ST. PATRICK'S DAY FREEBIES and MORE!

It's about time for St. Patrick's Day, teachers!  I've got FREEBIES and more ready for your learners.

FREEBIES

These Leaping Leprechauns will give your students practice adding 3 numbers within 20.  It is a digital learning product made especially for TPT's Easel platform.

Luck o' the Irish is a FREE sample from Destination: Imagination via Creative Thinking.

CRITICAL THINKING

Square Puzzlers are differentiated, making them great for any elementary classroom.  Your students will beg to do them.

Exercise deductive reasoning, inferencing, drawing conclusion, problem solving, sequencing, and computation with Leprechaun Logic.  This product is also exclusive to TPT Easel.

Outwit the Wee Lads is another digital only, TPT Easel product that exercises critical thinking.

The March Edition of Vocabulary Fractions provides print and digital versions of these task cards that challenge learners to find fractional parts of words.  They combine the fractional parts to create March vocabulary.  Challenging, but oh, so fun!

ELA

Everyone loves Hink Pinks, et al. and your students will, too.  Tons of ELA skills are disguised as fun word riddles.

St. Patrick's Day and more March topics are addressed in these 11 poems.  Each poem has skill lessons and teaching points custom designed for it.  
 

MATH

Create a fresh bulletin board for March that doubles as a math center, fast finishers' challenge, and/or enrichment activity.  It's differentiated to accommodate K-6th grades. 

Leprechaun Riddles provide practice with multiplication facts in print or digitally.  Kiddos will enjoy the riddles!

Primary students will love these March Tangram Puzzles. 

MULTIPLE SUBJECTS

Mad About March is a thematic unit perfect for primary grades.  

SCRATTLE combines word work with computation.  This product is differentiated to accommodate students with varying math abilities. 

 

IT'S ABOUT TIME for GROUNDHOG DAY

 

Celebrate this fun holiday with 2 resources:

Groundhog Day Hink Pinks, Hinky Pinkies, & Hinkity Pinkities is a super fun freebie!

These word riddles teach students to problem solve while honing vocabulary skills.  This product is available as task cards and digitally on TPT Easel.

SCRATTLE is a differentiated, math and literacy, learning center activity that combines word work with computation; individual effort with competition.

Students make words, as in ScrabbleTM, computing their worth.  Then they engage another learner in a friendly battle to see which child has the most high scores.  SCRABBLE + BATTLE = SCRATTLE.  The word warriors will quickly eschew the easy, low scoring words in order to create more complex and higher scoring words.  Thus, offer your pupils the chance to play several times.  They will love it and you will enjoy seeing the uptick in their efforts.

BTW, I offer 7 SCRATTLE products in my store and all of them have just been updated and refreshed.  So, if you already have some SCRATTLE in your resource library, download the new versions!

I've been refreshing and renewing lots of products lately.  As with SCRATTLE, you can download the new versions for FREE if you already own the previous version. 

HOW TO PLAY SUDOKU is a slideshow that explains and illustrates the terminology, procedures, and strategies for completing sudoku puzzles.  The revisions include all new graphics and compacting the slideshow.

Related to sudoku are my Latin Squares products.  They are great for easing into sudoku and are all freshly redone.

These QUESTION WORDS POSTERS have not only been refreshed with all new graphics, but the product has been expanded.  Even if you don't already own it, you can download it for FREE.

ATTITUDE POSTER is a FREEBIE that has been refreshed with new graphics.

IT'S ABOUT TIME for a NEW YEAR and NEW HINK PINKS, et al.

 

There are new HINK PINKS, et al. available!  I just completed this product and uploaded it to TPT.  Fans of these fun riddles will find these challenging, both in subject matter and vocabulary.  Creatures from myths, folktales, and fairy tales are the focus.  Some may be unfamiliar to students. To help your learners out, I've included a 3 page Mythical Creatures Guide.

You can decide if you want to provide this aide, or compel your students to do some research.

Here's a sample:

There are so many things to love about HINK PINKS, et al.  These task cards provide work on definitions, synonyms, parts of speech, rimes, vocabulary, & grammar.  They also promote critical thinking; specifically making inferences, interpreting data, & drawing conclusions. The very best part is that students absolutely love them.  Year after year, my charges literally beg to do these word riddles.

If you love HINK PINKS, et al., and I'm sure you will, you will find about 3 dozen products in my store.  Several are FREE!  Try them before you buy them.  MYTHICAL CREATURES HINK PINKS, et al. are also available digitally on TPT Easel.

NEW DIGITAL RESOURCES

 

  

I'm proud to announce the launch of 3 new digital products for teachers of grades 3-6.  THINKING CORNER will provided daily brain challenges to your students. They require higher order thinking skills and perserverance to solve.

THINKING CORNER slides are wonderful for:

• daily bell ringer activity
• distance learning
• computer laboratory lessons
• technology center activities
• fast finishers
• enrichment/differentiation challenges

Each slide requires learners to solve 5 puzzles:

• Hink Pinks or Hinky Pinkies
• 

  
• Mystery Math or Monster Math
• 

  
• Triads
• 
• Word Ladders
• 
• Word Winkers
• 

Try it before you buy it.  There is a free version that provides 1 week of challenges as a preview.

THINKING CORNER Vol. 1 provides a full semester of daily challenges.  

Vol. 2 of THINKING CORNER supplies another semester of them.

These resources are available digitally on TPT's Easel platform.  No print product is available.  THINKING CORNER is CCSS aligned.

These resources are no prep.  That's a win for teachers!!  Students find them to be fun and engaging.  A win for students!!

VETERANS' DAY in the CLASSROOM

 

It's about time, teachers, for Veterans' Day! To honor our veterans, try this poem and the teaching possibilities that accompany it.

These resources are in my FALL POETRY POSSIBILITIES UNIT.

This poetry unit also contains poetry specific to November.  Check it out!

You may also like these resources with a patriotic theme:

It's also about time for elections in the U.S.  You will love these Hink Pinks, et al. made especially for that day.

You can find these 40 task cards here.