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4th grade critical thinking general science resources for parents
Literacy Night Open House Make and Take - Parent Involvement 3rd, 4th, 5th
Involve your upper elementary students and their parents with fun and simple projects they can use at home at your next Open House, Curriculum Evening, or Literacy Night! A Make-and-Take night gives them an immediate tool they can use at home to support essential literacy skills. Perfect for a diverse class in upper elementary, as it can be tailored to suit your school. In this packet, I walk you through the planning of a literacy event at your school, whether you are inviting just your class, o
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3rd - 5th, Staff
Reading Level Guide for Parents - Bundle of Levels A - Z
Encourage reading every night by sending this guide home to parents throughout the school year. Parents want to help their students, but many don't know the things to say and ask their child throughout reading time! This handout serves as an outline of what some effective, higher - order prompts might look like. All of the prompts are based off my experience teaching reading skills and behaviors to students (and explaining these expectations to parents) and the Fountas & Pinnell Continuum of
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K - 5th
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Send Home Family Project STEM Activities - Take Home STEM Challenges in a Baggie
Looking for a fun way to engage families at home? Send home these STEM challenges in a baggie to keep your students entertained with their families. Each challenge starts with a cleverly written riddle that doubles as the directions for the STEM challenge. Simply copy the poem and add the easy-to-find supplies into a small baggie. You can send home one baggie a month OR use these activities in your classroom, too! With easy-to-find supplies like toothpicks, marshmallows, sticky notes, alumin
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K - 5th
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Student Self Reflection & Evaluation | Conferences & Report Cards
This student self reflection resource is an excellent way for your students to evaluate their learning to share during student led and parent teacher conferences. It can be used for any reporting period to converse with your students about their successes and ways in which they can improve. The activity can be used for in person instruction as well as assigned digitally to share in an online portfolio.May be used as a printable resource or assigned on Google Classroom with your students.Resourc
Grades:
4th - 8th
Stranger Danger Story - Social skills Narrative
Stranger Danger StoryThis Social skill support is a small book highlighting the danger of strangers and what not to do.A Stranger Danger work sheet is part of this unit.These small books can be laminate for durability and read to or with your pupils.Be first to see new products I upload by clicking the green star next to my store to becoming a follower…. This will enable you to be updated on some great new products!Thank you so much for looking!The Picture Communication Symbols ©1981–2011 by Dyn
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PreK - 5th
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Also included in: Social Skills - A BUNDLE OF STORIES for Autism/Special Needs
Bar Modeling Posters
Do you need a way to help your students understand the complex concept of bar modeling?
This product provides teachers with tools to guide students through solving math problems with bar models. The first set of posters includes one example bar model problem from each grade level. The purpose of these posters is to remind/review the concepts of bar models that was taught in previous grades. The second group of posters demonstrate four main types of bar models that students can apply to a story
Grades:
2nd - 5th
Behavior Reflection Sheet
We use this in our first grade class to help students understand the consequences of their actions. They "Stop and Reflect" in order to make a better choice the next time.
*I have recently updated the document to include a middle grade version for 3-5 with more grade appropriate wording and formatting!
After it is completed, fold in half to keep private. The student signs it, the teacher signs it, then it goes home for the parent to sign.
It has helped our parent communication immensely to
Grades:
PreK - 5th
Virginia Fourth Grade Science SOL Parent Guides
Want to help your students' parents and guardians better understand the Virginia science standards? These child- and parent-friendly guides break down the big ideas in each Virginia fourth grade science SOL and offer options to extend student learning. These also serve as a handy quick-reference guide for teachers!8 parent guides are included for the 4th grade 2018 Science SOLs. (Need this for the 2010 standards? Please leave me a Q&A.)For each SOL, I've included:a short blurb about the stan
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4th - 5th
Also included in: Mega 4th and 5th Grade Science SOL Review Bundle
Lunchbox Notes Daily Jokes for Students
304 daily brain breaks, joke of the day, or lunchbox jokes combine humor, language review, and critical thinking practice. Jokes are grouped by their topics, which include school, Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, animals, Valentine's Day, science, careers, math, sports, and summer. Parents can choose a daily joke to place with a child's lunch. Teachers can draw one out of a basket each day for morning meetings, brain breaks, or class discussions. The cards could also be projected for cursive
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3rd - 5th
Growth Mindset Information Letters for Parents: Send Home Notes
Growth Mindset Letters for Parents: 33 Weekly Informational NotesGrowth Mindset Information for Parents: This growth mindset notes for parents pack is perfect for teachers who want to help parents understand growth mindset concepts. In addition to 33 half-page notes that can be sent home throughout the year, you will find two pages of information to send home right at the beginning of the year (or the beginning of your growth mindset instruction). These pages give parents a firm foundation fo
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2nd - 10th
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First Day Back to School Science Welcome Letter and EDITABLE Syllabus
This is a Back to School EDITABLE Science Welcome Letter and Syllabus I made for the first day of school for my upper elementary and middle school students and parents. It can be edited to fit your needs, rules, procedures, and even subject! It includes cute clip art and a student information page that the parents fill out and return for the teacher! It’s a huge time saver especially for new teachers!Also, check out my editable NGSS Back to School or Open House Slideshow which is sure to impres
Grades:
4th - 9th
Also included in: NGSS Middle School Science Activities and Lessons Growing MEGA Bundle
Conference Letter for Student Self-Evaluation to Parents CCSS Grades 3-6
This Student-to-Parent Conference Letter transforms communication, ensuring that crucial information is conveyed effectively and efficiently. By involving students in the conversation, it promotes accountability and enriches the conference experience.Key Features of This Resource:Student Self-Evaluation: Students assess their academic journey and set future goals.Streamlined Communication: Creates a clear, direct dialogue between teachers, students, and parents.Collaborative Approach: Designed f
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3rd - 6th
Reading Level Guide for Parents - Levels N - Z
Encourage reading every night by sending this guide home to parents throughout the school year. Parents want to help their students, but many don't know the things to say and ask their child throughout reading time! This handout serves as an outline of what some effective, higher - order prompts might look like. All of the prompts are based off my experience teaching reading skills and behaviors to students (and explaining these expectations to parents) and the Fountas & Pinnell Continuum of
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2nd - 5th
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Also included in: Reading Level Guide for Parents - Bundle of Levels A - Z
At Home STEM Challenges Homeschool - Activities Google Classroom - 50% off
At Home STEM Challenges | Remote Learning STEM | Distance Learning {Print & Digital}**Now includes Google Slides Version! There are 6 At-Home STEM Challenges in this pack. Each STEM Challenge has photo examples, a list of materials needed, prediction section, brainstorming section, trials 1, 2, & 3, final results section with drawings, and a reflection section.This resource has science, technology, engineering, and measurement activities to do with upper elementary kids that will reall
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Grades:
3rd - 8th
SCIENCE: Jack & the Beanstalk Science Fair Experiment (Plants)
This is an absolute blast to do!
