Let's Make Plans to Celebrate National Library Week! Plus Some Giveaway Fun!

National Library Week

National Library Week includes National Library Workers Day, celebrated on the Tuesday of National Library Week. This year National Library Workers Day is April 12, 2016, a day to recognize the valuable contributions made by all library workers!

So to add some joy into your classroom, this year I've created a Color for Fun Library or Media Specialist Freebie for you. Pick one or more of the pages to color and have your students turn them into a wonderful thank you book or thank you card for the Media Staff at your school. I've included both male and female staff.

This resource is part of my larger Color for Fun Back to School resource.

But for today, as part of some fun, Michelle at Teach 123, Ashley at The Teacher's Treasure Chest and I have joined together to bring you a 

Shower of Spring Goodies.

My resource is available to my blog followers only with this Dropbox link... Click here to download the Library Week freebie. Please feel free to share it with your team and school friends. In addition to my freebie, Michelle and Ashley both have a freebie for you too! 

In addition to a freebie at each of our blogs, we are each going to pick one winner EACH to get a bundle of our Spring Lessons and one extra winner over all who will a $50 Toys R Us Gift Card. We have found over the years that Toys R Us is a wonderful store for a mom, home school mom, teacher, media specialist, etc. because you can get board games for indoor recess, new books for your students, play doh for your classroom, DVDs for your own children...what ever you would like to use it for, the $50 is our way of saying thank you for all that you do. I've written a previous post with some more suggestions the last time Michelle and I gave a way a Toys R Us Gift Card, click here to read it.

I'm giving away my 140+ page Spring Color For Fun Bundle!

Michelle at Teach123

Ashley at The Teacher's Treasure Chest

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Quick and Easy to Prep Dice Game for Multiplication or Addition of Three Digits

A Quick and Easy To Prep Dice Game

You will ♥love♥ this game! 

I made it up one year because my plan lesson ended sooner than I thought & the natives were getting restless, they loved it SOOOOO much that we turned it into a tournament the next day! The best part about the game is that it is completely LUCK, so your lowest student can be the grand prize winner and your smartest of the smart might end up in last place! 

However, it is great for reinforcing multiplication and calculator skills for everyone. It can also be revised to be addition instead, so it is really a great K - 4th game!

Directions:

Pair students up, or let them pick partners.

Everyone gets 3 dice each and their own calculator.

Students roll all three dice at the same time.

Each child multiplies their 3 digits to get a final answer.

THEN...they must check each other's work with their calculator. {This gives them another problem to work & it helps to stop any 'cheating' problems!}

The winner is the student with the highest answer.

Record your tallies on a sheet of paper.

Play until one student gets 10 points. This also helps with the mental math of "three to go and I win" or "I only need 1 point to tie" etc.

Then congratulate your winner, "Great Job!"

Say something nice to the loser, "Good Game!"

Move around the room and watch another game until someone is done, then play a new partner!

Then, like real life, we figure out some better ways to control the dice. One child said, "After you roll the dice, put them in the cover of the calculator!"

Then another child figured out we could roll the dice INSIDE the calculator cover & they would never hit the floor! I just love it when I'm learning new things from their creativity! :)

This game made for some great discussion at the end of class. How rolling a 1 stinks because anything times 1 "says their name" and stays the same. How the greatest answer is 216 because 6*6*6= 216. They thought of lots of interesting things & I wish I had taken a picture of the anchor chart with their stickie notes! 

Anyway, the next day we played it like a basketball tournament. Winners continued to play each other and losers moved on to play each other...it was a lot of fun! True to what I had hoped, the lowest student in the class was the WINNER! The loser? I had said that the smartest of the smart could be the loser because it is completely a game of LUCK! Number 12, the bottom of the heap was ME! I lost the entire game & not because I wasn't trying! 

The kids loved the game even more! :)

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Story Starters Pocket Chart Cards for Frog and Toad All Year FREEBIE

 FREEBIE ~ Story Starters Pocket Chart Cards

for Frog and Toad All Year!

This resource is available in the Preview Download at Frog and Toad All Year Writing Center and Book Companion in my TPT store. Select color or black and white, the print, laminate and cut out the cards. Place at your literacy center or writing center for the students. The complete resource contains 327 vocabulary cards, 6 story starters, an ABC Order center activity and 45 different styles of printable writing stationary. Perfect for ESE or ESOL classes that must teach multi-levels.

