Need some inspiration for the last few weeks of the year? How about mindfulness posters, a language notebook, an after-reading activity, a full calendar year of writing prompts, and your choice of Christmas activities? This week’s round-up really does have it all, from guided reading and balanced eating to prepositions and holiday celebrations. Gear up for a round-up of fantastic resources to keep your kiddos engaged all winter long.
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“Teaching guided reading is my passion! This Targeted Guided Reading Plan and the included Teaching Activities Flip Books will help you target and organize your guided reading instruction and activities to meet the needs of each student in every group!” |
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“What’s On My Plate? FLIP Book is a 1st-2nd grade activity book filled with information about balanced eating from all 5 food groups. This FLIP book is fun and easy to put together, and is a sample from my collection of 16 Science FLIP Books!” It’s FREE! |
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“Sentence stems provide a much needed accommodation for beginning or struggling writers to get their thoughts on paper. These prompts cover a variety of season, holidays, and situations to keep your students writing all year long.” |
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“This mystery picture will give your students a fun way to practice place value with a Christmas theme. Students will identify numbers through base ten blocks, expanded form, or tens and ones and then color their answers on a 100s chart.” It’s FREE! |
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“This activity will keep students engaged doing math computation. They have to use multiple strategies and prioritize what is important when going on a Christmas vacation.” |
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“Fluent readers need to be digging deeper with comprehension of a text. This lesson plan template guides the teacher through a Guided Reading lesson and explains how to best teach a fluent reader.” It’s FREE! |
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“In an ever-shrinking world, it is important more than ever to teach children about cultures and help them understand how different and alike we all are. This resource covers eight different cultural celebrations including Vesak, Diwali, Ramadan, Hanukkah, Bastille Day, Independence Day, Chinese New Year, and Christmas. Understanding of different cultures is not just a curriculum requirement; it fosters empathy and tolerance.” |
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“This resource provides a gorgeous after-reading activity for the popular book We’re Going on a Bear Hunt. It provides an opportunity to teach story sequencing in literacy and mapping in mathematics.” It’s FREE! |
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“These posters will bring peaceful mantras into your classroom. They can be used for mindfulness activities, as positive affirmations, or as gentle reminders to be centered and present.” |
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“This is a visual reminder, to help students when self-selecting ‘Just Right’ books.” It’s FREE! |
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“Teach ALL the 4th grade Language CCSS with this ONE amazingly comprehensive document! Each skill includes four to six pages of work, and follows the gradual release of responsibility method.” |
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“Students will master prepositions after working through these fun interactive common core aligned lessons. Created for 4th grade, but will work great for 3rd or 5th grades as well.” It’s FREE! |
