The Biggest Give-Away Yet - Thank You Readers and my Personal Learning Network!

Omg - Really - I have the Best of Friends & Supportive Readers!

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Many of my teacher friends often do give-aways to honor and thank their loyal readers.  Though my subscriber number reaches well over 1,000, I've been planning on doing a give-away once my Google Friend Connect number reached 1,000.  

Last week, I had the pleasure of meeting many of my virtual friends face to face in San Diego at the International Society for Technology in Education Conference.  I can't begin to explain what an amazing experience this conference was for those who attended.  I would like to reinforce the positive influence of social networking.  Thanks to Twitter, I connected with so many of my dear friends over lunch, group discussions, dinners, and parties.  Because of social networking and the opportunities to connect at conferences and workshops, I've made some incredible friends.  

I reached out to these amazing friends this past weekend to see if they would be interested in contributing to this give-away.  I sit speechless as I write this due to the overwhelming number of responses... wow!  Thank you to everyone who supports the work we all share through our blogs and social networks.  I can't begin to put into words how generous you all are and how truly thankful I am for your kindness.

Drum Roll.... and the give-away items are....

I've organized the gifts into three categories:

• Autographed Books: a few of my friends who are authors have generously donated a signed copy of their book - I personally have a copy of these and simply love each book! 
• Software and Web Memberships:  some amazing companies have really been supportive and offered some fantastic resources - you won't believe how cool they are!
• Teachers Pay Teachers Items: tons of teachers have donated some of their best selling and most creative lessons, units, and activities from their personal stores!

Thank you to each of my dear friends below that donated one of your personal products!

Autographed Books:

(per Amazon): In The Book Whisperer, Miller takes us inside her sixth grade classroom to reveal the secrets of her powerful but unusual instructional approach. Rejecting book reports, comprehension worksheets, and other aspects of conventional instruction, Miller embraces giving students an individual choice in what they read, combined with a program for independent reading. She also focuses on building a classroom library of high-interest books, and above all on modeling appropriate and authentic reading behaviors. Her zeal for reading is infectious and inspiring, and the results speak for themselves. No matter how far behind Miller's students may be when they start out, they end up reading an average of forty books per year, achieving high scores on standardized tests, and internalizing a love for reading that lasts long after they've left her class.Travel alongside the author as she leads her students to discover the ample rewards of reading and literature. Brought to life with Miller's passionate voice, The Book Whisperer will help teachers support students of all levels on their path to reading success. This book also includes a dynamite list of recommended "kid lit" to help parents and teachers find the books that students really like to read.

 (per Maria Dismondy's site): Sami’s perfect life falls apart when the new girl moves in next door. Sami doesn’t need another friend, she has Stella. They are the perfect example of best friends. Mittens come in pairs and so do friends, according to Sami.

Bullying can be very subtle, but it hurts just the same. Three can be a tricky number with friends because most of the time, someone gets left out. Follow Sami as she discovers how to keep her best friend and find room for one more in Pink Tiara Cookies for Three.

(coming soon!) Amazing Grades: 101 Best Ways to Improve Your Grades Faster by Pat Wyman, M.A., et al.

Pat Wyman is also the author of  Instant Learning for Amazing Grades, Learning vs. Testing, and co-author on two books about autism.  She is a university instructor of continuing education and frequent media guest.

 
Graphic Organizers for Reading by Laura Candler has dozens of ready-to-use folded and flat graphic organizers, but it's far more than a collection of printables. Instead, it's a massive, comprehensive guide to transforming teaching and learning with graphic organizers! You'll find a chapter on how to create effective mini-lessons and three chapters of graphic designed for specific purposes. Each graphic organizer includes teaching tips and suggestions for using it effectively. 

As Reading Specialist Sue Roberts wrote,"Very few resources give teachers tips on how to explicitly model strategies. Even in my graduate program for reading, the instructors told us what were good research based strategies, but they didn't SHOW us how to do them. You have done an excellent job at providing the best resources along with explicit suggestions for modeling. You give teachers exactly what they need to deliver these mini-lessons effectively!"

