Imagine one no-prep, critical-thinking routine your students look forward to every single day.

Let me introduce you to PUZZLE POWER™.

This FREE sampler bundle lets you try all five Puzzle Power™ word puzzle routines, the exact system teachers use for bell ringers, morning meetings, and enrichment centers all year long, with almost zero extra prep.

Puzzle Power™ FREE Sampler Bundle | Critical Thinking | Word Puzzles | Gr. 3–6

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Every child deserves the chance to discover the joy of thinking. Puzzle Power™ was created from one simple belief: The best learning happens when students forget they're learning.

I hope these free activities become the beginning of a classroom filled with curiosity, laughter, and meaningful thinking. Enjoy exploring the collection!

                           — Barb Evans, PUZZLE POWER™

YEAR-LONG, NO PREP, RIGOROUS & FUN CRITICAL THINKING CHALLENGES

 

Are you looking for a YEAR-LONG, no prep, bell ringer/early finisher/enrichment resource for your intermediate students? This is it!

The brain teasers on every slide provide genuine challenges while building critical thinking skills. Try it before you buy it with this FREE introduction.

THINKING CORNER is ideal for any digital learning situation, such as:

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

Did I mention this resource is NO PREP?

If you love THINKING CORNER, you can enjoy a full year of these engaging brain teasers by combining Volumes 1 & 2.

IT'S ABOUT TIME, TEACHERS, for the YEAR of the HORSE!

 

Celebrate the Lunar New Year with these resources:

IT'S ABOUT TIME, TEACHERS, for ARCTIC ANIMALS!

Here in the heartland, we are preparing for subzero temperatures this weekend.  Brrrrr.  Seems like the perfect time to study arctic animals.

If you are looking for activities that will challenge your learners in math, language arts, and logic, look no further.  PUZZLE PACKS promote critical thinking while working with non-fiction information and content vocabulary.  

PUZZLE PACKS  provide differentiated curricula for GATE and enrichment students.  Fast finishers find these puzzles fun and challenging.  A daily puzzle makes a great bell ringer activity. Or, place a packet of puzzles in one of your stations.  All of these puzzles are print and go.

If you would like to try PUZZLE PACKS before you buy them, here is a FREE sample:

If you 💖these puzzles, there are several more packs available in my TPT store.  If you love the 30% savings of bundles, here they are: 

IT'S ABOUT TIME, TEACHERS, for SCARECROWS!

Nothing says fall quite like scarecrows. Nothing makes your classroom feel quite so fall-like than filling it with scarecrows. So, it's about time, teachers, for SCARECROW resources.  

It's always great to start with some fun scarecrow stories.

Here's a FREEBIE!

Not only will your learners collect data in making their scarecrow glyph, but you will have lots of scarecrows to decorate your room.

Immerse your students in scarecrow curricula, including activities in ELA, math, critical thinking, and craftivities, with this thematic unit.

Extend the learning with these resources:

You can save 30% when you buy the scarecrow bundle!

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.