Skip to content

Ready for back-to-school prep? We can help!

FREE FIRST WEEK LESSON PLANS
  • Home
  • About
  • Blog
  • Facebook Group
  • Free Resource Library
  • TrendingExpand
    • Back-to-School
    • New Teachers
    • Professional Development
    • Homeschool
    • Free TWAMV Resource Guide
Search
Shop Now
Teaching with a Mountain View

Literacy

Grammar

Novels & Picture Books

Novels & Picture Books

Math

Anchor Charts

Anchor Charts

Classroom

Classroom

Teaching with a Mountain View

Holidays

Upper elementary students still love to make handmade gifts. Each of these inexpensive Christmas gifts for students carries a personal touch!

post

Inexpensive Christmas Gifts for Students in Upper Elementary

Download FREE Rockefeller Christmas tree literacy activities, informational text passages, comprehension questions, depth and complexity discussions, and more!

post

Free Rockefeller Christmas Tree Literacy Activities

Brew up some with these upper elementary Halloween literacy activities guaranteed to provide seasonal fun while also addressing your important literacy standards.

post

Upper Elementary Halloween Literacy Activities

Find 8 educational St. Patrick's Day activities for upper elementary, like planning a trip to Ireland using math skills or practicing fluency with Ireland facts.

post

8 St. Patrick’s Day Activities For Upper Elementary

These engaging and educational Christmas math and Christmas literacy activities will captivate your students while reinforcing important skills and standards.

post

Christmas Math and Literacy Ideas for Christmas in the Classroom

Using Christmas picture books in upper elementary allows your students to capture the magic, wonder, and excitement of the holiday season.

post

Top 10 Christmas Picture Books for Upper Elementary

Here are 9 fun upper elementary classroom activities for holidays around the world! Includes everything from pen pals and a trip to writing creative resolutions.

post

9 Activities to Teach Holidays Around the World

Embrace the Halloween spirit and transform your classroom into a cauldron of mathematical excitement with this collection of Halloween math activities!

post

Spooktacular Halloween Math Activities for Upper Elementary Students

February read alouds and related activities to use during morning meeting and your upper elementary literacy block.

post

February Read Alouds and Related Activities

Here are my favorite upper elementary winter read alouds and related seasonal activities for the days before and after winter break.

post

 15 Winter Read Alouds

November read alouds for upper elementary students, related lessons to use with each book, and seasonal activity ideas too!

post

November Read Alouds for Upper Elementary

Here are some of my favorite fall read alouds, along with different fall literacy activities that are all great for upper elementary.

post

Fall Read Alouds and Literacy Activities for Upper Elementary

Page navigation

1 2 3 Next PageNext

hey there!

I’m Mary

Welcome to my blog! I started blogging in 2011 and have amassed hundreds of posts full of engaging, research-based, and classroom-tested teaching ideas. Enjoy exploring!

Learn More

SEARCH

GET SOCIAL

  • Instagram
  • Pinterest
  • Facebook

TOPICS

  • Anchor Charts
    • Literacy Anchor Charts
    • Math Anchor ChartsMath anchor charts
  • Classroom
    • Building Community
    • Morning Meeting
    • The Parent Connection
    • Classroom Management
    • Classroom Organization
    • Flexible Seating
    • Conferences
    • Critical Thinking
    • Distance Learning
    • Homework
    • Intervention
    • Teacher Ideas
    • Test Prep
    • Classroom Pictures
  • Free
  • Literacy
    • Comprehension
    • Fluency
    • Grammar
    • Informational Texts
    • Reading Skills
    • Using Pictures to Teach
  • Writing
  • Math
    • Decimals
    • Elapsed Time
    • Fractions
    • Geometry & Measurement
    • Multiplication
    • Place Value
  • Novels & Picture Books
    • Novel Study
    • Picture Books
  • Projects
  • Seasonal
    • Back to School
    • End of the Year
    • Holidays
    • Titanic
  • Task Cards

FREE Prefix, Suffix, and Root Activities!

Are you implementing word study into your classroom? Grab our FREE Word Study Starter Kit, and you’ll be on your way!

