Wednesday Weekly 5 under $5 - June 18, 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.

Geometry Vocabulary Match and Geometry Word Search - $3.00

by Believe to Achieve by Anne Rozell

3rd - 4th grades

Activities, Centers, Printables

Match geometry vocabulary to definitions, then find and circle or highlight the words in the chart! This engaging activity is a great way to reinforce key geometry terms. Easy to differentiate! Some pages include 5 words for a simpler option, while others have 10 words for more of a challenge. Includes nine pages total with answer keys included for quick checking. Available in both printable and digital formats to suit your teaching needs.

Pretty Darn Fast Poetry Analysis Study Guide - $3.50

by Charlene Tess

10th - 12th grades

Critical Thinking and Problem Solving, Handouts, Study Guides

A fast, unique, and highly effective way to analyze poetry. It will also help students prepare for the AP Literature Exam or advanced English courses in both high school and college. I devised this method to help students who have trouble remembering all the elements of poetry. 

Science Safety Posters - $2.50

by Sunshine and Laughter by Deno

K - 5th grades 

Bulletin Board Ideas, Posters, Printables

These colorful, no prep Science safety posters are a great way to introduce your expectations to your students while performing science experiments. After introducing the safety rules, these posters would make a great bulletin board for your students to refer back to. Just print, laminate, and they are ready to go. Also included is a safety contract for your students to agree to and sign.

Long Vowels Spelling Activities & Printing Practice Science of Reading Aligned - $3.00

by Primarily Learning

1st - 2nd grades

 Activities, Homeschool Curricula, Printables

Improve reading skills with engaging worksheets that provide printing practice and sound recognition activities for 21 long vowel spellings! These alternative spelling activities are Science of Reading aligned and an ideal way to target those tricky vowel teams. Get your long vowels activities now!

    

Self-Help Test: A Parent Guide to Kindergarten Readiness - Free

by Reading Spotlight

PreK - K grades

Assessment

This one-page assessment is a useful guide for parents to aid in deciding if a child is ready for kindergarten. It is intended to help in evaluating non-special needs students. Parent should use this test in addition to preschool teacher assessments, as well as kindergarten screenings from their own schools.

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 - May 14, 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 End of the Year Lessons By The Best of Teacher Entrepreneurs MC - 2025 - FREE

by Victoria Leon

All grades

Activities, all subjects

We hope you enjoy using these “Free End of the Year Lessons by The Best of Teacher Entrepreneurs Marketing Cooperative - 2025 with your students. Also click on the links to THOUSANDS more FREE lessons for the entire school year!

Ordering Numbers Bundle | Tens - $4.40

by Sunshine and Laughter by Deno
K - 1st grades
 Centers, Printables, Task Cards

This bundle includes 2 engaging, no-prep sets of task cards for your Math classroom. The resources included in this bundle are Compare and Order Numbers - Tens, and Number Line Missing Numbers - Tens. These activities provide a fun, hands-on approach to learning for your students. 

All Students Deserve An End Of The Year Award Editable Set - $4.00

by Mickey's Place

All grades 

Classroom Forms, End of Year, Parents, Printables

Every Child Deserves an End of the Year Award Editable Version is a set of 34 awards for teachers to use to celebrate their students learning. All awards come in color and black and white.

To use these awards type in the names and dates then print out the awards you wish to use.

Summer Picture Writing Prompts with Beach Theme - $4.00

by Kamp Kindergarten

K - 2nd grades

Centers, Independent Work Packet, Printables, Summer

These summer-themed ink-saving no-prep printable beach picture writing prompts are great for literacy centers, ELA journals, or independent work. There are 20 different picture prompts in this packet. There is a line art picture, word bank, and a writing lines section on each page. Three versions of writing lines are included for each picture prompt to meet the needs of multiple grade levels and to offer differentiation opportunities within in a single grade or a special education classroom.

    

Spring Poem - $3.00

by Urbino12

K - 7th grades

Activities, Lessons, Printables, Spring

Happy Spring! Guided writing model with suggested vocabulary to write a simple five-line (Cinquain) poem includes five different spring themed writing templates -four in color and one in black and white. 

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

Renee Heiss

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Love Letters & Brussel Sprouts: Odes, Point-of-View and Visible Thinking

You're my funny valentine, sweet comic valentine

You make me smile with my heart

Your looks are laughable, unphotographable

Yet, you're my favorite work of art.

-Rodgers & Hart

Growing up, I never crushed on the cutie patooties or the hottie patotties.  I fell for the guys who could make me laugh hysterically or make me swoon by reciting poetry.  So, it's only natural that as a teacher, the valentine books I love the most incorporate poetry and humor.  That's what led me to Love Letters by Arnold Adoff.  This book is comprised of funny, touching, and yet untraditional love letters written as poems and odes.  The letters are addressed to teachers, classmates, family members, or to"fill-in-your-own-name," which is the perfect poem for those people who have a harem of admirers.  The poems in this book stand independently and could be shared one at a time over the course of a couple of weeks. 

