IT'S ABOUT TIME, TEACHERS, for PRESIDENTS!

 

Inauguration Day is Jan. 20th and Presidents' Day is Feb. 17th. So, it's about time for some presidential resources.

How about some trivia about our leaders? These 20 task cards will reveal interesting and intriguing facts about our presidents. Use them for a research project or enrichment. Available digitally and in print. Click here to jump to the product page.

Extend the learning to math and literacy with VOCABULARY FRACTIONS TASK CARDS. Your learners will reveal the names of presidents by combining fractional parts of words. They must deduce the correct word represented by the picture and use correct spelling. Solving equivalent fractions provides even more challenge. These task cards are presented in print and digitally on TPT Easel.

PRESIDENTS VOCABULARY FRACTIONS are so fun that I made 2 sets! Click here for the 2nd edition.

PRESIDENTS SQUARE PUZZLERS are fun and challenging brain teasers. The puzzles must be reconstructed so that the images match on every interior side. This builds perseverance and stamina, but disguises it all as fun.

Some poetry for presidents allows you to teach about the presidents, poetry, and so many other topics. Check out the POETRY POSSIBILITIES provided to find skill lessons and activities.

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IT'S ABOUT TIME, TEACHERS, for CREATIVITY PROJECTS!

• Do you want to cultivate creativity without adding to your overloaded schedule?
• Do you want to build constructive home-school connections?
• Do you want a full year of project assignments that will build right brain thinking?
• Do you want resources that are print-and-go?

If you answered YES to any of these questions, then -

Destination: Imagination via Creative Thinking is perfect for satisfying your goal of building creativity. These products are designed to be completed at home, giving overly eager parents a constructive way to work with their students. (Teachers of gifted students are well acquainted with this problem phenomena.) Sharing their projects with the class gives students the opportunity to speak meaningfully. This product line is designed to be teacher friendly by providing a weekly assignment sheet, award certificates to recognize the creators' efforts, and tips and tricks to ensure success.

Destination: Imagination via Creative Thinking was designed for gifted students to promote the 4 traits of gifted children: fluency, flexibility, elaboration, and originality. But really, what child wouldn't benefit from working on those aspects? I have found the projects work very well with heterogeneous groups and have successfully used it with 1st - 5th graders. But you don't have to take my word for it. Try these FREE samples before you buy the collections:

Each volume of Destination: Imagination via Creative Thinking supplies projects for a full semester.

Here's a preview of Volume 1:

IT'S ABOUT TIME, TEACHERS, for SUDOKU!

 

Teaching your students to play SUDOKU has so much more value than just fun. Working on these puzzles gives your learners experience with problem solving skills, critical thinking abilities, perseveration practice, and improved focus. If you haven't introduced SUDOKU to your class, let me help you.

Use this animated PowerPoint presentation to break the process down into digestible bits.

Get it here:

Once you've given your students the tools to solve the puzzles, give them puzzles!  These are differentiated:

I use SUDOKU for:

• a critical thinking center
• differentiated instruction for enrichment and gifted students
• challenging fast finishers
• an anchor activity
• indoor recess
• a class reward

You may wish to provide "pre-sudoku" practice with Latin Squares.  They give similar practice on 3x3 through 7x7 grids. Here's an example:

IT'S ABOUT TIME, TEACHERS, for $1 WORDS!

 

Have you ever shared Because of Mr. Terupt, by Rob Buyea, with your class?  If you haven't, it's about time to try it. This delightful book tells about Mr. Terupt's 5th grade class from the perspective of various students. Your learners will enjoy the novel because of its authentic characters and realistic action.  Year after year, my learners sprint to the library to secure the sequels.  It warms my teacher's heart to see them have such enthusiasm for reading.

Throughout the story, Mr. Terupt sprinkles $1 WORDS. $1 WORDS are those that equal exactly $1 using the following table of values:

As a lifelong logophile, these words fascinate me. I embraced the challenge to find words worth exactly $1 and, with the help of my computer guru son, promptly found more than 600! Naturally, I had to create $1 WORD activities to challenge my students.

Many educators invite their learners to find $1 WORDS; just find some. What could be more frustrating to a child than to start blindly calculating the value of words with absolutely no parameters? The odds of finding one must be astronomical!! So I created clues:

My enrichment students loved this challenge so much that I scrambled to write >450 clues just to keep ahead of them!

You will love them, too, because they provide a lot of bang for your buck! When pursuing $1 WORDS, your learners will exercise a plethora of skills: computation, vocabulary, spelling, parts of speech, prefixes, suffixes, base words, participles, singular, plural, proof-reading, critical thinking, research, calculator, problem solving, ...

TRY IT BEFORE YOU BUY IT! with the free version.

You can find 6 more $1 WORDS products in my store.

You will also find bundles of these units, saving you 30% off of the individual prices.

IT'S ABOUT TIME, TEACHERS, for VALENTINE'S DAY!

 

Are you ready for the sweetest day?  Get your classroom ready with this FREE set of 💘 banners:

This literacy center is also FREE:

Introduce these 💜ly literacy activities:

There's a lot to 💙 in these math products:

You & your learners will absolutely 💗 an activity that combines word work, computation, and critical thinking:

These critical thinking resources are universally 💖ed by students: