Creating Classrooom Magic

I am a 2nd grade teacher who also happens to have a deep love for Harry Potter. In my classroom I read the Harry Potter books for our 10 minute read aloud each day. My kids love it. I am also a teacher who is a huge advocate for having your students help create the classroom behavior plan. My kiddos help me come up with a Harry Potter themed behavior plan in our classroom and I decided to make it into something awesome! I began this incentive program right before Christmas break because t

This is another subtraction with regrouping PPT presentation to use with your kiddos. These are great for teachers that must use the LEARN model for their math lesson plans which requires them to have a 10-15 minute mini lesson introduction.

This is one of my FAVORITE creations!!! I am all about being organized and passing that attitude on to my students. This planner is full of great organizational and communication tools. I also made it editable so that in certain parts you can add your own information to suit your school! Cover pages: There is a cover page for the front of the planner along with cover pages for different sections throughout the planner. This are all in color. Student information page This page is the first

Hello everyone! I just started teaching math this year using the Math Daily 3 workshop outline. With this, teachers are asked to create 10-15 minute mini lessons for each day before the allow the students to go off on their own into their center activities. These mini lessons can be anything from showing a new strategy and doing a few example problems, to creating word problems with the class. Believe it or not, I was finding it very difficult to find things to do in this small amount of tim

Hello everyone! I just started teaching math this year using the Math Daily 3 workshop outline. With this, teachers are asked to create 10-15 minute mini lessons for each day before the allow the students to go off on their own into their center activities. These mini lessons can be anything from showing a new strategy and doing a few example problems, to creating word problems with the class. Believe it or not, I was finding it very difficult to find things to do in this small amount of time

Hello everyone! here is a little Freebie for summarizing. This is a powerpoint that has a magical theme to it. The powerpoint is meant to spark interest in summarizing by asking the students to work hard to be accepted as a magical summarize. The powerpint gives the students a mission and then there are slides that discuss the different parts of a summary that include,,, Somebody wanted but so then The example is Cinderella. Then at the end of the powerpoint there is a suggestion for a bo

This is the st installment of the Mathematician warm ups for Money. I use these for my 10-15 minute warm up for Math Workshop. Students follow along using their white boards to answer the questions.

This test was created to assess students understanding of place value concepts. This can be given paper pencil or you could make it digital if you desire. I have used it both ways. I have left an empty box at the top right corner of each page. Here I recorded myself reading the directions and placed the speaker icon of my recording in this blank box if you choose to use it digitally. I made a hard copy answer key as well if you choose to do it paper pencil! There are 15 questions in all.

This is a PPT presentation to introduce money to your students. It discusses each coin and gives some information about each. I use it as my 10-15 minute introduction for Math Workshop

Hello everyone! I just started teaching math this year using the Math Daily 3 workshop outline. With this, teachers are asked to create 10-15 minute mini lessons for each day before the allow the students to go off on their own into their center activities. These mini lessons can be anything from showing a new strategy and doing a few example problems, to creating word problems with the class. Believe it or not, I was finding it very difficult to find things to do in this small amount of time

This is the 2nd installment of the counting coins introduction. This one has the students practicing counting a group of different coins. I use this for my 10-15 minute Math Workshop introduction

This is the 3rd installment of countin coins. This presentation has students practice how to group coins in order to make their counting easier. For example grouping a quarter with a nickel in order to make 30 cents. I use these presentations for my 10-15 minute Math Workshop warm up

This is a simple valentine door decor pack. All you need to do is print out the sign that fits your grade then type in the names of all your students into the name tags. Print, laminate, cut and hang!

This is a door decor set for febraury and Valentines day! It is very simple to put together! All you need to do is pick the sign that works for your class, type in the names of your students into the pizza hearts, print, laminate, and cut! You will be all set and your door will look super cute! The signs have both boy and girl options as well as different skin colors and grades K-6

This is a quick and easy lesson presentation to introduce even and odd numbers to your students!

This is a quick and easy lesson presentation to introduce non standard measurement with length and height to your students! It discusses the following things: What can you use to measure What is height What is length The rules of measurement Practice problems Practice examples

This file includes slides for all 3 weeks in module one. They are simply used to display on the board each day as a slide show to have the class practice as a whole! This file is for 1st grade Module 1 ONLY!!!

These slides are a quick tool you can use with your class to review or practice comparing numbers. With these slides you can have your students come up to the board and click and drag the correct alligator sign into the picture to make the sentence true. There are 27 practice slides. The movable alligator mouth images are included on each slide.

this is the 3rd installment

This pack is set up just like my previous reading counts clip charts. However you may edit your own point system for this one.