Grab these free Making Inferences lesson plans and mini unit to help guide students to mastery on this high-level comprehension skill.

This poster set features the 6 IB PYP Transdisciplinary Themes. Each poster includes the theme, the associated descriptor, and an image to help your students interpret and remember the transdisciplinary themes. These visuals can be used as part of your unit display to promote the focus theme of your...

Grab these free Making Inferences lesson plans and mini unit to help guide students to mastery on this high-level comprehension skill.

My fifth graders have recently been studying Native American culture in history class, so I thought it was time to create Totem Poles again. Last year, I did this same project with my students. It was such a success, I decided to do them again. Each child made one piece of the totem pole. When hung, we have several large totem poles.

Hi, Teaching Friends! Fourth grade teachers, this one's for you! If you're always hunting for math games to give your students lots of effective practice that makes the most of their time in math rotations, you're going to love this measurement game freebie! (Slide down to the purple button to download it now!) Why should I consider using these games for math rotations? In addition to the math practice that games provide, there are so many good reasons to include games like these in your math plans! Games are engaging - students want to play them again and again, and of course that equals more practice! Winning a Thumbs Up game is based as much on luck as ability, so you can have partners of mixed ability work together. I like that - it elevates the strugglers and reminds your higher students that everyone can (and should!) have opportunities to win! Need more reasons? This post talks about the advantages of starting off the school year using games, and gives even more reasons in support of making games part of your math teaching plans! What are Thumbs Up math games? They're easy-prep games that are played by partners, and they're all about evaluating, comparing, and sorting numerical expressions. Every game has 24 cards, each with a mathematical expression that your students will evaluate to decide if it's thumbs up true or thumbs down false. How do I prepare these games? Super easy prep! Just print two sheets, the cards and the answer key. Cut the cards apart, and you're ready to go! Your download also includes two cute sorting pages which your students will enjoy using, but the sorting can be done without them if you're in a time pinch getting your game ready. What topics do these games address? There are ten games in the complete Fourth Grade Thumbs Up set. Here are the topics they address: Factors of numbers through 100 Comparing two fractions with different numerators and different denominators Comparing decimals Ordering decimals Adding and subtracting whole number through 1,000,000 Multiplying a whole number of up to four digits by a one-digit number Multiplying two two-digit numbers Using place value to solve multi-digit multiplication and division Express measurements in a larger unit in terms of a smaller unit. This one is your freebie! Characteristics of 2D and 3D shapes Several of the games address multiple skills, like this one for geometric shapes that also brings in some addition and multiplication. Here's what I mean! Click here to see the complete set! Try out a Thumbs Up game with this freebie. I'd love it if you'd let me know what you think of it! Happy Teaching!

Grab these free Making Inferences lesson plans and mini unit to help guide students to mastery on this high-level comprehension skill.

Green Screen projects are super easy to make. Check out my post here to see how to make your first project. Maybe you are new to Green Screen so you could

Grab these free Making Inferences lesson plans and mini unit to help guide students to mastery on this high-level comprehension skill.

Grab these free Making Inferences lesson plans and mini unit to help guide students to mastery on this high-level comprehension skill.

Grab these free Making Inferences lesson plans and mini unit to help guide students to mastery on this high-level comprehension skill.

Grab these free Making Inferences lesson plans and mini unit to help guide students to mastery on this high-level comprehension skill.

Grab these free Making Inferences lesson plans and mini unit to help guide students to mastery on this high-level comprehension skill.

Grab these free Making Inferences lesson plans and mini unit to help guide students to mastery on this high-level comprehension skill.

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When studying light and sound energy, one concept students need to know is how we use light and sound to communicate. I bet you might even do it in your classroom! Do you use a special sound throughout the day to communicate something to your students? For example, do you clap to get their attention

Grab these free Making Inferences lesson plans and mini unit to help guide students to mastery on this high-level comprehension skill.

An interjection is an exclamatory word (or words) that shows weak, mild, or strong feeling and has no grammatical function in the construction of a sentence.

Teaching Opinion Writing: What is the difference between reasons and supporting details?

Grab these free Making Inferences lesson plans and mini unit to help guide students to mastery on this high-level comprehension skill.

Do you use a focus wall in your classroom? We’ve been using one for the past ten years and loved having it to refer to, but it was difficult to keep up with it because I had to staple and take it down each week. I finally found a solution for this problem this past ... Read More about Easy to Maintain Focus Wall

Engage your students with these 10 ecosystem project ideas for your elementary science class and grab a FREEBIE to get started!

Looking for a fun way to supplement your child's science learning? Try out a life science crossword puzzle! This one's all about ecosystems.

This post was originally posted back in 2015 on my blog and has been a popular post since that time. I worked for a decade as a family counselor and elementary school counselor before staying

10 Creative ways to embed social studies into your literacy block. Find fun westward expansion activities that address literacy standards with center ideas.

