IT'S ABOUT TIME FOR HOLIDAY RESOURCES!

 

Teaching between Thanksgiving and winter break is a unique challenge.  The time is short but the days can be long. The key to survival is keeping your students engaged, while managing the excitement. Following are resources that I find useful:

FREEBIES

• Christmas Confections Square Puzzlers (Scrambled Squares) 
  
  
  

• Christmas SCRATTLE (math & word work) 
  
  
  

• Jingle, Jingle literacy center 
  
  
  

CRITICAL THINKING

• Reindeer Squares (Latin Squares)
• Christmas Hink Pinks, et al.  
• Christmas Vocabulary Fractions  

  

ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS

• Green Tree Emergent Reader  
  
  
  

• Santa Emergent Reader  
  
  
  

• Rudolph Emergent Reader   
  

• Christmas Sight Word Coloring 
  
  
  

• Holiday Syllable Sort  
  
  
  

• Merry Monkeys Antonyms  
  
  
  

• Contractions Cookies
  
  
  

• Gingerbread Man Compound Words
  
  
  

• Alphabetical Order Toy Soldiers 
  

• Poetry Possibilities for December 
  
  
  

MATH

• Elf Riddles Computation task cards 
  
  
  

May your December be merry and bright!

IT'S FREEBIE TIME!

 

Because I'm thankful for all of my teacher friends, I'm offering this product for FREE this weekend. 

                                 

It makes a great math center for primary students. Watch the video to learn more about it.

Enjoy!

IT'S ABOUT TIME, TEACHERS, for HALLOWEEN!

 

Are you ready?  These Halloween TREATS will fill your teacher's bag with activities that will delight your students.  Many are applicable to multiple, elementary grades.  Take a look:

• literacy
• math
• literacy & math
• critical thinking
• fun

Fill your bag here.

PUMPKIN PROBLEM SOLVING

SQUARE PUZZLERS are fun, yet challenging brain teaser puzzles for kids. They exercise critical thinking & problem solving, build perseverance & stamina, and stimulate the brain while disguising it all as fun. Similar to Scrambled Squares(TM), these printable, differentiated, logic puzzles must be reconstructed so the images match on every interior side. Use them for centers, stations, rotations, fast finishers, enrichment, GATE, and/or a class reward. Adored by all ages.

While the theme of this product is Halloween, the graphics have been chosen carefully to preclude concerns about frightening and/or evil visuals. The icons used are owls, pumpkins (no Jack-o'-lanterns), candy corn, and bats. All objects are presented in rainbow colors, adding to the light and happy feel of the puzzles.

Critical thinking is a TREAT with these fun puzzles!

You may also like these square puzzlers:

PUMPKIN LOGIC PUZZLES

 

Fresh from the farmers' fields, pumpkins are logical symbols of this time of year. Pumpkin logic puzzles are refreshing challenges for your learners. 

Use these PUMPKIN SQUARES to see your students' problem solving skills in action. Also known as Latin Squares, PUMPKIN SQUARES exercise deductive reasoning. A great challenge for gifted and enrichment students, they are differentiated, and thus, every elementary student can enjoy success.

The task is to place the pumpkins in the squares so that no color is repeated in any row or column. Students can find multiple solutions to each puzzle, which extends the challenge. The 4x4 puzzle has 576 possible solutions! Pumpkin Squares are the logical prelude to Sudoku.

Create a critical thinking center with PUMPKIN SQUARES or use them to challenge fast finishers. They are now available on TPT's Easel platform so you can even apply them to distance learning. However you employ them, your kiddos will love them!

Check out the Latin Squares shop in my TPT store.

IT'S PUMPKIN LEARNING TIME

 

Pumpkins are great for pies and lattes and fall decor.  They are also great for learning.

Let me reiterate that I LOVE combined disciplines in teaching activities. VOCABULARY FRACTION TASK CARDS  accomplish just that.

Here's how they work:

HALLOWEEN VOCABULARY FRACTION TASK CARDS are ideal for working with content vocabulary and fractions. They work well in centers, for enrichment, and for "calculating the room."

My students cannot get enough of these challenging task cards.  As one said, "They hurt my brain, but I love them."

If your learners adore them as much as mine do, you can find many more sets to satisfy them here.