I love having beautiful anchor charts/posters in my classroom for students to reference during lessons. This poster is perfect for when the students are reading narrative, analyzing them, or writing them. I had this poster printed and have it hanging in my classroom. I also give a copy of this hando...

This chart is The Physical Properties of Matter with the definition and visual examples for each category including the 5 senses. Need to up your anchor chart game but can't find the time or the patience? I would love to help out! My charts are hand drawn and are made to order. Anchor charts are one of the best ways to engage students in learning and great to have as a reference tool during lessons. Any anchor can be customized to your preferences, most of what I will do will be in bright colors. NOT laminated/NOT prints. *DISCLAIMER: all photos are of my personal anchor charts, used in my classrooms. A brand new one will be made for your order!*

Would you like to decorate your classroom with fun, hand-drawn anchor charts/posters? Do you simply not have the time to get them done? Well, you have come to the perfect place! I love making these engaging and appealing anchor charts. I also can draw/create any other topic you would like, just contact me directly and ask! My students absolutely love these posters and references them every day. Many of them are visual learners, so the colorful images really help them connect and remember what they have learned. This particular anchor chart is for readers/writers practicing prefixes and suffixes. It helps students see base words and adding prefixes/suffixes to them. The pug puppy helps my students see the separation of the base words with their prefix/suffix and they have so much fun with it! It will be approximately 32 x 24 inches, and will be a copy of my original. **These will be copies unless asked otherwise for a custom poster. They are not laminated, and are printed on normal, anchor chart paper. I ship these out ASAP after being ordered, but please keep in mind once shipped, it is outside of my control. Therefore, if shipping does not meet your expectations, I highly encourage you to please reach out to me first, and we have always been able to work something out to make up for anything that may have occurred after I have sent your package, thanks so much!! Hope you love it :)

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Would you like to decorate your classroom with fun, hand-drawn anchor charts/posters? Do you simply not have the time to get them done? Well, you have come to the perfect place! I love making these engaging and appealing anchor charts. I also can draw/create any other topic you would like, just contact me directly and ask! My students absolutely love these posters and references them every day. Many of them are visual learners, so the colorful images really help them connect and remember what they have learned. This particular anchor chart is for readers/writers learning all about plot structure. My students love relating their story books to this fun roller-coaster because it gives them a visual to relate to. Plot can be pretty tricky for students to grasp sometimes so using this visual with events in the story really has seemed to help them! **These will be copies unless asked otherwise for a custom poster. They are not laminated, and are printed on normal, anchor chart paper. I ship these out ASAP after being ordered, but please keep in mind once shipped, it is outside of my control. Therefore, if shipping does not meet your expectations, I highly encourage you to please reach out to me first, and we have always been able to work something out to make up for anything that may have occurred after I have sent your package, thanks so much!! Hope you love it :)

Let’s get ready for back to school time together! These first week of school charts are perfect for your first week back with your students this school year! Prep ahead and have them ready to pull out for easy community-building lessons! Good-bye summer! Hello new school year! Tomorrow is my first day of Pre-Planning. Of […]

Just a quick little post to share an anchor chart I made to help my students visualize the difference between area and perimeter. Visit {Deb} to see other awesome anchor charts (and add your own). Sh

Teaching social skills with Interrupting Chicken Activities can be so much fun! How many times have we as teachers said: “Raise your hand….please” “Don’t blurt out!” “Wait your turn!”. Hey, some of us might be a millionaire if we got paid a dollar every time it happened. What I love about the story Interrupting ... Read More about Interrupting Chicken Activities

60+ Must Make Kindergarten Anchor Charts for the classroom. Covers classroom management, literacy and math. Multiple ideas!

I love teaching letter writing in the classroom. Students love writing friendly letters to each other. I've got 6 ideas for making teaching letter writing easier for you including sample anchor charts, picture book ideas and extension activities.

I’m here to share a fraction anchor chart freebie and a hands-on mini lesson idea I used with my math intervention students. When we started our unit on fractions and did our pre-assessments, I quickly learned that I have a small group of students who need quite a bit of intervention. Unfortunately, many of them...

