Give the Gift of TpT and Make it Festive!

…of having to create them yourself saves precious time, time that can be spent with friends and family over the holidays. TpT gift cards can be purchased for any amount…

Getting Started with Classroom Book Clubs

…to discuss their thoughts and feelings about it. There’s no doubt that kids love being able to choose books that interest them, and they love having time to talk about…

Teaching Kids How to Write Super Sentences

…had one subject and one predicate.) Step 2: Mini-Lesson on Revising & Expanding Sentences After your students can distinguish between fragments, run-ons, and complete sentences, it’s time for them to…

Weekend App Attack: 3 Great Classroom Apps!

…which involves one digit numbers. For third through fifth grade teachers, the Medium and Hard levels involve two digit numbers, and the Expert level involves three digit numbers. You can…

5 Reasons to Use Nearpod in the Classroom

…response can be seen on all student devices. Students can also take a quiz or poll directly on the device. Best of all, the information is saved to the Nearpod…

Math Problem Solving: Knowing Where to Begin

…your students, you can find this freebie here in my TpT store! Snapshots of Mathematical Thinking The assessments aren’t multiple choice, but they’re super easy to score. The best part…

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Fostering a Growth Mindset with Brain Bucks

…option Trying something new, especially when the student made mistakes but kept trying despite initial failures To make it easy to use Brain Bucks throughout the day, I kept a…

Heartfelt Causes & Effects

…to brighten someone’s day. I decided to create a reading lesson to supplement the story because I thought it would be the perfect text for exploring causes and effects. It…