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This Hands On Equivalent Fractions Craft Activity is perfect for an end of unit math art project. Students decorate 5 different kite templates in a variety of ways and then show an equivalent fraction for their design. What’s Included:* Kite templates for fraction equivalencies listed below * Sample of finished kites * Patterns for kite bow ties ( 3 styles) * Pattern for kite tails * Fraction nameplates to describe equivalent fraction designs The fraction equivalencies possible with this p

Recycling Project: Create a Litter Bug Craft This project which focuses on recycling and conservation is perfect for an Earth Day STEAM or STEM activity. Students use recycled materials to make litter bugs and then write a "Meet my Bug" story. I do this as a take home Earth Day project. File includes a project direction letter, writing response, display signs and bug name tents for showcasing the litter bugs. Sample project photos and sample bug stories are also included. **Be sure to check out

Review maps and landforms with this culminating project based learning geography activity. Make map skills fun ! Students will create an ”Initial Island” with their first name initial and add a variety of landforms, bodies of water, human made features, a compass rose and a map key. A scoring rubric is provided. In addition an optional writing activity is included. Students will write a persuasive commercial advertising their island as an ideal vacation spot. You might also like:Grade the Te

Creative Doodle writing - Swap the Squiggle Group Collaboration Engage your students with a fun collaborative writing activity where students take a random squiggle line and create a doodle picture. After students swap and draw several times, the final picture then becomes the springboard for a creative writing story. It is perfect to help motivate reluctant writers. This file includes 15 premade squiggle writing templates, a blank template and a sample picture of a finished group ¨Swap th

A set of 28 task cards for identifying the addition properties which include commutative, associative, and the zero property (identity). Great for use in centers, cooperative structures, partner work, and learning games. A task card recording sheet and answer key is provided in this file **Take a peek at the other task cards in my store**More Task CardsBe the first to know about discounts, freebies and new resources!*** Follow me on TPT***Join my Facebook GroupPurchases are for single classroom

Math operations key word practice for problem solving A set of 28 task cards for identifying math key words. Each card identifies a word or phrase that would be commonly found in word problems. Students need to determine if that word represents an addition or subtraction math operations key word. A task card recording sheet and answer key is provided in this file **Take a peek at the other task cards in my store**More Task CardsBe the first to know about discounts, freebies and new resources!***

Holiday Gift "Deck Out Your Holidays" Math games for fluency drills. Use a deck of cards to review multiplication, addition and subtraction math skills in fun card game formats. This file includes 4 card game directions to use with a deck of cards and a "Deck Out Your Holidays" gift tag. All 4 game directions are included on one convenient single page for easy reference for the students, parents, or teachers using it. This can be used in the class or as a teacher gift. For the holidays, I giv

Help reinforce the difficult skill of distributive property of multiplication in a concrete, hands on way. By using cereal pieces or counters on the provided bakery recording sheet mats, students will build and form a variety of arrays shown via the powerpoint presentation. After building the array students will use the distributive property to break apart the cereal or counters into two separate arrays. Finally students record their multiplication equations on the mats. Included in the powerpo

Practice the skill of point of view with this set of 20 task cards for identifying an author's viewpoint or opinion. Students read statements on a variety of topics to determine if the viewpoint is positive or negative. Great for use in centers, partner work, cooperative structures, and learning games. A task card recording sheet and answer key is provided in this file **Take a peek at other task cards in my store**More Task CardsBe the first to know about discounts, freebies and new resources!*

Help your students master related multiplication and division facts with a winter holiday fact family math craft. Students will create a Fact Family Snowman. Included are 40 preprogrammed fact family winter hats and mittens to use to decorate a snowman to show the inverse relationship between multiplication and division. In addition a bulletin board idea with title lettering is included in this product to showcase your students' creative finished products. You may also like:Distributive Property

A set of 36 task cards for identifying the correct root word or base word for a given word. Great for use in centers, cooperative structures, partner work, and learning games. A task card recording sheet and answer key is provided in this file **Take a peek at other task cards in my store**More Task CardsBe the first to know about discounts, freebies and new resources!*** Follow me on TPT***Join my Facebook GroupPurchases are for single classroom use and are in digital download format. The origi

Includes my top selling fraction projects: Equivalent Fraction Kite craft and Math About Me Fractions Writing. Math. Save by purchasing the bundle! Be the first to know about discounts, freebies and new resources!*** Follow me on TPT***Join my Facebook Group

This Category Brain Break Activity Game helps build vocabulary skills and is perfect for brain breaks, class building activities, quick time fillers, or sub tub activity. Pairs of students compete to name an answer to a category. The winner continues to move around the room until beat by another player. This is a game for ANY time of year. It can be used over and over again as the 100 + categories are open ended. *You might also like these activities**Grade the Teacher Error AnalysisMy Teache

A set of 28 task cards for reinforcing the use of a thesaurus as a reference source . Students will practice word choice variety. Each card provides a word and one synonym. Students are to use a thesaurus of your choice to find and list another synonym choice. Great for use in centers, cooperative structures, partner work, and learning games. An answer key for this set is not provided as answers will vary depending on what thesaurus is used. **Take a peek at my other task cards in my store**Mor

A gratitude journal with 18 writing prompts. Great for journal entries and journaling for Fall writing activities. Prompts are not specific to Thanksgiving and can be used year round. 2 versions of each prompt are provided. The 1st version states the question with a basic one line prompt. The 2nd version gives a little bit more prompting. Use whichever version best fits your needs in your classroom. Example prompts: Version 1: How am I fortunate? Version 2: How am I fortunate? Explain at least

Figurative Language Skills A set of 32 task cards for identifying which sentences show alliteration. Great for use in centers, cooperative structures, partner work, and learning games. A task card recording sheet and answer key is provided in this file **Take a peek at other task cards in my store**More Task CardsBe the first to know about discounts, freebies and new resources!*** Follow me on TPT***Join my Facebook GroupPurchases are for single classroom use and are in digital download format.

Multiplication Facts Practice A fun team game using fly swatters to swat the correct multiplication product. It's a great way to build multiplication fact fluency and mastery. The teacher or designated "caller" states a multiplication problem from the calling list. The 2 players competing hold a fly swatter and win a point for their team if they are the first to "Swat" the correct product. The set includes facts 0-12. You can choose to focus on one fact family or mixed review. Game can be playe

A set of 36 task cards for identifying the correct form of common abbreviations. Great for use in centers, cooperative structures, partner work, and learning games. An answer key and recording sheet is provided in this file. **Take a peek at my other task cards in my store**More Task CardsBe the first to know about discounts, freebies and new resources!*** Follow me on TPT***Join my Facebook GroupPurchases are for single classroom use and are in digital download format. The original purchaser i

Study the physical features of major landforms through using this geography definition activity booklet to describe earth's land formations. The landforms included are hills, mountains, valleys, canyons, cliffs, plains, plateaus, volcanoes, islands, and deserts. The seven continents will also be identified. Students will complete this study guide by writing five important facts about each landform to learn about its natural features and then illustrate a picture of each term. Be the first to kn

Practice hands on rounding activities with visual vertical number line templates. Help solidify place value and number sense when rounding to the nearest ten, nearest hundred, and nearest thousand using the ladders as a vertical number line. Provide a target number to round and students use the ladder to climb up or down. Rounding templates for tens, hundreds, and thousands up to 10,000 are included. Templates can be projected and used as a guided math modeling tool. A black and white