Is it just me, or do you feel like Grammar is one of those ELA skills that is not taught in depth anymore? I feel like when teaching an ELA block, I sometimes don’t have time to fit in “everything” and for some reason Grammar seems to be the first subject to go. Even though ...
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Free Digital Math Activity : Interactive Place Value Chart
Use this fun, digital interactive activity to review place value with your upper elementary students.
The Google Slides feature interactive labels that help students visualize the following:
the value of a digit in one place represents 10 times as much as the value of ...
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Free Digital Math Activity : Rounding Numbers Roller Coaster & Other Visuals
Use these fun, digital interactive activities to review rounding whole numbers.
The first activity uses a roller coaster to help students visual as they round numbers to the nearest 10 or 100. The second activity uses a car/road visual.
Both activities are editable ...
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Free Digital Math Activity : Interactive Hundreds Chart – Multiplication Patterns
Use this fun, digital interactive activity to review multiplication fact patterns.
This paperless math activity includes a hundreds chart where students use moveable counters to skip count by numbers.
For example, highlight the multiples of 5 and discuss what ...
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Morning Work – Math Spiral Review Math
If you have read my previous blog post, I mentioned that my #1 reason for implementing these Morning Work bundles in my classroom is because of the Spiral Review it provides for my students. As a third-grade teacher, I am constantly being referred to as a “testing grade.” ...
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Benefits of Using Daily Morning Work
As teachers, there are days when we are frantically running around in the mornings trying to get prepared before our students arrive. Sometimes, we need those extra 15 minutes of silence to gather our materials or answer the phone or emails. What if students can walk in, ...
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