Leaping For Lily Pads Money Game

Leaping For Lily Pads Money Game
Your students will have lots of fun playing this money game and they'll learn valuable money counting skills as they play. The color game board is 11" x 17". A Bank Sign, Directions, Game Markers and a Spinner are also included. Play money is NOT included. There are three variations of the game- play money is not needed for one of them. The price of this game is only $2.25!

Christmas Countdown Sign

Your students will have fun counting down the days until Christmas this this cute $1 sign! You can use the “Christmas Countdown” Sign four different ways:
1. Laminate the sign. Every day, let a student write a number in the box with a marker than can be washed off with a damp paper towel.
2. Put 25 numbered sticky notes (1-25 with #25 on top) on the box on the sign. Let a student peel off a number every day.
3. Write a different number on a sticky note and attach it to the box every day.
4. Cut the box out of the sign and attach the sign to your chalkboard. Each day a student can write a number on the chalkboard in the box. Merry Christmas and happy counting!

Super Students (Super Heroes) Schedule Cards, Classroom Kit and BUNDLE!

Use your young students’ interest in super heroes to motivate them to be super students! This set includes both the Super Students (Super Heroes Theme) Classroom Kit and the Super Students (Super Heroes) Schedule Cards. This BUNDLE includes:

“Welcome to our Class” Door Sign
4 Sheets of Super Student Desk Name Tags (12 different tags- 6 boys, 6 girls)
Sheet of 8 Name Tags
Cover for a Class Book
Writing Assignment Sheet for a Class Book
Two, 11” x 17” Blank Charts
Two Super Student Certificates (Boy, Girl)
Two Sheets of Door Hangers to Color (Boy, Girl)
Two Sheets of Full Color Bookmarks (Boy, Girl)
Boys Sign (For Bathroom or Coat Rack)
Girls Sign (For Bathroom or Coat Rack)
6 Classroom Rules Signs (1 Rule per Sign)
AND 57 schedule cards (10 1/2" x 2  5/8"): 9 BLANK CARDS, ARRIVAL, ART, ASSEMBLY, BELL WORK, BIRTHDAY, BOOK REPORTS, CALENDAR, CENTERS, CLASS JOBS, CLEAN DESKS, COMPUTER LAB, COMPUTERS, DAILY 5, DISMISSAL, FIELD TRIP, GAME, GYM, HANDWRITING, LANGUAGE, LIBRARY, LUNCH, MATH, MOVIE, MUSIC, PARTY, PHYSICAL EDUCATION, POETRY, PROJECT, READING, READING WORKSHOP, RECESS, REVIEW, SCIENCE, SHARING, SHOW & TELL, SILENT READING, SNACK, SNACK & STORY, SOCIAL STUDIES, SPANISH, SPECIAL ACTIVITY, SPELLING, STORY, TEST, VISITOR, WORD STUDY, WRITING, and WRITING WORKSHOP.

To add names or words to items, open the pdf. Click on “Sign” at the far right on your top menu bar. Then click on “Add Text”. With your mouse, click on the picture where you want to add text, select your font and size and type.

Individual kits are available:

 

 

Have a great weekend!

 

 

At Christmastime

At Christmastime... the pages of this tree-shaped book can be cut in the shape of a tree or the sheets can be stapled without cutting. There are 6 pages in the book that REVIEW the FIVE SENSES. Students finish the sentence starters on each page and then add illustrations. It can be used as a center activity or completed as a whole class writing/ science lesson. This book is great for early readers and writers!

My Candy Cane- A Book About My Five Senses

My Candy Cane Book: Give each of your students a small candy cane. They can eat them while you read them a story. Then they can wash their hands and make their candy cane books. There are 6 pages. Students will cut out the candy cane shaped pages, staple them together and complete their books. Each page has a sentence to complete and the book reviews the FIVE SENSES. This is perfect for first grade and for the month of December!

SALE!!!

