This “Career of the Week” career exploration bundle includes 40 weeks of activities at 25% off the cost buying each career study separately! For each career, there is a different activity for students to complete every day. These activities give students the opportunity to explore different careers in-depth. With “Career of the Week,” students are encouraged to consider the benefits and challenges of each field and determine whether a specific career would be a good fit with their skills and interests. Try making “Career of the Week” part of your morning or end-of-day routine, a center activity during the day, or incorporate these activities into social studies time. Included in This Bundle This bundle includes all 40 Career of the Week activities. Each of the “Career of the Week” activities are designed to take approximately 15-30 minutes: Day One - Mini-lesson & interactive notebook activity (teacher’s guide included) Day Two - Reading comprehension passage with four multiple-choice questions Day Three - Writing prompt Day Four - STEAM extension Day Five - Short quiz & reflection Answer keys are provided for the reading comprehension passage and the four-question multiple choice quiz. Keep in Touch! Follow Nolan Squared to hear about new products and sales! We'd love to hear from you! You can reach us at [email protected] Thanks for looking!

These super fun Back to School Science Stations and First Week of School Science Experiments are perfect for your beginning of school year science activities.  They are a great way to celebrate the first week of the school year while introducing academic activities your students will love. Your upper elementary students already love science stations, so why not add some back to school science experiments to those science stations!

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*A DIGITAL OPTION HAS BEEN INCLUDED FOR GOOGLE SLIDES AND FORMS/GOOGLE CLASSROOM* Be sure to re-download! There are directions and links inside the pdf. 🛑 Are you a member of the TLL Membership? These materials are already included. If you are not a member, click here to learn more. The TLL Membership gives you an all-access pass to hundreds of ELA resources for teachers in Grades 3-5. Hello, ELA! This resource is a unique way to get your students warmed up at the beginning of your ELA block.Each month contains 4-5 weeks of ELA bell work, which will have a theme around the season, national holidays, or events associated with that particular month. The morning work is focused on ELA 6th Grade Common Core Standards. Each day has a thematic structure to cover language standards as well as enhance vocabulary and comprehension skills.Save money by purchasing the year long BUNDLE!ELA Daily Review 6th Grade {Growing Bundle} Each week follows a predictable and engaging structure:  Meaningful Monday: Monday is focused on making meaning. Tasks will focus on synonyms, antonyms, vocabulary words, context clues, and making meaning in a short amount of text. Some tasks may require students to make meaning in the text (inference, message, adages, proverbs, etc.) or build vocabulary skills.Text Structure Tuesday: Tuesdays will have a paragraph that requires students to identify the text structure, signal words, main idea, author's perspective, or vocabulary, or any other question types related to the Craft and Structure standards. Wordy Wednesday: Wednesday is all about working with words. Tasks include working with shades of meaning, homophones, spelling, prefixes, suffixes, roots, and other word skills.Throwback Thursday:Thursday is all about grammar usage and conventions. Figurative Friday: Figurative Friday tasks include working with various types of figurative language including similes, metaphors, idioms, poems, alliteration, structures of poems and more! This ELA + Math Morning Work is available for the following grade levels: ELA + Math Bundles 1st Grade 2nd Grade 3rd Grade 4th Grade 5th Grade ELA Bundles 1st Grade 2nd Grade 3rd Grade 4th Grade 5th Grade 6th Grade 7th Grade 8th Grade ELA Weekly Assessments 2nd Grade 3rd Grade 4th Grade 5th Grade 6th Grade Math Bundles 1st Grade 2nd Grade 3rd Grade 4th Grade 5th Grade Let’s connect!  The Literacy Loft Blog The Literacy Loft on Instagram The Literacy Loft on Pinterest The Literacy Loft on Facebook I hope this resource works for you! Please feel free to contact me at [email protected] with any questions, comments, or feedback. - Jessica

Anyone can make a flip book - and you don't need any special equipment to do so! Normally a flip book shows something fun happening, through a stripped back version of how hand drawn animation works. Every page has a slightly different image on it that when flipped makes something happen. The flip in this book will be really quick, so I need to make a simple movement so it is not over-complicated. Included is a simple template to use that you can add your own little drawings into to give you a helping hand. Project and instructions by London-based illustrator and printmaker Elliot Kruszynski Discover more art projects here >

