Christmas Resources for Primary Grades

 Create some merry and bright Christmas math stations

Addition Facts Practice  - Set up a Christmas Math Station 

with Little Elf Cover Up

Little Elf Cover Up

a simple and fun game to place in a math station. Roll the dice. Add the numbers. Find the elf. Cover the number. You can laminate these pages or place them in a protective covering so the children can use them over and over.

Included are:

7 elf cards with numbers in color

7 elf cards with numbers b&w

directions for teacher.  You will need dice and pompoms. 

Christmas Math Center

    

Counting and Number Sense 

Set up a 'Christmas' Math center with these write and spin pages. Learn to count and write numbers. Pages focus on learning and writing the numbers from 0-9, counting and recognizing numbers.     

spin and write {spin and count, then write}

How many? Count and write the number

Color the elf and Christmas Tree by number …

Handwriting Practice of Numbers 0-9 – use any time

Reindeer Cover Up - Multiplication

Reindeer Cover-Up is a simple and fun game to place in a math station at Christmas time. Practice multiplication facts to the 6x table. Roll the dice. Multiply the numbers. Find the reindeer. Cover the number.

Laminate these pages or place them in a protective covering so the children can use them over and over.

Included are:

• 7 reindeer cards with numbers in color

• 7 reindeer cards with numbers b&w

• directions for teacher

• you will need dice and pom poms or counters

And one more! Of course, writing a wish list: 

Write a Christmas Wish List

Writing a Christmas wish list is fun and an authentic writing experience for children. With this list you also get to see what books that hope to get and read for the holidays. This writing assignment can easily be assigned for distance learning and school-at-home.

Teaching Resources for November Classrooms and Distance Learning

November Book Challenge

November Reading Challenge inspires your students to read more books in the month of November. November Reading Log will keep record of how many books read. There are 2 challenges for readers; one for beginning readers and another for more experienced readers. Students feel a sense of accomplishment and enjoy good books for the entire month of November and longer!

Perfect for distance learning assignments!

In November - Book Companion

    In November by Cynthia Rylant...

Read. Write. Do. Learn. These reader response pages will engage primary readers in literacy skills after reading this wonderful picture book about November. 

16 pages for reader response and writing prompts that give the opportunity to write about this book and the author’s message. These pages can easily be assigned for distance learning and school-at-home.

Arthur's Thanksgiving -
Book Companion

Everything you need for your readers to respond to this book, Arthur's Thanksgiving by Marc Brown. Everyone loves Arthur! and he is the director of his class' school play about Thanksgiving; and he runs into a problem or two. These reader response pages will enhance the reading experience. You might read the book aloud to the entire class, use in a small reading group, or assign to an independent reader. Also included are Thanksgiving bookmarks for your students.

Pete the Cat

Pete the Cat, 

The First Thanksgiving 

by Kimberly and James Dean. In this story, Pete the Cat is feeling a bit nervous as he is going to be in his school play about the First Thanksgiving. This book entertains the reader and the listeners with true facts about the First Thanksgiving depicted by a lovable fictional character, Pete, the Cat. The perfect book to teach about the voyage of the Mayflower, the hardships of the Pilgrims and how we have decided to celebrate each year their success to the new world. Teach fact and fiction; as you will discover the many facts about the early Pilgrims but will also recognize wonderful fictional characters.  Read this book aloud and choose these reader response pages to enhance the reading experience. There are many pages to choose from and you can easily diversify instruction by choosing those pages that best accommodate your students. Also included is a Pete, the cat, craftivity to make for Thanksgiving. These pages can easily be assigned for distance learning or school-at-home.

Halloween Handouts for Elementary Grade Students

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Writing Halloween Sentences and Solving Riddles with Multiplication. These handouts are easily assigned for distance learning. Find these Halloween Fun Pages HERE and get 50% off today! 

These pages teach and provide some Halloween fun:

• students learn about the 4 kinds of sentences
• students show what they have learned by writing 'Halloween' sentences
• students solve multiplication facts to solve a riddle about Halloween

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Best Selling Teaching Resources for Fall for Primary Grades

 Read. Think. Write. Learn about Christopher Columbus. 

High-Interest Reading passages to read about this character in history. Writing prompts that will show understanding of Christopher Columbus and American history. Learning new information and practicing writing skills to show what has been learned.