All of my items are on sale at Teachers Notebook through December 2.

All of my items are on sale at Teacher's Pay Teachers on Monday & Tuesday.
Happy shopping!

Dress Santa! A New Math Game for Grades K-3

Dress Santa!
This is a fun game for students to play when their work is finished, at a math center, during indoor recess, or during math time. Your students will have so much fun playing "Dress Santa!", they won't even realize they are practicing their addition and subtraction math facts!
Older or advanced students can use multiplication, addition and subtraction to play.
The game is for 2-4 players. All they need to play is a deck of "Dress Santa!" cards and a pair of dice. I suggest you print the cards on cardstock, a thicker paper, and laminate them for years of use. Make multiple decks so your whole class can play! Great for Grades Kindergarten through third grade!

11" x 17" HappyThanksgiving! Poster/Placemat

11" x 17" HappyThanksgiving! Poster/Placemat
Your students will enjoy coloring this 11" x 17" "Happy Thanksgiving!" poster. They can even use it as a placemat! This poster is only $1.00!

Halloween Badges

Halloween Badges
There are 4 sheets of 6 badges- 2 in color and 2 in black and white. Print the black and white sheets on white paper to save ink and have your students color them.  You can also print the black and white sheets on orange paper.  The badges can be printed in color, too. They can be worn as badges or used as rewards, glued or stapled onto corrected assignments and homework, left on or inside desks as surprises, and used as gift tags, notes or pencil toppers.
Happy Halloween! 

Enter if you Dare! Poster

I LOVE Halloween! Can you tell?  I just made this door sign this morning.

The "Enter if you Dare" poster is 11” x 17”. Print it on cardstock (a thicker paper), if possible, and laminate it for years of use. Most office supply stores will print this size poster for $1 or less. Then post it on your classroom, house (or office) door during the month of October. Happy Halloween!

New! Free! "It's Halloween!" Digital Scrapbooking Kit!

Kim Brodelet picked a fun color swatch for her Colour Challenge this month. She picked colors that could be used for fall or Halloween, even though they don't celebrate Halloween in her country. I thought that was so sweet and thoughtful of her! This is the color swatch she made:

We have to use at east 4 of the colors. Usually I use all of them, but this month I used 4 and  a couple of my own. This is what I came up with:

You can grab "It's Halloween!" free through October 31, 2013. I hope you like it and can use it. If you snag it, please leave me a note. I'd also love to see what you do with it! My email address is in the file. Happy Halloween! 

 

 

FREE Halloween Handwriting Assessment

Free Halloween Handwriting AssessmentThis sentence has every letter in the alphabet in it. Use it for a quick and fun handwriting assessment during October or anytime!

FREE HALLOWEEN BOO BANNER

FREE HALLOWEEN BOO BANNER
Can you tell I like Halloween? This Boo Banner is free. Click on the title to go to the download. Print the 5 pieces on cardstock (a thicker paper), if possible, and laminate them for years of use. Tape a long piece of string to the backs of the pieces and hang the banner across a doorway, bulletin board, chalkboard or your fireplace! If you grab it, please leave me a message. Happy Halloween! J

FREE Pumpkin Math Activity Sheet

Free Pumpkin Math Activity Sheet
Use this FREE sheet for a fun math lesson using a real pumpkin. You will need a bathroom scale, a tape measure, a knife and scoop, newspapers , and a REAL PUMPKIN. See if any of your students can think of a fast way to count the seeds (by 2s, 5s, 10s, etc.).  Click on the link above to get it for FREE. Have fun!

BATS!

This Bats Writing Packet has everything you need for a fun and educational writing unit on Bats. Your students will be able to write five different types of poems (directions included), and a non-fiction report and/or a fictional story about Bats. This unit would be great to teach during the month of October or during any month!

