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Teacher pay teachers is having an spectacular, gigantic, tremendous sale on Wednesday, February 25th, 2015. All in honor of  everyday HEROES...TEACHERS! 

Buyers can save up 28% off their favorite products all day! So make a list, check your TPT wishlist, and think about what you need for the remainder of the school year because WEDNESDAY is the day to get it all!

Here are my TOP 30 favorites!
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and
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 "WHAT IS A HERO?" 

This habitat activity pack includes an introduction to 10 different habitats with informational articles, posters, and a variety of hands-on student activities. Student Activities included are:Which Habitat Would You Want to Live? drawing and prediction activity.

 Jam-packed Linear Systems bundle ($) -- Find animated demonstration slides, method practice worksheets Hangman style), word problem practice, quizzes, and all-method review activities.

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Poetry is a very subjective form of art. Some poems you love and others, you hate. What we need to realize is that this is the beauty of poetry. Poetry is not a mystery to be solved. Rather, it is the masterful manipulation of language that has the power to transform the ordinary and to immerse its reader into the world created by the author. This unit incorporates art to help students understand and appreciate the beauty within words. Lesson plans, student pack, and answer key included.

This differentiated math resource can be used as a formative assessment, partner activity, or math center. Students solve their own true false number sentence and tell why they decided on their answer. It is a printable resource that will not take much time to set up. There are 20 questions to solve.

This bundle is a compilation of all my CCSS aligned place value go fish games. This bundle includes 2 digit, 3 digit, and 4 digit place value go fish games. Each set has 4 games in color and 2 games in black and white. This means you get a total of 18 go fish games!
These go fish games are perfect for math centers/stations, small groups, and RTI. Students love these games and find them engaging and fun.

What an incredible VALUE!
Perfect for 1st Graders-this group is composed of my most popular, best sellers. (237 pages)
Includes:
- Word Family Activities
- The Big Short Vowel Bundle: Short A Short E Short I Short O Short U
- Long Vowel Bundle: A, E, I, O, U
- Positional Words and Ordinal Numbers

This mega pack focuses on Animal Adaptations through the use of high interest informational articles in kid-friendly language. The main skills and concepts of this unit focus on:

Animal Adaptations

Physical Adaptations

Behavioral Adaptations

Hibernation

Migration

Camouflage

Instincts 

Learned Behaviors

Endangered and Extinction

With Case Studies on Camels, Giraffes, and Dolphins

This complete unit comes with many engaging student activities! 

Using my Five Step Method below makes learning meaningful and fun for students.

Here are some March reading passages filled with lots of fun facts. Use them as a quick warm up activity, for early finishers or in a reading center.

Includes

• 8 March themed reading passage, each with 3 comprehension questions

• Worksheet for recalling 4 March facts that students have learned

The 8 passages include the following titles:

• St. Patrick's Day

• Read Across America Day

• March Madness

• Women's History Month

• Pi Day

• Ireland

• Happy Birthday, Harry Houdini!

• In Like a Lion, Out Like a Lamb

PARCC - PARCC- PARCC- The PARCC is near, but never fear the PARCC ("PARK")Math bundle pack is here! This pack includes PARCC problem types for ALL third grade math Common Core Standards! 

This problems in this product are outlined as problem of the day questions, which is a great format to engage the class or small groups in discussions about how they got their answer, how they justified their answer, and why certain answers aren't correct; however, you can use this product as homework, do now, in small groups, as center pages, or even as quick formative assessments of students understanding, application, and justification of their knowledge and concepts they've learned. 

Working Memory For Struggling Readers

• Working memory is the form of memory that helps to hold information and then manipulate information by making meaningful connections. 
• Working memory develops during childhood and has important implications on learning disabilities. 
• Working Memory impairments are seen in ADHD, learning disabilities, and language processing disorders, traumatic brain injury victims and others. 
• WM impairments are found in ADHD, learning disabilities, language processing disorders, stroke 
This colorful and fun activity is designed for either parents or service providers to spend 10-15 minutes a day reinforcing activities to increase working memory capacity. 

Included in this pack are supplementary activities for your study on CVC words. It includes all FIVE of my CVC word packs, which makes this a savings of $2! You practically get a set for FREE!I have included practice activities that have been beneficial for my students. I hope they are beneficial for your students as well!

Do you need a fun way for students to practice factoring a greatest common factor with minimal prep? The Factoring a Greatest Common Factor (GCF) Scavenger Hunt Game gets students up and moving around while practicing math. In this game, 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 polynomial vocabulary words. The student worksheet, scavenger hunt problems, instructions, and teacher’s key are all included. This product is teacher tested and student approved. My students love seeing scavenger hunts on the agenda. 

