Creative Creations

Are your students learning about China? Here are 6 activites about language, goods and services, geography/history, festivals, animals and the flag. This document also includes a cover for storing each center and a check off sheet for each student to mark when an activity is completed. I make each student a folder out of colored paper. I use red and yellow - the colors of the flag. On one side the students put the flag, on the other the check off sheet. We store these on the counter in fron

Have you ever been asked by a parent to have work ready for their child to take on a family vacation? If that has happened to you, you know it can be a lot of work. Instead, I tell the parents to enjoy their family vacation and worry about the work when they return. This also allows me to put everything in a folder during the time the child is absent instead of ahead of time. I send this Vacation Journal as work. It promotes learnin while vacationing. The journal includes reading, writing,

Are you looking for a class or at home project for the students to do after completing a fiction chapter book? This book project gives step by step directions for what to include on your project and where to put the specific information. Also included is the rough draft paper. If you like this project check out Book Project Fun which includes 3 additional projects, rough draft papers, rubrics and book talk directions.

Joe Cool is my version of Star of the Week. Since I am a huge Snoopy fan (plus it is a little different) I decided to name my Star of the Week after the coolest dog in the business. Joe Cool is a fun way to get to know your students and their families. This is a week long activity for each student in your class. The students will share photos and important items, read a favorite picture book, share a story they wrote and introduce the class to family (including pets). Joe Cool also gets some

Looking to create a positive environment to help make learning time more productive? This activity is a quick (10-15 minute) get to know you or class building activity (if you use Kagan Cooperative Learning). The students will spend time learning about their classmates and building relationships. Included are 10 "Find Someone Who..." activities . Use one per month from September to June. My students love this type of activity. Although it is only about 10-15 minutes it is a nice break in

Are you looking for either a Mother's Day or Father's Day gift idea? How about a key chain? You just need a few materials and a picture of each student.

Are you looking for a project to use with a historical fiction book? This book project gives step by step directions for how to make a brochure. The classroom teacher will need to decide how their students will complete their rough draft before making the final copy. If you check out my store you will find directions for other book projects.

This is just a little booklet to practice some 3rd grade math concepts. It includes addition and subtraction facts, telling time, rounding, adding and subtracting 2 and 3 digit numbers, and place value.

Each marking period I have my students do a book project for a different genre. The project has 2 parts. One part is a written project and the other is the oral report/book talk. With the Fold A Story book project you can have your students read a fiction book. It is the first one I give in the year, so I have them use picture books. Soon, I will be putting up all 4 book projects for the year in additon to the overall directions and rough draft papers. If you like this project, please ch