Heidi E.

I originally created this for a family math night. We gave each family a set of cards and taught them these simple but fun games to use with the cards. This powerpoint includes simple games to reinforce math concepts like addition.

This powerpoint introduces the concept of growing patters. There is a hungry monster that adds food to his belly each level of the pattern. This was created for a 2nd grade class, but could be appropriate for other grades.

Comprehension questions for Sharon Draper's Clubhouse Mysteries: The Buried Bones Mystery. Each chapter has 3 levels of questions which follow Costa's Levels of Thinking, but would be appropriate even if your school isn't AVID focused. One page of questions for each chapter and then a final project at the end.

This powerpoint has a varity of optical illusion pictures for students to look at and think about how they see things. This then transitions into different topics and develops the idea that people often view things differently.

I created this presentation to go over our school rules on the first day of school. The kids enjoy the interactivity of answering the questions on the slides. I print out the last few slides with the rules and consequences and post on our wall. This could easily be modified to fit your school's rules and consequences. Our school is a PBIS (Positive Behavior Intervention School).

This lesson is an interactive power point that review irregular nouns and their plurals. For example child becomes children.

This powerpoint reviews the missing part ofr addition. Throughout the slide show, there are objects that are hiddent and students have to figure out the missing part. For example, there are 9 balls are together. You can see 5 of them, how many are in the bag?

This Power Point is a great way to introduce the story "Thundercake". The Power Point has question slides to get students thinking about the topic. The vocabulary slides have pictures and definitions. If you print the slide show as a handout, you can have the students write their own vocabulary sentences next to the slide.

Great powerpoint to introduce the vocabulary words and build background information. The power point slides can be printed as a handout and students can write their own vocabulary sentences on the lines.

This presentation is used to introduce the concept of repeating and growing patterns. It includes vocabulary terms, element and core.

This presentation tells the story of why we have standard measurement. The story is that long ago a carpenter was ordered to make a bed for the queen. The king told him to make it a certain number of feet and the carpenter did. The problem was that the king's feet and the carpenter's feet were different. This is great to introduce a measurement unit.

This is an introductory powerpoint for the story "Jamaica Louise James". It provides background information and vocabulary development to set the groundwork for the story. You can print the vocabulary definition slides in handout view and students can then write their own sentences next to the vocabulary slide.

This jeopardy game is intended for a review of Chapter 2: Fact Strategies in Addition. Our 2nd grade curriculum is Scott Foresman however, this would be a good review for any curriculum dealing with fact strategies.

Powerpoint introducing basic China facts.

This is an introductory powerpoint for the story "The Great Ball Game". It provides background information and vocabulary development to set the groundwork for the story. You can print the vocabulary definition slides in handout view and students can then write their own sentences next to the vocabulary slide.

This powerpoint presentation uses a fish to compare numbers to 1,000. The fish eats the larger number.

This powerpoint is used to build background knowledge and vocabulary for the story "Henry and Mudge and the Starry Night." If you print the vocabulary slides as a handout, students can write their own sentences.

This is an introductory powerpoint for the story "Ant". It provides background information and vocabulary development to set the groundwork for the story. You can print the vocabulary definition slides in handout view and students can then write their own sentences next to the vocabulary slide.

This powerpoint introduces background information and vocabulary for the story. You can print out the vocabulary slides as a handout and studens can write their own sentences next to the definitions.

Are you looking for ways for your class to connect? Are you running out of ideas for a daily question? Look no further! The work has been done for you. Grab a Connect4 game board and set it up according to the directions in this file. Label a game piece for each student with their name or number. Use a new question each day for your morning attendance. Students read the question and add their game piece to the appropriate column on the Connect4 board. Any pieces left over lets you know