Category Archives : 3rd Grade


LANGUAGE ARTS – “Vowel-Consonant-e Bundle Packet”

Grades K-3

by Reading on Strawberry Lane
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This reading unit provides 55 pages of the V-C-e syllable type word lists. V-C-e is one of the six types of syllables in reading. The lists in this unit include words spelled using each vowel in conjunction with common phonograms. These lists of words will help students recognize the common patterns seen in V-C-e syllables.

The 71 page unit includes activities and games that can be placed in language stations, or they can be played during small groups. So enjoy as your students learn another way to break the code to reading! Here is a list of the activities and games included in this packet:

1, Move the Spider to His Web
2. Syllable Type Organizers
3. Connect 4
4. Color the Snail’s Shell
5. Graph Your Total
6. Dominoes
7. It’s Raining V-C-e Words
8. Burst a Balloon
9. Flower Power
10. V-C-e Booklets
11. Flip-Flop Match-Up
12. A Walk Around the Block
13. Skunk
14. Building Words
15. Snake & Ladders

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December Teacher Talk

 Posted by Deann Marin of Socrates Lantern
 
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Happy Holidays Everyone, Welcome to our December Teacher Talk Blog Hop.
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By Mary Moore of Moore Resources

 The Scientific Method is Fantastic for All Subjects and for Life! The Scientific Method is a great method to use for teaching students how to solve problems and investigate questions in all educational subjects along with solving life situations.

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By Lisa Robles of LisaTeachR’s Classroom

If You Give a Reindeer a Root Beer… Studying Circular Plot Structure Have your students learned about circular tales? Here is how I used it in my classroom.

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The Perfect Snowman Craft!

By Tammy DeShaw of The Owl Teacher

Do you want to create the most adorable Winter Craft as a gift or just for fun? Check out this inexpensive and fun craft idea of making snowmen – out of socks!

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Can You Make a Snowman?

By Susan Berkowitz of Susan Berkowitz

Making a snowman is a favorite activity for kids in the winter. Almost everyone knows how to make a snowman. But can they tell someone else how to make one? Can they articulate the steps? Join Max and Mo in their story and learn sequencing and comparing language skills.

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Teacher Talk: Student Self Assessment

By Marypat Mahoney of Just Add Students

Give students the opportunity to self-assess their growth and learning thus far in the school year.

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Teaching Young Children to Write Their Names


ByThia Triggs of Print Path

An unfortunate myth is that young children, 3 & 4 years old, should learn to write their name with an initial capital letter followed by lowercase, rather than all capitals. Research shows that to be incorrect and even detrimental, for several reasons.

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Christmas-Winter STEM Olympics

By Kerry Tracy of Kerry Tracy

Keep kids engaged this holiday season with five festive, fun, & fabulous Christmas/Winter themed STEM challenges that can be modified for use with grades 2-8! 


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Five Ways to Increase Students’ NWEA Math Scores

By  Crystal Brown of  Dr Crystal Brown

Do you want to make sure your students reach their growth targets in math? Learn five ways you can easily implement into your math instruction. 


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How to Help Beat the Holiday Blues

By Deann Marin of Socrates Lantern

We all know that kids love to send notes to each other. This activity allows them to do that.


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What’s My Error? Extraordinary Math Hack

By Tammy Roose of The Tarheelstate Teacher

Do your students continue to make common errors when computing and learning different math concepts? Mine were too, until I instituted some fun error analysis with “What’s My Error?” problems! 

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Our Homes Have Stars

By Retta London of Rainbow City Learning

Sharing the holiday spirit in a classroom of diverse faiths.


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Critical Thinking with Pattern Blocks

By Shametria Routt of The Routty Math Teacher

Did you know that pattern blocks can be used for more than just teaching shapes in your geometry unit– pattern blocks can be used all year long! The proportionality of the pieces extends the number of ways in which they can be used, including analyzing the characteristics and common attributes of two-dimensional shapes, identifying fractional relationships, and building an understanding of operations with whole numbers. Check out this 5-part series to explore ways to get your students thinking critically with pattern blocks!


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Tantalizing Tessellations: Critical Thinking & Problem Solving

By Tracy Willis of Wild Child Designs

Project-orientated learning engages students and leads to critical thinking. It’s differentiation at its finest!

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Tips To Enjoy Holiday Teaching

By Michele Webb of Teaching Ideas for Those Who Love Teaching

Tips to keep holiday teaching fun and stress free.

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December in the Classroom

By Marcy Howe of It’s a Teacher Thing

Enjoy December in your classroom. Learn how to keep the curriculum challenging, your days calm, and find links to several “go to” items to help you enjoy December in your classroom.

