NEW AND IMPROVED: Cheez-It Math-Work on AREA, PERIMETER, ARRAYS, FRACTIONS & toss in a little Word Study!

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This is my updated version of my Cheez-It math! This contains a zip file filled with:

1. Student activity pages (printables)

2. PowerPoint Lesson 

3. SMART Board interactive lesson

4. Detailed background and Teacher Lesson

5. Google Doc Form-for students to use as a response sheet instead of paper and/or notebooks...it can be completely paperless!

Students will be targeting a number of skills such as the following:

• made reasonable predictions

• practiced building arrays & writing equations

• used division to divide their crackers into groups

• continually graphed & recorded their results along the way

• practiced their skills with area & perimeter

• used the Scrabble Cheez-it crackers to create words

4th, 5th, and ERORMOUS Bundle of Spelling Menus/Choice Boards!!!

4^th, 5^th, and ERORMOUS Bundle of 

Spelling Menus/Choice Boards!!!

You asked for them and not hey are here!!! I finished up the 4^th and 5^th grade Spelling Choice Board/Menus. Each of these products has 20+ weeks of choice boards/menus. Each menu comes with a weekly spelling list and activities students can choose from. Also included are a variety of blank menu/list to help you differentiate for your diverse learners, pretest slip sheets & a generic parent letter
This is a great set for homeschooling teachers and for educators that need a variety of spelling resources!

*There are PREVIEWS for each of these, so go and check them out!

These download contains TONS of spelling choice boards! Each of the choice boards comes with a weekly spelling list and activities students can choose from.

Also included are a variety of blank menu/list to help you differentiate for your diverse learners, pretest slip sheets & a generic parent letter
This is a great set for homeschooling teachers and for educators that need a variety of spelling resources!

I've included the EDITABLE versions of each AND the ENORMOUS pack of all 1st through 5th Bundles!

Just click on the picture to take a look at any of these products!

~Erin

More Making Words :)

To say that life has been crazy this year, would be an understatement. Thankfully, my creative spirit is once again beginning to spark and I'm finding/making some new resources! Be on the lookout for some of the educational Glogsters I've created (with handouts), reading response activities, math menus, and much more. Spring Break is just around the corner and I'm hoping to post many new FREEBIES for you to use in your classroom! I am also working on creating a 2013-2014 Teacher Planner that is OUT OF THIS WORLD! I've had an entire year to use the other planner I created and add to it; needless to say, I'm excited to share it with all of you once it is complete. *If you become one of my followers and/or leave positive feedback, I will put your name in a drawing to receive the new planner PERSONALIZED for free! I can't wait to hear from you!
In the meantime, here are some new Making Words (Grade 3) SMARTBOARD activities for you to use!
~Erin

Making Words 3
Making Words 15
Making Words 41
Making Words 50

TONS of Adapted Systematic Sequential Phonics (Prefixes & Suffixes) SMART Board Lessons

I'm TOTALLY guilty of letting weeks go by without a post...please forgive me. I'm sure all of us (educators) have been running around CRAZY and I am certainly doing the same.
To make my absence up to you, I have added to the adapted Systematic Sequential Phonics (Patricia Cunningham) SMART Board lessons to include 1-20 (adding s, es, ies) and 78-84 (prefixes). I've got quite a few new freebies I plan to share this weekend, so be on the lookout.
:)
Erin
Lesson 1
Lesson 2
Lesson 3
Lesson 4
*Lesson 5 is a review lesson.
Lesson 6
Lesson 7
Lesson 8
Lesson 9
*Lesson  10 is a review lesson.
Lesson 11
Lesson 12
Lesson 13
Lesson 14
* Lesson 15 is a review lesson.
Lesson 16
Lesson 17
Lesson 18
Lesson 19
*Lesson 20 is a review lesson.
Lesson 76
Lesson 77
Lesson 78
Lesson 79
*Lesson 80 is a review lesson.
Lesson 81
Lesson 82
Lesson 83
Lesson 84
*Lesson 85 is a review lesson.

Word Families-Word Sort & Study

Happy Friday! Sorry I've been out all weel...it has been crazy (once again) and I just haven't been able to get online. Last weekend Mallory had strep and no I had to bring Dylan home early with a stomach ache :) I'm praying that it doesn't spread!
Now that the kiddos are all down, I figured I'd share a goodie for my Kinder/1st teachers out there. I put together some of the word endings that Kinder and 1st grade are studying. I have included both the color-coded and black/white version if you do not have a color copier. We usually cut them out and match them to a picture mat (which I am working on and will post soon). Until then, this is a great activity for students to manipulate on their desk or pocket chart. It has the word endings, first letter sounds, blends, and digraphs. Here is alist of the endings:
ack
ad
ake
am
an
ang
ank
ap
ar
ark
art
ash
at
aw
ell
en
et
ick
ill
in
ine
ing
ink
ip
it
ob
ock
oil
ook
oom
op
orn
ot
out
oy
ug
ump
unch
ut
Let me know if you can think of any others to add.
Thanks!
~Erin



Click on the picture above to download the black/white version!

Click on the picture above to download the color-coded version!

Primary Tic-Tac-Toe Spelling Choice Boards

 
I don't want my primary teaching friends to think I've forgotten them! Here are the spelling tic-tac-toe choice boards I created to allow students to practice their spelling words each week. I have also included a parent letter I created for parents; this letter explains the pre-assessments you can do each week and then differentiate your lists depending on students need.
Use if you'd like!
~Erin

Adapted SMART Board Sequential Phonics Prefixes and Suffixes Lessons 36-39

As we continue to utilize the Systematic Sequential Phonics Prefixes & Suffixes book by Patricia Cunningham in our Word Study initiative, I am adapting these lessons for use on the SMART Board. The second unit of study has been CONTRACTIONS and are available below.
Have a great weekend!
~Erin

Lesson 36
Lesson 37
Lesson 38
Lesson 39

Making Words-UNFORTUNATELY

In my continued quest to model word study lessons, I've created an "UNFORTUNATELY" Mystery Word Activity. I thought it would be fun to read the book Fortunately that goes along afterwards.
I've created the lesson based on use of the SMART Board, but you could easily use index cards and a pocket chart to facilitate it.
The SB lesson (seen below), has students cut out the letters provided, move them around to create words, and then record their words on the blank sorting slip (one word per box). I provided 24 word boxes, but students could really use their journal and/or a whole page depending on how many words they come up with; the Scrabble dictionary listed 640 words that could be made with these letters!
The next step is to have the students sort the words they created in a variety of ways...they can paste these into their journals and then explain their sort. Here are all the things you will need for the lesson...use if you'd like!
~Erin

Click on the picture to purchase the book on Amazon.

Click on the picture to download the SMART Board UNFORTUNATELY activity.

Click here to download the Mystery Word letters.

Click on the picture to download the blank word boxes.

Click on the picture above to download the 640 words you can create with these 13 letters.

I Met My New Team AND Word Study Folders

So I got a chance to meet many of the members of my new 3rd grade team the other night...what an awesome group of ladies! Their excitement and level of commitment to their craft is contagious!
As I continue to prepare the word study scope and sequence, I showed some examples to my staff about what our word study folders can look like. As I was searching images and I came across Meacham's website...wow! There are so many terrific ideas and just not enough time. :) I was happy to finally come across a similar word study folder like I used years ago when I had my last HR class. If you haven't seen Meacham's website, you HAVE to check it out. The only difference between her folders and the ones I used is that I use coin pouches (20 per page) and I had individual word walls in the students folders.  Honestly, you wouldn't really need a word wall that is separate...students could just make it in their journals, but it's just a thought.
I purchased the front/back A-Z letters from Lakeshore for my pocket chart (prior to me having a SMART Board) but I always wanted my students to have their own individual letters as well. For next year, I went ahead and created letter and had them printed front/back; capital on one side and lowercase on the other side. I printed them red/blue (red=vowels & blue=consonants) cardstock, had them cut, and then had them put into groups with four letters of each for each individual student. Since I was ordering for over 800 students in grades 1st through 5th, Printshop was a HUGE help in getting this job completed!
I liked how Meacham had a pocket chart in each folder and though a super cheap way to do this without it costing an arm and leg, would be to get the postage stamp collector pages. They are just like pocket charts and are make with the three hole punch to put in a folder/binder.
I've included the letters, picture of the individual word wall I made, coin pouches I use, and an example of the stamp collector pages. Use if you'd like!
~Erin



Click on the picture to download the A-Z front/back letter tiles.




You can get these on Amazon or click on the picture to get a case of 1000.



Here is an example of the individual word walls my students use.



This postage stamp collector insert would work as a pocket chart...they have many different sizes to choose from.