SPRING TEACHING RESOURCES

 

It's official! Spring is here and to help you plan your spring lessons, I offer these resources...

FREEBIES

CRITICAL THINKING

MATH

ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS

MATH & LITERACY CENTERS

ST. PATRICK'S DAY TEACHING RESOURCES

It's about time, teachers, for St. Patrick's Day! These resources will be perfect for this week...

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CRITICAL THINKING

ELA

MATH

THEMATIC UNIT

March Teaching Resources

 

Are you ready for all things March? Prepare your classroom and lessons for this special month that ushers in spring.

What could be better than a bulletin board that serves as a math center? 

Challenge your students' critical thinking and fluency as they determine how many ways they can reach the target number. The task is similar to Boogle™ for numbers. Post the operation symbols and the target number you choose to easily differentiate the task.

Try this FREEBIE:

SCRATTLE is a differentiated, math and literacy, learning center activity that combines word work with computation; individual effort with competition. As in Scrabble™, students use a set of letters to create words. After recording their words, they calculate each word’s score using the letter values. Then they engage a friend in a battle wherein they compare their scores using >, <, and =. The student with the most >s wins the battle! (SCRAbble + baTTLE = SCRATTLE!)

This brand new resource is specially made for TPT Easel. (No print product is available.) 

Students will exercise deductive reasoning, inferencing, drawing conclusions, sequencing, problem solving, and computation.

It simply wouldn't be a fresh, new month without a new poetry unit.

POETRY POSSIBILITES for MARCH is a collection of 11 poems about St. Patrick’s Day, March weather, signs of spring, and kites. Each poem is followed by a page of teaching possibilities. These possibilities include a teaching point pertaining to poetry, as well as custom designed skill lessons and activities from multiple disciplines.

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February Classroom Decor FREEBIE

The dawn of a new month means it's time for new decor.  This product is FREE and it offers lots of fun, February decorations.

Try this bulletin board math center:

The center is open-ended and easily differentiated, making it perfect for any elementary classroom. It is similar to Boogle(TM) for numbers. Using adjacent numbers, students are challenged to reach the target number in as many ways as possible. You post the operation symbols appropriate for your learners and change the target number as often as you choose. Critical thinking and fluency are exercised along with computation skills. And, this display is good for the whole month!

How Many Ways? makes a wonderful anchor activity, math center, fast finishers' challenge, and/or enrichment project. 

100th Day of School FREEBIE!

It's about time for the 100th day of school and that's cause for celebration!  I have a FREEBIE to help you with this special day:

There are 4 poems in Poetry Possibilities -- 100th Day of School Edition. Each poem has a teaching point related to poetry and teaching possibilities from multiple disciplines that are custom designed for it. For example:

Learn more about this unit from this video:

Enjoy the 100th day!

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IT'S ABOUT TIME FOR GROUNDHOG DAY FREEBIES!

Although February is the shortest month, it is surely packed with more holiday and seasonal topics than any other month.  It starts off with Groundhog Day.

Bring the celebration to your students with these FREEBIES:

SCRATTLE is fun activity that is packed with learning.  Similar to SCRABBLETM, learners will make words from a set of letters.  But what makes this more fun, and more importantly, elicits more learning, is that scores are not simply the result of addition.  This DIFFERENTIATED center can combine addition, subtraction, and/or multiplication.  You choose which recording sheet is most appropriate for your students.

But wait, ...

there's more ...

After making their words, children engage in a BATTLE with a friend (or 2).  They will compare their words, determining who has the most high value words.  Prepare to be amazed. After the 1st battle, your learners will be clamoring to have a do-over. Suddenly, all of those easy, high frequency words will be eschewed for vocabulary that yields higher scores.  It makes my teacher heart swell when I see my kiddos start exercising their vocabularies and begin to strategize how to get ever higher scores.

This video may make this activity easier to understand:

For more Groundhog Day fun, try Hink Pinks, Hinky Pinkies, and Hinkity Pinkities.  

These task cards challenge your students to problem solve while applying vocabulary skills, such as synonyms, parts of speech, rhymes, definitions, and syllables.  You can almost see the cogs turning in their brains as they determine the 2 word answers to these riddles. 

Did I mention this product is FREE???

Here's a video to entice you...

My students literally beg to do Hink Pinks, et al.  I'm willing to bet your's will, too.

And now, Hink Pinks, et al. are available digitally on TPT's Easel platform!  Woo hoo!

Happy Groundhog Day and hurry up spring!