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Magic Books Motivate Writing!

By Kathie Yonemura of Tried and True Teaching Tools

Students buy-in to writing if it is in a book. This magic book motivates students to compare and contrast!

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Please Read these great ideas that these educators are using for the month of December and beyond. 


FREE MATH LESSON – “Winter Multiplication Facts Roll and Cover Game”

by Alyssa Teaches

3rd – 4th Grade

 

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Are you looking for a fun, no-prep multiplication facts game? This snow-themed game allows students to practice their 1-6 multiplication facts. All they need is 2 dice and a handful of counters (or dry-erase markers, if you laminate the pages or insert them into page protectors). Students can quickly play a game in just a few minutes and enjoy an easy clean-up with no extra pieces to keep track of.

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Summer Multiplication Facts Game – No Prep

 

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Language Arts – “Open Syllable Bundle Packet”

 

 

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This reading bundle packet provides 106 pages of the open syllable type word lists, activities, and games. The open syllable words in this packet include words using each vowel in conjunction with one, two, or multi-syllable words. The activities are presented in a fun and basic way so that students can easily and quickly grasp the idea of open syllable words. After some practice, students will easily locate the open syllable in the words–whether at the beginning, middle, or end of a word.

Here’s a list of the activities/games in the packet
1. Bubble Yum Relay
2. Flower Power
3. Open Syllable Word Count, Sort & Write
4. Open Syllable Cut, Sort & Glue
5. Open Syllable Count & Divide
6. First or Last Syllable Open?
7. Fill Up the Jar
8. I Spy
10. First or Last Syllable Open Picture Sort
11. Hear, Write & Draw
12. Open Syllable Booklets
13. Dominoes
14. Try Spelling/Draw & Spell
15. Move the Cow to the Barn
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FREE LESSON – “Social Studies Causation Cards”

The Owl Teacher

Grades 3-6

Causation Cards are the newest and next best thing since task cards!

FREE CAUSATION CARDS, Social Studies, Economics

What Are Causation Cards?

Causation cards are a fun, interactive way to review vocabulary and concepts that students need to learn. In addition, this engaging activity helps improve fluency and listening skills.


How Does Causation Cards Work?

The method is similar to the “I have… who has…” cards, where each student has to listen carefully to other students to know when it is their turn. However, causation cards do not contain a repeated language (like “I have… who has…”). Instead it will state an action that a student must perform and a statement they must say. The action can be something simple from jumping in the air to drawing on the board. The statement can be a definition of a term or related concept.


Why Are Causation Cards Important?
This activity is a great resource for practicing those all important speaking and listening skills while building fluency. This resource is a great way to improve student’s reading accuracy, prosody, and fluency rate.

How Do You Use Them In The Classroom?

Have the class read through the set of cards multiple times giving each student a different card each time or read to each other by taking turns. 

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LANGUAGE ARTS – “5 Sight Word Games – Differentiation”

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This packet includes 5 fun but simple games that your kiddos will love to play! The purpose of the games are to give students exposure and experience to reading the Dolch sight words.  With each game board give each team a certain level of sight words such as, preprimer, primer, or first grade, ect.  Students are to form a deck of cards out the sight words included.  All the games boards are interchangeable with each level of sight words.  Differentiate and place the games in reading centers. The games included are: SWEET SHOP HOP,  PIG, BLOCKBUSTER, SHARK, CIRCLE IN & OUT.

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MATH – “Math Workshop Can Work For YOU!”

By:  The Owl Teacher

Grades 3-5

There are so many workshops out there- Reading Workshop, Writing Workshop, and even Math Workshop!  Just when you get one down, the another comes around!  The nice thing is, they are very much alike!  Even if you are feeling a bit overwhelmed or exhausted, I can make it easy for you!

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Head on over to my blog where I have posted lots of information regarding math workshop and how to make it work in your classroom – without being overwhelmed and exhausted!

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LANGUAGE ARTS – “75 Games & Activities for Teaching Syllable Type Reading”

Grades K-4

by Reading on Strawberry Lane

 

