Wednesday Weekly 5 under $5 - August 20, 2025

                        

Every week I put together a list of 5 great products from members of The Best of Teacher Entrepreneurs Marketing Cooperative (TBOTEMC) with the requirement that each product must be less than $5.  With a variety of subjects and a wide range of grades, there just might be something that you can use, so continue to read below and see!

In addition, if you're a seller on Teachers Pay Teachers (TpT) who would like to get more information about joining TBOTEMC, contact me via email at ReneeHeiss@gmail.com or by simply leaving a comment on this blog post.

Getting to Know You Back to School Activities  - $4.00

by Charlene Tess

9th - 12th grades

Activities, Classroom Management, Handouts, Printables

This back-to-school unit will get your new semester or school year off to a good start. Five pages of instruction for the teacher and a four-page handout packet for the students are included.  When completed, students will have introduced each other to you and to their classmates, and you will have taken three assessment grades.

Back to School Number Book (Tracing and Writing Numerals to 10) Practice Packet - $4.00

by Kamp Kindergarten

Pre-K - K grades

Activities, Back to School, Centers

This resource has school themed pages for tracing and writing numerals to 10. This versatile product can be used for learners to make their own number book (in color graphics or black and white graphics) or each page can be used in math centers, as independent practice pages, or as homework. There are four different formats of the numeral pages included. These formats offer options for differentiation.

Beginning of the School Year Checklist for Teachers Get Your Classroom Ready - $2.75

by Scipi

All grades 

Classroom Forms, Classroom Management, Printables, Professional Documents

This comprehensive beginning of the year school checklist is beneficial and helpful for new teachers as well as experienced teachers. It walks you through 88 items which ought to be established before the first day of school; these items are categorized by standard operating procedures (i.e. beginning class, interruptions, etc.) and rules as well as accountability (i.e. technology, academic feedback, etc.).  

August Number Sense Math Learning Center Games, Activities, Assessments K-1st - $4.50

by Mickey's Place

PreK - 1st grades

Activities, Centers, Games, Summer

Number Sense August uses the Beach Theme as the hook to get your primary learner counting and learning. What is really great is that your students will have to recognize each number, 1-12 In each of these formats: Dice, Ten Frames, Dots, Number Word, Objects to Count, Tally Marks. Differentiation continues with the seven Partner Games included with the resource.

         

Math Menus 3rd Grade | Choice Boards | Printable & Editable Math Worksheets - $4.25

by Believe to Achieve by Anne Rozell

3rd - 4th grades

Back to School, Centers, Homeschool, Printables, Worksheets

Make math meaningful, engaging, and student-centered with these 3rd Grade Math Menus! These ready-to-use choice boards give students the freedom to choose hands-on activities that match their learning styles—while still targeting key 3rd grade math standards. With 11 different menus covering all major 3rd grade math topics, plus printable and editable versions, this resource is perfect for differentiating instruction in a fun and flexible way. Whether you're teaching in person or online, these menus are your go-to tool for enrichment, review, or early finishers!

As always, I encourage comments and any ideas or suggestions by emailing me at reneeheiss@gmail.com

Renee Heiss

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Wednesday Weekly 5 under $5 - August 6, 2025

                       

Every week I put together a list of 5 great products from members of The Best of Teacher Entrepreneurs Marketing Cooperative (TBOTEMC) with the requirement that each product must be less than $5.  With a variety of subjects and a wide range of grades, there just might be something that you can use, so continue to read below and see!

In addition, if you're a seller on Teachers Pay Teachers (TpT) who would like to get more information about joining TBOTEMC, contact me via email at ReneeHeiss@gmail.com or by simply leaving a comment on this blog post.

Free Back to School Lessons - 2025 - Free

by The Best of Teacher Entrepreneurs MC

All grades

Activities, Back to School, Lessons

Start the new year right with these free lessons by The Best of Teacher Entrepreneurs Marketing Cooperative. You'll find FREE games, lessons, activities, classroom decor, and more!

Sentence Patterns Back to School Grammar Worksheets | Print | Digital - $4.00

by Charlene Tess

9th - 12th grades

Activities, ESL, EFL, and ELL, Handouts, Homeschool

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Teach your students to rewrite sentences without changing their meaning to achieve sentence variety. At the same time, they will be reminded of things that are associated with going back to school. The twenty back-to-school-themed sentences in this exercise all begin with the subject and the verb.