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Hello everyone! It's Cori from Mrs. B's Beehive! I hope everyone is soaking up the last of their summer vacation!! Today I am sharing a blog series on lesson planning that I did for the first week of school! Scroll through to see what I will be doing day by day, and grab A TON of freebies to help you with your first week back to school! I've been wanting to do a series like this for many years. Every time the beginning of the year comes around, I think about my first year teaching. I got my position 2 weeks before school started, and to say that I was panicked and stressed is an understatement! I scoured the Internet for advice and ideas. I gathered everything that I could, and really had no idea what I was doing! I work at a school where there's only one teacher per grade level, and the pre-k teacher, along with the first grade teacher were newbies right along with me that first year! I desperately wanted someone to tell me exactly what to teach to get through the first week. After that week, our regular schedule would start, and I would begin on the curriculum that was given to me (which wasn't much of anything, but that's for another time : ) I felt that if I could make it through that first week, I just might be okay : ) I'm hoping that young teachers out there can find these resources, and that they will help to ease some of those first week nerves and frustrations. Each day in this blog series, I am going to base the resources off of a common back to school book. You can read the book to your students, and then do the FREE activities that I have provided. Today we will be talking about The Kissing Hand. I have tried so many different activities in the last 8 years for the first week of school. I have tried a center set-up, I have tried beautiful art projects that require a lot of work ahead of time on my part, and I have tried activities that require a lot of assistance the day of, as the students complete them. While I do try to incorporate some of these elements into our day, I am also a lot more realistic now about what we can accomplish, and what will keep more gray hairs from sprouting on my head! Let's be honest, as the students come in and work, you are working like a mad person to put all of the supplies away. You are also juggling those last couple of parents who won't stop taking pictures from the doorway, kids that are crying and need reassurance from you, and kids that are suspiciously eyeing the door, ready to run the minute you have your back turned (it's happened before, I suggest wearing comfortable shoes for unexpected mad dashes!) We run on a mini-day schedule for the first week, so here is what day 1 looks like. A good mix of activities, assessment, and teaching procedures. We come in and begin work on a simple coloring page. Sometimes the ability to open up a brand new box of crayons is all that it takes to give a reluctant child some peace! Next, we come to the rug, and start to go over our calendar routine, and I introduce our first classroom rule. Here is a product of mine that you can get off of TPT that gives some visual back-up to the rules. After that, we start on our routines, we walk around the school, practicing that ever elusive straight line. We have our bumpers up in front of us, and travel around to the different spots on campus that are important for them to know. At this time, I show them the bathroom and water fountain (we don't have any in our classroom), and we talk about the procedures for dismissal as well. I created this free list of procedures to help you try and remember all of those little things that you need to go over with your students at the beginning of the school year. The first week is a great time to get some assessments done, and begin to plan out some of our small group activities. On the first day I do an upper case inventory to check out their fine motor skills and letter formation. I cover some more routines concerning recess and the fire alarm, which just so happens to be conveniently located in our snack area. After we finish with that, I read them The Kissing Hand, and I do a quick check of their color knowledge. I teach some more routines, and then we move into math. I want to get a quick sense for which students have the basics down when it comes to number recognition and counting. Next up is a quick art project that aligns to The Kissing Hand. After the art project is all cleaned up, we talk about dismissal routines, and we pack-up and go! Every year I plan more activities then I will get to. Things never go according to plan, but if you have all of your materials organized ahead of time, and are over-prepared, it brings your stress level down, and you can enjoy your new little people, and really start getting to know them! Here is a quick breakdown of all the resources you can find in this post: Kissing Hand Activities - Google Drive Classroom Rules Coloring Book - TPT Back to School Procedures List - TPT (Freebie) Check out the rest of my Kindergarten week in these blog posts! DAY 2 DAY 3 DAY 4 DAY 5

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One of our students' favorite things is being star student! Each child gets to be the star student for a whole week. Each day we do something special to celebrate that child! We would love to share these ideas with you, so you can help your own students shine! The kiddos C.A.N.N.O.T wait for their turn. Below is the note we send home to the parents to explain the events for the week. Read this to see what the kiddos get to do each day. Click the image to download for FREE! This is the student page. We encourage each student to write the star student a sentence, and illustrate them a picture. These pages are then complied and stapled together with a (construction paper) cover to make a book for the star student to take home on Friday! If you click the image below, you can download them for FREE. There are 3 variations of the student pages to fit the needs for your classroom. These are the posters the kiddos make at school on Monday! You can get 30 for 8.25 at Oriental Trading. Click the image below to take you to their site! After their week is done, the kids LOVE that they get to take these home. Each child also gets a pencil, sticker, and certificate (pictured below)! This is our show and tell bag. Students take it home at the beginning of the week and bring it back on show and tell day. They can only bring items that fit into this bag. The orange bag and star decal are from Michael's. The bag came in a group of 3 for 9.99 (we used our 40% off coupon of course!!), and the decal was only 1.99. This bag is band new this year, but our last one lasted 5 years! We hope you could use some of these ideas for your classroom! Please share any good ideas you have for star student!

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