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Friends... so sorry for my looooooooooooooong absence. I do have an excuse, but I won't waste precious blogging time with it! I'm back for a quick post on Partners of 10! Indiana has been hit pretty hard this Winter, so we've been super busy trying to squeeze in as much as we can with limited time! Our math focus this week was narrowed to focus primarily on Bonds/Partners of 10! First off, If you haven't introduced your kiddos to the Partners of 10 Rainbow... what are you waiting for?!?? This is SUCH an awesome visual reminder of all the different ways to make 10! I forgot to take a picture of my chart, but we made one very similar to Teri's from A Cupcake for the Teacher. Then we used her adorable freebie to reinforce the skill the next day! Click the freebie below to head over to her blog and pick it up! The next day, we got busy using a Ten Frame to show our Partner's of 10. Not sure who had the original idea to make a GIANT ten frame for the kids to stand in... but THANK YOU (if it was your idea, please claim it so I can link to you!) The kids LOVED this activity and it was such an engaging way for them to reinforce this skill! I made a ten frame out of masking tape on the floor (sorry, nothing fancy) and called a few kids up by name to come stand in the 10 frame. We discussed how many spaces were filled, then we counted how many spaces were empty. Then, I matched their tens frame up on a teaching chart. I just drew a large ten frame and used post-it notes to fill in the boxes. I did this so that when the kids sat back down to record their answers, they would still have a visual of the ten frame. Students used the visual to shade in a ten frame and write the Partner of 10 equation that matched. I got this recording sheet from the fabulous Printable Princess. It is part of her free winter pack and worked amazingly with this activity. Head to her store to pick up the freebie and be sure to Go Follow Her on Facebook! So there you have it! It's nice to be back in blogging world. I hope to be back soon! :)

Use this weekly Blurt Chart to help keep track of data of when students call out during instruction time. Reward students with extra bonus tickets (bucks) if they don't have any blurts for the week! This is also great data to show parents when having a discussion about behaviors in the classroom.

Thanks to everyone who left a comment or sent a note about yesterday's post. My dad is doing great and he's even got enough spunk to subject the cute young nurses to his horrible jokes! Thanks also for the amazing ideas for my name wall. I've gone from having no inspiring ideas to having way too many! I'm heading into school tomorrow for the first time this summer, so I'm going to visualize my options and ponder when I get there. I think I'm leaning towards jeeps or sailboats but I'll keep you posted. I'm really psyched to go into school tomorrow. Each year, a few weeks before school starts, we host a little summer program for the incoming kindergartners. It's called S.A.I.L. (Summer Adventures in Literacy) and it's an hour a day for three mornings in a row. We do read-alouds and crafts and it's a great way to meet the kids and let them get a little acclimated to their new "big kid" school and make some new friends. It sure makes the first day of school a little less scary for the kids (and the moms). I have my class list handy so I can scope out who I'll be spending the next 10 months with. I can't wait! I have a whole bunch of stuff to bring with me to laminate since the work room should be pretty deserted. One thing that's ready to go is a new set of mini-posters illustrating the age-old "Give Me Five" behavior management trick. When making visual reminders like this, I think that for them to be effective, it's important to have graphics that really show he kids what the expectations are. I couldn't find any clipart that matched the "Give Me Five" actions, so I tried my hand at making my own. They're not that fancy, but I think they'll get the job done. Whatta ya think? Leave a comment and let me know! You can grab a set if you think you can use them in your classroom this year. Enjoy! Grab your freebie here.

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I love anchor charts and use them daily. They are such a great tool in my classroom, for my students, as well as for myself. Read this blog post for ideas on how to create

Decorate your science classroom with purpose using by learning how to make and use anchor charts with your grade 4 5 6 science students.

