These Morning Meeting Activities provide instructions for simple activities your class to do during morning meeting. Choose from 36 printable or digital team-building activity cards that help students problem solve, work together, and have fun. These Morning Meeting activities make planning morning meeting a breeze and ensure you never need to plan an activity on the fly. If you don't do morning meeting in your classroom, don't worry, these cards provide a quick and simple resource to get your students to work on team-building skills. This simple practice will have an immediate impact on classroom culture. These activities can be printed with the icons for students on one side and written instructions on the other side. They can also be projected. Also included are blank cards and slides to create your own morning meeting activities. Download Includes: 36 colored printable activity cards 36 black and white printable activity cards 36 projectable slides At-a-glance sheets for easy planning Pre-loaded to Google Slides 4 editable colored printable icon activities 4 editable colored projectable activities **To line up two-sided horizontal page layouts during printing, you may need to select the 'short-edge binding' printer setting option.** TEACHERS LIKE YOU SAID… ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Phonics with Fountain says, "Morning meetings are great for building a strong classroom community, but planning them can often feel like you’re adding the last drop to an overflowing bucket of work… These cards help take some of that stress off your plate! I really enjoy using them, and will often let a student pick the card (randomly) to pick out the activity for the day! Most of the materials listed can be found around the classroom. " ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Paiges and Pencils says, "My kids and I are loving these activities!! I love that they are quick and easy to implement during morning meeting. My second graders have really enjoyed them!" ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Courtney C. says, "My students love these. I love that we can just pick one and switch up our routine with a snap of our fingers. It keeps morning time fresh and fun!" _______________________________________ ⭐️ Bundle & save for a discount ⭐️ Purchase the Classroom Management MEGA Bundle to get this pack plus EVERYTHING YOU NEED to transform your classroom management and give you the tools needed to build a positive classroom climate. You may also like… → Student Led Morning Meeting → Student Data Folders → Digital Learning Quest (for independent work) ___________________________________ Visit our blog to find out more about How to start Morning Meeting in your Classroom. If you like these greeting cards then we know you will love our Student Led Morning Meeting and/or our Morning Greeting Signs When you download, please leave us feedback. We would love to hear from you! ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★ For helpful tips, hints, and classroom strategies check out our website! The Core Coaches Website Copyright © The Core Coaches Permission to copy for single classroom use only. Please purchase additional licenses if you intend to share this product.

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STEM Bins for Elementary Students “I’m finished! What do I do now?” How many times during our teaching day do we hear these words from our students? Oftentimes, it is much too often, and students are provided a handful of the same options to keep them busy until our next transition. Sometimes students are instructed...

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The original STEM Bins® and STEAM Bins®  INCLUDES A FULL STEAM VERSION, SPANISH VERSION, AND FRENCH VERSION!!! STEM Bins® and STEAM Bins® for K-5th Grade are the perfect hands-on, play-based solution for: Early Finishers Morning Work Centers Writing Extensions Fine Motor Practice Makerspace Incentives Calm Down Corner STEM Bins are a creative and developmentally appropriate form of simple engineering for elementary students! Listed materials for each STEM Bin are found in most elementary classrooms or can be borrowed from other teachers, and you may choose which materials that you feel are best for your learning environment. Additional STEM engineering tools and photos can be added to the EDITABLE STEM Bin Covers in the separate file. Inexpensive building materials for STEM Bins can be found on Amazon or at Dollar Tree, Walmart, or Target Dollar Spot. The management of your STEM Bins is completely up to you, as they can be used during multiple times of your day. “Challenge Yourself” cards are provided to take structures to the next level, allowing students to improve and enhance their structures. Upper grade supplements are also provided to allow for more challenging options. The provided blueprint recording sheets, flipbooks, writing templates, and assessment rubrics are optional and can be either copied for each student or placed in page protectors for students to draw creations with a dry erase marker. Writing Prompt cards are also provided to allow for literacy extensions.

Your students are going to LOVE using this Then and Now sort printable! Perfect for social studies or as a creative writing prompt.

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Leprechaun traps aren't just for kids in early elementary. They are great way to apply science and design skills. Try a leprechaun trap using simple machines. Ideas for elementary, middle, and high school students. Combine language arts and science in a single project.

Folktales, Fables, Fairytales, and Tall Tales come up at some point throughout the year with all grade levels from Kinder to 5th grade. Over the years, I’ve found some absolutely WONDERFUL anchor charts that helped me create a visual reminder for my students. Here are some of my favorites! These... Read more

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Learning about the 5 senses is such a fun preschool theme. I loved coming up with all kinds of ways to capitalize on Madelynn’s curiosity through fun science explorations. Here were our plans for our 5 Senses theme: And here are the details for each activity: 5 Senses Book: Smelling This week I chose […]

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This SUPER FUN ARTICULATION ACTIVITY will give you and your students lots of opportunities to work on /s/, /l/, /r/, /k/, /g/, SH, CH, & TH words! *************************************************** PRODUCT CONTAINS COLOR & BLACK & WHITE OPTIONS! EACH FILE CONTAINS THE FOLLOWING FOR...

In today's post, I'll explain the differences between shared reading and a readaloud!