Back to School Grammar Write the Room Learning Center Activity Game - Assessment - $4.99

by Mickey's Place

1st - 2nd grades 

Activities, Assessment, Back to School, Centers

Teachers, are you looking for grammar activities to start the school year for your first, second, and third grade students?  These five write-the-room school grammar activities are just what you need! Students can practice their grammar skills by identifying nouns, verbs, and adjectives using the write the room literacy centers.  Assessments included!  

Long Vowels Spelling Activities & Printing The Day You Begin: Read Aloud Companion, Beginning of the Year Activities - $3.00

by Two Little Birds

2nd - 4th grades

 Activities

Delve into The Day You Begin by Jacqueline Woodson with your students. It includes 10 printable and 10 digital versions of amazing activities, a class collaboration project, and a classroom poster with a book quote.

    

School Alphabet Letter Tracing and Writing No-Prep Printables Practice Packet - $4.00

by Kamp Kindergarten

Kindergarten

Assessment

Just print and practice with these ink-saving no-prep printable school themed independent practice alphabet handwriting pages! This packet offers 2 formats (Writing Pages and Tracing Pages) for each letter to provide differentiation opportunities for your little learners. You do not have to spend your valuable time writing letters with a highlighter marker for your little learners needing extra assistance forming letters. These pages are great for morning work, early finishers, independent practice during ELA block, RTI work, literacy centers, or take-home practice. 

As always, I encourage comments and any ideas or suggestions by emailing me at reneeheiss@gmail.com

Renee Heiss

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Wednesday Weekly 5 under $5 - August 28, 2024

         

Every week I put together a list of 5 great products from members of The Best of Teacher Entrepreneurs Marketing Cooperative (TBOTEMC) with the requirement that each product must be less than $5.  With a variety of subjects and a wide range of grades, there just might be something that you can use, so continue to read below and see!

In addition, if you're a seller on Teachers Pay Teachers (TpT) who would like to get more information about joining TBOTEMC, contact me via email at ReneeHeiss@gmail.com or by simply leaving a comment on this blog post.

Genre Posters for Library or Classroom - Perfect for a literary genre study - $4.97

by Teacher Karma

1st - 5th grades

Printables, bulletin board ideas, posters

21 Genre Posters that are sure to enhance your campus library or your classroom library / genre bulletin board. You will love the watercolor effect of the graphics. Genre study helps students anchor their understanding of reading genres within contexts and develop a better grasp of how different types of texts are organized. Studying genres helps with overall reading comprehension, metacognition, and critical thinking.

Number Sense: Subitizing Flash Cards with Bonus Bingo Cards - $4.00

by Mickey's Place

PreK - 1st grades

Activities, flash cards, games

       

     

Number Sense Subitizing Flashcards is an Excellent Way to practice Math Automaticity with your students. Students need to be able to recognize number patterns quickly in order to understand the concepts of addition and subtraction quickly. By quickly recognizing these patterns they don’t have to count by ones every time they see a pattern.  

Sentence Patterns Back to School Grammar Worksheets | Print | Digital - $4.00

by Charlene Tess

9th - 12th grades

Activities, handouts

Teach your students to rewrite sentences without changing their meaning to achieve sentence variety. Good writers vary their sentence patterns by sometimes placing phrases or clauses at the beginning of their sentences. The twenty back-to-school-themed sentences in this exercise all begin with the subject and the verb.

Free Back to School Lessons By The Best of Teacher Entrepreneurs MC - 2024 - Free

by Victoria Leon

All grades

Worksheets, activities

Start the new year right with these free lessons by The Best of Teacher Entrepreneurs Marketing Cooperative. You'll find something you like in this collection of resources for elementary, middle, and high school classes.  There's math, language, social studies, science, and many more subjects included, as well.

Back to School Activities - First Days of School Starter Packet - $4.75

by Activities to Teach from Dr Yemothy

6th - 9th grades

Worksheets, projects, graphic organizers

Kick off the new school year right with our great packet full of first week activities from Name Tents and Ice Breakers to All About Me and Apple Bite Summer write ups. Ready to use - Little to No Prep... Print and Go!