Thinking about Thinking- teach students metacognition critical thinking skills to increase independence, self monitoring, accuracy, and problem solving skills. Can be used at all grade and ability levels. These metacognition questions help teach students how to monitor their own thought process, and eventually reach independence in this skill. Stop Learned Helplessness in its tracks and put an end to the never ending... "I don't know where to start" "I'm stuck" "I need help" "Can you check my work?" "Am I correct?" After directly teaching thinking skills my students are now working independently in my special education classroom. This Resource Includes: Example of anchor chart Teaching Guide Metacognition Questions for students Metacognition Questions for students when they think they are done Uses for this Resource: Increasing independence Increasing accuracy Teaching students to how to check their own work Teaching students what to do when they are stuck Teaching students how to think critically and problem solve ___________________________________________________________________ Want Even More? Follow along on my resource room journey by following my teachers pay teachers store or my instagram: @ready4resource. I love seeing pictures of my products in action. Tag me in your classroom photos. Don't forget to review your purchases to receive free TPT credits towards your next purchase!

Review classroom rules and encourage positive behavior during the first week of back to school with these David Goes to School activities and craft!

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Use these pictures and ideas to create and use these awesome Classroom Management Anchor Charts. Teach rules and procedures for all classroom supplies.

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Greetings new friends! I am Crystal from Kreative in Kinder! I am so excited to guest blog for you. One of my favorite thing to teach is Writer's Workshop. I love creating Interactive Writing charts with my students. This is a great foundation for creating informational pieces of writing. This is an example of our writing towards the end of the year. We first finished up our unit on creating “How To” pieces of writing and have moved on to “All About” books. We had been studying insects, specifically ladybugs. After reading about ladybugs, we created this Interactive Writing chart together. The students wrote in the text and then each added their own ladybug art. I like for everyone to participate in some way. Then, all students have ownership over our work in the classroom. The next day, I taught my students what the word fact meant. I told them that it is something that is true and can be proven. Then, we talked about how we would write a book using facts. I modeled this by creating an “All About Ladybugs” book. Here is my chart example. Then, they took each selected a different topic to write about and used this paper to create their draft. Click to download. J After they filled out this page correctly, they took this information and created a three page book. (This is my favorite, lol) I was so impressed with how well my students did. They really understood what a fact was and why it was an important part of writing an informational piece….to teach the reader something. J I really have enjoyed all of our writing adventures last year. It amazes me to look back over a year to see how far they really can go when writing in Kindergarten. They can reach the bar so don't be afraid to set it high. They are little sponges and we are passing out the water. I hope you have a great school year! Come by my blog for other writing tips and freebies.

This measuring capacity and liquid volume unit includes easy to use capacity and volume anchor charts and science posters your class will love! This anchor chart pack is great for teaching how to measure capacity, how to measure liquid volume, and tools scientists use to measure liquid volume and capacity. *** These anchor charts and posters are included in my Measuring Capacity Activities and Liquid Volume pack. In this capacity and volume anchor chart pack, students will learn: - The concept of volume and capacity - Volume is the amount of space something takes up - Different tools scientists use to measure liquid volume and capacity You will receive: -Anchor chart templates in color and black and white -Blank anchor charts, perfect for students to use as note-taking pages or graphic organizers -Ideas for what to write on each anchor chart -Letters to print to put on a bulletin board -Colorful posters to hang in the room -Posters in two versions -KWL worksheet and foldable -Recording sheets Anchor charts included: -Measurement -Scientists measure -Volume -Capacity -Measuring cups (description and uses...) -Measuring spoons (description and uses...) -Graduated Cylinder (description and uses...) Posters included: -Scientist -Measurement -Experiment -Record -Properties -Matter -Volume -Capacity -Measuring cups -Measuring spoons -Graduated cylinders -Nonstandard -Standard -Customary system -Metric system How to Use: Project on a screen and trace with a pencil or freehand copy on a large anchor chart pad. Let’s Stay Connected Email: sarah [!at] pricelessponderings.com Instagram: @priceless.ponderings

