Freebie February Day 7

It's day 7 of Freebie February!  Today's offering is Animal Ordinal Number Task Cards.  

These task cards provide practice with ordinal number concepts and words from 1st - 35th. There are 4 sets of cards included; each set tells a story in a different animal theme. 

Through these tasks, your students will not only practice ordinal number concepts, but also patterns, interpreting data, logic, critical thinking, A-B-C order, and computation.  

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Day 6 of Freebie February

It's about time for Valentine's Day, so today's freebie is Friendly Frog's Valentine's Day Syllable Sort.  I wrote about this literacy center a couple of days ago, but in case you missed it, here's the upshot:

Friendly Frog appears in many of my syllabication products. This time he challenges your students to sort word cards according to whether they have a prefix or a suffix. Friendly Frog's Valentine's Day Syllables Center is a low prep literacy center.  

Just for today, you can score this center for FREE!  I hope you enjoy it.

You can also get these Valentine's Day centers for FREE: 

And this one is quite inexpensive:

Freebie February and Sponge Activities

Today is all about sponge activities.  We all need them for those awkward few minutes before the bell rings, or before you leave for your specials class, or ...  You know.

Some of the best sponge activities are those that need no prep. I have 1 that my kiddos love and all it requires are a sticky note and a chalkboard or whiteboard. I call it Mystery Number. I write the Mystery Number on the back of the sticky note (the side that sticks to the board). After drawing a number line on the board, I put the sticky note in the middle of the number line. 

As students guess, I write their guesses on the number line and ask if the guess is greater than or less than the Mystery Number. Obviously, when the correct number is guessed, I turn over the sticky note and congratulate the students. This really helps children with numeration concepts.  

Since I'm focused on sponge activities, the Freebie February product for today is one that can readily fill those odd moments. Triads I combines critical thinking with vocabulary development. It disguises lots of learning with tons of fun. 

The Triad cards show 3 words which can be linked by 1 word.  In this example, the common word is CARD; birthday CARD, credit CARD, and CARDboard. As you can see, the common word can come before or after the given words. The answers can be compound words or common phrases.  

Triads I is a super sponge activity, but it is also excellent for enrichment, lovely for literacy centers, and fabulous for fast finishers.  I strongly urge you to solve several Triads as a whole group to get your kiddos cerebral cogs turning.  

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Freebie February Day 4

It's about time, teachers, to reveal Freebie February's 4th offering...

Valentine's Day Square Puzzler is a critical thinking activity that will really test your students' tenacity and problem solving skills. The challenge is to recreate a square using the square puzzle pieces so that all of the images match on every interior side.  Like this:

In this example, the last piece will NOT fit there. The other pieces will have to be rearranged.

This product includes 3 puzzles; a 2x2 (above) that is perfect for starting out and for young learners, a 3x3 (at right) which is exponentially more difficult, and a 4x4 that is challenging, even for adults.

These puzzles are quite versatile. You can put them in a center and easily differentiate for your students. They are useful as an anchor activity and are absolutely perfect for fast finishers.  This is one activity they are unlikely to finish in a flash.  They also make a sane activity for a Valentine's Day party.

My G/T students beg to work with square puzzlers, but I find almost all students love them. (Students who are easily frustrated may shy away from these puzzles.)

This activity is utterly awesome when you want/need to observe how your students problem solve.  

Grab your copy now! It's only free for 1 day.

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Freebie February -- You're Going to Love It!

It's Day 3 of Freebie February! I hope you find today's offering useful for your literacy centers.

This circus themed product has 16 rules of syllabication.  They are letter paper sized and in beautiful color.  Each rule has a circus themed example to further illustrate the principle described.

Rules of Syllabication *The Circus Edition* is CCSS aligned. Did you know that every grade from K - 5 has a CCS Standard for working with syllables? This product will help you meet those standards. 

Enjoy!

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February Centers and Freebies

It's about time, teachers, to focus on February.

I'd like you to keep calm and focus on some new centers for your classroom.  

Friendly Frog's Valentine's Day Syllables Center is a low prep literacy center. Friendly Frog appears in many of my syllabication products. This time he challenges your students to sort word cards according to whether they have a prefix or a suffix.

February sports a lot of pink, so you may like Valentine's Day Hink Pinks, Hinky Pinkies, and Hinkity Pinkities.  These riddles that evoke pairs of rhyming words, are wildly popular. They work well in a literacy center, as an anchor activity, a sponge activity, and are the perfect challenge for fast finishers. This set is FREE! So download your copy now.

Scrattle: The Valentine's Day Edition is also FREE!  This center combines word work with computation and spurs your students to create more difficult words through competition.  It really and truly is appropriate for K through 5th grade because you can effortlessly differentiate for math abilities.  3 different recording sheets are provided.  One requires students to use addition, 1 calls for multiplication, and the 3rd uses mixed operations (+, -, x) with parentheses. My students beg for Scrattle. As a result, there are many versions available and all of them are FREE! 

Have you heard?  It's Freebie February in my TPT store.  Each day this month, a different priced item will be offered for FREE for just one day. So check in daily to see what I'm giving away.  

Today's offering is How Many Ways? -- February Edition. This product, like Scrattle, is appropriate for all elementary grade levels. It is a critical thinking, interactive bulletin board activity that could be used as a center, an enrichment challenge, an anchor activity, and/or for differentiation. You can read more about it here.

Freebie February!

It's February! Better yet, it's FREEBIE FEBRUARY @ It's About Time, Teachers! As you can see on the calendar above, there will be a FREEBIE offer from my TPT store everyday.  Yes, everyday!  One priced product will be FREE everyday, and everyday that FREEBIE will be different.

To start things off, I'm offering Presidential Trivia Task Cards (hot off the presses just last night!!!!) for FREE, but only for 1 day.  

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