Creative Thinking Corner

Have some fun enriching the meaning of fractions with this creative thinking comic strip activity! I also included a skeleton lesson plan on one of the slides that you can follow to help guide creative thinking!

Use these two notes pages as a whole group or small group lesson to kickstart your fractions unit! I used these as a whole group lesson, and we color coded the parts of a fraction!

Turk and Runt is such a cute book! After reading this with your kiddos, it's the perfect opportunity to explore the expression and acceptance of others opinions/thoughts. There are two types of feathers. One set of feathers has lined feathers for littles. The other set are blank. I would suggest having extra copies of feathers as I can see some kiddos needing/wanting to make more than 3. :) I would also make some blank copies on colored paper for fillers in case.

This a great resource to add in some Halloween fun while still pushing the brain's limits! We talked about how numbers have relationships, and tables help us represent them! 1. print the spider page on white cardstock 2. I invited older students to come down and volunteer in my class of first graders while we worked on this activity. They aided in helping the kiddos answer the totals of legs as well as help the littles press their painted hands to make the spiders. 3. after the kids press their