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Thanksgiving Reading Skills Task Cards for Reading Comprehension
$11.99
This bundle of Thanksgiving Reading Skills Task Cards will make the days before fall break festive, fun, and rigorous, too! The following resources are included in this Bundle to meet the needs of all of your students. Which Thanksgiving/Fall Task Card Sets are included in this resource? Thanksgiving/Fall Inference Task Cards Thanksgiving Context Clues Task…

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Valentine’s Day Context Clues Activities
$3.25
Engage your upper elementary students with these fun and easy to prepare Valentine’s Day Context Clues activities! No prep required, just print them out and use the context clues activities as a Literacy Center that aligns to several Common Core Standards! This activity includes 3 tiered levels (perfect for differentiation and scaffolding in centers, whole…

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Valentine’s Day Inference Centers Activity
$4.99
Are you looking for an ENGAGING way to learn all about making inferences this exciting than this! In this set of Valentine’s Day inference centers students will become investigators tasked with figuring out who a set of unlabeled Valentine’s Day cards came from. What is this set of Valentine’s Day inference centers all about?…

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Comment ANIMALS below, and I’ll send you the lin

Comment ANIMALS below, and I’ll send you the links to my animals!! 🐰 🦆💕

I’ve been sharing about success stickers for years, and while my students still love them (and get to choose between a sticker or animal!), I noticed this trend of kids collecting these tiny acrylic animals. I decided Accomplishment Animals should be a thing, and they love, love, love it. 🥰

Each week, students share a success (or accomplishment!) with me. It can be anything — inside or out of school, big or small. We chat about it for less than a minute, and they pick a sticker or tiny animal as a reminder of all the successes they’ve had. It’s such an easy way to connect with students, and I’ve learned so much about each of them!

Oh, just over here causing some classroom chaos wi $Oh, just over here causing some classroom chaos with this fraction lesson. 😂🤗 Huge shout out to Meg from @theteacherstudio for this one… I give each child a slip of paper with this figure (so they can’t say my drawing isn’t perfect as their justification 😂) and they have to silently write their answer and justification. Then I tally up the answers and have students take a side and DEBATE with their reasoning! It’s an AMAZING conversation, and I highly recommend trying it with your students.$

I’ve got to share one of my absolute favorite mo

I’ve got to share one of my absolute favorite morning meetings connection activities—it’s super easy to set up and seriously one of the most meaningful things I’ve done with my students. I’ve been doing this for years and LOVE the reflections that come from it. 💕💕
 ✨ I pulled a bunch of picture books and spread them out for students to look through. The twist? They weren’t picking a book to read—they were picking a cover and title that represented them somehow. Maybe how they were feeling, or something about their personality.

The things they shared? I was not ready. I almost cried—not because it was sad, but because their answers were so thoughtful and real. It honestly blew me away.

If you want more ideas for incorporate books into your morning meetings, drop a comment, and I’ll send you some ideas! 💕💕

…and every morning, I say hello to them, too. 😂 ☀️ Honestly, these have been the sweetest additions to my classroom over the years.

Comment below if you’d like links to my little waterfall, perfectly named fish, or my favorite (and only) lamp man I’ve ever had. ❤️

Tomorrow is the 113th anniversary of the loss of t

Tomorrow is the 113th anniversary of the loss of the Titanic. 🚢 Every year, learning about her story is one of my students’ favorite units. Even if you only have half an hour to devote to her story, it’s worth it!

Comment below, and I’ll send you the link to download this FREE Titanic by the Numbers set. ❤️ 🚢

Hiiii 👋 It’s been a while, and I’m popping

Hiiii 👋 It’s been a while, and I’m popping in on this Sunday to remind you that your plans this week don’t have to be elaborate to be engaging!

I’ve used this same set of Equivalent Fractions Task Cards for almost 8 years, and the way I implement them is always different. This year, I threw some point values on the back, and we had an awesome time playing a quiz show style game! Last year, I put them on chart paper and had student teams complete them in a carousel style activity. The year before that, I hung them up around the room to create a scavenger hunt! Total engagement each and every time. ❤️

Love Note Literacy was a HIT today! ❤️💕 We

Love Note Literacy was a HIT today! ❤️💕 We began by reading some funny love notes, annotating them, and picking out different parts of the writing. Then, they set off to write their own letter to hand sanitizer from the perspective of a tissue. We were laughing so hard at the letters, and they were so creative! I’ve been doing this for the last 14 years, and the results are 💖 impeccable 💖 every year! Drop a comment below, and I’ll send the info your way!

Don’t skip this book recommendation because it’s my favorite one I’ve read all school year. 🥹 Comment below, and I’ll send you a link, but here are all the details of the book and the moving activity we did with it: ❤️💕

This sweet book is about a young scientist who creates new plants that help people solve problems…. Until he comes across one person he just can’t seem to help. With a little creativity and a lot of love, he dives headfirst into solving the problem! It’s a ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ book, and my students LOVED it. It’s great for Valentine’s Day, but you can use it any time.

❤️ After we were done reading, I had each student think of a person they know and a problem they could solve for that person. They had five minutes and a jar of play dough to design a plant that would help that person.

❤️💕 The problems/solutions they came up with were more thoughtful than I could have ever dreamed. I was moved to tears by several of them, and I highly recommend taking 15 minutes out of your day next week to do this!

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