BACK TO SCHOOL POETRY UNIT

Start the new school year with these fun poems and the many POSSIBILITIES for using them in your classroom. From allaying 1st day jitters to establishing rules & procedures for the year, these poems will get your students off to a great start!

Included are 12 poems.  Each poem has a page of possibilities for using it in classroom instruction.  This unit is NOT just about poetry!  It includes suggestions for reading, writing, & math.  The reading range is broad, making it appropriate to primary and intermediate grades, and differentiation is a snap.  It is also CCSS aligned.

You may also like these back to school resources:

It's about time, teachers, for some D'NEALIAN CLASSROOM DECOR!

If you have a D'Nealian classroom, you know how difficult it can be to find decor in that font.  I created these 6 products just for you!

The blue and green palette is one of my favorites as it creates a charming, serene atmosphere without being overwhelmingly bright (and distracting).

You may also like these coordinating products that are not currently available in D'Nealian:

It's about time, teachers, ... 

As a new school year dawns, young children, parents, and teachers are faced with a dilemma: saying goodbye.  Every parent has encountered the tears and heart-wrenching pleas.  Every teacher of young children has ached for the children and parents.  (Separation anxiety works both ways; parents cry, too.)  And, as a teacher with many years of experience in early childhood education, I would like to offer a suggestion for easing this transition...

...establish a transition tradition.

Young children thrive on routine.  They find comfort in being able to predict the events of the day.  They find reassurance in repetitive, positive procedures.  Thus, teachers can help ease these transitions by encouraging parents and children to establish a parting protocol. One transition tool is teaching children and care-givers to give a quick, fun, light-hearted good-bye.

Most people are familiar with these:

In my quest to establish a forest friends' classroom, I challenged myself to create such sayings using forest animals.  Here's a sampling:

At our parent information meeting before school starts, I plan to have this set of posters displayed near the door.  Drawing the parents' attention to them, I will encourage them, along with their children, to select a pair of favorite phrases for their farewells. In my experience, the tearful transitions will quickly give way to smiling sendoffs.

If you are creating a forest friends' classroom, you may like these products:

Is Your Classroom for the Birds?

Is your classroom for the birds?  It might be after you check out these new, How TWEET It Is classroom decor products.

Welcome everybirdie with these blue and green banners. Create the message of your choice, or try one of these:

• Welcome Everybirdie!
• Our Flock Rocks!
• How TWEET It Is to be in ___ Grade
• We are a Class to TWEET About

This product also includes TWEET, editable birds that you can use to post your students' names or numbers. Use them as part of your welcome, on their lockers or coat hooks, or anywhere you need them.

Word wall headers are provided, along with editable frames for word wall words.

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Classroom Signs provide information and reminders, table signs, bathroom passes, and more.

Two clip charts are provided; Our Travel Plans and Our Birthdays.

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Choose among the 23 classroom rules for those that best apply to your class. 5 bonus rules for the bathroom are supplied, as well. All of the rules are provided in the blue and green color scheme, as well as in gray scale to save your ink.   

   

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Create a well bee-haved class of TWEET students with How TWEET It Is Bee-havior Clip Chart + Brag Tags. 




Provided are 7 signs for the behavior clip chart and badges for clipping your students’ names or numbers to the chart.

43 brag tags are supplied in color and in gray scale. Editable brag tags are also included.

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You can post your classroom jobs with this product. 17 birdhouses are labeled with students' responsibilities; 10 more are editable. 

24 TWEET birdies are included.  They are editable for you to add student names or numbers.

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Post the alphabet and color posters in TWEET style. The alphabet posters come in 2 styles/sizes.

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These number posters provide representations of cardinal and ordinal numbers.

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Everything you need to create a math word wall is provided in this product: alphabet headers + 243 vocabulary words + editable frames for additional words.

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These posters provide visual reminders of CCSS math concepts in numbers and operations, geometry, and measurement.

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Everything you need for Calendar Math is in this product and the elements will fit in a standard calendar pocket chart. 

Up the ante during calendar time by adding patterns and predictions using combinations of the 5 sets of icons.

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Save money by getting all 10 products in this TWEET bundle.

A little birdie told me that everybirdie's learning with these educational decor items. I don't want to ruffle your feathers by offering a new classroom theme.  But maybe it's about time that you spread your wings and try new things!