Another way to bring Thanksgiving into your classroom! Woot! This worksheet focuses on identifying proper and common nouns. This free worksheet is appropriate for 2nd grade and up. Click here for the free printable PDF: Thanksgiving common vs proper nouns PDF Enjoy!
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Here’s a great way to tie Thanksgiving into math practice. I’ve made 2 options for the front of the card (simple addition and basic multiplication), and 1 option for the back of the card (Thanksgiving theme). The addition version is appropriate for kindergarten – second grade and the multiplication is appropriate for 3rd grade and up. Click here for all 3 pages: Thanksgiving math memory cards- add mult Copy back to back, cut and you’re off! If you’d like to make your own math facts, only run off the back (Thanksgiving theme) and then hand write your own numbers on the other side. Enjoy!
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I love having gobs of “teacher” books to use… you know, those books of reproducibles, fun ideas, picture books you don’t want your students messing up, etc. The problem with having lots of them is it can be easy to forget you have them – unless you have a good organizing system for them. Here are some systems that seem to work (a picture’s worth a thousand words, so here they are):
Use card stock to separate picture books by theme.
Use magazine boxes to sort those skinny paperback books.
I also used to use magazine boxes to hold sets of worksheets I had already run off but wasn’t using right then. I had a box for math copies, literacy copies, science copies, etc. Having my copies sitting vertically (rather than stacked on top of each other) made it a lot quicker for me to look through them and find copies I was looking for. One thing I did differently from the photo above was I made the label on each box a different color so it would be easy for me to tell them apart. I’m not super into cutesy stuff, so I didn’t have those darling little pictures on my tags. Totally personal preference though; whatever works for you! 🙂
Every class has a few students who go to a special pull-out class like speech, the school psychologist, etc. One teacher taped this reminder to her students’ desks to remind them when to go:
Here’s a great way to combine learning the history of Thanksgiving with some grammar practice! Start 9 school days before the Thanksgiving break. Students read a little bit of the story each day and do a few simple grammar exercises using the text for that day. Enjoy these Thanksgiving worksheets! Click here for the PDF workbook.
2021 update: if you can’t access the PDF in Google Drive right away, please request access when you’re promoted. Google will send me an email so I can grant your email address access to the PDF and I’ll respond to give you access as soon as I can. Thanks for your patience. I haven’t figured out why it’s sometimes unavailable now.
Here’s a genius idea that’s so simple I’m embarrassed that I didn’t think of it on my own. The teacher put a strip of masking tape a few feet away from the mailboxes to help her 2nd graders not crowd around the mailboxes at the end of the day. Her classroom rule is that only 2 students can be in front of the mailboxes at any one time (the rest have to form a line behind the line) and they can’t bring their backpacks to the mailboxes (they should be open on your desk before you go empty your mailbox). AWESOME idea!
Many teachers have a system to keep track of which students are out of the classroom. Some use a sign in/out sheet, others have a pass that sits on the student’s desk, etc. Lots of teachers also have something to indicate where the class is when they’re not in the classroom. Many have door hangers, signs, etc. Here’s an idea that works great if you’ve got a metal door (magnetic):
This teacher found huge magnets (dry erase calendars) at the dollar store and bought 4. Here’s what she did with them:
1. Label this one “classroom” (you could just use tape or something to designate this section of the door if you only wanted to buy 3).
2. Cut it up into small pieces so each student has one (name, number on it). These start in one section of the door each day. The kids move them to the “classroom” section as they come in first thing in the morning and then move to a location when the student leaves the classroom (to go to the nurse, for example).
3. Divide it into different sections to represent where a few students might go at a time (nurse, office, bathroom, literature lab, speech, etc.)
4. Cut it up into small signs to put on the front of your door when your entire class goes somewhere (recess, art, computers, library, etc). Assign one student to move all the magnets to their proper place at the end of the day and to be responsible for moving the appropriate magnet to the outside of the door when the whole class goes somewhere.
You can spend time making yours cuter if you want. This teacher made this last-minute and has just kept it…
Know of another good system? Comment below!
Here’s a great idea I saw at a family fun night: Holiday math hopscotch. This one was around Halloween, but you could easily adapt the game for Christmas, Valentine’s day… pretty much anything. The kids had to throw a cloth spider on a hopscotch square. Then they had to tell the teacher a problem that the number in the square was an answer to. Then they could hop to it and pick it up. (Make your hopscotch as long as you want to provide the kids more numbers to work with.) Kids loved it!
Submitted by an awesome teacher in AZ. Thanks!
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