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The bundle packet includes 75 games and activities that all target teaching the 6 types of syllables in reading: Closed Syllables, V-C-e Syllables, r-Controlled Syllables, Open Syllables, Vowel Digraph & Diphthong Syllables, and Final Stable Consonant Syllables.
The basic overall purpose of learning syllable type reading is to give students 6 reading strategies to aid them in chunking longer words into short, readable parts. Learning to read by identifying the type of syllable is the most consistent method to teach reading to your students, and the easiest way for your students to learn to read.These 75 activities/games can be placed in language stations, or they can be played during small groups. So enjoy as your students learn another way to break the code to reading!At the present, I am creating my last packet of game and activities to go with the final stable syllable type, and once I complete it, I will make it available. Also, if you would like to preview what is in the packet, just click on the preview tab and you can see a sample of some (not all of them) of the games in the packet.The Closed Syllable Packet includes the following games:
1. Bubble Bath Mats
2. Bubble Yum Mats
3. Scrambled Eggs
4. Bag the Odd Word
5. Morph the Word
6. Flower Power
7. My Closed Syllable Word Book
8. Closed Syllable Sorting Mats
9. Roll a Word
10. Spin a Word
11. Puzzle Words
12. Hangin’ Out the Laundry
13. Map Out the Treasure
14. Connect 4
15. Beat the ClockThe V-C-e Syllable packet includes the following games/activities:
1. Move the Spider to His Web
2. Syllable Type Organizers
3. Connect 4
4. Color the Snail’s Shell
5. Graph Your Total
6. Dominoes
7. It’s Raining V-C-e Words
8. Burst a Balloon
9. Flower Power
10. V-C-e Booklets
11. Flip-Flop Match-Up
12. A Walk Around the Block
13. Skunk
14. Building Words
15. Snake & LaddersThe r-Controlled Syllable packet includes the following games/activities:
1. Climb a Tree
2. Grow a Centipede
3. Football Frenzy
4. Uno
5. Clear the Board
6, Snail Shell
7. Wild Animal Race
8. Checkers
9. Circle Out
10. DominoesThe Open Syllable packet includes the following games/activities:
1. Bubble Yum Relay
2. Flower Power
3. Open Syllable Word Count, Sort & Write
4. Open Syllable Cut, Sort & Glue
5. Open Syllable Count & Divide
6. First or Last Syllable Open?
7. Fill Up the Jar
8. I Spy
9. ‘y’ says ‘i’ or ‘e’
10. First or Last Syllable Open Picture Sort
11. Hear, Write & Draw
12. Open Syllable Booklets
13. Dominoes
14. Try Spelling/Draw & Spell
15. Move the Cow to the BarnThe Vowel Digraph & Diphthong Syllable packet includes the following games/activities:
1. Color the Rainbow
2. Ghost OUT
3. Move the Mouse to the Cheese
4. Guess the Word
5. Shark
6. Go Fish
7. PIG
8. Old Maid, Old Man
9. Skunk
10. Thirteen Digraph/Diphthong BookletsThe Final Stable (-le) Syllable packet includes the following games/activities:
1. Syllable Match-Up
2. Which Final Stable Syllable Sound?
3. Final Stable Syllable Booklets
4. Syllable Divide
5. Riddle Riddles
6. Syllable Picture Sorts
7. Daub the Final Stable Syllable
8. WAR
9. Got It!
10. Sweet Shop Hop

FREE MATH LESSON – “Multiplication Strategies Mobile and More!”

The Owl Teacher – 3rd grade Math

The common core standard in third grade, 3.OA.1 states that we have to teach our students the various multiplication strategies such as equal grouping, repeated addition, using a number line, and forming arrays!  So, I created this fun and engaging lesson for you to choose from on which way you wanted students to demonstrate their understanding and use of these strategies!  It’s all found here in my Multiplication and Division Math Workshop Sampler!

Multiplication and Division Sampler Workshop

This exciting sampler comes with one complete scripted lesson from my Multiplication and Division Math Workshop Unit.  The lesson is in the math workshop format – with an opening, a mini-lesson, guided practice, independent practice, and a closing activity!

You can choose to have students represent their understanding of the multiplication strategies by the adorable 4 door foldable or the star mobile!  (My blog contains information about how to create it as a Hot Air Balloon too!  Click here to see that post!)

 

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Multiplication strategies foldable and mobileOther related products you may enjoy:

Multiplication and Division Complete Workshop Unit

Multiplication and Division Fact Fluency Program

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LANGUAGE ARTS – “Reading Syllable Types Bundle Packet”

by Amanda Trump
Grades K-3

 

This bundle contains six units that give specific word examples of each syllable word type. The six syllable types of reading are Closed, V-C-e, Open, r-Controlled, Vowel Digraph & Diphthong, and Final Stable. Each unit provides a plethora of word lists that target each syllable type. Teaching reading by syllable types provides students with a clear-cut understanding of the English language. The basic overall purpose of learning syllable type reading is to give students 6 reading strategies to aid them in chunking longer words into short, readable parts.

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Christmas Mosaic Craftivity

 

 

Do you need a cute Christmas holiday activity for your kids?  Check out this mosaic art project!  Students tear small pieces of construction paper apart and them down to the holiday picture.  When they are finished, the project looks like a mosaic.

