Add bright and colorful labels to student folders using the editable labels included in this resource! Labels for Homework, Reading, Writing, Spelling, Math, Science, and Soc. Studies Folders are included. IMPORTANT: These labels are formatted to fit inside the 3.75 x 2 inch clear plastic card holders linked here! What's Included 3 Styles of Each of The Following: Homework Folder Reading Folder Writing Folder Spelling Folder Math Folder Science Folder Soc. Studies Folder The labels not only comes in 3 different styles, it comes in 6 different colors as well (pink, yellow, green, blue (2), and purple) To Use 1. Add student names to the editable templates using the embedded font shown in the preview 2. Print the labels (I recommend printing on cardstock for durability while cutting) 3. Cut out the labels 4. Add labels to the clear plastic card holders linked here Please take a look at the preview video to see what is included in this resource! If you have any questions regarding this resource, please ask prior to purchasing! :)

I recently assigned a one pager final project to my sophomores for their culminating Night project. I wanted to combine as many rigorous ELA content ideas as possible, while also designing a fun project for students that provided them with a bit of choice. This Night one pager project was the perfect way to finish the memoir!

There has been much talk about Growth Mindset the past few years. Many teachers recognize that there are a lot of students who exhibit a fixed mindset. I often wonder when we intro…

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This product is a one page Triple Venn Diagram. Students will use the diagram to compare and contrast the New England, Middle, and Southern Colonies. This document is great for review of your Social Studies unit on the Colonies. ...

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I've been teaching sociology for three years, now, and almost immediately, I stumbled upon Introsocsite. It's a fantastic resource for any sociology teacher.

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The last activity for my poetry week is an activity I learned from a teacher I worked with several years ago. I thought she was (and is) brilliant and want to be just like her! […]

