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Do you hate to teach poetry? Do you want your students to learn and enjoy poetry? Try these simple ways to learn how to teach poetry...

Hello, 4th students! Have you ever wondered why certain words appear to be more difficult to read than others? Thats when sight words come in handy! Sight words are words that we can recognize merely by looking at them.

Boost your fifth grader's math skills with these worksheets — converting fractions to decimals, calculating percentages, and interpreting charts and graphs.

by LittleStreams 3rd - 5th Grade A Skills Poster to help students learn how to use a Protractor. Angles Printables and Worksheets al...

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Oops! We did it again...My fellow 8 th grade Reading teacher and I dressed up as Katniss for "Twin Day" during our Red Ribbon Week festiv...

Your economics activities should not be boring. There are SO MANY fun ways to make it engaging for students, as well as teach vocabulary.

Let’s take a look at different ways you can organize your math workshop block. The three versions below are just examples. You can always modify and come up with your own. Three Groups (start here) Four Groups (good for skill groups) Extra Choice (24+ students) THREE GROUPS Below I will write about two ways that […]

Give your studenst the opportunity to research a U.S. state in more depth with this Great Explorations research project! Get all the details in this post.

Still waiting for all the papers, pens, handles, nibs and ink to arrive. In the mean time, we had our Daily Sketch today which was a prompt, "Letters with Shadows." I was curious to see what they would come up with, but most of the students translated it quite literally. I also started in on the history of writing with this Power Point and this coordinating study sheet with the important terms for them to take notes during the lecture. Next, to have some hands on Sumerian fun, I gave each student this handout: Credit: The Oriental Institute Museum Then I gave each student a small piece of air dry clay and a wooden stylus to create their own Sumerian tablet. (Girlfriend needs a manicure. Not classy! I guess neither is me pointing out, but still.) Next class they will try to translate each other's symbols using the key on the worksheet, then we move on the Hieroglyphics! The students learned how the Egyptians used pictographs which were simplified pictures to represent thoughts and sounds. They each drew a CARTOUCHE and wrote their names in Hieroglyphics!

Hey, everyone! I'm sorry I haven't been on lately, but I'm getting back into the swing of things, I promise. I know I left my blog off on a...

Students LOVE real-life learning, and this "Start a Restaurant" PBL unit will have them asking for more units just like it! Now includes a digital version for Google Classroom! Students will have the opportunity to plan their very own restaurant, create a menu, design an advertisement, and so much more! What better way to have students use real-life math, reading, and writing skills than with this fun restaurant project based learning activity? Click HERE to SAVE 25% with the PBL Activities Bundle for the Year! Please see the PREVIEW above for an idea of everything included in this loaded resource! All of the hard work is done for you. Simply print the NO PREP pages, and let your students make the decisions in this fun Start a Restaurant Project Based Learning Unit! You can use the entire packet for a longer project time-frame, or pick and choose the components that work best for your classroom and schedule. I've even provided some bonus banners for you to use on a bulletin board display. This engaging Restaurant PBL includes: • Unit Guide for Teachers • Planning the Restaurant • Restaurant Supplies • Name and Design It (Outside View) • Name and Design It (Inside View) • Popular Restaurant Themes • Shopping List • Choose a Good Cause • Restaurant Selfies • Scrumptious Snapshots • Text Messaging • Instagram Time • An Award Winning Dish • The Dining Playlist • Mapping Your Restaurant Floor Plan (map skills, map key, spatial awareness) • Restaurant Menu (Create a menu using printable template) • Menu Math • A Restaurant Advertisement (Persuasive Writing) • Scoring Rubrics • More! You might also be interested in these other reading and PBL resources: Design a Haunted House PBL Plan a Thanksgiving Parade PBL Plan a Road Trip PBL Plan a Road Trip PBL How Chocolate is Made Close Reading Packet The History of Chocolate Close Reading Packet Don't forget that leaving feedback earns you points toward FREE TPT purchases. I love that feedback! Also, follow me and be notified when new products are uploaded. New products are always 50% off for the first 24 hours they are posted. It pays to follow me! As always, please contact me with any questions! Thank you, Shelly Rees

Would you like to decorate your classroom with fun, hand-drawn anchor charts/posters? Do you simply not have the time to get them done? Well, you have come to the perfect place! I love making these engaging and appealing anchor charts. I also can draw/create any other topic you would like, just contact me directly and ask! My students absolutely love these posters and references them every day. Many of them are visual learners, so the colorful images really help them connect and remember what they have learned. This particular anchor chart is for readers/writers practicing homonyms. The visuals and examples really help my students both have fun with the material and understand it on a deeper level. Please let me know if you would like me to adjust it in anyway to meet your classroom's needs. I also wouldn't mind collaborating with you as well if you would like me to add anything else! I have been teaching now for over 7 years in all diverse school districts and with all different ages, so I understand the importance of being as flexible and understanding as possible! **These will be copies unless asked otherwise. Hope you love it :)

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This post is for a series called “Quick Guide to Benchmark Advance,” which helps teachers with the basics. Many people have been asking about what supplies they might need or want for implementing Benchmark Advance. I’ve compiled a list of supplies you may find useful. I recommend getting your feet wet with the program first ... Read more

Teaching the 5th grade science TEKS just got easier with our planning guide of day-by-day lesson ideas and science activities!

