by Third Grade to the Core Kindergarten – 6th Grade
Comparing and Contrasting is a skill that students will use in any grade level. This Sheet is a great way to get them to organize their thoughts. It comes with a poster that you can print, laminate, and display in your classroom!
If you like this product, please leave a fair rating!! Thanks so much for downloading! Happy Teaching! Third Grade to the Core
Treat your students to a different kind of vocabulary lesson with Five Words of Freedom.
This informational text freebie presents the etymologies of 5 words—vote, Congress, Senate, representative, and democracy. Like people, word histories are full of surprises, and these entertaining 5 are no exception.
The package includes CCSS-aligned questions and full answer keys.
Use the ideas in this product to spark discussions about what living in a democracy means.
Have students make their own personal Words of Freedom list and then do some digging into their histories. Great stuff for reports
This Earth Day, give your students this report card and have them evaluate how “green” their school / classroom / home is.
There are three different report cards: one for the whole school, one for the classroom, and one for the home. You could either have all students complete both the school and classroom report card, or divide your class into two groups and have one group complete the school card, and one group complete the classroom card. Students could then compare the results to see how their classroom compares to the school. Home report cards could be taken home for students to complete with their parents.
by TiePlay Educational Resources LLC 4th – 7th Grade
FREE Ecology, recycle, sustainable… a free Earth Day worksheet. This word search contains 21 Earth Day vocabulary words. Penny Inman (TpT Seller) said, “Great little filler activity for my students who love word searches. Helps with tracking and vocabulary and spelling.” Happy Earth Day!
Earn Credit for TpT Purchases
Just go to your My Purchases section and click on the Provide Feedback flashing text. Your feedback is very much appreciated. Thank you!
*Follow me to find out about exciting sales, flash freebies and a monthly newsletter.
Group work is always tricky to evaluate because there is so much going on. In addition, as educators, we are required to give detailed feedback on students’ performances.
I created this FREE document to make the teacher’s job easier, and to allow students to be responsible for their success as well.
Self-evaluation grids are a great way to guide students in their evaluations. Students will know exactly what is expected of them and will be made responsible for their success. This package can also easily be changed to be used as peer evaluations.
This self-evaluation grid will help students as well as teachers to assess students’ group work. When students use this grid to assess their work, there are no surprises when they receive their final mark. This grid, in particular, allows the students to become organized and responsible for their individual parts.
These self-evaluation grids are also very helpful to teachers:
❒ Helps the teacher justify the final mark;
❒ Helps to identify students’ weaknesses and strengths;
❒ Helps parents and students better understand the task required;
❒ Helps teachers create rubrics for the final evaluation.
Because of formatting issues, this package was created in a PDF document, but I can easily email you a Word file to be easily modified and changed according to the individual teacher’s needs.
You may also be interested in the following products:
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.
Work on figurative language with a “Spring Time” theme.
Directions: Print up cards, laminate and cut out. Use these cards to play memory, go fish or just as a face up matching activity to work on idiom meanings. There are 15 idiom pairs.
There is a worksheet for your student’s to create an idiom journal of all the new idioms they learn. They can take the journal home as review or have them write a story trying to use some of the idioms from their journal.
The Rain Rain Go Away Mini Unit includes all materials to teach this short story. Students also get the opportunity to be creative and collaborate with others in the creative process. This unit is always a hit in my class.
The resource includes:
❒ An anticipation guide
❒ A copy of the short story
❒ Questions for comprehension
❒ Plot graph activity
❒ Information sheet on characterization and an accompanying activity
❒ A personal word wall to improve students’ vocabulary and understanding
❒ A comprehensive answer key for all activities
Also included are two evaluations with evaluation grids:
❒ An individual evaluation where the student must write an alternate ending to the story
❒ A group evaluation where students must work collaboratively to produce an alternate ending
24 pages total
You may also be interested in the following products:
Looking for a fun activity that is self=checking, collaborative and practices solving proportions? This is a set of 15 problems that need to be cut apart, reassembled in the correct order and fastened together like a chain until the end is reached.
Each of the links has an equation and an answer to another problem. Students will need to solve for x and then find the answer on another strip. Students can either line up the strips in order before fastening together or attach as they go.
Students begin with the link marked start and continue until they are out of links. If students are struggling, teacher can let students know which is the last link. This is a great warm up to review before a quiz. Works well with partners or a group of 3.
Each of the links also have a letter, teacher can quickly identify student progress by using the check word/phrase . Or teacher can look at the links in order.
