Sale and Give Away!

Tomorrow only, my store is 28% off. As a bonus, I'm doing a give-away.

First, check out my product line here:

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Natalie-At-Its-Elementary

Second, follow the directions on the raffle to enter.

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Show and Tell Tuesday: August Edition

I'm participating in another show-and-tell with forever in fifth grade. This month I want to show off some summer fun. When you're finished reading, click on the picture above to go back to the original post.

In June my entire family came to Nevada to celebrate my parents' wedding, my youngest sister's first baby, and 3 birthdays! My favorite part was spending a day at the Lamoille Fair with most of my nieces and nephews. This is me with my daughter, Allison, and my niece, Candace.

In July we went to Montana to visit my husband's family. The weather was perfect (mid-80's the whole time!) for picnics, hiking, horseback riding, and lots of shopping. My kids love to spend time with the horses. This is their best friend, Fabio.

In August we worked a booth for National Night Out. In case you don't know, that's the first Tuesday in August where public safety (firemen, police, emt's, etc.) cook dinner for the community and offer tons of safety information. We worked at the drug awareness booth hosted by the Elk's Club. My son dressed up as Elroy Elk to bring people over to the booth.

Finally, August is also time to put my classroom back together. Here's to another exciting, wonderful year in 5th grade!

August Product Spotlight

Wow! I had a ton of responses for last month's product spotlight, so I have to split them into 2 posts. Here are the spotlights for August. Remember, just click on the picture to go to the product.

#1 from Daisy Designs

This is a fun and easy activity for the first day or week of Kindergarten! The pages are created to be half page size books for cheaper printing and include activities easy for kinders to complete at the beginning of the year.

Have your students complete their little books and then "seal" them in a box or an envelope only to be opened again on the last day of school!

#2 Believe to Achieve by Anne Rozell

 
8 Months of No Prep, Grade 3 Math for September to April! That's a year of math! Save 20% by buying the Bundle!!

Each month has 30 pages plus bonus activity! All have been revised with Table of Contents and answer keys!

Your students will adore these fun filled activities for math! 

Just print and use!

Answer keys are included!

#3 by Rock Stars in the Classroom

This shape unit is Common Core aligned. Designed to supplement CCGPS unit 1. 
This unit pack includes:
--Shape Posters (8 different posters) 
--Shape Hunt
--Basic Shape Sort
--Find Those Shapes! activity pages (6 different activity pages w/ answer keys)
--Compare & Contrast (5 pairings plus a blank on 2 different graphic organizers--12 in all)
--What Shape Can You Make? activity
--Shape Coloring Book

*All products are protected. If customer would like modifications please feel free to contact seller with requests. 

#4 by The Sunny Sunshine Student Support Store

Tattling OR Reporting... Use this lesson to help with problem solving, conflict and classroom management! This resource can be displayed on a screen with technology for a class lesson or printed for individual student use. 

What is included: 
* A PowerPoint lesson containing the definitions of tattling and reporting and examples for each.
*14 “problem” situation slides with answers to help students identify the difference between tattling and reporting. 
*A list of books to read to your students on this topic. 

#5 by Natalie at It's Elementary

These work mats are a great tool to practice place value. Students build numbers through the billions with decimals through the thousandths.Numbers are written in standard form, expanded form, and word form. A colored copy can be laminated and used as a classroom poster. Black and white copies can be laminated to be used and reused by students.

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Product Spotlight

I'm going to spotlight some fellow TPT seller's products on the first of each month as a blog promotion. Check out these 5 wonderful products! Just click on the product picture to go to the link.

Chocolate for Teachers

We all know that teaching around Christmas, Valentines, or just about any other holiday can be almost impossible. Many of our students don't know how some of holidays began or the meaning behind them. There are also some crazy-fun holiday practices that have died out over the years, but are still good for a laugh or two. 

174 pages of printables, activities,and informational text about holidays that we celebrate. Plenty of variety to keep your students interested and engaged. Each holiday has a decorative cover that can be printed and used as a book cover for your kids! Activities include: flip books, task cards, crossword puzzles, and printables. Everything you need to teach the holidays for the whole year! All answer keys included. 

Standards listed are for grades 2-4, but passages and activities would also be suitable for grades 5 or 6 and homeschool. 

Please look at table of contents for complete listing of holidays included, standards covered, and for a sneak peak of pages!!

Homeschooling and Homesteading

This bundle includes two popular lesson plans with numerous activities, templates, and teaching ideas. 

