Jennifer Van Blair is a current third grade teacher. She has taught 3 - 5 grade for 13 years, and has experience with combination based classrooms. She has a Master's in Educational Leadership and a background in natural sciences and outdoor education.
Worksheets are boring...by themselves, but when you make them into a craftivity, fifth graders LOVE them! This fall themed activity for multiplying and dividing multi-digit numbers is engaging, creative, and just plain fun! Perfect for October, or the fall months, this build a monster math craftivity gives students an exciting way to practice multiplying and dividing multi-digit numbers in word problem.The task:Students solve 8 different multiplication and division word problems earning them
It's time to build with these hands-on area and perimeter activity mats. Your third and fourth graders will love using blocks to explore and compare area and perimeter in this construction-themed math center or classroom activity. Highly engaging, students will find the length and width of each shape using hands-on materials (one-inch math tiles, one-centimeter math cubes, or digital manipulatives) and compare the measurements. Print and have students tile the quadrilaterals using math man
Are you looking for a way to help your students practice adding or multiplying with decimals that is engaging, creative, and just plain fun? Perfect for December, January, February, or the winter months, this Gingerbread math craftivity gives students an exciting way to practice adding and multiplying with decimals (5.NBT.B.7)The task:Chocolate Chip and Joanna Gumdrop help gingerbread families fix up their gingerbread houses to be the house they always dreamed of. The Gingy family has asked
Are you looking for a way to help your students practice adding and subtracting whole numbers (multi-digit) that is engaging, creative, and just plain fun? Perfect for October, or the fall months, this haunted house math craftivity gives students an exciting way to practice adding and subtract multi-digit numbers.The task:The neighborhood Spooktacular is just around the corner. The ghouls, goblins, ghosts, and monsters need your help, but they have a strict budget of $3,500 that must be foll
Are you looking for a way to help your students practice multiplying multidigit numbers that is engaging, creative, and just plain fun? Perfect for December, January, February, or the winter months, this Gingerbread math craftivity gives students an exciting way to practice multiplying multidigit numbers.The task:Chocolate Chip and Joanna Gumdrop help gingerbread families fix up their gingerbread houses to be the house they always dreamed of. The Gingy family has asked for the Gumdrops help,
Worksheets are boring...by themselves, but when you make them into a craftivity, fourth graders LOVE them! This fall themed activity for adding and subtracting whole numbers (multi-digit) is engaging, creative, and just plain fun! Perfect for October, or the fall months, this build a monster math craftivity gives students an exciting way to practice adding and subtract multi-digit numbers in word problem form using the standard algorithm fluently.The task:Students solve 8 different addition
It's CORN! This CORNY math craft is sure to delight your THIRD GRADERS. This fall themed activity for multiplying single digit numbers using arrays is engaging, creative, and just plain fun! Perfect for NOVEMBER, or the fall months, this math craftivity gives students an exciting way to practice building arrays for multiplication expressions, breaking apart arrays and writing matching expressions, and finding the product of the array.The task:Students build an array, write the matching expr
Worksheets are boring...by themselves, but when you make them into a craftivity, third graders LOVE them! This fall themed activity for adding and subtracting whole numbers (multi-digit) is engaging, creative, and just plain fun! Perfect for October, or the fall months, this build a monster math craftivity gives students an exciting way to practice adding and subtract multi-digit numbers in word problem form.The task:Students solve 8 different addition and subtraction word problems earning t
Engage your students in some festive learning this December by making joyful paper chains. This completely editable template allows you to type any questions into the text box to work on the skills and practice your unique learners need. Then, simply print the questions on red and green paper and you have a holiday craftivity that is sure to make the hearts of your students warm this December. Do one a day, or spend a day reviewing - it's up to you how you spread the cheer this year! You may
Differentiating and providing small group support for ALL learners is challenging. That's why you need time to scaffold ALL learners in your classroom. Whether you meet in small groups or have WHOLE group instruction, these multiplication BUMP GAMES give you the time you need to engage your students in meaningful multiplication practice that is collaborative and fun! Scaffold student learning or meet the needs of your combo students with these differentiated bump games that cover multiplication
Are you looking for math crafts that support yearlong math learning for you fourth graders? These engaging, creative, and just plain fun projects review a variety of math concepts in word problem form. Perfect for holidays or seasonal celebrations anytime of the year, math craftivities give your students an exciting way to practice fourth grade math concepts including: additive comparison word problems, multiplicative comparison word problems, add to word problems, take from word problems, equ