Goal Setting - This 4th grade teacher uses post it notes to remind children of their goals upon entering the classroom. I love that her method to this has

We created this anchor chart after experimenting with circuits to determine which classroom objects were insulators and which were conductors. Students recorded their experimental data in their science notebooks as they conducted their research. Afterward, as a class, we put together this chart to make our learning permanent and visible. If you would like …

Since the school year started I have LOVED using Interactive Math Notebooks in my 4th grade classroom. My students are having a great time putting them together and using them for reference, when completing their assignments. I had created worksheets to use with my interactive notebooks. These have worked great for follow-up assignments, and sometimes…

Box-and-whisker plots are a breeze in this great beginner's worksheet. Your pre-algebra student can practice finding the median and quartiles of a data set.

One fun math idea to incorporate as a weekly routine is a Challenge of the Week problem. It is optional for students to give it a try, but I've found that just by adding the word challenge and hyping it up a little bit...kids love to give it a shot! The problem is always an extension of what we are studying that week in class. I put each new challenge up on Monday morning and students have until the end of the day on Thursday to turn in their solutions to the turn in basket pictured. We go over the challenge every Friday after our daily warm-up problem. Students who answered the problem get a small prize (mints in my classroom!) and the recognition of solving the Challenge of the Week! Enjoy! Both my 6th grade challenge problems and 8th grade challenge problems are FREE! Be sure to grab a copy and use them with your students! Here was one of our first Challenge of the Week problems this year during our fraction multiplication unit. Go Badgers...Wisconsin sports is a fairly common them in my classroom! After multiplying fractions, we moved on to multiplying and dividing mixed numbers. I love how this problem really makes them work backwards and think about the process of multiplying fractions and mixed numbers! As we moved into our rates and ratios unit, this problem was one of the more challenging this year. My students get to know my love of baseball pretty early on in the year! Another challenging rates and ratios problem. Especially letter c... Here was a great problem that I used during our percents, fractions, and decimals unit a few weeks ago. Another Problem of the Week from our percents, fractions, and decimals unit! This one was from later in the chapter when we learned how to find the percent of a number. For our shortened Thanksgiving week, I got creative and researched some crazy Thanksgiving statistics. Seems like a lot of turkey per person, but I guess the stats don't lie! Here is a challenge that relates to order of operations! I also had to show one of my students responses because of how complex it was. I love it when I see things like this in sixth grade! On the left is the problem of the week. On the right is one of my the student's response. I rewrote it so that I could go through it with all of my classes. They loved the challenge of having to use order of operations to solve such a complicated problem! After introducing algebraic expressions at the beginning of our algebra units, here was a challenge of the week that I had A LOT of students try! As we continued our units of algebra, here is a challenge of the week that I had students try BEFORE we learned about two-step equations. I liked the writing aspect of this problem, as well as how open-ended it is! Once we learned about two-step equations, I made our challenge of the week a little tougher...fractions AND decimals! More two-step equations! This challenge of the week was also a great review of dividing fractions and mixed numbers from the start of the year. This challenge of the week involved finding a two-step rule for the function table! This problem was as we were nearing the end of our algebra units. I like how it brought together everything that we had been learning about...equations, function tables, and graphs! On to solving inequalities! This problem was before we had learned about solving two-step inequalities. Two-step inequalities with fractions! This was a tricky one for the sixth graders! This challenge of the week was just prior to learning how to find the measure of a reflex angle. I had a lot of students who remembered to subtract from 360 degrees! This one was one of my favorites! Some students surprised me by finding angle C first. I hadn't even thought to solve it that way! This problem sparked a fun discussion of the names of different polygons...including a megagon (1,000,000-sided polygon). Translations, reflections, and rotations! Putting it all together! The rotation step was tricky for my students because most of the examples we did in class were rotated around the origin! Moving on to areas...this problem was just after learning about how to find the area of parallelograms and triangles! More work with areas! I really enjoyed creating these area challenge problems! Putting it all together with a composite area problem. This was challenging with the two semi-circles! Composite volumes...combining what we learned about finding the volume of rectangular prisms and pyramids! This might have been my favorite problem to create! Who doesn't want to solve a problem with a floating pyramid inside of a rectangular prism!