Wednesday, September 30, 2015

Word Search Machine

 
Word Search Machine is software which allows you to create word search puzzles in minutes. Puzzles can either be printed or saved as a jpeg image to be inserted into digital content. With the touch of a button the hidden words can be displayed in red to produce an answer sheet. Create multiple versions of a puzzle using the same word list. Ideal for classroom competitions! There are no copyright limitations so puzzle image files can be inserted into commercially sold products. (PC & Mac)
 
I created a few word searches already! Very easy to use. I also bought the crossword puzzle machine. Love both of them. I am very excited about both products and am so happy with how easy they are to use. Thank you for creating something so may of us need.

I just created my first Word Search with ease. Thank you for this!

Works great! Got one done already! Very exciting! Thanks so much. Way cool.

 

Electro City
(Online Activity)

 
Electro City is an online computer game that lets players manage their own virtual towns and cities. It’s great fun to play and also teaches players all about energy, sustainability and environmental management in New Zealand.
 
 
 

Crossword Puzzle Machine

 
Crossword Puzzle Machine is a computer program which allows you to create crossword puzzles in minutes. They can either be printed or saved as a jpeg image to be inserted into digital content. With the touch of a button words are displayed in red to produce an answer sheet. Create multiple versions of a puzzle using the same word list. Ideal for classroom competitions! There are no copyright limitations so puzzle image files can be inserted into commercially sold products. (PC & Mac)
 
It has been my goal to add more activities and quizzes to go along with my curriculum (and to my store), and your machine was easy to use! Thank you for taking the time to create a great product!

Just made my first crossword puzzles using the "machine." I just love this this product. It is so easy to use and my new crosswords are beautiful. Thank you!

Thanks for taking on the challenge of creating a very easy to use crossword puzzle program. It's so nice not to deal with Excel or worry about breaking copyright using a third party website!

 

FREE MATH LESSON - “Halloween Candy Corn LRC Game FREEBIE!”

by Jennifer Drake
Pre-Kindergarten - 2nd Grade


Looking for a fun game to play with your students this Halloween/Fall?
Need to review concepts such as 'left' and 'right'?
Like getting something for free?
If so, you have hit the 'jackpot' with this one!

This Pack Includes:
*dice template (print on cardstock, cut, assemble)
(if you have your own L,R,C dice you can use them instead!)

*candy corn cards (print on cardstock, laminate for durability)
(you can use real candy, but make sure it is wrapped since it will be ‘handled’!)

*instructions for play

Like This Game? 
Be sure to check out my Halloween BINGO in my TpT Store!

Need More Halloween Fun? Visit my store and click on the 'Halloween' tab!

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Feedback on this FREE product is greatly appreciated!

Hope you and your students have a 'spook'-tacular time playing this game!
Happy Candy Corn LRC Fun!





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Tuesday, September 29, 2015

English Language Arts - Sentence Grammar Circles

 
 

Are you looking for a new and innovative way to teach grammar?

 
 
 
Sentences – Grammar Circles for easy and effective grammar

Simplify your life and make grammar fun and effective.

One of the biggest challenges I had in my English classes was how to fit in grammar with everything else I had to teach. I would give students grammar pages and then we would correct them together. It was tedious and it took forever! What’s more is that students were not learning the way I wanted them to. They wouldn’t apply what they had learned from the grammar pages and activities.

I found a solution!

Grammar Circles. Grammar Circles are very similar to literature circles in the sense that students are teaching one another grammar. It is a fun and functional way to teach and learn grammar. Although, this may be done individually, it can also be completed as a group where students, through a specific process outlined in the package, teach one another grammar. They also correct the work together, so the teacher has very little to do.

The package includes:

1) A Student Packet – which contains the Literature Circle directions, the notes, directions, and activities, and a “Mark Calculation” page to keep track of their marks. (16 pages)
Activities included focus on:
-the logistics of the sentence (the basic parts)
-the prepositional phrase
-the adjective phrase
-the adverb phrase
-the verbal phrase
-the appositive phrase
-the independent and subordinate clauses
-subjects and predicates
-fragments
-run-on sentences
-types of sentences

2) A teacher Guide with easy to follow instructions on how to organize the Grammar Circles.

3) The Answer Key – devised to allow students to correct their own work and learn from one another.