You can find these mosaics here!

Here is an example from one of my 5th graders!  There are a total of 14 different pictures to choose from.

These lights would be cute strung along in the hallway to actually look like Christmas lights.


MATH: Complete Math Workshop Lesson Plan Unit for Time

The Owl Teacher

Grade 3 Math

What’s the newest and hottest trend in math right now?  That’s right! Math Workshop!  Would you like to implement math workshop but don’t know how?  Are you new to math workshop and are still trying to figure it out?  Why not let me do that work for you!

Time Math Workshop Lesson PlansI’ve created some complete math workshop units just for you!  My newest unit on Time is complete with the following:

*15 days of complete lesson plans

*A unit overview

*Vocabulary and Word Wall Word Cards

*Time Pretest

*Scripted Lesson Plans to assist with the language of math workshop (Perfect for substitutes!)

*Warm Up Activities for each lesson

*Anchor Charts

*Mini-lesson materials

*Guided practice and independent practice activities

*Games

*Review practice sheets

*Interventions for each lesson for remediation

*Extensions for each lesson for enrichment

*Closings such as ticket out the door or mini-assessments

*Post Test

*Answer Keys

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The Owl Teacher’s Math Workshop Units

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FREE LANGUAGE ARTS LESSON – “Christmas”

by Games 4 Gains

3rd – 5th Grade

 

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Christmas Idioms Scavenger Hunt {FREE} makes practicing holiday-themed idioms fun! Included are 12 cards that require students to determine the meaning of an idiom in context. This is a perfect activity to use with the whole class or in small groups during the Christmas season!

As the teacher, you will place the cards in secret places all around the room. Students will hunt for a card and read the sentence (with an idiom) on that card. Then, students will hunt around the room trying to find the definition to the idiom they just read on a different card. When they find the card with that answer, they’ll read the sentence shown on that card and then go on a hunt again. Students will love moving around the room trying to find their next question card!

Included with this Christmas Idioms Scavenger Hunt:
• Instructions for setup and how to play
• 12 idioms scavenger hunt cards
• Answer sheets
• Answer key

Looking for other fun activities for your holiday READING centers? Check out these popular reading comprehension games:
Christmas Reading Comprehension Board Game
Christmas Around the World Reading Comprehension Board Game
Hanukkah Reading Comprehension Board Game
Winter Reading Comprehension Board Game

Looking for fun Christmas activities for your MATH centers? Check out these math review activities:
Christmas Math Color By Number (2nd Grade)
Christmas Math Color By Number (3rd Grade)
Christmas Math Color By Number (4th Grade)
Christmas Math Color By Number (5th Grade)
Christmas Math Bingo – 2nd Grade Word Problems
Christmas Math Bingo – 3rd Grade Word Problems
Christmas Math Bingo – 4th Grade Word Problems
Christmas Math Bingo – 5th Grade Word Problems

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Capitalization ‘Clip and Flip’ Cards
Quotation Marks ‘Clip and Flip’ Cards
Homophones Bump Games
Context Clues Bump Games
Synonyms Bump Games

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FREE MATH LESSON – “Christmas Even & Odd Numbers Assessment”

by The Teacher Treasury

2nd – 4th Grade

 

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This 5 page mini packet is a 26 question even vs. odd number assessment.

Materials needed per student:
1 red crayon
1 green crayon
1 pencil

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Even and Odd Number Worksheets, Assessment and Activities for Kids

Even and Odd Number Assessment (FREE)

 

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Math Lesson – “Engaging Math Centers 3rd Grade Standards”

By: Thirdgradetriumph

Grades: 2nd, 3rd, and 4th

 

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Let’s play a math game! This huge pack of over 80+ pages of card games, board games, and assessment activities to practice 3rd grade math CCSS. This is a perfect way to jazz up your math centers and instruction with this fun and engaging pack! Be sure to check out the preview!

What’s included:
Math Go Round (practice essential math skills in this fun activity around the room. Get’s students up and out of their seats) – Assess a majority of 3rd grade math CCSS

Division Bingo (fun and engaging way to review division concepts) – 3.OA.7

Divide-O! (fun card game designed to review and practice division) – 3.OA.7 and 3.OA.5

Fractiontastic (fun and engaging activity to complete around the room. Also, a great way to review fractions!) – 3.NF.1, 3.NF.2, 3.NF.3

Expanded Form Headbandz (practice standard and expanded form with digits up to the hundred thousands with the classic game headbandz. You don’t need the actual game to play this one, you can make your own headbandz out of sentence strips and paperclips!) – 3.NBT.1

Don’t get it Twisted (practice multiplication facts with TWISTER. You don’t need the actual game of twister to play this. You can, like I did, make my own twister game mat by using white butcher paper and printing out the appropriate colors as the circle spots, then laminating for durability.) – 3.OA.7

 

This pack is sure to engage your students and have them coming back for more! It’s a perfect way to break away from the ordinary and have your students practice math concepts in an engaging and fun way. They will have so much fun that they will forget they are learning/reviewing. My kids always beg for more!

