Some ideas for teaching plot elements to help students recall stories in sequential order, summarize stories, and understand theme.
Looking for visuals to help your kids make sense of math? Grab this free set of printable math manipulatives for all the hands on resources your kids need.
Print these free symmetry worksheets and activity pages to use with your students. Learn about the line of symmetry with these fun pattern challenge worksheets. Students must use logic, reasoning, and spatial skills to draw the reflected pattern across the line of symmetry.
So, yesterday I showed you how I got my angle studies kicked off with my students–how I solidified understanding of “right angle”. We had lots left to accomplish–so I’ll try to share some of the different lessons and activities we did over the next days! Tip 1: If you can get your hands on thin […]
UPDATED 2021- If you have already purchased you may download again for the updates! I created this project as a fun, interactive way for students to practice and review geometry vocabulary and concepts! This is a great project to use at the end of a geometry unit, review for testing, or end of the year activity. Students will use geometric shapes and follow the directions to create a new town. To help differentiate, I created two different sets of instructions, student checklists, and scoring guides. Included with the activity: - 1 direction set for students with a basic understanding of geometry concepts - 1 direction set for students with a deeper level of understanding of geometry concepts - 2 student checklists for students to review their project - 2 itemized scoring guides based on individual directions of the project - 1 scoring guide that assesses the overall project organization, concept knowledge, and work habits Concepts reviewed on basic level directions: Parallel Lines Perpendicular Lines Intersecting lines Triangles Quadrilaterals Pentagons Rhombuses Rectangles Trapezoid Squares Concepts reviewed on the deeper-level directions: Identifying and drawing: Parallel Lines Perpendicular Lines Intersecting lines Lines Circles Triangles- right, isosceles, acute Quadrilaterals – rhombus, rectangles, squares, parallelogram, trapezoid Pentagons Lines of symmetry Draw and measure: Right angles Acute angles Obtuse angles
Free Download of 1-4-5 Square Challenge. Can you make a square using exactly 1 piece? 4 pieces? All 5 pieces?
In this quick and easy decimal place value game, students compete against one another to form the highest decimal number using playing cards.
Free printable preschool worksheets pdf for teachers and homeschoolers. Fun preschool worksheets for math, English, fine motor skills, and more!
Every so often I do a homeschool preschool room tour on Instagram, and everyone wants the links to basically every piece of work on our shelves. I decided to put together a blog post since that las…
This Tenths and Hundredths Using the Hundred Square worksheet uses a hundred square for various activities. Students identify fraction and decimal representations, shade squares to match given values, and solve calculations involving hundredths.
Help kindergarteners compare length & use appropriate vocabulary with this FREE "Shorter and Longer" activity. Great hands on practice for comparing length.
Activities to help in your classroom TODAY to build Multiplication Fact Fluency across all grade levels. Perfect for Intervention
One way I keep students engaged is to take them outside, so here are some of my favorite activities for teaching math outdoors.
We are on our 4th week of measurement in my class! PTL the rulers are put away this week because we've moved onto learning about area! After 3
This is the third year that my students have completed my Transformation Summative Assessment Project. See my previous posts Here, yea...
These 5 fun 3D shapes activities for kindergarten are a great way for students to learn about shape attributes while having a blast.
This is great for an end of the year activity! Students can work alone or in groups to complete. Students use real world newspapers, magazines, or pictures in order to find where math is used in real life. They will have to create a collage of their pictures. This is a great differentiation project ...
Okay before we start digging into these Get to Know You activities I want to share a little bit of the “why”. When I first started teaching 5th grade math a few years ago I noticed right away that my students were coming to me with some math baggage, if you will. Both good and… Continue reading Getting to Know Your Students as Math Learners
For the most part, reasoning, deducing, inferring, and critical thinking are not skills that come naturally to our students. Rather, they must be nurtured and developed. We want our students to become critical thinkers so they can reason and apply logic to solve novel problems throughout their lives. These skills will set them up to...
Want a fun way to teach measurement that can be adapted for all students? Let me introduce MEASUREMENT TAG!
Are you looking for a way teaching math vocabulary in a more visual and conceptual way? To differentiate for your struggling learners? Every year, it seems we get more and more visual learners coming into our classrooms, learners who benefit from math word walls that show concepts and vocabulary in action. This approach has worked wonders in my classroom and I know it will in yours! Adding a visual math word wall to my classroom completely changed how my students access our math vocabulary and the concepts we learn in class. Our math word walls are covered in examples and visuals that show the math concepts in context along with the vocabulary words we cover in class.
Tessellations are so much fun to make! This post includes directions and examples for creating tessellations in middle school math.
Are you trying to assemble a fun math manipulative kit without spending a fortune? Check out this list of math manipulatives.
Save your sanity! Read to find no-prep centers for math ideas that will engage your students and give you back your time.
My students are always using and referring to different math tools during math centers. I created (and am sharing for free) individual math toolboxes.
We want students to be comfortable in our classrooms. We want them to feel welcomed and inspired. Classroom decoration can play a role in creating that environment. Below are some simple ways to …
I'm excited about trying out this five arrows puzzle with my students when we start back to school next week! Can you rearrange the four arrows to form five
Okay before we start digging into these Get to Know You activities I want to share a little bit of the “why”. When I first started teaching 5th grade math a few years ago I noticed right away that my students were coming to me with some math baggage, if you will. Both good and… Continue reading Getting to Know Your Students as Math Learners
These 5 fun 3D shapes activities for kindergarten are a great way for students to learn about shape attributes while having a blast.
Build fact fluency with these engaging games and activities. Check out these super fun and creative ways to help your students stay engaged.
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Skip the stress of planning your first day of math class! Read about four first day of school math activities that are easy to plan and fun for students!
Get the Training Several years ago, my 3rd grade team had the honor of piloting the Eureka math curriculum (Engage NY). We did not receive any training on this program that year. We struggled. Honestly it felt like we were treading water all year and there were several times that we started taking in some
Just print these 5th Grade Math Worksheets to get extra math practice at school, at home, or for summer learning - NO PREP, fun way to review!
Stop teaching surface level place value skills and GO DEEP. Learn 3 simple tips for helping students understand place value concepts and making them stick!
That first day of school is so full of jitters, for both the teacher and the students. Every time August hits and the weather changes I get that overwhelming feeling of uncertainty. What is the ne…
I love finding first day of school math activities! These back to school activities are perfect for middle school or high school math.
These math puzzle worksheets make it easy to help your students build critical thinking and problem-solving skills while having fun!
