Wednesday Weekly 5 under $5 - 9/28/2022

   

Every week I put together a list of 5 great products from members of The Best of Teacher Entrepreneurs Marketing Cooperative (TBOTEMC) with the requirement that each product must be less than $5.  With a variety of subjects and a wide range of grades, there just might be something that you can use, so continue to read below and see!

In addition, if you're a seller on Teachers Pay Teachers (TpT) who would like to get more information about joining TBOTEMC, contact me via email at ReneeHeiss@gmail.com or by simply leaving a comment on this blog post.

Scarecrows and Sunflowers CVC Words BOOM Cards™ - $3.00

by Kamp Kindergarten

K - 1st grades
For Parents, Centers

In this scarecrows and sunflowers themed digital task card deck your little learners select the correct CVC word for the picture. Digital task cards offer an engaging way to learn in your classroom or in distance learning situations. Boom Cards™ are exciting, interactive, and fun! This paperless phonics resource works well for an autumn/fall, scarecrow, sunflowers, or farm theme, but may also be used at any time during the year.

24 Visual Discrimination Activities - Visual Memory - $3.75

by Primarily Learning

PreK - K grades

Homeschool Curricula, Task Cards, Centers

Would you like to have Visual Discrimination Activities at your fingertips? These 24 Visual Discrimination Activities provide various opportunities to learn and practice visual discrimination skills like hearing differences in letters and sounds, blending, and segmenting. 

13 American Colonies Bundle American History Lessons - $3.50

by History at Home

K - 3rd grades
Homeschool Curricula, Activities, Lessons

13 American Colonies Bundle American History Lessons for Grades K-3 & Homeschool covers: The 4 New England Colonies (Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, & Connecticut), the 5 Southern Colonies (Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia & a little about Blackbeard) and the 4 Middle Colonies (New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware) They'll have text, and links to vocabulary words, pictures, crafts, maps, and activities!

Beginning Sounds Digital Phonics Game Real Photos Initial Sounds Self-Checking - $4.95

by 3 Chicas Bilingual Resources

PreK - K grades

Activities, Games

Students practice phonics and letter recognition independently by matching the letter to the initial sound of the word with this self-checking activity for Google Slides™. Real photos help students develop vocabulary while animations and gifs provide immediate feedback and promote engagement.  This is especially effective for ESL students and any child who needs a clear visual to make the connection between the letters and their sounds.  This is a fun, no prep activity that will help your students advance in the process of learning to read!

A History of the Lenni-Lenape Tribe - $3.50

by All-American Teacher Tools

3rd - 8th grades 
Cultural Activities, Google Slides

The Lenni-Lenape tribe from New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, and Delaware have a long history on the East Coast. They lived peacefully in their tribes, but their troubles began when the European settlers arrived. Show your students about the history of this tribe. Each slide has an image, information, and a question for discussion. Also available in PowerPoint.

As always, I encourage comments and any ideas or suggestions by emailing me at reneeheiss@gmail.com

Renee Heiss

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Wednesday Weekly 5 under $5 - 9/21/2022

                                 

Every week I put together a list of 5 great products from members of The Best of Teacher Entrepreneurs Marketing Cooperative (TBOTEMC) with the requirement that each product must be less than $5.  With a variety of subjects and a wide range of grades, there just might be something that you can use, so continue to read below and see!

In addition, if you're a seller on Teachers Pay Teachers (TpT) who would like to get more information about joining TBOTEMC, contact me via email at ReneeHeiss@gmail.com or by simply leaving a comment on this blog post.

Apples CVC Words and Pictures BOOM Cards™ - $3.00

by Kamp Kindergarten

K - 1st grades
For Parents, Centers

In this apple themed digital task card deck your little learners select the correct picture for the CVC word. Digital task cards offer an engaging way to learn in your classroom or in distance learning situations. Boom Cards™ are exciting, interactive, and fun! This paperless phonics resource works well for apple, autumn/fall, Johnny Appleseed, or farm themes, but may also be used at any time during the year. 

