IT'S ABOUT TIME for FALL POETRY!

 

Do you incorporate poetry into your daily lessons?  The potential for skills learned through poetry is nearly limitless.  Many students love learning through poetry because the text is less intimidating.

Check out these examples:

If you thought Johnny Appleseed poems were only for primary classes, you would be wrong.  The polysyllabic words are a great challenge to intermediate learners.  There are words with 5 syllables!  Have fun with this vocabulary by unscrambling them using the printable provided.  You can also work on fact and opinion with the another printable.

This apple poem can be used as a mentor text for couplets.  Or, focus on adjectives, creating an apple adjective tree.  Exercise verbal fluency and have fun brainstorming ways we use apples.

There are sooooo many possibilities for teaching with poetry.  Find these poems, lesson activities, and more in FALL POETRY POSSIBILITIES.

IT'S ABOUT TIME for BTS POETRY!

 

As you plan for the new school year, consider incorporating poetry into your daily lessons.  The potential for skills learned through poetry is nearly limitless.

Capitalize on the excitement of new school supplies to introduce this poem.  Then select from the Poetry Possibilities (lesson suggestions) the activities to employ.  This poem, for example, could be used to introduce/review adjectives and adverbs.  Challenge your learners to write an acrostic poem about their new pencils.  This poem is also great for studying punctuation.  Lots of possibilities here!

One of my favorite BTS activities is creating concrete poems about our new supplies.  These poems can quickly fill a blank bulletin board while celebrating your poets' efforts.

Use this poem to introduce similies.  Students can then write an acrostic poem about themselves that incorporates similies.  You'll learn a lot about your pupils.

Back to School Poetry Possibilities offers a variety of poems and a plethora of lessons.  Each poem has a custom designed teaching point about poetic elements and forms.  The Possibilities are tailor-made skills lessons, activities, and poetry writing prompts.  The range of reading levels makes this unit appropriate to both primary and intermediate level classes.  It also offers differentiated instruction to accommodate students reading above or below grade level.  AND, this week this poetry unit is discounted 20%.

DOLLAR DEALS SALE on TPT

 It's about time, teachers, for some FUN IN THE SUN!  While you are relaxing in the sunshine, be sure to visit the #funinthesun hashtag sale on TPT.  

A group of great teacher authors are offering dollar deals on hundreds of fabulous products for your classroom.  The sale is just 2 days, 6/30/23 & 7/1/23 so don't fall asleep under the sun.  TIME is of the essence!!

Here are my dollar deals:

IT'S ABOUT TIME for a BIRTHDAY SALE-EBRATION!

 

It's my birthday week! To celebrate, I've discounted all of my BUNDLES 50% off. That's 50 bundles at half price from 6/17/23 - 6/24/23. Find all of my bundles here.

Bundled products include:

• classroom decor
• thematic units
• hink pinks, et al.
• triads
• kangaroo words
• square puzzlers
• one dollar words
• Scrattle
• idioms
• phonics centers
• vocabulary fractions
• sight words
• poetry
• holidays
• tangrams
• math centers
• literacy centers

Help me celebrate!

IT'S ABOUT TIME for POETRY MONTH

 April is National Poetry Month.  Prepare your classroom for it with these resources:

These 20 posters each describe a type of poetry.  A sample of that poetry form is also included.  Display the posters as anchor charts or compile them in a notebook as a reference for your poets.

All of the poems and the teaching possibilities in this unit pertain to spring weather, holidays, and activities.

This unit provides teaching points, skill lessons, and activities custom designed for each.  Animal Poems masterfully combines language arts with science.

This unit also combines poetry and science as your students learn about states of water, clouds, precipitation, and content vocabulary.

This poetry unit combines poetry and the history of westward expansion.

Take your primary students on an African Safari through poetry.

These poems and their teaching possibilities are all related to feet and footwear.

These task cards are applicable to virtually any poem you may be studying. Skills range from simple identification of high frequency words to homophones; punctuation to personification; and suffixes to cinquains.

ST. PATRICK'S DAY FREEBIES and MORE!

It's about time for St. Patrick's Day, teachers!  I've got FREEBIES and more ready for your learners.

FREEBIES

These Leaping Leprechauns will give your students practice adding 3 numbers within 20.  It is a digital learning product made especially for TPT's Easel platform.

Luck o' the Irish is a FREE sample from Destination: Imagination via Creative Thinking.

CRITICAL THINKING

Square Puzzlers are differentiated, making them great for any elementary classroom.  Your students will beg to do them.

Exercise deductive reasoning, inferencing, drawing conclusion, problem solving, sequencing, and computation with Leprechaun Logic.  This product is also exclusive to TPT Easel.

Outwit the Wee Lads is another digital only, TPT Easel product that exercises critical thinking.

The March Edition of Vocabulary Fractions provides print and digital versions of these task cards that challenge learners to find fractional parts of words.  They combine the fractional parts to create March vocabulary.  Challenging, but oh, so fun!

ELA

Everyone loves Hink Pinks, et al. and your students will, too.  Tons of ELA skills are disguised as fun word riddles.

St. Patrick's Day and more March topics are addressed in these 11 poems.  Each poem has skill lessons and teaching points custom designed for it.  
 

MATH

Create a fresh bulletin board for March that doubles as a math center, fast finishers' challenge, and/or enrichment activity.  It's differentiated to accommodate K-6th grades. 

Leprechaun Riddles provide practice with multiplication facts in print or digitally.  Kiddos will enjoy the riddles!

Primary students will love these March Tangram Puzzles. 

MULTIPLE SUBJECTS

Mad About March is a thematic unit perfect for primary grades.  

SCRATTLE combines word work with computation.  This product is differentiated to accommodate students with varying math abilities. 

 

It's About Time for Presidents Day!

I reached into the archives to pull out this craftivity.  It's a fun way to make a Presidents' Day display.  

For every student you will need 1 sheet each of red, white and blue construction paper.  I used 8" x 8" square sheets, but you can avoid a lot of cutting by using 9" x 12". You will also need cardboard patterns of Washington & Lincoln.  I found silhouettes online, printed them, and then traced them on cardboard.  Cut them out and your resources are ready.

Since paper weaving has been around forever, I'm assuming you know how to create the woven background.  After each student has chosen which 2 colors to use for the weaving part, ask them to exchange 1 of those sheets for about 6 - 8 pre-cut strips of the same color.  I supply the 1" strips.

When the weaving is completed, each child should borrow the silhouette pattern of their choice to trace on their remaining sheet of paper. 

The beauty of this project is that by encouraging your students to choose 2 colors of their choice for the background, saving the 3rd for the silhouette, you will give your classroom a burst of color without having all 20+ projects look the same. 

Following are some resources for Presidents' Day that I think you will love:

These products are not specifically for Presidents' Day, but rather for any patriotic holiday.

This one is FREE!