IT'S ABOUT TIME, TEACHERS, for DECEMBER RESOURCES!

 

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IT'S ABOUT TIME, TEACHERS, for PUMPKINS!

 It's pumpkin season! Fill your classroom with pumpkin resources:

PUMPKINOES are domino style math activities perfect for your fall math centers. These pumpkin math games and activities exercise skills ranging from counting to critical thinking; basic operations to HOTS. Pumpkin dominoes are open ended, easily differentiated, and useful for all elementary math classes.

These Latin Squares math puzzles will challenge children's deductive reasoning skills and help them acquire the critical thinking needed to solve Sudoku puzzles.  PUMPKIN SQUARES begin with an easy 3x3 grid appropriate for young learners.  The tasks progress gradually, increasing in difficulty up to a 7x7 grid.  PUMPKIN SQUARES are available in print and digitally on TPT Easel.

HOW MANY WAYS? Fall Edition is an open-ended, math bulletin board that is perfect computation practice for any elementary classroom.  Challenge your students' critical thinking and fluency to determine how many ways they can reach the target number by combining the values on the pumpkins.  The task is similar to Boogle(TM) for numbers.  Post the operation symbols and the target number you choose to easily differentiate the task.

HALLOWEEN SQUARE PUZZLERS are fun, yet challenging brain teaser puzzles for kids. They exercise critical thinking & problem solving, build perseverance & stamina, and stimulate the brain while disguising it all as fun. Similar to Scrambled Squares(TM), these printable, differentiated, logic puzzles must be reconstructed so the images match on every interior side. Use them for centers, stations, rotations, fast finishers, enrichment, GATE, and/or a class reward. Adored by all ages.

While the theme of this product is Halloween, the graphics have been chosen carefully to preclude concerns about frightening and/or evil visuals. The icons used are owls, pumpkins (no Jack-o'-lanterns), candy corn, and bats. All objects are presented in rainbow colors, adding to the light and happy feel of the puzzles.

IT'S ABOUT TIME, TEACHERS, for SPIRALED CURRICULA in MATH

 

As I described in my previous post, I am a strong proponent of Bruner's Spiraled Curricula.  The beauty of this practice is that prior learning is activated, the complexity of the learning is increased, and new learning occurs in direct relationship to the older information.

One of the chief means I use to spiral and revisit learning is learning centers. When students can independently complete hands-on, multisensory activities, they will be well on their way to mastery.

However, creating and instituting learning centers is time consuming.  Since my focus is It's About Time, Teachers!, I've taken the time to create scores of learning centers for you. Thus, you may be interested in these bundles that can save your time:  

Computation needs practice over time. But, an endless stream of worksheets is boring. Give your learners fun practice with COMPUTATION RIDDLES TASK CARDS. Each product requires the solutions to basic computation problems in order to solve the riddles. These units can be used in the traditional task card manner, as math journal prompts, or you can post the cards around the room. This allows children to traverse the space as they complete Riddles Around the Room.

Take a peek at the bundle:

You can provide frequent and enduring practice with these 8 TANGRAM units.  Learners will practice their knowledge of geometric shapes, critical thinking, and problem solving.

Here's a preview:

Graphing and data collection require enduring practice.  Here's a bundle of products to provide that:

Each product is differentiated into 3 skill levels. 

Here's a preview of the FREE version, Sneakers Spin-Tally-Graph:

One of my favorite math centers is How Many Ways? This activity challenges students to find multiple equations that lead to a target number. (Think Boogle(TM) for numbers.)

You, the teacher, can determine which operations are appropriate to your class.  This center is excellent for enrichment and challenging fast finishers.  Better yet, it fills a bulletin board and requires almost NO effort from you once it's up. The Back to School version is FREE!  Check it out:

Another bundle that challenges flexibility, fluency, and problem solving is the Latin Square Bundle.

These brain teasing puzzles are square arrays that must be filled in the style of Sudoku.  The challenges range from 3x3 arrays to 7x7 arrays.  This video provides more insight:

All of the Latin Squares math centers are also available digitally on TPT Easel.

VOCABULARY FRACTIONS are packed with learning. The challenge is to create terminology related to the theme using fractional parts of words.  The activity gradually increases in difficulty.  Try this FREEBIE from the Forest Friends theme:

This product is part of the Forest Friends Edition bundle.

VOCABULARY FRACTIONS are so popular with my classes that I've created dozens of them.  Most are bundled; some are not.

All VOCABULARY FRACTIONS are offered in print and digital form.

As always, bundles from my store save you 30%.

Still to come, spiraled curricula for critical thinking.