 

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FREE MATH LESSON – “Bar Graphs FREEBIE”

by TeachToTell

2nd – 5th Grade

 

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Get your students out of the four walls of the classroom and into the outdoors with this fun activity. Students will have the opportunity to use tally marks to collect data to construct a bar graph. A set of questions also requires students to interpret the constructed bar graph. Not only will learning be more realistic but also it will be a welcome change, perhaps from the daily routine.

You will find more interactive fun activities in these bundles:
* 107 pages ‘Bar Graphs Ultimate’ collection and 324 pages ‘Graphs The Complete Interactive’ collection.

Bar Graphs Ultimate Collection
324 PAGE GRAPHS THE COMPLETE INTERACTIVE COLLECTION

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Math Lesson – “Common Core Assessments – All 3rd Grade Math Standards!”

By: Thirdgradetriumph

Grades: 3rd (could enrich 2nd graders or be used as progress monitoring RTI for 4th graders).

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Are you tired of searching all over the internet to find quality math assessments that are not only aligned to the Common Core, but can also be used as a progress monitoring tool or an enrichment tool? Well then search no more, because this is the set of assessments for you! These assessments are aligned for the 3rd grade common core, but can also be used to review 4th grade math concepts and to enrich 2nd graders. These are quality assessments that will help you determine if your students have achieved mastery of a particular standard and these assessments will help you differentiate your math instruction too! The progress monitoring graphs included will allow you to keep data on your students progress and you can even manage tier 1 interventions if you use the RTI (response to intervention) model. Answer keys are provided in this product along with two quality assessments for each math standard in third grade.

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FREE LANGUAGE ARTS LESSON – “FREE Polar Express ~ My Favorite Part Writing! Christmas FUN FREEBIE!”

by Teacher Karma

Kindergarten – 5th Grade

 

my favorite part

 

Polar Express ~ My Favorite Part Writing was designed to inspire your students to write about their favorite part of The Polar Express!

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Polar Express MEGA BUNDLE

Using the Polar Express MEGA BUNDLE in your classroom will benefit your students in the following ways:

• Literacy centers have many opportunities for you to differentiate for your students… with NO or very little prep work from you.
• 8 Literacy centers that inspire higher level thinking skills in reading and writing, as well as being FUN!
• All of the centers can also be used in a mini-lesson with your whole class, small group instruction, or with your RtI groups.
• SAVE time and energy! You will have everything you need to provide reading instruction for the entire month of December!! This is a huge book study on The Polar Express.
• 60 printable handouts for your students. You will also find lots of instructions for the teacher and the students.

Included in The Polar Express full-product download:

* Polar Express invitation and tickets (3)
* Design your own Polar Express Ticket
* Polar Express Character
* Polar Express has Character (2)
* Center: Polar Express Sequence the Story {short version}
* Center: Polar Express Sequence the Story {long version}
* Polar Express: Beginning, Middle, and End
* Polar Express ~ Problem and Solution
* Polar Express Problem and Solution {draw it}
* Parts of Speech
* Polar Express ~ Movie Notes
* Polar Express ~ What’s Different?
* Book vs. Movie
* Venn Diagram {compare and contrast}
* Polar Express ~ Vivid Language strips
* Visualize Train Writing
* Visualize Train {draw}
* Polar Express: Vivid Language {visualization}
* Vivid Language Helps You Visualize ~ Prove it!
* Vivid Language ~ What it Means Chart
* Center: Visualize and Draw!
* Writing Paper: For the first gift of Christmas, I would choose…
* Writing Paper: I Believe
* Writing Paper: My Favorite part of the Polar Express is… (2)
* Writing Paper: Magical Journey
* Writing Paper: If I could have one wish come true this Christmas, it would be…
* Writing Paper: The boy could ask Santa for anything in the world. Why do you think he chose a bell?
* Writing Paper: What do you think is inside of Santa’s bag?
* Writing Paper: If you could go on your own magical journey, where would you go? Why?
* Writing Paper: 2 blank decorative papers for you or your students to add their own prompts
* Letter to Santa (2)
* Create a book cover / jacket with 2 templates to choose from
* Writing: My Polar Express book cover…
* Polar Express Book Cover Checklist
* About Polar Express (main idea)
* My Questions About the Polar Express
* Center: Polar Express Journal Topic Cards
* Center: Polar Express Memory Game
* The Polar Express Word Search (pre-made)
* The Polar Express Word Search (for students to make their own)
* Center: Polar Express ~ Write a Story!
* Center: Holiday Card FUN! (create and write holiday card) with 6 templates and graphics for students to choose from
* Polar Express Make a Main Idea Puzzle
* Center: Polar Express Discussion Cards
* Decorate a Bell activity for home or class
* Merry Christmas: How many words can you make?
* Polar Express: Home many words can you make?
* Hot chocolate recipe
* Just coloring: All Aboard
* Just coloring: Merry Christmas!
* Just coloring: Santa and tree
* Just coloring: Let it Snow!
* Winter Words: How many can you make?

