IT'S ABOUT TIME for END-of-the-YEAR CRAZINESS!

 

Once May begins, some students think learning ends. You can quell that craziness with activities that are so engaging your students will beg to do them. I'm talking about SQUARE PUZZLERS. These brain teasing puzzles exercise critical thinking & problem solving, build perserverance & stamina, and stimulate the mind.  Similar to Scrambled Squares^TM, these differentiated, logic puzzles must be reconstructed so that the images match on every interior side.

You can try SQUARE PUZZLERS for FREE with this product:

My store is stocked with dozens of SQUARE PUZZLERS and they are all on sale this week. Puzzles are reduced 20% and SQUARE PUZZLERS BUNDLES are discounted 30%. Find all of my SQUARE PUZZLERS here. Following are a few to pique your interest:

Watch this video to see how SQUARE PUZZLERS work:

For students learning sight words, I offer SQUARE PUZZLERS featuring Dolch words for pre-K through 3rd grade.

IT'S ABOUT TIME for CLASSROOM PANDA-monium!

 

That's right, create some PANDA-monium with these classroom decor collections. PANDA decor is available in 4 color themes: green, red, aqua, and rainbow. Everything you need to create PANDA-monium is included in each bundle.

The time is right to choose a PANDA theme for next year. I know, you're just looking forward to the end of the year. But consider this, if you use the time now to create your new decor, you will be able to relax over the summer knowing your classroom set up is ready to go. You will also be able to store the decor at your school, rather than cleaning around it all summer. Moreover, you will avoid the long lines at the laminator next fall.

Best of all, every product in the PANDA collections is reduced 20% this week and bundles are 30% off. (Sale ends Sat., 4/29/23 at midnight CDT)

Follow these links to see the products in each collection:

• green
• red
• aqua
• rainbow

Here's a preview of one collection:

IT'S ABOUT TIME for HINK PINKS!

 

If you are not familiar with HINK PINKS, you are in for a treat.  They are word riddles that pack a ton of serious learning into a super, fun activity.  The clues to the riddles lead to a 2 word answer.  The solution words must rhyme and each have just one syllable.  Here's an example:

The answer is SWEET TREAT.

The vocabulary skills exercised include definitions, synonyms, parts of speech, rimes, & tenses.  Research skills are involved, too, if you provide dictionaries, thesauri, and their technology versions. At the same time, learners will interpret data, make inferences, draw conclusions, and analyze new information; i.e. work with H.O.T.S. In addition to all these good things, HINK PINKS are so popular among students that you will be amazed.  Mine literally beg to do HINK PINKS every day.

If you are curious about them, check out this free set:

HINK PINKS have been a staple in my teaching for decades.  Hence, my TPT Store offers more than 3 dozen HINK PINK products and their cousins HINKY PINKIES and HINKITY PINKITIES.  I even have HINK PINKS and HINKY PINKIES for Kinders that challenge students to determine the rhyming words based on pictures; no reading required.  Here's the FREE version of those:

You can find HINK PINK units at a 30% savings if you opt for the bundle.

There are also bundles for HINKY PINKIES and HINKITY PINKITIES.

There are combination units for holidays, also bundled for additional savings.

I offer combination units with specific themes, too.

Now is a great time to stock up on HINK PINKS, et al.  There are a few hours left in TPT Site Sale.  But, if you missed it, my store will remain on sale 3/30 & 3/31/23 at 20% savings.  That's 20% off the already reduced bundle prices.  

IT'S ABOUT TIME for POETRY MONTH

 April is National Poetry Month.  Prepare your classroom for it with these resources:

These 20 posters each describe a type of poetry.  A sample of that poetry form is also included.  Display the posters as anchor charts or compile them in a notebook as a reference for your poets.

All of the poems and the teaching possibilities in this unit pertain to spring weather, holidays, and activities.

This unit provides teaching points, skill lessons, and activities custom designed for each.  Animal Poems masterfully combines language arts with science.

This unit also combines poetry and science as your students learn about states of water, clouds, precipitation, and content vocabulary.

This poetry unit combines poetry and the history of westward expansion.

Take your primary students on an African Safari through poetry.

These poems and their teaching possibilities are all related to feet and footwear.

These task cards are applicable to virtually any poem you may be studying. Skills range from simple identification of high frequency words to homophones; punctuation to personification; and suffixes to cinquains.

IT'S ABOUT TIME for DOLLAR DEALS

 

I've teamed up with a group of awesome intermediate teachers to bring you 2 days of dollar deals.  On March 12 & 13, use #345dollardeals to find great products for your 3rd - 5th grade learners on TPT.  

Here are my offerings: