I’ve adapted some of my favorite simple investigations so you can can provide opportunities for students to EXPLORE during distance learning. It’s HANDS-ON AT HOME!
Enjoy this free video that teaches the Days of the Week in Swahili. Your students will get practice in both the vocabulary and pronunciation of the words.
Write facts about rabbits. Quick and easy to put together for students. It includes a rabbit reading passage, booklets, bulletin board activity and more.
April Fools is a great, light-hearted day, so it’s a lot of fun in elementary school. Your students will be so surprised that this cute little spring word search is a complete joke! I always try to keep a straight face (but it’s so hard!) as I pass out their word search. I make sure I haven’t mentioned anything about April Fools Day before I give this to them, so of course I give it to them first thing in the morning! It’s such a fun way to start our April Fools Day full of giggles and smiles. Gotcha!
This joke word search is set up to resemble an actual spring-themed worksheet, but the words in the word bank are nowhere to be found!
One exception: April.
Your clever students will find that the term “April” actually extends to form the term April Fools Day!
Enjoy this April Fools Day freebie, and have a fantastic day with your students!
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Students will have fun as they read and hunt through their books in search of examples of the four different types of sentences.
Two forms have been included so it can be differentiated for your students.
One form has students hunting for examples of statements, questions, commands, and exclamations.
The other form has students searching for declarative, interrogative, imperative, and exclamatory sentences.
This free download is part of my Four Types of Sentences Foldable and Assessments. It serves as a perfect wrap up to that activity or as a stand out on its own. If you like this activity, you might like to check that one out as well.
1. An introduction to Matter 2. States of Matter 3. Definitions/Properties of Solids, Liquids and Gases 4. Matter sort cut & paste activity 5. Changing States of Matter 6. Condensation 7. Evaporation 8. Precipitation 9. The Water Cycle
This book is perfect for introducing Matter to your class or as a review of what your students have already learned!
This digital resource is to use with Google Slides which will download as a PDF with a link to the Google Document. There are interactive activities to complete in small groups, or individually, as well as a 15 question webquest to learn more about Pi Day and how Pi came about.
* You can also pick up this product & others like it in my iPad Lesson Bundle.
Welcome to our February Teacher Talk. All of us from the Teacher Talk collaborative would like wish you a Happy February. We have so many fab tips this month from Math, ELA and reading ideas, to High interest learning and our featured author for the month, you don’t want to miss reading these blog posts from some awesome educators.
You’re a middle school teacher, you and your 11 year old have just turned on the television to watch the news. What you see in front of you nearly blows you away, you rub your eyes, no, you’re not imagining it, there’s a riot at the United States Capitol.
What are you teaching in math right now? We are exploring fractions but doing this virtually has needed some thinking outside the box! Here are some of my tried & true activities and websites to use.
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5 Tips to Changing the Atmosphere in your Classroom
Now that the first semester is over, have you recognized your struggling readers? Teachers are very busy teaching, teaching, teaching…but is everyone learning and retaining? ***********************************
CUE Los Angeles just had their CUE Palooza today and my mind is blown ? by everything I did not know about Google slides. I’m going to give you a few of the tips and tricks I learned today. ***********************************
Michelle Webb of “Teaching Ideas For Those Who Love Teaching” is Teacher Talk’s Featured Author. Learn more about this National Board Certified Teacher. Your students will enjoy her free product, Paul Bunyan Reading Lesson on Hyperbole and Pop Up Book! ***********************************
My rule #5 in a series of how to bring out the best behavior in middle school students. Includes ideas of high-interest topics you can use for reading and writing activities.
This St. Patricks Day craftivity bookmark is a quick and fun way to celebrate the day AND encourage a bit of reading as well! It’s easy enough for the younger crowd and helps develop tracing and cutting skills, but is fun for older kids as well that might enjoy embellishing their creations a bit more. Great for homeschool classrooms!
This St. Paddy’s Day activity can be executed in three different ways: Use the one-page printable students can color, cut out, and assemble OR Copy tracing patterns onto cardstock to create templates that students can trace onto various papers, OR Copy printing patterns onto various colored papers and distribute to students to cut and assemble.
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This is a shape game. This can be used as a whole group or as a center. Lucky Leprechaun has stolen a shape off of each game board. Your students have to figure out what shape is missing by using the shape cards. My students loved this activity and I hope yours will too.
This product is a fun product students can do as a center or as a quiet activity. Students are to look at all the letters in the word St. Patrick’s Day and see how many words they can create.
This cute little Tooth Tally SMART Board file is a fun way to bring some authentic data into your classroom. It is part of my SmartBoard Math Calendar for Grades 1-3 set. When students lose a tooth, they drag an infinitely cloned tooth to either the boys’ or girls’ side of the page and update the total. This provides opportunities all month long for comparing teeth lost; boys vs. girls. The second page in the file is a place to record monthly totals, which could then be analyzed and graphed. The third page where you can make a graph, if desired. It is a blank template so you can make a variety of graphs. I cloned the teeth on this page in case you want to make a pictograph with each tooth representing a certain number of teeth lost.
