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 4+ activity sheets to print and use after you’ve read The Legend of the Poinsettia by Tomie dePaola, to your students.
Comprehension Sheet - This sheet asks students to draw and write about their favorite part, list five character traits that describe Lucinda, answer some questions related to story, and write about something their family celebrates on the back of the paper. *Answer Key included for this sheet. (1 page + answer key)
Story Map - Students use words and/or pictures to fill in the characters, setting, beginning, middle, end, and moral of the story. (1 page)
Poinsettia Acrostic Poem - Students write and decorate a poem using the word “Poinsettia”. (1 page)
Poinsettia Themed Writing Paper - Use these generic papers for your own writing prompts. There are 3 versions - each with 3 types of writing lines. (9 pages).
Great for those last days before the Winter Break or to leave for a substitute!
**Here are 6+ Activity Sheets to print and use after reading Red and Lulu by Matt Tavares this Christmas: a Comprehension Sheet, Beginning/Middle/End, Color and Write, Cardinal Acrostic, Cardinal Research, and Bonus writing papers for your prompts to the story. **Just Print and Go! Great for your Substitute file.
*See the Preview for all the sheets included. *
1. Comprehension Sheet with Answer Key- This sheet asks students to draw and write about their favorite part, make some words plural, answer some questions related to story and draw and write about their favorite spot on the back.
2. Story Elements Page: Asks students to write characters, setting, Beginning/Middle/End and 2 facts they learned about the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree.
3. Red and Lulu Color and Write - Students color/decorate the tree illustration and write to your prompt.
**4. Cardinal Research **- Students research a cardinal.
5. Cardinal Acrostic - Write an acrostic poem to CARDINAL.
6. BONUS Writing Paper! 2 Writing/Drawing/Coloring pages in 3 different line options each. Your students can write to your prompt or choose their own at your literacy center.
Here is an 8.5" x 11" Printable activity sheet to use with any Scientist.
It asks the students to:
Sketch a person of their choice.
Write the scientist’s major achievements.
List 3 Important Facts.
How the achievement is used in the Present World.
Fast Facts Box.
Describe their person.
Find and write a Famous Quote.
Write their Sources.
Students can add their own decorative touches to it after they fill it out. Great for a literacy center!
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
**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
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.
Here are some Bat Research Activity sheets to print and use. Great to go along with your picture book study of Stellaluna.
KWL Chart – This sheet asks students to write what they Know, what they Want to Know and what they Learned about bats.
Bat Research Pages – In this poster project, students research what bats look like, their diet, habitat and interesting facts. They then cite their sources.
Includes: Flying Fox Bats, Fruit Bats, Vampire Bats and a Generic Bat Research Page.
Here are 4 activity sheets to print and use after you’ve read the Pecos Bill tall tale with your students: Comprehension, Graphic Organizer, Exaggeration and Compare and Contrast activities.
1. Comprehension Sheet – This sheet asks students to draw and write about their favorite part, write 4 words to describe Pecos, write an example of an exaggeration from the tall tale, and summarize the tale in their own words.
2. Tall Tale Graphic Organizer – This sheet asks students to write the characters, setting. It has boxes for students to write or draw 2 Exaggerations from the story, 1 Realistic Event from the story, the Problem and the Solution.
3. Tall Tale Exaggeration – Students illustrate their favorite exaggeration from the story and write about what they drew.
4. Compare & Contrast – Students choose another person or character to compare to Pecos Bill. They could choose themselves, another tall tale character, anyone!
**This Spring BINGO game has 36 unique cards that you can print and play.
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Includes plant cycle words: seeds, seedling, sprout, plant with leaves, bud, flower and bulb. Other words include: March, spring, bees, birds, butterfly, clouds, rain, puddle, umbrella, sunshine, eggs, hatch, chicks, groundhog, worm, grass, rainbow, kite, mushrooms, insects and planting.
See the Preview. This set includes:
36 Unique and numbered BINGO cards
Directions
Calling Board
Calling Cards to cut out
You will need to cut some squares out of construction paper to use as Bingo chips ahead of time, if you don’t have something like that already.
Permission for Clip Art Usage per
Kate Hadfield Designs Extended License #20/135368215/T
This guided Martin Luther King, Jr. Bio Poem Activity is a great research and poetry writing activity for a lesson, literacy or poetry center or even your substitute file for Black History Month or any time of year!
This poem has a biographical research slant to it. Students are asked to research the person and find the following information:
First and Last Name
3-4 words that describe the person
an important relationship the person had
things the person enjoyed
things the person valued
things the person learned
things the person achieved
something the person is remembered for
where the person lived
date of birth and death
This resource includes the following options:
Graphic Organizer guides students to brainstorm words and ideas they will need for the poem as they read and study about the person.
Draft page. This page guides students to fill in each line. Then, they do a spell check with each other and you.
2 Final Draft Writing Pages - LETTER Sized (8.5" x 11") Color and B&W Clip Art versions. Students write the final draft of their entire poem.
2 Final Draft Writing Pages - LEGAL Sized (8.5" x 14") Color and B&W Clip Art versions. Great for students with larger handwriting or who need more space! Students write the final draft of their entire poem.
It also includes the following:
Table of Contents
Teacher Example of the Rough Draft Page. Abraham Lincoln is used on this example page.
