Tag: 3 – 5

Easter egg activities aren't just for little ones! You can use colorful plastic eggs to jazz up any review activity using this Easter Egg Showdown review game!

Easter egg activities aren’t just for little ones! You can use colorful plastic eggs to jazz up any review activity using this Easter Egg Showdown

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Free Valentine Candy Hearts math lesson! Students conduct a simple investigation to find out if all boxes of Valentine conversation hearts are the same.

Free Valentine Candy Hearts math lesson! Students conduct a simple investigation to find out if all boxes of Valentine conversation hearts are the same.

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Spark great classroom discussions about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. by showing a free BrainPOP video and implementing the activities described in this post!

Show a free BrainPOP video about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and use the resources in this post to foster meaningful discussion about the civil

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Five Looks on a Book is a simple and fun activity that offers a fun twist on the traditional book report. Students name five adjectives that describe their book and then write one supporting detail for each adjective. Freebie in the post!

Looking for a fun twist on book reports? Check out the “Five Looks on a Book” strategy described in this post, and download this free

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Hosting a classroom Scrabble tournament is an exciting way to foster a love of word games! This post includes directions and free printables to make it easy.

Hosting a classroom Scrabble tournament is an exciting way to foster a love of word games! This post includes directions and free printables to make

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Fraction Spinners make it easy to create fun fraction games for math centers or cooperative learning lessons. Download two free fraction spinners and discover four simple fraction games to practice simplifying fractions, adding or subtracting fractions, comparing fractions, and ordering fractions.

Fraction Spinners make it easy to create fun fraction games for math centers or cooperative learning lessons. Years ago I created the two free fraction

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Students often fear math and are especially intimidated by word problems. These feelings prevent them from being able to relax, think clearly, and apply what

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Tag: 3 – 5

Five Looks on a Book is a simple and fun activity that offers a fun twist on the traditional book report. Students name five adjectives that describe their book and then write one supporting detail for each adjective. Freebie in the post!

Fun Twist on Book Reports!

Looking for a fun twist on book reports? Check out the “Five Looks on a Book” strategy described in this post, and download this free graphic organizer to use with the lesson!

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Fraction Spinners make it easy to create fun fraction games for math centers or cooperative learning lessons. Download two free fraction spinners and discover four simple fraction games to practice simplifying fractions, adding or subtracting fractions, comparing fractions, and ordering fractions.

Fraction Spinners Make Fractions Fun!

Fraction Spinners make it easy to create fun fraction games for math centers or cooperative learning lessons. Years ago I created the two free fraction spinners below and uploaded them to my Fractions File Cabinet page, but I didn’t include directions or suggestions for activities. Today I’d like to share

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8 Strategies to Motivate Kids to Love Problem Solving

Students often fear math and are especially intimidated by word problems. These feelings prevent them from being able to relax, think clearly, and apply what they’ve learned to problems they’re trying to solve. The resulting “brain freeze” serves to reinforce the idea that mathematics is scary and difficult. Math standards

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