the harder version if you need to differentiate within your classroom.
Use these School Bus Incentive Reward Charts to mark reading or behavior progress with individual students, groups or classes. Use stamps, stickers or even your initials to mark off the squares. Charts are 4x5 inches and there are 4 charts per page.
Please see the preview.
This includes:
2 Charts in Color with different backgrounds
1 chart with a white background for those who wish to conserve ink
1 Variety page
Use these Bookworm Incentive Charts to mark reading or behavior progress with individual students, groups or classes. Use stamps, stickers or even your initials to mark off the squares. Charts are 4x5 inches and there are 4 charts per page.
Please see the preview. This includes 2 color charts. The 2 additional charts have a white background for those who wish to conserve ink.
Computer Parts Word Search Bundle includes 2 levels of Word Search so you can differentiate for the levels of students in your classroom.
Easy Puzzle: Words can be found vertically and horizontally. NO backwards or diagonal words.
Hard Puzzle: Words horizontal, vertical, diagonal and backwards in this hard puzzle.
Comes in Full Color for those that like to laminate and reuse. I like to put them in one of those reusable dry erase pockets with a vis a vis marker.
Also in B&W reproducible!
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.
Here are 4 activity sheets to print and use after you’ve read Stellaluna, by Janell Cannon, to your students.
Comprehension Sheet – This sheet asks students to draw and write about their favorite part and answer some questions related to story. Answer Key is included
Venn Diagram – a page where the students Compare and Contrast bats to birds.
Story Map #1 – Students use words and/or pictures to fill in the characters, setting, problem and solution of the story.
Story Map #2 – Students use words and/or pictures to fill in the characters, setting, beginning, middle, end, and moral of the story.
