The Simple Elementary Classroom

✨ Simple 30-Minute Breakout Box for State Test Review! ✨ This easy-to-use breakout box is the perfect quick review activity for state test prep! Designed to take about 30 minutes, it is great for introducing students to breakout boxes, especially if they have never done one before. This breakout covers: Author’s PurposeCentral IdeaSettingProblem of the StoryContext CluesTheme✅ Print-and-go ready — just print and set up! Locks used in this breakout: Two 5-wheel word locksOne 3-number lockOne 4

Based of the original What Do You Meme game, this game is some holiday fun for the classroom! Students will create memes using pictures from their favorite holiday movies. This game comes with blank cards to add your own phrases too.

Harry Potter Inspired Wizard Shopping Spree! If your classroom is HP or wizard themed, this would be a great beginning of year activity for your students. Just how Harry went shopping for his supplies, your students can go shopping for their own supplies. Students will be given an amount of money to spend. The amount of money will be less than the cost of all the expensive items, so students learn how to budget their money. Students will be shopping for the following items: Books, Robes, a hat,

There are 30 cards in this resource for you to use. In my classroom, I printed the cards on cardstock and laminated them. I had students use dry erase markers to mark the spaces I called out. For the riddles I put numbers 1-25 in a bin. I randomly pulled out the number and found the correlating riddle. You could also print the riddles and put them into a bin to pull at random as well. I would not use this resource below third grade as some of the riddles may be too hard to figure out for young