Here’s a number sense practice page (dealing with a hundreds chart) for Valentine’s Day. There’s never a wrong time to review numbers. Click here for the 2 versions (printable PDFs): chart- easy chart- hard Happy Valentine’s Day!
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Sometimes you just need an easy writing project. Here’s one that helps you celebrate Valentine’s Day, while remembering the most basic components of a good story. Great for a whole class activity or a fast finisher. Click here for the free printable (PDFs):
V-Day Story Starter 1 V-Day Story Starter 1 final draft page
V-Day Story Starter 2 V-Day Story Starter 2 final draft page
Happy Valentine’s Day!
I’ve made many simple addition worksheets (sums up to 10), but I don’t know that I’ve done a worksheet with sums up to 20. So here it is… a spring-inspired addition worksheet just for you. I usually try to make them using only black and white, but I couldn’t help it on this one. Enjoy!
Click here for the free printable PDF: Springtime Math- addition sums to 20
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Most holidays are crazy in the classroom… especially ones that have a lot of candy and junk food. But there’s no reason you can’t use the holiday as an excuse to do some practice. Here’s a simple addition worksheet (for 1st or 2nd grade). Click here for the free printable PDF: V-Day simple addition PDF Happy Valentine’s Day!
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Each year, Groundhog Day is celebrated on February 2. Many people don’t know anything more about the day than what they learned from the 1993 movie with Bill Murray. So here are 2 short activities for your classroom that incorporate parts of speech practice and the history of Groundhog Day. The upper grade version of this activity asks students to color code nouns (common and proper), verbs and adjectives. The lower grade activity (recommended as a whole class activity) only deals with common and proper nouns in the passage. Happy Groundhog Day!
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Groundhog Day History- lower grades
Groundhog Day History- Upper Grades
Upper grades
One of the most important math skills for younger grades is recognizing and working with number patterns. It’s a concept intertwined with skip counting, repeated addition, and a precursor to multiplication. Here’s a series worksheets that require pattern blocks (rhombus, triangle, parallelogram, hexagon, square, etc.) to fill in a chart according to a number pattern. The 2nd grade class I did this with recently loved it! Students would work independently or in pairs as detectives to solve tasks and move up “detective levels.” When the student finished all the tasks, they became a “master detective” and were to then go help other detectives move up levels. This allowed for discovery, and individual pacing as the student needed. Try it and let me know what you think!
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It’s nice to have some literacy-related graphic organizers ready (for a crazy day, an emergency sub folder, etc.). Here’s one that asks students to analyze their favorite character in a story. This could lead to a paragraph, picture or some other enrichment activity.
Click here to download the Character analysis graphic organizer.
This page is just what it sounds like: a graphic organizer set up to compare 2 characters. Add this to your collection of go-to’s when you’re not sure just what to do with that reading group… Easy-peasy!
Click here to download the Character analysis venn diagram graphic organizer
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