(per Amazon): by Alan Sitomer  The Nerd Girls are back. And though they seek to leave behind all the drama with the popular girls, the ThreePees feel they have a score to settle with the Nerds and will stop at nothing to do so. Fed up with the perpetual infighting, the school principal insists that if the two groups want to continue to “compete” with one another, they will do so in a productive manner and thus forces all six girls, Nerd Girls and ThreePees, to participate in the Academic Septhalon. But Maureen has family troubles. And issues of self-esteem. And a desire to bury her head in the sand and pretend that all of the very real issues she’s facing as a kid who is now growing up are not really happening to her. 

Are cupcakes, a sarcastic sense of humor and a hope that it will all “just go away” on its own enough to get Maureen through eighth grade? Will Beanpole wake up and smell the coffee? Will Alice really be able to cure herself of the allergies that plague her? It’s A Catastrophe of Nerdish Proportions, a fast-paced, funny, foray back into the lives of the three nerds we got to know and love in Nerd Girls Book I: The Rise of the Dorkasaurus.

Author, Steve Reifman, is letting the winner of this give-away select from Chase Against Time or Changing Kids' Lives One Quote at at Time.  The book will be sent in a compatible format for your e-reader with a personal email from Steve!

Recently released by Brown Books Chase Against Time puts fifth grade hero Chase Manning up against all odds, as he tries to recover a prized cello in time to save Apple Valley's music program.  Chase faces numerous twists, turns, and surprises along the way as the mystery develops, all within one day.

(per Barnes & Noble) Wrinkles Wallace: Knights of Night School by Marquin Parks Follow the zany adventures of Wrinkles Wallace and his classmates who have to come together as a team to outsmart their teacher and pass 5th Grade. After all, they’ve failed it a number of times--so many that Wrinkles is already 28-years old. 

The students deal with real-world issues and themselves in order to overcome the antics of their diabolical teacher, Mr. Sittin’ B. Quiet. (By the way, he’s only ten.) Join them in this upside-down world where non-stop humor serves as a guide to character-building and success. 

 
(per Heinemann website): Troy Hicks holds sight on good writing workshop instruction. Where others have talked about new technologies and how they change writing, Hicks shows you how to use new technologies to enhance the teaching of writing you already do. Chapters are organized around the familiar principles of the writing workshop: student choice, active revision, studying author’s craft, publication beyond the classroom, and assessment of both product and process. In each chapter you’ll learn how to expand and improve your teaching by smartly incorporating new technologies like wikis, blogs, and other forms of multimedia. Throughout, you’ll find reference to resources readily available to you and your class online. He also includes a practical set of lessons for how to use wikis to explore a key concept in digital writing: copyright. 

New literacies are developing around us at what sometimes seems like the speed of light. It’s hard to keep it all in focus. Let Troy Hicks guide you through the complexities of what it all means for your classroom so your students’ writing can grow right in step with our changing times and technologies. 

Jon Bergmann is considered one of the pioneers in the Flipped Class Movement. He co-wrote the book, Flip Your Classroom: Reach Every Student in Every Class Every Day. Jon believes educators should ask one guiding question: What is best for my students in my classroom? 

To the best of his abilities he has done this in his twenty-four years as a high school science teacher. He received the Presidential Award for Excellence for Math and Science Teaching in 2002 and was named Semi-Finalist for Colorado Teacher of the Year in 2010. 

He is the founder of the Flipped Learning Network, a nonprofit organization which provides teachers the resources needed to implement flipped learning. He serves on the advisory board of TED Education. He is currently the Lead Technology Facilitator for the Joseph Sears School in Kenilworth, Illinois. He is the father of three teenagers and is happily married to the love of his life.

 
(per Clement's site): Red, White, and Blue by Debbie Clement My newest book, is a traditional, 32 page picture book based on the song I wrote immediately after 9-11. I've made all of the illustrations from fabric as small quilts.  There are many patriotic images with graphic flags for each repetition of the words: red, white, and blue in the song's lyrics.  

From the flag image we move on to the purple majestic mountains followed by geographically diverse western red-rock mountains.  Then on to the family farm and small village followed by the big city and an image of the fire trucks at House 10 (the fire station across the street from the Twin Towers).  


 
(per Amazon): From Scholastic author, Joan Young: Sing a song of sight words! With this super collection of songs on CD and mini-books, kids get lots of practice in reading and writing 35 key sight words. Each song—sung to a familiar tune—features one or more sight words and comes with a fill-in-the-blank mini-book that provides multiple opportunities to write each targeted word. After completing the mini-book, children can read along as they sing the song again and again. A super way to build sight word recognition, boost reading fluency, and reinforce spelling. For use with Grades K–2.

