Wednesday Weekly 5 under $5 - October 15, 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.

Pumpkin Globe Craft | Continent Outlines and Maps & Globes Activity - $2.25

by Fourth Grade Frenzy

2nd - 4th grades

Activities, Halloween, Homeschool, Printables

Bring geography to life with this engaging Pumpkin Globe Activity! Perfect for your maps and globes unit, this hands-on project lets students create their own globe using pumpkins while reinforcing mental mapping skills and learning about continents and oceans. Outlines and labels are included.

Sentence Patterns Grammar Worksheets for Halloween | Print | Digital | Easel - $4.00

by Charlene Tess

9th - 12th grades

ESL, EFL, and ELL, Handouts, Printables

This Halloween activity will 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 Halloween. Good writers vary their sentence patterns by sometimes placing phrases or clauses at the beginning of their sentences. The twenty Halloween - themed sentences in this exercise all begin with the subject and the verb.

Math Halloween Fraction Riddles Putting Fractions in Lowest Terms, Equivalency - $3.25

by Scipi

3rd - 5th grades 

Activities, Critical Thinking and Problem Solving, Handouts, Homeschool, Printables

This math resource contains ten Halloween fraction riddles which provide students practice in putting fractional parts in lowest terms as well as recognizing equivalent fractions. Specific words are provided, and the students are to figure out the correct fractional part of each particular word. (Example: The first 1/3 of LEDGER which would be LE.) If the fractional part is correctly identified, when the students write the fractional parts on the lines provided, a new word is formed. Each group of new words becomes a Halloween riddle or an answer to a riddle.

Halloween 1st Grade Reading Sentence and Picture Match Games and Assessments - $3.00

by Mickey's Place

K - 2nd grades

Activities, Assessment, Centers, Halloween

Sentence to Picture Match: Halloween is a reading comprehension activity created to be used at centers or in small groups. Students will read each sentence and match it to the picture it describes. The picture cards can be in a folder, cut apart, or placed in a pocket chart. The student will then place the sentences that describe a picture next to the picture card.

Retelling Profiles For Fiction & Nonfiction - Free

by Reading Spotlight

All grades

Assessment, ESL, EFL, and ELL

If you have a student who sounds like a good reader but does not seem to understand what is read, retelling is a good strategy that will give you insight into the student's thinking process. It is almost prep-free! Two RETELLING PROFILES, one for fiction, one for non-fiction, are included. They are very useful tools to evaluate comprehension processes of your students. A short, student self-evaluation form for retelling is also included.

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

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Wednesday Weekly 5 Under $5 - 8/30/17

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) that would like to join the Wednesday Weekly 5 Under $5 team, click here to get more information about joining TBOTEMC.  Feel free to e-mail me with any questions, as I'd be happy to help in any way possible.

Behavior Calendars 2017-2018 & Templates for Classroom Management - $4.00

By Sally Hansen - Purposeful Plans 
Back to School; Grades PreK-6

This set contains EDITABLE calendars for the 2017-2018 school year (August 2017-July 2018) AND templates for future years! Each calendar has editable behavior codes, a place to enter your e-mail address, and label the day if needed. The calendars are in color, black and white, and with regular font. The calendars show Monday-Friday only so it does not confuse the students with weekends.  The product includes the following: Monthly PDF Calendar (3 Choices), Monthly Editable PPT Calendar (4 Choices), Editable PPT Calendar Templates for Future Years, Parent Communication Sheet, and a Behavior Class Tracker.  Be aware that you must have Microsoft Powerpoint to edit.
  

Romeo and Juliet Argumentative Essay Prompt - Includes Rubric & Outline - $1.50

By A Teacher's Teacher

ELA; Grades 7-11

Are your students going to read (or maybe even finishing up reading) Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet? Would you like a straight-forward prompt to assess students' ability to think critically while also citing text evidence? If so, this is the item for you!  It comes complete and ready to hand out to your students. Just print off the PDF, add in the due date by hand, and you're ready to go to the copier! If you'd rather edit the document in any way, you also will receive the Microsoft Word (.docx) version to make any changes you'd like.

They All Saw A CAT: Describing and Point of View for Speech Therapy - $3.50

By Susan Berkowitz

Speech Therapy; Grades K-4

Using storybooks in speech and language therapy allows us to target meaningful vocabulary and language objectives within the context of literature and well-constructed narratives. This book, "They All Saw A CAT" is great for building descriptive language skills and talking about point of view. It is a lot of fun to help kids see how the cat is viewed by each of the other animals - bigger, smaller, mean, furry.  Included in the project is a lesson plan for multiple days’ worth of activities. Use the book for up to 4 sessions; Matching cards for playing a Memory-type game; match the animal with how it saw the cat; 3 matching worksheets for matching the animal with how it saw the cat; Mix & match puzzles; and much more.  See the full details on the product page!

This is the Way We Go to School - An Integrated Lesson Plan - FREE
By Globe Trottin' Kids

All Subject Areas; Grades PreK-6

Integrate geography, math, and writing activities using Edith Baer's book, This Is the Way We Go to School. Students learn about the different ways kids around the world go to school, and use a world map to locate each place. The class creates a tally chart and a bar graph to show how they all get to school. Questions for analyzing the data are included. Students complete a descriptive writing prompt sharing a new way to get to school - fun for sharing and/or making a class book.

Color Words Clip Cards - $4.00

By Kamp Kindergarten

ELA/Reading; Grades K-1

Get inviting literacy centers for your learners to practice reading color words. There are 80 clothespin clip cards with a color word and a choice of three pictures printed on each card. Learners read the word and clip a clothespin to the picture of that color object. You may use all the cards, select the cards that address specific color words for your lesson, or select the cards that best meet your learners’ needs. These cards are great for morning tubs, early finishers, literacy centers, and take home practice. The following color words are addressed in this packet: red, blue, yellow, green, orange, purple, brown, black, pink, and white. Please Note: How colors print often varies on individual printers. The free preview has a printer test page included that has a sample of each color from the graphics used in the packet. You may download the preview and print that page to determine how the colors will print on your printer before purchasing the resource. 

As always, I encourage comments below and any ideas or suggestions by tweeting me @ATeachersTeach or contacting me via e-mail.

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