Teacher's Cabinet: 2018

Back to School

I hope everyone enjoyed their summer. I know I did! I am back in the swing of the school year. I moved to 5th grade ELA this year. I basically teacher reading all day long.

I have been asked to help mentor new teachers in my district as well. So, to say I am busy, is probably an understatement.

I am supposed to be working on my next professional development, but I am taking a short break from it.

What are some tips you would have liked to know when you first started teaching? While you think about that, I am going to go back to working on my professional development.

March Madness

Hello blogging world!

I hope you enjoyed the 14 Days of Freebies last month! Keep an eye out this month for more goodies to come.

Have you checked out the March Quick Writes? Quick writes help students increase their ability to write. I use these as a warm-up and have students complete 2 or 3 a week.

This is a growing pack. There are currently 9 writing prompts.

I am also working on some Print and Go worksheets that are great for time fillers, extra practice, and homework!

Happy March!

14 Days of Freebies - Day 14

Grab your Contraction Matching {HERE}.

14 Days of Freebies - Day 13

Grab this writing freebie {HERE}. I love making writing meaningful to students and sometimes that means making it more like a quick write. I understand the importance of writing to a text and all of that, but we also need to let students know that while writing helps us learn, it can still be done for pleasure. This freebie lets students describe their perfect cookie. I love reading these because students get really creative with what they would make. I have included lines for younger kids and lines for older kids.

14 Days of Freebies - Day 12

This freebie is part of my Get Organized Series. This is just being released today. You can grab it {HERE}. Need more ways to stay organized? Check out my store!

14 Days of Freebies - Day 11

Grab your ABC Order freebie {HERE}.

14 Days of Freebies - Day 10

Grab your phonics cut and paste activity {HERE}.

14 Days of Freebies - Day 9

Grab you number bond freebie {HERE}.

14 Days of Freebies - Day 8

I love doing crafts in my classroom to motivate my students. I typically do crafts that relate to our writing. Writing can be a struggle for a lot of students. When there is a craft involved, students love it. See how I have used craft related writing {HERE} and {HERE}.

This craft comes with the patterns needed for one butterfly. If you have older students, you can provide these patterns on cardstock and have them trace it onto construction paper (their choice of color), and glue the pieces together (layering the wings).

Grab this butterfly craft {HERE}.

14 Days of Freebies - Day 7

Grab your ten frames freebie {HERE}.

Multiplication Mystery Pictures

Ok blogger friends! I have to share this great resource that I found on TPT. It is called February Multiplication Mystery Pictures by Teaching in The 208. We needed some extra multiplication fact practice, and flashcards are boring, but who doesn't love coloring!? So that is exactly what we did.

Basically, you give students these grids with multiplication facts on them and the students have to solve the facts and color according to the code. There are three different levels for each mystery picture. So you can differentiate the multiplication facts! Since my third graders are expected to know their facts all the way through the 12s, we did the higher level one. My kiddos that needed help, used manipulatives to solve the higher math facts.

I made my students write the products in the boxes before they could color, so I knew they were actually solving and not guessing.

Look at all the fact practice! In fact, there are 225 facts on a page. So, it did take my students some time to finish it, but they had fun doing it. The pack includes 5 different pictures with three levels each, so you are really getting 15 pages of multiplication facts! Totally worth it in my opinion. I have already printed another one that I am going to put in for a center one week. We did this one today because I wanted them to have it done in time for Valentine's Day so we could hang them up.

Can you figure out what it says? You can grab this fun {HERE}. If you like the February pack, she has other months available as well!

14 Days of Freebies - Day 6

Grab your sight word freebie {HERE}.

Time to Teach

We have started our unit on time! I love that we teach time after we teach fractions. Now that my students understand number lines, they transitioned into time fairly easily.