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FREE MATH LESSON – “Christmas Math FREEBIE ~ Bright Ideas This Holiday Season ~ Color By The Code”

by Irene Hines

1st – 3rd Grade

 

xmas color x code

 

FREEBIE : Bright Ideas This Holiday Season

Christmas Math Color By The Code Puzzle Printables

~ This pack includes 2 FREE Color By The Code Puzzles To Practice Addition and 2 answer keys.

~ Puzzles Are Aligned To The CCSS. Each Page Has The Specific CCSS Listed.

~ A detailed list of the CCSS used is also provided.

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~Here Are Some More Winter Math Puzzles To Check Out!~

Monthly Math Masterpieces~ Winter Edition Pack Of Math Puzzles

Bright Ideas For The Holidays ~ Christmas Math Color By The Code

December Division De’lights’ ~ Math Color By The Code Puzzles

Christmas Computation Cupcakes ~ Addition And Subtraction Math Color By The Code Puzzles

Multiplication Christmas Computation Cupcakes ~ Math Color By The Code Puzzles

Christmas Elf Equations : Christmas Addition Math Printables

Winter Wonder Math~ January Math Printables Color By The Code

Waddle Into Winter ~ Penguin Math Printables Color By The Code

Snowflake Solutions ~ Math Winter Printables Color By The Code Puzzles

Multiplication Snowflake Solutions ~ Math Winter Printables Color By The Code Puzzles

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My Complete Color By The Code Math Puzzle List

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FREE LANGUAGE ARTS LESSON – “Literacy Mini Unit – Process Writing and Interactive Book • FREE •”

by Mr Jimmy

3rd – 5th Grade

 

literacy mini unit

 

About the mini unit:
This mini unit provides one writing task that can be published into a class book. Use the included page from the complete book as an introduction to the task and as a model text.

About the book page:
One page from the complete book is included. Students can be Sherlock as they read the teacher-authored-and-illustrated page from the book titled “Riddles to Behold.” Use the clues in the riddle to determine what the mystery answer is! Watch as students witness the magical transforming page – you’ll love their reaction! They will be in awe while they learn how to make predictions and identify the main idea and details. Furthermore, the text on the page goes to the tune “London Bridge is Falling Down.”

Get the full literacy unit here!
You’ll find the complete book, more writing crafts and printable pages from the complete unit.

 

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FREE LANGUAGE ARTS LESSON – “Ice Castle Writing Prompt”

by Rainbow City Learning

3rd – 6th Grade

 

ice castle writing

 

An on-the-spot writing activity that will ignite your students’ imaginations! Finished with a fun craftivity. What if you were lost on your way home from school in a snowstorm and arrived at a castle made entirely of ice? What might you find inside?
The adventure begins as you end your visualization activity to set the scene!

 

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FREE MATH LESSON – “Shopping for Holiday Decorations: Money Skills (autism; special education)”

by Autism Classroom News-Christine

2nd – 12th Grade

 

holiday money skills

 

For a busy time of year, this is an easy print-and-go set of holiday math / shopping activities for students working on money skills in elementary school or life skills classes. Put the sales flyers in a page protector and either cut out the task cards for single use or put them in a photo album or laminate for re-use.

This freebie is a sneak peek of of my Economics of Shopping Series

The freebie consists of three sales flyers for holiday decorations, 8 task cards for writing in prices, and 2 print and go worksheets to answer questions about the flyer. The sales flyers are the same with 3 different levels of pricing. The worksheets are identical but one has a word bank to assist students. The worksheet with the word bank will only work with the stores called “Holly’s Decorations Sale.” It will not work for the third sheet because the Christmas tree price is different. The words from the bank could be cut out and pasted in the answer section, or laminated and attached with Velcro for re-use.

For more ideas for working with students with autism, check out my blog at Autism Classroom News .

