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A great resource for your holiday party! Student teams complete in 5 different minute to win it activities. All the activities are fun and challenging and require very little prep and set up. The Games: Snowball Toss - target game Christmas Nut Stacker - tower building game Do You Hear What I Hear? - guessing/estimating game Christmas Ball - cooperative game Oh Christmas Tree - cooperative building game Materials Needed: Ping Pong Balls or Large Marshmallows Bucket or pail 20 silver nuts (no

A great resource for your Halloween party! Student teams complete in 6 different minute to win it activities. All the activities are fun and challenging and require very little prep and set up. The Games: Spider Scoot Pumpkin Head Ghost Boogers Monster Mouth Jack Stack Eyeball Bounce Materials Needed: Plastic Spiders Real or plastic pumpkins (small) Monster Mask (or picture) plastic buckets or bins Marshmallows Straws Plastic Cups Bouncy Balls or plastic eyeballs timer Happy Halloween! Becky

In this download you will get a variety of writing promo strips for the end of the school year. Students can reflect on the year, draw a comic strip about a funny memory, write an announcement to read to the last day of school, and more! This is the perfect writing centre to use on the last week of school. Happy teaching! Enjoy your well deserved summer! Becky @ Launching Learning

Are you looking for new ways to represent numbers or wanting to add more concrete manipulatives to your Number Talks? An abacus is a wonderful tool that will help your students visualize the base ten system, develop number flexibility and have a better understanding of procedures such as regrouping and borrowing. Using an abacus during Number Talks can help your students make connections across the strands. In this teacher tutorial you will learn about: > On-line abacus tools > The b

See the process of the simple addition of three digit numbers using the 100 bead abacus.