First 5 days of school anchor charts that teaches students how to use school tools such as glue, scissors, crayons and helps students to see themselves as learners. Basic Lesson plan idea for the first 5 days included. Each chart provides clear, step-by-step instructions and visual aids, ensuring that every student, regardless of their learning style, can follow along and feel confident. I love to have my students see themselves as learners the first 5 days of school as well, so those anchor charts included. It also included hats that your students will love doing. The following anchor charts are included: -Carpet expectations -Expectations on how to use scissors -Expectations on how to use crayons -Expectations on how to use glue -Expectations on how to use dry erase markers -We are Readers -We are writers

Use this product as an anchor chart, or personal reference guide when covering poetry vocabulary and elements. Your students will love the easy to understand definitions and fun clipart!

You’ve been asking for it, and it’s finally here! This is the complete collection of math anchor charts and quick reference guides to use with your students during math lessons. These math anchor chart templates are inspired by the well-loved anchor charts I have featured on my blog for years! Each anchor chart includes visuals, step by step directions, and more. So you're ready to create beautiful anchor charts in third, fourth, and fifth grades. How To Use These Anchor Charts: As a template to create an anchor chart with your class As a printable quick reference guide Print and bind or staple for quick reference To print and glue into interactive notebooks As mini anchor charts during centers  What is Included in the MASSIVE Anchor Chart Bundle: 61 anchor charts covering nearly every math skill in grades 3-5 An Introductory Set (19 Skills - Ideal for 3rd grade) Place Value Rounding Whole Numbers Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication and Division Vocabulary Addition and Subtraction With Regrouping Multiplication and Division With Strategies Basic Fractions Comparing Fractions Patterns Perimeter and Area Customary Measurement Types of Graphs Elapsed Time Classifying Polygons Classifying Polygons Classifying Triangles Types of Angles Types of Lines An Advanced Set (42 Anchor Charts - Ideal for 4th and 5th) Decimal Place Value Rounding Decimals Factors, Multiples, Prime and Composite Numbers Multiplying and Dividing Whole Numbers Interpreting Remainders Adding, Subtracting, Multiplying and Dividing Decimals Converting Fractions, Decimals and Percents Equivalent Fractions Adding, Subtracting, Multiplying and Dividing Fractions Mixed Numbers and Improper Fractions Adding and Subtracting Mixed Numbers Numerical Expressions Order of Operations Coordinate System Perimeter, Area, and Volume Measurement Conversions (Customary and Metric) Patterns Line Plots Types of Angles What are real teachers saying about these math detective task cards?? ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ “I'm a first year teacher, and these are amazing! I was an interim teacher in a second grade classroom for the spring semester, but they hired me full-time in August. I'm now in a 4th grade classroom and I was struggling with anchor chart ideas! Thank goodness I found this resource. Not only is it helping my students, it's helping ME remember all of these math skills I haven't used in years. Thank you!!" - Teaching Mrs. Harris ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐"These anchor charts sure helped simplify my prep and spend more time helping the students! Print on Tabloid paper!" - Kim S. Ready to take the next step in math instruction? Take a peek at my best selling math projects for upper elementary! Place Value Detectives - A place value project Breaking Up the Bakery - A fractions project Movie Marathon - A long division project Let's Go Shopping! - A multiplying and dividing decimals project © Teaching with a Mountain View All rights reserved by author. Permission to copy for single classroom use only.

