🦃 Engaging Math Activity: Thanksgiving Dinner Budget Challenge (Differentiated!) Cure the "Turkey Week" Wiggles! 🏃♀️💨 Before Thanksgiving break, students get antsy—and need a break from traditional review! Get them out of their seats and applying real-world math skills with this highly engaging and differentiated activity. This math challenge is the perfect way to review critical skills while maintaining focus and excitement during the busy week leading up to the holiday. Why Teachers Love
Before Thanksgiving break, kids get ansty! Get them out of their seats with this math activity that requires them to use: -group work (recommended to work with students of similar math abilities) -critical thinking -logical reasoning -real-life application (how to manage money shopping for Thanksgiving dinner) -multiplication of decimals (or repeated addition of decimals depending upon how far you've taught in your pacing calendar) Provided: -shopping lists (tiered to 5 levels of difficulty) -in
Engage your 4th-grade students in a fun and interactive Halloween-themed escape room! This resource aligns with Common Core Standards 4.NBT.1, 4.NBT.2, 4.NBT.3, 4.NBT.4, 4.OA.1, and 4.OA.4, focusing on numbers and base ten operations, prime factorization, and multiplicative comparisons. How it works:Set up: Print the stations and place them around your classroom.Engage students: Students pretend they are lost in a corn maze and must complete tasks to escape.Stations: Students work through statio
This product has 3 levels of activities for students who need a review of finding volume of rectangular prisms in a real-world setting. It focuses on the method of multiplying length x width x height. Below Level activity: Find the volume of various gift boxes On level activity and Challenge activity: Create a gingerbread village using specifications of length, width and height
This Halloween-themed bingo activity is a fun and engaging way for 5th-grade students to review or introduce the standard, word, and expanded forms of decimals to the thousandths. Students will love the spooky theme and the thrill of winning a bingo! Key Features:Comprehensive Review: Includes an introduction or review of standard, word, and expanded forms of decimals.Flexible Gameplay: Students can fill their cards in any order, making the game more engaging and challenging.Interactive Spinner:
This activity is a fun Christmas activity that encompasses the 5th grade standards of function tables, writing algebraic equations and plotting coordinates/ordered pairs on a coordinate grid. I have my students get checked after each page before they move on.
Review the multiples of 2, 5, and 10 with their QUICK and NO PREP activity. This would be a great mini-assessment at the end of a lesson that teaches about these multiples.
2nd - 5th
Math
CCSS
3.OA.A.3
, 3.OA.B.5
, 3.OA.C.7
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Full time teacher of 4th and 5th graders since 2007.
High School dance team coach from 2007-2017, then 2021-present.
Awards & shining teacher moments
2016 Teacher of the Year at Fairborn Intermediate School
My own education history
Wright State University:
Bachelors Degree in Education 2005
Masters Degree in Middle Childhood Education 2007
University of Dayton:
Continued Education to attain Generalist Endorsement (Science and Social Studies) 2012
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