This is a set of Observation Sheets to go along with your Spring Science lessons. Your students will explore feathers, nests, eggs, bulbs, seeds, clouds, flower petals and do a Sink and Float activity. They will then record their observations on the printables included in this packet. Recording includes drawing, circling the correct word, fill-in-the-blank and writing sentences.
Kindergarten, 1st, 2nd grades

Great quality and value for this whopping 324 page unit on graphing! 
The unit features highly interactive activities on creating and interpreting bar graphs, pictographs, line graphs, line plots and pie charts (recently added). 

Themed-based lessons with standards-based activities are the perfect way to integrate tried-and-true methods with Common Core and 21st Century Learning.
This themed set can be used in a variety of ways! Activities are perfect for academic learning centers, large group experiences and assessments. Activities are tied to 21st Century Student Outcomes.

This 40+ page pack contains tale starters, writing frames, WANTED posters, an oral storytelling game, and more--including a rubric for meeting the Common Core State Standards for narrative writing with hyperlinks.

Weather Unit Includes:

*A Week of Weather Journal

*Raindrop Number Recognition 1-10

*6 Weather Word Cards

*Uppercase/Lowercase Letter Matching

*Match the Picture to the Word

*Weather Clipart

*Season Sorting

*Weather Patterns

*My Favorite Season...Journal

The Amazon Rainforest is one of the most amazing places on earth! Students are fascinated by the unique animals and the enormity of the rainforest itself. This unit includes many authentic learning opportunities for the classroom including a full-color mini-mag (magazine) highlighting three unique rainforest animals found nowhere else, and a culminating animal research project. This pack includes everything you need to teach, investigate, and learn all about the Amazing Animals of the Amazon Rainforest with a close up look at Poison Dart Frogs, Three Toed Sloths, and Playful Jaguars 
It includes:
Full color mini-book for whole group or guided reading
Black and White Informational articles for older students or to use in place of the mini-book
24 Informational Reader Task Cards to use with Mini-Magazines
Classroom Poster Set—great for bulletin boards!
A Rainforest Research Mural Poster Project w/Rubric
Teacher Directions 
End of the unit reflection

This interactive hands-on notebook will keep your students engaged and active in their learning experience. Over 75 learning activities with directions and examples. Plus games and assessments! The assessments are based on the interactive notebook lessons and are also aligned to the common core standards. Interactive Notebook for Upper Elementary: 4th, 5th, and 6th grade.

BEST SELLING PRODUCT! Ready to inspire your students? This is an amazing 4 week poetry unit. After 20 years of teaching poetry, I have complied the best 14 sessions I have collected from w/shops, professional development, and years of research. The unit is broken into 4 parts (bends). 1) Immersion into Poetry: This bend exposes students to a variety of poems and teaches students a number of different poetic elements. 2) Interpretation of Figurative language. This bend exposes students to a variety of different types of figurative language. Students learn how to write poetry using figurative language and interpret the meaning of figurative language. 3) Interpretation of Poetry. This bend introduces students to the concept of the message behind poems. It does so in a none threatening way by using popular music laced with poetry. Students also learn a system for interpreting poetry (P.O.E.T.R.Y.) 4) Reasons for Writing poetry.

2/21/2015 Top 'O the Mornin' To You All! We have made a large variety of revisions and additions to this packet! Please download the latest version if you previously purchased it to enjoy the 40 new pages! This is a SUPER SIZED packet (121 pages) full of everything you will need for treating your pre-k to grade school students. It is packed full of a ton of super fun, engaging, and useful speech, language and literacy activities, games, and worksheets that all have a colorful and fun St. Patrick's Day theme to them. 

Jaguars are cool cats! Students will learn about these endangered cats with this complete nonfiction resource pack. 

There are a variety of student activities included in this unit. 

Anticipatory Guide True/False Predictions with check-n-correct either after reading the mini-book or at the end of the unit.

Read and respond to the mini-book on Jaguars using the reader task cards.

Review what a Mammal is and do the Can You Find the Mammals? Activity.

Vocabulary posters great for introducing new words.

Label the parts of a Jaguar activity.

Writing Activity: Why are jaguars endangered?

Fact and Opinion Activity: cut and glue

Show What You Know: write 3 facts about jaguars

Compare & Contrast: jaguars to house cats

Writing Activity: Where do Jaguars live?

Draw a picture of a jaguar in its natural habitat blank page

Write your own– “Did You Know?” 

Playful Jaguars Reflection Organizer

This product offers teachers a set of Elements of Literature Task Cards when they want their students to reinforce, review and develop their understanding of a text, or any time that their students need to work on expanding their comprehension/higher thinking skills and /or writing aptitudes.

