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Jim Schindler

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Closing Meeting / Closing Circle Questions and Reflection Cards

By Jim Schindler

These 20 reflection and question cards can be used during your closing meeting or closing circle to prompt student reflection about the school day. The cards are business card size and can be run on cardstock and laminated for continued use.

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Critical Thinking, Character Education, Back to School

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Not Grade Specific

Types:

Activities

$3.00

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Name 3 - A Category Guessing Game

By Jim Schindler

This fun, quick-paced game will get your students thinking! This 60-card set includes categories that players must NAME 3 fitting items in a determined amount of time (generally 5-10 seconds). It serves as a great Morning Meeting, Closing Meeting,

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Back to School, Classroom Community

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Not Grade Specific

Types:

Activities, Games

$4.00

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20 Questions Card Set A

By Jim Schindler

This set of 60 cards (Set A) can be used for the popular game 20 Questions as a Morning Meeting activity, for rainy day recess, or whenever a teacher is looking for a fun and quick activity.It can be played like a popular children's game where the

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For All Subject Areas, Back to School, Classroom Community

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Not Grade Specific

Types:

Activities, Games

$3.00

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Morning Meeting Greeting - Fortune Cookie Random Draw

By Jim Schindler

Using this ActiveInspire flipchart, each student will pick a random fortune cookie to reveal a name underneath (editable). The student will greet this person with the assigned greeting of the day. The chosen student will proceed to draw a different

Subjects:

Back to School, For All Subjects, Classroom Community

Grades:

Not Grade Specific

Types:

Activities, Interactive Whiteboard

$3.00

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Geography Quest

By Jim Schindler

Help your students increase their global awareness, utilize a reference book (Rand McNally Junior Classroom Atlas, (c) 2015), practice answering with complete sentences, and to cite evidence for their answers with these 36 weeks of questions. Each

Subjects:

Geography, Reading Strategies, Informational Text

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, 6^th

Types:

Research, Worksheets

$8.00

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Action Verb, Main Verb, Helping Verb Identification Cards

By Jim Schindler

A set of 20 business sized cards contain sentence with action verbs or main verb and helping verb combinations. Students are given a recording sheet (included) to record their answers. This activity may be used in a literacy center, as a practice

Subjects:

Balanced Literacy, Grammar

Grades:

2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th

Types:

Activities, Assessment, Centers

$2.00

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Famous Pairs Card Sets

By Jim Schindler

This download consists of 3 sets of paired cards (each set includes 20 cards = 10 pairs) that can be used to pair student for class work, projects, or as a Morning Meeting greeting. Each set can be copied onto a different color of cardstock for

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For All Subject Areas, Classroom Management, Classroom Community

Grades:

1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th, 5^th

Types:

Activities, Games

$2.50

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Morning Meeting Activity - 20 Questions

By Jim Schindler

This download includes Directions for Use and 60 name cards containing the names of popular people (and characters), places, and common things. Use this activity as a fun way for students to learn to ask pertinent questions to discovery their

Subjects:

Reading, Oral Communication, Back to School

Grades:

Not Grade Specific

Types:

Activities, Games

$5.00

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Word Building Exercises

By Jim Schindler

This 20-page activity will give your students a challenge to build words of 3 or more letters using a series of scrambled letter tiles. Students are also challenged to use ALL the letters on a particular exercise to create the "BIG WORD". This is

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Spelling, Vocabulary

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, 6^th

Types:

Worksheets, Activities

$6.00

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Name Badges or Desk Nameplates

By Jim Schindler

The colorful name badges or deskplates are easy to edit with your students' first and last names. Great for field trip badges, desk nameplates, notebook labels, bulletin board labels to identify student work, and MUCH MORE!

