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Critical Thinking Daily Brain Busters | Enrichment Activities | Morning Work
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Are you looking for the BEST way to promote critical thinking in your upper elementary students? Want to enrich and extend your day, or even add morning work to your daily routine? If so, these Critical Thinking Brain Busters are the resource you need in your classroom! Help your students increase their logical reasoning in…

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🧡🧡 Comment below, and I’ll send you my FRE

🧡🧡 Comment below, and I’ll send you my FREE week before Thanksgiving lesson plans, which includes this amazing paired texts lesson!

I LOVE pairing picture books together and watching students draw connections between characters, settings, themes, and life lessons. These four books teach beautiful academic AND personal growth lessons including perfectionism, risk-taking, and character change/growth.

The academic focus for this set is writing one-sentence main idea summaries and determining the topic vs. the theme.

Drop the word FALL in the comments below, and I’ll send you the free plans as well as the list of books and a still photo to recreate your own chart! 🍁

I look forward to this descriptive writing activit

I look forward to this descriptive writing activity every single year! 🥧 🥔 You can do this with any feast at all (you don’t have to specify Thanksgiving) and incorporate all of your students’ family favorite family foods!

✨ This activity is part of my FREE Week Before Thanksgiving Lesson Plans! 🤗 Comment the word FEAST below, and I’ll send you more info about this lesson and the freebies!

Here’s how this super fun lesson works 👇

I have students imagine their favorite feast AFTER it has been eaten (oh, the mess!). Then, we write great descriptive sentences using adjectives and vivid verbs to describe it.

Swipe to see the next step where we form detailed descriptive sentences! You can even take it a step further and compile it into a paragraph with a topic and closing sentence.

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THIS is the Thanksgiving math project I always hea

THIS is the Thanksgiving math project I always hear rave reviews about from kids AND parents! 🍽️ When I created Thanksgiving Dinner Digits, I wanted a project that went beyond a typical “Plan Thanksgiving Dinner” assignment. So, I decided I would have students timing the meal prep, thawing the turkey, calculating serving sizes and costs, arranging seating at the dinner table, and more! Parents always comment that their kids finish with a newly found respect for the cost and thought behind Thanksgiving dinner and offer up more help prepping than ever before. 😍🧡

💥 Comment the word “Dinner” below, and I’ll send a link your way! It’s perfect for grades 3-6 because it has several differentiated pages and uses numbers with and without decimals.

I’m getting ready to start it with my gifted 3rd graders, and I know they’ll love it! 🧡🧡

This might be a wildly unpopular opinion 🙈🙈

This might be a wildly unpopular opinion 🙈🙈 … It’s still fall, and we have yet to enter the Christmas season, at least when it comes to what I’m using in the classroom. 🍁 🦃 😂

I’m making the next three weeks super easy for you by offering a super discounted, READY FOR YOU bundle of many of my best Fall and Thanksgiving resources! 🍁

Drop a comment below with the word “BUNDLE” and I’ll send you a link!

Swipe to see a few of the resources included as well as a few other seasonal resources I LOVE to use during this time of year!

Psst… I’m also a firm believer in “You do you, boo” so if you’re ready for Christmas, that’s okay too! 🤶🎄

FREE Print and Go 👻 Find Someone Who activity t

FREE Print and Go 👻 Find Someone Who activity to get kids up and moving on Halloween (or the day after!)! Comment below, and I’ll send you the link to download it so you’re all set for tomorrow! 🧡🖤

Major lesson success! 👏 👻 Today was day two

Major lesson success! 👏 👻 Today was day two of using our Halloween math logic puzzles, and my students couldn’t get started fast enough! They were so excited to continue solving trick or treat mysteries — even though these provide a solid challenge and enrichment opportunity, they were SO eager to work on it and experience that challenge. 🤩

🎃 Comment below, and I’ll send you the link to this differentiated math set as well as my reading version!

These logic puzzles combine math with critical thinking, and it’s so beneficial for students!

✨ Quick vocab tip that I’ve been using for yea

✨ Quick vocab tip that I’ve been using for years! ✨ I always have a big stack of these labels printed out, and we write words on them as we add to our word collectors during novel studies.

🗣️ Students get a sticker and everyone (mostly other teachers, students outside of class, and their parents when they get home) asks them about their word all day long. They LOVE it, and it’s a great way for them to practice new vocab words!

🇺🇸 This is the perfect time to teach this to

🇺🇸 This is the perfect time to teach this topic! I created professionally reviewed, unbiased resources to help you tackle teaching the election in a meaningful, relevant way for kids. 💥 Drop a comment below, and I’ll send you a link to freebies and more resources!

🗳️ Includes a detailed booklet with both informational texts and a fiction component to help students understand all the aspects!

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