This week marks the Days of Remembrance, commemorating the Holocaust. Today, April 12th, is Yom HaShoah—Holocaust Remembrance Day. I observe this day in a very personal way—I remember Mrs. Pearl and Miss Rosencrantz. When I was in seventh grade, my English teacher, Mrs. Pearl, introduced us to the story of Anne Frank, whose World War II memoir, Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, was part of our curriculum. Since many of the girls in our class kept diaries, we identified with young Anne’s adolescent struggles. Mrs. Pearl provided us with the broader historical frame of the Holocaust to contextualize Anne’s story. As we read the diary, Mrs. Pearl would have us imagine what it was like to live in a space for over two years, having to live in utter silence all day, always fearful of being discovered. I remember clearly the images from the camps that accompanied our reading, the awful devastation and unspeakable suffering. I identified deeply with Anne, especially as she grew older, and the entries began reflecting challenges that I knew I soon would be facing as an adolescent. Anne also wanted to be a writer, which was my future goal as well. I still remember reading the final entry of the diary, dated August 1, 1944: Believe me, I’d like to listen, but it doesn’t work, because if I’m quiet and serious, everyone thinks I’m putting on a new act and I have to save myself with a joke, and then I’m not even talking about my own family, who assume I must be ill, stuff me with aspirin and sedatives, feel my neck and forehead to see if I have a temperature, ask about my bowel movements and berate me for being in a bad mood, until I just can’t keep it up anymore, because when everybody starts hovering over me, I get cross, then sad, and finally end up turning my heart inside out, the bad part on the outside and the good part on the inside, and keep trying to find a way to become what I’d like to be and what I could be if…if only there were no other people in the world. Yours, Anne M. Frank Of course, we now know that this final entry was written three days before the Frank family (along with the Van Pels family and Fritzs Pfeffer) was betrayed by someone who knew they were hiding in the attic space at 263 Prinsengracht in Amsterdam. They were arrested by the German police, and all perished in the Nazi death camps except for Otto Frank, Anne’s father. The summer after I read the diary, my mother took my brother and me to Europe. We arrived in Amsterdam late in the evening, and I remember my mother asking the hotel clerk where Anne Frank House, meaning 263 Prinsengracht, was located. It was within walking distance. The next day, we began our journey. We headed through the streets, which I believe were cobblestoned. I recall feeling a sense of apprehension when we turned onto Prinsengracht. When we arrived at the house, I was struck by how nondescript it was. When I got inside, however, I saw everything preserved/restored as it would have looked when Anne was there. I looked out the window and saw the tree she wrote about; I scrutinized the wall where Anne had plastered the photos of famous movie stars—it was just as I had read in the book. Many other people in the room, men as well as women, were in tears—as a 12 year-old, I was unused to seeing adults cry—it was disconcerting. And I remember staring hard at everything so that I would not cry. When I returned home later that summer, I read the diary again—this time, every line seemed to take on a profound significance. I had been to the house—I could see Anne’s life in the annex unfold in high relief. Two years later, when I was in high school, I had another English teacher, Miss Rosencrantz, a somewhat intense and serious woman in her forties who always wore dark-colored clothing with long sleeves. I viewed myself as a wit back then (Read: occasionally amusing, but more likely just obnoxious), and I liked to verbally spar with my teachers. One day, when we were studying The Iliad, she asked us a question about modern day products we could associate with Greek mythology. Ever the smart aleck, I called out “Trojan condoms.” As my classmates snickered, Miss Rosencrantz looked at me as if she were giving serious consideration to my answer. She then said, deadpan, “Hmmm…I wonder about that. The Trojans failed.” The class laughed hard—Miss Rosencrantz had, for the first time, made them laugh—they were laughing at me and, although I was red-faced, I had to laugh, too. She smiled at all of us, and even at me, a warm, wise smile. She then raised her arm to write down my answer on the blackboard, and that is when I noticed the numbers inked into her forearm. I was stunned and deeply unsettled, because I knew what those numbers meant. She had been in the Auschwitz death camp. I stared at Miss Rosenkrantz for a long time, trying to imagine how she could be standing before us, teaching us, given what she had been through as a young girl. I became quiet in her classroom after that day. I never made another joke. Today, when I reflect on that day, I still cannot articulate that feeling, that emotion—it remains beyond my ability to process. So, during this week, part of my observance will be to remember Mrs. Pearl and Miss Rosenkrantz, two teachers who helped to shape my understanding of the world around me. For more information on Anne Frank House, click here: Anne Frank House For more on the Days of Remembrance, as well as on how you can assist in preventing genocide, click here: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum All best, Rebecca

Explaining the Feudal System can be difficult and, well, futile, if you don’t add some life to it, when teaching kids. I’ll be teaching the second half of Story of the World, Volume 2 …

I am officially on Spring break! Two whole weeks off to rest and get ready for the home stretch of this school year! :-) I am so excited to catch up... on chores, seeing friends I haven't seen since Christmas, blog stalking, and so much more! Here is one of my very favorite art/writing projects we do all year!!! They always turn out adorable and they never fail to get some laughs from the adults! I got the idea from Patty at Deep Space Sparkle. If you haven't checked out her blog, you SHOULD! It is full of amazing (and doable) art ideas for your classroom (even if you aren't very artistic like me!) She even has them organized by grade level! So...the kids first did their writing about what they would be in 20 years. Here's the template we used: You can get this {HERE}! Here's a completed one: "In 20 years I will be 28 years old. I will live in a college dorm. I will be a police officer and I will take bad guys to jail. I will still love my family and I will still love meat loaf. I still won't want to eat spinach. And most importantly, I will be happy." The writing always turns out absolutely adorable! Then they drew what they would be in 20 years. They used an example I purchased from Deep Space Sparkle (from the "Fun with Self Portraits" pack!) Then they colored it in with markers and outlined their self portraits with a black marker. We painted the backgrounds, and a parent volunteer mounted them on construction paper and attached their writing. We had: Police officers (love the handcuffs!) Race car drivers (love the 'stache! And the braces!!!) Marines (so grouchy!) Ballerinas (adorable!) Artists (too cute!) And football players (not just football players- quarterbacks!) among many other things! Like I said, these are always a hit, you can keep them up as long as you want (i.e. until the end of the year because you're too lazy to change your bulletin boards LIKE ME!) because they're not holiday-ish (??? not a word! I know) and the kids love creating them! Check back soon...I'm thinking give away in celebration of Spring break! :-)