As always, I encourage comments and any ideas or suggestions by emailing me at reneeheiss@gmail.com

Renee Heiss

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Idioms and TPT Sale What Do They Have In Common? 🛒 🛍

 

Hi First name / friend!   🌟 Attention Educators! 🌟   We’re thrilled to announce that Fun to Teach will participate in a fantastic TPT SALE! 🎉🛒   I love idioms so in celebration of the sale and for a bit of fun, I wrote the following using shopping idioms! ;). Let me know what you think :)   Are you bargain hunting for just the right BACK TO SCHOOL resources that won't break the bank? Fun To Teach is your one-stop shop you can count on. You won't buy a lemon and resources won't cost a fortune. August 27th and 28th you can hit the shops at TPT and you won't pay through the nose because resources are up to 25% off! So teachers, now is the time to stop window shopping and start a little shopping therapy! TPT is the shopper's paradise for teachers where you can shop till you drop and shop around for all the resources that will make this your best year ever!   If you are looking for idioms to teach this might be for you!

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Enjoy a **25% OFF** discount on all our engaging resources and creative materials. It’s the perfect opportunity to stock up on lesson plans, classroom activities, and more, all designed to make teaching even more fun and effective. 📚✨

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🗓️ **Sale Dates:** August 27th and 28th   🔗 **Shop Here:**   🔑 **Use Code:** BTSBOUNS24 at checkout for your discount!   Don’t miss out—this sale is a great chance to enhance your teaching toolkit while saving big.   Happy shopping and happy teaching!   💡🧡 Best,   The Fun to Teach Team

Xo, Lori

Wednesday Weekly 5 under $5 - August 7, 2024

      

Every week I put together a list of 5 great products from members of The Best of Teacher Entrepreneurs Marketing Cooperative (TBOTEMC) with the requirement that each product must be less than $5.  With a variety of subjects and a wide range of grades, there just might be something that you can use, so continue to read below and see!

In addition, if you're a seller on Teachers Pay Teachers (TpT) who would like to get more information about joining TBOTEMC, contact me via email at ReneeHeiss@gmail.com or by simply leaving a comment on this blog post.

August Number Sense Math Learning Center Games, Activities, Assessments - $2.00

by Mickey's Place

PreK - 1st grades

Activities, Games, Basic Operations, Numbers

If you are looking for ways to involve your PreK or K students in a FUN but Learning Specific Activity to practice their recognition skills of Numbers 1-12, then this is the resource you need! Number Sense August uses the BEACH Theme as the hook to get your primary learner counting and learning. Using the File Folders your Pre-K - Kindergarten Students will Sort and Match their Numbers onto the Corresponding Cards they are given.

Beginning of the School Year Checklist for Teachers Get Your Classroom Ready - $2.75

by Scipi

All grades

Classroom Management, Back to School, For All Subjects

                           

This comprehensive beginning of the year school checklist is beneficial and helpful for new teachers as well as experienced teachers. It walks you through 88 items which ought to be established before the first day of school; these items are categorized by standard operating procedures.

Get your Back to School Emergent Reader to Learn Sight Words and Add Vocabulary! - $3.25

by Primarily Learning

K - 1st grades

English Language Arts, Vocabulary, Activities, Centers

Start your school year off with this Back-to-School Emergent Reader. It offers simple text, 10 graphics to support your writing, and three formats! Talk, write, read, and retell your story to develop reading comprehension skills with this Science of Reading aligned resource. Enjoy the BONUS Story Telling Activity with School Friends Characters.

Back-to-School Mini-Activities - $2.50

by All-American Teacher Tools

3rd - 6th grades

English Language Arts, Basic Operations, Worksheets, Activities

These mini-activities will keep your students gainfully occupied while you tend to other students, have a partially filled classroom for any reason, the get-to-know you time, or extra time at the end of the day. The activities for language arts and math for grades 3-6 include: SLAM posters (Student Likes are Marvelous) (students sign their name and favorite under the topic), Cooperative story time (using topic words, students create a sequential story), What I didn’t do last summer (an amusing twist to the traditional creative writing assignment), and more!

50 Visual Notetaking Printables - Sketch Notes - Doodle Notes - ANY SUBJECT - $4.97 

by Teacher Karma

3rd - 7th grades

Reading, Math, Science, Printables, Activities

50 Visual Notetaking Printables to use with ANY SUBJECT, GRADE LEVEL, CONTENT, OR BOOK! Whether you call these Visual Notes, Sketch Notes, Graphic Notes, Doodle Notes, Drawing Notes, Graphic Organizers, or Visual Notetaking... these notetaking printables are perfect for your students! You can also use these sketch notes in your interactive notebooks, any subject worksheets, or brainstorming for writing.

As always, I encourage comments and any ideas or suggestions by emailing me at reneeheiss@gmail.com

Renee Heiss

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