Valentine's Day is right around the corner! I love Valentine's Day and it's one of my favorite holidays to celebrate at school! Last year I rounded up a few of my favorite Valentine's Day resources for the classroom! Enjoy!
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Left Over Candy Hearts?!
Do you have a ton of left over conversation hearts from Valentine's Day!?
Not sure what to do with all of them!?
Here are a few ideas on ways you can use them in your classroom during math time!
All Things Valentine's Day {At School}
Can you believe it's almost Valentine's Day!? I've rounded up a few of my favorite Valentine's Day resources for the classroom! Enjoy!
All Things Chinese New Year
Chinese New Year is right around the corner (February 8th!). Here are a few ideas to celebrate and learn with your class!
Ringing in the New Year with Cotton Ball Poppers
Hi everyone and Happy New Year! My wonderful friends and I over at See Mama Teach are linking up for a fun New Year's blog hop!
We're sharing ideas and freebies to help you ease back into January (and work)!
Welcome to stop #4!
About two months ago, I started a TpT project- a New Year's Party Pack (kind of like my Pumpkin Party Pack and Valentine Party Pack) with all sorts of fun activities you can do with your students or your own kids to celebrate the New Year and also do some learning!
Holiday Math Activity {FREEBIE}
Happy One-Week-Before-Christmas-Break!
I know this upcoming week is going to be filled with anticipation, excitement, and crazy students....
Here's a fun game to help keep your students engaged and on track.
It's just like a memory game- students turn the cards over with a partner (or by themselves), and take turns flipping two cards over. The goal is to find two cards with the sum of 20. Click {HERE} to grab it!
Math Racers Progress Track {FREEBIE}
Hi there! Hope you're having a great weekend (and Thanksgiving break if you're off this week too!)!
Years ago I started using Math Racers in my classroom, and over the years they evolved and changed and grew to fit the needs of my students. This was one of the first things I ever shared on my TpT journey and it's been so incredibly neat to see so many teachers and students benefitting from something I created for my classroom.
Years ago I started using Math Racers in my classroom, and over the years they evolved and changed and grew to fit the needs of my students. This was one of the first things I ever shared on my TpT journey and it's been so incredibly neat to see so many teachers and students benefitting from something I created for my classroom.
You can read my posts about the Math Racers by clicking HERE.
And here's what they look like.
Comparing Numbers to 1,000 {FREEBIE}
Seriously!
I posted this pic on Instagram in APRIL!!!!!
And now it's FINALLY done!!!!!!!!!
Five hands on math center activities to work on comparing numbers to 1,000! With student directions, recording sheets, and lots of activity cards!
I used Math Tubs in my classroom as my form of Morning Work- students came into the classroom, got themselves situated, and then began their Math Tub with their table team. If you were to walk into my classroom during this time, you would see kids spread around the classroom on the floor or at tables, talking and working away on these. I always loved this time in our classroom because everyone was engaged, I was able to get situated and deal with anything I needed to first thing in the am {attendance, collecting paperwork, parens at the door, etc}, students enjoyed doing the hands on work, they loved being able to chit chat while they worked first thing in the morning, I was able to get some legit review math skills in, AND they never got bored because I switched the tubs daily. In other words, I would prep five tubs (plus one day was computer time), and then just rotate the tubs around the tables each morning. These lasted me about two weeks since the tubs would revisit each table the follow week. Does this make sense....?
Tubs are from Dollar Tree! Beautiful labels are from Amy Groesbeck!
Math Tub time!!!
Anyways.... here are the five Comparing Numbers to 1,000 tubs!
Tub 1: Students place sets of four numbers in order from least to greatest. This tub focuses on comparing the hundreds place.
Tub 2: Students group numbers cards according to whether they are greater than, less than, or equal to 500. The number cards include numbers represented with words, in standard form, and base ten blocks.
Tub 3: Students create a number sentence using the words 'greater than," "less than," and "equal to." This tub gives students experience comparing numbers based on the hundreds, tens, AND ones place.
Tub 4: Students place 25 number cards in order from least to greater, similar to a hundreds chart. Students compare hundreds, tens, and ones.
Tub 5: Students create a number sentence using the symbols <, >, and =. This tub gives students experience comparing numbers based on the hundreds, tens, AND ones place.
Click HERE to download Tub #2 for FREE! (It's the one that was in the Instagram pic!)
And click HERE to check out the whole pack on TpT!
I will email this unit to the first 15 people who pin any picture from this post! Just leave a link to your pin in the comments on this blog post with your email address and I'll send it your way!!!
Annnnnnnnd!!! Make sure to head over to a new collaborative blog I'll be a part of! See Mama Teach! A blog about balancing being a mom and teaching! There's an awesome giveaway going on {to Target AND TpT!!!!} and you can meet all of the mama contributors and see a ton of cute kids! :)
Have a great week!
Video Conferencing Etiquette {FREEBIE}
Hi there! I hope you're having a great week! We have Open House tonight and then THREE more days until our Spring Break!
I CANNOT WAIT!!!!!!!!! I've got big plans to spend time with this not-so-little-anymore guy.
The CUE conference this year was amazing!!!! I presented with my dear friend and teaching partner, got to spend some awesome time collaborating with and catching up with old friends, and met some new friends too! Our presentation went well too (I think!)!
I always leave CUE feeling inspired and energized and this year was no different.
One of my big AH-HA's (aside from overcoming my Twitter fear) was the idea that we HAVE to get kids collaborating and communicating with others outside of our classroom walls. I want my kids to be able to share their work and thinking and learning with others- not just with me and each other. The world is a big place and what better way to get them to understand and collaborate than to video conference!?
