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!

Store: Mrs. Hansen’s Helpfuls

   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.

Link: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Multi-Step-Word-Problems--2158310

   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


Store: Kelly Malloy

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.

Link: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Countries-of-the-World-Research-Writing-Project-1791660

  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. 

Link: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Calculator-Word-Fun-Math-Game-Task-Cards-2503605

Store: Mrs. J’s Resource Creations

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

Resource link: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/St-Patricks-Day-Reading-Comprehension-Spelling-more-Reading-Mystery-3690752

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

Store: Angie S

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:

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Easter-Activities-BUNDLE-for-Autism-and-Special-Education-3100967 

Videos:  https://youtu.be/CMAbIKsO1wo 
          https://youtu.be/yLeuVPJ_7Xc

Store: Jewel’s School Gems

   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!

Product Link: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Easter-STEM-Activities-BUNDLE-Easter-STEM-Challenges-3692674

Facebook page: https://m.facebook.com/jewelschoolgems/

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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

TPT product  Link: President's 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 

TPT product  Link: 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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Winter Holiday Activity Fun!

Winter Holiday Fun!
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Looking for some great winter and holiday activities for your students? We have come together to help offer you some fantastic ideas to use! We have STEM, fun math games, puzzling mysteries, sentence practice, winter reading, and more! Read on for some great ideas from 5 different shops!

Store: Mrs. Hansen’s Helpfuls

Snow Globe Adventure

Read a great original story about two children who enter into a snow globe adventure! There is a great writing activity that goes along with the story booklet. Create your own snow globe shaped storybook! Different writing templates available.

                                                     

                                                 Snow Globe Adventure Link

Polar Express

Who doesn’t love Chris Van Allsburg’s story, Polar Express? This literature unit includes fun activities and an end of the story craft where students build their own story train!

                                                  Polar Express Unit Link

Store: Kelly Malloy

I love to make math fact practice more fun for my students, because let's face it, the more fun something is, the more likely we are to do it right?  One of my favorite ways to practice math facts during the Christmas season is with this Cookies for Santa game!

I put all of the "cookie" pieces in a leftover Christmas cookie tin upside down.  The students pull the cards out and attempt to answer the fact. If they get it correct, they get to keep the card.  If they get it wrong, it goes back into the tin. If they get the dreaded KABOOM card - they have to put all of their cards back.  The winner is the student with the most cards when time is up.

You can play this game with any type of math facts or vocabulary words written on index cards, or you can check out my pre-made math facts ones here.

Store: Angie S. 

Christmas Activity for Speech Therapy Sentence Building

Forming sentences is very important for young learners. 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. There are 15 groups of winter and Christmas items. The student will match the corresponding picture to answer the questions - What? How Many?

Building Sentences Link

Video Link

Facebook Link

Store: Mrs. J’s Resource Creations

Math Mystery: Case of the Selfish Elf

Uh oh! Which elf is eating all of the delicious cookies made by Mrs. Claus?

Toy production and elf morale are greatly reduced in Santa’s toy factory this year. Students must help Santa figure out who the selfish elf is by using their math skills to discover important clues. Then, your math detectives will be required to apply critical thinking to eliminate elf suspects and narrow it down to one. This activity is a fun way to incorporate math into your Christmas theme and will engage even some of your most reluctant learners. This math mystery activity is available in versions for grades 1 – 6. Choose a level that suits you, or ‘clue swap’ across grades to differentiate this activity with your class (clue swapping is only available using the 2nd- 6th grade versions).

Check out the video hook that can be used to introduce this activity here: 

                                                  

                                             Math Mystery: Case of the Selfish Elf Link

(Individual grade resource links can be found within the video product description section.)