My Shadow Book Squirrel - $2.00

by Mickey's Place

PreK - 2nd grades

Worksheets, Homeschool Curricula

My Shadow Books are great Science Resources for Any Time of the Year.

Students will be highly engaged: → constructing their Shadow Picture, →collecting data by using different times of the day, → measuring and comparing shadows.

A Family Project is included in this bundle.  Students will work with their family to complete the activity at home. Both students and parents will record data in the My Shadow Book. Then, they will use the data for measuring. After which, they will write about what they have learned about Shadows.

Grammar Review: Stories About Careers - $4.99

by Reading Spotlight

9th - 12th grades
Worksheets

Many students have no idea what might suit their talents and interests in the future. These stories introduce several hundred possible future careers while students review grammar and spelling skills. Two Teacher’s Worksheets for individual or class error analysis are included to help focus instruction and group students according to individual needs. Perfect for the new school year! Includes Answer Keys AND explanations for each error correction.

Interview Questions, Tips, & Tricks Life Skills - $4.00

by History at Home
9th - 12th grades
PowerPoint Presentations, Homeschool Curricula, Activities

Interview Questions, Tips & Tricks for Grades 9-12 & homeschool teaches your students how to act and prepare before, during, and after a job interview. Provided are the slides for the exercise in PowerPoint and PDF as well as printable PDF instructions to guide you slide-by-slide as your students discover the best way to be a great interviewee. Page 7 on the Teacher Instructions is also printable for you to copy for your students to fill out their answers to the top 10 interview questions.

Individual Student Rating Rubric for Students Doing Group Work - EDITABLE - $1.50

by Scipi

5th - 12th grades 
Assessment, Printables, Rubrics

The EDITABLE Individual Rating for Group Projects is a rating guide or rubric that may be used for individual students working in co-op groups, on group projects, on collaborative oral presentations, partner lab work, etc. anytime a group of students must work together to produce one final product. 

As always, I encourage comments and any ideas or suggestions by emailing me at reneeheiss@gmail.com

Renee Heiss

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Creating a Monthly Reflection Memory Book with Your Students

How to Create the Monthly Reflection Memory Book

Some years ago I came up with the idea of having my students create a monthly reflection memory book for the year. I had them keep a monthly calendar of what was going on both at school and in their own lives at home. We would try and set aside time at least a few days a week at the end of the day to record any memorable moments.
At the end of each month, I would have my students take a look at their calendar page and use it to write a monthly summary. I would collect and hold onto both the calendar sheets and their monthly summary sheets.

Reflection on the Memory Book by a Former Student

Just this past Spring, a former parent came back and told me as they were preparing for high school graduation, she and her daughter found her special 3rd grade memory calendar book. They sat and pored over the details, remembering together some of the important family moments that had been recorded by the young student so many years ago. The parent ended our conversation by telling me just how special that book is to them. It had been tucked away for years in a bin of school memories and truly brought joy to both mother and daughter when they found it and looked back at their year.

Resources to Help You Easily Create Your Reflection Book With Your Students

If you would like to start a project like this, you could go online and find some easy, printable calendars. I just searched Google and many options came up. Or you can purchase my Editable Calendar Pack with Lifetime Updates. You will never need to search for calendar pages for this project or other projects again with this pack.

Then combine the calendars with my Monthly Writing Paper Pack and you will have everything you need to make your Monthly Reflection Memory Book with your students. This pack comes with 4 unique pages for each month. Each design comes with Primary Lines and Upper Elementary Lines. A digital Google Slides and Powerpoint Version is also included.

Freebies! Grab the Free Sample

You can even try out a sample of my Monthly Writing Paper Pack Free Sample. Both the sample and full pack come with Printable and Digital Versions. The free sample comes with one page for January and one page for July.

Sign Up for My Newsletter to Get the Free Cover

If you want to take your calendars and monthly writing pages and create your end of year reflection book. Hop on over to my email list and sign up to receive this free Monthly Reflection Book Cover Freebie. You will get access to this cover and other freebies in my VIP Resource Library.

