Start the School Year on the Right Foot

 

Start the new school year off on the right foot with one sole-full day of activities.

This thematic unit is the perfect way to introduce your learners to each other, classroom  procedures, expectations, as well as multiple curricular disciplines.

Kick off  the new school year by having a SNEAKER DAY!  Invite your students to wear sneakers to school, then fill the day with math, writing, art, and get acquainted activities.

Send a note home to alert parents to their child's need to wear sneakers.

Then use those sneakers for math:

• collect data and create graphs

• measurement

• Venn diagrams

• estimation 

• counting and computation

• and much more!

Sneak in some ELA:

• descriptive words

• writing center with prompts

• and more!

Step up to some arts and crafts:

• sole-full rubbings

• shoestring painting

• and more!

You will love sneaking into a new year!

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CRITICAL THINKING VOCABULARY FRACTIONS TASK CARDS

 

Combining disciplines makes teaching more efficient.  It's something I strive for when creating curricula.  VOCABULARY FRACTIONS are a prime example.  

These task cards invite learners to exercise critical thinking while using fractional parts of words to create content specific vocabulary.  Students must deduce the correct word for the graphics, employ correct spelling, and even solve equivalent fractions.  VOCABULARY FRACTIONS are available in print and digitally on TPT Easel.

The WORLD GEOGRAPHY series is brand new.  The first 3 sets focus on country names, while the last 2 are about geography terms.  Each set contains 20 task cards, an answer key, a storage label, and a direction placard.

Here's how they work:

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IT'S NATIONAL POETRY MONTH!

 

It's about time, teachers, for National Poetry Month.  So let's create some poetry! 

A fun project for poetry month is to create a collage of spring things.  (It's also a good way to use up construction paper scraps.)

Once the collage is completed, invite your lower grade poets to make a 5 senses poem.  Provide a formula for the poem:

    I see ____________________________

    I hear ___________________________

    I smell __________________________

    I feel ____________________________

    I taste ___________________________

Attach the poems to the collages and display them for the world to enjoy.

Older students could write triplets, quatrains, haikus, acrostics, ... really any form of poetry you'd like. 

If you would like help with types of poetry, you may like this set of Poetry Posters --

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EXPLORE NATIONAL POETRY MONTH!

 

April is National Poetry Month, so let's explore some poetry.  What better way to explore than on an African Safari?  Join me on this POETRY SAFARI...

Load your primary students onto the jeep and discover 9 poetic forms: couplets, triplets, alliteration, acrostic, shape poems, ode, collaborative, limerick, and number poems.

There is a map to guide you ...

... and assignment sheets.

This journey will also allow your explorers to learn more about Africa as they complete the poetry assignments.

See you on safari!

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EGGS-tra! EGGS-tra! EGG-citing Spring Resources for the Classroom!

 

I'm egg-cited to share these egg-cellent resources with you! They are eggs-actly what you need for spring.

First up is this MADE-for-EASEL Magic Squares activity. It provides critical thinking disguised as fun, and throws in a lot of computation for good measure. Available digitally on TPT Easel, no print product is provided.

Give your little bunnies some eggs-tra math practice with EGG EQUATIONS and EASTER RIDDLES. 

The Easter Riddles are also offered digitally on TPT Easel.

SPRING MATH CENTERS have an eggs-tra literacy center included. (The carrot racers are egg-ceptionally cute.)

This product is also available for digital learning on TPT Easel.

VOCABULARY FRACTIONS and EGGS SQUARE PUZZLERS are so much fun that my students literally b-egg to do them. I'll bet yours will, too!

VOCABULARY FRACTIONS are also available on TPT Easel. 

SCRATTLE: SPRING EDITION is an eggs-traordinary product that combines word work and computation. It is easily differentiated for every elementary grade level. Even better,

IT'S FREE!

After you introduce the Scrattle Battle, you will be amazed at the sudden interest in creating more complex words and you will marvel at how much your learners want to do this activity!

And, here's another egg-cellent  FREEBIE -