Can't Beat Super Heroes and Timers!

I've said it before, and I'll say it again.

Add a timer to a station and it's MAGIC!

Throw in super heroes on top of that, and you've got a winner!

This free card game is a perfect way to sneak in some fluency practice with multiplication.
Instead of reciting the facts, students must answer an equation such as 4 x ? = 36.

Just click on the pic above to get your freebie!

Leave me a SUPER comment below and let me know what you think of the game.

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Here's a fun way to develop fluency in multiplication. Put this game in a math station. Your kids won't even know they are building fluency as they try to beat the clock and collect as many cards as they can. Instead of the typical drill on basic multiplication facts, students have to find the unknowns in equations, such as 4 x ? = 36.

Click on the pic below to get the freebie!

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Back to School Scoot

Looking for a fun Back to School activity that gets your kiddos out of their seats and moving? 

Scoot activities are guaranteed to get your kiddos engaged in a fun activity while you need a little time to get all your first of the year forms and supplies checked.

Just click on the pic below to get this fun freebie! Print out the cards, place on desks, give your kiddos some paper, and let the fun begin. It's a great way to learn some interesting facts about your new group of kids.

Leave me a comment and let me know how you used my Back to School Scoot.

Space Jam Multiplication Freebie!

Need a fun review for multiplication fluency?

Make this freebie, add a timer, and get ready for some fun!

Set the timer for five minutes. Students draw a card and answer the problem. If they are correct, they keep the card. If they are incorrect, they put the card back in the pile. If a Space Jam card shows up, they have to put all of their cards back in the pile! The winner has the most cards when the timer buzzes.

Just click on the pic above to get your freebie...and  share the love with some comments below!

Suffix Write the Room -- FREEBIE!

It's the time of year that has kids hopping all over the room....waiting for Spring Break...coming back from Spring Break...it's Spring Fever!

Try working off some of that excess energy and reviewing suffixes at the same time with this freebie.

Post the cards around the room. Give your kiddos a recording sheet and highlighters and turn them loose.

They find all the words you've hidden around the room, enter them on the recording sheet, and highlight the base words and suffixes.

Just click on the pic above to get your freebie....and hop on down to the comments to show me some love! You never know when I will  randomly choose a commenter to receive a free product from my TpT store!

Rolling Perimeter -- FREEBIE!

Rolling! Rolling! Rolling!

Get those dice rolling.....

and get ready for some fun in a math station.

Add dice and print off the directions and grid sheet and you're all ready with a quick activity to practice perimeter.

Just click on the pic above to get your freebie.

Click HERE if you'd like to see the entire product in my TpT store. It includes a game board, task cards, Scoot game, and matching activity in addition to the rolling freebie.

Have you heard.....?

Have you discovered the blog, "The Best of Teacher Enterpreneurs?" If you haven't, visit it to keep up to date on the latest free and paid products posted on TpT.

I've shared my free Ahoy! Plurals! activity for literacy stations for second and third grades.

Click on the pic above to visit the blog and get your freebie.

Lucky Sentences for St. Patrick's Day -- Freebie

Can you believe it's almost St. Patrick's Day? Until the past few years, elementary teachers and kids were the only people I noticed celebrating. Lately, though, you see St. Patrick's Day celebrations everywhere.

To help you celebrate, here's a quick activity to put together for a literacy station. Give your students a card with a simple sentence and have them expand it into either a compound or complex sentence.

Just click on the link above for your freebie.

If you'd like a chance to get a free copy of my St. Patrick's Day Lucky Sentences pack I just posted in my TpT store, leave a tip for my readers on how you teach expanding sentences in the comment field below. I'll pick the two most original ideas and send you the entire packet. Please leave your comments by midnight on Tuesday, March 10. Be sure you include an email address so I can send you the pack.

Valentine Math Quick Writes -- Freebie!

Here's a variation on a Math Quick Write activity in my new packet. Students draw a card, set a timer for three minutes, and write as many addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division problems as they can that have the answer listed on the card.