For those who are from Ontario, Canada – this unit adheres to the Grade 9 English Curriculum (academic). The unit can be taught in any grade to about sentences.

(27 pages total for this unit)

Stay tuned for more Superhero themed grammar circle units: Spelling tips, Capitalization and Punctuation….
It's teaching made easy!


FREE LANGUAGE ARTS LESSON - “Halloween Word Search with Solution”

by Juggling ELA
4th - 12th Grade


This is a Halloween themed word search. This could be used as a bell ringer or for students that finish their work early. The solution to the puzzle is included.

This is part of a holiday puzzle package listed here: http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Holiday-Word-Search-Puzzle-Package





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Monday, September 28, 2015

Language Arts - Poetry Unit for Senior Students (NO PREP WORK)

 
 
 
 
Poetry Unit (Bundled) (Improved and revised)

For grades 11 and 12

Many teachers hate teaching poetry because they don’t know where to begin. This unit will make you and your students love poetry. This complete, no prep unit is a great way to start! This 2 and a half week unit includes a student guide, 12 detailed lesson plans, 2 multimedia presentations (no internet connection required), a detailed answer key with annotated poems, and an end of the unit evaluation with answer key.

Just print it and teach it.

This HUGE bundle includes:

This poetry unit has been devised to teach students the importance of :
• Figurative language (its uses and effects)
• How to read poetry
• How to understand and apply symbolism and imagery
• The importance of rhythm
• The importance of tone and attitude in a poem
• Types of poetry
• How to analyse poetry
• How to appreciate poetry (even when you don’t understand it)

This unit’s focus is the analysis of poetry and teaches students how to make inferences, which is a skill they must learn for their other subjects as well.

Poems include authors such as: Emily Dickenson, Dorothy Parker, Maya Angelou, Thomas Gray, Lord Alfred Tennyson, Alfred Noyes, T.S. Eliot, Shakespeare, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Frost, Pearl Jam, Langston Hughes, and Walt Whitman. The Unit includes 21 different poems.

The unit has been conceived to last 12 days – with 65 minute periods (although they are easy to modify).

The unit contains:

1 – The teacher guide (Contains 12 comprehensive lesson plans to teach the poems included in the unit. EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO TEACH THIS UNIT HAS BEEN DONE FOR YOU. )

2 – The student package (Contains students’ notes , poems, and questions) (26 pages)

3 – The answer key includes annotated poems and answers to all student activities (saving you time).

4 – Included is a test with multiple choice questions as well as a development question. All answers are included. (Word format for easy changes)

5 – 2 PowerPoint presentations – one multimedia presentation to introduce the unit (17 slides) and the second to reinforce the use of imagery and symbolism (19 slides) – NO INTERNET CONNECTION REQUIRED

A total of 63 pages + 36 slides are included in this package.

This unit is complete, and does all of the thinking for you. All you need to do is to print out and photocopy the student package and you’re set.

 

FREE LANGUAGE ARTS LESSON - “{FREE} "My Perfect Pumpkin Pick!" -- A Seasonal Poem for Fall”

by MsJordanReads
Kindergarten - 4th Grade


** THE PERFECT POEM FOR AUTUMN **

Download a FREE copy of my original poem "My Perfect Pumpkin Pick!" to bring some seasonal fluency fun into your classroom! Use it in literacy centers, small groups, or as a fun whole-group lesson during your ELA block. 

Included: 

-1 Fall-Themed Poem

If you're interested in the differentiated upper-level poem that goes along with this poem, check it out HERE . Comprehension activities are included! 

If you like this poem, you may also like my PARTNER POEM, "Pumpkins for Sale!"-- Check it out HERE!

Email msjordanreads@gmail.com with any questions or comments!





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Sunday, September 27, 2015

FREE MATH LESSON - “Pumpkin Ten Frame Match-Up”

by Laurie Taylor
Kindergarten - 3rd Grade


I created this matching activity to help my students to practice their subitzing. They need to match the number to it's correct ten frame. This activity is a great activity to add to your centers, or small groups, and as an assessment.


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Saturday, September 26, 2015

FREE MATH LESSON - “Halloween Place Value FREEBIE”

by Michelle Walker
2nd - 4th Grade


Halloween Place Value FREEBIE

Practice place value of numbers 100-200 with this cute worksheet that uses base 10 blocks and expanded notation to represent the numbers to be colored to reveal a mystery picture!

