Math Awareness Month Freebies!

Did you know that April is Math Awareness Month?

Me, either!

In celebration, I'm sharing some of my favorite Math posts from my blog....plus I've joined in with a few other teachers to put all of my math products  in my TpT Store on sale for April 1-2!

Click on the pic above for more sale info. Click HERE to go directly to my store.

Now for the oldies, but goodies! Click on each pic below for more info on your freebies!

My kids loved playing Last Man Standing. It's great practice for interpreting place value and is even better when the kids are ready to give the clues!

Simple, but effective! Based on the old Concentration games, Fraction Memory Match is perfect for a math station on equivalent fractions.

Rolling Perimeter is one of my newest freebies, but it's been popular so I wanted to be sure you didn't miss it. Simple, easy activity to practice perimeter.

Have a great Math Awareness Month!

Leave a comment below if you have special activities planned.

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.

Easter Silent E Game -- Freebie

I love, love, love these cute rabbits!

They're going to make reading words ending in silent e fun, fun, fun!

Make this activity for a literacy station. Your kiddos can play it against another student or on teams. They must read words correctly, trying to read four in a row.

Click on the pic above to get your freebie.

Hop on down to the comments and let me know how your kiddos like the game.

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.

Formal/Informal Language -- Freebie!

We've been wanting a snow day, and we got a snow week! I've done a little bit of school work and a lot of Netflix! (Just when you think you feel sorry for Don Draper, he does something to make you throw up your hands again!)

Here's a freebie for you on identifying formal and informal language from my latest packet on Penguin Chick, compatible with the second grade Journeys reading textbook.

Just click on the pic above to get your freebie. 

And if you don't mind, leave a comment with your ideas for teaching students to identify formal and informal language.

Happy Snow Week!

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.

Multiplication Wizard -- Freebie!

Happy Labor Day!

It's the last day of our Fall Break. If you've followed my blog for awhile, you know that our district is out for a week while our town celebrates the Tennessee Walking Horse National Celebration and names the World Grand Champion on the Saturday before Labor Day.

I've had a great break...spent a little time at the beach reading, eating, and sunning...cleaned out some closets at home...spent some time with friends.

I'm trying to get back in the school-frame-of-mind, so I thought I'd make a multiplication game. This one is all based on multiplying by multiples of ten.

Click on the pic above to get your game...and please think about leaving a comment. Do you use stations in your math class? Are games a part of those stations?

(BTW...my TpT Store is all marked 20% off today!)

Firehouse Nouns Take Five - Freebie!

Add a timer to an activity and it's magic! Kids love to be able to set the timer and race against that clock to complete a task. Print off these cards, add a timer, put in a literacy station and you've got a fun game the kiddos will love.

TpT is throwing a bonus sale on Wednesday, August 20. Go make a wish list now! Click on the pic below to visit my store.

This week is Schoolapalooza at A Class*y Collaboration. This is a great group of bloggers who have teamed up to give you freebies EVERY night this week beginning on Monday from 8:00 - 9:00 Eastern. Check the blog tomorrow night for some great ideas and freebies! Click on the button below to visit.

Flowering Syllables -- Freebie

Here's a freebie for you to give your kiddos practice on sorting multi-syllable words. It's also a good way to introduce suffixes that change the part of speech of the base word.

Click on the pic below, print the file, and it's ready for a literacy station.

Happy weekend!

A Plethora of SRSD Freebies!

I guess all these posts on SRSD freebies qualify me as a binger, huh?

You've been coming up with great ideas for themes, so I couldn't stop!

Here are two more....Hollywood and camping!

Don't forget to check out this book on using SRSD with writing.

Have a great week!

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.

If you haven't been following A Class*y Collaboration this summer, click {HERE} to catch up! We've added some brand new authors with lots of new ideas for you.

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!

Counting Picnic -- Freebie!

The ants come marching one by one!

Hurrah! Hurrah!

It's not one by one in this activity.

Your kiddos have to determine if the ants are marching by fives, by tens, or by hundreds.

Click on the pic above to download your freebie.

And please, march on down below and leave me a comment!

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.