Ringing in 2020

Have you gone completely paperless?  I do value teaching with a digital lense but I still love bulletin boards with students' work prominently on display.  I find that bulletin board creations are becoming more information boards.  Here's a fun way to keep a goal setting board up for a while.  I don't use the word resolution but rather "goals".  Using hockey stick writing templates, students can write their goals for the new year.

You'll find this free download here:

Keep students busy with this fun roll a story.  All you need is a 6 sided number cube and the prompt board.  Graphic organizers and writing paper is included:

This fun clip art is a great way to decorate newsletters or resources:

Add some fun writing paper to your writing stations.  You'll find a collection of papers for both emergent and established writers. 

  

Start the new year off with some fun math stations. This unit includes 4 activities. The first is number of the day. Using the new year, students will look at place value and fill in a number of the day chart. The next activity involves patterns found in a January calendar.The third activity (Race to Midnight) involves measuring time to 5 minute intervals. The final activity is to reach the target number using cards numbered 0 to 9. The target number is the new year. 

The whole bundle is available here:

Wishing you a prosperous, safe, happy and healthy new year!

New Year's Dollar Deals

If you're thinking about some ways to save on teaching resource, the "New Year's Dollar Deals" is taking place on December 31st and January 1st.  Hundreds of resources will be marked down to $1.00.  I have joined the TpT Focused Success Group to #Ringin2020 this year.

Please remember to use #Ringin2020 as part of your search to see selected items.

I am putting the following resources down to $1.00 on those two days:  

Paragraph Writing

Teach paragraph writing with this easy to use resource. Using visual displays and organizers, students will learn how to write a paragraph. In addition to writing prompts, graphic organizers, and a rubric, students will work on identifying topic sentences, supporting details and concluding sentences. You will find parts of a paragraph, generating ideas using autobiographical and biographical details, descriptive, expository, narrative, opinion and procedural paragraphs. As well students will learn to understand the main idea, put ideas in order, compare and contrast paragraphs, look at transition words and use checklists.

Retelling

If you're teaching retelling or having students practice sequencing events, this resource has everything you need to get started. You will find graphic organizers and labels for your bulletin board, bookmarks, display cards with pictures to accompany characters, setting, problem, order of events from beginning, middle to end, solution and the heart of the message, a rubric, and a transitions word list.

Happy Shopping!