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Award Cards for Your Students

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Award Cards to Improve Academics & Citizenship


Catch your students' attention with award cards; and begin a meaningful classroom discussion about academics, citizenship, and learning achievements.

These award cards provide an opportunity to:

  1. Enhance Self-Esteem
  2. Motivate Students
  3. Encourage Complete Assignments and Homework
  4. Improve Classroom Behavior

Multiplication Practice for 3rd Graders

STUDENTS PRACTICE  MULTIPLICATION FACTS WHILE LEARNING STATES AND CAPITALS

Multiplication Game - USA states and capitals
Multiplication Practice - USA


Spin, name and color USA map. Students become motivated and engaged

in the first 5 minutes!  Students love playing this game, and multiplication fact practice   is part of the game!  This is a spin, name and color USA map. Working with a partner, color in the USA map while knowing your multiplication facts. Tables included for practice are: 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 12. This is a NO PREP activity.   



Just download, print and hand out. Students use a paper clip-pencil spinner 

to know their facts. Directions are included both for the students and the teacher. 

Check lists included so students can check their answers for both multiplication facts and USA state and capital knowledge.   Cover to make a folder for this activity is also included. This would be appropriate for grades 3 and 4 and homeschoolers or anyone learning multiplication and would like to add USA geography to the fun.  You might use this in a learning center, seat work or morning work.  This can be a perfect time filler with a very positive outcome.


NO PREP printables
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USA geography
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Grab this resource now to engage your students in learning multiplication facts, USA geography, USA States and Capitals with smiles on their faces!
Easy set up, play goes on for many days until their maps are completely colored in.  Play for about 20-30 minutes, set them away and wait for them to ask, "May we play Multiplication-USA again!"

Multiplication Practice - USA states and capitals
Multiplication Facts & USA - Find Yours HERE

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Teaching Resources for February | Elementary Grades


Teaching Resources that engage your students in meaningful learning and save YOU time.   Browse below to see some of the Teaching Resources that will brighten your room and engage your students in reading, writing, speaking and listening.  Find math resources that teach the language of all around numbers and facts that engage thinking.  

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All the book companions for your favorite read alouds for the first week of school. Set the tone of your classroom with children's literature. 
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Teach literacy and life lessons with children's literature and use my book companions for many favorite books from your classroom library.  

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Abraham Lincoln 

Writing Prompts - Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln Writing Prompts

Three pages to write about Abraham Lincoln. Easy graphic organizer to write a very short biography, page to write what you know about Lincoln and one page to write some important facts and highlights about AbrahamLincoln. You could use these pages after any book about Abraham Lincoln. 

The biography page includes a space to write his birthplace, birthdate, family, and height. Jot down some important facts about Lincoln's life. Write one question you might have for Lincoln if you met him. Draw a small portrait of Lincoln. Display some of your favorite books about Abraham Lincoln and use these writing pages to create a writing center for February.




The Day It Rained Hearts, by Felicia Bond. This book is a very sweet story about imagination, creativity and friendship. Cornelia Augusta finds herself in a rainstorm of hearts! What fun! 

There are 21 pages here to respond in writing to this cute valentine story. It's a favorite and children love to find out who the valentines are for.... book talk notes and teacher notes included. You can easily assign these pages for distance learning and school-at-home.

This book companion is to be used with the book; The Day It Rained Hearts, by Felicia Bond.


Complete a Reading Interest Survey. Easy to use. Download and print. Find out valuable information to build reading skills in your classroom.  Take a Reading Interest Inventory of your students and learn about their thoughts about reading. This information can help you plan your lessons to reach each student in your classroom and teach them to become lifelong readers.

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Reading Survey - Improve Reading Achievement
Once you know your students’ interests, you have an opportunity to find books that they enjoy. If they enjoy reading, they will read more. If they read more, reading achievement will be reaching new heights. Taking time to do Interest Inventories is an investment that will pay dividends later, especially for the struggling readers who might not think they would enjoy reading anything. With the right topic choice based on interest, you might hook every kid onto reading this year!








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Classroom Posters

Catch their attention with these bright, colorful and meaningful classroom posters to teach admirable character traits. These posters can be a springboard for important class discussions on building good character. Display them in your classroom and refer to them often. Attitude in your classroom makes a difference.

There are 12 posters:

  • Be Brave
  • Be Wise
  • Be Curious
  • Stand Tall
  • Be Reliable
  • Be Resourceful
  • Be Loyal
  • Be Honest
  • Dream Big
  • Be Clean
  • Be Kind
  • Be Clever

Make your classroom colorful and bright and teach admirable character traits.



