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Life Between Summers

3 months ago

Life Between Summers
New book companion to go with Our Class is a Family! Class Family Memory Books for the end of the school year 📖💕This is a nice & simple writing activity for students to work on during those final weeks/days leading up to summer break 👌🏼 It’s a meaningful way to reflect on all their memories from the year, and they can take it home as a special keepsake on the last day of school! If you’re thinking you might want these memory books for your students, the timing couldn’t be better because they’re 25% off today & tomorrow (along with all other resources in my TPT store!) with the code THANKYOU22 💛 This comes available on its own, or in a discounted bundle with more extension activities for all 3 of my books 📚 I will share the link in the comments! 💕 ... See MoreSee Less

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12 months ago

Life Between Summers
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Life Between Summers

1 years ago

Life Between Summers
Standard Form, Expanded Form, Word Form. Maybe not the most exciting math concept to teach, but definitely an important one…so why not make it fun and engaging?? 😄Guess Who math games encourage higher level thinking/reasoning and using math vocabulary verbally. They’re an instant favorite for math centers and early finishers!Find this game and others at bit.ly/guesswhomathgames ... See MoreSee Less

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  • Looking for a getting to know you game that you can incorporate into your first week lesson plans? This set contains ready to print “All About Me” questions. Editable cards included. Use this game to build student teacher relationships and build classroom community. This back to school game can be played during classroom meeting with partners or in small groups. Use this back to school activity as you are teaching students routines for playing games in the classroom.
  • Looking for fall activities for the classroom? Today, I am sharing 10 fall activities for second grade. I am sharing fall math activities, fall grammar activities, and fall literacy activities. These fall activities for kids are great for centers, morning work, or early finishers. You will find math games, fall crafts and projects, parts of speech activities with a fall theme and more. I also share a turkey disguise project and a thankful journal which is perfect for Thanksgiving time.
  • Are you looking for new math games that are fun and engaging to use during math workshop, guided math, or math centers? These addition, subtraction, and place value guess who games are just what you've been looking for. These interactive, hands-on math games are low prep and great for first grade through third grade. Use these math activities as morning work, early finishers, or for indoor recess. These are great for math facts practice. Try them today!
  • This Jenga math game is perfect for math centers, math workshop, math review, or test prep in the fall. It also makes for great math center rotations at a class party. This 2 digit addition and subtraction within 100 math game has Common Core aligned questions. Students get to practice their math facts with this hands-on math game. Use this math activity for first grade and second grade students to practice 2 digit addition and subtraction today!
  • This Thanksgiving activity is a great way to practice opinion writing in your elementary classroom. This Thanksgiving writing activity includes a Thanksgiving craft that you can use as your Thanksgiving bulletin board. Students get to work on this turkey disguise project during writing time after they read a Turkey book. Students work through the writing process. Students use a Thanksgiving writing prompt to guide their thinking and then use a checklist to edit and revise their writing.
  • Are you looking for a parts of speech activity that students will love. This fall activity is great for reviewing adjectives, nouns, verbs, adverbs, and other parts of speech. This grammar activity ties in reading skills and singing. I include a cut and sort activity and a circle map with example words for each part of speech. Use these grammar activities during your grammar block, literacy centers, or for morning work. Enjoy this Farmer in The Dell activity today!
  • Are you looking for parent communication ideas for your elementary classroom? In this post, I am sharing some of my favorite ways to build parent teacher relationships. I love to give parents a phone call and send home parent communication folders or take home folders so parents know what is going on at school. They also make for a great end of day classroom routine. Use these parent communication tips to increase parent relationships today!
  • Are you celebrating spider week in your classroom? Or just looking for some spider activities for Halloween? You will get an “All About Spiders” reading comprehension passage as well as a compare and contrast graphic organizer. There is also a parts of speech activity to sort nouns, verbs, and adjectives. There is also a spider STEM activity with reflection questions and a Flipgrid link. Enjoy these spider week activities.
  • Are you looking for a fun and engaging ways to teach your students the multiple different addition and subtraction strategies? With Common Core State Standards, we all know there are multiple strategies like tens frames and number lines to add and subtract. These math resource books for math tools are just like an interactive math journal. Use these and the math strategies anchor charts found in this post to help students during math workshop!