There are many other ways you could use these writing papers from journal prompts, to monthly writing assessments, to class pen pal letters. The sky is the limit to your imagination with these easy to use Monthly Writing Pages for Print and Digital.

FREE digital activities for The Very Impatient Caterpillar

Whether you are a parent doing homeschool lessons, a teacher assigning digital lessons, or we're all back in the classroom, a digital picture book challenge will keep your students learning and practicing many literacy skills in an engaging way.

The Very Impatient Caterpillar is a laugh out loud story about a little caterpillar who doesn't know much about metamorphosis. Here's a link to the story on Storytime with

 Ryan & Craig: 

This FREE digital challenge for The Very Impatient Caterpillar has 4 challenges for students to complete. They'll need a piece of paper and a pencil to write mystery words and letters they'll discover as they solve each challenge.

The story video and challenges #1 and #2 are Google Slides with moveable pieces.

 The video link is filtered through SafeYouTube so there are no ads or any other distractors.

For challenge #1, students put the story events in order. When they finish, they go to the next slide and move the magnifying glass around to find a hidden message. The message tells them that the letters in red make a word from the story. 

Challenge #2 is a nonfiction passage about metamorphosis with questions. The letters of their answers make a word from the story.

Challenges #3 and #4 are Google Forms. Students must answer correctly before moving on to the next question. For challenge #3, they determine if the statement is a fact or an opinion. They are given the mystery letter when they finish.

For challenge #4, students answer multiple-choice questions about the story. After the questions are answered, they are given the mystery letter to write on their paper.

Now it's time to crack the final codeword. Students should have two mystery words and two mystery letters on their scratch paper. 

Answer keys and directions for assigning via Google Classroom and Google Drive are included.

These activities are for 2nd and 3rd graders. 

This digital picture book challenge can be downloaded from my TpT store:

The Very Impatient Caterpillar Digital Picture Book Challenge

If you like this free challenge, check out more picture book challenges that each have six tasks.

I Wanna Iguana

Stuck

My Lucky Day

Chrysanthemum

Can I Be Your Dog?

Officer Buckle and Gloria

Three Hens and a Peacock

Thelma the Unicorn

The Giving Tree

Diary of a Worm

Free Math Lesson: St. Patrick's Day Skip Counting

St. Patrick's Day Skip counting by 2, 5, 10, 100 worksheets.

10 worksheets in all. For grades Kindergarten to Second.

Want for K-2nd Grade Math resources? Try one of these:

Back to School-Themed Skip Counting

Halloween Place Value task cards

Halloween 2-Digit by 1-Digit Addition

Halloween- Make 10 Matching Task Cards

Addition Bingo

Eureka Math- Kindergarten Bundle

February Addition & Subtraction Word Problems

February Addition and Subtraction Word Problem Task Cards- Grades 1st- 2nd.

Students practice adding and subtracting word problems with numbers up to 100. Includes some subtraction problems with regrouping.

28 Task Cards: 14 addition, 14 subtraction, answer key.

These easy-print cards can be laminated for years of use by both individual students or in a small group setting.

Interested in other Math products for the 1st- 2nd Grade classroom?

6 Month Word Problem Bundle -Save Money!

March Addition and Subtraction Word Problems

February Addition and Subtraction Word Problems

January Addition and Subtraction Word Problems

December Addition and Subtraction Word Problems

November Addition and Subtraction Word Problems

October Addition and Subtraction Word Problems

Addition Task Cards- Grades 1st- 2nd

This 40  task card set will help students practice 2-Digit by 1-Digit Addition.

Each task card comes with a matching answer card so students can check their own 

work or work with a partner!

These task cards are printer-friendly.  Laminate for years of use by both individual students

and in small-group settings.

Want more products like this?  Want to save money?  Purchase the Adding and Subtracting

BUNDLE set , and save $2.00!

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Fact Family Family Fun: Fact Family Flip It!