My TPT store is on sale through midnight tomorrow, so it's a good time to get twenty percent off on any of my products you have on your wish list.

Valentine Divison Scoot -- Freebie!

Are you beginning to plan your Valentine-themed activities with your kiddos?

Here's a great activity to use as either a whole-class Scoot game or in a center for practice in using division to solve word problems.

If you use it as a Scoot game, put one problem card on different desks around the room. Students can work alone or with a partner to rotate through the cards. After they work one problem, they find the next card. For a little bit of fun, add a timer and give them five or six minutes at each card before they have to move on. Give students blank paper to use to record their answers.

If you have some students needing more practice working word problems, punch holes in the cards and put them on a ring. Place the cards in one of your math stations.

Just click on the link above to get your freebie!

Here's Hoping for Some Snow Days!

I'm hoping for some snow days this winter! I love my job, but I love spending time at home, too.

I spent some time this weekend making a multiplication freebie.

My kiddos have always loved playing games if they have to race against a clock to complete a task. Print this off on card stock and add a timer and you've got a math station that's ready to go!

Just click on the link above to get your freebie.

I Mustache You All About Closed Syllables -- Freebie

One of the main goals for our third graders is to decode multi-syllable words. We devoted a lot of time this past year to helping them learn the six syllable types so that they can break multi-syllble words apart into decodable units. Teaching the six syllable types was a big part of this. If the kiddos can recognize the six syllable types and use that knowledge to decode words, that's half the battle!

This freebie gives practice mapping closed one syllable words. It can be used in all grades, even kindergarten! The higher grades can use it for remediation.

Click on the pic below to get your copy.

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Books to Teach Relationship between Illustrations and Text

Common Core requires students at all levels to be able to pull information from illustrations that accompany the text to add meaning to what is being read.

Kindergarten: RL K.7  With prompting and support, describe the relationship between illustrations and the story in which they appear (e.g., what moment in a story an illustration depicts).

First Grade:  RL 1.7  Use illustrations and details in a story to describe its characters, setting, or events.

Second GradeL RL 2.7 Use information gained from the illustrations and words in a print or digital text to demonstrate understanding of its characters, setting, or plot.

Third Grade:  RL 3.7  Explain how specific aspects of a text’s illustrations contribute to what is conveyed by the words in a story (e.g., create mood, emphasize aspects of a character or setting).

The first two books will help you plan lessons to meet this standard and are probably already on your bookshelf.

All of Chris Van Allsburg's books have wonderful illustrations. Jumanji is just one. Remind students to look for the little white bull terrier that appears  in most of his books and write reasons why the dog belongs in the particular story.

Jumanji

Who doesn't love the zany antics of Gloria?

Cover up the words with Post-its and let students guess which safety rule is illustrated.

Officer Buckle and Gloria

You might not have a copy of Van Allsburg's The Mysteries of Harris Burdick, but if you don't, go order one now.  I have one of the portfolio sets so that I can post one of the pictures and the caption in the room or in a literacy station. My students love when I put one of these up. They will scour the picture for details.

Here's a link to the portfolio edition.

And last, but not least, is a collection of short stories written by familiar authors telling what they think happened in the Harris Burdick pictures. This one is on my wish list, but I think it will be fun to share these stories with my kiddos after they write their own.

Do you have any other books that are your favorites for linking illustrations with the text? Share them in a comment. I'll choose one of the comments to win a product of your choice from my TpT store. Leave your comment and email address before 11:59 p.m. on Monday, June 2.

I Scream! You Scream! We All Scream!

For some reason, our kiddos had trouble identifying simple subjects and predicates this year.

If yours did, too, or if you just want some extra practice, this freebie is for you!

Students write sentences with at least seven words and highlight the simple subjects and predicates.

Easy, but effective.

Just click on the pic above to get your freebie.

Happy summer!

Kung Fu Hunt!

When I was a little girl and my friends would come to our farm to play, we would stage elaborate treasure hunts all over the fields and around the pond. 