Once upon a Crime ‘Rescue Rudolph’ (Reading Mystery) 

This Christmas Reading Mystery 'Once Upon a Crime - Rescue Rudolph' 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 as being Rudolph's kidnapper.  Everything that you need for this activity is in the download, including the reading passages. Just print, copy for your students and go! Find it here: 

                                   Reading Mystery: Once Upon A Crime Rescue Rudolph Link

Store: Jewel’s School Gems

It can often be a struggle to keep kids engaged during this holiday season. However, things can be easier for you with the right activities that promote learning and engagement. My ChristmasAround the World STEM Challenge Bundle provides hours of engineering fun while making sure your students learn about the Christmas traditions of various countries in the world. Countries included are Australia, Brazil, Egypt, Germany, and Italy. Students can design and build a surfboard for Santa, a Christmas sock for Papai Noel, a foldable ladder for Baba Nöel, a catapult for throwing presents, and a broomstick for Befana. You and your students will surely enjoy these Christmas STEM challenges. Check it out today!

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Thanks,

Erin

Five Fun Thanksgiving Activities!

Five Fun Thanksgiving Activities!

Keeping kids engaged in the classroom and home can be fun with the right Thanksgiving activities. If you are looking for some fun, educational ideas to incorporate the holiday, below, you will find some fantastic resources that do just that! These activities were created by other teachers who have made their creations available to share through their Teachers Pay Teachers store (each item links back to the creator’s shop). 

Thanksgiving STEM Challenges BUNDLE

TPT STORE NAME: Jewel’s School Gems

This Thanksgiving STEM challenge bundle is a fun, creative, and engaging way to get your students designing and building during this time of year. Take your students through the engineering design process and challenge them to build a Mayflower ship, a turkey trap, and a Thanksgiving table by using simple materials, such as popsicle sticks, drinking straw, and skewers. You and your students will surely have a blast!

Link:

Thanksgiving STEM Challenge Bundle

Yes No Questions for Thanksgiving

TPT STORE NAME: Angie S

"Celebrating holidays is a lot of fun at an early age. As a teacher, you have to think of creating and managing activities that would get your students interested in the holiday and get them willing to learn about it. I`ve thought about including Yes – No Questions to improve the vocabulary on Thanksgiving topic. I used real life pictures to help students better understand the meaning of the new words. These worksheets work great for age 3-5 as well as for older students with special needs.“

Link:

 Yes No Questions for Thanksgiving

WATCH THIS VIDEO Showcasing this idea here: Video Link 

A Turkey for Thanksgiving Unit

TPT STORE NAME: Mrs Hansens Helpfuls

A Turkey for Thanksgiving by Eve Bunting is one of my favorite class books to read during Thanksgiving. It is a book about a moose that goes in search of a turkey for Thanksgiving dinner. It is an adorable story with a cute twist at the end. The lesson from this story is one of being thankful for friends. After reading the book, I always have my students do a fun writing craftivity. I first have students color/disguise a clip art of a turkey. The next step in the craftivity is to have students write a story about a turkey that runs away and camouflages itself into something so nobody can find it for Thanksgiving. I have had some really creative writing over the years. These also make great bulletin boards!

Some examples of camouflaged turkeys: 

If you are interested in the literature unit for this book just click the link! 

I also have a link to a set of FREE Thanksgiving themed calendar numbers below!

           

Links: 

A Turkey for Thanksgiving

Calendar Numbers Free

Thanksgiving Math Quest: The Terrible Turkey Takeover

TPT STORE NAME: Mrs J’s Resource Creations

This Thanksgiving Math Quest ‘The Terrible Turkey Takeover’ is a quirky and fun way to engage your students. In this math adventure story, people are turning into turkeys! It is up to the student (the star of the quest) to save Mathhattan by solving a variety of challenges and puzzles using math as they progress reading through the chapters. Three levels of difficulty are provided for differentiation  (EASY, MEDIUM, HARD). The chapters are interchangeable to enable you to customize the math difficulty across the three sets if you need.

An optional video hook is provided to set the stage to engage and introduce your students to the story. View video hook here: VIDEO HOOK LINK 

Link:

The Terrible Turkey Takeover

Thanksgiving Celebration Fact Book

TPT STORE NAME: Beyond Imagination

This fact booklet is perfect to use for a Thanksgiving study, history lesson, or integrated into a wider social studies unit. Learn all about Thanksgiving with your lower elementary grade/ kindergarten/ special education learners using this differentiated printable booklet, which includes some fun bonus adventure passes and post cards.

 Link:

Thanksgiving Celebration Story

Enjoy the ideas!

Erin