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Software & Web Memberships (and coffee!):

Nearpod: click here

3 FREE Gold accounts (valued at approximately $120) for one year

Kidzmet: click here

10 six month classroom account subscriptions

Camtasia Studio: click here 

Capture your Screen - a $299 value

Camtasia is one of the most popular video tools used by teachers that are flipping their classrooms. It allows you to capture video of anything on your computer screen (along with audio and webcam video if you like) and then edit and share it with your students. You can also bring in video from other sources and edit in Camtasia.   

Snagit: click here 

Create eye catching images and videos - a $49 value

Snagit gives you all the tools to communicate clearly, every time. With Snagit it's easy to create eye-catching images and videos for quick communication. Snagit is a great way to get started making basic videos, but you’ll want to use Camtasia for anything that requires editing.

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generously donated by 6th grade teacher, Kim 
from the Finding Joy in 6th grade blog

Vocabulary Spelling City: click here

Premium Membership - a $49 value

One classroom Premium Membership to VocabularySpellingCity, which includes 25 student licenses (a $49.99 value). For more information on the benefits of Premium Membership, click here.

 

Class Dojo: click here

donating a $25 gift card to Amazon

Improve Behavior

Improve specific student behaviors and engagement by awarding and recording real-time feedback.

Share Data

Print or email beautiful behavior reports to easily engage parents and staff.

Save Time

Save time by recording behaviors and accomplishments right in class, with just one click: 

NO extra data entry required.

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Chair Kickz: click here

20 packs of Chair Kickz

These cute little tennis balls, created and pre-cutto fit on chair legs and eliminate that awful screech of seats moving, are available on the Chair Kickz website, for sale and also for fundraising.

ClassConnect: click here 

donating a $50 Visa Gift Card

Flip your Classroom, Just Store your Favorites, Find Common Core Content, and Share your Lessons

“ClassConnect saves me time building lessons so I can focus on engaging & inspiring my students.” 

Teachers Pay Teachers Items: 

Over $300 in products featured below - thank you to all who donated an item!

*There will be one lucky winner selected who will receive every item below.

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***You'll be glad you followed each amazing store below - they're awesome. 

1.  Does Your Story Answer These Questions:

6 colorful posters to help remind children to include details in their sentences and stories.

 

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2.  Read-Park-Write: Differentiated Phonics Activity to Meet Common Core State Standards:

This differentiated, self-correcting letter sound recognition activity is tiered to meet the various readiness levels of your learners. It also allows to differentiate instruction in response to those learners in your class who have a great interest in cars.

It addresses Common Core State Standards:
RF.K.3.a Demonstrate basic knowledge of one-to-one letter sound correspondences by producing the primary or many of the most frequent sounds for each consonant.

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3. Pirate's Gold:

This product is full of fun and engaging literacy and math stations for the little pirates in your classroom!

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4.  Programmable Literacy Maps & Posters for Workstations:

This file contains everything you need to organize the movement of your students during your literacy block!  Each pre-filled literacy map card contains 6 stations: listening lane, word work, book browsing, writer's way, buddy reading, and guided group. These stations are numbered according to when the student should be at that particular location. There are 6 cards per color. Each color represents a different level for the guided group. This allows students at literacy stations to be grouped heterogeneously, while allowing you to meet homogeneously with guided reading groups.
Matching station posters are also included. There are two choices for each station.

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5.  Black and White Theme Classroom Essentials Set:

ALL applicable items within this gigantic pack also include form fields, which allow you to add you own text right onto the form! The individual items in the black and white category are just plain PDFs and do not have this amazing feature! Over 130 forms and classroom decorations!

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6.  Baseball Antonyms:

This is a game to practice antonyms. It has a baseball theme, and can be played like "Old Maid" or like "Concentration". It can be played with a pair of children, or a whole reading group. It is designed for grades 1 - 3.

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7.  Elementary Work Folders / Daily Folders Covers ~ Ant & Froggie Theme!