To finish the lesson, use the included exit cards, which can be randomly assigned to students to check their understanding. If students have never completed a paper chain before, then having a sample they can see (not look at to see the order) helps them understand what the finished product will look like,
Included:
✂Answer Key
✂3 pages of student “chains”
✂18 exit cards
✂Teacher Directions
✂Worksheet for student calculations because showing work in Math Class is always good ☺
For more fun and engaging activities, click the “FOLLOW ME” above.
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.
***********************************
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.
Group work is always tricky to evaluate because there is so much going on. In addition, as educators, we are required to give detailed feedback on students’ performances.
I created this FREE document to make the teacher’s job easier, and to allow students to be responsible for their success as well.
Self-evaluation grids are a great way to guide students in their evaluations. Students will know exactly what is expected of them and will be made responsible for their success. This package can also easily be changed to be used as peer evaluations.
This self-evaluation grid will help students as well as teachers to assess students’ group work. When students use this grid to assess their work, there are no surprises when they receive their final mark. This grid, in particular, allows the students to become organized and responsible for their individual parts.
These self-evaluation grids are also very helpful to teachers:
❒ Helps the teacher justify the final mark;
❒ Helps to identify students’ weaknesses and strengths;
❒ Helps parents and students better understand the task required;
❒ Helps teachers create rubrics for the final evaluation.
Because of formatting issues, this package was created in a PDF document, but I can easily email you a Word file to be easily modified and changed according to the individual teacher’s needs.
You may also be interested in the following products:
Assess your students’ knowledge of literature with this fun and creative evaluation. Not only will your students learn by creating a game, but other will learn as well by playing it.
This is a self-evaluation (and teacher assessment) rubric to guide students and teachers in the evaluation process.)
This rubric was created to help students understand exactly what is expected of them for this evaluation. It is also an excellent tool to assess students’ progress and final product.
This self-assessment rubric is part of the bundle as well.
Self-evaluation grids are a great way to guide students in their evaluations. Students will know exactly what is expected of them and will be made responsible for their own success. This package can also easily be changed to be used as peer-evaluations.
You may also be interested in the following 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.
Visit our TeachersPayTeachers store and our blog, www.thethreesquarepegs.com, for more resources.
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!).
****For more digital grammar quizzes and quiz bundles, CLICK HERE!
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.
Please see product thumbnail for further details of all images.
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
If you have any questions or feedback on this product, please don’t hesitate to contact me through my TpT store or by emailing me at info@finntasticvisuals.com. I will do my best to answer your questions or to solve any problems in regard to my products. A review on my TpT product page would also be much appreciated!
If you’d like to find more clip art in similar style, please see these resources:
******************************************************************************************************* Terms of Use:
By purchasing resources created by Finntastic Visuals you agree to the following terms of use. All resources created by Finntastic Visuals are protected under the international copyright law and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). When you purchase these resources you are purchasing a single-user, non-transferable license. You are not being given rights of ownership and all rights are reserved.
You MAY use these designs for any PERSONAL NON-COMMERCIAL classroom, crafting and creative projects and for COMMERCIAL educational products as long as you combine them with other things to create new works.
YOU MAY NOT share, resell or redistribute any products created by Finntastic Visuals or claim them as your own work, altered or unaltered.
You MAY NOT share, resell or redistribute these designs as is (as a digital art file) in any way. You MAY NOT for example add these images to other clip art sets, digital collections, etc. If you use designs created by Finntastic Visuals as part of any digital products or digital downloads, please make sure that they are flattened/secured and can’t be “lifted” from your resource.
Fortune Teller activities, or Cootie Catchers in the US, are a great childhood game remodelled to test mathematical skills. Check out our blog post (link in document) for further information. In this cootie catcher there are eight questions on finding the nth term of linear sequences and some non-linear, differentiated to three levels (easy, medium and difficult) and a fourth pot luck section. It comes complete with instructions, ideas for stretch/challenge and two blank versions for challenging pupils to create their own.
This resource is available as part of the Fortune Teller bundle, check it out; Fortune Teller Bundle
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!
Remember to collect your TPT CREDITS to use on future purchases!
· Log in to your Teachers Pay Teachers account. · Click on the drop down menu “My TpT” · Select “My Purchases” · Click on “Paid Purchases” · Click on Item purchased · Click on “Provide Feedback” · Choose ratings and leave feedback
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.
The Spelling Flip Book is designed to help young learners become familiar with spelling rules and to incorporate them into their work.
Students can color and personalize their flip books to enhance the spelling learning experience.
I always like encouraging my students to use their flip books as reference sheets when they are working to promote good spelling habits. The goal is that eventually, by using the flipbook when working, the student will begin to remember common errors made in the past and correct them. I have had much success with this strategy in my classes.
I’ve also included a color copy and an answer key – a total of 18 pages.
You may also be interested in the following products:
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!
