Chalk and Apples
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Clarksville, Tennessee, United States
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Hey, y’all! I’m Kristen, and I’m here to help you engage students with innovative and rigorous learning experiences without sacrificing your personal & family time. I know what it’s like to want to create engaging curriculum, but not have enough time in your day. I truly believe it’s possible to engage students with innovative and rigorous learning experiences without sacrificing your personal & family time. This is why I create ready to go lessons and activities rooted in best practices plus organizational tools to help you keep it all together.
I’m passionate about teaching upper elementary students and helping their teachers be the best you can be. I have ten years of teaching experience, almost exclusively in fourth and fifth grades. I absolutely love teaching “big kids,” and I feel so blessed to have spent most of my teaching career with my favorite people.
In 2012, I was in a new city, out on maternity leave, and I wanted a creative outlet and a place to share my teaching ideas, tips, and activities with other teachers like me. Teachers who wanted to collaborate and grow as educators. I started blogging and sharing teaching resources in my curriculum shop on TeachersPayTeachers that summer, and it has been a growing passion of mine ever since.
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Math Playing Card Games No Prep Math Fact Fluency with Addition, Multiplication
Quick & easy math games with playing cards! These math games with playing cards are perfect for practicing a variety of basic skills and math fact fluency. No Prep - Just print & add playing cards! Quick setup and easy to read student directions make these math card games perfect as math center games or in your math stations. Students will love taking them home to play with their families as no prep-no print math homework. They even work as whole group math games! The wide variety of games in
2nd - 6th
Basic Operations, Math, Mental Math
Place Value Mats - Printable Place Value Chart to One Hundred Thousand, Millions
Printable Place Value Charts with Printable Base 10 BlocksPerfect for practicing math skills using manipulatives like Base Ten Blocks or as write on place value mats. A variety of place value charts are included, ranging from 2 digit to 6 digit whole numbers and decimals through millionths. Includes 18 printable place value charts: Tens & Ones, lined and unlined Hundreds, Tens, & Ones, lined and unlined Thousands through Ones, lined and unlined Hundred Thousands through Ones, lined and unlined M
2nd - 6th
Basic Operations, Math, Place Value
Multiplication Facts 1-12 Classroom Dominoes Game - Math Centers - Color & B&W
Highly engaging multiplication fact practice!Students will love practicing multiplication facts with this multiplication domino game! Multiplication Dominoes are perfect as a center game, or can be sent home as a fun homework alternative. Includes a color version, and an ink-saving black & white version, which can be printed on color cardstock. Includes: Domino cards for all facts from 1-12Student friendly directionsTitle card/label for storageColor AND Black & White versionsYou may also like…
3rd - 6th
Basic Operations, Math, Mental Math
CCSS
3.NBT.A.3
, 4.NBT.B.5
, 3.OA.C.7
Christmas Multiplication & Division Fact Fluency Games - Multiplication Squares
FUN math fact fluency practice!Games are always my students’ favorite way to practice basic multiplication & division facts. They are perfect for your Christmas math centers or as a fun alternative December math homework. Your students will want to play over and over! These Print & Go games require only the included game mats, basic classroom supplies, & either a 12-sided die or a set of two dice. Student instructions are included. ___________________________________ More seasonal math fac
3rd - 6th
Basic Operations
Math Dice Games for Math Fact Fluency - Multiplication, Place Value Dice Games
Make math fact fluency practice genuinely fun with these engaging, no-prep math dice games for grades 2–6! This print and digital math games resource covers addition, subtraction, multiplication, fractions, place value, exponents, divisibility, mean, and more — all playable in Google Slides™ with built-in digital dice or as printable game boards for math centers. With 23 differentiated math games ready to assign, these dice games are the perfect low-prep solution for math centers, partner wor
2nd - 5th
Basic Operations, Math, Mental Math
Divisibility Rules Game No Prep Math-A-Gories Divisibility Rules Activities
Engaging, differentiated, no prep math games to reinforce Common Core skills!Students will practice rules of divisibility in this Divisibility Rules MathAGories game. In this Scattergories-type game, the most unique answers win! Perfect for 4th & 5th grade Common Core skills. Use these games in centers, for whole group fun, or even as engaging homework that increases parent involvement! Want your students to practice Common Core math skills in a fun game? MathAGories will quickly become a favori
4th - 5th
Basic Operations, Math, Mental Math
Multiplication & Division Fact Fluency Games - February Math Centers - Valentine
FUN math fact fluency practice!Games are always my students’ favorite way to practice basic multiplication & division facts. They are perfect for your Valentine's math centers or as a fun alternative for February math homework. Your students will want to play over and over! These Print & Go games require only the included game mats, & basic classroom supplies, & either a 12-sided die or a set of two dice. Student instructions are included. ___________________________________ You may also
3rd - 6th
Basic Operations, Math, Mental Math
CCSS
3.NBT.A.3
, 3.OA.B.6
, 3.OA.C.7
Division Facts 1-12 Fluency Classroom Dominoes Game - Math Centers - Color & B&W
Highly engaging division fact practice!Students will love practicing division facts with this division domino game! Division Dominoes are perfect as a center game, or can be sent home as a fun homework alternative. Includes a color version, and an ink-saving black & white version, which can be printed on color cardstock. Includes: Domino cards for all facts from 1-12Student friendly directionsTitle card/label for storageColor AND Black & White versionsYou may also like… Math Playing Card GamesM
3rd - 6th
Basic Operations, Math, Mental Math
CCSS
3.OA.A.2
, 3.OA.A.3
, 3.OA.A.4
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Hey, y’all! I’m Kristen, and I’m here to help you engage students with innovative and rigorous learning experiences without sacrificing your personal & family time. I know what it’s like to want to create engaging curriculum, but not have enough time in your day. I truly believe it’s possible to engage students with innovative and rigorous learning experiences without sacrificing your personal & family time. This is why I create ready to go lessons and activities rooted in best practices plus organizational tools to help you keep it all together.
I’m passionate about teaching upper elementary students and helping their teachers be the best you can be. I have ten years of teaching experience, almost exclusively in fourth and fifth grades. I absolutely love teaching “big kids,” and I feel so blessed to have spent most of my teaching career with my favorite people.
In 2012, I was in a new city, out on maternity leave, and I wanted a creative outlet and a place to share my teaching ideas, tips, and activities with other teachers like me. Teachers who wanted to collaborate and grow as educators. I started blogging and sharing teaching resources in my curriculum shop on TeachersPayTeachers that summer, and it has been a growing passion of mine ever since.
Teaching style
I’m passionate about teaching upper elementary students and helping their teachers be the best you can be. I have ten years of teaching experience, mostly in fourth and fifth grades. I absolutely love teaching “big kids,” and I feel so blessed to have spent most of my teaching career with my favorite people.
My philosophy is that school should be fun for both the students and the teacher. I love incorporating technology and hands-on activities to keep students engaged and excited about learning!
Awards & shining teacher moments
Teaching is filled with so many wonderful moments, but there is one that stands out as the first time I felt that "yes! this is why I do this job!" feeling. It was my third year, and I was teaching 5th grade. I was heading down the stairs to go home after the last parent conference of the day.
The boy I'd had the last conference with came running up the stairs. He had the biggest smile on his face, and gave me a big hug as he said, "I've never had a good parent conference before." It simultaneously broke my heart and made me so grateful for the opportunity we all have as teachers to be the person who believes in that child no one else believed in and make a difference in their life.
My own education history
• Trevecca Nazarene University - B.S. in Child Development & Learning
• American College of Education - Curriculum & Instruction: Digital Learning & Teaching
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