Tuesday, November 18, 2014

Informational Text Article... The Beautiful Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree!

Another upload tonight... your students are sure to enjoy!

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Your students are absolutely sure to be engaged in this informational text! This is an informative article written about the lighting of the famous Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree in New York City. This article is approximately 934 words long complete with a couple of illustrations to match the text. At the conclusion of the text, there is a formative assessment that consists of an eight question quiz to include questions on vocabulary, comprehension, sequencing, context clues, inferring, etc. This text is sure to engage a room full of readers! A great read for your students!

http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Informational-Text-Article-The-Famous-Rockefeller-Center-Christmas-Tree-1566461

Opinion Writing for Grades Three, Four, and Five.... Should I Buy An Artificial Tree or a Real One?

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I am so excited about this upload... it is my hundredth upload and there will be plenty more to come! In this particular upload, students are sure to enjoy researching what should be the appropriate purchase... an artificial tree or a real tree for this Christmas season. Your students will love completing this learning endeavor!

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This is an awesome packet to utilize to teach opinion writing in grades, three, four, and five. This packet contains seven different sources which all have critical information in trying to formulate an opinion in whether one should buy an artificial tree or a real tree during this Christmas season. Five of the sources are articles from the web and include the following titles: (1) Real of Plastic: Many Consumers Will Be Asking Themselves That Question This Season; (2) It’s Environmentally and Traditionally Wrong to Buy and Use Plastic Products to Celebrate Christmas… Here’s Why?; (3) Dear Earth Talk: What’s Better for the Environment, a Fake or Real Christmas Tree?; (4) Buy a Real Christmas Tree and Support Our Economy?; and (5) Real vs. Fake Christmas Trees: Which is Better for the Environment? Next, there are two other sources which are graphs/charts and include: (1) China Tops in Fake Christmas Trees and (2) Tree Purchases (in millions). Students can critically read each of these sources to help them formulate an opinion. Upon much discussion and examination of each of the seven sources, students then can complete one of the two graphic organizers provided to frame their opinion writing. Both organizers allow the students to provide an opinion based on what they have read. Additionally, they are asked to give reasons and evidence for their opinion. These organizers pave the way for the writing of the opinion piece asked for in CCSS:
(W.3.a,b,c,d) (W.4.a,b,c,d) and (W.5.a,b,c,d).


http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Opinion-Writing-Should-We-Purchase-an-Artificial-or-a-Real-Tree-this-Christmas-1564256

Saturday, November 15, 2014

And Now for the Fruits!

Now I am adding the fruits... have a great weekend!

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In this packet, you will find a colorful set of mini-posters to illustrate twenty popular fruits. As young children are learning each fruit, use these mini-posters to illustrate to students what the fruit looks like. This is a great set of mini-posters to post in the classroom above the whiteboard! 

http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/The-Fruit-Group-Mini-Posters-for-Teaching-1559825

Happy Saturday! Vegetable Group Mini-Posters...

Well the ballgames are on... and are they on ever! Alan is an avid MSU fan so I guess you all know which game we are watching!!! So, while we are "just sitting here...." I decided to create a set of mini-posters for preschool, kindergarten, first, and second grade students. This is a set of approximately twenty posters that are super colorful and labeled that depict twenty popular vegetables. This is a great resource for science and health lessons on the different food groups!

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In this packet, you will find approximately twenty posters each illustrating a different vegetable. These posters are perfect for posting above the whiteboard while teaching a science and/or health unit on vegetables! Each mini-poster is very colorful and is labeled.

http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/The-Vegetable-Group-Mini-Posters-for-Teaching-1559347

Friday, November 14, 2014

TGIF! I Just Can't Help It...Starting to Work on Activities With a Christmas Theme!

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Prior to heading to an engagement party, I thought I would add a December word bank for writing! You can expect to find 100 words that have something to do with the wonderful holiday season! Yo don't want to miss this... see the product description below!

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This is an awesome list of one hundred December words to use as a springboard for writing in December. These words will aid in narrative, informative, and argumentative writing as well as poetry! This sheet can be given to each student to place in his/her Writer’s Notebook!

http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/December-Word-Bank-for-Writing-Essays-and-Poetry-1557959

Thursday, November 13, 2014

November Word Bank! Polish Up Your November Writing!

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Here is a sheet for your students' Writer's Notebook! This sheet contains approximately 50-55 words that have something to do with November~ allow students to use this with their November writing assignments.

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This is an awesome list of November words to use as a springboard for writing in November. These words will aid in narrative, informative, and argumentative writing as well as poetry! This word bank is comprehensive of the many words that come to mind during the month of November and are sure to get your students' creative juices flowing! There are approximately 50-55 words that spur your students' brains for all kinds of writing-- narrative, expository, argumentative, etc. Use this November word bank for writing, ABC order, poetry, etc. It's uses are only limited by your imagination!This sheet can be given to each student to place in his/her Writer’s Notebook!

http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/November-Word-Bank-for-Successful-Writing-Poetry-and-Writers-Notebook-1556279

Wednesday, November 12, 2014

Yes or No? It's Your Choice!

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Do any of you have students who seem to present more challenges than others? Use this communication tool as a strategy to use when challenging students simply do not want to follow directions. This is a great Tier II intervention to use!

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In this packet, you will find an awesome classroom management tool for students who are oppositional and refuse to follow directions. Oftentimes, these students fall behind in their academic progress because of challenging behavior. This communication tool is to help increase the chances of these students having a positive response and follow the directions given! The first four pages are the tickets that challenging students can earn for “not wanting to do something but choosing to do it anyway!” The next set of four pages are the tickets that challenging students earn when they “choose to say NO!” This is a great Tier II and/ or Tier III intervention as well!

http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Classroom-Management-Yes-or-No-Its-Your-Choice-1554442