Adoff uses fantastic imagery that any child can relate to,  "I love you more than peanut butter cookies crumble. I  love you more than yellow bees bumble. I also love you more than dark thunder clouds rumble..."  These lines are from the poem entitle "Dear Tall Girl at the Front Table," one of my favorites in the book.

Every year, I share this book with my students.  My fourth and fifth graders love it and "get" the humor in it. I use it to introduce odes and anti-odes. We brainstorm a list of ideas for our own odes, for example: A  pet dog, cat, guinea pig, etc., pepperoni pizza, mom's lasagna, brussel sprouts, broccoli, piano, hockey stick, soccer ball, x-box, play station, Legos, teddy bear, favorite book, favorite book character, etc. 

After we've made our collaborative list, they choose a few of the topics that grab them, and sort them into the categories "things I love," and "things I hate. Once they've done this type of thinking, they zoom in one topic and dig deeper into their feelings about the topic. Here's an example:

Then they explore point-of-view. In Love Letters, the poems are sometimes companion poems that explore different view points. So if I'm writing about brussel sprouts, I write about own point-of-view and how much I loathe them. And then, if the brussel sprouts were to write a letter back to me, what would they say? As a poet, I explore both viewpoints.

Finally, my students begin their rough drafts. We spend about two sessions drafting and revising. I make sure to include a mini-lesson about line breaks, because fourth and fifth grade students still tend to write poetry in paragraph form. We do a lot of reading aloud to ourselves using our whisper phones. By the way, this is AWESOME fluency practice! I teach my kiddos that poetry is actually an art form that is meant to be read aloud. So when they choose to read poetry books or their own poems during independent reading time, I let them go hog wild with whisper phones. 

I should add that I model each pre-writing, drafting and revision step for my students. Here are two examples of poems that I wrote with them in order to model the process:

 Dear Macaroni and Cheese,

I looooove your cheesy goodness.

I am overwhelmed by your

bubbling orangeiness.

I love you more than a dog

loves its bone,

more than a baby

loves its bottle.

Your crispy cracker crumbs,

golden like the summer sun,

send me over the moon.

I will love you forever.

Love,

Your Hungry Fan

(By Ms. Willis)

My students identify comparative statements (simile-like), personification, alliteration, and descriptive language as I write and we discuss.  Then, I model an anti-ode.  You can also see it below:

  

Dear Brussel Sprouts,

I loathe your army-green leafy heads

wrapped tightly on my dinner plate.

No bacon or butter

can disguise your nastiness,

your cruciferous metallic taste.

You look like mutant baby heads.

And on dark and lonely nights,

you hold me hostage

at the supper table,

long after the dishes have been done,

and the kitchen

has been cleaned.

 Signed with disgust,

I'll-eat-any-other-vegetable-other-than-you Girl

After students have published their poems on the special valentine stationery I provide for them, we use an envelope template and make envelopes for our poems. They address the envelopes. They put their published poems in their envelopes, and we display them for everyone to read.

Valentine's Day can be a tricky holiday in upper elementary. Hormones have begun to rage, friendships are precariously navigated, and feeling are easily hurt. This project is one of my students' favorites, year after year. It's funny, creative, and non-threatening (and Common Core aligned)!

To learn more about using it in your own classroom, simply click on the picture.

If you're looking for more upper elementary valentine resources, you might also check these out. Two of them are free!

 





Wednesday Weekly 5 Under $5 - 8/9/17

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.

Exploring Poetic Imagery Through John Legend, Alicia Keys and More - $2

By Raps for English Language Arts 
ELA/Reading; Grades 6-12

A great way to develop your student's analytical skills in a contemporary way. Activity one explore similes about love taken from 19 classic and contemporary songs including Alicia Keys, 50 cent and Beyonce. Activity two sees these similes grouped according to the imagery they create. Activity three has pupils making inferences on the similes and the effects. Activity four is a creative activity where pupils make a found poem from the imagery. The second half of the resource focuses on All of Me by John Legend. There are five analytical questions about the language and structure of the lyrics. Finally, pupils transform the song into a letter. A great way to introduce love poetry or texts such as Romeo and Juliet or a fun way of exploring imagery and inferential skills.
  

Formulating Questions - $3.00

By Kathy Babineau

Special Education / Speech Therapy; Grades 1-4

This kit contains 45 answer cards (with colorful pictures) and 45 question cards. A mini poster with "Words that Begin Questions" is included, as well as an answer key. To prepare this product, simply print, cut apart and laminate the cards and you are ready to go. There are several ways to use this card set, detailed on the product's description, so check that out at the link, above, for more details on this terrific TpT item!

