Becky Brumm

I love reading the Gingerbread Tales to my students in December! They especially love hearing the Gingerbread Girl Tale. If you don't already have these books in your classroom, get them! This organizer is used in connection with reading any version of The Gingerbread Man and The Gingerbread Girl version. The students discuss what comparing and contrasting means and identify the similarities and differences between the two stories by filling in the double bubble map. I also included a "more pr

This plot diagram is used with 2nd grade and above to organize the elements of a narrative text. The students identify the exposition, the main events leading up to the climax (rising action), the climax, the main events of the falling action and the resolution. The students also identify the author's purpose, point of view and theme of the story. Going through this organizer as a whole group has helped the kids to really develop a strong understanding of what is expected in these elements. If

This 36 slide interactive Smartboard lesson introduces children to some basic measurement...length, weight, capacity. I use this lesson with realia...rulers, tape measures, scales, measuring cups/spoons, and anything else that will help make it more real for the kids. The lesson also incorporates interactive activities by measuring objects and distances on the Smartboard. The lesson takes a few days to entirely get through and the kids love being involved in the learning! You will have to read t

So easy to implement in the classroom - takes about a week! Following the same format as my product '5 Paragraph Writing - A Trip to Disneyland', I have created a Persuasive Writing piece which walks students through creating 5 paragraphs persuading others about their topic. The sample topic involves reasons why children should have an extended recess. The Powerpoint presentation is set up to display each component, step by step, with every click. As teachers walk students through the sample

Monthly Newsletter Templates for every month of the school year. Newsletter templates include space for: Upcoming Events Teacher Contact Information Reading Content Writing Content Math Content Social Studies Content Science Content Monthly Events Assignments Due And more! The months of March and April include alternate graphic options for Easter! Each file is created in Microsoft Word, so you may edit the text to reflect what YOU want in your newsletter! All graphics come from Laura Strickl

This 11 slide presentation breaks down the plot of The Gingerbread Man tale. Each part of a Plot Diagram or Story Map are briefly described and an example from the story is presented. Once the children are familiar with the parts of the Plot Diagram and what examples look like, they will create a Plot Diagram to identify examples of each component from The Gingerbread Man tale that you have read in class. This presentation can even be altered for The Gingerbread Girl tale! Additional Gingerbread

Third Grade Math Review Version 2. This 8 page file contains an overview of nearly all third grade Arizona Math standards that are expected to have been taught by about November. There are two versions of this assessment. Check out the alternate version and 'later in the year' versions in my listings as well. This gives you an opportunity to assess where your students are before a benchmark test, review the areas the students struggled most with, then re-assess using the same type of questions..

This Powerpoint Presentation walks students through the steps of creating a strong 5 paragraph writing piece. It can be used for any type of writing that requires an introduction, 3 or more topic paragraphs, and a closing. Most of the presentation is designed to make each next step appear one at a time. I have used this for retelling stories and writing about an experience. I have noticed much stronger writing with my students following this format. The presentation also includes outlines of the

Modeled after the Write From the Beginning writing process, this presentation walks writers through the process of creating a multi-paragraph writing piece STEP-BY-STEP! Starting off with a Circle Map, transferring ideas onto a Flow Map, Revising throughout, and Composing a Rough Draft. The Notebook presentation is created to fade in each additional piece of the writing process. You will need to become familiar with where to press on your Smartboard so that the necessary components fade in. If

I purchase Gingerbread Man cookies for my kids and pass one out to each child. I tell them they can't eat it until I say. Once all the children have a cookie, I tell them to take only one bite. Once all of the kids have eaten one bite of their cookie, I show the children the graph. I explain to them that we are going to graph which body parts we all ate. We go around the room and each child tells us the part they ate. I color in a copy of the graph on the Smartboard, while the children color in

This Smartboard Notebook file introduces or reviews Main Sentence Trunks with students, providing opportunities to practice coding the Main Sentence Trunks. It then moves on to introducing each Action Expander: who descriptor, what, where, when, and why. The students use the MSTs and add each Action Expander that is being focused on in the slide. The presentation concludes reminding children that when we write sentences, we should try to include at least 3 Action Expanders in their sentence, HOW

This 12 page file contains an overview of nearly all third grade Arizona Math standards that are expected to have been taught by about March. There are two versions of this assessment. Check out the alternate version in my listings as well. This gives you an opportunity to assess where your students are before a benchmark test, review the areas the students struggled most with, then re-assess using the same type of questions. The file contains questions related to number form, expanded form, pla

This presentation highlights the powers and a brief history of some of the Avengers. The students will choose which Avengers they believe is best to lead and protect our country. Within each group, students will come up with all the reasons why that Avenger is best to lead and protect the country. One person from each group will debate the other chosen debaters. When debates are finished, the class will decide which group had the best argument and support. You will have to organize and help chi

This document consists of four passages about Social Studies concepts such as Wants/Needs, Goods, and Buyers/Sellers in kid-friendly language geared for Kindergarten - Second Grade. Students read the passages, then follow the instructions to identify the Main Idea and Topic sentences. I like to have short passages on hand that incorporate other standards when I am teaching Main Idea and Topic.

This 28 slide Powerpoint presentation takes students through understanding what fractions, denominators, numerators, and whole numbers are....then demonstrates how to determine fractions of whole numbers in simple steps. To bring it all together, the presentation also contains practice problems with the simple steps for solving fractions of whole numbers. If you like this presentation, please rate it and follow me! Also check out some of my other work such as my third grade Math Review packets

This 12 page file contains an overview of nearly all third grade Arizona Math standards that are expected to have been taught by about March. There are two versions of this assessment. Check out the alternate version in my listings as well. This gives you an opportunity to assess where your students are before a benchmark test, review the areas the students struggled most with, then re-assess using the same type of questions. The file contains questions related to number form, expanded form, pla

Reading Comprehension Strategies are taught explicitly to help children focus on information that they need to obtain from a text. When students Make Connections, they gain a deeper understanding of the story or content...as well as have a better time remembering details. This presentation introduces children to Text to Self Connections, Text to Text Connections, and Text to World Connections, providing opportunities for the class to discuss connections they made to a passage from a story. If

ATTENTION! IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO HAVE A FILE THAT YOU CAN EDIT...AND YOU HAVE MICROSOFT PUBLISHER INSTALLED ON YOUR COMPUTER...I ALSO HAVE THIS PRODUCT AS A PUBLISHER FILE. PLEASE CHECK MY STORE. This 19 page file contains 36 journal writing prompts that can be used in a variety of ways, but here's how my third grade team uses ours... (Thanks to an idea from Pinterest) We create class journals using 6-7 spiral note books. Each spiral has one of the journal prompts taped to the front cover. The

With the focus of the Common Core now directed to a higher level of thinking, students must be using problem solving skills DAILY! Print these 28 problem solving questions that contain 7 different problem solving strategies: Guess and Check, Draw a Picture, Make a List, Make a Table, Look For a Pattern, Work Backwards, and Logical Reasoning onto colored cardstock. Laminate the cardstock, cut in half, and put cards onto a ring. House the ring in a math area of the room for students to use during

ATTENTION! IF YOU DO NOT HAVE MICROSOFT PUBLISHER ON YOUR COMPUTER, I ALSO HAVE THIS PRODUCT AS A PDF. PLEASE CHECK MY STORE. This 19 page file contains 36 journal writing prompts that can be used in a variety of ways, but here's how my third grade team uses ours... (Thanks to an idea from Pinterest) We create class journals using 6-7 spiral note books. Each spiral has one of the journal prompts taped to the front cover. The spirals are then kept at a writing center or an area in the classroom