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Showing posts with label creative thinking. Show all posts
Showing posts with label creative thinking. Show all posts

Sunday, July 16, 2023

IT'S ABOUT TIME, TEACHERS, for CREATIVE THINKING CHALLENGES

  • Are you looking for weekly challenges to your learners' creative thinking? 
  • Would you love it to be a home assignment?
  • Would you be thrilled to get a full year of challenges that are print and go?
If you answered "yes" to any of these questions, then you should check out Destination: Imagination via Creative Thinking.



This eclectic collection of activities was created for use in my gifted and talented classrooms. The goal is to promote the 4 traits of gifted childrenfluency, flexibility, elaboration, and originality. But really, what child wouldn't benefit from working on those aspects? I have found these projects works very well with heterogeneous groups and have successfully used them with 1st - 5th graders.

These challenges are also a wonderful home-school connection that directs eager parents to work with their children in a constructive manner. Another benefit is that children learn to share their products with purpose and confidence. 

All of the project assignments are ready to print and send home.  Also included are notes to the teacher to help ensure the success of your students.  These notes are based on years of experience with the challenges.

TRY IT BEFORE YOU BUY IT.   You can get a better sense of what this project offers by checking out this FREE activity that is included in Destination: Imagination via Creative Thinking Vol. 2:






 

Monday, February 27, 2023

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.


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. 


 



Saturday, September 18, 2021

IT'S PUMPKIN TIME!

 

Pumpkin season is just the best! From pumpkin spice lattes to carving Jack-o'-lanterns, it's a special time of year.

In the classroom, my favorite project is challenging my learners to create Jack-o'-lanterns, but I have one caveat:

That's right, no pumpkins.  Their creations can be made from literally anything else.  The results are always amazing.

Alternate foods and gourds are perennial favorites.


But, that's just the tip of the iceberg. Look at the variety of materials students have used - 


Conduct this activity as a home project. This provides a wonderful opportunity for parents to be involved in cultivating their children's creativity.

Give your students one week to create their Jazzy Jack-o'-lanterns.  Encourage them to bring their creations in on the designated date. Consider putting them on display for the entire school to enjoy.

I have used this project successfully with all elementary grades. 

Read more about this project in my FREE product:






If you enjoy this project, you may like these products from the Destination Imagination via Creative Thinking collection in my TPT store.