Included in the bundle:
- Instructions on how to construct a worm bin for composting with your students
- Two different science journal templates
- Extensive vocabulary lists related to decomposition and composting
- Directions for numerous educational activities and games
- List of resources for getting started with worm composting in your classroom

Lab and Library

This engaging bundle is packed with games, activities, & printables to practice place value (reading numbers to 120, tens and ones, comparing numbers, ten more/ten less). Great for centers, small group review, or whole class!

Included:
  •150 pages of content!
  •5 games (with multiple versions for differentiation and low/no prep)
    •Reading and Writing Numbers to 120
    •Understanding Tens and Ones
    •Comparing Numbers
    •Ten More, Ten Less
  •17 printables (including 2 open-ended pages that can be used over and over!)

The games are designed for math centers or stations, but could also be used as whole class activities. Some components can even be used as quick routines or sponge activities if you have an extra few minutes here or there.

Lots of teaching suggestions and modifications to maximize engagement!

It is aligned to the Common Core State Standards for first grade.

Teacher of 20

This 32-piece set is packed with back to school favorites! Included are 16 vibrant, colored images and 16 black and white versions. 

This set includes images of:
- glue
-eraser
-crayons
- glue stick
-markers
- dry erase markers
- tape 
- scissors
-an apple
-pencil
-teacher
-student
-backpack
-book
-tissues
-school bus

The images will have high resolution, so you can enlarge them and they will still be crisp. 

Natalie at It's Elementary!

Making Words is a great activity to build phonics and word recognition skills. Each word list begins with 2-letter words all the way up to a mystery word. This activity is perfect for covering grades 1-3 foundational and language standards.


If you would like a product spotlight for later months, please leave me your information in the comments section below.

Show and Tell Tuesday

I'm once again linking up with Stephanie from Forever in 5th Grade for the Show and Tell Tuesday linky. Is it wrong to feel so happy that SCHOOL'S OUT!!!??? Check out my "show and tells", then click back on the button above to go to the original post.

We had some great activities for the end of 5th grade this year. First, I want to show-off our awesome field trip to see the Lehman Caves in Great Basin National Park. We focused on national parks this year for the 100th birthday of the National Park Service. Along with research projects, online activities, and a National Park Day (check out this link to see the awesome job they did), we took the 4 hour bus ride up to the cave system for students who earned it (they had to meet certain criteria to go).

 Our 5th grade is so big we had to break them up into 2 field trips. This is the first half. 

Our wonderful Ranger Guide

My 2nd show-off is our "Science Day". Once each quarter we decide  on a subject and rotate our entire 5th grade through different activities and lessons. It's a great chance to get to know all the kids, not just the ones in our own classroom. For the 4th quarter we decided on science for the subject space for our theme since we always build and launch rockets at the end of the year. My lesson was creating, measuring, and comparing "moon" craters made from different sized objects. The kids had a blast and my classroom was covered in "moon dust" aka flour.

Our school began the process of becoming a Leader in Me school this year. We focused on teaching kids the 7 Habits as well as taking on more hands-on leadership roles within our school. Though we still have a long way to go, the kids really rose to the challenge. They did everything to keep our school running like helping out in the lunchroom, putting on assemblies, raising and lowering flags, and monitoring attendance. It was great to see them so excited to do the things we all consider as work, and they were motivated to make our school the best it could be.

Finally, school is out! We had some great last-week activities: rocket launching, a picnic lunch, kickball tournament (the teachers beat the 5th-graders for the 2nd year in a row), talent show, teacher talent show, field day, and awards ceremonies. Amidst all this we had some fun classroom activities as well.

Cleaning our desks with shaving cream...of course we had to take time to draw in it!

Building dodecahedrons made from all our 5th grade memories.

Go back to the button at the top of the page to check out all the other great "show and tells" and have a wonderful summer!!!!

Product Spotlight

On the first of each month, I'm going to spotlight a single product from my store plus a few from my fellow teacher-authors. For June, I'm featuring how I always end my reading classes for the year...a novel study.

 This is everything you need to study any fiction novel in any genre. You have journal prompts, comprehension practice pages, vocabulary activities, reflection, and a book review. My students l-o-v-e the independent work time. It gives me the opportunity to see what last-minute mini-lessons they might need before we break for summer. And best of all...I get time to talk with them one-on-one about their reflections of their year of reading!

If you would like a product featured next month, please comment below, message me on facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/itselementary123/, or click on the link to go to my TPT page.

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