What has three numbers, three symbols, and can bond a family together?  A fact family--when played with in the card game Fact Family Flip It! that is.

If you teach math in the third, fourth, fifth, or even sixth grades--or if you are a parent of a child in one of these grades--you've heard yourself say, "Please learn your math facts."  Actually, if you're like me, you've heard yourself beg, plead, and whine those words more than you care to remember.  I probably sound something like this:  "Pleeeeeeeeeez, pleez, please learn your math facts, sweetie, puh-leeeeezzzz."  But wait--there's more:  I grew even more frustrated and desperate as I realized that my students could finally remember basic multiplication facts, like 9 x 6 = 54, let's say, but (BUT), they had no idea that 54 DIVIDED by 6 was 9 or 54 DIVIDED by 9 was 6.  AND they thought of 6 x 9 as being completely separate and REMOTE from its sister, 9 x 6.  Ugh.

Top all of that frustration off with being expected to help fourth graders conquer standard algorithm long division, and you've got the makings of a teacher meltdown.

Necessity is the mother of invention, and I desperately needed a solution to the problem of kids not knowing and worse--not wanting to know their multiplication and division fact families.  Watching a set of children play War, I wondered how I could bring that level of intensity and engagement to a game involving targeted fact families.  Fact Family Flip It! was born.

Fact Family Flip It is easy to print, cut, store, and play.  Have fun with or without the included gameboard.

In Fact Family Flip It!, players vie to beat their competitors to fact recognition and card acquisition, and the game can get wild.  And loud.  And fun.  The more I played this game with my students and my tutoring charges, the more they wanted to play.  And the more they played, the more proficient they became with multiplication and division fact families.  An added benefit was that whining and stonewalling was replaced with excitement and BONDING over the game.  

Fact Family Flip It! is created in sets of--you guessed it--fact families.  Isolating the facts as students learn them is helpful, so I made sets of 2's, 3's, 4's, 5's, 6's, 7's, 8's, 9's, and 12's, sold both separately and in bundles.  As kiddos master sets, they earn stickers and bracelets from the Fact Family Flip It! Celebration Kit (included with the bundles), and game sets can be combined for review.

Fact Family Flip It! is available as separate kits or as bundles.

The Fact Family Flip It! Celebration Kit is included with bundles.

One big benefit of this game is that kids don't get tired of it.  Instead, they're motivated to earn more points by weaning themselves off of the provided fact sheets or multiplication charts.  Can you imagine how much easier it would be for fourth graders to learn that bugaboo standard algorithm long division IF they actually knew their basic multiplication and division facts, instead of having to refer to a chart almost every step of the way?

This is my favorite part:  A huge added bonus benefit of Fact Family Flip It! is that instead of a child practicing math facts alone at a computer, they are engaged with other children and adults.  This game could be played at Family Game Night for an entire year, and I don't think kids would be weary of it!  In fact, I believe the competitive nature of the game lends itself extremely well to family bonding--over something that otherwise makes teachers whine, parents nag, and children cry.

So, what has three numbers, three symbols and the power to bring families together?  Fact families in Fact Family Flip It!, of course.

Free Math Fact Fluency

Free Math Fact Fluency--Just Add Effort!  (And, of course, FUN!)
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You KNOW you want your students to learn their multiplication and division facts, but most don't on their own. Fact Family Flip It! is the fix for that. Use it often--the kids WILL want to--and watch the magic happen.

Fact Family Flip It! reaches and teaches TEKS 3.4F and CCSS 3.OA C7, and it helps ALL students master basic multiplication and division facts. Since it is fun for teachers and tutors to play, it must be fun for middle schoolers and high schoolers too, if they are in need of help with fact fluency. (And maybe even if they aren't.)

Look for the related products, or, better yet, buy the bundles! This line of products is really worth laminating and using over and over again, day after day, year after year. I've tested it with under-motivated tutoring students and with well-motivated above grade level math babies. In short, it is FUN. Fun equates to motivation. And motivation equals learning!

Happy teaching,

Sally

Teaching's a Joy!

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