Lighthouse in 5th

This unit is excellent for kindergarten, first, or second grades. Students will be exposed to multiple real-life pictures in order to better understand the concept of interdependence before they are expected to understand food chains and food webs. Students love to see the pictures of animals and practice their critical thinking skills when it applies to animals. Using this file, students are given multiple opportunities to work cooperatively with partners or table groups to have more meaning

These fun activities follow directly in line with teaching interdependence in Texas (TEKS 1.9B). The following packet includes foldables for 4 different habitats, including deserts, forests, oceans, and farms. Students will identify animals that depend on each other, and read phrases to determine the interdependence within that situation. This is a great introduction into food chains! Also in this packet are picture cards for students to use in order to create examples of interdependence on t

UPDATED 07/29/22 This activity set is a compressed file that contains 4 different activities that encourage collaborative learning, academic conversations, and deeper learning as it pertains to animal characteristics. There are 3 different paper activities (that could be used in a digital platform like Kami) to assess student learning and understanding. This bundle incorporates all aspects of TEKS 1.10A - investigating how the external characteristics of an animal are related to where it lives,

Everything in this bundle follow TEKS 1.9B. Students are given an opportunity to work with both photographs and clipart pictures to identify and describe examples of interdependence. Included in the file are a PowerPoint and PDF version of a presentation using real-life pictures to explain interdependence. Using the presentation, students are getting multiple opportunities to have "table talk" with their peers. Also included in the bundle is a file with flip books and sorting cards for inter

Looking for a way to help your 5th graders master some of the trickier standards? Math mats are one of the most helpful things you can do for them! Included in this freebie you'll receive a PDF file to print and laminate or put into poly-pockets for students to use to make math more hands on or visual. The current mats address the following Texas standards: 5.2(A) represent the value of the digit in decimals through the thousandths using expanded notation and numerals 5.2(B) compare and order tw

The Christmas season is fun! You don't have to teach primary to incorporate engaging and hands on craftivities! Looking for a fun and engaging way to review some of the learning from the semester? What better way than to complete a Christmas Tree Glyph activity. Engaging and no-prep...this is a teacher at Christmas's ideal resource! Some areas of the activity give students the opportunity to choose what questions they'd like to answer, while others will give a standard question that can give mul

Looking for a way to incorporate multiplying decimals and fractions within the same activity? Wanting a way to increase collaborative learning in your room? Students love getting to work through this baking banana bread activity and then eating the bread they did the math for once they are finished with their group! Student learning is far more impactful when they are able to apply it in a real-life setting. This activity covers the following standards: 5.3B multiply with fluency a three-digit n

Perfect for use in math stations. Using this activity, students will read the task card, and apply their knowledge of two-dimensional shapes. This product includes attributes of shapes that are included in 1st grade TEKS including: Name of the shape Sides Vertices Corners (square or not square) Directly aligns with TEKS.

In this packet you'll find great winter work station activities that allow students to work with numbers up to 120. They will be exposed to comparing numbers based on place value, expanded form, standard form, and the number shown with base-ten blocks. Each station activity includes a child-friendly set of instructions, an "I can" statement, and an enrichment activity for students to do with each set of cards when they're finished with the original activity! This station packet addresses T

All activities included in this bundle are TEKS and Common Core aligned. All activities address TEKS 1.6G and 1.6H and 1.G.A.3. and 2.G.A.3 Students are presented with both real world stimuli and two-dimensional shapes to partition equally. Included in this bundle are a set of task cards that can be used for either a read the room or an equal and unequal sort. If you choose to use the sort option, the headers for your pocket chart are included. Also included in the bundle is a recording she

With an added element of fun with Superheros, students will love practicing their skip counting to identify the worth of a group of coins. Using this station, students will practice counting by pennies, nickels, and dimes. Some cards have mixed coins, others are one coin, but all follow the TEKS. Values of the coins are from 9 cents to 100 cents. This station directly addresses TEKS 1.4ABC.

Looking for a way to incorporate writing in your math classroom? Struggling to come up with open-ended prompts that fit specifically to your TEKS? Panicked about STAAR 2.0 writing...in MATH?! Look no further! We all know that if a student can write and talk about their learning, it’ll deepen their understanding of that topic as well as give you a glimpse into their thinking processes. Included in this document are 34 individual writing prompts focused specifically on extending whole number and

This digital activity is easily assigned through Google Classroom, and it allows students to manipulate place value discs without having to get out bags upon bags of manipulatives. The slideshow includes 20 practice slides with numbers ranging from one hundred thousand to one billion. Students are also directed to type the expanded form of each of the numbers in the notes portion at the bottom of the slides. This would be a great reinforcement piece before moving into another topic or to leav

Looking for an update to your Google Slides for the day? These Retro Valentine's Day Google Slides templates are the perfect fit for any grade level classroom. These Google Slides are specially formatted to work in all levels of education! There are THREE different backgrounds for each type of slide, for a total of 98 slides in your download. Once purchased, the file provided will be a PDF with a link to the Retro Valentine's Day Google Slides. Slides Descriptions: Greetings Slides: These slides

This packet contains 5 different vowel digraph activities for stations! There is a "Read the Room" with a recording sheet, "Memory Match," and 3 no-prep worksheets that allow students to practice reading words that have /ai/, /ay/, and a_e. This product correlates to both Texas Standards (TEKS) and Common Core Standards. There are full color versions of each station, as well as blacklines if you're trying to save on ink! Just print on cardstock and laminate.

This large activity set includes skip counting activities in order to practice counting by 2s, 5s, and 10s. For practice with skip counting, students can use the included skip counting cards to put in order at their tables, on the floor, or in a pocket chart. They can then use those cards to complete the skip counting worksheets (one example shown in the preview). This activity pack also includes practice skip counting coins. All activities in this packet are with like coins, following Texas

This is a great, festive unit to use with your 4th and 5h graders! Activities include: Multi-Step Word problems (including addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division)Long Division Cards (with recording sheet)Both 3- and 4-digit dividendsReindeer Races GameIncludes both 2-digit by 2-digit multiplication and division cards with dividends up to 4-digits to apply the skills they've already learned.2-Digit by 2-Digit Multiplication Game All activities can be done independently or with partn

These multiples posters are large enough to post on the wall, or you can print the PDF as multiples for students to glue in their journals. A great resource for any classroom! Posters go through 12, and all multiples go through 12. For example, the 9 poster begins with 9 and ends with 108! Please leave feedback to let me know how it worked for you!

This PDF is a displayable file that you can put up on your SMART Board, or wherever there is a common place. Students are able to justify what the correct answers are and why, as well as what the worst answer is and how they believe that the test creators got that answer.This is a fantastic Lead4ward strategy that can be adapted to use in any content area. The ABCD cards are included for the multiple choice answers.This file also includes some word problems that will not be compatible for ABCD

Using this activity at math stations or during whole group, students will fill out a graphic organizer of shape attributes, then generate their own examples of these shapes from their own lives. Complies with TEKS.