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Here are four half page quizzes created to help your students use the STAAR math reference chart more successfully on the "big test"! Allow your students to "get to know" what is on the chart using these quizzes. Also, you can use as review for the parts of the formulas 8th grade students need to use proficiently on STAAR. Enjoy!

Make giving your students easy! Included in this resource are pre made editable coupons for your students. Do your students like extra computer time? Check. Do they get to sit with their friends at lunch? Check. Do your students want to eat lunch with their teacher? Check. Do your students want to get a homework pass? Check. How about free time? Check. Download this resource and copy on colored paper as it, or edit and personalize the coupons as needed!

Ever wonder if your students know what is on the STAAR reference chart? And if they know how to use it? Improve your scores by using these STAAR chart quizzes to reinforce how to use the STAAR reference materials. Six half page quizzes are included to use with whole group, small group, as intervention or review. Enjoy!

Do your students need practice multiplying by the powers of 10? Here are 20 task cards to use to increase mastery of this skill. There are also answer sheets for the students to focus on multiplying by 10 or 100, as well as a focus on multiplying by 0.1 and 0.01. Use these task cards in a center/station, as intervention, practice for fluency, group, partner or independent work. It’s up to you to decide how to use them!

Want to have a new way to grade homework, classwork, or check vocabulary? I use bingo boards for that! I have included 3 x 3, 4 x 4, and a 5 x 5 editable bingo type boards for you to use. Students place their answers or vocabulary words at random in the spaces and you call out the answers. For the vocabulary game, I make a PowerPoint with the definitions so the students can see and read the definitions while playing. And it's easy to change to order of the slides if you want to play a seco

This collection of 12 word problems gives your students practice with multiplying a whole number by a unit fraction. These task cards may be used for group, partner, whole class independent practice. They may also be used as intervention or may be modified to accommodate those needing fewer practice problems or as time indicates. Great to use as a math center as well!

Ever worry how your students will act when a substitute is present? Here's a contract for your students and their parents to sign to indicate they know the policy and procedures for when you can't be in the classroom. These procedures can be edited to fit your specific classroom procedures or just type in your information for easy use.

If you teach in Texas, you know about the STAAR test! I have been using these types of mini quizzes to help my students become more familiar with the STAAR reference materials they can use during the test. For some, the use of the "STAAR chart", that's what we call it, can mean the difference between passing and failing. I included a sampling of how I use the quizzes. They are half sheets and are meant to help students know where things are located on the chart, what everything means, and to

If you need a form to help with textbook checkout, return, assessment of fines, parental signatures,and collection of fines, here's one for you! I created this form so that students and parents could have a chance to document damage that had already happened, know how I assess fines at the end of the year, and how much the math book cost in case it was lost, stolen, or damaged beyond repair. Hope you like it as well!

Do you need a quick and easy student information sheet? Here's a half sheet to help you 'know more about your students. When's the best time or way to contact parents? It's listed here! What's the student's favorite subject? It's here! Why is their favorite teacher the favorite teacher? It's here! What do they do after school? It's here! These half sheets are easy to store (I keep them in a binder) and provide quick access to information when needed.

looking for a pencil themed calendar for your classroom? Here it is! Pencil themed monthly headers, days of the week, and numbers for dates. Just print, cut and laminate for a calendar to use again and again and again!

Want to give your students a chance to practice vocabulary about angles and triangles? Here's a BINGO game ready for you! There is a blank bingo sheet provided (the last slide of the powerpoint) a list of vocabulary words for students to choose from to make their own board, and a powerpoint ready with defintions. All you need to do is print the blank Bingo board, make copies for the students, and then turn on the powerpoint. If you want to play many times, just rearrange the slides. It's that

This sheet can be used as a warm up, practice, enrichment, however you like! Let students practice addition and multiplication facts to find solutions. Using the digits 0 - 9, students will find the two numbers with the sum and product given.

I have created four posters to help your students remember the steps in the UPS check method of problem solving. You may print the posters or insert them into a presentation. Pages were created using Powerpoint.

Do you feel unprepared for a sub? Here's some help! This one page form can be filled out at the beginning of the year to let your sub know lots of pertinent and important information about your class! You can leave teacher names they can ask if they need assistance, you can tell them the location of important items (nurse passes, location of lesson plans, where they may store their personal belongings in the classroom, where to locate seating charts, etc), leave instructions about students wh

Need a quick and easy to go over your classroom procedures? Here is a power point you can show to your students as well as print them off to display in your classroom. The power point is editable so you may change the procedures to fit your classroom needs or campus rules. Hope you find it as helpful as I did!

Do you need to review materials with your upper elementary students? Here are five very quick reviews for one and two digit multiplication, multiplication and division using patterns, word problems, addition and subtraction using "borrowing" or "regrouping" and fraction skills such reading models, addition and subtraction using "like" or "common" denominators, writing equivalent fractions and finding common denominators. The reviews are short and broken down by days of the week: Multiplication

Need an owl themed calendar for your classroom? Here is one to try! Just print, cut and laminate and your all set to go!

Here is a worksheet I created to help students develop the relationship between unit fractions and whole numbers. I left it in word so you will be able to edit the worksheet as needed. My students draw a diagram, use repeated addition, and some times, are unable to tell me how they find the answer, which is why I added the question "how did you figure out the number?. Being able to communicate mathematical ideas is a big deal, so I want them to have as much experience as possible. I will use