Christina Cottongame

A fun mini unit to teach students all about perimeter using the idea of pig pens on a farm and ends with a fun project using critical thinking! Targets the following skills: *understanding the concept of perimeter *finding perimeter by counting outside square units *finding perimeter with addition math sentences *measuring to find perimeter of 2D figures *finding missing information to find perimeter *using addition and subtraction (2 step problems) to find the length of a missing side Include

A unit for your students to discover what the Declaration of Independence, U.S. Constitution, and the Bill of Rights are and why we need them! Included Activities: *Locating information in text for each historical document *My idea of the life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness collage *Meaning of the Preamble to the U.S. Constitution accordion book or U.S. flag activity *Bill of Rights Class Activity idea Plan a Class Constitution *Timeline of historical documents Enjoy ;) Christina C.

Who is our government? How did they get their job? What do they do for us? How does it all get financed? Your students will answer these questions as they create an interactive folder to demonstrate their learning! A way to make a sometimes complicated subject more interesting and fun! This unit was orginally designed for 3rd grade students, but it can easily be adjusted for older students. There is no clip art for the actual folder itself so it could even work for middle school students! What

Get your students ready to learn Science with these introductory lessons in which students learn about various science tools as well as the importance of Science Lab Safety Rules! These lessons are designed to take about 2 to 3 class sessions. Your students will discover and learn about Science tools they will be using though the year and make a super cool folded organizer for them for their science notebooks. Then help your students to really understand science lab safety with a memorable exp

This lil' unit has students creating a fun book about the 6 major body systems. Students will learn about the body systems, major parts of body systems, and how body systems work together to perform the jobs students do everyday. An assessment is included for the teacher to use however you choose. This unit contains: *Mini presentation on each body system, which can be printed as color posters if you desire **skeletal, muscular, nervous, digestive, respiratory, and circulatory *a printable boo

Have your students demonstrate their learning of Math and Social Studies personal financial literacy standards by making this fun file folder book! I use this book to integrate student learning among both subjects for these Texas TEKS: Math: *3.9C identify costs and benefits of planned and unplanned spending *3.9D explain that credit is used when wants exceed the ability to pay and that it is the borrowers responsibility to pay the money back, usually with interest *3.9E identify reasons to

Excuse me, do you have the time?... to let your students have fun and get up and moving to tell time? These activities will have your students enjoying reading time to the hour, half hour, 5 minutes or minute. There's something for every skill level! Students will make a fun watch craft which they will actually wear and use to complete the activities! Also students will make a fun and unique tool to help them as they tell time. (My first grade daughter grabbed this and LOVED it!) Use over and

Verb's the Word! This verb file contains a few activities to integrate into your study and get your students involved in verb tenses; past, present, and future! End your unit by having your students do their favorite thing...tell a story about themselves! They will author a mini-book telling about their own past, present, and future! Super cute and fun! What's Inside? *Teaching suggestions *Set of 10 whole class verb tense cards *Class set of verb tense sorting cards *Student verb tense mini-bo

Your students will drool over these activities that will have them comparing fractional parts of a set and a whole, creating models for equivalent fractions, and measuring with fractions all with a sweet theme! It's critical thinking built into coloring fun! What's included: *comparing fractions ice cream craft *making chocolate and ice cream equivalent fraction models *measuring to 1/2 an inch *answer key included Enjoy! Christina Cottongame ;) I would love to know what you think of the act

Get your students engaged and excited about place value as they assume real life job roles to practice reading, writing, comparing and ordering whole numbers to the hundred thousands place! This unit contains: *teacher guide with directions and suggestions *27 annual and monthly salary cards *8 colorful vocabulary cards *value of digits activities *spinner games *writing numbers foldables *comparing numbers activities *ordering numbers activities *skills check *an end of unit craft with examp

Your students will enjoy being involved in these 2 lessons and activities learning about what germs are and how to prevent getting sick! This unit was created with 3rd graders in mind to add to their previous learning and activities on this topic in younger grades without doing the same old thing! What's included: *Presentation and guided discussion on what germs are and how they affect us geared toward a little older students * A "handy" activity on preventing the spread of germs * Activity c

This activity is designed to help your students understand that 1/2 and 1/4 are numbers on a number line and to master counting by halves and fourths. This activity is also the perfect pre-lesson to teach right before measuring length! One set of activities is for halves and the other is fourths, so you could do one or both depending on the level of your students! Included for both halves and fourths: 1. Introductory activity for students to add to their math notebook 2. Number Line sections f

So What's In Your Wallet? Get your students up and moving with these fun activities that will give them plenty of practice to master finding the value of coins and bills!! This main activity has students create a fun wallet pocket which they will use to move around the room and find the value of each other's coins and bills. Then follow up with fun partner activities and a game! Inside you will find: *class set (up to 24) of money cards including coins and bills -includes penny, nickel, dim

These poems are made to get your students engaged in solving problems. There are 10 Halloween themed poems, that each turn out to be a problem to solve. Your students will enjoy reading the rhyme while you give them the rigorous problem solving practice they really need! These poems are designed for 3rd graders and cover single and multi-step addition and subtraction, with a few pattern poems! However, they could be fun review for 4th graders and a challenge for your advanced 2nd graders! Ther

A fun way to end the book! This book recipe was originally created to go along with the chapter book Freckle Juice by Judy Blume, but can work with just about any book! This turns out to be a cute project after reading that covers character interactions, character changes, sequence and summary, genre, point-of-view, and problem-solution. 5 pages are included that go together to make a 7 page recipe book with cover and extra activity. Dowload the preview to check it out! Enjoy ;) Christina C.

Instead of talking endlessly about how, when, what, and where we do things in our class at the beginning of each school year, I came up with these beginning of the year activities for students for the first 2 or 3 days of school that teach my students what I expect from them in different learning situations. The best part is they get to be a part of creating our procedures and practice it right away! When my students know what I expect from them in every situation, it makes my day go more smooth

A great way to introduce context clues and multiple meaning words... in this flipchart there are several interactive features for your learners to gain experience using context clues. Inside the 15 page flipchart is: *home page *teacher page with directions *context clues teaching pages *context clues fun interactive practice (4 examples) *multiple meaning words teaching pages (2 examples) *Strike 3, You're Out of Context practice (3 examples) Download the preview to get an idea of what's insi

Take a "peek" at inferencing with this fun activity that allows students to view "clues" inside various purses, shopping bags, suitcases, etc. Your students will practice the idea of using clues with what they know to make inferences. There are 5 fun examples in the flipchart. This would be a great introduction or first activity for teaching inferencing! Enjoy ;) Christina C. *You must have ActivInspire to use this product!

This 10 question flipchart with 5 short text selections is made for student practice with identifying the meanings of common prefixes and suffixes as well as synonyms and antonyms in a text read. I originally planned it as part of a review for our state assessment, but is great to use anytime! Each passage has a question for prefixes or suffixes and synonyms or antonyms with multiple choice answers. Students can interact in a simple way with cute and colorful graphics to reveal the answers. Ve

This is a collection of 8 poems that are math word problems for your kids to solve! It makes problem solving more fun! These poem problems focus on the skills of addition and subtraction with one or two steps, perimeter, counting coins and bills, and place value. The poems at the beginning of the file are created to be presented on a projector for your class. There are also printable options to give each student all 8 problems to create a book or an assignment, or you can print small copies of