Subjects:

Back to School

Grades:

Not Grade Specific

Types:

Printables, Bulletin Board Ideas

FREE

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Class Jobs - Key Theme

By Jim Schindler

This bulletin board or display set can be an easy way to display the message that "Good Helpers Are KEY to a Successful Classroom!" The set comes with a title or message page, editable keys for your students names, and editable job title headers to

Subjects:

Classroom Management, Back to School

Grades:

1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, 6^th

Types:

Bulletin Board Ideas, Posters

$3.00

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I'm Thinking of a Number - ActiveInspire Game

By Jim Schindler

This ActiveInspire flipchart game is designed to strengthen students' number sense. A "guessor" tries to determine the number projected on the screen behind him/her while asking questions about the number's qualities. 30 predetermined numbers with a

Subjects:

Math, Numbers, Place Value

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, 6^th

Types:

Games, Activboard Activities

$4.00

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Orton-Gillingham Small Phoneme/Grapheme Cards

By Jim Schindler

This pack of 18 pages of business-sized cards contains phoneme/grapheme cards that can be used in small groups, tutoring sessions, literacy centers, and/or home use by students.

Subjects:

Reading, Spelling, Phonics

Grades:

Not Grade Specific

Types:

Activities, Flash Cards, Centers

$5.00

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Categories Word Game

By Jim Schindler

CATEGORIES is a great Morning Meeting activity, literacy game, or an activity for any part of the day as needed. In the game, a student draws a card and begins to name items that fit a particular category in an attempt to get his/her partner to

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Oral Communication, For All Subjects

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, 6^th, Homeschool

Types:

Games

$3.00

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Spelling Games

By Jim Schindler

These colorful direction sheets are ready to print to create instant spelling games and activities for your Words Their Way spelling sorts or any weekly word lists. They are perfect for a learning center or word work station. Most games will require

Subjects:

Balanced Literacy, Spelling, Test Preparation

Grades:

1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, 6^th

Types:

Activities, Games

$5.00

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Daily 5 Station Assignment Cards

By Jim Schindler

These business-sized cards can be used in pocket charts or in other formats to designate which Daily 5 activity each student is engaged in during class rotations. Each card is labeled with text and a related graphic for even your youngest students

Subjects:

Balanced Literacy, Reading, Classroom Management

Grades:

1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th

Types:

Task Cards, Centers

$4.00

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Desk Nameplates & Grouping Aids

By Jim Schindler

The editable nameplates can be the simple solution to your partnering and grouping needs! Simple edit the numbers, letters, and colors on each student's name plate to designate partners or small group members saving you VALUABLE class time in the

Subjects:

For All Subject Areas, Classroom Management, Back to School

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1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, 6^th

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Classroom Forms

$2.00

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20 Questions Card Set B

By Jim Schindler

This set of 60 cards (Set B) can be used for the popular game 20 Questions as a Morning Meeting activity, for rainy day recess, or whenever a teacher is looking for a fun and quick activity.It can be played like a popular children's game where the

Subjects:

Back to School, For All Subjects, Classroom Community

Grades:

Not Grade Specific

Types:

Activities, Games

$3.00

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I'm Thinking of a Number (Set 2) - ActiveInspire Game

By Jim Schindler

Subjects:

Math, Numbers, Place Value

Grades:

2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, 6^th

Types:

Games, Activboard Activities

$4.00

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Reader's Notebook Starter Kit

By Jim Schindler

This "Starter Kit" is designed to assist you and your students as you introduce them to keeping a Reader's Notebook. The pages are "inserts" designed for a standard composition-style notebook. This is the beginning of a product that I will

Subjects:

Balanced Literacy, Literature, Reading Strategies

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, 6^th

Types:

Graphic Organizers, Literature Circles, Interactive Notebooks

$5.00

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TEACHING EXPERIENCE

27 years of classroom teaching, after school enrichment classes, small group and individual tutoring, developing educational materials and games for my own class and others

MY TEACHING STYLE

I like to engage students in learning through a combination and balance of games, activities, role-playing, inquiry, and traditional paper pencil practice.

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MY OWN EDUCATIONAL HISTORY

Public Elementary & High School, Bachelor of Arts in Elementary Education, Bachelor of Science in Theology, and Masters Degree in Elementary Education

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