Wednesday Weekly 5 Under $5 - 2/27/19

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) that would like to get more information about joining TBOTEMC, click here.  Free free to e-mail me with any questions, as I'd be happy to help in any way possible.

50 US States Research Travel Brochures with Editable Checklist & Rubric - $4.50

Sally Hansen - Purposeful Plans
World History, Geography; Grades 2-12

This is a NO PREP activity! Students gain and apply skills by working to create a travel brochure. There are two-sided tri-fold brochures with the 50 state's name and shape on it, Editable Rubrics, & Checklists available to customize.

3 Text Set Bundle - Space Exploration, Climate Change, Literary Analysis - $4.25

By A Teacher's Teacher

ELA; Grades 7-12

This bundle includes three different text sets and their accompanying prompts. One piece requires literary analysis of small excerpts of two fiction pieces, another is a text set dealing with climate change, and the final set is made up of a pair of excerpts from two Presidential speeches regarding space exploration. All of these sets are formatted to reflect AIR testing, though they could also serve as a good simulation for PARCC testing, as well.

Owl Moon: A Literature Guide - $3.50

By Under One Roof

Literature/ELA; Grades 2-4

This is a packet of literacy activities to go along with "Owl Moon" by Jane Yolen. This resource has 10 no prep literacy worksheets to use with the book "Owl Moon."  Included in this resource are multiple comprehension and vocabulary worksheets, worksheets on similes and adjectives, and so much more!  Check it out!

5.9C Solve Problems Using Data from Tables, Plots, Graphs, or Scatterplots - $3.50
By Teaching's A Joy

Math; Grades 4-6

TEK 5.9C teaches children to solve problems using data from charts and graphs. It is real world math, the application of 5.9A and 5.9B, and it succeeds in making those standards truly worth the effort to teach and learn. 5.9C is really one of those standards we should be teaching constantly, every time we have the opportunity to graph any data or encounter a graph in our nonfiction reading. This kit includes 6 graphs and two sets of four questions for each graph

Cupid's Tracing Task Cards Valentines Themed - $2.50

By Margo Gentile

Handwriting; Grades PreK-1

Meet all of the cute cupids and their lovely targets. Trace the path of the arrow to the heart it's aimed at. Get those little muscles in shape for all kinds of small motor activities like writing and coloring. 10 task cards with 3 tracing paths each (30 paths total) plus 4 more task cards with x's, o's, and hearts to trace.

Other WW5U5 Team Members on TpT to Visit:

Believe to Achieve by Anne Rozell
Mickey's Place
Urbino12
Primarily Learning
Scipi - Science and Math

As always, I encourage comments below and any ideas or suggestions by tweeting me @ATeachersTeach or contact me via e-mail.

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Wednesday Weekly 5 Under $5 - 2/20/19

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) that would like to get more information about joining TBOTEMC, click here.  Free free to e-mail me with any questions, as I'd be happy to help in any way possible.

Spring Poem - $3.00

Urbino12
ELA; Grades K-7

Happy Spring! Have your students write a beautiful spring poem! Great for ENL/ESL, Special Ed. or mainstream classes. Includes guided writing model with suggested vocabulary to write a simple five line (Cinquain) poem and different spring themed writing templates -four in color and one in black and white

2-Digit Subtraction With Regrouping Worksheets - $2.20

By Believe to Achieve by Anne Rozell

Math; Grades 1-4

Sometimes your students need extra practice with 2- Digit subtraction with regrouping. This set is just what you need! Anne has included 10 practice sheets with consistent format and answer keys! Great for practice or assessment!

Digital Logic: A Place Value Math Game That Uses Logic and Reasoning - $3.00

By Scipi - Science and Math

Math; Grades 2-6

This is a place value math game which uses the problem solving strategies of logic and reasoning. It is appropriate for grades 2-6. This game can easily be adapted for the upper grades by using three, four, or as many digits as appropriate. The more digits involved in the game, the more complex the game.

Alphabetical Order Using Dolch Nouns - $4.50
By Mickey's Place

ELA; Grades 1-4

Students will practice their reading skills with Dolch Nouns while putting train sets into alphabetical order. There are a total of 32 different sorts for these words. Perfect for a center, individual work, or work in a small group.

Compound Words Activity - 2-piece Puzzles - $4.00

By Primarily Learning

ELA/Reading; Grades K-1

Practice creating compound words with this printables pack for your Kindergarten or Grade 1 classroom. Complete these compound word 2-piece puzzle activities (39 puzzles in both black & white and color) or play compound word games! Great for individual or small group activities!

Other WW5U5 Team Members on TpT to Visit:

A Teacher's Teacher
Teaching's a Joy
Sally Hansen - Purposeful Plans
Margo Gentile
Under One Roof

As always, I encourage comments below and any ideas or suggestions by tweeting me @ATeachersTeach or contact me via e-mail.

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The Amazingly Educational Race

The Amazingly Educational Race is a framework for a team-based competition that can be applied to any content and any grade level for which the teach feels his/her students could handle the activities. Based around the wildly-popular TV show, my version takes an educational spin, utilizing small-scale activities as parts of the competition. Before the first day of the competition, I tried to drum up interest and anticipation by creating A brief 1-minute trailer, which could be used in any content or grade level, as well.

