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Contraction surgery is a fun way for students to practice making contractions. This file contains directions for how to perform contraction surgery, 40 bones with words, a sheet of apostrophe bandages, and a sheet of doctor badges. To complete the activity, students will "perform surgery" (cut out letters) on bones with words. Each bone has two words. Some letters need to be cut out in order to make the words into a contraction. Students put the bones pieces back together with an apostrophe

Students will create a clock flower that measures ten inches tall. It includes two faces (one with hours and one with minutes), two hands (one hour and one minute), two leaves, and a stem. Everything that students will need to make their clock is all on one page! There are three versions of the clock: one with nothing written on it (students will need to fill in the minutes and hours), one with words and numbers and the hour face divided into sections to make the transition from one hour to

This is a Smartboard file to be used while reading The Doorbell Rang by Pat Hutchins. The file consists of 5 screens, each with an increasing number of plates (labeled with character names) that need to be filled with the 12 available cookies. The cookies can be moved onto the plates to help students see the concepts of division and multiplication.

Do you know why leaves change color? Completing this experiment will help you discover why! The file contains complete step-by-step directions and pictures on how to complete a leaf chromatography experiment. The materials needed to do the experiment are readily available: leaves, rubbing alcohol, hot water, metal spoon, bowls, and paper towels or coffee filters. An explanation of what is happening during the experiment, and what it means is also included. The file also contains suggestion

In this activity, students will create a six-page book with pages that flip up to reveal the city, state, country, continent, and planet where they live. The file contains complete illustrated instructions on how to put the books together, and how to complete the activity with your students, six pages to print back-to-back to create the books, a blackline of a generic city map, blackline pictures of all 50 states in the United States, a blackline picture of the entire United States, a blackli

A second grade kid-friendly writing rubric and a corresonding teacher grading form.

Race to Zero is an independent math center designed to give students practice with double digit subtraction (and a little with addition of numbers less than 10). Students roll two dice, add the numbers on the dice together, and subtract that number from the number on their racetrack sheet. The difference becomes the minuend (the number on top) in the next space on their racetrack. They roll the dice again to get a new subtrahend (the number on the bottom), and they subtract again. They conti

This is a picture sort containing two headers (short i and short e) and 20 pictures representing single-syllable short e and short i words (19 CVC and 1 CVCC). The short i words are: six, sit, zip, rib, pig, pin, lip, lid, dig, fin. The short e words: ten, wet, wed, web, vet, vest, hen, men, bed, net. Great for Spanish-speaking second language learners!

The learning pit is an analogy used to help students understand the journey they undertake when trying to learn a new and challenging concept. Faced with the initial challenge, students struggle to learn (jumping into the pit). They are often frustrated and confused. If they keep trying and practicing, they will eventually be successful in their learning (climbing out of the pit). Supports growth mindset teaching!

Kids love to play Kaboom! It is a fun way to practice vowel phonics patterns, and help students gain automaticity in reading specific phonics patterns. This pack contains 5 Kaboom! games: one for Long A silent E, one for long I silent E, one for long O silent E, one for long U silent E, and one with a mixture of long vowel silent E nonsense words. Each game contains twenty-eight cards: 25 with long vowel silent E words, and 3 cards with Kaboom! Each game also includes a sheet that can be sen

Good Graph! is designed to help students practice making simple bar graphs. The file contains 8 graph information cards, 2 printable worksheets that correspond to the information cards, and a student direction sheet. Students choose a graph information card. They use the data on the card (some card have tally mark data, some have numerical data) to complete a bar graph with a title and categories. Once the graph is finished, they use the information on the bar graph to complete questions.

Pumpkins is a packet of activities related to pumpkins. I use them when I have students whose families object to Halloween. Activites inlcude reading and writing about pumpkins, weighing and measuring pumpkins, gathering pumpkin facts and statistics, creating story problems about pumpkins, comparing and contrasting pumpkins, creating pumpkin bar graphs, finding out how many seeds are in a pumpkin,learning about how pumpkins grow, and discovering the many ways in which people use pumpkins. In

In this activity, students will create a six-page book with pages that flip up to reveal the city, province/territory, country, continent, and planet where they live. The file contains complete illustrated instructions on how to put the books together, and how to complete the activity with your students, six pages to print back-to-back to create the books, a blackline of a generic city map, blackline pictures of all 10 provinces and 3 territories in Canada, a blackline picture of Canada, a bl

This is an independent language arts center in which students make silly sentences using nouns, verbs, and prepositional phrases. The center contains two sets of noun cards (12 in each), two sets of verb cards (12 in each), and two sets of prepositional phrases (12 in each). For each category, one set has picture support, and one does not. The cards are color-coded to help students with sentence formation. They can follow the colors to make the sentence properly, and use the picture suppor

This file contains 114 Common Core math vocabulary cards for third grade. There are two of each vocabulary word: one card with the word all by itself, and one with the word, the definition, and picture support. Each card uses large, student-friendly font that is easily read from across the room. Perfect for a math word wall! Math vocabulary includes the following terms: add addend algorithm a.m. area area model arithmetic patterns array associative property of addition associative property of m

Digging Through the Dictionary is a center designed to help students practice beginning dictionary skills. The center includes 48 word cards (I tried to choose words that most younger learners wouldn't already know), a student direction sheet, and a reproducible student record sheet (I make this double-sided for my fast finishers).

Students write their New Year's Resolution on the party hat. Then, they draw on their face. They color and decorate the horn, and then wrap it around their pencil to make it curl like a party horn. They glue it on their mouth to make it look like they are blowing it. Enjoy!

This sort is designed to help students master the identification of triangles, quadrilaterals, pentagons, and hexagons as required by the 2nd Grade Common Core Mathematics Standard for Geometry (2.G.A.1): Reason with shapes and their attributes – recognize and draw shapes having specified attributes, such as a given number of angles or a given number of faces. Identify triangles, quadrilaterals, pentagons, hexagons,and cubes. Would be a great hands-on assessment to see if students can clearly

This file contains an 8 step chart to help students with Singapore Math model drawing, and a corresponding worksheet that walks students through the 8 step process. The worksheet is especially helpful when students are first learning how to use the model drawing method. I print the chart poster size to post as a reference for students as we are learning how to do model drawing.

This is a beginning fractions sort. There are five categories: whole, half, third, fourth, and oddball. Each category contains a header and four pictures representing the given fraction in different forms. Works perfectly for a teacher-led small group, or for independent practice after basic fractions have been introduced.