Adorable Bugged-Eyed Ant & Froggie Theme!  60 pages of different work folder covers.
Homework Folder, Reading Folder, Math Folder, Science Folder, Social Studies Folder, Word Work Folder, Spelling Folder, Vocabulary Folder, Reading Group Folder, Language Arts Folder, Take Home Folder, Writing Folder, Phonics Folder, Work Station Folder and Center Folder -  Helps the children learn organizational skills, no more papers shoved into their desks.  Printed in both color and as a black and gray version to save you the cost of colored ink!   Looks great if you print the black and gray version on colored paper!

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8.  Boggle Bulletin Board Set:

Engage your students with this fantastic Boggle Bulletin Board set. Directions & letters are included in the file.  Print, laminate, cut, and place extra letters in an envelope to change around the letter arrangement at a later time.  Excellent activity for differentiated instructions, for those fast finishers, and for those students who need (and like) the extra challenge. A great resource for word work extension, and can also be used a literacy center.

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9.  Habitat For Sale:

This mini-unit is great for reviewing habitats. It includes habitats from the rainforest, arctic, and more! Students read the clues on the cards to match the habitat that is for sale to the animal that would live there. There are color matching cards, b/w student printables, graphic organizers (Thinking Maps) to create their own sale ad, and the final product sale ad. My students had a great time with this activity!

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10. Graphic Organizers Pack:

This graphic organization packet contains twenty-one different templates that can be used across grade levels and across content areas.  The templates include the following strategies: asking questions, making predictions, main idea and detail, making connections, cause and effect, sensory detail, making inferences, fact and opinion, fantasy and reality, fiction and non-fiction, problem and solution, sequence of events, story elements, story mapping, venn diagrams, main and supporting characters, using transitional words, character traits, and vocabulary.

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 11.  Scoopin' Up Beginning Fractions, Decimals, and Percents:

A sweet pack for those beginning fractions, decimals, and percents. Mainly focused on 25, 50, 75 , and 100 percent, a few thirds included.

Includes:

Decimal, fraction, and percent poster
8 Decimal Delight delight problems, record sheet and answer key
8 Fraction Fun problems, record sheet, and answer key
8 Percent Play problems, record sheet, and answer key
Sweet Match Up game/review

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12.  Complete Dolch Sight Word Packet - 220 Dolch Sight Words:

PrePrimer-3rd grade Dolch Sight Word Packets: 5 sets of an easy, yet reinforcing activity to learn the important high frequency words!

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13.  Awesome Words for Inspiring Authors:

These portable word wall folders are wonderful for your students writing! They are great in assisting students in journal writing, making cards, posters, writing stories, making lists, etc. There are over 25 themes included in this packet!

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14.  Field Trip Resource Pack:

Helpful planning pages for the teacher and engaging activities for the students that are appropriate for any field trip!

Activities include:

-Teacher Planning Page
-Front Office Information Page
-Chaperone Request Letter
-Chaperone Thank You Notes
-Student Pre-Trip Activity Page
-Letter to Parents
-Field Trip Wrap-Up Activity
-Field Trip Glyph with printable color by numbers pattern,

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15.  First Grade Math Vocabulary Posters:

This is a 21 page PDF file and provides a thorough set of vocabulary posters that have been created to go with the Common Core State Standards for math. I use these in my classroom on metal rings so that they are accessible to any student in math centers. The students in my room use these as resources for themselves and when they are a peer tutor for another student.

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16.  Primary Graffiti: Winner's choice!

I'm willing to donate anything from my store. Winner can choose.

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 17. Problem Solving Task Cards for 4th-6th Grade:

This is a set of word problem task cards for students to complete in the 4th-6th grade math classroom. Each task card has its own word problem for students to answer. Most have multiple choice answers, but some of them are open ended without answers listed. Included in the purchase is a recording sheet for students to complete and write their answer to all 24 cards. It is suggested that you print these on card stock and then laminate them for durability. 

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18.  Celebration Vibrant Ultimate Classroom Decor Set:

This product includes everything you need to decorate your room for the new school year! Included are: labels, name tags, a welcome sign, calendar pieces and more! You will LOVE this set!

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19.  Don't Get Skunked 8 CVC Word Games:

Students put all the CVC word Cards and Skunk Cards that were mixed together face down on the table or floor. Each player tells how many cards they can turn over (up to 4) and read without getting the Skunk card. Play continues until only the Skunk cards are left. The winner gets to wear the "I Didn't Get Skunked Headband"

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20.  Timelines Bundle:

This unit on timelines starts easy and builds into hourly, monthly, and yearly timelines on things that are of high interest to kids. (toy inventions, candy bar creations, birthdays, etc.) It's set up to be teacher guided at first, and move into independent and application practice for students to "show what they know." 