Cause and effect is an essential reading skill that our readers need in able to adequately and effectively comprehend. It helps students understand how one event connects or leads to the next event. I thought it would be so fun to give my cause and effect resource a little makeover with a fun newsroom theme. Students will be reporters to report on the cause and effect relationships in the story. They will cover what happened (THE EVENT) and what made that event happen (THE CAUSE). These activities, anchor charts, and crafts will help you plan a mini room transformation for your students. Get ready to transform your classroom into a Cause and Effect News Studio! As far as transforming your room goes, I am all for less is more in this instance. You could cover their desk pods or tables with plastic tablecloths and lay the printable microphones on each student's spot. I included a banner that you can print to hang at the front of your room. You might want to make a backdrop up there, too, with bulletin board paper for when students do their reporting. You could also move a piece of furniture or some desks to that area for reporters to sit. I think it would be really cute if you dressed as a reporter and have students dress as one at the end of the unit for one final cause and effect news report. I give instructions in the resource on how to print the anchor chart as a poster. You can laminate this and use a dry erase marker on it when you go to model identifying cause and effect relationships in the text. The posters can be printed and hung near your anchor chart for student reference. For the opening activity, have students gather on the carpet. Explain to them what a cause and effect are and that they will be reporting on different cause and effect relationships in texts. Show them these picture cards all mixed up. Have students help you match the causes and effects and display them on your board or in a pocket chart. Model with the microphone how you might report on these events. I always tell students to identify the effect first and then to find the cause. I have found that this strategy is helpful for students. You really can use any fictional story for cause and effect, but there are some texts that just lend themselves well to teaching this reading skill. Some good ones include The Rain Came Down, A Bad Case of Stripes, any book by Doreen Cronin, Alexander and the No Good, Horrible, Very Bad Day, and any of the Laura Numeroff books. Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs would be another good one, since it's about weather. Fictional books about weather events would be great for the news reports! For the first day, I would give each group one of these envelopes filled with the graphic organizers below. These are normally used for cooperative groups or centers and each will have its own text. I would actually read aloud one text for the whole class and then have students go prepare their news reports with their tables. There are two graphic organizers included, the first only has one cause and effect relationship and the other has three. You can choose what would be best for your students. After identifying the cause and effect relationships have each group come up front to deliver their news report. Have a discussion on whether or not students identified the same or a different relationship and explain that stories can have many different ones just like in real life. Use different texts each day so that students are exposed to more examples of cause and effect relationships. I have included different crafts and graphic organizers below that you could use each day. There are enough to even come back to cause and effect later in the year. I always strive to give you lots of options so that you can meet the needs in your classroom. The news report and microphone crafts are sure to get your students excited about cause and effect! After making these, you can hang them in your room to add to your room transformation. I tried to make these look like hats reporters would wear back in the day. I think they would be so fun for your students to wear after one of your lessons! For exit tickets, you can use these printables or have students use their whiteboards. I would display a short passage or story and have students identify a cause or effect. This will let you know if they understand the vocabulary of cause and effect. I actually changed this badges after taking this photo to press passes for students to have access to your newsroom throughout the week. Give students these bookmarks to use during their independent reading time to apply the skill. I always include these book club templates and discussion cards in case you have book clubs meet each week like I used to do. I miss them so much! Students would review the skill on Friday while eating popcorn and discussing the text that day. I hope you love this resource as much as I do! As I am updating all of my reading comprehension units, I am trying to add as many fun themes as possible. Up next is updating my point of view unit with a fun 70s theme! These themes are what keep me excited to teach and help aid in not being burnt out. It doesn't take much to get students excited, so you can make a transformation as small or as big as you want. My students would get excited just over the paper microphones! Ha! You can check out the resource HERE or by clicking on any of the photos. It is sold separately and in a BUNDLE. If you already own it, be sure to download it again. Thank you so much for reading!

Would you like to decorate your classroom with fun, hand-drawn anchor charts/posters? Do you simply not have the time to get them done? Well, you have come to the perfect place! I love making these engaging and appealing anchor charts. I also can draw/create any other topic you would like, just contact me directly and ask! My students absolutely love these posters and references them every day. Many of them are visual learners, so the colorful images really help them connect and remember what they have learned. This particular anchor chart is for readers/writers learning all about the different parts of a paragraph. My students love the fun hamburger visual, and it really helps them remember each part as they write! **These will be copies unless asked otherwise for a custom poster. They are not laminated, and are printed on normal, anchor chart paper. I ship these out ASAP after being ordered, but please keep in mind once shipped, it is outside of my control. Therefore, if shipping does not meet your expectations, I highly encourage you to please reach out to me first, and we have always been able to work something out to make up for anything that may have occurred after I have sent your package, thanks so much!! Hope you love it :)

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