Wednesday Weekly 5 under $5 - August 23, 2023

                                                  

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.

ESL Listening and Speaking Practice - $3.00

by Sunshine and Laughter by Deno

2nd - 4th grades
Activities, Printables

This engaging resource contains listening and speaking activities to help your ESL students practice and strengthen their listening and speaking skills. These activities can be used for your beginner, intermediate and advanced ESL students. The activities are colorful, fun, easy to use, and engaging to hold their interest while practicing these important skills.

Beginning of the School Year Checklist for Teachers - Get Your Classroom Ready! - $2.50

by Scipi

All grades

Professional Documents, Printables, Classroom Forms

                                                                             

This comprehensive beginning of the year school checklist is beneficial and helpful for new teachers as well as seasoned 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.).  

 

PREGO Capitolo 1 Una Città Italiana TOMBOLA - $3.00

by Urbino12

8th - 12th grades

Activities, Games

Here is a fun low/high tech game your Italian students will enjoy playing to review vocabulary! May be played digitally via distance learning or printed out on paper.

Game contains vocabulary from the Prego textbook Capitolo 1 Una Città Italiana

STEM daily discussion starters, journal prompts, and fillers - September- FREE

by All-American Teacher Tools

6th - 12th grades

Printables, Task Cards, Centers

I've done all the work for you! Each date has a STEM-related discussion-starter that you can use as an introduction, conclusion, or fill-in when needed. Each day includes what happened on that date, a bit of information for your students, an appropriate image, and a thought-provoking question for discussion. You can even post this as a journal-entry prompt! Each date is connected to further information links for your use, or a student's independent learning.  This month is FREE to get you started on a year of STEM discussion!

Bulletin Board Motivational Posters - $2.00

by My Creative Maths

All grades 

Worksheets, Printables

These motivational and positive mindset posters will look great on your bulletin board, as classroom décor or on your classroom door! Use it to encourage your students to work hard, stay positive and not give up! 

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

Renee Heiss

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Slay that Dragon - FREE Character Education Bulletin Board Discussion Starters

 by All-American Teacher Tools

Do you have a dragon in your room? One that causes children to be disrespectful, angry students? This collection of 36 discussion starters helps children learn, week by week, about many social and moral dilemmas they face every day. Some examples include:

- Bullying

- Cheating

- Lying

- Sportsmanship

- Trust

- Group relationships

- Welcoming a new student

- Violence

- Overuse of technology

- Etc., etc. etc.

Full instructions are provided to help you implement this valuable weekly plan to generate discussion about character education.  For all grades!

It uses a dragon theme: "Keep the Dragons Out of Our Classroom" to help children understand that wrong behavior can be very dangerous.

Click HERE for more information.

Wednesday Weekly 5 Under $5 - 12/9/2020

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 simply by leaving a comment on this blog post.

Christmas Language Sequencing - $4.00

By Mickey’s Place

PreK, Kindergarten, 1st

Assessment, Games, Literacy Center Ideas

Christmas Language Sequencing will engage your students in critical thinking, oral language,  writing, and literacy centers.  There are 20 Christmas themed cards in this resource.  Also includes 10 blackline assessments. 

Two Christmas Holiday Crosswords About Santa and His Reindeer - $2.30

By Scipi

4th, 5th, 6th

Activities, Fun Stuff, Printables

This Christmas holiday resource contains two crossword puzzles about Santa and his reindeer. The 18 words used in both puzzles are: bed, Blitzen, Christmas Eve, Claus, Comet, Cupid, Dancer, Dasher, Donner, eight, Nicholas, North Pole, Prancer, Rudolph, sleigh, snow, stockings and Vixen. One crossword includes a word bank which makes it easier to solve while the other puzzle does not.

Christmas Booklet - $2.50

by Sunshine and Laughter by Deno

1st, 2nd, Homeschool

Activities, Fun Stuff, Printables

This no prep resource includes everything you need to keep your students happy and engaged in the days leading up to the Christmas holidays! While the activities are fun and engaging, they also include several ELA skill activities for your students to practice and review.

 

Making Inferences with Life Mottos (Distance Learning) - $1.79

By Reading Spotlight

4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th Worksheets

Unique! Effective! Easy to Use!

These four short lessons in making inferences contain well-known adages that are derived from centuries of human experiences. Students in grades 4-8 can practice making inferences by matching the altruisms to their meanings. Answer Keys included.

 

Happy New Year 2021 - $4.00

By Urbino

All grades, Bulletin board ideas

Ring in the 2021 New Year with this HAPPY NEW YEAR ! classroom display banner.

Two letters appear on each page. Letters are depicted in a snow globe. May be cut in half or left together on one page to save you time!

* Free update each year with purchase!

Other WW5U5 Team Members on TpT to Visit:

History at Home

A Teacher's Teacher

Victoria Leon

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

Renee Heiss

All-American Teacher Tools

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So much to Be Thankful For

By Deann Marin of Socrates Lantern at The Best of Teacher Entrepreneurs.

