KT's Brain Children

The same idea as Clock Buddies for partnering, but why not use your "smart phone" and have your friends on speed dial? Have students find 10 other partners and write their names in on the buttons. Be sure to have students write their name in their partner's button (i.e. If Bob and Lisa both want to partner, they should both write each others' name on #4). Then simply tell them to call their #4 partner for a prearranged selection. Spend 15-20 minutes at the beginning of the year for instant p

Use Skittles candy to review math! Give each student about 20 Skittles each and let them complete the tally chart, bar graph, and pictograph. It even requires small group collaboration as students are to combine information with a partner or an entire table group. It also reviews least to greatest and has students comparing data and problem solving.

This is a unit I created to go along with our 3rd grade Houghton Mifflin Theme INCREDIBLE STORIES! Using THE SCHOOL MOUSE by Dick-King Smith, students practice vocabulary (using context clues and the dictionary), character (taking notes and making conclusions), and comprehension (recall, analysis, synthesis). There is one mid-way quiz and the final evaluation is a tic-tac-toe activity where students select projects to demonstrate their understanding of the book. We worked on it for about 2 1/

You can use these to help students learn how to use a checkbook, manage their money, and as a managemnent tool. I award students "$1" for each homework assignment turned in on time. Students track their progress daily. Table points can be cashed in monthly and added in. Excessive restroom use can result in owing money. At the end, you can have a store or some sort of opportunity for students to practice writing a check and also balance their checkbooks. Make multiple copies back to back and

Copy nets on to different colored construction paper. Help students create each 3D figure while observing various properties. Students can label them and build it into a desktop castle. 5 figures in all.

A fun activity used for big and little buddies. Help your buddy get to know you by answering some questions. Use those answers to help draw a monster that represents you. Then swap with your buddy! You can also use it as a great starting point for creative writing. *I added an example on the second page so you can see how it might turn out.

Intended to truly break apart various multiplication strategies, this fun little turkey allows students to demonstrate various methods including repeated groups, repeated addition, using Commutative Property, using arrays, and Distributive Property.

Use Starburst candies to get student excited about learning perimeter, area, arrays, and fractions. *HELPFUL HINT: For more individual results, buy Starburst candies, place in a bag, and hand out to students at random. If not, there is a tendency for each package to have the same of each color.

Perfect for a read-aloud novel of THE CRICKET IN TIMES SQUARE by George Seldon. Broken into chapters, this packet that I've created provides opportunities for students to practice skills in comprehension, prediction, application, recall, writing, and creative extension. Also included is a test at the end. The entire activity would be wort 100 points (80 for the packet and 20 for the test). It also comes with an answer key with suggested answers.

This Halloween, get students to work together and discuss candy, not just eat it! Created to look like a newspaper ad, the inspiration is that Willy Wonka is looking for young apprentices to come up with new candy ideas. Students should work in pairs (cooperatively) to create a new candy idea. They will create the ad showing what the product will be. In essence, this is the directions page for the activity. You will need to supply poster/drawing paper and/or materials. You can have students

Tired of kids not getting reading logs signed? Needing a fun way to get kids motivated to read at night? Here is the Game of Read! As students read 20 minutes a night, they advance on the board. When they come to a number, they answer the questions or prompt on the back or a separate sheet of paper. Upon completion the teacher can reward students as they wish. Examples could be: 1 game = bookmark; 2 games; pencil; 3 games = free reading time in class coupon; 4 games = read in special area in cla

Here is a novel study packet of 100 questions I created to go along with E.B. White's The Trumpet of the Swan. It encourages students to think about characters, settings, main ideas, basic reading comprehension, using context clues to aid in vocabulary and analysis, and reflection and synthesis. It is broken down by chapter so that students can also go back and use it as a reviewing tool for taking Reading Counts/Accelerated Reading type tests. Please click on download preview to access the 1s

Big buddies and little buddies work together to hit 100 on several physical activities such as hopping, jumping, bouncing a ball, etc.

When I was growing up, I remember doing these mystery grid art drawings in which you had to practice your knowledge of coordinates to draw or color in the square. You were given codes for the colors and sometimes you had to draw something or split the box! I know there are numerous online grids now, but I wanted an old school flashback and my students loved them! FYI the thumbnails do not show the complete directions for the entire picture. This includes 2 designs. As an FYI Holiday 1 is a Chris

Help students work on organized lists (math) with this fun worksheet. One for boys and one for girls (a little more fun than everyone buying the same clothes) allows students to practice creating combinations in an organized way. Granted, the answer or total number of outfits is 24, but the students need to find a system instead of coloring them in randomly.

Introduce the Constitution to your students with this activity. It shows the preamble which can be used for discussion and understanding as to what it entails. Below, it has a fill in form that students can complete and apply to their classroom. This not only will allow for better student understanding of the purpose of our Constitution but they can have a say in what they think their classroom "Constitution" should be about. Have them sign their name at the bottom, just like the Founding Fa

Based on Common Core standards for 3rd grade Number and Operations in Base 10 - Fractions, here is a prestest or formative assessment to see if your students know their stuff. Can also be used as a summative after teaching lessons as well.

Logic Puzzle and practice elements of time intervals and elapsed time. Use the clues to determine what time each child left and then arrived at the park. Use the X and O process of elimination method after each clue. Answer key is provided. ***If you like these and would like me to make other subject specific ones, let me know!

6 leveled vocabulary activities and strategies that can be assigned in a menu format for student work. This is geared towards building and incorporating vocabulary into general comprehension and writing, not just memorizing them for a test. *This is geared towards 5 vocabulary words from Words of the Week, but can be altered for any set of words as necessary. YOU CAN EDIT THIS FILE to match your needs!

Inspired by the I-Spy books and games, this is a collage of pictures great for a back to school activity. It encourages reading and following directions as students read the clues to help them find and color the page. Some are tricky and some are obvious. Always a big hit!