This packet includes:

A blank, 11” x 17” Bats Chart

11” x 17” Chart of Bat Vocabulary Words to post while students are writing

11” x 17” Chart of Bats Terms and Definitions

11” x 17” Animal Report Information Worksheet

11” x 17” What We Know About Bats Chart for Prewriting Activity

11” x 17” What We Want To Know About Bats Chart for Prewriting Activity

Two, 11” x 17” Class Graphs About Bats for Prewriting Activities

11” x 17” What We Learned About Bats Chart for end of unit

11” x 17” Pattern for a Big Bat Book

8 ½” x 11” Animal Report Information Worksheet

2 Report Planning WEB sheets for Bats

2 Report Planning WEB sheets (BLANK) for future use

Sheets for 5 Different Types of Poetry

2 Parent Letters for Bat Research Homework Assignments (Editable Word Documents)

Pages with lines

Sheets decorated with bats for writing

1 Sheet for a Labeled Bat Picture

2 Cute Covers for Bat Book or Report

Inside Pages for Big Bat Book

 

I hope your students enjoy learning about bats and the writing process with this kit! 

Fall Freebie Still Free

Sorry there was a glitch with my download for my new freebie kit. It's working again. It will be available through September 30.  Click HERE to go to the gallery to get the download link. Thanks for letting me know!

Owls Writing Packet for Grades 1-4

 

This Owls Writing Packet has everything you need for a fun and educational writing unit on Owls. Your students will be writing five different types of poems (directions included), and a non-fiction report and/or a fiction story about Owls. This unit would be great to teach during the month of October or during any month!

This packet includes:

A blank, 11” x 17” Owl Chart

11” x 17” Chart of Owl Vocabulary Words to post while students are writing

11” x 17” Chart of Owl Terms and Definitions

11” x 17” Animal Report Information Worksheet

8 ½” x 11” Animal Report Information Worksheet

2 Report Planning WEB sheets for Owls

2 Report Planning WEB sheets (BLANK) for future use

Sheets for 5 Different Types of Poetry

Parent Letter for Owl Research Homework Assignment (a Word document- editable)

6 sheets decorated with owls for writing

2 sheets with lines

2 Sheets for a Labeled Owl Picture (1 is blank for future reports)

2 Cute Covers for Owl Book or Report

1 Sheet to Compare & Contrast the Two Owl Families

I LOVE OWLS! Happy writing!

New Kit! Halloween Fun!

Halloween Fun

This fun Halloween kit includes:

Full Color Count Down to Halloween Poster (11” x 8.5”)

Haunted House Listening to Directions Activity

Desk Ghosts Art Activity

Magic Pictures Art Activity

Sums to Ten Math Worksheet

2 -Digit Addition Without Regrouping Worksheet

2 -Digit Addition With Regrouping Worksheet

Sheet of Black and White Bookmarks to Color

Sheet of Colored Bookmarks

“We’ve Been Ghosted!” Activity (2 Sheets)

Easy Word Search & Answer Sheet

Harder Word Search & Answer Sheet

3 Sheets of Door Hangers to Color

5 Piece Banner to Hang

Color the Ghosts Worksheet

Directions and pictures are included.

New Fall Freebie

This week's challenge was to create a kit without using anything made by anyone else (commercial use items). So everything was made by me from my own photographs, etc. The theme is a "Stay-cation"- something you would do around your community, instead of traveling. Hubby and I love the fall colors. We usually drive around and look at them and I take pictures. The we go get cider and doughnuts from the cider mill. YUM!
You can get this free kit though September 30.  Click: Fall Color Tour Stay-Cation to go to the download information in the gallery.
If you grab it, please leave me a comment! :-)

Chevron Monogrammed Book Covers!

These bright green Chevron Monogrammed Covers can be used for lesson plan books, grade books, journals, manuals, or anything! The set includes a page for every letter A-Z.
Print them on cardstock, a thicker paper, and laminate them for years of use. Or just print a sheet on regular copy paper and insert it into the front clear pocket on a 3-ring notebook. Either way, it will make your book look personalized, modern and fun!

