Angie Bolin

Get your students ready for the new PARCC testing and cover the following common core standards with this activity! Common Core standards covered: RI 3.1 RI 3.3 RI 3.9 W 3.4 W 3.5 W3.8 RI 4.1 RI 4.2 RI 4.3 Allow your students to read the short informational stories on butterflies and honeybees. Comprehension questions included that rely on details from the reading material. Then watch the suggested Youtube videos that provide more information on the topic. First watch them for fun and then w

Work with your students daily or weekly on preparing for the 3rd grade math PARCC test. The materials can be used daily or weekly as a math “warm-up” or a mini lesson. The daily activity can be completed as a whole class or in small groups. However you decide to “walk in the PARCC” your students will have opportunities to look at math assessments as more than filling in one bubble as the correct answer. They will practice “marking all correct answers”, drawing lines to match ALL problems wit

Laminate and cut out the Christmas tree ornaments. Hang them on your artificial classroom tree or make a tree for your bulletin board. Every morning allow one student to scan the QR Christmas code. When they scan the code a fun holiday activity will appear. Extra recess, holiday pencils for the class, sit by a friend or hot chocolate and cookies. Your classroom will be filled with holly jolly fun! There are enough ornaments to use every day during the month of December or you could choose yo

Review Common Core Math terms before the big test with this “Math Scavenger Hunt!” It’s fun, challenging and something different than flashcards! Students are required to find clipart, magazine pictures or photographs of items such as perpendicular lines, an obtuse angle and an item that weighs a gram, just to name few. The students not only revisit math terms, they find a relationship through the picture which creates a “real world connection” for them. There are 30 math terms covered in th

Get your students organized and excited about learning multiplication facts! This multiplication folder provides a way for students to keep their flashcards organized, helps the teacher track their progress in mastering the facts and a packet of games to reinforce the learning....all in one folder! Students love earning stickers for their folders as they pass their multiplication facts, you will love the organization and learning that takes place! Photos included in the file to show you how to

Your students won’t even know they are doing Common Core test prep when participating in this egg hunt! Here’s what you do: Print the Easter eggs with the QR codes. Hide them around your classroom, or even better, around the school building. Give each student an iPad and an answer sheet and they are ready to “hunt Easter eggs!” When they find an egg, simply scan the QR code, answer the question and record the answer on their answer sheet. The last QR code with the rabbit is set up be with the

Get your students organized and excited about learning addition facts! This addition facts fluency folder provides a way for students to keep their flashcards organized, helps the teacher track their progress in mastering the facts and a packet of games to reinforce the learning….all in one folder! Students love earning stickers for their folders as they pass their addition facts, you will love the organization and learning that takes place!

Start every morning with a COMMON CORE MATH workout! There is no teacher preparation and new problems appear every time the file is open. Here’s how it works: Copy the student “follow along” page which is an attachment on the SMARTBOARD file. This can be copied, laminated, or put in a page protector for use over and over again. Once the SMARTBOARD activity is opened, randomly allow individual students to interact with the board. Your students will review daily the skills needed to meet

Fun activity for your students to practice multiplication facts. This activity can be used in many ways: as a quick assessment, as an exit ticket, with a small group or with a student partner. The teacher calls out the answer or multiplication problem (depending on which sheet you choose). Students will find the answer and use a bingo dauber to mark the answer. Sheets can be used more than once with a different color dauber. Your students will love this activity!

A great way to start off the school year Get to know your students while they get to know how to use the Ipad! Directions: Place the “kid” pictures around the classroom or at important places throughout the school building. For example, by the restroom, the school office, the cafeteria, the school nurse, etc. Print and copy the “All About _________” answer sheet for each student. When all the questions are answered, display the papers in the hallway with the student’s photo. A great w

Great game to reinforce counting coins (pennies and nickels). Print the game board and 2 copies of the dice. Laminate and assembly dice. Your students are ready to play the game. Quick, easy and fun! Can be used as independent or partner activity.