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Fun, engaging book activity:

This project is a fun way to keep students engaged in reading leading up to the Thanksgiving holiday. You can establish this activity by reading the book "Balloons Over Broadway" by Melissa Sweet. This helps students understand the concept of Balloons at a parade.

Teachers can determine whether students will decorate an actual balloon or just designing a balloon. Instructions are included for both activities.

A question booklet containing questions about character and setting is provided. Students will make real world connections between their character and themselves. There are three versions of this booklet each with its own type of handwriting lines.

Students will love showing off their creation in a class parade!

What's included:

• Teacher instructions.
• Supply list.
• Links to supply inspiration.
• Two versions of the student directions.
• Balloon design template.
• Tags for display.
• Character and Setting Question Booklet (3 handwriting line versions)

How is this product useful:

• Engaging activity before a holiday.
• Students will use their creativity.
• Links to make getting supplies easier.
• Questions help students make real world connections.

✏️Are you looking for a fun and engaging way to celebrate Thanksgiving in your classroom? Your students will love learning about shapes while making these adorable turkey crafts! Practice letter recognition, counting, geometry, writing, coloring, fine motor, and more (51 pages)!

✏️Use this arts and craft project to meaningfully decorate your bulletin board, classroom, or hallway, while displaying your students' festive creativity!

✏️Great for centers, sub tub, and independent seatwork for your kindergarten, 1st or 2nd grade learners!

✏️Shapes included: circle, square, triangle, rectangle, heart, diamond, pentagon, hexagon, parallelogram, trapezoid

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Are you looking for popular learning station activities? Download these student-approved & tested consonant digraph learning station activities!

The "H" Siblings (AKA The "H" Brothers) digraphs (ph, ch, sh, th, and wh sounds and words) are a crucial aspect of learning phonics reading. This phonics package is full of 18 pages of digraph learning station activities that will strengthen their reading and decoding skills. It includes reusable (after lamination) worksheets, games, activities, and charts, including:

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Celebrate Thanksgiving with our engaging "Thanksgiving Craftivity The Thankful Writing Activity"! This resource is perfect for adding a festive touch to your classroom or home celebrations. This craftivity includes a Thanksgiving/ Fall feast Placemat I am thankful Craftivity that helps children express their gratitude in a creative way.

Our Thankful Turkey Social Studies Thanksgiving Craftivity is designed to blend fun and learning, making it an ideal addition to your Thanksgiving activities. The centerpiece of this resource is the Thanksgiving Craftivity - The Thankful, which guides students through a Thanksgiving Craftivity | I am Thankful Writing Activity. Kids will love creating their own Thanksgiving Turkey I Am Thankful Craft, a Fall Writing Craftivity that encourages them to reflect on what they are grateful for.

Included in this pack is the "I'm Thankful For...A Thanksgiving Placemat Craftivity and Writing" activity, offering a delightful way for children to express their thankfulness. Our Thanksgiving Writing Craftivity and I am Thankful For Writing Craft Thanksgiving Craftivity activities provide structured yet enjoyable opportunities for students to practice their writing skills while celebrating the season.

Additionally, the ThankFULL Pie Craftivity and Turkey Craft Hat activities are perfect for adding extra fun to your Thanksgiving celebrations. These Thanksgiving Craft Activities are designed to be easy to use and require minimal prep, making them perfect for busy educators and parents. The Thankful Turkey Craftivity rounds out this comprehensive pack, offering a variety of ways for children to engage with the holiday.

Bring the spirit of Thanksgiving into your lessons with this versatile and engaging craftivity pack!

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Celebrate Mother's Day by having your students create this adorable purse, booklet, and necklace. Students will be able to give it to someone who is special in their lives for Mother's Day. They may fill out their responses on kid-lined paper in the booklet to answer prompts. The booklet comes in primary lines and secondary lines. Students will enjoy creating a purse and necklace to give to someone they love. The purse has decorations for students to cut out and glue to the inside or the front. They can also make the decorations have a 3-Dimesional effect if they choose by simply cutting on the dotted lines and folding on the solid lines. This project is super easy to assemble.

If you are a mother, I want to wish you a Happy Mother's Day!

This product is ESPECIALLY good for classes in which some students are from non-traditional families or who have a special woman in their lives who is not their mother.

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World Read Aloud Day Crowns

These crowns are the perfect addition to any classroom on World Read Aloud Day. Help students realize their love for reading by sharing it with others!

- These crowns come without a year listed to use anytime OR with years through 2030.

