ST. PATRICK'S DAY TEACHING RESOURCES

It's about time, teachers, for St. Patrick's Day! These resources will be perfect for this week...

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March Teaching Resources

 

Are you ready for all things March? Prepare your classroom and lessons for this special month that ushers in spring.

What could be better than a bulletin board that serves as a math center? 

Challenge your students' critical thinking and fluency as they determine how many ways they can reach the target number. The task is similar to Boogle™ for numbers. Post the operation symbols and the target number you choose to easily differentiate the task.

Try this FREEBIE:

SCRATTLE is a differentiated, math and literacy, learning center activity that combines word work with computation; individual effort with competition. As in Scrabble™, students use a set of letters to create words. After recording their words, they calculate each word’s score using the letter values. Then they engage a friend in a battle wherein they compare their scores using >, <, and =. The student with the most >s wins the battle! (SCRAbble + baTTLE = SCRATTLE!)

This brand new resource is specially made for TPT Easel. (No print product is available.) 

Students will exercise deductive reasoning, inferencing, drawing conclusions, sequencing, problem solving, and computation.

It simply wouldn't be a fresh, new month without a new poetry unit.

POETRY POSSIBILITES for MARCH is a collection of 11 poems about St. Patrick’s Day, March weather, signs of spring, and kites. Each poem is followed by a page of teaching possibilities. These possibilities include a teaching point pertaining to poetry, as well as custom designed skill lessons and activities from multiple disciplines.

February Classroom Decor FREEBIE

The dawn of a new month means it's time for new decor.  This product is FREE and it offers lots of fun, February decorations.

Try this bulletin board math center:

The center is open-ended and easily differentiated, making it perfect for any elementary classroom. It is similar to Boogle(TM) for numbers. Using adjacent numbers, students are challenged to reach the target number in as many ways as possible. You post the operation symbols appropriate for your learners and change the target number as often as you choose. Critical thinking and fluency are exercised along with computation skills. And, this display is good for the whole month!

How Many Ways? makes a wonderful anchor activity, math center, fast finishers' challenge, and/or enrichment project. 

100th Day of School FREEBIE!

It's about time for the 100th day of school and that's cause for celebration!  I have a FREEBIE to help you with this special day:

There are 4 poems in Poetry Possibilities -- 100th Day of School Edition. Each poem has a teaching point related to poetry and teaching possibilities from multiple disciplines that are custom designed for it. For example:

Learn more about this unit from this video:

Enjoy the 100th day!

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It's About Time for M.L. King, Jr. Day!

It's about time, teachers, to get ready for MLK, Jr. Day! You may enjoy this FREE poetry resource. It comes with teaching possibilities and is best suited to intermediate students.

Enjoy!

DECEMBER FREEBIES for TEACHERS

 

This time of year is all about giving.  It is my pleasure to offer these gifts to you:

• CHRISTMAS CONFECTIONS SQUARE PUZZLERS

• SCRATTLE: CHRISTMAS EDITION

• VOCABULARY FRACTIONS: CHRISTMAS EDITION
  
  
• JINGLE JINGLE MAKING WORDS CENTER  
  
  
• RUDOLPH'S RED NOSE & HO HO HOs WORKSHEETS
  
  
  
  
  
  

I hope you enjoy these FREEBIES.  Have a safe and wonderful December.

Even More FEBRUARY FREEBIES!!

It's about time, teachers, for some more February FREEBIES!

SCRATTLE: Patriotic Edition is differentiated, making it appropriate for all grades 1-5.  Students make words from a collection of letters, then compute the value using addition, multiplication, or mixed operations.  There is a recording sheet for each of the named computation requirements.  Next they engage a friend in a Scrattle Battle, comparing their word values as =, >, or <.  The word warrior with the most >s wins!  Stand back and watch your learners quickly eschew those 3 and 4 letter words for longer ones.

February is Dental Health Month, so attend to that with this FREE product.  It includes a song, class graphing, lost tooth bags, a word find, scrambled sentences, tooth idioms, and tooth problems math.

It's Leap Year and your students will leap for joy with this free unit.  Included are word work, verbal fluency exercises, and math challenges.

February is fabulous and filled with freebies from my store.  Enjoy!

K-5 iPad Mini 4 Giveaway

You can win this iPad Mini 4, complete with a child-friendly case, just by going to the rafflecopter. Once there, you have a variety of ways to enter for the chance to win.  It's 100% free. 

"Springtime is the land awakening.  

The March winds are the morning yawn."

                              -Lewis Grizzard