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21.  Teaching: The Art of Possibility: Winner's Choice

Any one product from my store

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22.  Math Testing Resource Booklet:

This is a booklet for students to ideas a resource during math time to help them get ready for math testing. They can use the resources during tests, partner work, individual work, and homework. 

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23.  The Core at Home:

The Core at Home is a resource to help parents understand the Common Core Standards related to literacy. (K-5 ELA Anchor Standards)  It includes a parent letter, an overview of the standards for parents to use as a reference, and a small, portable parent's guide filled with simple ideas to help reinforce the Language Arts and Literacy standards at home. 

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24.  Alphabet Printing and Sounds Book:

This is a book that your students will put together through-out the school year. Each week, or more, have your students complete one of the worksheets. It a great complimentary resource to accompany your letter(s) of the week. When the students have completed each page, compile the pages into a book.

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25.  Onomatopoeia, Simile, and Metaphor Skit

Instead of asking my students to do a worksheet over similes, metaphors, and onomatopoeia, I asked them to do a mini-project. This project involves the students getting into groups of 3 and assuming the roles of Simile, Metaphor, and Onomatopoeia. Each group was responsible for creating a short skit using these 3 characters. The catch? Each character's name dictates how that character can speak! For instance, Simile can only speak in similes, and Metaphor can only speak in Metaphors. Students can write about whichever topic they wish, so long as they stay within the guidelines.

This product is 2 pages long and contains a complete set of instructions for the students and a rubric for grading purposes. 

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26.  Vocabulary Matrixes and Graphic Organizers:

This file contains 32 graphic organizers and vocabulary matrixes to help students learn vocabulary. Sixteen of the files will be black lines and the other sixteen have color for differentiating between the different lines and boxes. This is a great file to pull up on a smart board for annotation.

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27.  Alphabet Letters with Character:

I have created a fun and colorful alphabet set. The set includes:

Lower Case Letters a-z

A complete set in black & white

A complete set in full color

all images are png 300dpi

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28.  Reader's Response Bookmarks:

Use as bookmark while reading a book. Then, jot down the information requested to respond to your reading. These are 71 reader's response bookmarks for reading comprehension, vocabulary development, self-assessment, and a reading log. It includes 14 graphic organizer bookmarks.

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29.  Fantastic Fall Packet:

Table of Contents

* Fall Number Order
* Turkey Tally Marks
* Bringing in the Hay Number Word Match
* Fall Math Journal Prompts
* Five Little Pumpkins Number Book
* Pumpkin Lane Addition Game
* Find the Difference
* Noun Sort
* Turkey Syllable Sort
* I See A Leaf color book
* L Is for Leaf
* Leaf Subtraction pages

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30.  Back to School Bash!

This download is perfect for Back to School Math and Literacy fun with plenty of hands on activities for math and literacy.
Back to School Bash
Table of Contents
2 Colored graphics for school rules anchor charts
1-20 colored math manipulative counting mats
4 Roll and Cover math mats 1-6
7 Pattern label cards
36 Colored patterning pieces
2 Sets of colored upper and lowercase abc match cards
2 Sets of colored 1-20 ordering numbers cards
1 Set of colored abc beginning sound clip cards
1 Set of colored abc syllable clip cards
1 Set of colored abc playdough mats
3 Blackline masters for My Kindergarten Writing Portfolio
1 Blackline master for handwriting uppercase letters
1 Blackline master for handwriting lowercase letters
1 Blackline master for handwriting numerals to 20
6 Blackline masters for making words with extra vowels
1 Blackline master for Roll a Color Word game
1 Blackline master for I Love Dice Recording Page blank
1 Blackline master for I Love Dice Recording Page trace the #
1 Colored Roll a Shape Game board
1 Blackline master for Roll a Shape Recording Page
4 Blackline masters for Roll and Color-2 versions

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31.  My Five Senses:

I had so much fun making this product for my own classroom! I am very thrilled that this unit comes with Science Investigation Mats that will help children learn to set up their own investigations independently. Research indicates that children need repeated experiences in order to further their understandings in the concepts you introduce and teach them. This unit definitely promotes hands-on, inquiry based instruction that is developmentally appropriate for a young budding scientist. Materials used in the unit are from common household materials that are safe for children to investigate and explore with and easy to find.

