TeachingForTheFun

CAN BE USED AS A MAKERSPACE ACTIVITYMakerspace is widely popular in classrooms, but with so many materials, it is easy for students to get carried away and lose purpose. This sample goes step by step through the design process. For more teaching learning and fun, check out the full version in my TPT store: Makerspace Activity: Design A House The FULL RESOURCE includes 19 pages that will walk students through a fun, creative, real-world activity. As students walk through each stage in the desig

A fun, mysterious, INDEPENDENT practice activity that will ENGAGE your students. Read about the strange disappearance of Miss Schafer and follow the story line to end! Students will solve fraction problems to crack codes and get clues. Fraction practice includes finding equivalent fractions, adding + subtracting fractions with like denominators, adding + subtracting mixed fractions, and changing fractions to decimal equivalents.

A fun, independent way for students to explore the five regions of the United States! NO PREP: print and go! Great for a lesson, stations, review, or sub plans.This resource includes:-A 'passport' for students to fill out to excite them for their travels -A look at using cardinal directions to show knowledge of where each country in North America is -Color in the region sheet -A page of learning for EACH region! Each page has a state labeled map of the region, history of the region, the clima

Have students work in partner groups to practice addition and subtraction by playing tic-tac-toe. There are THREE different versions: Version 1: Addition and Subtraction (without borrowing) Version 2: Addition and Subtraction (with borrowing) Version 3: Subtraction across zeros Great for early finishers, morning work, or quick extra work for substitutes to have on deck!

This activity includes 16 pages that will walk students through a fun, creative, real-world activity. As students walk through each stage in the design process, they'll review concepts and apply them independently. TEACHER INSTRUCTIONS- This page is for teacher use only. It will given instructions to how I use this resource in my classroom and suggestions as to how you can use it.EXPLORE- These 7 pages, including answer keys, will review the concepts of measurement, conversions, and creating

*Updated 3/6/2022 with 2 more books to use!!* BOOK MADNESS!! A creative, fun, engaging way to have your students reading for March is Reading Month!! Students can compete in teams or independently to score points by reading and answer questions. Have your whole class fill out a bracket to see which book will win! Instructions, comprehension questions for each book, bulletin board images and ideas, and much more included. Books leveled by DRA levels to include ALL readers in your class (levels r

This craft allows students to show knowledge of hemispheres, continents, oceans, political boundaries, regions of the U.S., natural characteristics of the U.S., important cities or characteristics of their state and a writing prompt. on the "center" of their world (I had my students write about what or who is most important to them)

The perfect craft and activity in one! Practice your students' multiplication and/or division skills with this cute snowman. Turn it into a craft by having students color/draw, gluing it on some colored paper and hanging it in the hall!

Reader's Workbook with Graphic Organizers and notes! To be a good reader you need SO many skills. I created a full page or (how I use it in my classroom) half page booklet of all of the reading skills I teach my students over the year. This allows your students to flip back to the organizer to re-cap the skill to themselves as they try and use it in their reading. BONUS! I keep these in my small groups table. Every time I meet with a small group we add one of these skills or practice the skill

This sample includes the following: EXPLORE- This page and answer key will help students practice labeling a diagram. Requirements Page- This page will outline expectations for the student and tell them what their final product will need to look like.DESIGN- One page to start their design of their Marble Run. Practicing their diagram and labeling skills.For more teaching learning and fun, check out the full version in my TPT store: Makerspace Activity: Design A Marble RunThis activity includes

CAN BE USED AS A MAKERSPACE ACTIVITYMakerspace is widely popular in classrooms, but with so many materials, it is easy for students to get carried away and lose purpose. This activity includes 20 pages that will walk students through a fun, creative, real-world activity. As students walk through each stage in the design process, they'll review concepts and apply them independently. TEACHER INSTRUCTIONS- This page is for teacher use only. It will given instructions to how I use this resource i

March is Reading Month activity! I've always wanted to find a way to make 'mystery readers' in the classroom more intentional- and I've found it! After a 6 hour training on inclusive texts in classroom libraries, I created this resource to have powerful discussions with my students while bringing in who they are. The idea is... each student can have a mystery reader from their family come in. They bring in a book that represents their child, theirself, or their family. For example, a family wit

Have students work in partner groups to practice addition and subtraction by playing tic-tac-toe. This free sample offers one version: Version 1: Addition and Subtraction (without borrowing) Checkout the full version with all three tic-tac-toe games. There are THREE different versions: Version 1: Addition and Subtraction (without borrowing)Version 2: Addition and Subtraction (with borrowing)Version 3: Subtraction across zerosGreat for early finishers, morning work, or quick extra work for subs

End of Year Memory Book includes 11 different pages to pick and choose from. Enjoy a simple, witty project for your students to work on as you end your year! Pages include prompts for: -height -age -memories of specials(art, spanish, etc.) -memories with classmates -goals for future -memories with teacher -page specifically for teacher to fill in with memories of/with that students -And more!

This Jeopardy games gives you a FUN, CREATIVE way to review multiplication and division with your students! Break students up into teams of 1-5 in order to play. Topics include: Multiplication facts, division facts, vocabulary(multi.+division), and word problems(multi.+division). Included: *Terms of use and instructions included *Powerpoint Jeopardy *Virtual Scoreboard to keep track of points *4 different topics with point values 100-400, giving you a total of 16 questions! **Please be advised,

A fun St. Patrick's day activity to practice addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division skills! Help St. Patrick run his café by making sure all the orders and totals are correct. Activity come in two parts; part one uses addition, subtraction, and multiplication, part two also uses division. Optional use of both parts of the activity or just one!

Icebreakers can be BORING at the beginning of the year, and sometimes UNCOMFORTABLE. Get your students talking, sharing, and moving with these four different activites! *Blobs and Lines *Speed Talking *True or False *Would you rather...? Each activity has instructions and 20 slides each providing a question/task!

A quick and easy exit ticket to check for understanding in area and perimeter.

Geography crosswords to help student's practice vocabulary!