My 9 year old daughter and I designed it for her science fair and it was a huge hit, but at the same time, I was teaching fairytales, so I used it as a class experiment and wow! We had SO MUCH FUN with this! There's lots of choice involved, as far as bean planting goes. There is a learning journal, a line graph to show growth and a table/bar graph to show rate of growth. You can not go wrong with this project- I even include a mock up of the tri-fold board!
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Grades:
1st - 6th
Dyslexia and Dysgraphia Collection: Dyslexia Games - Letter and Word Activities
Dyslexia and Dysgraphia Workbooks – Special Education Collection -- This program includes 27 worksheets to boost the mind for students with dyslexia or dysgraphia. -- No matter how smart your child may be, he/she may have problems learning to read and write. Some are classified as dyslexics. Dyslexia is a disorder that affects 11% of the people. Still we do not know what causes dyslexia but there is a strong body of research pointing in the directions that it can be treated. It was centuries a
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PreK - 5th
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Emotional Regulation and Behavior Management - File Folder Game
Teach students anger regulation, problem-solving, and critical thinking skills with this dinosaur-themed file folder game! Children will be captivated by "TriceraSTOP and Think” as they learn new skills and strategies with numerous real-life applications. This easy to assembly and exciting-to-use file folder game allows children to learn new calming strategies, coping skills, and emotional regulation tools. Students will learn how to stop a potentially emotionally charged situation, calm themse
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2nd - 4th
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Wind Vane
Use this template to have your students make their own wind vane. They will have a blast putting the wind vane together and learning about wind measuring.
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2nd - 6th
Family Emergency Plan Trifold Disaster Preparedness (NOT editable)
Welcome to My Coastal Classroom!After the recent hurricanes trampled my area and other areas of the US, I wanted some kind of plan for my students to complete with their families. It's crucial for everyone in your family to be prepared. Here's a way for parents and kids to talk to each other and communicate the best ways to be ready!Included in this trifold are spaces to discuss:-hurricane information in a KWL-type format-survival kits-emergency contacts-5 important items students would want t
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2nd - 12th, Staff
Science Fair Parent Handbook
This Parent Handbook is a great resource to assist families at your school with their child's Science Fair project. This parent guide is especially helpful for the lower elementary grade parents who may be unfamiliar with the different elements required. There is an editable cover for you to include your school or class name and the parent letter has an editable dates.
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K - 4th
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LEGO Challenge STEAM STEM Activites
Are you looking to enhance your child's engineering skills? I have just made it easy for you! I have researched and created 20 different activities that can be used with LEGOs or Duplos. The activities are varied to get your little one interested in building.
*This listing is for the digital download of 20 activity tags (PDF document). Print them on Avery 8160 labels. Place the labels on tags, index cards or in a notebook for easy reference!
Age: Toddler to Middle School
Skill: Building, Engi
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PreK - 6th
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Magnetic tiles buildings plans. STEM hands-on activity. Spatial thinking.
Engaging STEM activity for children 5 to 10 years old.- 10 buildings in total - 3 projections for each building: front, back and top!- Different levels of difficultySpatial thinking involves visualizing, interpreting, and reasoning using object located in space. Ability to visualize and imagine 3D objects is one of the important features of full-brain thinking. This set of visual tasks is called to develop and improve spatial thinking.Try to build a magnetic tiles building following the Front, B
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K - 5th
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Literacy Night Open House Free Make and Take Activity for 3rd, 4th, 5th
Literacy Night, Open House, Parent Night! No matter what you call it, this Make and Take freebie: Cootie Catchers for Comprehension is perfect! Do you have Literacy Night at your school? I love to invite families to a fun make-and-take session for Literacy Night. I've helped organize, prepare, and lead Literacy Nights many times over the course of my teaching career, and I plan to continue this tradition for years to come. This product is a fun activity from my fun and engaging product that real
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3rd - 5th
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Synectics Questions for Get to Know You / Back to School / Critical Thinking
Synectics questions take two unlike items and put them into a question of comparison in a unusual way. These are then discussed, with all answers being okay as long as you have a reason to back up your point of view.Perfect for discussions in pairs, morning meetings, circle time, back to school get to know you activities, centers, creative writing opinion prompts, chalk talk, debate preparation and more.Easy for all students to participate in because there's no one "right" answer. They're a type
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2nd - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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