Wednesday Weekly 5 under $5 - June 5, 2024

     

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.

Summer Emergent Reader - Read, Write and Develop Reading Comprehension Skills - $3.25

by Primarily Learning

K - 1st grades

Homeschool Curricula, Activities, Centers

This summer emergent reader is designed to support young readers as they develop comprehension skills. The book features engaging illustrations & simple text that encourages children to practice reading & writing while improving their understanding of vocabulary & sentence structure.

Syllable Matching Game - $1.49

by Reading Spotlight

1st - 3rd grades

Activities

                           

           Have fun this summer with this syllable game that helps students see smaller clusters in longer words. 60 words are included in 3 sets.  This activity has also been developed as a worksheet-based activity: Syllable Match Word Building Worksheets.

Both are effective, enjoyable, and easy-to-use.

Patriotic Puzzles - $3.25

by All-American Teaching Tools

4th - 8th grades

Activities, Printables

This collection of patriotic puzzles is perfect for patriotic holidays like Veteran's Day, President's Day, Flag Day, Memorial Day, 4th of July, Labor Day, etc. Use them to give to each child or select different puzzles for different students or groups of students. These are also great to print and take along on a family summer vacation to keep your own kids busy in the car or plane.

3rd Grade Math Summer Review FREE Sample  - 

Free

by Believe to Achieve by Anne Rozell

2nd - 4th grades

Worksheets, Printables, Centers

Are you looking for a FREE SAMPLE of an easy-to-use resource to help your students practice math review skills for the end of the year or summer? Maybe you need both printable and digital options to reach all your students. These 2 worksheets are perfect for practicing math skills. There are 2 answer keys for easy grading.

Patriotic Farm Truck CVC Words and Pictures BOOM Cards™ - $3.00 

by Kamp Kindergarten

K - 1st grades

Games, Centers

Your little learners will love this engaging patriotic farm truck themed CVC Words and Pictures phonics deck from Kamp Kindergarten. Learners select the correct picture for the CVC word given. This activity is great for any day of patriotic significance including The 4th Of July/Independence Day, Memorial Day, Flag Day, September 11th/Remembrance Day, and Veteran’s Day, or it may be used at any time during the year. This resource with vintage trucks complements classrooms with farmhouse style decor. 

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

Renee Heiss

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FREE Misc. Lesson: All About Me - Distance Learning - Digital TPT Activity

Whether you are social distancing in your classroom or online, this one page grid makes a great "Getting to Know You" activity for the first week of school.

Teaching face to face? Print the page and distribute to students.

Distance learning? Use the TPT digital activity version to allow students to type their answers or draw with the pen tool.

Looking for different prompts? Use the TPT digital activity teacher tools with the blank grid page to add your own questions for students to answer.

                  

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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.

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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.

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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

Valentines Theme Multiplication Facts worksheets.

5 worksheets in all, includes 4 word problems For grades 3rd- 5th

Want for 3-5th Grade Math resources? Try one of these:

Back to School Multiplication Facts worksheets

Multiplication Task Cards and Game Bundle

Multiplication BINGO

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FREE Math Lesson: How to Play Scoot

A great way for students to practice a concept is to play a game!  One game my students love is SCOOT!  This game is so versatile- you it with any set of task cards you have.  Especially great for review before a quiz.  Click on the image above for a link to this FREE product.  Directions are included.

How to Play SCOOT
Materials:
A set number of task cards (in number order); One SCOOT recording sheet per student.

Setup:
The teacher places task cards on desks or around the room in number order. Students move from
one card to another answering the questions on the cards.

Directions:
Students start with whatever number card that is front of them. The teacher uses a timer and
gives the class a set amount of time to answer their card before he/ she shouts- SCOOT!
When this happens, students rotate to the next card following a set pattern around the room.
(You’ll want to practice rotating a few times before you begin playing!).

After the learners have rotated and are back in at the card they started at, the teacher can go over the
answers with the students or collect the answer sheets.

Need some task cards to practice math skills?  Try some of these (click on the images for direct links to the products):

      

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Playing around in Math Class: Using Math Games

Let's face it, not everyone likes Math (myself included).

When my students need to practice their math skills, I like giving them a fun way to practice.

Whenever possible, I like to find (or create) a Math Game to go with the topic/ skill we are practicing.

Math games are a great way to practice:

-Math Facts
-Comparing Numbers/ Decimals/ Fractions
-Adding/ Subtracting/ Multiplying/ Dividing
-Rounding
-and much more!

Check out these Easy-Setup Math Games for  3rd- 5th Grade Classrooms:

     

 

Also available 3rd, 4th, and 5th Grade Math Task Card Bundles with FREE Game Boards!

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Setting up an Elementary Classroom Book Club

Book Club is an ELA activity that combines reading and discussion of "at level" books in an organized manner. Reading groups are determined by the student’s current reading levels and no more than six students are placed in each reading group to allow full participation by each member of the group. Modifications and adaptations can be made to make Book Club work in any classroom setting. Book Club was created to be used in grades 3rd-5th classrooms and was developed

with the help of a Reading Specialist.

This 23 slide set includes all you need to set up a Book Club in your Elementary classroom. The set includes:

-An explanation of what Book Club is

-Job Assignment explanations

-Worksheets for each Job Assignment

-Job Assignment Labels

-All documents in both an orange pattern print and in black/ white easy to print versions

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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.

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Enjoy your Sunday afternoon, teachers!  The writing plans will take care of themselves this week!  Try my new expository writing kit, great for students in grades 3 - 6 (or higher as an intervention tool).  This is an authentic writing suggestion that is ready to print and go.  I hope it will help make your week before Spring Break  academically meaningful with a large sprinkle of fun!

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