**Pages are duplicated in this file to include US and UK spellings!**





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Friday, September 25, 2015

FREE LANGUAGE ARTS LESSON - “FREE WITCHES' BREW ACTIVITIES”

by Mel D-Seusstastic
Pre-Kindergarten - 3rd Grade


This is a 24 page document I created for Witches' Brew. I have included pre & post writing activities, posters for each ingredient, & much more! Please check out my blog & other products! 
http://www.seusstastic.blogspot.com





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Thursday, September 24, 2015

FREE LANGUAGE ARTS LESSON - “Halloween”

by Little Learner Toolbox
Pre-Kindergarten - 1st Grade



Halloween FREEBIE Fun: Halloween Wordsearch, Jumbled Halloween Words and a fun Halloween page for your students to enjoy!

These pages are part of a 33 page Halloween Activity Pack that contains:

- 6 morning work / worksheets: including math, jumbled sentences, read, write, color and cut activities
- ‘Make a Halloween Mask’
- 7 page mini book about Halloween
- Halloween Word Family Sheets (at, - oom)
- Sort the word families (– at & -oom)
- Solve the problem & color
- Jumping Pumpkins (what’s the missing number)
- Draw the pumpkin
- Halloween Wordsearch
- Jumbled Halloween Words
- Trick or Treat Board Game

Copyright © 2013 Little Learner Toolbox.






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Wednesday, September 23, 2015

English Language Arts - Sentences - Grammar Circles for easy and effective grammar




https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Sentences-Grammar-Circles-for-easy-and-effective-grammar-2110090

Sentences – Grammar Circles for easy and effective grammar

Simplify your life and make grammar fun and effective.

One of the biggest challenges I had in my English classes was how to fit in grammar with everything else I had to teach. I would give students grammar pages and then we would correct them together. It was tedious and it took forever! What’s more is that students were not learning the way I wanted them to. They wouldn’t apply what they had learned from the grammar pages and activities.

I found a solution!

Grammar Circles. Grammar Circles are very similar to literature circles in the sense that students are teaching one another grammar. It is a fun and functional way to teach and learn grammar. Although, this may be done individually, it can also be completed as a group where students, through a specific process outlined in the package, teach one another grammar. They also correct the work together, so the teacher has very little to do.

The package includes:

1) A Student Packet – which contains the Literature Circle directions, the notes, directions, and activities, and a “Mark Calculation” page to keep track of their marks. (16 pages)
Activities included focus on:
-the logistics of the sentence (the basic parts)
-the prepositional phrase
-the adjective phrase
-the adverb phrase
-the verbal phrase
-the appositive phrase
-the independent and subordinate clauses
-subjects and predicates
-fragments
-run-on sentences
-types of sentences

2) A teacher Guide with easy to follow instructions on how to organize the Grammar Circles.

3) The Answer Key – devised to allow students to correct their own work and learn from one another.

For those who are from Ontario, Canada – this unit adheres to the Grade 9 English Curriculum (academic). The unit can be taught in any grade to about sentences.

(27 pages total for this unit)

Stay tuned for more Superhero themed grammar circle units: Spelling tips, Capitalization and Punctuation….
It's teaching made easy!

FREE MATH LESSON - “Halloween Decimal Word Problems”

by Lindsay Perro
5th - 8th Grade


This one page worksheet is a Halloween themed way to have students practice solving word problems involving decimal operations. Answer key included. 

Available in my Thanksgiving, Fall and Halloween Math Activities for Middle Schoolbundle and my Decimal Operations Unit Resources bundle!

Also available in my 6th Grade Math Mega Bundle! 


© Lindsay Perro. Please note - this resource is for use by one teacher only. Additional teachers must purchase their own license. If you are a coach, principal or district interested in purchasing several licenses, please contact me for a district-wide quote. lindsayperro@gmail.com





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Tuesday, September 22, 2015

FREE FONTS -"Personal Use Download"

I have gotten crafty on myself and have been creating fonts that I just absolutely adore! I'm considering this a beautiful mess since my life while creating these was a beautiful mess with a newborn and a four year old. I didn't realize for, well, my entire life that I was able to create fonts that actually look great when put on paper and they do! I worked to get the fonts I've created so far into a Free download at my TpT store. Yes, that's right! A free download for you to use for your personal crafts!! I hope you love them! Just click on the image below! Please feel free to leave some comments!! Thanks!

