Target Gift Tag for Teacher Appreciation Gift and/or End of School Year Gift

Looking for Teacher Appreciation gift ideas for your child's teacher?  These Target gift card tags make the perfect teacher gifts!!

Print the gift tags for FREE by clicking HERE and simply attach a Target gift card to it!

These Target gifts are so easy to make for teachers:

Simply print these gift tags on cardstock paper and tape a Target gift card to the tag.

Your gift is now ready to give to a teacher!

There are two versions of the tag options.

Version #1 is great to use for a teacher appreciation gift.

Version #2 is great to use for a teacher end of the school year gift!

Click HERE to download the Target gift tags for FREE from my TpT store!

2D and 3D Shape Riddles

These shape riddles are a fun way to help your students practice their 2D (plane shapes) and 3D shape names and attributes! 

The riddles help cover shape attributes such as the number of sides and vertices each shape has.

Assembly Directions:

Simply tape the riddle and shape picture onto a piece of 12x18 construction paper. 

To create the hidden shape question mark flap, attach the question mark page over the shape picture by stapling it along the top edge of the paper.

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Assembly is fast and easy!

How to Use:

Read the riddle to your students. 

Have them guess what shape goes with the riddle. 

Flip to reveal what shape is under the question mark to see if they are correct! 

These riddles are also great to place at a center!

Grab these Shape Riddles from my TpT store HERE!

Reading Fluency Brochure - a Parent Handout Great for Parent/Teacher Conferences

 With parent/teacher conferences right around the corner I thought I would share one important handout I give to a lot of my parents during Spring conferences.

It seems like this is the time of year where first graders who are fluent readers really start taking off with their reading and children who are struggling with reading fluency really start to lag behind.

Since reading fluency is such an important skill to build, I talk a lot about reading fluency with those parents who have a child struggling in that area during Spring conferences.

I like to give out this brochure because it really helps me discuss what reading fluency is and why it’s important for their child to have.

This reading fluency brochure is a simple, print-and-go resource to give parents to provide them with information and tips on how to foster reading fluency at home. 

The inside of the brochure describes what reading fluency is, why it's important, and lists ways parents can help improve their child's reading fluency at home.

The back of the brochure gives parents fun sight word activities to do at home with their child to help build reading fluency.

Simply print these two pages front to back then fold the paper to create a tri-fold brochure. 

Not only is this brochure helpful to handout and discuss during Parent/Teacher conferences, it’s also great at IEP meetings, RTI meetings, etc.

I like to attach some sight word flash cards with this handout for a great fluency building homework packet. 

You can read more about my printable sight word flash cards HERE!

Parents walk away from conferences feeling like they have an easy plan in place to help their child practice and build their reading fluency at home.

Click HERE to download my Reading Fluency Brochure from my TpT Store!

Click HERE to download my Dolch flash card set!

Click HERE to download my Fry flash card set!

Sight Word Flash Cards, Sight Word Parent Notes, & Sight Word Homework Log for Parent/Teacher Conferences

With parent/teacher conferences right around the corner I thought I would share something I always do at my conferences.

I always send home practice pages with parents when I talk to them about their child struggling in a certain area.

If that area is handwriting then I send home handwriting practice pages, if it’s in the area of math facts then I send home flash cards, etc.

Since my students are in first grade one of the most common things some of them struggle with is reading fluency.  That is why I send parents home with these sight word practice pages.  They can use these to practice building their child’s sight word recognition at home.

Parents are always so appreciative when they leave conferences knowing they have a game plan in place to help their child improve in the area they are struggling with.

Here’s a look at my sight word flash card bundle that I send home with my parents.

I include a parent note explaining what sight words are and why they are important.

I also include a whole page of ideas on how they can practice sight words with their child at home AND in FUN ways!

You can also begin to send home this weekly checklist to remind parents to have their child practice their sight words as homework each night.

Grab the Sight Word Bundle Links Below!

Click HERE to download my black and white sight word flash cards (Fry word lists) from my TpT store.

Click HERE to download my black and white sight word flash cards (Dolch word lists) from my TpT store.

Check out these other great handouts and practice pages I send home with parents during Parent/Teacher conferences.

Addition Flash Cards

Subtraction Flash Cards

Handwriting Practice Pages

Reading Fluency Brochure