Weekly Wednesday 5 Under $5 - 12/9/2020

 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 simply by leaving a comment on this blog post.

Christmas Language Sequencing - $4.00

By Mickey’s Place

PreK, Kindergarten, 1st

Assessment, Games, Literacy Center Ideas

Christmas Language Sequencing will engage your students in critical thinking, oral language,  writing, and literacy centers.  There are 20 Christmas themed cards in this resource.  Also includes 10 blackline assessments. 

Two Christmas Holiday Crosswords About Santa and His Reindeer - $2.30

By Scipi

4th, 5th, 6th

Activities, Fun Stuff, Printables

This Christmas holiday resource contains two crossword puzzles about Santa and his reindeer. The 18 words used in both puzzles are: bed, Blitzen, Christmas Eve, Claus, Comet, Cupid, Dancer, Dasher, Donner, eight, Nicholas, North Pole, Prancer, Rudolph, sleigh, snow, stockings and Vixen. One crossword includes a word bank which makes it easier to solve while the other puzzle does not.

Christmas Booklet - $2.50

by Sunshine and Laughter by Deno

1st, 2nd, Homeschool

Activities, Fun Stuff, Printables

This no prep resource includes everything you need to keep your students happy and engaged in the days leading up to the Christmas holidays! While the activities are fun and engaging, they also include several ELA skill activities for your students to practice and review.

 

Making Inferences with Life Mottos (Distance Learning) - $1.79

By Reading Spotlight

4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th Worksheets

Unique! Effective! Easy to Use!

These four short lessons in making inferences contain well-known adages that are derived from centuries of human experiences. Students in grades 4-8 can practice making inferences by matching the altruisms to their meanings. Answer Keys included.

 

Happy New Year 2021 - $4.00

By Urbino

All grades, Bulletin board ideas

Ring in the 2021 New Year with this HAPPY NEW YEAR ! classroom display banner.

Two letters appear on each page. Letters are depicted in a snow globe. May be cut in half or left together on one page to save you time!

* Free update each year with purchase!

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A Teacher's Teacher

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March 2020 Teacher Talk

Posted by Deann Marin of Socrates Lantern

St. Patrick's Day and so many more tried and true teaching ideas are here for you to check out this March.  Best yet,soon it will be spring and the end of the year will be here before you know it. 

If you're interested in joining this unique group of teacher entrepreneurs, blogging buddies and/or our blog linky, sign up here....The Best of Teacher Entrepreneurs Marketing Cooperative. If you decide to join, be sure to mention one of our names.

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It's March...Let's Go Fly a Kite
By Deann Marin of Socrates Lantern

A great activity for home and at school.
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Learning During Our New Reality: Social Distancing
By Retta London of Rainbow City Learning

Just a few tips on some activities to add to your distance learning.
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Teaching Data, Graphing and Scientific Process with Paper Airplanes
By Tracy Willis of Wild Child Designs

Read how a paper airplane project sparked students to collect data, try out different graphs, and explore the scientific process! Remote learning freebies included with this post.
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Simple Ways to Make Classroom Lessons More Engaging
By Marcy Howe of It's a Teacher Thing

Learn simple tricks to liven up even the most unexciting topic. It's easier than you think!
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The Best Principal I Ever Had
By Gini Musmanno of Reading Spotlight

What principles make a great principal? Read about them here.
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Easy-to-Implement Home Instruction Ideas
By Renee Heiss of All-American Teacher tools

Prepare now for the possibility of home-instruction for all of your students. Find easy ways to send them home with a packet of work until you come back together again!
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St. Patrick's Day Myths and Fun Facts
By Vicky Rauch of Scipi

March 17th is St. Patrick’s Day. Read my latest blog post to explore some of the myths surrounding this Irish holiday as well as to discover a few fun facts.
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How to Choose Between Affect and Effect
By Charlene Tess of CharleneTess

Here's Help with Choosing Between Affect and Effect.
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School closed: Now what?
By Lisa Robles of LisaTeachR's Classroom

Our schools have closed. Now what? Here are some links that could be useful during this time to keep your kids learning.
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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!

Note that with my new marketing plan, the first dozen downloads of every product are free.  Click the Follow Me button at the top of my TpT store page so that you'll be informed as I post new tools for you to use with your elementary school students.  Also note that the first 10 raters of any product who send a screenshot of the rating to teachingsajoy@gmail.com with the subject Ratings Freebie will receive any unbundled item in my store for free. (This product still has 5 free downloads as of 3:00 CT today!)

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Have a wonderful afternoon!

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Teaching's a Joy!

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Pattern Task Cards (Christmas theme) FREE

Pattern Task Cards (Christmas theme)FREE

This is a colorful set of 24 task cards that will help students determine how the pattern will continue. This set is a wonderful addition to your lessons!

I've included a recording sheet and answer key, too!
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These activities would work for grades K-3
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Here are some possible uses for these in your classroom:

✿ early finishers
✿ tutoring
✿ sub tubs
✿ math stations/centers
✿ holiday work
✿ small group
✿ end of unit quick assessments
✿ homework
✿ reinforcement
✿ enrichment

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★★★What teachers are saying about this resource:

✎"Thanks for making this one. I will use it in my centers for my higher level firsties." Jacqueline P.

✎"Love these and can't wait to use them! Thank you :)"

✎"Love the way it is organized! Students will love this fun way to practice patterning."

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Here are some other math resources you might to check out:

❤Grade 3 Math Bundle (Year-long!)

❤Fractions Parts of a Set Bundle

❤Word Problem Task Cards -Set A

❤Word Problem Task Cards -Set B

❤Word Problem Task Cards -Set C

❤Word Problem Task Cards-Set D

❤Word Problem Task Cards -Set E
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