IT'S ABOUT TIME, TEACHERS, for PUMPKINS!

 

It's pumpkin season! Celebrate with these pumpkin resources:

PUMPKINOES are domino-style math activities that are perfect for your fall math centers. These games and challenges exercise skills ranging from counting to critical thinking; basic operations to H.O.T.S. 

PUMPKINOES are open-ended, easily differentiated, and useful for all elementary classes. Take a peak:

How Many Ways? – Fall Edition is an open-ended, math bulletin board that is perfect computation practice for any elementary classroom. Challenge your students' critical thinking and fluency to determine how many ways they can reach the target number by combining the values on the pumpkins. The task is similar to Boogle^(TM) for numbers. Post the operation symbols and the target number you choose to easily differentiate the task.

These Latin Squares math puzzles will challenge children's deductive reasoning skills and help them acquire the critical thinking needed to solve Sudoku puzzles.  PUMPKIN SQUARES begin with an easy, 3x3 grid appropriate for young learners. The tasks progress gradually, increasing in difficulty up to a 7x7 grid. PUMPKIN SQUARES are available in print or digitally on TPT Easel.

IT'S ABOUT TIME, TEACHERS, for HINK PINKS, et al.

 

If you are not familiar with Hink Pinks, et al., you are in for a treat. Hink Pinks are brain teasing, critical thinking, word riddles that help students learn to interpret data, make inferences, draw conclusions, and analyze new information. All the while, they are working with vocabulary, synonyms, definitions, parts of speech, syllables, and honing rhymes. What could be better than a fun way to work with Bloom's Taxonomy?

Hinky Pinkies are different from Hink Pinks in one way: the rhyming answer words must be 2 syllables each. Hinkity Pinkities require answers with 3 syllables.

There are lots of ways to use Hink Pinks, et al.

The best thing about Hink Pinks, et al., is that students love them! Mine literally beg to do them.

My love of Hink Pinks, et al., is so great that I have made dozens of units. When you buy by the bundle, you save 30%. Naturally, you can purchase the individual products.

Check out these thematic units:

I even created Hink Pinks and Hinky Pinkies for non-readers:

Try them. You'll love them!

IT'S ABOUT TIME, TEACHERS, for a DIGITAL ST. PATRICK'S DAY!

 As St. Patrick's Day approaches, take the TIME to check out these digital resources, especially for the holiday. Digital learning means that you have little or no prep TIME to make them ready for your students. Who doesn't love saving TIME?

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.

You may also like these patriotic products:

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 are previews of Volumes 1 & 2: