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🦦💛 Want to start the school year with kindness, fr 🦦💛 Want to start the school year with kindness, friendship, and good manners? Do Unto Otters is one of my FAVORITE back-to-school read-alouds! It’s such a fun way to get students talking about how we should treat others, use good manners, and appreciate our differences—all while building your classroom community. I created this book companion to take those important conversations even further! It’s packed with engaging reading comprehension activities, vocabulary, writing, word work, math games, colorful posters, and an adorable otter craft your students will love. 🦦 Students can practice retelling, characters and setting, predictions, text connections, character analysis, author’s purpose, and more. Plus, there are fun activities focused specifically on manners and treating others the way we want to be treated. 💛 It’s a perfect read-aloud companion for those first few weeks when you’re building routines, friendships, and a positive classroom community! Comment OTTER or MANNERS and I’ll send you the link! 🦦💛 “I HAVE PURCHASED QUITE A FEW OF THIS SELLER'S BOOK CoMPANIONS! THIS IS AN ENGAGING RESOURCE THAT MY FIRST GRADERS REALLY ENJOYED!” LinkDM *668*
🍎🌱 How does one tiny apple seed become an apple? 🍎🌱 How does one tiny apple seed become an apple? Apple season is the PERFECT time to bring a little science into your reading block! This Apple Life Cycle Nonfiction Unit helps students discover each step of an apple’s journey from seed → tree → blossom → apple! 🌳🌸🍎 Students become little apple experts as they read the nonfiction mini reader, explore a colorful book filled with REAL photographs, learn new vocabulary, and complete engaging comprehension, research, writing, and word work activities. Then they can show off everything they learned with an adorable Apple Life Cycle Craft! ✂️🍏 It makes the cutest fall classroom display, too! I love units like this because you can easily weave together science, nonfiction reading, research, and writing without having to plan a million different activities. 🙌 There are plenty of activities included, so you can choose what works for your students and make the unit as simple or as in-depth as you’d like! Perfect for K–2 apple week, fall science, nonfiction reading, or life cycle studies! 🍂🍎 Comment APPLE or LIFECYCLE and I’ll send you the link! 🍎 "I use this for my whole informational unit on apples. A lot of the resources match the standards so well! " "So much information! I'm using this for 1st and 3rd grade apple unit. Great resource with a lot of activities." LinkDM *674* #FirstGradeRoars #AppleLifeCycle #AppleActivities #AppleWeek #FirstGrade #Kindergarten #SecondGrade #FallScience #NonfictionReading #FallActivities
👅 Back to school means LOTS of learning…including 👅 Back to school means LOTS of learning…including when to tell the teacher and when to try solving a little problem on your own! 😉 A Bad Case of Tattle Tongue is a great back-to-school read-aloud for helping students learn the difference between tattling and telling. During those first weeks of school, this is such an important conversation as you establish classroom expectations and begin building a kind, responsible classroom community. Students can learn when a problem is something they can handle, when they should use their words, and when it is important to tell an adult because someone is hurt, unsafe, or needs help. ❤️ This companion pack brings the story to life with differentiated reading comprehension activities, SEL sorting cards, writing, word work, math games, and an adorable Tattle Tongue craft your students will love! It’s a fun way to build reading skills while teaching a classroom lesson your students will use all year long. 👅 Comment TATTLE or TONGUE for the link! LinkDM *174* "This resource was exactly what I needed! It’s clear, easy to use, and very well organized. My students were engaged, and it saved me a lot of planning time. I appreciate the quality and attention to detail, definitely worth it!"
🦔 I have a NEW favorite fall read-aloud! A Bold P 🦔 I have a NEW favorite fall read-aloud! A Bold Pumpkin Plan by Katy Hudson is absolutely adorable and has SO many meaningful lessons woven into the story. Hedgehog has a big plan to turn a pumpkin into his winter home, but things don’t exactly go as planned! Along the way, this timid little hedgehog learns that sometimes it’s okay to accept help—and he ends up with something even better than he imagined: a cozy home AND new friends. ❤️ This story is perfect for talking about friendship, teamwork, kindness, perseverance, and asking for help while also practicing important reading comprehension skills. I created a complete book companion filled with differentiated comprehension activities, writing, vocabulary, word work, math games, and more. And the CUTEST part might just be the pumpkin house craft! 🎃🏠 Students can create Hedgehog’s pumpkin home and add their own “My Pumpkin Plan” writing for an adorable fall bulletin board. If you’re planning your September or October read-alouds, you definitely want to add this one to your list! Comment PUMPKIN or BOLD and I’ll send you the link! 🎃🦔 #aboldpumpkinplan #katyhudson #fallreadaloud #fallactivities #pumpkinactivities #pumpkincraft #readingcomprehension #firstgrade #kindergarten #secondgrade #firstgraderoars LinkDM *697*
👑😂 Imagine being the Emperor who discovers his “ma 👑😂 Imagine being the Emperor who discovers his “magical” new clothes aren’t clothes at all! The Emperor’s New Clothes is one of those classic fairy tales that is SO much fun to introduce to students because many of them have never heard it before! The reactions when they realize what those sneaky weavers are up to are priceless. 😂 This story is perfect for working on characters, setting, sequencing, beginning-middle-end, problem and solution, main idea and details, character analysis, author’s purpose, and more—all while enjoying a hilarious classic tale. And you don’t even need to hunt down the book! 📚 I’ve included an 11-page mini reader so you have a version ready to use, or you can pair the activities with another version of the classic story. Students can also practice vocabulary, writing, and word work, play fun math games, and create an adorable Emperor craft for a classroom display. 👑 BONUS! I’ve included extensions for The Principal’s New Clothes AND The Emperor’s Old Clothes, making it easy to compare stories and characters after reading the original. This mini unit is also included in my larger Fairy Tale Prince & Princess Stories and Fairy Tale Bundle! 🏰✨ 👑 Comment EMPEROR or FAIRYTALE and I’ll send you the link! "This is such a great packet, that includes multiple activities and resources. My students enjoyed the activities included in the packet. " "This was great to use with our unit. I love the vocab words that were used. It helped students understand what was going on in the story better. " LinkDM *713*
🍎🍂 How SWEET is this fall craft?! 🤎 This Caramel 🍎🍂 How SWEET is this fall craft?! 🤎 This Caramel Apple Craft is such a fun addition to your September or October plans! Students can create their own caramel apple as a simple fall craft OR turn it into an interactive glyph activity where each part of their apple represents something about them. It’s a fun way to practice following directions while building classroom community! Pair it with writing about kindness, apple senses, or favorite caramel apple toppings and you have an adorable fall display ready to go! 😍 Add “Dip Into Fall,” “Dipped in Kindness,” or “Sweet to the Core” to your bulletin board and you’re set for apple season! 🍏🍎 Perfect for Apple Week, fall crafts, back to school, September, or October! Comment APPLE or GLYPH and I’ll send you the link! 🍎🤎 #firstgrade #applecraft #caramelapple #fallcraft #fallbulletinboard #appleweek #septemberactivities #octoberactivities #firstgradeactivities "We made these after we finished out apple unit. I hung them on our monthly bulletin board. The kids had fun making their apples. " "Fun interactive resource for the bulletin board. Promotes friendship and the kids loved making this craft and writing about being kind." LinkDM *693*
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