 

32.  Writing Fables, Legends and Plays Bundle:

This is a bundle of three previously released lessons: Writing Fables, Writing Legends, and Writing Plays. Each of these lessons comes with unique directions to the teacher, an assignment sheet for students, rubrics for easy grading and two original examples of each genre.

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33.  Peace Themed AR Point Tracker:

My school is huge on AR (Accelerated Reader) & so am I. I feel as part of their success during Daily 5 in "Read to Self" is because they get to take AR tests. All their books in their book bins are AR books...two birds..one stone :o) Different grade levels in my school host celebrations monthly when our students reach their assigned goal. My firsties usually have a goal of one point per month the first quarter & then we steadily increase our requirements. This is going to be a fabulous visual for my kiddos & will eliminate me looking up their scores constantly.

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34.  Comprehension Strategy and Skill Reading Response Mats:

These interchangeable mats are designed to get your students thinking about the fictional works they have been reading, and responding to those works using the comprehension strategies and skills being taught in class. These are highly engaging and just plain fun! 

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35.  Absolute Value Matching/Partner Picking Cards:

This set of 35 cards can be used in a center as a matching game to review absolute value skills or as a way to quickly partner students up and keep reviewing these skills all year long! Odd number of cards for partnering with an odd number of students.

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 36.  Editable Monthly-themed Newsletters All Year Long:

Newsletters are a fantastic way to keep your parents informed on a weekly or monthly basis. This set includes easy to use newsletters that have bright, colorful monthly themes. {12 monthly themes }

I have included a set of the monthly newsletter as I use them in my classroom. You can use these or use as examples of what to include.

I have also included a BLANK set for you to determine Titles for each section.
There is also a blank back page that can be used for making front to back newsletters.

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37.  Back to Basics {Classroom Organization & Decor}:

This is an organization and classroom decor kit that is school themed and just plain cute. It has basic labels, signs, and calendar pieces for everything you need to set up your classroom! 

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38.  Lit Sparks: Reading Response Question Cards:

This is a set of 64 reading response cards that can be used with any book. Each card features a different question. Perfect for discussions, writing prompts, and reading strategy centers.

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39.  Emergency Sub Plans Kit:

Forms ready for you to fill out:
-Class schedule
-Recess rules & consequences
-Class management: Rules/consequences
-Student information: pullouts, medication, etc.
-Class roster
-Nurse pass
-Office pass
-Library pass
-Lesson plans with worksheets
-Class procedures
-Attention getter, passing out materials, completed work, beginning and end of day, and lunchtime

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40.  Owl Classroom Decor Set:

This 153 page set includes:
Welcome Banner
Blank banners you can write on
Centers Banner
Word Wall Banner
Word Wall Sign
Word Wall Letters
Numbers 1-20
Letters A-Z
Student of the Week Pages
Days of the Week
Months of the Year
Calendar Numbers
Blank Cubby Tags
Large Center Signs
Small Center Signs
Nameplates

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41.  Space Lesson Plans Plus:

This pack includes 5 days of lesson plans to discover Space.
Day 1- What is the Sun?
Day 2- What is the Moon?
Day 3- What is Earth?
Day 4- What are stars?
Day 5- What did I learn?

Each day has an anchor chart, activities, links to sites, and books listed.

Also included
emergent reader
writing activity with word wall
phonics review chart with sp blend
ABC order
Write the Room
Sight Word Game
ART WITH TEMPLATES for each day and step by step pictures and directions

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42.  All Year Parent Communication Kit:

This is a YEAR ROUND Communication Kit...

It starts out with 2 choices of binder covers... YAY
It has a beginning, middle, and end of the year survey for parents. I have also included conference request forms with reminders.

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43.  Math Magic Squares - Addition 0-12:

Magic Squares are fun puzzles where students put together facts and answers to build a square. Students will enjoy practicing their math facts in a fun way!

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44.  Back to School: Turn the First Days of School into PD for Students:

Grade 6-9

25 pg document

Ideas for building a strong class climate, classroom management, getting to know your students and lots more! 

