Monday, April 2, 2018

Spring into April!


Spring into April!
Start off April with these fabulous activities. We have butterflies, plants, mystery math, mental math, Spring clothing lessons, telling time, understanding character traits, end of the year awards, and more!



Students will love learning all about plants and the plant life cycle with this hands-on activity pack! In this unit, there are reading passages, comprehension questions, fun activities, vocabulary posters, and a flip book!






Students will love learning all about butterflies this Spring! This fun unit includes:
*Reading passages all about butterflies
*Monarch butterflies
*Comprehension questions
*Life Cycle of a Butterfly
*Parts of a Butterfly




(Available in versions for 1st - 6th Grade)
 Engage and motivate your students with this fun Math Mystery. NO PREP, just print and go!  Students will need to answer a variety of math problems that will help them solve who the Bee Bandits are!

This packet comes with an optional video hook to set the stage to engage before the paper part of the activity. VIEW video here: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Spring-Activity-Case-of-the-Bee-Bandits-Math-Mystery-3074219
The video can also be viewed on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eZjGUH58iw

(Available in versions for 1st - 6th Grade)
Your students will be engaged and motivated by this fun detective story, which also encourages critical thinking as they must reason their way through eliminating litterbug suspects. These NO PREP worksheets are challenging, yet fun to use as part of your regular math sessions, sub-tubs, early finishers, or for enrichment (go a grade level higher to increase difficulty). 

An optional video hook is also provided to set the stage to engage. View the video here: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Earth-Day-Activity-Case-of-the-Litterbug-Grades-1-6-Earth-Day-Math--3070915
OR 


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What Do I Wear in the Spring Interactive Book for early age, pre-K and Special Education students can be used in March, April and May. The resource uses real life pictures that works great with students with autism. It is great for learning the spring clothing as well as the body parts they should be used on. 

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Video on YouTube:  https://youtu.be/qMlmyGon4_s



Spring is a time we can start to dive deep into characters. I use these character trait cards to help students recognize different traits for characters in the books they are reading, class read-a-louds, etc. Many times using these cards we even get to debate which trait fits a particular character the best! This product has many different activities you can use year round.



No better time than Spring TIME to work on telling time. This product has many differentiated levels to help your students improve their telling time, elapsed time, adding and subtracting time, and understanding time with missing variables skills.



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Mental Math - 100 problem cards that encourage your students to solve math problems in their head quickly! 
Youtube link Mental Math Tiles

You can use these mental math task cards as a math warm up to begin your math lesson, or use as a time filler throughout the day.

Students each have ten digit cards on their desk as you read each card. The students use the digits to keep track of the math tasks they are computing in their head. They love being able to follow along with each task and eventually end up with the correct answer.

I use these cards for whole group, small group, and even partnership lessons.

These mental math problems will increase your students' listening, problem solving, and computation skills. 





In this set of end of year awards you will receive 50 different awards with a boy and girl version for each one (a total of 100 certificates!). I have also included black and white versions of all 100 awards for your printing preference.

This is a zip file that includes a PDF file that you can print and write the student names, as well as a PowerPoint file that you can customize to include the students’ names and even to add a new category that I may have forgotten.

Several of the awards could be used throughout the year as monthly or quarterly awards such as Attendance, Math Wizard, Super Speller, etc.

I love to celebrate my students with end of the year awards! It gives me a chance to recognize their talents and their growth throughout the year! 





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Sunday, March 11, 2018

March Madness!!!




March Madness!
  It is not just college basketball players who get to have all the fun! Teachers are CRAZY busy in March with test prep, St. Patrick’s Day, upcoming Easter holiday, and more! We have put together some fun activities to help make lesson planning a little easier.  Plus, follow the Rafflecopter link at the bottom of the page to win a $50 TPT gift card and ALL the products listed!


   For many classrooms we are starting to prepare for upcoming state testing. I always break this product out this time of year to help students with multi-step word problems. This product allows the teacher to break students into differentiated groups where students can also present how they solved the problem. This product also works with whole class instruction too.



   Many teachers teaching second grade CKLA this year, are already reading or about to start Sir Gus Unit 5. This product will help improve and assess student comprehension and grammar skills for this book. In addition, this unit now includes a spelling component.

Link: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Sir-Gus-Unit-5-CKLA-Grade-2-3612284


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Countries of the World Research Project (Common-Core Aligned)
   Need to incorporate research writing into your curriculum? This is a perfect product for introducing report writing centered on your student's choice of country. Students will complete their own mini-book about the country of their choice along with an oral presentation. 

Included in this Countries of the World Research project are:
•Teacher Directions
•I Can Statement Cards
•Research Graphic Organizers 
•Final Draft forms
•Parent Letter
and
•Grading Rubric

I have also included several editable pages so that you can customize the project to fit your needs.




  These calculator word fun task cards are a fun and engaging way for your students to practice math computation tasks (addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division). 
  Do you remember typing numbers into a calculator and then flipping it over to see a word? Maybe you typed in .07734 to see the word hello? Now your students will have the same great memories as they practice math skills, and then check their answers using a calculator. These task cards can be used as a math center, with small groups, for fast finishers, or even as a whole class scavenger hunt. You can use the cards alone, or use the task card answer sheets included. I have included 48 task cards including 24 whole number cards and 24 decimal cards to allow for differentiation. 



