Morning work for your students. ☀️ This resource teaches reading, editing, and writing skills.✍ Students are engaged in learning right away while you take attendance or lunch count. It can also be used during your morning meeting❗ Your students will be anxious to get to your classroom every morning! ❤️ This monthly activity is part of a package - Morning Message for the Whole School Year Save by purchasing the bundle! Your students will learn all about bats and their nocturnal lifestyles while correcting the messages written to them by Shadow who is a little crabby during the day. This is an unconventional but fun alternative to daily oral language and morning work. Hang Shadow in a different place each morning. Your students will love coming in each morning to see where she is! These lessons ⭐ teach the common core curriculum for language arts, and much more. Your students will learn letter writing, editing, and one of the hardest of the six writing traits - voice. Children love to find out what Shadow has to say to them each morning as they read and correct her messages. Make learning language arts a fun part of your day! There are instructions, a list of common core standards, an answer key, and stationery for the students to use when they write a note back to the visitor. It also contains an additional activity for your students. A "flat" paper version of the visitor is included in this package. Be the first to know about my new sales, freebies and products: • Look for the green star near the top of any page within my store and click it to become a follower. You will then receive news about this store. Morning Message by Smart Teaching is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.