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Riddles for Math - Multiplication

  Students engage in solving catchy and fun  riddles  and LEARN their multiplication facts, too! Each page starts out with a riddle to read and think about... students then complete the multiplication facts and match the number and letters to solve the riddle.

This multiplication practice resource

for school or at home includes:

  • 20 riddle pages with multiplication facts 
  • and fun pictures to color
  • multiplication facts from 0 - 12, mixed on each page
  • answers for riddles page


This math activity engages children in learning their multiplication facts. Students can complete the multiplication pages independently, with a partner, in a small group or with the entire class. Also works great for distance learning and school at home. Great for small group math station while teacher time is with another small group. These pages are appropriate for 3rd graders and homeschoolers who are learning their multiplication facts.

100 Days of School Interactive Booklets

 One Hundred Days of School  - What's the Count?

Celebrate the 100th day with these bright and colorful interactive booklets!

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Easy to make! Only 2 pages and you will have created an eight page booklet. Students interact to read, spell, solve and draw with the number 100 in mind.

  • Read 100 sight words
  • Spell 100 words
  • Solve 100 math facts
  • Draw 100 geometric shapes

Your students will love making it to 100 on each of these pages.

Print in colors to add to the celebration.

Also included are more pages to make your 100th day a bit special.

  • A 100th day Coloring Page
  • A 100 circle chart
  • 100 buttons in a jar [page] to count and color
  • Number Grid from 1-100
  • Fill in the missing numbers from 1-100 chart
  • 100 Days Smarter coloring page



How will you celebrate the 100th day of school without any sugar?  Here are five ways you can do that and your students will be smarter and healthier. 

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 #1.  Make an Interactive Booklet where students read 100 sight words, spell 100 words, solve 100 math facts, and draw 100 geometric shapes.  They love making this booklet and especially love making it to 100 for each of the tasks included

Read 100 Sight Words -  Spell 100 words
Solve 100 Math Facts - Draw 100 geometric shapes

#2.   Many teachers like to graph food items.  If you are inclined to make a 100's graph, let's make a healthy list of food items you might use instead of those sugary ones

Reading Fluency and Sight Word Practice

Reading Fluency, Primary Grades, Sight Words, teaching resources

Reading Fluency and Learning Sight Words ...Practice your fluency in reading and learn sight words with these pages.

There are 30 pages to practice reading fluency and learning sight words in this teaching resource.

Sight words are: 

the, of, and, a, to in, is, you, that, it, he, for, was, on, are, as, with, his, they, at, be, this, from, I, have, or, by, one, had, not.


The sight words are from Rebecca Sitton sight work list 1.

Each page illustrates a short reading passage to read including the sight word. Student reads sentences for fluency in a structured manner, answers a short comprehension question and writes the sight word.





Focus skills:

  • reading fluency
  • introduction to answering comprehension questions for beginning readers
  • handwriting practice
  • recognizing and reading sight words
  • color a picture that matches the sentence

These pages are perfect for small group instruction or independent seat work for beginning readers.

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Santa's Elves | TEACH WORK ETHIC | Teaching Resources for Christmas

Christmas Teaching Resources
Santa's Elves | Work Ethic
These academic practice pages will teach the importance of a good work ethic with a Christmas  theme.  These seventeen pages give practice and review for literacy.  You will build a vocabulary around the keywords 'work ethic'. 


 Children smile when thinking about the hard work all the elves do to help Santa.  These pages help motivate excited children about this joyous holiday.  It provides an opportunity to teach giving to others, helping others and  that work is a virtue.  Work enables the person to carry out a purposeful activity that provides an inner purpose, and helps the person integrate his mind, body and soul.  

Work is important and meaningful. 

Keywords for this lesson:  

dedication, discipline, cooperation, productivity,

 integrity and reliability.  



Parent | Teacher Conferences | Forms and Handouts | Reporting Student Progress


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Teacher -Parent Conference Forms and Handouts

Everything You Need for Your Parent Conferences! 

Parent Conference Forms to take notes at your parent-teacher conference, reminder notes to send home, 3 handouts to give out at your conference. 

Easy PRINTABLES and they are in both color and black & white. Separate EDITABLE file too so you can edit the text on the conference forms if you wish. Simply click on red text and type in your own specific information. 