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These six free printable Human Body Worksheets contain activities to keep a child entertained while also teaching them everything they need to know about the human body. The human body is so important to learn about!

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Hi guys! Happy Friday! I hope you had a great week. Here are some of the things we've been up to in our class! 1. CO-CREATED NUMBER POSTERS We finally finished up our co-created number posters! We worked in small groups to write the numeral, the number word, create the number on a ten frame, create the number with our fingers and trace the number formation song. The number formation song is from Dr. Jean's "Numeral Song". You can find it on YouTube here or in this very old blog post! 2. CO-CREATED ALPHABET POSTERS We also co-created alphabet posters like last year! Again, it was originally inspired by this post by Anamaria at Wonders in Kindergarten. We brainstormed things that begin with each letter and either collected them from around the room or I collected them after school. Then we took the photos together and I printed them at home. One of my favourite books to read before we brainstorm ideas for our posters is A B See by Elizabeth Doyle. If you would like the editable template for these posters you can download an editable PowerPoint file by clicking on the link below: 3. WHAT LETTERS CAN YOU FIND? I got this idea from @exploringandlearninginfdk's Instagram account! I put some letters in beans and added a sorting tray and tweezers. I invited students to find letters with the tweezers and put them in the sorting tray. Students were encouraged to identify the letters and if they could, record the letters on the paper. The kids really loved this! 3. SIGHT WORD BOOKLETS We started working on learning sight words this week! Our first sight word was "a". As extra practice, I introduced these sight word booklets for the students to practice with at the writing centre. On the cover, students write their name and colour the sight word. On the second page students trace and print the sight word three times. On the third and fourth page, students trace the sight word in a simple sentence. On the fifth and sixth page (not pictured), students write the sight word in a simple sentence. Maybe it's because I don't put too many worksheet type stuff out but the kids flocked to these booklets! I'm hoping I get the same reaction next week when I add the "I" booklet! If you are interested in these booklets they are available in my TPT store. You can grab it in Sight Word Mini Books Set 1 by clicking here or on the image below: Or you can buy it in the BUNDLE by clicking here or on the image below and save 20%! 4. MAKING LETTERS WITH HWWT I saw this fantastic provocation on Darla's Instagram account (@darlamyersclass) and knew I had to try it! These HWWT wood pieces are great for little hands and for open ended letter exploration! I got these Wood Pieces for Capital Letters from the Handwriting Without Tears website last year. You can find them by clicking here. The letter formation cards are in my TPT store. You can find them by clicking here. 5. ALPHABET SALT TRAY A surprise hit were these salt trays! I had them out last year as well and the kids liked them, but my class this year LOVED them! They loved them so much that I quickly made up a number version for them to play with in the afternoon. The trays are from Dollarama. The rocks are also from Dollarama and I used a white paint pen to write the letters on them. That's it from me this week! I hope you were able to find some things you can try in your classroom! Have a great weekend! - Yukari

How do you get students to take the wonderful narratives they come up with and get them down on paper? Here are the steps to teaching narrative writing in the primary classroom.

As the end of the school year approaches, students can often start to wind up. Think “senioritis” when you were a high school senior, but bottle up that same excitement in smaller humans. Every spring, come May or June, even a superstar teacher with the most effective classroom management system in place can still suffer the wrath of (dun dun DUN) chatty class syndrome, or as I like to call it, “June Bug.” Even if something has worked all year long, you may feel the need to reach into your bag of tricks for a little extra reinforcement.

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Who doesn't love a good cheeseburger? This resource includes SPEECH LADDERS, STICKER CHARTS, SPEECH SOUNDS WORKSHEETS, PACING & TOKEN BOARDS! Black & white NO PREP included. Use these ALL YEAR LONG! Targeted speech sounds /s, l, r/, SH, CH, TH ************************************************** CONTENTS: 1. STICKER CHARTS – (p. 8 – 10) 2. SPEECH LADDERS - (p. 12 – 21) 3. PACING/TOKEN BOARDS – color & black and white– (p. 23 – 31) 4. HAMBURGER SPEECH MATS – color & black and white– (p. 33 – 75) /s, l, r/ SH, CH, TH initial, medial, and final Blanks & extra sheet of pickles for reinforcers. These are suggestions to use during artic or phonology. You can also use these in other creative ways. And remember HAVE FUN! You can do anything if you have ENTHUSIASM! Monae :) Related Products ⭐ 100 PAGES Speech Auditory Bombardment WORKSHEETS color & No Prep black & white ⭐ ARTICULATION FUN BUNDLE PLUS BONUS TURKEY/CHICKEN BOOK AAC SPEEC ⭐ ARTICULATION GIRLS FUN SPEECH THERAPY "L" worksheets ⭐ SPEECH SOUNDS POSTER Speech Therapy WORKSHEETS ⭐ SPEECH THERAPY PHONOLOGY FUN /s/ blends worksheets ⭐ 100 PAGES Speech Sound WORKSHEETS No Prep black & white Monae’s Speech Activities & Craftivities are the perfect tools for working on speech sounds at the word, phrase, and sentence level.They are very engaging, very easy to use, and kids LOVE THEM! Also, check out Monae’s Books & Language Packets for developing and improving receptive and expressive language skills for children with language and/or learning disabilities. Some of the skills these books target are vocabulary development, social skills, and behaviors. They are very engaging, very easy to use, and kids LOVE THEM! *************************************************** Teachers and Speech-Language Pathologists will find using these stories make teaching these skills fun and easy.

