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 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.

IT'S ABOUT TIME, TEACHERS, for PUZZLES!

The wonderful thing about puzzles, is puzzles are wonderful things! They build:

• critical thinking skills
• challenge gifted learners
• provide enrichment
• are fun for fast finishers

Puzzles are perfect for:

• thinking centers
• bell ringers
• anchor activities
• differentiation

During testing season, I love providing puzzles for those students who finish before the time limits have lapsed.

Check out these puzzle packs:

The Kangaroo Edition is FREE! The other puzzle packs are $5 each.  You can find all of them here.

Here's a sampling:

Watch for more puzzle packs currently under construction.

IT'S ABOUT TIME, TEACHERS, for PRESIDENTS!

 

Inauguration Day is Jan. 20th and Presidents' Day is Feb. 17th. So, it's about time for some presidential resources.

How about some trivia about our leaders? These 20 task cards will reveal interesting and intriguing facts about our presidents. Use them for a research project or enrichment. Available digitally and in print. Click here to jump to the product page.

Extend the learning to math and literacy with VOCABULARY FRACTIONS TASK CARDS. Your learners will reveal the names of presidents by combining fractional parts of words. They must deduce the correct word represented by the picture and use correct spelling. Solving equivalent fractions provides even more challenge. These task cards are presented in print and digitally on TPT Easel.

PRESIDENTS VOCABULARY FRACTIONS are so fun that I made 2 sets! Click here for the 2nd edition.

PRESIDENTS SQUARE PUZZLERS are fun and challenging brain teasers. The puzzles must be reconstructed so that the images match on every interior side. This builds perseverance and stamina, but disguises it all as fun.

Some poetry for presidents allows you to teach about the presidents, poetry, and so many other topics. Check out the POETRY POSSIBILITIES provided to find skill lessons and activities.

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