This holidays around the world activity incorporates reading, writing, and social studies for upper elementary students. You can visit the website to see the holidays around the world resource. Holidays Around the World Reading Passages There are ten sets of holidays around the world nonfiction reading passages that are based on different cultures’ and nations’ holidays […]
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A Social Studies Interactive Notebook is a great way to engage students and to help students focus as they organize social studies content and/or take guided notes. One of the great things about this social studies interactive notebook is that you can adapt it to meet the needs of your classroom. There is no one
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These Halloween multiplication worksheets help you integrate math topics with seasonal activities. They also help you see increase in student engagement, because they’re so fun for students. It’s also great having a staple of no prep activities ready to go, because I never know when I’ll need a little something extra. These 3rd Grade Halloween
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In my school, classroom teachers are responsible for RTI interventions and progress monitoring for their Tier 2 students, and we have a couple different programs that we use for reading. However, for math we pretty much have to come up with our own resources. I’ve found resources that had pieces of what I was looking
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Adding and subtracting with regrouping are important concepts for third graders. Even though students have been learning about addition and subtraction since kindergarten, adding and subtracting with regrouping often gives students trouble. Part of students’ difficulty is the fact that they don’t understand the concepts of addition and subtraction. They memorize key words and algorithms
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Before I had children, I knew exactly what type of parent I would be. I knew without a doubt that I would NEVER be one of those weepy parents when their children started school for the first time. Well, kids have a way of making you eat your words. My daughter is starting PreK this
Fractions are such an important component of third grade math standards. In fact, I’ve been working diligently creating a new fraction unit specifically designed for teaching third grade fraction standards. The emphasis of the unit is conceptual lessons and teaching for understanding, but I’ve included plenty of games and practice pages too. Unit at a
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I’ve got my visual pacing guide for language arts ready, and I hope you’re not disappointed! You’ll see that there are quite a few missing units in this pacing guide, and that’s because they’re still a work in progress. I’ve been working like crazy all summer, but these big product take me hours and hours
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I’ll be the first to admit that verb worksheets and activities were never appealing to me. I have memories learning about AND teaching parts of speech where my eyes were completely glazed over. I thought that it was almost, if not, impossible to make parts of speech fun and meaningful. This was definitely a difficult
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Enrichment is a crucial component to math workshop and guided math. Almost every year I have a handful of students who are beyond grade level standards or students who master the standards quickly, and I need to find ways to challenge and enrich those students. Of course I also have students who need remediation, and
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