I've video conferenced before with my kids, and they always flip out the first time. When I say flip out, I mean the other classes probably think we have no rules in our classroom, and my kids seem to have forgotten all forms of common courtesy (just because they are so incredibly excited!).
I'm hoping these posters will help!
{Click the picture to download}
Do you Skype? Google Hangout? FaceTime with other classes? I'd love to connect my class with yours! Leave a comment or email me!!!!!!!!!! Maybe we can "meet up" soon!!! Mystery Skype? Mystery Number? Poetry reading? Just to say hi!? We're up for anything!
SoCal Blog Surf
I'm so excited to be joining some of my wonderful SoCal blog buddies for the SoCal Blog Surf!
I'm so sad summer will be coming to an end soon- so this is a fun way to enjoy every last minute!!! Make sure to surf through all the SoCal blogs to collect some awesome freebies!!!
I'm so sad summer will be coming to an end soon- so this is a fun way to enjoy every last minute!!! Make sure to surf through all the SoCal blogs to collect some awesome freebies!!!
Living in Southern California is absolutely THE BEST, and I can't imagine living anywhere else!
This is what we spend our summers, weekends, and evenings doing.....
There's my little man enjoying a walk at La Jolla Cove!!!
And here we are in Coronado!!!
With back to school right around the corner, I've got {never-ending} lists, lists, and more lists going on in my head!!! To organize it all, I have this fun to-do list freebie for you!
You can click any of the pictures to download your to-do list!!!
And now I need to start actually checking things OFF my list...
And make sure to enter our giveaway! You could win one of FOUR $25 TPT gift cards!!! Just in time for the Back to School Sale!!! We'll announce the winners on the 4th so they can use it to fill up their TPT carts!!!
Now surf on over to see my dear friend Molly at Lessons with Laughter for another freebie!
And thanks for "surfing" by! ;-)
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google forms
green screen
iMovie
Mystery Skype
Padlet
QR codes
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technology project
weather
Learning All About Weather with QR Codes {FREEBIE}
About a month ago, my wonderful teaching buddy and I had an opportunity to present at the CUE conference in Palm Springs!
It was SO much fun!!! We presented "iPad Projects for the 21st Century Classroom" and {we think!} it was a hit!
I wanted to share one of the projects we presented on, and share this weather freebie with you!
It was SO much fun!!! We presented "iPad Projects for the 21st Century Classroom" and {we think!} it was a hit!
I wanted to share one of the projects we presented on, and share this weather freebie with you!
In our new Wonders curriculum, there is a unit on weather, and how weather affects our everyday life. We did lots of close reading, shared reading, and guided reading about weather. We're so lucky to live in beautiful Southern California, so many of the types of weather we read about were very unfamiliar to the students.
For this project, students were randomly placed into groups of four.
We wanted students to create a virtual "wall" using Padlet, which is a website that allows you to post "stickies" to the wall. {HAVE YOU USED PADLET BEFORE!!!!?} One group member created the wall, then shared it with the other group members using the easy share feature! This meant that all students in the group were on the same wall, and could collaborate with each other and see one another's ideas!
(We use the Qrafter app to scan QR codes!)
Once in groups of four, students chose from a bag to determine which weather type they would be the "expert" on.
Once students knew which type of weather they were responsible for, they began scanning the QR codes that matched their weather type.
Each QR code would take them to a slide I created using PowerPoint. The slides were then exported as a PDF and uploaded to my Dropbox account. I then "shared" the link through Dropbox to create the QR codes.
The actual slides look like this, and there were six slides for each weather type (so this is what the kids saw when they scanned the QR codes):
Some kids even got really tech savvy, took a screen shot of the slide, and added it to the Padlet wall as a photo! By the end, some of them had even added videos of themselves SPEAKING about what they had learned! They also found photos and drew pictures!
You can download all of the QR code resources for this project here!
To evaluate how the project went, students took a survey on Google to determine how working with their group went that day.
You can check out a video of this lesson here!
As a follow up activity, students worked with their groups to create newscasts about their weather type! We used a green screen and iMovie!
Check out one of the group's videos here!
(I'm working on a how-to post on iMovie and green screening! Look for it soon!)
Here is the outline kids used to organize their news reports!
(Click to download!)
As a follow up activity, students worked with their groups to create newscasts about their weather type! We used a green screen and iMovie!
Check out one of the group's videos here!
(I'm working on a how-to post on iMovie and green screening! Look for it soon!)
Here is the outline kids used to organize their news reports!
Finally, we had a wonderful opportunity to Mystery Skype with Kate from Purely Paperless's class in Montana! You can check Kate out here (she's wonderful!!!!!):
When you Mystery Skype, you connect with another class around the country (or world!) through Skype or Google Hangouts (we used Google Hangouts- it was really easy!) and students ask questions to figure out where the other class is located.
This was an amazing opportunity because while we were enjoying 80 degree weather in Southern California, our buddy class' playground was covered in inches of snow! We got see what it looks like to have a playground covered in snow, and we got to ask questions about what it's like going to school in the snow! They also got to ask us all about the beach! This was such a fun way to collaborate and communicate with students from another part of the country!
***If you're looking for a class to Mystery Skype with, a great resource is Twitter and Instagram with the hashtag #mysteryskype! Blogging is also a great way to connect with other teachers who might be interested!
If you'd like more technology project ideas, or to see our resources from the CUE presentation, hop on over to
and check it out!
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