Grades: 1-5 Invite Students To Make Their Own Totem Poles The Ready-to-Decorate® Totem Pole Poster is both fun and thought-provoking for children, who create and color their own individual totem pole of animals representing themselves and/or significant people in their lives. This creative activity is fabulous for home or school classroom students, who are challenged to consider their own traits and those of the people closest to them to select totem pole animals mirroring those characteristics. They then write about the reasons for their choices based on the qualities they believe those animals represent. Creative and Stimulating: The Ready-to-Decorate® Totem Pole activity is an opportunity for students to think about and express the characteristics they identify in themselves and those close to them. This type of self-exploration is aligned with valuable Social Emotional Learning (SEL). Simple and Engaging: The Totem Pole activity requires only the posters, scissors, glue, and crayons or markers. Most children love to color and decorate, even adult children! Versatile: Use these posters as a stand-alone activity, or align them with your unit on Native Americans. Great Value: Each affordably priced package includes 24 posters — enough for your entire class. This is tremendous value for an amazing activity.Use this unique poster decorating activity to encourage your students to be creative, while also developing their self-identification skills. Grades: 1 – 5 Size: 22" x 17" (24 posters)11" x 17" when completed

Explore the wild west in this westward expansion for kids lesson with fun activities to explore American history -L ewis and Clark, pony express, oregon trail, Gold rush, & more!

There are many great Montessori posts on the solar system. This post may not add anything new to the blogosphere, but I feel it is necess...

Figuring out the first art project of the year with my kids is always a daunting task for me. This is why I was so excited when I found this pin of suncatchers on Pinterest (links back to the blog Make, Do, Play). I really wanted to do something that my students would have fun with and could easily be started late if new students joined my class throughout the week (I see mine for an entire week.. then rotate to the next class). My students absolutely LOVE origami and even though I'm not particularly skilled at it, the folds in this project were very simple.. so it was a easy choice! I started this project by reviewing both linear and radial symmetry with my students. We talked about the difference between the two.. then sorted a number of images based on their type of symmetry. Once I was sure my students had it down, I moved on to demonstrating two folds that they could use for the project. I folded two different examples on my document camera, while my 5th graders followed along on scrap paper. After showing them the two folds, they decided which one of the two radial suncatcher designs they wanted to create... then picked out their colors. I originally intended for this to be a color wheel lesson.. but you need to have 8 different colored papers for these designs and not 6 like a standard color wheel has. So instead they had free reign on their color choices (either way they were getting some color mixing lesson). **The paper we used was a semi-transparent colored origami paper . It think these really turned out beautifully and they were very simple to make! On Friday I hung them up in the cafeteria windows.. they look stunning in the morning light! :)

Where'd that shadow come from? Next time a scary shadow crosses your path, you'll know just what to look for.

Mentor sentences are the perfect way to teach grammar and author's craft through examples of excellent sentences from your favorite read-aloud books! This unit will be a great way to integrate grammar and language during your novel study of Flora and Ulysses by Kate DiCamillo! It does not include ex...

This Grade 4 Health teaching resource offers an in-depth coverage of all the indicators for the outcome USC4.1: Assess what healthy eating and physical activity mean for pre-adolescence. Although it has been written to meet the outcome and indicators for the Saskatchewan Health curriculum, it will meet the needs of educators teaching students about how healthy eating and physical activity impacts their lives. Lessons are presented in the order of the indicators: a. Examine personal, past and present, knowledge about healthy eating and physical activity (exercise is important to health, trends such as jogging and home gyms, females and exercise/sports) b. Investigate personal, family, community and cultural factors that influence healthy eating (time, serving size, cultural food practices and values, water consumption, access to healthy foods) c. Discuss factors of healthy eating over which one has control (drinking more water) d. Explain the importance of particular eating practices including drinking water as a thirst quencher and eating breakfast e. Demonstrate an understanding of healthy food choices (analyze nutritional values of particular foods) and serving sizes that support good health (Canada’s Food Guide) f. Investigate personal, family, community and cultural factors that influence physical activity (time, cultural practices and values, access, safety) g. Review the health benefits of regular physical activity and the health risks of inactivity for pre-adolescence h. Investigate peer norms and popular trends related to healthy eating and physical activity i. Explore the consequences (both positive and negative) of following or resisting peer norms and/or popular trends related to eating and physical activity j. Investigate the physical activity opportunities in the community that benefit and/or challenge mental , socio-emotional, and spiritual well-being for pre-adolescence (develop personal gifts, and potential) k. Investigate personal changes that need to be made for better nutrition (serving sizes, variety of foods) and appropriate amounts of physical activity (Canada’s Guide to Physical Activity) About this unit: You should read a picture book to introduce every lesson in this unit. The book should be connected in some way with the concept of the lesson. Each indicator has a list of suggestions for picture books. Page 37 contains an anecdotal record keeping sheet. Each column could be for one student. Write the date in each block to record your observation. You can also use one sheet per student. These notes will prove to be invaluable at report card time when you have to write comments regarding the student’s work and participation in class. Other titles for the Saskatchewan Grade 4 Health curriculum are: Grade 4 Health I Can Statements Healthy Relationships Traditional, First Nations and Western Medicine Personal Responsibility for Safety One's Sense of Identity Healthy Stress Management Follow my store to be updated when new products are added.

Teaching poetry to kids in elementary school has never been easier! Use these four poetry skills to take your students' poetry writing to the next level.

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