This activity packet includes 9 mystery cards students have to solve to unveil a surprise picture! Each mystery card contains pictures of various sets of base 10 blocks. Students must read each set, write the corresponding number, and color in that number cell on a corresponding 100's chart {also included}. 9 answer keys are included in this packet as well. These mystery pictures can be completed as an individual task OR as a whole group oral/listen & follow directions lesson. Please n

Included in this TOP-SELLING resource is a checklist of procedures to teach that will help keep you organized throughout the year. This resource takes all of the guesswork out of your beginning of the year management plan. Simply take out this list, and teach each procedure based on your management philosophy, or check out my step-by-step guide to teaching procedures HERE.The Checklist of Procedures and Routines·This document lists out over 100 procedures and routines.·By teaching your students

This set of interactive pattern block logic puzzles will have kids begging for more! Easy to use, these brain teasers are a great math center that will keep kids engaged while improving your students’ skills needed to solve logic tasks as well as developing their visual discrimination skills. These puzzles are perfect to help your students learn to persevere through challenging tasks.Learn more on this PATTERN BLOCK LOGIC PUZZLES BLOG POSTIncluded in this resource: are 50 different puzzles to b

WORKING MEMORY BEST SELLER! These 15 research-based brain games are designed to improve kids' working memory in five minutes of partner game play daily for just 9 weeks! If you've ever complained that students lack the following skills, an executive function of the brain called working memory might be the issue!-staying focused and on-task-following complex and multi-step directions-copying information and taking notes-keeping their place in a text-retelling stories-explaining strategies-reorgan

Behavior management activities with sorts and visuals as well as think sheets. Visual think sheet is a simple way for students to reflect on their choices and think of better choices for the future. Includes whole group sorts for students to become more familiar with the images and student think sheets with the same images. Also includes beginning of the year independent activities for students to introduce classroom behaviors to students. Includes 3 different think sheet forms that allow f

The materials in this package are adapted from Leah Kuyper’s wonderful book on self-regulation, The Zones of Regulation® (2011), published by Social Thinking Publishing, www.socialthinking.com and used with permission.If you are new to using Zones, I highly recommend implementing it into your classroom. My students are so much better at identifying their emotions and self-regulating themselves than they were at the beginning of the year! Included in this package:- interactive name plates (two fi

Pop Art Interactive Coloring Pages BUNDLE! I, (Art with Jenny K.), am the originator of these innovative, engaging, add-a-pattern "interactive" coloring sheets on Teachers Pay Teachers. Designed in response to my students and their needs. These are a teacher and student favorite. Using my Pop Art sheets (+ writing prompts) for all major American holidays makes being an art-infused classroom easy and fun! There are approximately 77 different designs included in this resource with interactive and

Make your 100th day of school celebration STEM-TASTIC with these 6 engaging activities that are STEM challenges. These STEM challenges can be used as stations or as activities completed throughout the day. Challenges Included:Pattern Hats (students build a party hat with 100 pattern blocks)Build 100 (students build the number 100 using 100 building blocks)Hairy Glasses (students build shape glasses using 100 gray hairs/pipe cleaners)100 Wishes (students build a multi-level cake using 100 candl

Quadrilateral Robots: Project-based Learning Math Activity, worksheets & game. My "Quadrilateral Robots" lesson is a great hands-on way for students to have fun learning about quadrilaterals. There is a quadrilateral robot art project, a "robot road" game, and high-level thinking worksheets. The quadrilateral robots are made up of parts made only from members of the quadrilateral family–squares, rectangles, parallelograms, rhombuses, kites, and trapezoids!I have included all of the colored e

Are you looking for a holiday resource that is no prep, but loaded with fun? You have so much on your plate and we want to give you a resource that will have you looking like a rockstar teacher in no time at all! This Christmas Escape Room includes lots of informational text and learning opportunities, BUT your class will be having so much fun solving the puzzles, that they won’t even notice that it is work! This is the perfect activity to give your students that double-dose of fun during those

This Easy Prep Index Card STEM Activity is surprisingly challenging! It will give your students such a fantastic engineering opportunity to think through the problems and solve them. The best part is that your prep includes one basic material and the kids take over from there. Just stand back and watch them brainstorm and build incredibly tall towers. They will groan when the tower falls and then dive right back in and build it again. Be ready for cheering when it works!Please note: This challen

This STEM Activity is a runaway hit with my students. They cheer when they see Boat Building on our agenda and your students will too! There is just something about a STEM Challenge to build a boat and testing it to see if it will float (it will). It is totally fun to watch their faces and hear the groans when a boat sinks or celebrate with them when the boat holds a lot of weight! This is a challenge you must try!This challenge is available in several money-saving bundles!STEM Challenges- A Bun

A Growth Mindset is something that can be taught! Encourage a Growth Mindset in your classroom by hanging up these posters for your students to see! SAVE $$$ AND BUY THE GROWTH MINDSET BUNDLE NOT QUITE WHAT YOU'RE LOOKING FOR? CHECK OUT THESE GROWTH MINDSET POSTERS INCLUDED RESOURCES *ALL POSTERS COME WITH A NON-CURSIVE OPTION *17 posters with colored chevron backgrounds *17 posters (same sayings) with gray chevron background *17 matching student coloring pages *17 posters (same sayings) wi

These 60 Early Finishers Task Cards are a great way to answer the common classroom question, "I'm Done. Now What?" Perfect as challenges during Distance Learning. Creative thinking, sequencing, writing and cause and effect skills are taught through these engaging activities. This would be useful as an enrichment activity, or as a bonus reward for great effort by students. This would also be useful in a reliever or substitute teacher pack. #ByeBye2020Click HERE to SAVE over 12% with our Early Fin

A STEM Activity featuring a bucket has turned out to be one of our favorites and your students will love it, too! This challenge is to build a tower (although not a very tall one) that will hold weight. Students engineer a suspending “bucket” within the tower and the bucket must hold weight. The best part is listening to groups explain why their towers need a bucket. Imaginative answers are one of the high points of this challenge- along with seeing those creative bucket towers!Note: This challe

Not sure how to infuse growth mindset into your space and teaching? You have SO many things to teach... let THIS be EASY! These colorful growth mindset affirmations can become part of your classroom climate in more ways than one!Not only can you use them inside your classroom walls, this file now includes THREE OPTIONS... a standard printable version, a Google Slides™ version, and a small printable version. Please refer to the final 8 pages of the file for digital instructions and links! Spend

Growth Mindset Escape Room is so much FUN! The escape can be completed independently or as in small groups. The students participates in a challenge to escape the room of fixed mindset. The students work to complete tasks and solve puzzles. With the focus on Growth Mindset this activity is sure to please all. Genius! Follow-up with a lively class discussion. The Escape can be completed in one session or it can be assigned over the course of days. You can use as many or as few of the challenges

Challenge your students to improve their higher-order thinking skills with these mystery theme grid logic puzzles! There are 5 logic puzzles included: 1. Museum Mishaps, 2. Pet Mess, 3. Mystery Books, 4. Mystery Theater and 5. Hot on the Trail. Each puzzle includes a story and 5 clues or less. Each comes in color and black and white and includes an answer key. These are a great way to challenge students to work on skills such as deductive reasoning, critical thinking, making inferences, process

***TpT Top 50 Bestseller!!***Word problems are one of the most FRUSTRATING math topics for both students and teachers! For our state assessment, it is always the lowest scoring objective in our school. My students usually know HOW to either add, subtract, multiply or divide they just have trouble deciding which operation to use to solve the problem.This method has them taking a few simple steps and asking the question, "Do I know the total?" If they can answer that question, they have already na

Looking for a way to give your students additional higher level thinking activities? This set of Brain Teasers includes 40 pages with more than 400 activities to promote critical thinking! These are perfect as an educational but fun activity for transitions or any time you'd like to stretch give your students' thinking! You can leave several out for a sub and they're also perfect for fast finishers and enrichment!This set includes:40 Pages of Brain Teaser QuestionsRecord SheetAnswer KeysTeacher

Love classroom escape rooms or break outs? Are you looking for a more engaging was to practice the ELA and math standards during test prep time? Escape rooms are the most fun way to review the standards while encouraging team work, critical thinking, and problem solving! This bundle includes two 90 minute escape challenges that will help your students practice the math and reading standards that will be on the state test.**This is the print version of the game. If you prefer the digital Google f

This set of 56 interactive logic puzzles will have kids begging for more! Easy to use, these brain teasers are a great math center that will keep kids engaged while thinking logically. These puzzles are perfect to help your 1st and 2nd grade students learn to persevere through challenging tasks.- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -Now includes DIGITAL logic puzzles formatted for students to use with G

Get your students up, moving, and practicing powerful discussion skills with this product! These cards encourage and develop thoughtful kid-centered and kid-selected conversation starters.With fun, simple, and engaging prompts, students choose one of the four answers and meet in a group to discuss and engage. This is a great resource to add to your morning meetings, to use during transitions, or as a fun way to end your day!Included in this resource:-Over 50 discussion cards (available in two

Are you looking for challenging math problems and tasks that keep your students engaged, apply the math you have taught, and meet the standards of the Common Core or other rigorous math standards? Looking for a quick low-prep, ready to print math project that is rigorous and meaningful? NOW WITH DIGITAL SLIDES AS WELL! Perfect for when you...need something for fast finishers want something easy for a subare between units and want to focus on problem solvinghave an observation and want to show