Long Division with One-Digit Divisors Scavenger Hunt Game - $3.00

By Math with Tyrrell

Math; Grades 4-6

Do you need a fun way for students to practice long division with minimal prep? The Long Division with One-Digit Divisors Scavenger Hunt Game gets students up and moving around while practicing math. In this activity, students use the answer to one problem to find another problem hanging around the classroom. Students will complete a total of 16 problems to create a list of explorers. The student worksheet, scavenger hunt problems, instructions, and teacher’s key are all included. This product is teacher tested and student approved; students will love seeing scavenger hunts on the agenda. All problems in the scavenger hunt have whole number solutions. The problems in this scavenger hunt require students to divide with one-divisors as well as divide with two-, three-, four-, and five-digit dividends.

Back to School - Color by Number - "The Owl" - $2.25
By El Jaguar

ELA; Grades K-2

Check out this fun, interactive color-by-number farm-themed coloring page. "The Owl" is a fun activity for grades K-2, and a great lesson before farm field trips. Students will enjoy completing the word search and practice the spelling of "colors."  As a cooperative activity, you could even have students work in pairs to complete the fun word search!  

First Grade Morning Work - FREE

By Miss Faleena

ELA/Math; Grade 1

These are FREE samples from Miss Faleena's First Grade Morning Work Bundle.  It includes 20 pages of morning work activities for literacy and math. These pages are great for advance kindergarten and first grade students. This morning work helps your students review important skills for first grader. Of course, if you like what you see - and I'm confident you will - you can find the link for the entire First Grade Morning Word Bundle in the product description for this pack of freebies!

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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April Teacher Talk

Posted by Deann Marin of Socrates Lantern

It's April and so many groovy things are happening this month, Easter, Passover, spring vacation and so much more. Be sure to stop by and see what these teachers are doing in their classrooms and gather some great tips and ideas.

If you're interested in joining this unique group of teacher entrepreneurs, blogging buddies and/or our blog linky, sign up here....The Best of Teacher Entrepreneurs Marketing Cooperative. If you decide to join, be sure to mention one of our names.
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If You Love Jelly Beans
By Deann Marin of Socrates Lantern

Can’t you just smell spring in the air? Daffodils beginning to bloom, Lilac trees starting to flower, and Lilies of the Valley popping up. I just love the aroma. Not only is my birthday in April but it brings us Passover, Easter, and one that you may never have heard of, can you guess? If you said Jelly Bean Day, you’d be right. It's April 22nd.
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Plan a Portfolio Party
By Retta London of Rainbow City Learning

Plan a celebration for your young writers as they bloom in the Spring!
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April Math FUN!
By Sara Snyder of Snyder Classroom

Make Math FUN this Spring! These spring math riddles are great for reviewing previous topics or practicing current skills. These riddles can be helpful in your classroom at this busy time of year. (And sneak a little fun into the classroom) I have made these math riddles to combine fun and learning for this time of year.
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How Many Ways are Words Related?
By Susan Berkowitz of Susan Berkowitz

Individuals who use AAC need to learn to take a conscious path to the words they need. If they want an apple, they need to think about how to navigate to categories -> to food -> to fruit -> to apple. SLPs can help them learn how to do this.
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6 Tips to Support English Language Learners in Your Classroom
By Kathy Simpson of Sunshine and Lollipops

Do you have English Language Learners in your classroom? If you do...you will want to take a look at this post and discover 6 easy and fun tips to support your ELL students. I am sure you will LOVE #1!
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Apollo 13: The Ultimate STEM Challenges
By Kerry Tracy of Kerry Tracy

The Apollo 13 mission shows how seemingly insurmountable obstacles can be overcome with scientific reasoning and problem solving. Specifically, the carbon dioxide filter fix shows why STEM Challenges are so much more than just "fun."
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The Magic of a Circle
By Kathie Yonemura of Tried and True Teaching Tools

Using only a circle, students fold and learn a multitude of geometric terms. This is a fantastic way to teach geometry and for students to experience more than just shapes!
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Increase Engagement and Maintain Rigor-Hands-on Fun in the Upper Grade and Middle School Classroom
By Marcy Howe of It's a Teacher Thing

Maintaining student motivation is important during any time of year, but it's even more crucial when they return from a break. I save several of my "great" activities for those Mondays after a week off.
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Poppies & Pantoums: Poetry Comes Alive with Georgia O'Keefe
By Tracy Willis of Wild Child Designs

4th and 5th grade students explore the life of Georgia O'Keefe via a biography and her fabulous artwork. We look closely at the natural world using photographs and author Pantoum poems, a cool poetic form from Malaysia. We recuperate from our testing angst with a poppy craft.
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Painting Poetry: Children's Voices
By Virginia Musmanno of Reading Spotlight

We hope that you will take one minute out of your busy day to enjoy a slideshow of our paintings of poems. We hope that you enjoy seeing them as much as we enjoyed painting them!
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