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Educators everywhere will relate to these hilarious teacher memes, which cover many of the absurd and often humorous classroom experiences.

*Attention Parents: Here is a link to the Land and Climate Poster Project students should be working on this weekend. It is due on Wed., Oct. 19!* --------------------------------------------------Today we officially kicked off our study of informational and everyday text. We defined the characteristics and looked at examples of informational and everyday text. Students glued this chart into the Genre Learning tab of their Thoughtful Logs. Students looked for different types of print as they read independently today (regardless of whether they had fiction or non-fiction) and tallied the number of times they saw a different type of print. During our share time, we discussed our observations and began brainstorming WHY authors might use a different type of print. Today specifically we discussed that an author might use italics to indicate a title or a journal entry by a character in a book. Another student found that words in all capital letters were used for both shouting and for headers. On a different note, I've been noticing that many of our kiddos are putting apostrophes before every s at the end of their words. It was clear to me that my students didn't understand the difference between using an s for possession versus using an s to make something plural. I used a page from Amelia's Notebook (which we have been reading as a mentor text for the trait of ideas lately) and highlighted the words with an s on the end. I asked students what they noticed about all the words that were highlighted. Students discovered that they all ended in s, but those in yellow had apostrophes before the s and those in green did not. I used this SMARTboard slide to discuss the difference. I had printed this slide out ahead of time and students glued it in the Author's Craft section of their Thoughtful Logs since good authors always make sure to use punctuation appropriately. The chart will serve as a resource if students need to refer to it during Writer's Workshop. We practiced a few examples together, and then I had students write down two sentences that I had dictated. Homework: 1. Reading: 15 mins., Pizza Log (Look for different types of print in your books!) 2. Math: Facts - 10 mins., 7.1/7.2 3. Social Studies: Poster due Wed.

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Conjunctions Anchor Chart- compare and contrast coordinating and subordinating conjunctions with this conjunctions anchor chart! Plus, a free interactive notebook entry is included!

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Social Studies can be a very overwhelming subject to some children because of all the information covered. One activity that may help students not feel so overwhelmed is something called an Anchor Chart. This is a chart that holds and organizes facts, definitions, vocabulary words or even people's names. In my Social Studies class we did anchor charts in small groups. Each group chose a topic and researched a little bit about it. My group chose the Boston Tea Party. Once we knew more about our topic we then decided what we thought were the most important terms, people or ideas and placed them on our chart. Then after everyone finished their charts we presented them to our classmates. Using Anchor Charts in a classroom will be a vital tool to help students organize facts, definitions, people and events into a manageable form they can easily follow and refer back to. Below you can find a link to another blog about Anchor Charts: Anchor Chart

It’s all things Pigeons and Pilgrims in my classroom and this week we had some Pigeon fun, Thanksgiving-style! My class had a blast with this little twist on disguise-a-turkey and we made these Pigeon persuasive writing booklets from The Turkey Wants a Hot Dog! Poor Tom Turkey is trying not to get eaten on Thanksgiving! […]

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This set of poster cards with 13 different habitats is perfect for a concept wall during a unit about animals and habitats. The simplicity of the cards keeps them from being distracting or confusing, and the clipart images give students a clear understanding of the characteristics of each habitat. Habitats included: arctic desert ocean grassland mountains forest rainforest prairie pond river beach cave savannah And for a set of animal cards to go with your habitats unit, click here: Animal Cards to go with Habitats!