Columbus - Printables

This resource includes:

reading text about Christopher Columbus
poem about 1492 and the sailing ships for fluency practice
reading text with comprehension questions -find the evidence
picture word matching
describing words
T- Map 'was-wanted-had'
label the picture
discover new words
cards for retelling
spin-off activity

There are 14 pages and these pages would be appropriate for beginning readers and writers. You might also assign these for distance learning and school-at-home.

Stellaluna Book Companion

Enhance the reading experience of the book, Stellaluna, by Janell Cannon, with these reader response pages. A great book companion!

This book is wonderful to read aloud to your class and use as a springboard for class discussions on 'being yourself' and 'accepting the differences of others'. Improve reading achievement with these reader response pages and comprehension checks.

There are 25 pages included in this resources and they focus on:

• comprehension
• theme
• compare and contrast
• favorite part of the story
• listening page
• would you rather ...
• quiet time 'think of a story'
• sign up to tell your story
• word study pages include - ABC order, rhyming words, making new words
• illustration and writing sentences
• picture cards for retelling and creating a literacy center

  Celebrate Our Heroes! On Veterans'  Day

    Writing prompts are about freedom, courage and being a hero. Also an introduction to the 5 branches of the military.   

Veterans' Day
Writing Prompts

  Pages include:

  Veterans’ Day Writing Stationary

  Honoring our Veterans

  Match 5 branches of government

  adjectives to describe Veterans

  write to a Veteran

  What is a hero?

  What does it mean to be patriotic?

  What does it mean to be brave?

  Why we celebrate Veterans’ Day?

  Read-write about freedom.

  These pages could easily supplement your class discussions and reading about Veterans and our freedoms in America.

Fall Into Engaging Teaching Resources - Book Companions for Children's Literature

FALL into 

Engaging Teaching Resources

Reading children's literature in the classroom and at home is powerful.   Children show a keen interest in the books you read and they become engaged and motivated readers themselves.  Reading to children is proven to improve cognitive development.  Cognitive development is the emergence of the ability to think and understand.  The simple and complex problems presented in children's literature creates a construction of thought processes.  These processes include remembering, decision-making and problem solving.  Children who have a rich and full background of stories and books have many opportunities to practice the skills of information processing, intelligence, reasoning, language development, memory and attention span.  When you read aloud to children, you provide them with a background of knowledge which helps them make sense of the world.  Children see, hear, and read which leads to thinking and more reading.  Talking about books gives this reading process power.  Power to bridge stories to their own lives and make connections to people, places and situations.  Read good books. Talk about good books.  Write about good books.  and you will find that one good book leads to another.

Some books for you to read this fall....

Arthur's Thanksgiving- Book Companion

In November - Book Companion

 

Everyone Loves Pete, the Cat

Book Companion for Old Lady

Stand Tall, Molly Lou Melon

What Do You Do With
a Problem?

You can find more book companions here. 

Halloween Fun!  

Boo!tiful! Resources

My Teacher On Halloween is more fun for the teacher! than her students!

Read on to find more teacher-created resources  that will engage your students in reading, writing and learning. 

Teaching Good Homework Habits and Strategies

Help your students learn good habits and strategies to complete school assignments at home.  Students will have a chance to think about and write about the steps to complete a home assignment.  

You can find this teaching resource that will teach good homework strategies and habits and will create a 

positive attitude about school work at home.  

Homework resource HERE. 

How to Assign Homework that is 
Effective to Student Learning 

• giving less homework, more often
• writing or practicing a skill previously taught in class
• an extension of lessons learned at school
• an assignment that the teacher knows the student will be able to complete independently
• an assignment that creates conversation with other members in the family
• an assignment that shows what the student already knows
• has clear and specific directions; be sure your students understand the directions
• one that allows students to rewrite and create their own method of learning
• assignments that allow ownership of the student - whenever possible give choices within your homework assignments
• assignments that students can show competence [most homework assignments within one class need to be diversified; similarly to work at school
• aesthetic appealing homework assignments - be creative and think out of the box
• completed homework assignments are given genuine feedback 

When assigning homework, there are three important ideas to remember:

1.  the best homework assignments provide practice in skills mastered at school
2.  homework assignments are diversified to accommodate all students
3.  teachers evaluate and give genuine feedback to all homework assigned

and one last note, and to circle back, give less homework, more often.  Remember children have long days at school and sometimes the best homework is to play, exercise and converse with peers and family members about their concerns and interests.  