Pages Include:

  • Parent Conference form for Fall
  • Parent Conference form for Winter
  • Parent Conference form for Spring
  • Parent Conference form for Anytime
  • Parent Conference Reminder Notes to send home
  • Editable file of All the forms

3 Handouts for Your Parents

  • How Can I Help My Child Be Successful at School?
  • How Can I Help My Child Read?
  • How Can I Help My Child Write?

Also included are 2 signs to put on your door at conference time. Signs read:

"Please KNOCK if it is your scheduled time to help us keep on schedule" 

and of course, I added art and color to the signs.  

November Teaching Resources for Busy Teachers

Celebrate Our Heroes! On Veterans' Day

Find these writing prompts to help with learning  about freedom, courage and being a hero. 

Also an introduction to the 5 branches of the military.

Veterans' Day Writing Prompts
Veterans' Day
Teacher Resource

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. Assign these writing prompts for distance learning and school-at-home.


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Teaching Halloween Safety Tips | Free Halloween Resources for Elementary Teachers

Are You Ready for Some Halloween 
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Halloween Safety Tips
Halloween Printables

Halloween Safety Tips

These printable cards are an easy way to teach children safety tips for Halloween. Go over the tips at school or at home, and hand out the cards one by one.


Frankencrayon, book companion
Frankencrayon- Book Companion


Learning color names and writing about reading! For beginning readers and writers. Read this excellent book, Frankencrayon , by Michael Hall, and then write about the book. Even make a scribble monster! It's motivating! It's educational, and it's fun! Literacy lesson #1: read good books; read, think, write, listen, share!


my teacher on Halloween
My Teacher On Halloween

5 Writing Prompts about what "My Teacher Will Be On Halloween".   This is a fun 

and high-interest writing assignment.

Children love to think about what the teacher might be on Halloween... and teachers love to see what they write! Write and Draw! My Teacher On Halloween!




Halloween math resources



Double-Digit Addition & Subtraction

Double-digit Addition and Subtraction Practice Pages with a Halloween Theme. These worksheets provide practice in adding and subtracting double-digit numbers without regrouping. They can be fun and colorful, and they can be used to practice the skill of adding and subtracting double-digit numbers with a Halloween theme. Also, practice adding 3 single digits to a column. Set them at a math station for needed practice on a math skill learned and mastered. Assign for independent math practice for double-digit addition and subtraction.  

There are 12 total worksheets and 12 answer sheets included.



Creepy Carrots book companion
Creepy Carrots

This book entertains the reader and the listeners with Jasper's adventures at Crackenhopper Field.   Read about creepy carrots and learn how Jasper solves his problem. It's fun fiction! And leads to an ending that makes the reader think. Read this book aloud and choose these reader response pages to write about the book.

Also included is a Creepy Carrot craftivity.     Make these creepy carrots and create a colorful bulletin board.

Focus Skills are:

  • interactive reading booklet
  • story elements
  • illustration
  • drawing creepy carrots
  • How many carrots are enough?
  • describing the main character
  • character traits
  • fill-in-blank activity
  • 4-square to write about story elements
  • illustrating story events
  • create your own creepy carrot with templates and directions
  • 34 pages to respond to the book
  • reading conference questions
  • teacher directions


Halloween writing, elementary grades

Engage your students this Halloween by reading, thinking, writing, and drawing 

around the theme of HalloweenInteractive Reading Booklet

17 Halloween Writing prompts! Word Study and Poetry! Seven Label the Pictures- 

Cut and Paste Seven labeling pages where early writers will label the pictures. These pages are cut and pasted, and children read the words, reread them, and then cut them out and paste them in the correct box 

to show the word's meaning.


  • seventeen Halloween Writing Prompts
  • writing prompts with word boxes
  • writing prompts with sentence starters
  • writing prompts with title
  • writing prompts with 'give reasons why.'
  • 4 Halloween Poems - read for fluency, read at school, read at home
  • Read and Follow the Directions page

Interactive Reading Booklet - "The Halloween Parade"

Easy to download and assemble - 2 booklets on a page - print 2 sides

Teacher directions included - this is so easy !!

Students write in the booklet to complete the sentences and also color the pictures. This booklet has easy, repetitive text for beginning readers, and students love reading it—more than once!

This resource also includes the vocabulary needed for your booklets. Words your students need for interactive booklets can be displayed in your classroom or literacy center. Also included are some blank vocabulary cards if you need to write in some additional words for your Halloween word bank.  

