Let's Grow Dendrites

NEW! 3/30 This file now has lesson plans split by grade level for ease of reading. The PPT is the same. Introduce your students to the first basic principle of design--expressive line--in the first of thirteen introductory lesson plans. You and your students will analyze various photographs from nature as well as paintings to discover what kind of mood or sensation each type of line implies. This fully-developed, no-prep lesson plan has you covered. Students apply what they learned in discuss

Bundle & Save! This collection is growing. As I add to it, the price will increase. Buy now at its lowest price and you'll get all updates free! This bundle includes: Multiplication spinners 0-10 (added 3/31) Division spinners 1-10 (added 3/31) Addition within 5 (added 4/1) Addition within 10 (added 4/1) Writing prompts (perfect for grades 2-4, adaptable to all grade levels)In the Works: Addition within 15Addition within 20Addition within 50Addition within 100 (possibly 1,000)Subtraction within

This resource is still being added to, with different versions of activities for each weekday! The Google Slides background is not editable, so if you would like to see different parts of speech, color coding, activities, or other tweaks to make this resource work for your class, please feel free to drop a Q&A or email me at DendritesTPT@gmail.com. The easiest way to incorporate Mentor Sentences into your digital routine, while maintaining discussions! Students know what to expect with each wee

Included in the .zip file are prompt spinners for these types of writing: personal narrative (2 spinners) informative explanatory (specifically, how-to) persuasive descriptivepoetryfree-write/journaling Each type of writing except the free-writes have a second slide that gives additional details or asks some questions to help students get started on their writing. These helped my students with the brainstorm step of the writing process! Click on the box once to make the spinner start. Click on

This sight word Boom Card routine is inspired by Jan Richardson's Emergent Reader sight word routine as described in "The Next Steps Forward in Guided Reading." Boom Cards are excellent for in-person and distance learning! Use them for a centers station, morning bell work, or for extra time fillers. Students will practice the following activities: What's MissingBuild ItMix & Fix"Table Writing" (on the screen)Typing the word once while seeing it, once without seeing itThe sight word featured i

Editable PowerPoint file! Let's go paperless!! Block plan digitally and always have access to what you need from your computer, phone, and tablet. And... you'll never need to buy another block plan notebook that you'll lose or forget to bring home every day. This will last you literally forever. I made this because all the digital block lesson plans I found split the week across two pages, intended for printing and putting into a binder. And they weren't tabbed to click to the week I needed, e

Included in the .zip file are individual spinners for division facts 1-10. Click on the box once to make the spinner start. Click on the box a second time to make it stop. Use them like you would with flash card practice, during centers, or as part of a math game and other activities! These spinners DO NOT work in Google Slides. It lacks the stop animation needed. Students with Chromebooks can open PowerPoints in the FREE online platform with a Microsoft account (free to set up, though I do st

Included in the .zip file are individual spinners for multiplication facts 0-10, with 1-10 on each section of the spinner. Click on the box once to make the spinner start. Click on the box a second time to make it stop. Use them like you would with flash card practice, during centers, or as part of a math game and other activities! These spinners DO NOT work in Google Slides. It lacks the stop animation needed. Students with Chromebooks can open PowerPoints in the FREE online platform with a M

These little characters are a PNG with a transparent background, so they'll copy onto any piece of paper without printing the white. I can include a set that will copy with the bodies filled in if you prefer! For one of my masters classes, I need to do an action research study. These pictures are paired with two questions: 1. How do you feel today? 2. How hard do you think [insert activity] was? Before they marked their emotions, I had the students talk about what they saw in the pictures. Fi

Included in the .zip file are: individual spinners for addition facts within 5, with +0 through +4 beside the spinners. individual spinners for addition facts within 10, with +0 through +9 beside the spinners. Click on the box once to make the spinner start. Click on the box a second time to make it stop. Use them like you would with flash card practice, during centers, or as part of a math game and other activities! These spinners DO NOT work in Google Slides. It lacks the stop animation nee

Thanks for stopping by! I’ve printed these on cardstock and had them laminated, then put them on a ring. First I use them as flashcards to help the students learn four or five sounds each week, and once they get them consistently I turn the flash cards into a game! I use the Candyland board game for this. If they correctly identify the letter sound, they get to pick a card and continue to that space. If they get it wrong, they move back two spaces. Have fun and get creative! And please post yo

For the full product, click here! This is a multiplication spinner FREEBIE, perfect for any game or worksheet! Click the box to start the spin. Click it again to stop the spin. Use it like you would with flash card practice or as part of a math game and other activities! My district uses games from the Basic Math Facts books by Susan O'Connell and John SanGiovanni. This was my students' favorite part of our math block and I wanted to make some of those games accessible to the students while w

100% inspired by a blog post by Miss Giraffe! Take a look at all the awesome ways she's taught arrays: http://missgiraffesclass.blogspot.com/2015/07/how-to-teach-arrays.html Please take a moment to support the inspiring teacher--check out her store: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Miss-Giraffe This PowerPoint is completely editable, from the background to the content. I have a total of 48 googly eyes that I'm using for it, but I wanted to make sure teachers could change the numbers