Back to School | All Teaching Resources

 

Find all the teaching resources you need for this School Year at MrsQuimbyReads TPT Store.  Hurry on over today and get engaging resources for distance learning and school at home. 

Scroll down a bit to see some of the teaching resources that you will find  today.  There are over 330 resources listed and some are FREE !  Thank you for visiting. 

Back to School Teaching Resources for Distance Learning and School at Home

Find this Hall Sign HERE

Find all the many spelling pages HERE

Looking for some pages for the first week of school?

Everybody loves these Listen and Do Pages - You can get them HERE

Summer Writing for School At Home and Distance Learning

Summer Writing Pages and Graphic Organizers

 
Ink  this Summer 
Stay-cation activity 
into your family plan book.  Children who read and write during the summer maintain literacy skills learned during the school year.  Summer Writing and Summer Journal are quick and easy writing activities... and both help children practice their reading and writing skills with individual style and creativity.


A summer journal encourages drawing and writing, and it helps children learn to organize their thoughts. It's a good way to start the day.   With these pages and graphic organizers; it's easy to get started.  Write about upcoming summer goals and activities using these writing prompts that promote thinking and reflection before writing. 
Keeping a Summer Journal,  using a composition notebook or creating a writing space can be an authentic writing experience and also can become a regular activity at home.  NO PREP for you... just download, print and handout!  Talking about your expectations for the summer writing journal is all you need to do after handing out the summer journal pages.   Children will engage in authentic writing experiences all summer long.  They are encouraged to write in their journal each day but it is important to remember that this is a self-directed activity and some students might even write in their journals twice a day!!  Writing Ideas and topics are provided to initiate the first spark in writing about their summer days. 



Summer Writing Journal

Finding and creating personal topics and ideas is encouraged.   Be sure to tell children that you are excited about their ideas and writing and look forward to seeing and reading their journals after summer.  Encourage children to add drawings and photos, ticket stubs, book lists, and any other summer 'clips' that will fit in their journal.  Children will share more readily when they have ownership and creative design throughout their summer journal.  These writing pages include: organization of the page, writing about specific topics, using illustrations to explain, remembering facts, writing in sequential order, and finding noteworthy topics to write about.  Sharing their summer-long writing project can be a positive way to meet new classmates and build friendships for the upcoming school year.  
Keeping a 'summer writing journal' will keep your child growing in literacy and improve reading achievement... preview the summer writing journal for beginning writers.     
Get your children excited about writing this summer by finding a composition notebook and use these 'writing stamps' to encourage endless possibilities for real-world literacy activity! 

Paragraph of the Week | Learning to Write a Good Paragraph | Teaching Resources for Writing

Are you looking for a step-by-step guideline to teach young writers how to write a good paragraph?  Learning to write paragraphs takes time and patience.  Paragraph of the Week provides a step-by-step approach to writing a good paragraph. This would be suitable for second graders who are learning to write a topic paragraph, adding details and writing a closing sentence that sums it up. Space for illustration to add more understanding of the topic for their readers. Paragraph of the week can easily be used as an independent work packet and school-at-home assignments.

Pages Include one for each school day of the week:

Monday - Brainstorm Ideas and Topics
Tuesday - Complete a 4-square for your topic
Wednesday - Write a topic sentence, details and a closing sentence
Thursday - Check Wednesday's writing with the writer's checklist; make a sketch and think of two possible titles for your writing
Friday - Writing the Final Copy

Directions are given each day at the left side of the page...students write on the right side of the page. On Friday, trim the pages and pass in your revised, edited and final copy of the paragraph. These pages are 'free writes' where students brainstorm their own topics.

Friday page has three pages to choose from:

1. Page with mid-line for beginning writers
2. Page with space for illustration and no mid-line
3. Page with no mid-line and student illustrates on the back of the page.

BONUS:    Anchor Chart for 

"Hook Your Reader" - this is an anchor chart that gives strategies for writing a beginning sentence that 'hooks the reader'.  Colorful and descriptive anchor chart that teaches how you can hook your reader!

Find this teaching resource that saves YOU time and gives students the 

step-by-step guidelines to writing a paragraph.  Use this with any topic or main idea.  Get yours HERE!