Engaging Resources for BUSY Teachers!
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Engaging Resources for BUSY Teachers
Fresh Spring Activities for Building Number Sense The snow has melted and spring is finally here! Look below to find some fresh ideas for activities to use with your class or include in your spring math centers. Spring Garden Counting Clip Cards Build number sense for numbers 1-20. Students count fun spring themed pictures and …
Sweet Ideas for Valentine’s Day Add some of these sweet Valentine’s Day activities to your math or literacy centers this February. Students have fun practicing important math and reading skills with these engaging activities featuring chocolates, flowers, candy, teddy bears, hears, and more! Valentine’s Day Write the Room (It’s Editable!) Post the word cards around the room. …
Critical thinking or logical reasoning is an invaluable skill that students use throughout their lives. Class time is limited, so critical thinking lessons may get pushed aside with the need to prepare for standardized testing. However, this can be short-sighted. Critical thinking skills will help students perform better on those big tests as well as …
Fun Ideas for Your Winter Math Centers Looking for some fresh ideas to add a little fun to your winter math centers? Your students will enjoy exploring math concepts and solving problems with these winter activities. Measuring Length Activity Cards Students get hands on practice measuring length with this set of 12 measurement cards. Use regular rulers …
Explore the Fun of Winter with These Engaging Literacy Activities. Penguins, snowmen, and polar bears, oh my! Winter is here. Your students will love practicing reading and writing with these fun winter themed activities. Winter Read and Cover Activity Set (It’s Editable!) Students choose a card and read the word. They then look for the …
Bring the fun and excitement of Christmas into your math and literacy activities! I enjoy seeing my students’ eyes light up when they see an engaging new learning game or center activity with elves, reindeer, and of course the jolly guy in the red suit. Students have fun while practicing important reading, writing, and math …
The situation is all too familiar. Your students do well on their weekly spelling tests. However, a week or so later they misspell some of those same words in a writing assignment. You thought they mastered the concepts from last week’s amazing grammar lesson about commas. Their writing papers show otherwise. What can you do …
Math Facts In order for students to succeed at higher-level math, they must first develop a strong foundation of understanding. Mastering basic math facts is a critical component of this. One way to help students understand math facts is by showing the relationships between numbers using a fact family. Take a look at this fun …
Are you looking for an engaging way to integrate more technology into your classroom? Has your school gone 1:1? Are you curious about going digital in your classroom? Would you like to try an interactive lesson for Google Drive™? If so, wonderful! I have a free resource for you to try it out. (scroll down) …
You know that parent-teacher communication is important. So, each and every week you put together a beautiful class newsletter. You fill it with all the important details about the wonderful events in your classroom. You include spelling words, upcoming birthdays, test dates, etc. Then you publish this great masterpiece on your class website…where it is …
Thanksgiving is only 2 weeks away. I am looking forward to spending the day with my big extended family. This summer we moved back to MN so we could be closer to our family, so we are really looking forward to this holiday season. Today I created a fun cut and past activity to practice …
Sentence Scrambles: It’s Time for Some Winter Fun Bundle up. Grab the hot cocoa. Winter will be here soon. My kids are looking forward to the first snowfall. They have big plans for making snow angels and building snowmen. With this in mind, I created a new snowman themed sentence building activity. Best of all, …