I can remember my grandmother sitting in her big rocking chair that was placed in her favorite spot, next to a picture window where she kept all of her plants. I would sit on her lap and she would sing about the beautiful autumn leaves dancing to the ground in their colorful dresses. I can’t remember the tune or the words, but that wonderful memory has always been vivid in my mind. as if it were yesterday. I’m so thankful for this experience. 

I can remember standing on the front porch waiting for my mom to take me shopping downtown. I loved to shop with her. We used to go to a store called Eli Moore, they had everything that a little girl could want. First stop was the shoe department, and I’d get my black patent leather shoes, next we’d go to the clothes department. I was so spoiled back then, as an only child, I was showered with beautiful things to wear and great toys. Shopping done, we’d go to this café for lunch and a yummy desert. My mom passed on when I was 15 so these moments mean so much for me and I’m thankful for the short time that I was able to spend with her.

I have so many things to be thankful for, a wonderful husband, my Siberian Husky, friends and family who love me. We’re healthy, other than some aches and pains. Our house is in the woods and it is our own little paradise. I can’t think of anything else that I need, other than a few million dollars, lol!

As a teacher, I feel it’s part of my responsibility to help my students think about the good things that they have going, and to be thankful for their blessings. To introduce them to this activity, I tell them the story about my grandmother, and or my mom.  Then I will pass out task cards with Thanksgiving images on them and ask the kids to write down what they’re thankful for and we put them into a decorated Thanksgiving box. They can write as many things as they wish, The Wednesday before Thanksgiving recess. I pass the box around the room and each child, as well as myself, chooses a card and we read what is on it, then try to guess whose card it is and give it to its owner.

I usually end up moved to tears  and so do some of the kids, as this activity is so meaningful to all of us..

Please take a look at my values lesson What Am I Thankful For?

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Happy Thanksgiving!

Deann

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New Beginnings, An Organized Middle School Classroom

By Deann Marin at the Best of Teacher Entreneurs 

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It seems like every year, summer vacation goes quicker and quicker and before we know it, school comes a calling.  What I’ve always liked about teaching is that each year is a new beginning.  What happened last year is in the past and I’m always so happy to meet my new charges. New challenges, new things to teach, new things to learn, different methods and programs keep my teaching fresh.  I’m going to share some of the things that I do to organize my classroom into the best environment for learning.

Here are some tips that I've used and they’ve been quite successful.  We have two main groups of 25-30 students each. Before school my partner and I take a look at the comments from last year's teachers. We then set the children up into groups according to their grades as well as their strengths and weaknesses. We come up with  creative names for them such as: Greeks and Romans, Black and Blue, or we ask them what they’d like their group to be named and we take a vote. The kids really like to pick their own names. Of course we change them each year because we don’t want the kids to know which is the higher or lower group.

I’m a great proponent of Collaborative learning, so I set up my classroom accordingly. It works quite well for what I want to do.

I like my students to work in groups of four so  I make two rows of horseshoes. Two members of the group are in the front, the other two sit in back of them. So when it is time for group work, the front row only has to turn their desk around to face the other two. Of course this takes a little bit of practice, but they eventually get it. When we begin group work it can get noisy so I have to remind them to use inside voices, I might also hold up a finger,  ring a little bell, or hold up a QUIET sign  to let them know they need to quiet down a bit.

Groups are composed of one high level child, two with average ability and one lower level child. I also try to have 2 boys and 2 girls in each group. That way there is diversity in abilities and they can all help each other. I found that the best arrangement for groups is no more than 4 so if I have 25 students I will make 6 groups of 4 and one with 5.  Each group remains the same for one semester, and then we rotate. We would change groups 4 times throughout the year since we had 4 semesters. I liked having them work together for at least two months, getting to know each other, cooperating and allowing each child a chance to be heard.  Of course there are always one or two kids that have a hard time working with others.  If that occurs, you might pull them from the group and have them work on their own, esp if they are disruptive, until they can prove that they are able to work within a group. Setting up the rotations takes a bit of  work since you don’t want to have the same kids in the group more than once.  

Like most schools, we use a computer grading system, but, I’m a little old fashioned and like a hard copy of my grades. It’s easier to write them in my trusty grade book and then transfer them to the computer. Also, if a parent or student wants to see their grade, I find it easier to just show them the book.

1. Split book in half with a section for each group. Glue or tape

    list of type written names of students in each group into

    their designated section.

2. Label both sections with English, and Social Studies.

     For ex: Roman group: First Semester, Label the tab

    with Language arts. Count 4 pages for Language Arts,

     4 pages for Social Studies. Then do the same for

     the other group Greeks. Make sure there are

     enough pages for all of the semesters.

3.  When you finish with one semester, fold back or cut

     the pages on dotted line so you can see the

     students names. Label the  new page with 2nd

     semester, and so on.   One picture speaks 1000 words,

     so please take a look at the images of my grade book.

                                                              

Bulletin boards are next, I decorate one for social studies and language arts which I change each semester for some variety. I have a checklist for book reports, Computer Dos and Don’ts, Quotes to discuss, a rewards board and classroom rules.

Before I drift off to sleep the night before my students arrive, I can breathe a sigh of relief knowing that my room is set up. I'm now ready to dive into another exciting and rewarding school year.

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Thanks for stopping by

 Deann

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