Barnett's School House

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FREE MATH LESSON - “Spider Addition with Doubles”

by Marcia Murphy
1st - 3rd Grade


Spider Addition with Doubles

~ Free Spider Addition file

~ This FREE file contains a fun Spider Addition with Doubles (0+0 to 10+10) Matching Activity which can also be used as a Memory/ Concentration Game. 

Included are:
~ Matching Spider Addition Number Cards (color and grayscale)
~~ Spider Facts Recording Sheet and Answer Key (grayscale)

Aligns with Common Core Standards:
1.OA.6 Add or subtract within 20, demonstrating fluency for addition and subtraction within 10.
2.OA.2 Fluently add and subtract within 20 using mental strategies. By the end of Grade2 know from memory all sums of two one-digit numbers.

These cards could be printed on photo paper or card stock and laminated if desired for long-lasting durability.

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**** To view my Spider Addition with Doubles Plus 1 Activity, please click on the link below.

Spider Addition with Doubles Plus 1

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**** To view some of my other Addition Activities, please click on the link below.

Addition Activities

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**** To view more of my Math products, please click on the links below.

Ten Frames Posters and Activities

Math Word Wall Cards

Math Posters

Counting Puzzles

Tally Marks Products




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Monday, September 21, 2015

Westward Expansion Trading Cards

 
Are you looking for a way to add interest to your Westward Expansion unit? Do you need more activities for your learning stations? “Westward Expansion Trading Cards” is a set of 54 trading cards highlighting people, events, locations, treaties and ideas. Print & laminate the cards to create a standard set of playing cards. "Educational Trading Card Games" details 3 original learning games. "Creating Educational Trading Cards" shows teachers and students how to make their own cards.
 
These trading cards are really great for children to see pictures of that time period. I will be using these in a center where the children will answer questions about the cards.

Always looking for ways to do "painless" research with my Library classes. Thanks!

Great trading cards. Thanks for the information about making your own!

 

Texas Independence (Online Activities)

 
The Texas Independence Web site seeks to restore Washington-on-the-Brazos and the Convention of 1836 to their rightful place in Texas history, of equal if not greater importance than the epic battles of 1835-36. Through innovative and exciting Web-based technologies, the site brings the struggle, compromise, and sacrifice of the Convention of 1836 to life. It introduces the men who founded a new nation to a new generation of Texans.
 
 
 

Fact-Filled Bingo:
Westward Expansion

 
Fact-Filled Bingo is a computer program sure to bring excitement to your Westward Expansion unit. The talking robot calls out random western topics complete with pictures and interesting facts. 40 bingo cards are provided. Use the companion program Fact-Filled Slideshow and a SmartBoard/projector to highlight 48 different Old West topics. Again the talking robot does the narrating. As a bonus I’ve included the manual “Text-to-Speech” which teaches you how to make PowerPoints talk.
 
This is great, love it! Can't wait to use it with students.

Great fun! My students really enjoyed! Thank you!

Fantastic product! Thank you!

 

Getting Through Parents' Night - Sharing is Caring Teacher Blogging Collaborative

By Deann Marin of Socrates Lantern


Do you ever find yourself losing sleep over parent night?




These seasoned educators from our Sharing is Caring Teacher Blogging Collaborative have some great tips for you. Read what they have to say about the subject.

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By Marcy Howe of It's a Teacher Thing
Make the most of your Back-to-School event. Organize your presentation, make sure you've given the essential information, and make families feel comfortable and welcomed on your campus.



By Retta London of Rainbow City Learning


A few tips to help you relax about your Parents' Night presentation. You've got this!


By Deann Marin of Socrates Lantern


I’d like to share what my partner and I have done to make parent night fun for everyone, including ourselves, since neither of us likes to get up in front of an audience, other than our classroom, lol! 


By Marypat Mahoney of Just Add Students


Six tips to help you make the most out of Parent's Night

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Please visit the blogs from our Sharing is Caring Teacher Blogging Collaborative, you'll be happy you did.

RCL