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Close your eyes. Think of a holiday where all of your family gets together and you eat, visit, and maybe exchange gifts. You wake up on that morning and and smell a turkey in the oven and fresh pie. Pretty soon your relatives begin to arrive. You eat, share stories and traditions, open gifts, and play games. Now open your eyes. What holiday were you thinking of? Have you ever heard of kwanzaa? Well, let's learn and celebrate Kwanzaa.

Now you can review and preview the standards in order and operations, multiplication, division, place value, fractions and decimals. Each week students can practice what they have learned and take a sneak preview of what math standards are to come next. Extra practice makes excellent improvement in math computations.

Read the book Riki's Birdhouse by Monica Wellington to your students. Then purchase Birdhouse Kits (12 DIY Bird House Kits For Children to Build - Wood Birdhouse Kits for Kids to Paint - Unfinished Wood Bird Houses to Paint for Kids - Wood Craft Project Kits - Wooden Arts & Craft for Girls & Boys Visit the CRAFTY HAPPITOYS Store) for each student in your class. Students will build the birdhouses, take home and observe for seven days. Students will then write an informational story about wh

Looking for a fun way to recap the MLK commemorative Service 2022? This interactive jeopardy style game will help your students learn about the life and teaching os the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

If you need a literature focus unit, this unit for fourth graders on charlotte's Web has everything you need- daily lesson plans, activities, assessments-all in one easy packet.

Looking for a fun way to teach students how to multiply decimals. What better way than to go grocery shopping. This quick and easy activity only requires one thing, free grocery flyers that you can get at you r local grocery store. For free. This fun math station is simple. Laminate the instruction sheet, gather flyers, and place on table. Students can work in pairs or by themselves. This activity will give your students a real world view of math in action.

Handbook to use for teaching and using technology websites for reading in grades K-2.

Get those math brains working by using these daily practice sheets. Use as morning work, math practice or weekly assessment or review.

Students at times may become disruptive in the classroom, however many times they are redirected repeatedly, sent to another teacher, or when you have had enough, the principal's office . Try this instead. have a seat in your classoom known as the time out seat. Students will go there for 10 minutes, complete the time out form, and return to you. You make a copy, and then send home to the parent for them to sign and return. This method keeps a record of the behavior, but it gives him or her ow

Assessment! Assessments! Assessments! How do you keep up with all of that data? Use a Data Portfolio! You now have all of that student data that you may need for an EIP or IEP meeting, Tier Meeting, or Parent Conference in one place.

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A great end of the year awards for your class. Students vote for a person in their class in each category. Teacher calculate voters and announce winners for class. A great fun activity.

Students can multiply 2 digit numbers, add/subtract multiple digits, and use order of operation.

Students can multiply 2 digit numbers, add/subtract multiple digits, use order of operation, and solve division problems.

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Children can learn to rap the tables using this multiplication song

Students can multiply 2 digit numbers, add/subtract multiple digits, and use order of operation, and powers of ten