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If you’re looking for new ways to make fractions less intimidating (and more fun!), here are my favorite real-world fraction lessons. Many of them are FREE!

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The Best Real-World Fraction Lessons

Learn to play this Jeopardy-style whole class review game. It works with any task cards and is easy to set up too!

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Task Card Whole Class Review Game

Real world connections when teaching fractions are so important. Download a free math lesson and browse dozens of other fraction tips.

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Teaching Fractions: How to Make Math Meaningful

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Using Topple Blocks with Task Cards

Upper elementary fraction unit activities for hands-on learning. Includes practice activities, exit tickets, math projects, and more!

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Additions to our Fraction Unit!

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Fractions and Decimals Project

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Converting Fractions to Decimals

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The ULTIMATE List of Fraction Activities

This post includes anchor charts and practice activities for multiplying and dividing fractions word problems in upper elementary.

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Making Sense of Multiplying and Dividing Fractions Word Problems

This mini-fraction operation review project is the perfect way to review adding, subtracting, and multiplying fractions.

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Fraction Operation Review Project!

Teaching tips and activities for converting fractions, decimals and percents in upper elementary. Includes anchor charts and free task cards.

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Converting Fractions, Decimals, and Percents

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Dividing Fractions Anchor Chart, Game Freebie, and Math Journal

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Do any of these books catch your eye?? 👀 Old fa Do any of these books catch your eye?? 👀 Old favorites? 🤗 New to you books? 💥 I am a firm believer that books are the best decor in ANY classroom, and I am OBSESSED with building book collections to help teach units in my classroom! Drop a comment below, and I’ll send you a link to read all about how I create learning units out of picture books! 👏 

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📚 A new school year can bring some big emotions 📚 A new school year can bring some big emotions — and teachable moments, too! 💕❤️🩷 I have gathered some of my favorite books to incorporate into morning meeting and use as a model for these important skills. These read-alouds are PERFECT for those first weeks of school when you’re building your classroom community and helping students name, navigate, and normalize their feelings.

✨ I have also created book companions to go with several of these beautiful books! 📪 Drop a comment below, and I’ll send you info about the companions and a link to all the books in one spot. 

Which one would YOU start with? 📚👇

🩷My Secret Bully: Not all bullying is loud and obvious! This story helps students spot the quiet, hidden kind and build a kinder classroom.

🪴 The Rough Patch: Change can feel hard, but this gentle read shows how new beginnings can grow from challenging moments.

🍁 Sweep: A perfect reminder for the start of the year: don’t let little frustrations pile up into something big!

😳 The Whatifs: Turn those first day “what ifs” into excitement instead of worry! 

🌱 Sprout Branches Out: A sweet way to encourage students to try something new, even if it feels a little scary.

😌 Clovis Keeps His Cool: A relatable lesson in staying calm when things don’t go your way.

🐉 Dragons on the Inside: Big feelings can feel like dragons—this book helps kids name them and take control.

🧠 Invisible Things: Help students notice and talk about the feelings we can’t see but can definitely feel.

🌪️ I Am a Tornado: A lively reminder that our moods and actions can sweep others up, and it’s better to use our energy for good!
Year five in this space, and after a few days of P Year five in this space, and after a few days of PD mixed in with sporadic time for classroom set up, it’s starting to feel like my home away from home again. 💕 

Is it perfect? Nope. Is it a space that brings me and my students joy? Yep. Does a lot of learning and laughter happen in this space? So much. 🥹

That’s it. That’s what matters.
I will NEVER get over the fact that thousand of st I will NEVER get over the fact that thousand of students use these resources every day. 😭

🚨 🔔 Drop a comment below, and I’ll send you all the info, including FREE weeks of each! 

I started creating these resources when I couldn’t find anything that fit my needs. Most spiral reviews focused on WAY too many skills at a time and my students needed time to review very specific skills. While my goal is always to immerse my students in authentic texts and tasks, I found that starting every single day with a quick skill review to keep content-specific terms fresh in their minds and well practiced was a GAME CHANGER! ✍️ 📖 

 Whether you use the journal format, digital version, or full-page version, it’s accessible and available for grades 2-3 or 4-5 (which offers great options for differentiation!). 🤩

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Grab yours FREE and implement it during one of you Grab yours FREE and implement it during one of your first few days of school! 💕📕 Comment below, and I will send it your way.

By getting kids up and moving from the very first moment, you have an opportunity to authentically teach routines and expectations, AND they have a chance to shake some of their  first day jitters out. As a bonus, they’ll start to learn so much about each other and feel the warmth and community of your classroom. ❤️
🚨 💯 Drop a comment below to incorporate thes 🚨 💯 Drop a comment below to incorporate these mental math tasks into your daily instruction!! 👏 It truly takes just a minute or two out of your day… it’s that easy and oh, so important to improving mental math. 

🎉 Here’s how I start every math class: I read these cards orally, step by step, and when I’m done, I count down from three silently using my fingers. When my students see a closed fist, they share their answer in unison — or on a dry erase board. My students LOVE it, and it’s so easy to implement. I see HUGE impacts within the first couple of weeks! Win/win/win! 😍😍

👀 Why mental math?

🧠Increases Self-Confidence
🧠Increase Number Sense and Manipulation of Numbers
🧠Real-World Relevance
🧠Develops Math Fact Automaticity 
🧠Helps build conceptual understanding
🧠Keeps the brain sharp
🧠Taps into different learning modalities 

Need a link? Drop a comment, and I’ll send it your way!

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OBSESSED with these books for teaching important e OBSESSED with these books for teaching important expectations and character building at the beginning of the year!! Swipe to see the books and their themes. Comment below if you’d like the list AND links to resource guides to accompany several of them! 🥰😍
I learned about weekly letter writing while studen I learned about weekly letter writing while student teaching 17 years ago, and I’ve done it ever since. It brings me SO much joy to read the responses! ❤️ 

✨ Drop a comment below, and I’ll send you a FREE getting started guide and a link to prewritten letter templates for the whole year! ✍️ 

Here are the details:

🌟 Each full week of school, I write a letter to my students (each student gets the same letter)… In it, I talk about interesting things in my life, what we are going to learn about and do that week, a character trait we’re focusing on, any interesting dates or celebrations that week, and then I always ask them a question or give them a relevant prompt (or two) to respond. 

They drop it in my mailbox any time throughout the week, and  I write short responses back to them (directly on their letters) each week. 

‼️ It’s the only homework I give, and it’s my FAVORITE. I love reading their responses and learning so much about them. ❤️❤️

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