Happy Halloween Friends!

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A perfect little freebie for your own family tonight.  Between dinner and Trick or Treating, here's a little black cat your children can color and put up in their room or bedroom door. 
Fern Smith's Classroom Ideas Color for Fun, Family Pets and Halloween Fun! Color For Fun Printable Coloring Pages at TeacherspayTeachers!
 Fern Smith's Classroom Ideas Color for Fun, Family Pets and Halloween Fun! Color For Fun Printable Coloring Pages at TeacherspayTeachers!
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Teaching Never Stops....
Here's a little help for planning out your November and December.

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Have a happy and safe Halloween Everyone!
 
{This is my Scotty McHottie a few years ago, he's very excited to hear that a new Star Wars is coming out!}



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Thanksgiving Addition and Subtraction Fact Families Center and Interactive Notebook Activities

This is one of my favorite fact family center game and interactive notebook activities. Each of the SIXTY fact families have their own printable and as well as a center game for your November centers, seat work and small group math. For something different, buy a $1 pack of seasonal stationary at the Target Dollar Spot or Dollar General and have the students glue the fact family down on that! It makes a cute display for the hallway!
 Fern Smith's Classroom Ideas Thanksgiving Addition and Subtraction Fact Families Center and Interactive Notebook Activities at TeacherspayTeachers.
 Fern Smith's Classroom Ideas Thanksgiving Addition and Subtraction Fact Families Center and Interactive Notebook Activities at TeacherspayTeachers.
  Fern Smith's Classroom Ideas Thanksgiving Addition and Subtraction Fact Families Center and Interactive Notebook Activities at TeacherspayTeachers.
Fern Smith's Classroom Ideas Thanksgiving Addition and Subtraction Fact Families Center and Interactive Notebook Activities at TeacherspayTeachers.
 Fern Smith's Classroom Ideas Thanksgiving Addition and Subtraction Fact Families Center and Interactive Notebook Activities at TeacherspayTeachers.
Fern Smith's Classroom Ideas Thanksgiving Addition and Subtraction Fact Families Center and Interactive Notebook Activities at TeacherspayTeachers.



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Place Value Race For Thanksgiving!

When I was teaching my third graders seem to do well with place value. Then we will be trucking along with multiplication, division  and BAM! a place value review questions has them looking like a deer in a headlight...blink, blink, blink, blink....what is this strange question?
So I created a place value game during Halloween that can be differentiated for high, middle and low. It can be played with just the "Tens" version or the "Hundreds" version. Meanwhile, your high group students can be playing the same game, but with the "Thousands" version. It is also an excellent tool to play in your small group and gather data for your RtI documentation. Observe a student and you will know instantly if they can problem solve to created the highest number when given three cards, 3, 6 and 8 for example. If they don't make it into 863, there's a problem! Well they liked the game so much I created two Halloween versions,
 Halloween Monster Place Value Race Game and
Halloween Candy Corn Place Value Race Game
and they were both a big hit with my other teacher-friends' classes too! Denise, from Sunny Days in Second Grade, took pictures of her children playing the game and sent it to me.
Students Playing the Candy Corn Version
 She was the first blog I ever discovered and I adore her. {Here is her blog post about the game and all her Halloween fun!}We are now friends, but I meet her a couple of summers ago at a Blog Meet-Up and stood around like a dork, I could barely talk to her and her husband...ummm, yeah, uummmm, I know, uhhhhhh....It was like meeting a real life celebrity for me and I was dumbfounded! :) 
Way to go Fern, ya' big geek!
Sunny Days in Second

Close Up Picture of the Game Sheet the Students Fill-In!
So back to place value, since that game was such a big hit, I've made a...
Thanksgiving version, it is available at TPT too.
THREE GAMES IN ONE!
TENS ~ Thanksgiving Place Value Race
HUNDREDS ~ Thanksgiving Place Value Race
THOUSANDS ~ Thanksgiving Place Value Race
Here's my Pinterest board, just for my Place Value Race Games.
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Correct Word Usage - Task Cards - Lie and Lay

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Correct Word Usage Task Cards for Lie and Lay

Task Cards, Definition Posters, Recording Sheets and Answer Keys Perfect for Small Group, RTI, Scoot, Centers and Homework! Thirty-Six Task Cards for LIE and LAY!
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 Fern Smith's Classroom Ideas Correct Word Usage Task Cards - Lie and Lay at TeacherspayTeachers.
 Fern Smith's Classroom Ideas Correct Word Usage Task Cards - Lie and Lay at TeacherspayTeachers.
  Fern Smith's Classroom Ideas Correct Word Usage Task Cards - Lie and Lay at TeacherspayTeachers.
This Resource Contains
→ 36 Task Cards in color.
→ 2 Definition Posters in color.
→ 36 Task Cards in black and white.
→ 3 Recording Printable Worksheets with 3 Answer Key Sheets.

Common Core:
ELA - Literacy.L.4.1.G
Correctly use frequently confused words (e.g. they're, there, their).

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Classroom Sanitizer Trick!

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Stan, Stan, The Sanitizer Man!
One of my favorite things ever! ever! ever! was putting the sanitizer by the classroom door and putting a stuffed animal "in charge" of it. That way when the children return from the restroom, they'll get that extra-just-in-case-they-DIDN'T-wash-their-hands boost! They tell you that they washed their hands, but with the cold and flu season in full swing, why chance it....Right?! So here is Stan and here's his little chant I would sing, and let the students join in, if someone forgets to stop by and use him. 
 
"Stan, Stan, the Sanitizer Man,
Tell Mrs. Smith if they don't have clean hands!" 

Stan cost me nothing, he was a left over stuffed animal as my personal children got older. If you ask your students, I'm sure someone will donate one to the good of the class. That way, this little bit of fun is free. :)
 
Elementary school is STRESSFUL with all the ridiculous over testing of our children
We need to use any chance we can to make something fun!
Enjoy!


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