This anti-bullying activity will help make your school bully-free! Educational and fun, this anti-bullying game is perfect as a bullying lesson or for indoor recess. The game presents children with real-life scenarios. They’ll learn to solve conflicts, stand up to bullies, and report bullying to adults. My students have been playing this game for years and love it! Playing “Bully Be Gone” takes about 20 minutes. When done, students can play again if they have time. Two to six students can play. If you’d like everyone in the class to play at once, just print multiple copies of the game! Print the game on normal-sized paper. Let students assemble the game themselves in only 10 minutes! The anti-bullying strategies conveyed in this game are informed by Bullying at School: What We Know and What We Can Do, by Dan Olweus; Bullied: What Every Parent, Teacher and Kid Needs to Know about Ending the Cycle of Fear, by Carrie Goldman; and The Bully, the Bullied, and the Bystander, by Barbara Coloroso.

This seating chart in PowerPoint lets you plan seats in a flash! Type students’ names into the boxes once at the start of the year. Then, simply move the boxes in Power Point each time you want to change seats. Color-coding lets you quickly balance the number of girls and boys in each group. You can print a copy for a substitute teacher. You can also print a copy (or save it electronically) to help you remember who has already sat together. You can even display the seating chart on a screen so students can move their own seats. (That’s what I do!)

This story arc graphic organizer will ensure your students write a well-structured fiction story. Each box of the story arc planner contains instructions for what to write and lines for students to write on. Contents: A blank graphic organizer Two filled-in graphic organizers to share as examples Two well-written sample stories that let students see how to turn a story arc into a story

Save hours writing report comments (or “report card comments” if you are from the U.S.) by using these polished, pre-written sentences for year 1-7 (grades K-6 in the U.S.). These 14 pages of editable comments for reports cover social skills, personal responsibility, and academics for students at grade level, below grade level, and above grade level. FEATURES Comments include strengths, areas needing improvement, recommendations for how to improve, and what the teacher will do to help. Statements that parents could misunderstand (“Jenny is working on her reading comprehension”) are avoided in favor of clear, unambiguous language (“Jenny receives extra help to improve her reading comprehension”). Language that some parents might not know, such as “decoding,” “inferring,” and “math facts,” are defined within the comments. SAMPLE SENTENCES (“X” REPRESENTS THE STUDENT’S NAME) In math, X has benefited from extra practice in a small math group and one-on-one with the teacher. While reading, X should remember to predict, ask questions, visualize, and make connections to personal experience. X socializes easily with peers; however, he/she needs to avoid doing so when he/she should be working. WANT TO REALLY SAVE TIME? Download the Magic Comment Machine by searching TES.com for “magic comment machine report generator”. Just paste in pre-written sentences for each student, or type your own. Let the Magic Comment Machine do the rest! It strings the sentences together to form a complete comment for every student. It automatically replaces “X” with the student’s name throughout the comment. It magically replaces he/she, him/her, and his/her with the right pronoun, depending on whether the student is a boy or girl. It requires no previous experience with Excel. You then simply copy the finished comments into your reports!

Rubrics let students know your expectations and let you give feedback quickly! The rubrics in this product are fully editable. You’ll receive: • A blank rubric template • A project rubric • A math solution rubric • A writing rubric With these rubrics, you simply write checkmarks to score students’ work. These rubrics are faster to create than the type of rubric with text in every box. Students will have an easier time reading these rubrics, too. You can easily add rows and columns. (Instructions are included.) You can also change the column headings! You can use these rubrics for any assignment: presentations, posters, reports, writing assignments, reading responses, book discussions, group projects, science experiments, math problems, etc. If you’d like, you can let each student self-evaluate in pencil, and then you can add your own checkmarks in pen.

Your Year 4 (in the U.K.) or Grade 5 (in the U.S.) students will learn to classify triangles and quadrilaterals with these 12 polished, no-prep activities. Sorting polygons by properties will engage your students in higher-order thinking. Watch their geometry skills blossom as they place 2d figures into categories and subcategories. Students will learn to identify the following attributes: parallel, perpendicular, regular, congruent, concave, convex, symmetry, acute angles, right angles, obtuse angles, and vertices. Geometric shapes include equilateral triangle, isosceles triangle, scalene triangle, right triangle, square, rectangle, rhombus, parallelogram, trapezoid, and quadrilateral. 12 Activities • Cut out and sort shapes by property • Define each type of triangle by analyzing examples • Define each type of quadrilateral by analyzing examples • Check off properties of each type of triangle • Check off properties of each type of quadrilateral • Draw shapes on flashcards • List all names for each figure pictured • Cut out and place triangles on a Venn diagram • Cut out and place quadrilaterals on a Venn diagram • Label types of triangles on a Venn diagram • Label types of quadrilaterals on a Venn diagram • Draw an animal and identify its geometric properties Answer keys are included.

Math facts worksheets! No prep! 20 pages of multiplication, division, addition, and subtraction math facts worksheets! Answer keys included, letting students correct their own work! In my 10 years of teaching math facts, nothing I’ve done has improved students’ math fact fluency more than these timed drills. They are perfect as in-class timed tests or as homework practice. If you choose to have students chart their progress using the included graphs, they’ll want to keep improving the speed and accuracy of their math facts! In these clean, clutter-free worksheets, every math fact is included. Contents Implementation suggestions 4 pages of addition math facts 4 pages of subtraction math facts 4 pages of multiplication math facts 4 pages of division math facts 4 pages of mixed operations math facts Graphs for students to record progress (Optional) Answer keys for self-correcting

Thank you notes for the end of the year! Included are 25 designs, in color and black and white. Just print, fold, and write a message on the blank inside. You’ll save money by no longer needing to buy expensive boxes of thank you notes! Give the thank you notes to aides, volunteers, or custodians. Or give them to students at their desks or mail in envelopes. These foldable, professional-quality thank you notes require no cutting. Print them on regular paper. Or use cardstock to create stunning Hallmark-like cards!

Bathroom sign-out sheets let you know who is using the bathroom – and how often. Just copy these bathroom sign-out sheets front-to-back, hole punch, and place them in a 3-ring binder. BENEFITS • See if a student is frequently visiting the bathroom to avoid work so you can provide extra academic support. • Let students see if someone is already in the bathroom. • Hold students accountable for bathroom mischief. • Locate a missing student. • Let students practice telling time.

Do you wish writing report comments (or “report card comments” if you are from the U.S.) took less time? Do you find it tedious to hop between reports every time you want to copy a sentence from one student’s report comment into another? Do you worry you’ll forget to change “he” to “she” or use the wrong student’s name? Do you wish you could focus on just one subject at a time, writing all the students’ math comments, then all the reading comments, etc.? Now you can – with the Magic Comment Machine! No experience with Excel needed! ★ WATCH THE VIDEO BY SEARCHING ON YOUTUBE FOR “MAGIC COMMENT MACHINE BY JENNY SWEET” ★ ★ SAVE EVEN MORE TIME BY SEARCHING TES.COM FOR “POLISHED PRE-WRITTEN SENTENCES FOR REPORT COMMENTS” ★ Just copy and paste my pre-written sentences into the Magic Comment Machine.