My students love craftivities! They are engaging, fun, and allow kids to be kids while practicing the skills we need them to master by the end of the year. I am always in the middle of word problems with fractions during Thanksgiving. My students have been working on solving word problems with a variety of different operations. The thing is, I definitely won't have the same students next year and I like to personalize my lessons by adding student names to problems. I also know I may be on differ
Math craftivities are motivating resources to engage third graders in word problem solving. This February themed love monster is perfect for practicing 3.OA.8 (two-step word problems using the four operations)! Students solve, earn body parts, cut, color and assemble their love monster craftivity to show their mastery of the problems. This PRINTABLE resource icludes:8 single-step & multi-step word problems in the four operationsAssembly directionsAnswer key***This is a PDF file. You will need t
Whether you are looking for an engaging way for students to practice after instruction, for guided practice or a center, these snowflake themed winter multiplication game will do the trick. Tic-Tac-Snow offers you various levels of practice. This FREE product includes: 1 x 1 digit 2 x 1 digit 2 x 2 digit 3 x 2 digit Decimals x whole numbers Decimals x decimals Student pairs choose a number as the snowflake factor, then take turns choosing a factor from one the other boxes. If they are correct,
Are you looking for a way to help your fourth graders practice multiplication and mixed word problems? Perfect for November and Thanksgiving, this rigorous set of 7 multiplication word problems and 6 student authored mixed word problems gives students an engaging way to practice single and multi-step word problems for multiplication, addition, subtraction, and division in fourth grade. Students will answer 7 multiplication problems, and then write 6 of their own mixed word problems to earn
Are you looking for a way to help your students practice adding and subtracting whole numbers (one-, two-, and three- digit)that is engaging, creative, and just plain fun? Perfect for October, or the fall months, this haunted house math craftivity gives students an exciting way to practice adding and subtract multi-digit numbers.The task:The neighborhood Spooktacular is just around the corner. The ghouls, goblins, ghosts, and monsters need your help, but they have a strict budget of $450 tha
Worksheets are boring...by themselves, but when you make them into a collaborative challenge, third graders LOVE them! This fall themed activity for solving word problems involving multiplication (single-digit) is engaging, creative, and just plain fun! Perfect for September, October, or November, this math escape room gives students an exciting way to practice solving multiplication situation word problems including arrays, multiplicative comparison problems, equal groups, and area situatio
Are you looking for a way to help your students practice multiplying a WHOLE NUMBER by a decimal number? Perfect for January or February or any time of the year, this Google Sheet Mystery Pixel reveal resource gives students an engaging way to practice multiplication with a WHOLE NUMBER by a decimal number in fourth fifth grade. Students will answer 12 multiplication questions and enter their answer (including a comma) into the answer box. If correct, these SELF-CORRECTING problems will rev
Math craftivities are motivating resources to engage fourth graders in word problem solving. This Halloween themed witch is perfect for practicing 4 .OA.A2 (solving multiplicative comparison word problem]) and 4.NBT.B5 (multiplying up to four digit factors and two by two digit factors! Students solve 8 word problems, earn body parts, cut, color and assemble their witch craftivity to show their mastery of the problems. This PRINTABLE resource icludes:8 single- and multi-step multiplication proble
Are you looking for a way to help your students practice basic multiplication that is engaging, creative, and just plain fun? Perfect for December, January, February, or the winter months, this Gingerbread math craftivity gives students an exciting way to practice basic multiplication facts from 1 - 12.The task:Chocolate Chip and Joanna Gumdrop help gingerbread families fix up their gingerbread houses to be the house they always dreamed of. The Gingy family has asked for the Gumdrops help, b
Jennifer Van Blair is a current third grade teacher. She has taught 3 - 5 grade for 13 years, and has experience with combination based classrooms. She has a Master's in Educational Leadership and a background in natural sciences and outdoor education.
Teaching style
She enjoys using hands-on learning with regular use of manipulatives, visual learning, models, and student-led exploration. She is inspired by the work of Peter Liljedahl, Jo Boaler, and Carol Dweck.
Awards & shining teacher moments
Contributor to Byrdseed TV creating lessons for GATE classrooms.
My own education history
UC Santa Cruz - Environmental Science and Education
San Jose State - Elementary Education Credential
Upper Iowa University - Masters in Teacher Leadership