Ignite the math spark in your classroom with these activities for math that are Easter and spring themed . Students enjoy math activities like sorting, graphing, adding, ordering, journaling

These POETRY POSTERS provide quick references for teachers and students about 20 types of poetry. Each bright and attractive anchor chart describes a poetry type, as well as giving an example poem. Displayed in your classroom, they provide educational decor and student writing guides. CONTENTS 20 posters describing the following poetic types: Acrostic Cinquain Haiku Couplet Diamante Clerihew Limerick Tercet Concrete List Tanka Found Lantern Quatrain 5 Ws Color Pensee ABC Free Verse Present Participle HOW TO USE THIS PRODUCT Display the poster under study at your writing or poetry center. Students may refer to it when writing their own poetry. Create a reference notebook by printing each poster and placing it in the binder. Place the binder at your writing or poetry center. Display all or some of the posters in your room as anchor charts. RELATED PRODUCTS POETRY TASK CARDS POETRY UNIT BUNDLE POETRY UNIT Black History Month POETRY UNIT Cowboy Activities POETRY UNIT Water Poetry POETRY UNIT Back to School POETRY UNIT Fall Activities POETRY UNIT Animal Poems Enjoy! Barb Evans CUSTOMER TIPS ► Be the first to know about my new discounts, freebies and product launches. Click here to follow my store. You will now receive customized email updates about my products. ► Get TPT credit to use on future purchases. Please go to your My Purchases page (you may need to login). Beside each purchase you'll see a Provide Feedback button. Simply click it and you will be taken to a page where you can give a quick rating and leave a short comment for the product. Your feedback is important to me. Thank you in advance. CONNECT WITH ME ► Follow me on Facebook ► Follow me on Pinterest ► Follow me on Instagram ► Follow It’s About Time, Teachers blog

Learners will practice determining probability in fraction form in this sweet practice worksheet.

This lovely picture of a chicken will look all the more lovely if the kids get their sums right and use the correct colours!

I hate it when I have a day off and I can't sleep in. My body is just to used to getting up at 5:00 AM. So here I am blogging and blog stalking when I wish I could be sleeping. Maybe I can't sleep because I'm excited about my new packet. I think it's pretty cool. We've been working on Shapes for the past few weeks and I put together a packet of some of the things we did. This is a great activity for analyzing and composing shapes. My kids LOVE! This is a fun game where the kiddos get to use the skills they discovered on the Cover the Shape mat above. I LOVE this book and was sad to find out that it is out of print. But you can find it on some of the used book sites. I read the book and then my firsties used their imaginations and came up with some cute pages for our class book. This is a picture of our class sort with 3D shapes. I'm using this next week in Math Stations with a 4-In-A-Row game. The packet is 31 pages of fun with over 50 pictures of 2D and 3D shapes. You can find the packet at my shops. Just click on the words below for a link. TpT or Teacher Notebook Oh and if you haven't heard, there are BIG sales this weekend on both sites. THANK YOU! At this Thanksgiving time I'm so thankful for the opportunity to be a teacher and work with my little ones. Some days it is VERY hard and I wonder if I'm doing any good. But then one of them gives me a big smile or a high five or a hug and then I know I might have taught them something today. I'm so grateful for this blogging community of wonderful teachers who inspire me to step it up and do a little more. I love the ideas everyone shares and the willingness to collaborate. It makes teaching much easier when I know I'm not in it alone. FREEBIE! Here's a little freebie to say THANKS for following me! It's from my shape packet above. Click HERE to download these 2 pages. GIVEAWAY! Also, as a BIG THANK YOU I'm going to give away my new shape packet to 3 of you. All you have to do to qualify for the giveaway is COMMENT here on this post before MIDNIGHT TONIGHT (Utah time). I will select 3 winners at random and send you the packet so make sure you leave an email address. Winners were Kim, Tina, and Mrs. Brinn. Thanks everyone for your great comments! I hope everyone has a wonderful Thanksgiving filled with family, friends, and lots of love.

Want a fun, no-prep multiplication facts game to use in your math centers tomorrow? Read about how we've "mathified" the popular squares game to practice multiplication facts!

As a mother, sometimes I worry if my son is learning enough on a daily basis. He has lots of toys and I play with him and show him new…

HAPPY EASTER!!! We had a fun week doing lots of different activities with bunnies, chicks, eggs, & carrots! We did activities from my Easter Fun Pack! We had a short week and a 3 day weekend! A much needed 3 day weekend! Check out our fun week: Monday We practiced matching rhyming words with these […]

Ready for Peep catapults?! My kiddos loved this STEM activity so much they didn't realize they were learning engineering, physics and math!

So many uses for plastic eggs!

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FREE Halloween math worksheets for second grade include skills such as comparing numbers, missing addends, 10 more and 10 less. and more.

Assess student mathematics knowledge, processes, and learning dispositions. Also includes a scoring rubric!