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45.  Forest Animal Math Work Stations:

Seven math activities for you math work stations. Aligned to the Common Core for Kindergarten. Activities include adding, subtracting, counting, number recognition, counting on and printing numbers. Just print, laminate and cut out.

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46.  The Hunger Games Novel Complete Teaching Unit (Digital Version):

Literature unit for Suzanne Collins' best-selling novel, The Hunger Games. Common-Core Standards-based and includes numerous creative activities to stimulate critical-thinking skills.

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47.  Numbers 1-10 Pokey Pin Kit:


These are centers that are SO easy to prepare AND loved by all children. Help build fine motor strength AND allow them to learn and review basic concepts. This set is very easy to differentiate with three different types of sets of numbers to 10 included in this kit!

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48.  3D Shape Monster:

This is a book I read to my students when we are learning about the 3D shapes sphere, cone, cylinder & cube. It's a simple & repetitive story that the kids pick up on quickly. It also helps kids understand the difference between flat shapes (square, circle, rectangle & triangle) and 3D shapes. If you are a preschool teacher and only teach basic shapes you can leave the 3D shapes pages out and the story still makes sense. Update: I have added a black and white reproducible copy of the book.

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49.  All About Apples Math and Literacy Unit:

54 pages of fun that tie in with Common Core Standards!!

6 math sheets:
graphing
patterns
counting
dice rolling game

8 language arts sheets:
describing an apple
label cut and paste
upper and lowercase shorting cut and paste
writing a sentence
matching lower and uppercase

3 literacy centers:
sorting capitol and lowercase letters
what comes before and after a letter
clothes pin matching upper and lowercase letters

1 math center:
count the seeds and match it to the number

1 emergent reader

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50.   Writing a Personal Memoir - A Writing Workshop Unit:

This writing workshop unit is a complete one month plan for writing a personal memoir. Included in the 40 pages are 12 full lesson plans, a sample schedule, graphic organizers, posters, checklists, anchor charts, assessment rubrics, revising and editing checklists, publishing suggestions, and stationery.

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51.  Goin' Buggy: Fluency Phrases for All 600 Fry Words:

According to Dr. Timothy Rasinski, the words in these phrases come from Dr. Edward Fry's Instant Word List (High Frequency Words). According to Fry, the first 300 words in the list represent about 67% of all the words students encounter in their reading.

These cards use all 600 Fry words. I did not create the phrases - I simply turned them into a classroom tool. You will notice a number on each card. This is to help you keep sets organized within your classroom.

I use these as an alternative to sight word cards in my classroom. I also use them in a whole group class game called BANG!

I've included data tracking sheets and instructions and materials for 6 additional sight word/phrase games.

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52.  Spring is in the Air Math and Literacy Centers for Common Core:

This is the fourth set of centers from Deanna Jump and Julie Lee. These centers were created with the Kindergarten common core in mind and include centers for:

*Rainy Day Opposites
*Getting Your Ducks in a Row (sentence order)
*Sound Chomp- changing beginning sounds to make
new words.
*Froggy and Friends Blend Sort
*Going Buggy Over Vowel Sounds-medial vowels
*Spring Sounds -ending sounds
*Rainy Weather Letter Sequence
*Butterfly Blends
*Ribbit Rhyming
*Splish Splash Sounds-
*Home Tweet Home- adding
*There's a Bug in my Mug!- place value
*Hog Diggity Dog- adding (part,part whole)
*Number Chomp- Counting On & Greater/Less Than
*Bicycle Built for Two-counting by 2's
*Ducks in the Pond counting
*Flying High with Measurement
*Spring Time-Telling Time

Over 110 pages of center activities and recording sheets to provide your students with practice that will help them understand and master the common core standards for literacy and math. These are also great for the beginning of first grade or for first graders who need remediation for a particular skill.

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53.   My Doodle Draw and Write Journal:

This is a 27 page download of my Doodle and Write center packet. Included you will find 12 different doodles for your students to extend on and then 1 extended writing page for each doodle. My students love this activity. I use it as a writing center and also a morning work activity. It is a great way to get their juices flowing!

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54.  Spanish Syllable Slides:

The Spanish Syllable Slides are a great tool for making words. They will help emergent and advanced readers develop fluency skills.

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