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Celebrate Star Wars Day on May the Fourth this year with this activity set that includes both ELA and Math activities! Students will love the Star Wars themed Math Mystery Pixels, Word Search, Create-A-Droid, Lightsaber Designer, Secret Message Decoder, and Figurative Language Activities! This set includes google slides, docs, and sheets! See breakdown below for more details, and May the Force be with you! Google Slides Features: Create-a-Droid w/example slide: Students will brainstorm idea

Wrap up your year with this End of the Year Bundle! Assign students some Mystery Pixel Art activities to review their math skills learned from this year, and follow it up with some fun creative writing and summer themed activities for ELA! This bundle includes 25 total activities (10 Math Mystery Pixels and a variety of 15 end of the year activities)! Math Mystery Pixels: Students will love this set of 10 Mystery Pixels activities that reveal portions of a hidden picture as they solve doub

Celebrate the exciting time of March Madness and combine both basketball and math skills to engage your students with this fun March Math Madness Activity Packet! Students will predict a fictionalized 64 team college basketball bracket, then complete a number of activities to reveal the winners of the four regions: Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, and Division! Use this as a whole group activity, complete in partners, or even a morning work activity! Also, this is an amazing activit

Celebrate Take Your Child to Work Day with this fun-filled activity packet for you child and other children visiting your school this year! Kids will love the activities created for them while spending the day in your classroom or school! These activities will help them stay engaged and interested in the school day! Activities include: Classroom Scavenger Hunt: Kids will located items found in your classroom. Drawing: Your child can draw a picture of your classroom or even make a map! Deco

Celebrate Thanksgiving with this ELA escape room! Your class will love this interactive escape room navigating a virtual farm through a google form, solving puzzles and answering questions to help a Thanksgiving Turkey escape the farm! Students will encounter scarecrows, farm animals, hungry farmers, and a chef on the hunt for a delicious turkey. Throughout the farm, students will use skills and concepts from ELA to escape! Skills include spelling, author's POV, figurative language, synonyms

End the school year with this set of 10 Mystery Pixel Math Activities! Students will love to solve math problems and reveal the mystery picture hidden within the pixels! These digital activities allow students to self assess as they work and they will love the summer themed pictures at the end! This set of 10 google sheets includes a variety of math skills to reinforce with your students including: multi-digit addition, subtraction (with and without regrouping), multi-digit multiplication, di

Differentiate your Math Skills lessons with this set of four mystery math pixel activities! Students will solve addition, subtraction, multiplication, or addition problems and correct answers will reveal portions of the the hidden picture as the students complete the problems! Students will love seeing some of their favorite video game characters as they input correct answers. Each of the four mystery pixel can be completed as addition, subtraction, multiplication, or division, so students ca

Introduce or reinforce adding and subtracting fractions with like and unlike denominators with this mini lesson run through google slides! Adding and subtracting fractions can be a very challenging concept for students, and this step by step google slide show is a great tool for you to use in your classroom for teaching or re-teaching these topics. This mini lesson includes a Google Slides Presentation that walks students through adding and subtracting fractions with like denominators, then c

Help your students improve their skills of division, factors and multiples, fractions, and many more concepts by teaching Divisibility Rules with this mini lesson package! Students will learn divisibility rules for the numbers 2 through 10. Knowing these rules is an amazing help when factoring numbers, reducing fractions, completing long division, and many other mathematical concepts. This mini lesson includes a Google Slides Presentation with over 20 slides and a companion worksheet for st

Your students will love this bundle of 10 fraction based Math Whodunnit Activities! This bundle includes 10 individual Whodunnit Mysteries in which students will solve a themed mystery! Your class will love Exploring the Galaxy, Hunting down Wild West Outlaws, Storming the 7 seas, Chasing after a Jewel Thief and much more while solving fraction based math questions! With each correct answer, students will eliminate potential suspects, stolen items, and hiding places to solve each crime! A

Boost your student's math skills and creativity during this Project Based Learning Activity! Your students will love creating their own themed Water Park! Students can work together or independently to brainstorm a theme and design a fun filled water park! Will your students decide on a refreshing desert oasis? Or will they storm the 7 seas with a pirates theme?! The possibilities are endless! Throughout the activity, your students will map out the course on a 400 sq. yard map and calculate the

Boost your student's math skills and creativity during this Project Based Learning Activity! Your students will love creating their own themed Mini Golf Course! Students can work together or independently to brainstorm a theme and design a 9 hole mini golf course! Will your students decide on courses out of this world in Space?! Or will they storm the 7 seas with a pirates theme?! The possibilities are endless! Throughout the activity, your students will map out the course on a 400 sq. ft. ma

Celebrate the Super Bowl with this ELA and Math Activity Bundle! Students will enjoy these engaging Super Bowl based activities including the following: Fantasy Football Math ChallengeSuper Bowl Roman Numerals Mini LessonMulti-Digit x Single Digit Math Mystery PixelsComparing and Contrasting Super Bowl MascotsSuper Bowl SynonymsSuper Bowl Nonfiction Reading and Comprehension Questions

Celebrate March Mammal Madness this year with these companion worksheets and activities that your students will love and help keep them engaged before, during, and after the tournament events! Animal Research: Students can research their favorite combatant animals during the tournament and complete the research graphic organizers! Use them to write a quick writing piece about their animal! Who Will Win Worksheet: Have your students take a stance on which animal will win one of the many battles

This bundle is an excellent companion for any math series to help students understand and work with fractions. The Intro to Fractions Minilesson is an excellent resource to use for reteaching or preteaching basics of fractions. Also included is a comprehensive lesson of Adding and Subtracting Fractions with like and unlike denominators. Both lessons come with google slides presentations, independent work google slides, and answer keys! Use both of these lessons with google classroom to ass

Celebrate the exciting time of March Madness and combine both basketball and math skills to engage your students with this fun March Math Madness Activity Packet! Students will predict a fictionalized 64 team college basketball bracket, then complete a number of activities to reveal the winners of the four regions: Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, and Division! Use this as a whole group activity, complete in partners, or even a morning work activity! Also, this is an amazing activity f

Expand your students' sentence variety with this writing sentences unit! This bundle comes with over 40 slides of instruction to introduce or review 5 different sentence types. Break this unit down into a week long unit and introduce each sentence type separately, or use this resource as a review all at once. Sentence Types/Mini Lessons Included:-Simple Sentences/Improving Sentences-Compound Sentences-Listing Sentences-Exclamatory Sentences-Question SentencesSix worksheets are included for

Get your students excited about the Super Bowl and Math with this fun whole class activity! Students will be given a $500 budget and choose a starting lineup for their own fantasy football team! After the game, students can use the team's actual stats to calculate their players' points and see who designed the perfect roster! Have students complete this activity as individuals or partners and make it into a class competition! Skills include: Basic operations such as addition and multiplicat

Bring the "Popular" Wicked sensation to your classroom while your students complete these engaging ELA activities! This bundle is filled with multiple activities that covers several ELA concepts and topics. Resources Included:Figurative Language: Identify types of figurative language through examples from Wicked! Fact and Opinion: Determine the difference between a fact and an opinion based on Wicked-based statements. Creative Writing: Complete three creative writing prompts based aro

Celebrate the Super Bowl in your ELA class with this engaging compare and contrast ELA packet based around this year's Super Bowl Mascots! Students will read two passages about Patriot Pat and Blitz from the New England Patriots and the Seattle Seahawks! Follow the reading up with a Venn Diagram, Paragraph writing, and reading comprehension questions!