- Writing and illustrating prompt is included

- Students can color and/or decorate crowns

- Attach crowns using sentence strips

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This rubric looks at 7 different areas when students are being assessed on writing a graphic novel. The areas that are reviewed on the rubric are as follows: parts of a graphic novel, graphic novel cover page details, staying on task, grammar/punctuation/spelling, visuals, and special lettering/speech balloons. This rubric scores writing a graphic novel out of 21 possible points. The rating scale use is a 3, 2, 1, & 0.

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Ignite your students' imaginations and writing skills with our engaging astronaut writing craft, a creative resource that combines art and writing to take your students on an out-of-this-world adventure! This craft project allows students to visualize themselves as astronauts by creating a personalized astronaut figure. Using the program Canva, teachers can easily insert each student's photo into the astronaut's helmet, making the experience even more exciting and relatable.

Included are three different sentence starters to inspire student writing about what they would do if they were astronauts. These prompts encourage creativity and help students organize their thoughts, making the writing process enjoyable and accessible for all learners.

Perfect for space-themed units, writing centers, or as a standalone project, this craft not only enhances students' writing skills but also sparks their curiosity about space exploration. Bring the wonders of the universe into your classroom and watch your students' creativity soar!

**This resource can be used without Canva for the craft and writing prompt activity. If you would like to add student photos to the astronaut, you will need to sign up for a free educator account on Canva. With a valid teacher email, you will be able to enjoy full access to this resource.

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This is a great activity for a Christian School, homeschool or even for a Sunday School teacher. This storyboard is an activity that reinforces comprehension and introduces basic story elements. I use a file folder but large manila or construction paper can also be used. Students write about the setting, characters, beginning, middle and ending. Then they write a summary. There is artwork also included to illustrate the storyboard.

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Letter G full lesson pack

The package includes:

• four types of leveled worksheets
• three types of different activities.

worksheets: tracing, coloring, and matching letter G and its vocabulary words.

• There are three types of different activities

• Activity 1: G and not G pictures with flashcards.

• Activity 2: Gloves and goat puzzle

• Activity 3:I can create grapes using a circle shape.

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This fun and easy Mother's Day craft includes 12 pre-made Mother's Day coupons in a coupon book as well as 12 blank coupons for students to fill in themselves! This activity is cute, quick, and a perfect gift for Mother's Day! It also includes a cover page for their coupon book that includes four options, including a choice for students who may not have a mother in their life.

I also have another similar product where students have to color and decorate the coupons themselves!

Mother's Day Coloring Coupon Book

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Inspire your students with our Apple-Themed Writing Paper! Perfect for fall-themed activities, this fun apple-shaped design will make writing assignments more engaging. Featuring clip art apples around the main shape, you can easily choose from six different line styles to suit your students' needs. Each style is also available with or without name and date lines for added convenience.

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This rubric looks at 6 different areas when students are being assessed on writing a research report. The areas that are reviewed on the rubric are as follows: research report topic and flow - opening and closing relate with one another, using quotations throughout from any sources used, research materials used relate to topic researched, staying on task, grammar/punctuation/spelling, and working with others. This rubric scores research report writing assignment out of 18 possible points. The rating scale use is a 3, 2, 1, & 0.

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Bring the heartwarming story of "Pierre the Penguin" to life in your classroom with our engaging writing craft resource! This cut-and-paste activity allows students to immerse themselves in the tale of a special African penguin who triumphs over adversity. Your students will delight in cutting, coloring, and pasting their own penguin onto a writing template, creating a personal connection to Pierre's inspiring journey. To spark creativity and guide their writing, the resource includes three different visual sentence starter prompts, which can be easily printed and displayed on a document camera. Additionally, a blank sentence starter prompt is provided for teachers to customize as needed. This versatile resource not only enhances fine motor skills and artistic expression but also encourages thoughtful writing and reflection.

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My students LOVE creating storyboards and they are a wonderful introduction to basic story elements and summarizing. I use colorful file folders or large manila/construction paper. There are illustrations to color and places to list the characters, setting and summary. There are also interactive flaps for writing the beginning, middle and ending. This project is about the birth of Baby Jesus and includes Mary, Joseph, Baby Jesus, the Wise Men, a shepherd and a sheep.

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This rubric looks at 5 different areas when students are being assessed on writing a research report. The areas that are reviewed on the rubric are as follows: Choosing someone to write about, grammar/punctuation/spelling, final draft includes details of person's life, staying on task, and sharing the biography with peers. This rubric scores writing a biography out of 10 possible points. The rating scale use is a 2, 1, & 0.

My students LOVE storyboards! They are a great resource for introducing basic story elements and summarizing, I use colorful file folders or large manila/construction paper. There are illustrations to color which are surrounded by dotted lines to make cutting easier. There are also interactive flaps for writing the beginning, middle and ending as well as places to write about the characters, setting and summary. This storyboard can be used as a companion activity for The Gingerbread Man.

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