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DESCRIPTION Here is a complete unit to introduce fractions to an elementary class. It includes 10 lessons, hands-on activities, interactive worksheets, warm-ups, review, a unit test, a cover page, and answer keys. The lessons increase in difficulty, starting with only 1/2’s and 1/3’s, and working up to 1/12’s. Kids will learn to write fractions, color shapes to match written fractions, and become familiar with equivalent fractions through several different hands-on activities. The activities are

DESCRIPTION Here is a complete unit to teach how to tell time on an analog clock to an elementary class. It includes 12 lessons, hands-on activities, interactive worksheets, warm-ups, review, a unit test, a cover page, and answer keys. The lessons increase in difficulty, starting with whole hours, then 5-minute increments, half hours, quarter hours, and finally 1-minute increments. Students review counting by 5’s to learn how to tell time for 5-minute increments and then apply a variation of thi

DESCRIPTION Here are 17 wonderful, interactive activities to get kids fluent in telling time on an analog clock in a hands-on way! The activities are widely varied to keep kids engaged and include cut-and-paste activities, coloring, matching, drawing in the hands of a clock, “Truth or Lie?”, a dice game, and a hand-made clock manipulative where the hands actually move! All the activities would be great additions to any elementary time unit. My hope is that these activities bring both joy and lea

DESCRIPTION Here are 15 wonderful, interactive activities to introduce kids to fractions in a hands-on way! The activities are widely varied to keep kids engaged and include cut-and-paste activities, coloring, matching, “Two Truths and a Lie”, a dice game, and a measuring cup investigation. All the activities would be great additions to any elementary intro to fractions unit. My hope is that these activities bring both joy and learning to your students! MATERIALS NEEDED: Scissors, glue, markers/

DESCRIPTION Here is a complete unit to teach how to count money (US currency) to an elementary class. It includes 11 lessons, hands-on activities, interactive worksheets, warm-ups, review, a unit test, a cover page, and answer keys. The lessons increase in difficulty, starting with working only with pennies and nickels, then adding in dimes, quarters, and dollars. Students review counting by 5’s and 10’s to learn to count nickels and dimes. There is practice with grouping nickels into pairs and

DESCRIPTION Here are 15 wonderful, interactive activities to get kids fluent in counting money (US currency) in a hands-on way! The resources are widely varied to keep kids engaged and include cut-and-paste activities, coloring, matching, “Two Truths and a Lie”, and games or activities using real coins and bills. Many of the resources include both color and black-and-white versions. All the activities would be great additions to any elementary money unit. My hope is that these activities bring b

DESCRIPTION Here is a complete unit to teach 2D & 3D shapes to an elementary class. It includes 12 lessons, many hands-on activities, review, a unit test, reference sheets, a cover page, and answer keys. Topics taught with the 2D shapes include naming the shapes (circle, oval, semicircle, triangle, quadrilateral, parallelogram, trapezoid, rectangle, square, rhombus/diamond, pentagon, hexagon, heptagon, octagon, nonagon, and decagon), recognizing the number of sides, types of angles in the 2D s

DESCRIPTION Here is a complete unit to introduce and teach addition and subtraction equations and word problems to your elementary class. Students will be introduced to solving for a missing number in equations by coloring groups of items two different colors. For example, in Lesson 1 kids are given a nest with 6 blue or red eggs. Students are told there is 1 blue egg and must figure out the number of red eggs in the nest. After they color 1 egg blue, it is easy to color and count that there are