Becton's Seconds

Students love practicing their graphing skills with this fun, Halloween-themed activity. The graphing sheet has been specifically designed to be used with Market Pantry Halloween Fruit Snacks. These can be found at Target in the Halloween candy section.

This zipped file contains 3 weeks worth of problem solving morning work aligned to comply with the new math TEKS for Texas. Students focus on one problem Monday through Thursday, solving it using a different method each day. On Friday, students can practice their math facts independently. Monday: read the problem, act it out, determine whether addition or subtraction is required, draw a "quick picture" (line drawing of tens and ones) to solve Tuesday: solve the problem using an open number line

In this estimated time concentration game, students match one second, one minute, and one hour time cards to cards describing various activities such as winking, or going to a birthday party.

These puzzles are a great way to reinforce multiple representation of numbers to 999 with standard form, expanded notation, and pictorial form. There are 10 number puzzles in the set, with colors typed on each page for reference as to what color of paper to copy them onto.

These are the Whole Brain Teaching rules I use in my classroom. They are the original rules with one change: I have changed Rule #3 "Raise your hand for permission to leave your seat" to "Treat others the way you want to be treated." I made this change in my classroom because we are often moving around the room.

Hallway behavior trouble getting you down? Try using the 4S line method with your students! Post this printable by your door so that you can remind your kiddos what great hallway behavior looks like each time you leave the classroom. The 4S's are Still, Straight, Silent, and Sagacious (smart). This covers all the bases for hallway greatness and is a great way to get students using a higher-level vocabulary word!

When we are journaling in our Math and Science notebooks, it's often a difficult task for students to put their thoughts into words to record observations or explain their thinking. Before we journal, we follow these three steps: think, talk and write.