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How to Increase Critical Thinking and Creativity in your “Spare Time”
We all know that our students need time to cultivate their minds for critical and creative thinking, but knowing how to increase critical thinking can be tricky. I struggle to find time to fit these types of activities in to…
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Informational Text Structures
I have spent the past week working on Informational Text Structures with my 5th graders. I was shocked to discover that this was almost an entirely new concept for them, so we did several fun little activities to solidify the…
Fraction Operation Review Project!
I have a list a mile long of projects and activities to blog about, but I’m having such a hard time finding…time! The first one I want to share is the mini-fraction operation review project we did for adding, subtracting,…
Informational Text Newspaper or Magazine “Book” Report
Before break, my students turned in their latest independent book report. This was a different kind of book report, though. They have done plenty of non-fiction book reports, so I wanted to shake things up a bit. I created a…
Converting Fractions, Decimals, and Percents
Before we left for wonderful winter break (and, oh, how wonderful it was), we spent a week focusing on percentages along with converting fractions, decimals, and percents. Percents seems to be one of those things that students have long heard…
Holiday Gifts for Students
I finally finished my little holiday gifts for my students! Occasionally, people will ask why I feel like I should give them something, but the fact of the matter is that these are “my kids!” I am actually going to…
{EASY} Holiday Food for Bigger Kids
I have big ambitions when it comes to Christmas food and baking. I have ideas out the wazoo (well, okay, I have pinned ideas like crazy), and I used to bake dozens upon dozens of treats for my husband’s corporate…
Christmas Time Is Here!
It always seems like the months before Christmas are such a whirlwind. Add in the fact that my twins turned 2 on Thanksgiving day, and I have no idea where the last 2 months have gone! I have tons of…
Scientific Notation Anchor Chart
Just popping in to share my scientific notation anchor chart! We only spent about a day and a half on this concept, and I feel like pre-teaching about powers of ten and exponents SO MUCH (you can see a post…
This and That!
This post is going to be all over the place! There is a little bit of 6th grade math, a little bit of advanced 3rd grade math, and a limited time freebie for you! I’ll start with the math. On…
Dividing Decimals Anchor Charts
Just a quick post to share my dividing decimals anchor charts. I searched and searched for one already out there (I didn’t want to recreate the wheel last night!), but I couldn’t find ANYTHING! Here is what I came up…
Adding and Subtracting Decimals Activities & Freebies!
I’ve mentioned before that I have the same group of students this year that I had last year, so I am having to recreate the wheel quite a bit this year, as the standards overlap a bit. One of those…
