Teach your students what it means to follow a budget by giving them a budget and a few Scholastic book order magazines. They can record the products they wish to buy and add up their spending along the way. There are 3 levels (budgets), including $25, $50, and $75. Each budget has it's own directions, recording pages, and reflection questions. You can choose to give your class different budgets, or all the same. Product includes analysis questions at the end for students to answer and discuss.
Challenge students to design the floorplan for their dream home! They brainstorm rooms and room sizes, and map them out on the chart paper. They keep track of the size of the room using area, arrays, and repeated addition sentences. Finally, students write about their floorplans and explain details of their favorite room in the house.
Give each student a printable, wearable watch and have them write a time on it. Options for times to pass out are included in the bundle. Then, students circulate around the room reading one another's watches and recording the times in both digital and analog forms.
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Students choose activities to time themselves doing for one minute. They practice using the wall clock or individual timers to time themselves and/or a partner doing each activity. They fill in the blanks at the bottom of the page to review how long a minute and an hour are. Suggestions for activities are: jumping jacks writing the alphabet saying the alphabet push-ups sit-ups running around a track burpees Let your studnets come up with others, write them on the board, and let them choose as th