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Integrating Science and Language Arts No comments Freebies, Integrated Units, Science, Teaching Ideas One of my favorite ways to cover our social studies and science standards is by integrating them with language arts. It's such a great (and easy) way to reinforce important reading, writing, and critical thinking skills! Some topics lend themselves to this more easily than others, of course, but I love being able to sneak in more nonfiction reading and writing when I can. I tend to integrate my language arts into my allotted science time, and not vice versa (due to curriculum requirements, etc). We recently began learning about bats which has given the students a chance to learn about something fun and interesting, as well as an opportunity to apply previously learned skills to other learning areas. So, what does this look like? Keep reading! Whenever I can, I have my students practice the skill of taking notes. Obviously, this looks a bit different in second grade than it does in the upper grades. When my students take notes, it is a guided process. I read aloud a portion of a simple nonfiction text and stop periodically. When I stop, I task the students with writing down something they learned. More specifically, I stop and ask, "What is something that you learned from the pages that I just read? Tell your elbow partner." After they have had a chance to share their ideas with each other, I pull them back in and tell them to write their information down on their paper in the form of a complete sentence. We need to practice that skill as often as possible in second grade! Note taking also keeps the students engaged as I read aloud because they are being held accountable for the information being shared with them. This year, I thought it would be fun for the students to choose their favorite fact from our note taking session and record it in a "giant" bat shaped poster. I traced the outline of bat onto butcher paper using a bat shaped template that I had on hand. I placed the template under my Elmo and projected it onto the paper. Easy peasy! I'm always looking to expose my students to as much nonfiction text as I can. Nonfiction reading passages are perfect for our short science block (30 minutes)! I like to use passages that require the students to go back to the text to locate evidence. They use different colored crayons to locate key information in the text and answer questions using text evidence. When my students answer the questions, they go back to the text and locate the information that will help them formulate their answer. They underline the text and write the question number next to it, in case they need to refer back to it as they write their answer. Here is a better picture of how they code the text to show where they found the helpful information. By interacting with the text, they are engaged and learning an important skill: go back to the text to find the answer! Wondering about the fact and opinion paddles shown a few pics up? Sometimes, after reading a nonfiction passage I give each student a paddle and we practice distinguishing between fact and opinion. I state facts from the passage and/or opinions about the topic (in this case, bats) and the students use their paddles to show their understanding of my statements. It's a sneaky way to work on those listening skills too. ;) You can grab these free paddle templates by clicking here. To make them double sided, simply glue the "fact" label to one side of a craft stick, and the "opinion" label to the other. Fact and opinion is a biggie in my classroom. I think it's important for students to recognize the difference between the two since they are required to write both informative and opinion based writing pieces. I also think that being able to differentiate between the two is an important critical thinking skill. So, when I can, I like to have my students interact with this skill, and sorts are always a fun way to do this. Scholastic News is also a GREAT way to bring in more language arts when covering your social studies and science units. Sometimes, I like to use my own activities with the various issues, like this Three Truths and a Lie activity. The students are tasked with writing three factual statements, based on what they read, and one lie (made up fact). Then, they pair up with their teaching buddy and trade papers where they then read each others statements and figure out which ones are the truth and which one is a lie. They love trying to trick their friends! When it comes to writing, I tend to do different things throughout my unit. That is, I might have the students write a constructed response. I might have them write a paragraph showcasing everything they've learned, or I may have them write a poem. In all honesty, it depends on what we are doing in writer's workshop at the time. I try not to overwhelm my students with too much writing in one day. This year, I opted to have my students write a poem. Cinquains are one of my favorites to use during themed units. I like that the students have to come up with a variety of words that relate to the topic. It's a different way for them to showcase their knowledge. I hung the poems on our outside bulletin board and displayed them with this super duper cute bat craft from the super duper talented A Cupcake for the Teacher. You need this quick and easy (free!) craft in your life! You can grab the free poetry template here. :) Scoot and I Spy (Around the Room) usually make an appearance during my units too. Not only do the students get a chance to show what they know, but they also get to move around. In the Scoot game below, students practice identifying parts of speech, and in the I Spy game, the students evaluate the statements printed on each card. While these specific examples may not be tied directly to a language arts standard, they do require some critical thinking skills as the students evaluate and interact with the text and task presented on each card. As with anything, there needs to be balance, so some of the activities I do during a unit might be interactive and hands-on. I usually find some sort of art project to use, and if I can, I have my students do something that gets them moving around. For example, this week, we will "act out" echolocation on the playground, and the other day, the kids made this fun mosquito model from Fun in First. Most of the activities shown in this post can be found here: Bats {An Integrated Unit} Nonfiction Close Reads for the Fall Months You can check out my other integrated units here. :) Thanks for stopping by! Share It:

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