12 Days of Christmas Tags

Last year my teaching partner and I decided to do the 12 days of Christmas with our classes and give them a small treat each day.  We had no idea how much our students would love this.  We figured after eating the small treat they would throw out the tags, but we were wrong!  Our students started hanging the tags off of their desks and then had to move them to their cubbies to show them off.  I hope you and your students enjoy these as much as we did!
Click HERE to find these tags on my TPT page.

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/12-Days-of-Christmas-Tags-for-Students-2214750

Fruit Rainbow....to our pot of GOLD! :)

My teaching partner at Wooten's Fourth Grade Wonders found a Pinterest activity that was in the shape of a rainbow and ended with a pot of gold.  Our students LOVED it and actually most ALL of them ate ALL of the fruit!  It amazes me each year when my students don't know what some fruit tastes like.  We had fun making our rainbow and then sharing with with our kids!  Thanks to all the parents who sent in fruit for this activity! 

St. Patrick's Day Treats!

I absolutely LOVE to do things for my students.  I'm not sure if other people notice, but the more little things you do for them the harder they work for you!  For St. Patrick's Day, I made these bags  with Trix cereal and had them on their desks in the morning.  I have done the 12 Days of Christmas and many other little treats throughout the year to bring a smile to their day in the morning.  I get excited to see how they respond to a note and a treat.  :)  I found these cute tags at this blog and copied them on green cardstock.

Book Series...

How many times have you been asked by students, "what book is next????"

Well, My good friend and old librarian used to label book according to which book they were in the series.  I started to do this in my room and my students loved it.  I've taken a picture below of how I do it in my classroom.  I eventually would like to have all my series book on one shelf so students can find them easily.  I LOVE this website because you can search by the author and see the order in which the author wrote their books.

http://www.mymcpl.org/cfapps/juvser/author.cfm?id=264

Daily Critical Standards Review {TEST Prep}

Many times when teaching we cover a topic and move on.  This is typical for many teachers because we have so many standards to cover in a year!!!  Well, in math I noticed that my students weren't retaining some of the math concepts that we had covered, so I made these Daily Critical Standards Review sheets.  I give them one every day of the week for them to work on and it is a review of everything that we have covered so far during the year.  I have seen tremendous gain from when we first started with these sheets.  I am working on more sets with a few more added math concepts that students need to be proficient in by test time.

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Daily-Critical-Math-Reviews-4th5th-Grades-1670670

Area and Perimeter Review - {ISTEP Prep}

My students have had a hard time this year with taking area and perimeter to the next level.  The can  add up all the side or multiply two numbers, but can't do the more complex questions.  I made this scoot game for my students to practice doing more multistep problems for area and perimeter.  Hopefully this will help us when it comes time to take ISTEP this year.

Here is a link to this product at my TPT store:
https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Area-Perimeter-Scoot-ISTEP-Review-1714850

Valentine's Day

I love coming up with presents for my kid's teachers, and for my students.  Most of my ideas come from Pinterest, but I like making my own tags. :)  Here are a few things that I did for Valentine's Day for my students and my kids teachers.