All My Frog and Toad Resources

Discounted Bundle of ALL 4 Frog and Toad Books Writing Centers & Book Companions

Frog and Toad Are Friends  Bundle

Frog and Toad All Year Bundle

Frog and Toad Together Bundle

Days With Frog and Toad Bundle

Frog and Toad Literacy Bundle

Frog and Toad Are Friends and Frog and Toad All Year Writing Center Bundle

Frog and Toad All Year and Frog and Toad Together Writing Center Bundle

Frog and Toad Together and Frog and Toad Are Friends Writing Center Bundle

Frog and Toad Together and Days with Frog and Toad Writing Center Bundle

Frog and Toad Are Friends and Days with Frog and Toad Writing Center Bundle

Frog and Toad All Year and Frog and Toad Together Writing Center Bundle

Noun or Verb? Adjective or Adverb? A Fantastic Frog and Toad Mega Pack Resource of Task Cards, Center Games, Printables and Interactive Notebook Activities

Noun or Verb? A Frog and Toad Resource of Task Cards, A Center Game, Printables and Interactive Notebook Activities

Days with Frog and Toad Writing Center and Book Companion

Frog and Toad Are Friends Writing Center and Book Companion

Frog and Toad All Year Writing Center and Book Companion

Frog and Toad Together Writing Center and Book Companion 

Adjective or Adverb? A Frog and Toad Resource of Task Cards, A Center Game, Printables and Interactive Notebook Activities

Frog and Toad Syllable Sort

Adjective or Adverb? AND Noun or Verb? Task Cards for Parts of Speech with Frog and Toad Vocabulary
 
Noun or Verb? Task Cards for Parts of Speech with Frog and Toad Vocabulary

Adjective or Adverb? Task Cards for Parts of Speech with Frog and Toad Vocabulary

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Indoor Recess ~ Who Is Missing Directions

Who Is Missing? You will love this indoor game that is just perfect for back to school or HOT, HOT, HOT indoor recess days like we have in Florida in August! This blog post has a link to the Free printable directions for this terrific game, Who is Missing? Play it at school, Girl Scouts, Boy Schools, Church Groups, your students will end up playing it by themselves during free time, it is just SO CUTE!!! You can EVEN play it in Zoom Distant Learning meetings for some online fun!

 Who Is Missing?

Each week I share with you a free how-to printable direction sheet for some of my favorite indoor recess games. {Click here to see the previous Free Indoor Recess Printables.} 

You can print them and place them in a binder in your classroom. They're also terrific for your Sub Tub or Substitute Teacher Folder, for some time fillers or brain breaks to help you or your sub. :)

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Third Grade Math Unit Two - Task Cards

Third Grade Math - Unit Two

The Third Grade Math Series, Unit Two, focuses on:
* Problem Solving & Using a Table to Organize Data
* Using & Making Picture Graphs
* Using & Making Bar Graphs
* Using & Making Line Plot
Everything in Unit Two is RED. This unit has the same theme as Unit One, using a student and sweet treats. But Unit One is orange and Unit Two is red.
For the teacher: Easy to set up centers, easy to file and easy to pull out next year... Unit Two = RED.
For the student: Friendly kid faces and they have learned the routine and directions from using the same products, more time to learn the MATH! :)

Third Grade Math - Unit Two - Task Cards
{With Common Core}

This 160 page bundle has:
* Thirty-Six Graph Reference Task Cards
* Forty Task Cards
* Eighteen Recording Printable Worksheets

* All the Matching Answer Key Sheets

  

Click on any of the pictures below to purchase the individual task cards for the listed skill.

Using Bar Graphs Task Cards, Recording Sheets and Answer Keys	Making Bar Graphs Task Cards, Recording Sheets and Answer Keys
Using Picture Graphs Task Cards, Recording Sheets and Answer Keys	Making Bar Graphs Task Cards, Recording Sheets and Answer Keys
Using and Making Line Plots Task Cards, Recording Sheets and Answer Keys	FREE Problem Solving and Using a Table to Organize Data Task Cards, Recording Sheet and Answer Sheet

The above centers and printables are also part of this Unit Two Bundle.

Third Grade Math - Unit Two 

Task Cards Bundle with Common Core

3.MD.B.3 and 3.MD.B.4

Third Grade Math - Unit Two - Task Card Bundle 
This resource is also available without Common Core Listings.

Click on any of the pictures below to purchase the individual task cards for the listed skill.

Using Bar Graphs Task Cards, Recording Sheets and Answer Keys with No Common Core	Making Bar Graphs Task Cards, Recording Sheets and Answer Keys with No Common Core
Using Picture Graphs Task Cards, Recording Sheets and Answer Keys with No Common Core	Making Picture Graphs Task Cards, Recording Sheets and Answer Keys with No Common Core
Using and Making Line Plots Task Cards, Recording Sheets and Answer Keys with No Common Core	FREE Problem Solving and Using a Table to Organize Data Task Cards, Recording Sheet and Answer Sheet with No Common Core

The above centers and printables are also part of this Unit Two Bundle that has No Common Core Listings.

Third Grade Math - Unit Two 

Task Cards with No Common Core Bundle

 

This 160 page bundle has:
* Thirty-Six Graph Reference Task Cards
* Forty Task Cards
* Eighteen Recording Printable Worksheets

* All the Matching Answer Key Sheets

Click here to purchase this resource.

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Common Core Version: 
3.MD.B.3
Draw a scaled picture graph and a scaled bar graph to represent a data set with several categories. Solve one- and two-step "how many more" and "how many less" problems using information presented in scaled bar graphs.
3.MD.B.4
Generate measurement data by measuring lengths using rulers marked with halves and fourths of an inch. Show the data by making a line plot, where the horizontal scale is marked off in appropriate units - whole numbers, halves, or quarters.
 

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