Blue
Green
Turquoise
Purple
Pink

It's Halloween!

It's Halloween! A Writing Packet For Grades 1-4

 

I LOVE Halloween!  Use the theme of Halloween to motivate your students to write poems and stories! This kit contains many sheets for writing poems, premade covers for student and class books, and many writing sheets (plain lined sheets, decorated sheets without lines and decorated sheets with lines. Some sheets have primary lines and some have smaller lines for more advanced or older writers. Some sheets are in full color, but they can be printed in gray scale to save colored ink.

To add words on the cover sheets, open the pdf. Click on “Sign” at the far right on your top menu bar. Then click on “Add Text”. With your mouse, click on the picture where you want to add text, select your font and size and type. Directions for writing five kinds of poems are included.

New Freebie Kit

 

This is my kit for the Next Designer Contest at Digital Scrapbooking Studio. The theme this week is "Beach Getaway". A special thank you to Mary Aten, Michigan Photographer, who let me use her photo for my color swatch and inspiration! If you like my new FREE kit, you can go here to get the link: Mary's Muskegon. If you grab it, please leave me a comment in the gallery there.
Kim Broedelet isn't doing a "Colour Challenge" this month, so there won't be a freebie here for September, which is actually good, since I am busy making kits for DSS!
Have a great week, everyone!

Beep Beep! A New Freebie Mini Kit

This month I am participating in a scrapbook designing contest at Digital Scrapbooking Studio. I hope to make something for all 4 weeks. For this week (week 1) the theme is "Road Trip". On Sunday, we were given 15 colors to use to make our own color swatch, then we were to use it to design a mini kit of exactly 5 papers (3 patterns and 2 solids) and 12 elements. Here's mine:

If you like it, you can grab BEEP BEEP from DSS until September 30.

Please leave me a comment if you do.

Thanks!

NEW! Super Students (Super Heroes Theme) Classroom Kit

I just finished this kit tonight. A friend asked me to make this kit for her for her theme this year. Super Students (Super Heroes Theme) Classroom Kit was so much fun to make! Use your young students’ interest in super heroes to motivate them to be super students! This kit has everything you need:

“Welcome to our Class” Door Sign

4 Sheets of Super Student Desk Name Tags (12 different tags- 6 boys, 6 girls)

Sheet of 8 Name Tags

Cover for a Class Book

Writing Assignment Sheet for a Class Book

Two, 11” x 17” Blank Charts

Two Super Student Certificates (Boy, Girl)

Two Sheets of Door Hangers to Color (Boy, Girl)

Two Sheets of Full Color Bookmarks (Boy, Girl)

Boys Sign (For Bathroom or Coat Rack)

Girls Sign (For Bathroom or Coat Rack)

6 Classroom Rules Signs (1 Rule per Sign)

To add names to items, open the pdf. Click on “Sign” at the far right on your top menu bar. Then click on “Add Text”. With your mouse, click on the picture where you want to add text, select your font and size and type.

 

Spiders!

This Spiders Writing Packet has everything you need for a fun and educational writing unit on Spiders. Your students will be writing five different types of poems (directions included), and a non-fiction report and/or a fiction story about Spiders. This unit would be great to teach during the month of October or during any month!
This packet includes:
A cute “Welcome to Our Web” Door Sign
Two blank, 11” x 17” Spider Charts
11” x 17” Chart of Spider Vocabulary Words to post while students are writing
11” x 17” Chart of Spider Terms and Definitions
11” x 17” Animal Report Information Worksheet
8 ½” x 11” Animal Report Information Worksheet
2 Report Planning WEB sheets
Sheets for 5 Different Types of Poetry
Parent Letter for Spider Research Homework Assignment (a Word document- editable)
2 sheets of lines for writing
5 sheets decorated with spiders and webs
5 sheets decorated with spiders and webs with lines
Cute Cover for Spider Book or Report
How many words can you make from “SPIDERS” work sheet

Chevron Clock Labels

Attach these adorable CHEVRON CLOCK LABELS to the edge of your classroom clock to help your students learn how to tell time.

