Friday, February 22, 2013

Read Across America Day

Calling all Magnificent Magicians to create the amazing Oobleck.





Happy Birthday Dr. Suess, we love celebrating you and reading!



Which characters is your favorite, The Cat, The Boy, Sally, Things, or the Fish?




So many fun activities to choose from!


Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Common Core Insect Book Report

What kid doesn't like to put insects in a jar?  


This non-fiction book report invites the students to do research on their favorite insect and then display their findings in a fun and decorative format.  What kid doesn't like to put insects in a jar?
Click the link below to see a sample of  the pages included in this set of mason jar printables.


http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Common-Core-Insect-Book-Report

Thursday, February 7, 2013

Angry Verb Birds


Angry Verb Birds was a super fun activity to review Present, Past, Future Tense Verbs, "be", and helping Verbs.  The students chose their own verbs to write on each pig which coordinated with the various verb types.  Clip art can be easily found online so that the students have a color sheet for each bird.

Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Cluebuster Investigations Math Word Problems

After the Cluebuster Investigators discover all of the important facts,
they reveal them to their partners.  


Solving the problem.


It's important to keep all  the clues secret,  we wouldn't want to reveal any of the facts too soon. 


The best part, getting the correct answer every time!  

This 22 page common core math unit is designed to assist students with the skills that are needed to successfully complete mathematical word proble...This 22 page common core math unit is designed to assist students with the skills that are needed to successfully complete mathematical word proble...                                  


These are common core math word problem printables.  My students love them, I hope yours do to.


http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Cluebuster-Math-Word-Problem-Investigations

Equal Parts Pizzeria, Fractions Fun

My students made these pizza chefs to go along with our pizza fractions math assignments.  The menu is a work holder and the pizza box holds the different fractional proportional pizzas that go along with all the fun activities that we did.  I did create any assignments for pizza fractions because there are so many great ones out there already.  Check out the websites below for some other amazing teachers ready to use activities and printables.  You can go to  http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Fraction-Pizza-Chef   for the pizza chef printables.  Have fun!










Monday, January 21, 2013

Sunday, January 20, 2013

This was too cute not to share.  You can check out her other ideas on her blog.
http://primarily-speaking.blogspot.com/2012/09/the-desk-fairy-left-you-little-free.html?showComment=1358733040964#c8708373948787196983

http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Desk-Fairy-Notes-FREE