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 ANCHOR ACTIVITIES!

 

It's about time, teachers, for ANCHOR ACTIVITIES! Also known as warm-ups or bell ringers, once you implement anchor activities in your classroom, you'll wonder why you didn't do it sooner.

Like many educators, I use these activities to engage students upon entering the classroom, thereby settling them while I attend to other tasks. My learners are also trained to turn to the anchor activities when they finish ahead of the other students or while waiting for individual help from the instructor. This is why I prefer to call them anchor activities.

Having anchor activities in place gives learners meaningful engagement during transitional or awkward interludes. They provide opportunities to practice multidisciplinary skills. My goal is to challenge my learners without adding to MY workload. Thus, I have created an entire year's worth of brain stimulating pursuits; THINKING CORNER (Free, Vol. 1, Vol. 2). They are all digital and thus, require no preparation. Designed for upper elementary and middle school students, the tasks are intriguing and entertaining. Learners WANT to do them!

Take a peek:

You are invited to try them before you buy them with this FREE set:

Once you fall in love with them, as I'm certain you will, there are 2 sets available in my store:

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 MARCH RESOURCES!

 

Add these resources to your repertoire and you'll have a great March!

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