Photocopy the two sheets of chevron clock labels on cardstock, a thicker paper. Laminate both sheets and then cut out the circles. Attach them to the outside edge of your classroom clock with tape or sticky tack.
$1.00

Ali-Cat

I finished Ali-Cat-yay! It's named after my daughter! You can grab it for FREE through August 31, then it will be gone! If you snag it, please leave me a comment! I hope you like it!

Be Watching...

I'm just putting the finishing touches on a new freebie that I'll be posting this week. We just got home from vacation Friday night and we're taking our daughter back to college this week, so it's been a little bit crazy around here! I'm excited to finish this kit. I'll be posting it soon, so be watching for it. Meoooooooowwwwwww!

28% Off Sale!

All of my products are 20% at Teachers Pay Teachers (August 18-19). Use Promo code BTS13 for 28% off! Happy shopping!

Fifth Grade Freebie

I had a request to make this freebie for fifth grade:

I have a set of freebies for Kindergarten through Fourth Grade already.  Go HERE for that set. Enjoy!

GREAT DEALS!!!

Starting today, August 10, through August 18, Teacher's Notebook is offering some fabulous deals! There are product BUNDLES for sale. I have products in two of the bundles.
Here's Bundle 14:

 

My Back to School Survival kit is included.

 

My Fact Families Packet is in Bundle 15:

 

Have fun shopping and have a great week! 

 

 

 

13 Fun Halloween Papers

I've been in a Halloween mood lately (?!), so I made these papers:

13 Fun Halloween PapersThe 13 papers are 12” x 12” and have a cardstock texture to make them look real. Use them for making signs, book covers, backgrounds for Power Point presentations, or for digital scrapbooking your Halloween photos. They are for personal use in your home or classroom only.

Four Seasons Word Wall Charts

Four Seasons Word Wall Charts

Help your students with their writing with these 4 Seasons Word Wall Charts. Print the four big posters on 11” x 17” sheets of paper. Print them on cardstock (a thicker paper), if possible. Laminate them for years of use. Post all of them on a wall or bulletin board. Included are 5 ½” x 8 ½” smaller charts (in both color & black and white) for your students’ writing folders. There are 2 small charts on each sheet.

Lost Tooth Certificates & Birthday Balloons Chart

There are two Lost Tooth Certificates on a sheet. When a student loses a tooth, give them this cute certificate to honor the occasion!  Print a bunch of them to have on hand.
The certificates match my Lost Tooth Poster.

 

 

This bright and colorful Birthday Balloons 11" x 17" Chart will brighten any classroom! Print the poster on 11” x 17” paper. Laminate it for years of use. You can write on the laminate with overhead markers and then wash the marker off so you can reuse the poster. Or you can print a new poster every year and write right on the paper.
If you want to type names and dates on the poster, open the pdf. Click on “Sign” at the far right on your top menu bar. Then click on “Add Text”. With your mouse, click on each balloon to add your text. Then select your font and size and type. 

 

 

Monsters and Bees Blank Charts

Use this monstrously cool  Blank Monsters 11" x 17" Chart for lots of uses in your classroom- to post lists, use it for lessons, making charts, posters, etc.

Here are Two Bee 11" x17' Charts - there's a blank one and one that says "Welcome":

I can think of tons of uses for these. I wish I had these when I was still teaching!

Two Bee 11" x 17" Charts

The white sections have a light honeycomb pattern. There are two in the set:

Two Bee 1" x 17" Charts

More 11" x 17" Charts

More 11" x 17" Blank Charts...

Blank Ladybug 11" x 17" Chart

Set of Seven Blank Rainbow Plaid 11" x 17" Charts

 

 

 

Blank Frog 11" x 17" Chart