FEATURED RESOURCES

  • Giggles and Grammar | Upper Elementary Grammar Program
    Giggles and Grammar | Upper Elementary Grammar Program
    $76.99
    Add to cartLoading Done
  • 3rd Grade Spiral Math Review | Math Skill of the Day
    3rd Grade Spiral Math Review | Math Skill of the Day
    $19.99
    Add to cartLoading Done

I have over 120 math and literacy anchor charts, a I have over 120 math and literacy anchor charts, and while I LOVE making the originals in class with my students, these sure do come in handy! Comment below, and I’ll send you a link. 🩷💕 Use them as mini reference guides for students, easy templates to make your own, or glue into notebooks!
Best classroom addition I’ve ever made. 🩷 My Best classroom addition I’ve ever made. 🩷 My kids love these little critters SO much! Choose, Sophia, Sam, and Marcus make us so happy and kids were BEYOND thrilled to see them again after summer break. 🐠 🐠 🪼 🪼 Comment below, and I’ll send you the link! 😍
These lessons ALWAYS make my upper grades classroo These lessons ALWAYS make my upper grades classroom lesson plans during the first month (ish) of school. Comment below, and I’ll send you the details! 🩷
💡 🧠 I’ve been pulling riddles from these b 💡 🧠 I’ve been pulling riddles from these books since 2021, and our entire school (even staff) loves them! I post one each week and students and staff spend all week figuring it out. Highly recommend for any classroom! 

🤗 🥰 Drop a comment, and I’ll send you a link.
If you’re not using pictures to introduce litera If you’re not using pictures to introduce literal and inferential observations, back to school (right now!!) is the time to start. 😉 Comment below, and I’ll send you free resources to get started, tons of sample anchor charts, and a link to this resource! 🩷 📸
✨ FREE ✨ Five Days of Fluency Lessons for uppe ✨ FREE ✨ Five Days of Fluency Lessons for upper elementary! 👏 Drop a comment below, and I’ll send you everything you need to explicitly teach students the elements of fluent reading. Includes everything you need and tons of tips for getting started with fluency practice in your classroom. 🩷
🎤 🎧 Listening Comprehension + Reading Skills 🎤 🎧 Listening Comprehension + Reading Skills + Super High Interest format AND topics = 😍😍😍 

🫶 Comment below, and I’ll send you a link to a FREE sample and more info for implementing in your classroom! 

Over the last two years, we’ve worked hard to create these school-specific podcasts and LOVE hearing how engaged kids are while using them! Topics range from sports to history to character development and types of writing, and each set includes recorded podcasts, transcripts, show notes, after show activities, and more! 👏
💡 👓 I got this idea from @heyhopeking years 💡 👓 I got this idea from @heyhopeking years ago, and my glasses have patiently been waiting to be used ever since then. I am SO glad I pulled them out of my closet this year to use them as a back to school activity! My students LOVED creating their All About Me glasses, and I plan to create more character glasses throughout the year for different books we read!

🌟 Comment below, and I’ll send you the link to the glasses we used. 

I borrowed some of our at-home Lego collection and let my students go to town building symbols on the glasses that represented different things about them. We had everything from big mountains, pineapples representing cultural roots in Hawaii, Taylor Swift figurines to display a love of music, and plenty of musical instruments and animals! I LOVED hearing my students stand in front of the class and talk about their creative symbols!

The kids don’t get to keep the glasses so I can use them throughout the year, but we will leave them on display for the next few weeks! If we’d have had more time, I would have had them write a short paragraph and take a picture with their glasses to display. 🩷
  • Instagram
  • Facebook
  • Pinterest

Links

  • Home
  • About
  • Blog
  • Contact
  • Facebook Group
  • Free Resource Library
  • Privacy Policy & Disclosures

Topics

  • Literacy
  • Math
  • Grammar
  • Anchor Charts
  • Classroom
  • Novels and Picture books

Shop

  • Shop Website
  • Shop Amazon
  • Wishlist
  • My Account
  • Frequently Asked Questions
  • Terms & Conditions

©2023 Teaching With a Mountain View . All Rights Reserved | Designed by Ashley Hughes

Lost your password?

Review Cart

  • × Ordering Numbers Place Value Task CardsOrdering Numbers Place Value Task Cards 1 × $3.25

Subtotal: $3.25

View cartCheckout

🍪 Cookie Consent
To provide the best experiences, we use technologies like cookies to store and/or access device information. Consenting to these technologies will allow us to process data such as browsing behavior or unique IDs on this site. Not consenting or withdrawing consent, may adversely affect certain features and functions.
Functional Always active
The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network.
Preferences
The technical storage or access is necessary for the legitimate purpose of storing preferences that are not requested by the subscriber or user.
Statistics
The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for statistical purposes. The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for anonymous statistical purposes. Without a subpoena, voluntary compliance on the part of your Internet Service Provider, or additional records from a third party, information stored or retrieved for this purpose alone cannot usually be used to identify you.
Marketing
The technical storage or access is required to create user profiles to send advertising, or to track the user on a website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.
Manage options Manage services Manage {vendor_count} vendors Read more about these purposes
View preferences
{title} {title} {title}
Scroll to top
Search
  • Home
  • Get Inspired
  • About
    • Contact
  • Blog
  • Free Resource Library
  • My Account
Shop Now

Literacy

Grammar

Novels & Picture Books

Novels & Picture Books

Math

Anchor Charts

Anchor Charts

Classroom

Classroom

Facebook X Instagram
Search