Fool’s Gold – Reading Mystery
   This print and go St Patrick's Day Reading Mystery incorporates a range of ELA skills in one. The main focus is for students to read the text carefully, and reread to complete the activities.
Students must complete the tasks after reading each passage to discover clues. Each clue requires students to critically think to decide which suspects they can eliminate from their suspect list. The last suspect remaining is who needs to be arrested for the 'Fool's gold.' 
  

   There is a Video Hook included for optional use. It has been designed to ask questions about what is going on? That’s when they must read to find out.  It can be viewed here: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/St-Patricks-Day-Reading-Comprehension-Activity-Reading-Mystery-Video-Hook-3690768


The Case of The Misplaced Pot of Gold – Math Mystery
   This St Patrick’s Day, send your children on a mystery mission to find out where Leroy accidentally left his pot of gold. Completing math questions is required to unlock clues, which will help narrow down a list of locations of where Leroy’s pot of gold is. There is a video hook for optional use to introduce this math activity. A written story is also included in the PDF case file.
This fun NO PREP activity is available in versions for grades 1-6!
Find the individual grade links within the video hook product description here: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/St-Patricks-Day-Math-Mystery-Video-Hook-3016671


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This is a set of activities, worksheets and flashcards with real life photos are all you need for Easter basket! They are great for Kindergarten and preschool students as well as for early age and children with autism. Your student will learn the vocabulary, improve alphabet skills, answer questions and build sentences using words on the topic. 



Easter Activities BUNDLE:


   Are you constantly on the lookout for resources that promote learning and engagement even during the holidays and near school breaks? Why not try STEM projects for a change! This Easter STEM Challenge Bundle provides hours of engineering fun while making sure your students do their research, follow the engineering design process, and reflect as to what worked and did not work. Your kiddos can design and build an Easter egg basket, an egg launcher, and an egg conveyor belt using simple and affordable materials. You and your students will surely enjoy these Easter STEM activities. Check it out today!



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Wednesday, January 31, 2018

Fabulous February Resources

To help you in your search for some educational and engaging resources for February, we have come together to show you a collection of activities to make classroom planning for this month a little easier. We are also excited to announce that we will be running a giveaway for a chance to win all of the resources featured in this post! Scroll to the end of this post to find the Rafflecopter to enter this giveaway competition.

 Chinese New Year
TPT product  Link: Chinese New Year



Chinese New Year is almost here! This is the year of the dog and the celebration begins on February 16th. This unit includes a booklet with student activities and coloring. New additions include, create your own fortune cookie and share it with a friend. Students will also learn about the different animals of the zodiac and which animal they represent. Gong Hay Fat Choy!

Biography Report Booklet
TPT product  Link: Biography Report


 This is the time of year we start diving into biographies. This biography report was originally created with the Who Was series in mind. However, this biography report works with ANY biography. Students take notes on the person of interest. Then teachers can choose whether to have the biography in report form OR have students create a biography booklet. My students had a blast with this and I think yours will too!

Valentine`s Day Building Sentences
TPT product  Link: Valentines Day Building Sentences



Forming sentences is very important for young learners or those with autism. This activity uses real-life pictures for easy recognition of common objects and sight words as sentence starters. It is perfect for early readers. This is also an activity to practice identifying the attributes of what, the number, and the color of a group of items.

You Tube Link: Video


Valentine`s day Yes No Questions
TPT product  Link: Valentine's Yes No Questions


This is a great activity to target basic yes/no questions, good for students with autism and special needs. After the students have learned the vocabulary on Saint Valentine`s Day topic let them answer the questions and circle the right answer. Laminate the pages and use dry erase markers to write on the cards, thus you can reuse them as many time as you want.

You Tube Link: Video


Third Grade Math Centers & Activities – Snow Much Math
TPT product  Link: Snow Much Math


5 Third Grade Math Centers and Activities covering the following skills: Telling time, elapsed time, addition and subtraction with regrouping, multiplication facts, and multiplication and division.


Presidents Research Writing Project


This is a perfect product for introducing report writing centered on your student's choice of US Presidents. Students will complete their own mini-book about the President of their choice along with an oral presentation.

The unit can be used for a non-fiction unit or in
honor of Presidents' Day. 


Math Quest: The Heartless Queen 
TPT product  Link: Math Quest: The Heartless Queen


Send your students on an epic Math Quest with this fun story “The Heartless Queen”. This is a fun activity to get some extra math practice, enrichment or for your early finishers. With SIX exciting chapters to work through, students can end up with one of four possible endings as they try to help Athtar the Knight find and return the Ice Queen's heart back. Available in three modes of math difficulty (Easy, Medium, Hard).

You Tube Link: Video

Reading Mystery: Once Upon a Crime, Poisoned Valentine 



This print and go activity is a fun way to incorporate a range of ELA skills in one. Students will be required to read the story and complete activities to discover clues. Each clue requires students to critically think to decide which suspects they can eliminate from their suspect list to help them solve this Valentine crime!
Everything that you need for this activity is in the download, including the reading passages.




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