If you enjoy this freebie, I would love feedback! Also, check out the complete calendar math file in my TPT store, as well as my other SMART Board products.
by The Three Square Pegs Pre-Kindergarten – 12th Grade
Here are ten tips for classroom teachers and school counselors to help grieving students in the classroom. These tips are not the typical stages and symptoms of grief that are in most articles and books. Instead, they are simple strategies and reminders that help both the grieving student and the student’s classmates.
Want to know how to best respond to the death as a whole class? Want to know how to prepare the student’s classmates for the student’s return to the class? Want a strategy to use during class if the student is becoming emotional? If the answer is “Yes!” then this free product is for you.
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This Google Forms quiz that pairs easily with Google Classroom! It self-grades all 10 questions (all of which can be changed and edited to fit YOUR class needs), can be used as a pre-test or a post-test (or both!) to gauge your students’ learning of the homophone there, their, and they’re.
Perfect for upper elementary learners. (This can also be printed hard copy, if you prefer that!)
Simply click the Google Forms link in the downloaded product PDF, copy it to your Google drive, and send it to your students digitally (or print it out!).
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This game is a Bible Skills memory quiz kids love to play! It’s an excellent way to learn the books of the New Testament.
NECESSITIES:
some Solo cups (one set of 27 for New Testament)
some permanent marker/Sharpie/etc
PREPARE: print on separate drinking cups the books of the New Testament.
INSTRUCTIONS: Allow individuals or teams to build the New Testament Pyramid by finding Matthew and lining up the cups through 1 Corinthians. Place 2 Corinthians on the second level between Matthew and mark. Continue stacking the New Testament Pyramid topping the pyramid with the “New Testament” cup. Allow two individuals or teams to complete the pyramid first and accurately. Play as many times as time allows. The kids won’t get tired of playing!
by Finntastic Visuals Pre-Kindergarten – 12th Grade
I hope this FREE clip art sample of teenagers and teachers wearing face masks will be helpful for adding cultural and ethnic diversity to your resources. The images are realistic in style, which makes them also suitable for middle school and high school resources. You can use these images for any subject to make your resources reflect the current reality amidst the global Covid pandemic.
You will receive 6 realistic clip art illustrations (3 color and 3 b/w line art) saved as high quality (300 dpi) png. files with transparent backgrounds.
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The images in this set can be used for personal classroom purposes as well as for creating resources for educational commercial use. You are also welcome to use these cliparts for Boom Cards or for resources on other digital platforms where images are secured and can’t be “lifted” from the background. My full TOU can be found here: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Terms-of-Use-4708255
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This product is a lesson plan and instrumental piece written in a “non-music reading” approach for the song, AMERICA. It is not meant to be an accompaniment for singing but rather the entire melody and accompaniment is written in order to be played so that it may be performed, whether in the classroom or for a program.
While music theory is taught and reviewed, this approach gives students a sense of accomplishment in learning to “read and perform” in a short period of time. Students enjoy this feeling of “playing in an ensemble.”
The product includes:
• Lesson plan
• Written music and words
• Words only with rhythms used in the piece
• Individual parts for Tone Chimes or Resonator Bells (G4 – D6)
This product is FREE! Hope your students enjoy playing and performing it as much as mine did!
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Capitalize on your student’s interest in the monthly book club order! Cut apart these cards, fold the direction tent, put out some extra copies of the book order and you have an instant high-interest center! Most activities focus on literacy skills, but there are a few math activities as well.
An answer sheet and center sign are also provided.
Directions: Cut apart the number searches so each student gets one-fourth of the page.
Choose a number you want students to find addends for. Write this number in the blank center box. Students can find addends vertically, horizontally or diagonally. (I usually keep the middle number between 6 and 20.)
You can give each student a different number search (to discourage copying) OR you can give each student the same number search to encourage collaboration (or competition!)
You can also give different students different numbers in the blank middle box to meet their developmental level.
Blank sheet, examples of student work and directions included.
Take care of yourself! Many of us spend most of our time caring for others, and often put ourselves last. Try this simple 20 day self-care challenge. Simply print the poster and place in a location that you see often to remind yourself to find a little bit of time in each day to take care of YOU! No pressure in completing this exactly as is within 20 days. Instead focus on trying to find ways to take care of yourself. As you complete the challenge, you may want to place stickers or check marks on each activity as it is completed to help you keep track. Do yourself a favor and take a little time for you!
These bright and easy to use reward charts can be used to motivate your student to complete work or modify their behaviours. The charts can be printed and the child’s name written in the box on the left-hand side of the chart. The clip art will suit a range of ages.
✏️ KEYWORDS: Games, Spelling, Literacy, Battleships, Practice, Fun
✏️ DESCRIPTION – This is a fantastic resource for spelling practice within a fun and engaging game style . Using the structure of the game ‘Battleship’, learners place their spelling words into grid and use the coordinates to guess their partners spelling words.
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✅ SPELLING BATTLESHIP – FREEBIE- This product includes 3 page PDF including the Spelling Battleship worksheet
PLEASE NOTE | All forms are UK A4 size ( landscape ).
These are all designed to be easily accomplished by students at school. You will not need many resources or additional materials. You can decide whether students will complete each task independently or whether you will work together as a class community to complete each act.
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