Maybe that's why I like to use hunting activities in my classroom. I firmly believe that a teacher controls the climate of the classroom……if I think it's fun, the kiddos generally do, too.

On that note……

Here is a hunting activity for you to use to give your kiddos practice in dropping the final y in words before adding a suffix.

Just click on the pic above to get your file.

St. Patrick's Multiple Meaning Words -- Freebie

Today's freebie gives your kiddos practice working with words that can be both a noun and a verb. Students draw one of the cards and write two sentences using the word. One sentence must use the word as a noun and the other as a verb.

For instance, if they draw the word root, they must be sure to use the word correctly as a noun and as a verb.

The healthy plant's root soaked up the nourishing water.

I will root for my favorite team at the championship game tomorrow.

Just click on the pic above to get your freebie.

Please leave a comment. I'd love to know if your kids were successful with the activity.

St. Patrick's Day Fun with Clusters -- Freebie

Have your kiddos been having trouble working with consonant clusters? This activity for a literacy station should help.

It's a game for two players, so if you want to make enough for all your class to play, you can get some good practice in.

Just tell them no pinching is allowed!

Click on the pic above to get the game.

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Ready for St. Patrick's Day?

Are you ready for St. Patrick's Day?

Teachers Pay Teachers is holding a big sale this Thursday and Friday. It's different than anything they've done before. Instead of a weekend sale tied to a holiday or special event, they are celebrating  reaching their three million mile mark!

I'm marking all items in my store twenty percent off. TpT is adding an additional percentage off, so you can save 28 percent on anything you purchase from my store!

Click on the pic below to visit. The sale starts at midnight on Thursday, February 27, and runs through Friday, February 28. Just enter the promo code TPT3 at checkout. Make your wish list now!

Here are some freebies to get you in the mood for St. Patrick's Day.

Take Five Lucky Nouns was one of my kiddos favorite activities to play last year. Just add a timer and you are ready to go!

Here's a fun writing activity to practice writing directions. Ask your students how they would catch a leprechaun. Remind them of signal words for sequencing and turn them loose!

Check back tomorrow for a brand new St. Patrick's Day freebie.

Don't forget to make your wish list over at TpT!

St. Patrick's Fortune Teller Games for Addition and Subtraction/Multiplication and Division -- Freebie

Here's a quick activity for small groups or math stations.

The game is for three players.

One player gives the other two players one card each. They hold the card to their forehead so that the other players can see it, but they cannot.

The dealer multiplies the two numbers on the cards together and calls out the product. Each player looks at the number on the other player's card and uses division to determine their own number. The first player to call out their number wins the round.

The game may also be played using related addition and subtraction facts.

I have included a set of black and white number cards in case you need to save your color ink.

Click on the pic above to get the file.

Pot of Gold Subtraction Hunt -- Freebie

What's better than a snow day?

Knowing about it the night before!

Every weather forecast I have seen is saying something different, but we are out of school tomorrow based on predictions of anywhere from one to four inches of snow.

So tonight I'm making freebies for you!

You should be able to stock up on some goodies for the upcoming St. Patrick's Day.

The first freebie is a subtraction hunt involving regrouping. It meets both second and third grade Common Core standards:

NBT.3.2 Use place value understanding and properties of operations to perform multi-digit arithmetic. Fluently add and subtract within 1000 using strategies and algorithms based on place value, properties of operations, and/or the relationship between addition and subtraction. A range of algorithms may be used.

NBT.2.7 Use place value understanding and properties of operations to add and subtract. Add and subtract within 1000, using concrete models or drawings and strategies based on place value, properties of operations, and/or the relationship between addition and subtraction; relate the strategy to a written method. Understand that in adding or subtracting three-digit numbers, one adds or subtracts hundreds and hundreds, tens and tens, ones and ones; and sometimes it is necessary to compose or decompose tens or hundreds.

Just click on the pic above to get your freebie.

Happy Snow Day to me!