I don’t know about you, but I sometimes forget all my “times tables.” I know, I know… I’m lame. But here’s a trick to teach your kids so they can do multiplication quickly on their hands! Click here to see Instructibles’ explanation of the 6, 7, 8 and 9 times tables tricks on your hands!
Another common vs. proper nouns worksheet… but winter holiday themed! Right the worksheet below, choose “save image as” and save it to your computer so you can resize it before you print it (full page, half page). Happy holidays!
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!
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