IT'S ABOUT TIME, TEACHERS, for PUNS!

 

A PUN is a delightful literary device that can inject humor into writing. PUNS provide word play with homophones or homonyms.  

Create a research activity with these task cards. Using print or electronic thesauri and dictionaries, students will hone research skills and build vocabulary. All of the following resources are available in print and digitally on TPT Easel.

TRY THEM BEFORE YOU BUY THEM!

The challenge in this FREE activity is to create a word that sounds similar to BUMBLEBEE and fulfills the clue on the task card.

With these 40 task cards, students are asked to find a word that ends with –ANT and fulfills the clue.

This set of 40 task cards requires your learners to find a word that contains the /bē/ sound, or similar, and fulfills the clue.

Inject some fun into your lessons with these PUN TASK CARDS!

IT'S ABOUT TIME for NEW DIGITAL RESOURCES!

 
Are you looking for an anchor activity that will truly challenge your upper elementary learners?  Would it be even better if it was digital?  Do you love integrating different disciplines with higher level thinking skills?

If you answered YES, then THINKING CORNER is what you need.

Start each day out with these digital, brain exercises.  Included are perennial favorites like Hink Pinks, et al., and Word Ladders.  

If Triads and Word Winkers are new to your students, I assure they will fall in love with them. 

Train your learners in math reasoning with Mystery Numbers and Monster Math.

You can try THINKING CORNER for FREE!

Then you can get a full year's worth of daily critical thinking with THINKING CORNER Vol. 1 & 2.

Thinking Corner is exclusive to TPT Easel.  Easel can be used on any digital device.  

IT'S ABOUT TIME for MORNING BELL-RINGERS!

 

• Are you looking for a daily bell-ringer activity?
• Would you like it to be digital (no printing)?
• Do you need something your upper elementary learners cannot speed through but must actually use Higher Order Thinking Skills to complete?

Then, it's about time, teachers, that you discover  this FREEBIE!  Available absolutely free on TPT Easel, you can find it here.

If you love it, and I think you will, you can get an entire year of daily, morning, thinking challenges.

IT'S ABOUT TIME FOR THE 4TH OF JULY!

Let's celebrate America's independence with a patriotic FREEBIE! SCRATTLE combines word fluency with computation; individual effort with competition. It's easily differentiated for any elementary grade level. Your learners will quickly learn to eschew easy words in order to win the "battle." They may even beg to play again!

These patriotic resources are on sale this week.

IT'S ABOUT TIME for EGG-CITING SPRING RESOURCES!

 

It's about time to get your classroom ready for spring with these EGG-citing resources:

FREEBIE

Students will create and illustrate an idiom booklet with up to 15 EGG idioms.  

CRITICAL THINKING

These differentiated, square, logic puzzles must be reconstructed so that the images match on every interior side.  Perfect for problem solving and perseverance.

MATH & LITERACY

This resource provides materials for at least 18 centers.  Included are word work, subitizing, counting, addition, subtraction, patterns, and more!

Word work and computation are combined with friendly competition in this immensely popular activity.  Students readily learn to strategize and employ more complex vocabulary.  They will want to do it again and again.

This math center is EGG-cellent for practicing and mastering basic math facts.  Differentiation is built into the activity.

Made for TPT Easel, Bunny Magic Squares are digital learning only.  That means NO PREP for you.

The spring edition of Vocabulary Fractions is EGGS-actly what you need to challenge your learners' reasoning, flexibility, vocabulary, and fractions.  

Easter Hink Pinks & Hinky Pinkies are riddles that EGGS-ercise vocabulary skills and problem solving.  Your learners will be EGG-cited when you break out these task cards.

To crack these riddles, your learners must practice addition within 100 without regrouping.  The riddles make computation EGG-citing.

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!!