The elements of literature: Plot/Conflict, Character, Setting, Theme, Symbols, Tone and Point of View as well as a set titled, My Insights, are each represented by six color-coded task cards that reveal questions for students to explore their comprehension of the text. The points that they address cover: Understanding/ Remembering, applying knowledge, analyzing ideas, evaluating situations and characters' actions, and composing original pieces based on the text.

Mexican Independence Interactive Notebook will let you learn all you need to know about Mexico’s independence from the time of Hernando Cortes’ invasion in the 1500’s up to the Mexican Revolution of the 1900’s. It covers 450 years of Mexico’s struggle towards a strong and independent nation.
You’ll get:
• Mexico Geography – map activity, notes, study guide, and test
• Vocabulary – 12 new words with flashcards, 5 vocabulary strategies, a quiz, & more
• Spanish Conquest – Hernando Cortes invasion and the downfall of the Aztecs
• War of Independence – Miguel Hidalgo, Jose Morelos, Agustin Iturbide
• Santa Anna – Santa Anna, the Alamo, & the Mexican-American War
• Benito Juarez & the French – Benito Juarez and the French Invasion of the 1800’s
• Porfirio Diaz
• Mexican Revolution – Pancho Villa & Emilio Zapata
• Study Guide
• Quiz Show Game
• Assessment

This project based learning unit can be a two part project. One focuses on which animals can live in the zoo. In order to answer the question, the students need to know the type of environment animals come from. In this case, the animals were chosen by the students – one from each of the animal families: mammals, birds, reptiles, insects and amphibians. 
This PBL was “piloted” on a pre-school and kindergarten class and we were amazed at their dedication to the project! Animals are a great theme to work with because they are a high interest topic for the majority of students and there is age level appropriate research material for pre-k and kindergarten students to work with. The second part focuses on the type of conditions found in a zoo. Are they ideal for all animals? Find out what the children come up with!

This lesson bundles two other poetry lessons - Walt Whitman Poetry Study and Emily Dickinson Poetry Study with a lesson comparing the poetry of these two great American poets at a 25% savings. 

Students closely read poems by both poets with a focus on diction, figurative language, and theme. Included are the following items:

• Brief biography for each poet

• Historical context

• Suggestions for teachers

• Copies of poems

• Vocabulary studies and quizzes with answer keys

• Suggested activities and essay assignments

• Reading guidelines

Are your students wild about glyphs? These eight glyphs are wildly engaging and academic. They are packed with math and writing activities. While a few of them are print and go, the majority require gathering a few craft supplies. The extra effort is soooooo worth it! You won’t be disappointed! 
This bundle saves the buyer $9.00! 
Included:
1. I Mustache You!~Back to School 
This glyph is not available individually in my store. It is formatted much like I Mustache You About Your Year
2. Superhero Glyph~Back to School or 100th Day
This is my best seller! Take a look at the feedback that has been left. Superhero Glyph
3. What Spooks You?~A Halloween Haunted House Glyph
What Spooks You
4. All Aboard Glyph~Polar Express Inspired Fun
This was a class favorite! All Aboard Glyph and so much more!

Measurement for Beginners is designed to bridge the gap between using concrete objects to measure other concrete objects to actually using rulers to measure concrete and pictured objects. This product helps meet the objectives of Common Core Measurement and Data standards in Kindergarten, 1st and 2nd grade.

Included in this package: 
There are 6 activities included that are all appropriate for large group, small group or individual center work. 
Activity 1 Height and Activity 1 Length both use 3-unit measures and a variety of plant themed pictures.
Activity 2 Height and Activity 2 Length both use 6-unit measures and more plant themed pictures.
Activity 3 Height and Activity 3 Length both use 9-unit measures and still more plant themed pictures.

A Nonfiction Literacy Pack: Let’s Take a Closer Look at Penguins
This pack includes everything you need to teach, investigate, and learn all about penguins with a close up look at Emperor Penguins. 
It includes:
• Anticipatory Set with True/False Questions
• Two Mini-books for guided reading: 
Waddle This Way! AND The Emperor of all Penguins
• Two Informational articles about penguins for older students or to use in place of the mini-books, if desired.
• Two CRQ’s related to the mini-books & articles
• Two Cloze Passages related to the mini-books & articles 
• The parts of a penguin diagram
* Focus on Adaptations Organizer
• A Vocabulary Journal
• Vocabulary Construction Activity that involves breaking down the vocabulary words into prefixes, root word, and suffixes to aid in determining meanings.
• Word Wall Vocabulary Words
• Classroom Poster Set—great for bulletin boards!
• A Penguin Research Mural Project w/Rubric
* Unit Reflection Questionnaire

Remember to check back EVERYDAY this week 

for more favorites 

and

a special mini-lesson freebie:

 "WHAT IS A HERO?"