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For other resources appropriate for students working on a life skills or functional curriculum, check out the following:

Money Tasks Galore Bundle: Task Cards and Worksheets
Next Dollar Money Skills Bundle for Special Education
Money Essentials Bundle for Special Education
Money Task Cards 1: Groceries
Next Dollar Up Task Cards: Money Skills [Special Education]
How Many Dollars? Task Cards: Money [Next Dollar] Skills [Special Education]
Next Dollar Up Worksheets

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Shopping for Holiday Decorations activities are copyrighted by Christine Reeve 2013 for single classroom use only. Please send others interested back to this site to download their own copy. Thank you for downloading and leaving feedback!

 

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FREE LANGUAGE ARTS LESSON – “Winter Word Game”

by Danielle Peeples

2nd – 3rd Grade

 

winter word game

 

Free Download! Game cards and recording sheet can be used to practice winter vocabulary words. Practice includes a,b,c order and antonym identification. Follow me on Teachers Pay Teachers for updates, freebies, and new products. I’m new to TPT so please take a moment to rate me. Thanks!!!!!!

Included: game cards, student directions, recording sheet

If you like this, you might also like:
Gingerbread Grammar Fun
Winter Literacy Centers and Activities

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FREE LANGUAGE ARTS LESSON – “Silly Sentences – December”

by Kathy Hutto

2nd – 4th Grade

 

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These silly sentences are so much fun! Your students will practice the parts of speech as they fill in the blanks with the type word given and then plug those words into a short story.

The sentences will be so silly and your students will have so much fun!

Skills covered:

nouns – common and proper
verbs – past, present, future tenses
adjectives
adverbs
interjections

This resource contains 10 silly sentence stories!

 

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FREE LANGUAGE ARTS LESSON – “Scrambled Sentences with Cinderella {1st-3rd Grades} FREE!!”

by The Fun Factory

1st – 3rd Grade

 

cinderella sentences

 

Cinderella Scrambled Sentences with a total of 33 cards for students to arrange in the correct order. Each set of sentences has the same picture so students will be able to separate the words into the correct sentences. There also is a recording sheet and answer sheet to use if you want your students to monitor their own learning. Enjoy!

For information about the use of Fairy Tales, see our blog post at The Fun Factory

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FREE MISC. LESSON – “FREE No Prep Christmas First Grade Math & Literacy Printables”

by Yara Sea of Knowledge

1st – 3rd Grade

 

xmas printables

 

Christmas is just around the corner. I am working on a packed literacy and math unit to be released in early November. I decided to release a preview of the activities. The activities I have included are:

Christmas Tree Number Jumble. (Addition, subtraction and number sort.)
Wacky Letters cut n paste. (Letter recognition)
Christmas Vocabulary Mega Match. (Vocabulary Match)
English Punctuation, prepositions and Verb Recognition worksheets.

Hope you enjoy this activity! If you do, please provide feedback. Any questions, e-mail: yh.seaofknowledge@gmail.com.

See the full unit here: Santa’s Wacky Reindeer Grades 1-2

Can’t wait for Christmas! 😀

More Christmas Units you might like:

Differentiated Reading Comprehension Task Cards Reindeer, Christmas Beetles, Christmas Trees Non-Fiction Reading {K-3}

Differentiated Reading Comprehension Task Cards Christmas Around The World 1 {6 Countries Non-Fiction Reading {K-3}

Differentiated Reading Comprehension Task Cards Christmas Around The World 2 {6 Countries Non-Fiction Reading {K-3}

Christmas Math & Literacy activities for K & G1 – Common Core

Christmas First Grade No Prep Math & Literacy Printables

FREE Christmas First Grade No Prep Math & Literacy Printables

Measuring Length with Unifix Cubes {Santa on the Beach}

Preschool & Kindergarten Christmas Activities & Stations

Fry Fluency Phrases {Scavenger Hunt – Santa’s Goofy Stockings 20 Phrases}

Grammar ELA Craft {My Wacky Craft First Grade Christmas Edition}

FREE Building Sentences – Messy Stockings {First 5 Fry Words!} K-G1

ESL & Grades 3-5 Christmas Cheer Around the World! {Italy, France, America, & Australia}

FREE ESL & Grades 3-5 Christmas Cheer Freebie! {flashcards, games, verb/noun sort, hunt a word}

Yara
Sea of Knowledge.

 

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FREE SCIENCE LESSON – “Fact or Opinion”

by Jessica Tobin

1st – 3rd Grade

 

fact opinion ocean

 

Fact or Opinion Free

-This game includes two game boards, one for Fact and one for Opinion. Students work in small groups in individually to figure out if the ocean sentences are fact or opinion.

Students are given a recording sheet for student accountability and teacher checking purposes.