Teacher Example of the Final Draft Page. Abraham Lincoln is used on this example page.
Use these printable Dog Incentive Sticker Reward Charts to mark reading or behavior progress. Easy to differentiate for your students with several choices of grids: 12, 16 and 25 box grids. Great to use with individual students, groups or even whole classes. Use stamps, stickers or simply your initials to mark off the squares.
Charts are 4x5 inches and there are 4 charts per page.
See Thumbnails for the pages you will get.
Three Versions (12, 16 and 25 Box Choices!) with multiple color options included for each:
1 Full Color page - with 4 different color charts to the page.
1 “Less Color” page. This one has no background color to save on ink. It has 4 of the same sticker chart on the page.
1 B&W page for easy photocopying and students can color.
This is a FUN way for your students to review finding call numbers in your library!
There are 3 sets of Scavenger Hunt Task Cards to cover the Easy, Fiction and Nonfiction areas of your library. Each set has 12 task cards to find, so there are 36 Task Cards total. For the questions, I used books and book series that would most likely be found in the majority of elementary libraries.
Blank answer sheets are provided in which the clip art matches the card they are hunting.
Answers are included.
EDITABLE!! These are PowerPoint files and totally editable since I used Creative Commons clip art. Add or change anything you wish to meet the needs of your library!
* Please note: This file has a license for one teacher to use/modify for his/her classroom only. This file is not for commercial use and may not be modified and resold.
I have used Stop Motion animation with my Kindergarten and 1st graders over the past few years in the Media Center.
In this presentation, you will find step-by-step directions on how to teach your students how to use an iPad and the iMotion HD app to create stop motion animation movies.
I share how to make this work and the tips I learned along the way - from planning to presenting so that you can hit the ground running.
15 slides
Help your students Create an Invention with this 8.5" x 14" legal-sized activity sheet! It walks your students through the Engineering Design Process step-by-step.
Included in this packet:
1. Design an Invention Poster Activity Sheet (8.5" x 14")
2. Sharing Page: Have your students take a picture of their invention and write a synopsis on this page. Makes a great Bulletin Board! (8.5" x 11")
3. Reflection Page: Includes questions so that students can reflect on their work. (8.5" x 11")
I have used this poster with groups of fourth grade students in the Media Center to encourage them to invent something with the materials available in our Makerspace Center. It took them six weeks to plan and make their inventions. Afterwards, each class voted for the top inventions and we had the best of the best set up in the Media Center for classes to come see.
Get 2 Word Searches in this bundle and differentiate for the levels of students in your classroom.
This pack includes 2 levels of word search to celebrate the New Year!
Both come in reproducible friendly B&W that the students can color in and write their New Year's Resolution on after they finish the puzzle!
#1 The Easy version has words only horizontally or vertically.
#2 The Hard version has words in ANY direction!
Here are ready-to-go farm animal poster or graphic organizers for your students to research barnyard animals. Includes pages for: cows, chickens, dogs, ducks, goats, horses, pigs and sheep. It also includes 1 additional Generic Sheet to use with any additional animals.
**Realistic Farm Animal Clip Art on these 8.5" x 11" activity sheets!
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Includes 4 Versions (9 pages each):
Version 1: U.S. Spelling with Sources box.
Version 2: U.S. Spelling without Sources box.
Version 3: UK/CAN/AUS Spelling with Sources box.
Version 4: UK/CAN/AUS Spelling without Sources box.
Information asked for:
What the animal looks like
Babies - what they are called and what they are fed
Diet
Interesting Facts
Sources
Students can color add their own decorative touches to it after they fill it out.
Here are ready-to-go poster or graphic organizers for your students to research forest animals. Includes posters for these forest animals: black bears, deer, moose, foxes, porcupines, owls, raccoons, skunks, rabbits and squirrels. It also includes 2 additional Generic Sheets to use with any additional animals.
Animal Research Poster Activity Sheets 8.5" x 11"
Includes 4 Versions (12 pages each):
Version 1: U.S. Spelling with Sources box.
Version 2: U.S. Spelling without Sources box.
Version 3: UK/CAN/AUS Spelling with Sources box.
Version 4: UK/CAN/AUS Spelling without Sources box.
Information asked for:
What the animal looks like.
Habitat
Diet
Interesting Facts
Sources
Students can color add their own decorative touches to it after they fill it out.
Use these Bat Themed 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 4 charts.**
16 Santa’s Reindeer related words 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.
Check out the bundle to get both the easy and the harder version if you need to differentiate within your classroom.
These Christmas and Winter Dabber Activity worksheets are a great way to help your students with their fine motor, counting, one-to-one recognition, vocabulary and letter recognition. Students use the BINGO Dauber, or dot markers, to press down on each circle just like BINGO players do.
Alternatively, if you do not have BINGO daubers, you can use manipulatives to cover the dots like pom poms and stickers (garage sale circle stickers are fun). Or even let those little fingers dip into paint!!
Pictures currently in the Christmas Set include:
tree
ornaments
gingerbread man
gingerbread house
candy canes
Santa hat
stocking
presents or gifts (same picture on both pages)
bells
wreath
Santa waving “Merry Christmas!”
Pictures currently in this Winter Set include:
mittens
hat
boots
ice skates
hot chocolate
snowman
skiing
snowflakes
snowmen
snowballs