We often walk through Advent with our favorite Saints, and I have suggested a variety of Celtic Saints to provide adult inspiration during Lent. I try very hard to remember that there are fifty da…

I have been using interactive notebooks for everything these days and the kids and I are loving it! The new buzz word in my classroom is "pizazz"! One day, a student said that I always add pizazz to my notebook pages by coloring and writing neatly and now they have pizazz contests every time we work in our notebook. I don't think I've ever had a class that loves notebooking more than me, I have been on cloud nine! I started the lesson by asking my third graders what they knew about synthesis. Some students had good guesses relating to photosynthesis, but no one knew what I was getting at. We have been talking a lot lately about “thinking about our thinking” and I told them synthesis was one way to do that. I brought in Russian nesting dolls and held the stacked dolls up. I asked if any students had ever seen them before and only a couple had. I told the students that the doll represented their thinking after they were done reading. Then, I opened up the doll and started unstacking the smaller dolls. The kids got SO excited, by the time I looked back up, they had all inched at least 2 feet closer! I held up the smallest doll and told the students that it represented their thinking at the beginning of reading a book, small. They don’t know much about the book yet and they can only connect to that little bit they know. Then I held up each doll as explained that as they read, they learn more, they can connect to more, their thinking gets bigger, and their ideas grow. They totally got this! I had them glue a title notes strip to a blank page in their reading notebook and we highlighted key words (this can be found here, if your are interested). Next, I told the kiddos that we were going to practice synthesis together and I pulled out The Littlest Matryoshka by Corinne Demas Bliss. The students really enjoyed this book. I created paper stacking dolls for students to glue into their notebook as a flipbook. We stopped after the first page, dicussed/filled out the smallest doll, and glued it in the middle of the notebook page.Throughout the book, we stopped, discussed, and added pages to our doll flipbook. Each time, I reminded the students that their thinking was getting bigger, so the doll was getting bigger. After the book, when our flipbook was completely assembled, we wrote on the first page underneath the title strip. I had my students start their paragraph by telling me what synthesis was and then add their sentences from the dolls as their detail sentences. They were asked to make their closing sentence a feeling, thought, or opinion of the book. This lesson took 3 days to complete, but the students were engaged every day. After the first day, I had a group of pulled students re-enter the room and the rest of the kids immediately started telling them what synthesis was, what the dolls looked like, and how the two fit together. It was awesome! Below are some pictures of our learning: (The anchor below we used with the book Emma Kate by Patricia Polacco.) I still have a week or more of teaching synthesis after we return from winter break and I would love any ideas you have! Thanks for stopping by!

Using visual brain teasers in the classroom encourages critical thinking in your students, plus, kids love them!

Easter is my favorite holiday – in our house it's even bigger than Christmas. Even before we started homeschooling, we did a ton of Easter activities leading up to Easter weekend. Thanks to Pinterest, there is no shortage of inspiration, either. While crafting for the sake of crafting is fun, I enjoy doing crafts and activities that either have a message, or can be used to practice skills we've been working on. I can't wait to incorporate some of these educational Easter ideas into our homeschool lessons this year.

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I just finished preparing for my annual classroom Easter egg hunt! It took me about 10 minutes to prepare this activity!It was ten minutes of prep that results in some of the most engaging test prep in my classroom! Inside each of the eggs, I have placed mini task cards with all kinds of third

This Halloween math game is a simple and fun way to practice math facts with children in the early elementary grades.

I wanted a spring-inspired activity so my students could practice fact families. I am sooo tired of the snow, slush, and coldness of winter. We made these kites today and colored them with all different colors. The kite tails were made from construction paper that kind of looks like it was tie-dyed. I hung them in the hall and wow did the colors brighten my day! Fact Family Kite Fact Family Kite Bows

Rebuses are a picture style puzzle. Words are represented by a series of pictures with letters being added or subtracted. I like to write them so that they exactly spell out the words being depicted. This helps encourage good spelling habits and makes it clear what words are being referred to. Many of the rebuses I make are holiday themed!

8 spring ad libs word games for kids, free to print and in full color!

If you need STEM projects ideas, this is THE place to go! This is a collection of over 200 STEM projects and activities that kids love!

Happy April! Tomorrow is even going to be in the 60s! Yay! So, yesterday I shared with you a fun review game that I played with the kids in my Sunday school class called "Grab-an-Egg." They loved it and the game can be adapted for the classroom in so many ways, so make sure you go check out that post if you haven't already. Our Sunday school kids are known as the "S.P.Y. {Spirit Powered Youth) Kids" so I often like to play the secret code game with them as a fun way to introduce them to the topic of the day. And in addition to the egg game we played, I started our lesson with this secret code activity: Students had to use the secret code alphabet in order to "crack" the secret Bible verse: "Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord. Hosanna in the highest heaven." I had students race to see who could crack the code first. I thought I'd create a blank template that you could use to create your own secret code to use for any topic: The file is in PowerPoint so that you can add text boxes and type right into the document and edit as needed. Make as many codes as you want :) You will be able to copy and paste each little letter picture and arrange them into a secret code: Simple and fun! Just an easy way to switch things up in your classroom. Perfect for introducing a new topic! Find the editable file freebie here. Hope you can use it! Now just for fun: Can you crack THIS code:

A funny activity for little ones to practise the Easter symbols. They have to find fifteen words in the word-search, then they colour the picture. I hope you find it useful! - ESL worksheets

Whether it’s a toy-related conflict, a tough math equation, or negative peer pressure, kids of ALL ages face problems and challenges on a daily basis. Use these effective strategies and activities to teach your children and preteens important problem-solving skills.

I know, I know. It is kind of late for eggs, right? Well....it has been a C.R.A.Z.Y. week. Anyone else? Stomach bugs (kids at school), ...