 

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November Teacher Talk

       By Deann Marin of Socrates Lantern  

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Read what these innovative teachers are doing in their classrooms 

Rainbow City Learning

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This is the Single Most POWERFUL Teaching Tool

By Thia Triggs of Print Path

If you are a teacher or a therapist, you will want to make sure you are using this tool to your fullest!

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How Do I Provide Therapy for AAC Users? Try This

By Susan Berkowitz of susan-berkowitz

Think speech therapy is different from what you do with other students? Think again. This post tells you why.

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My Life’s Work

By Thia Triggs of Print Path

Next month I’m going to be presenting my work on the automaticity of handwriting to a group of 150 Wisconsin school-based occupational therapists. I have a little little sneak preview for you, and a free gift – for a limited time.

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Silver Boxes: Gifts of Encouragement

By Kathie Yonemura of Tried and True Teaching Tools

Who doesn’t like presents? Silver boxes can transform your classroom! Teach students to give gifts of encouragement.

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Happy Native American Heritage Month

By Michelle Webb of Teaching Ideas For Those Who Love Teaching

Tips for Celebrating Native American Heritage

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9 Ways to Use Task Cards

By Mary Moore of Moore Resources

 Task Cards are so Versatile Even in Middle and High School! They are great because students feel they have a choice in which task they do first and in middle school this is a great way to engage students. Another benefit of task cards is that students do not feel overwhelmed by worksheet after worksheet of problems to do. It breaks up the day, week, or month. Read below about 9 ways you may use task cards.

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Thanksgiving STEM Olympics

By Kerry Tracy of Kerry Tracy

Five engaging Thanksgiving STEM challenge ideas to follow in the footsteps of the Pilgrims!

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Connecting Literature with our Latino Learners

By Lisa Robles of LisaTeachR’s Classroom

As a teacher in a Latino community (and a Latina), I am acutely aware that students need to see mirrors of themselves in literature. Here is a list of books I’ve read to my kids.

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Engaging Assessment Tools

By Shametria Routte of The Routty Math Teacher

Using a variety of ongoing assessment techniques is an important way to assess how students are progressing toward mastery of a concept or skill. Traditional methods include tests and quizzes; however, there are a host of other tools that will not only keep your students engaged but will also provide the feedback that you need to get a gauge on your students’ understanding. This post offers 5 engaging assessment tools that you can use to fill your assessment toolbox.

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New Blog Series: Extraordinary Math Hacks

By Tammy Roose of Tarheelstate Teacher

Sharpen your pencils, pull out your 10-sided dice and base-10 blocks, and get ready for some math lesson hacks that you can use right away! I’m going to show you some Extra-ordinary Math Hacks that take my math time from *yawn* to “da-Bomb!”

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TEACH KIDS TO BE THANKFUL THIS HOLIDAY WITH STONE SOUP

By Mary Carr of Carberry Creations

We know that social skills are important, and that many of our students could benefit from a bit of direct instruction in the matter, but alas, testing strategies prevail, and social skills fall to the back burner. Perhaps not today. I would like to share with you my favorite read aloud story for this time of year which will allow you to target the test taking strategies, and with only a little extra time from your day, you can integrate a bit of social skills curriculum in too (but shhh… don’t tell the politicians, or school administrators.)

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Connecting with Parents

By Dr Crystal Brown of Dr Crystal Brown

20th Century and 21st Century Communication Mash-Up: Learn two effective ways to communicate with students’ parents. 


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So Much to Be Thankful For

By Deann Marin of Socrates Lantern

As a teacher, I feel it’s part of my responsibility to help my students think about the good things that they have going, and to be thankful for their blessings.

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FREE MISC. LESSON – “FREE! Christmas Thank You Card from Teacher”

by Jill Nieman

Pre-Kindergarten – 8th Grade

 

cristmas thank you

 

Looking for a cute thank you card to give your students for their wonderful and thoughtful gifts? This colorful card prints in seconds. Fold in half and then in half again. Sign your name at the bottom and voila! Thank you’s are done before you leave school for vacation 🙂

As always, please leave feedback after purchasing!
Enjoy!

You may also enjoy:
Christmas Making Words Game
I See Christmas Emergent Reader
Holiday Reading Themed Bookmarks
Save Christmas! Game for Kinders

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FREE LANGUAGE ARTS LESSON – “Snowflake Words”

by Teresa Williams

Kindergarten – 3rd Grade

 

snowflake words

 

Students generate new words using the letters from the word snowflakes. A fun activity that promotes learning in the areas of spelling, reading, and phonics. Targeted for students in kindergarten, first, second, and third grade. Teachers could make several copies and laminate to use in literacy stations or make copies for the classroom so students can work together.

 

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