Grab this Halloween resource for Writing Prompts 

and more   HERE


Spookley the Square Pumpkin

Spookley, the Square Pumpkin

by Joe Troiano.

Spookley feels sad, lonely, and square in this story, and those other pumpkins are teasing him! But only for a short time, as you will read, to find out what makes being square a unique feature and helps solve a big problem. This book entertains the reader and listeners with rhyme and rhythm. It is the perfect book to teach and review the different shapes and teach awareness of differences and how we might want to avoid judging a pumpkin by its shape.

It's fun fiction! And leads to a gratifying ending. Read this book aloud and choose these reader response pages as a springboard for essential class discussions about being unique and caring about others. Also included is a Spookley craftivity and word cards for your pocket chart.  Grab this book companion for Spookley, HERE

life cycle of a pumpkin
Understand the life cycle of a pumpkin. Easily foldable booklet so that students see each stage of growth.

Stages include:

1. seeds

2. sprout

3. growing sprout

4. vines and flowers

5. green pumpkin

6. giant, fat pumpkin in the pumpkin patch

Also included are three pages for reference on the 'life cycle of a pumpkin': one black-and-white for students to color, one in color if you wish to display it, and the third one is a graphic organizer that the students can fill in to show that they remember the stages of a pumpkin's life cycle.

The booklet is a fun foldable that students love. After completing it, it guides them through retelling the stages.  Grab this teaching resource Life Cycle of A Pumpkin


All about Pumpkins, teaching resource

All About Pumpkins ... Read. Write. Do. Learn. These pages about pumpkins will engage primary readers in literacy skills, thinking, and learning about pumpkins.

Improve literacy skills and reading achievement with reading passages and writing prompts within a unit of studying pumpkins.

Add these pages to a science corner or literacy station with books and literature about pumpkins. These reading passages and writing prompts can be used for independent practice, small-group instruction, and whole-class unit studies about pumpkins. 

 All About Pumpkins


There are 50 pages:

  • reading passages
  • comprehension checks
  • writing prompts
  • drawing and illustrating
  • facts about pumpkins
  • KWL chart
  • Poetry Booklet about Pumpkins
  • word study
  • label the jack-o’-lantern
  • writing sentences
  • learning new words
  • vocabulary for display
  • ABC order
  • rhyming words
  • math – skip counting- puzzles
  • count by 10’s
  • count by 5’s
  • count by 2’s
  • combinations of 10
  • tally marks
  • Life Cycle of A Pumpkin [anchor chart, cut and paste]
  • collecting data about the class pumpkin
  • Float or Sink?


Halloween Handouts! Writing Halloween Sentences and Solving Riddles with Multiplication. These handouts are easily assigned for distance learning.

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


Room on the Broom book companion


In this story, the witch and her cat happily fly through the sky on a broomstick when the wind picks up and blows away the witch's hat. Some animals help her and want to ride on the broom. A minor disaster comes, and all the animals come to the rescue. The story is in rhyme, bouncing merrily along, full of fun.

Read this book aloud to your child and choose these reader response pages to enhance the reading experience. 


This book companion is to be used with 

Room on the Broom by Julia Donaldson.

Focus Skills:

  • comprehension questions
  • characters in the story
  • story events
  • word study
  • vocabulary cards for your pocket chart
  • write and draw
  • word work - phonics - rhyming words
  • sight words
  • diversified instruction

There are 30 pages in this teaching resource to respond to this book. You certainly would not have to do all of them, but you could if you wish. This book companion quickly diversifies instruction.  Yes, I want Room on the Broom book companion.


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Teach Halloween Safety 

These printable cards will be an easy way to teach children safety tips for Halloween. Go over the tips at school or at home. Handout these printable cards one by one.

Tips include:

  • check your costume. Make sure nothing is hanging down where you might catch your foot and cause you to trip
  • invite your parents to go with you
  • visit homes of your friends and neighbors and people you know
  • wear reflectives, glow in the dark or carry a flashlight
  • cross at corners where there are lights and crosswalks
  • use sidewalks
  • look left, look right, then look left again before crossing
  • watch for cars turning and backing up
  • put your phone away and pay attention
  • check all candy | do not eat any candy that is unwrapped or looks suspicious
  • safe, happy & fun!

Information for Halloween safety | Keep our children SAFE

Included are 16 Halloween Fun bookmarks 

to keep your students reading!

click read more to see how you can get this FREE resource 

and see some of the bookmarks