The basic idea is that students are placed in groups (or are already in groups, such as in the case with my gamified class’s factions). These groups would be best if limited to about five students, for the sake of involvement, and probably should be at least three, if not four. If you’re familiar with the show, you might know that there are weekly episodes, which are each one “leg” of the race. There is a staring point and an ending point. This ending point is referred to as a “Pit Stop.” Arriving to the Pit Stop as the last team usually results in a team being eliminated from the competition, though there are some episodes which end in the final-finishing team finding out it was a non-elimination leg. Rather than eliminating any teams, The Amazingly Educational Race is a race against time, with the least total time, after all the legs are complete, being the determining factor. (This is at least the plan right now, we’ll see how it goes - I want to make the last leg as exciting and competitive as possible). There are also rewards for the team/faction that finishes each particular leg of the race first.

Now, you might be wondering just what a leg of the race looks like? Well, at my school, where I teach 8th grade language arts, we have periods that are about 45 minutes long. After a bell ringer, attendance, and typical housekeeping items, that means I’m left with no longer than 40 minutes for class or my lesson. As a result, my legs of the Amazingly Educational Race end up having 2 tasks, known as Road Blocks, and two times where students have to go out of the room to find some type of game-related materials.

Each team picks two team members to participate in the first Road Block competition. These two representatives are the only team members who can talk, touch the activity, puzzle, or write on the task paper. All other group members are encouraged to point at things, mouth words, or use other creative techniques, but they cannot tan talk or manipulate the task in any way.

The two representatives from each team receive an envelope containing the first Road Block activity. There is a Road Block slip that dictates the task and also contains any necessary materials. In the case of the Road Block below, students received that slip and the envelope also had 27 slips of paper, each with one word, and 17 of those words were either conjunctions or conjunctive adverbs. (This topic is one that students had been exposed to, had lessons on, and had practiced - in this case, all through NoRedInk.com.)

Once all the teams had their envelopes, I signaled for teams to begin, they took the contents of the envelope, and the two team reps got to work. Once they finished, they had to raise their hands and I came over to check it. If it was incorrectly done, I simply said it wasn’t right, and they got back to work, trying to figure out what they hadn’t done or did wrong. If the team’s work was correct, I gave them the “Route Info” slip, shown below.

At that point, all group members were allowed to talk. In the case of this Route slip, one student who just participated in the Road Block had to go into the halls, to the correct place, and bring back the slip outside of the room (Mrs. Jackson’s room). That slip is labeled Road Block on the top, but hit has two named choices, and the group needs to quickly discuss which one they want to do. Once they’ve done so, they choose two team members (preferably who didn’t participate last time - that’s where groups of 4 or 5 really help), they let me know which one they’d like to do, and I give them the envelope that contains that task.

The two named choices (left slip) and what one of those two choices looks like (right slip)

The process is then repeated, with only those two students being able to talk while trying to complete that task, and their other team members helping in whatever way they can. Finally, that work is checked, students get their next Route Info card, and they send another group member out to find the final slip for the leg: the Pit Stop. The first team to return with that slip, wins that leg of the race. I then keep track of how long the other teams take to return with the next place finisher having a time in relation to the first finisher (for example, +01:03 would be the time for the team that finished one minute and three seconds behind the team finishing first). The time is then kept in relationship to those numbers.

In future weeks, taking a cue from the television show, teams will also be able to find or be rewarded with Detour slips that can be used against a team that is trailing them. Such a slip will require the targeted team to return to the classroom and complete an additional task (probably requiring no more time that 3-4 minutes, due to the class period time restraints mentioned earlier) before returning to claim the team's next Road Block option slip.

Of course, all of this is an experiment in progress, but with my first week behind me, I'm confident that the next four weeks - the remaining four legs of the race - will provide exciting opportunities for students to be challenged and to use collaboration to overcome those challenges, as well.

Please feel free to provide any comments or recommendations below, or to contact me on Twitter (@ATeachersTeach). I'd love to have a chance to add you to my growing PLN! Keep up all the great work you're doing in your own classroom!

-Charlie
(A Teacher's Teacher)

Wednesday Weekly 5 Under $5 - 2/13/19

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) that would like to get more information about joining TBOTEMC, click here.  Free free to e-mail me with any questions, as I'd be happy to help in any way possible.

VIPKID Reward System: Animal Theme - $3.00

By Under One Roof
ESL/ELL & Classroom Management; Not Grade Specific

These VIPKID reward activities can be used with any online teaching platform. It includes 8 full color, reusable animal themed backgrounds. Each background also has a set of colored squares to cover the animals on the backgrounds. Use the colored squares to cover up the animals in the picture. When your student earns a reward they can uncover a new animal. Use the phrase “What do you see?” to reinforce speaking skills and let the student learn the animal names.

Comparing Purposes of Space Exploration Speeches - Informational Text - $2.00

By A Teacher's Teacher

ELA/Writing; Grades 7-12

This text set uses portions of President Kennedy's famous speech declaring the U.S. would go to the moon and President Obama's speech, more than 50 years later, on the topic of further space exploration. Students are given the task to compare the purpose of the two speeches to one another. This assignment will strengthen your students experience with the idea of using the text to support their writing from short pieces, as most end-of-course or end-of-year assessments require.  Modeled after AIR Testing, which is used in numerous states across the country, it would also fit well into a PARCC simulation. The text set, itself, is 4 pages long.

5.3K Add and Subtract Positive Rational Numbers - Pow! - 3.50

By Teaching's a Joy

Math; Grades 5-7

5.3K teaches children to add and subtract positive rational numbers fluently. This kit provides tons of practice (enough for several sessions, probably) adding and subtracting fractions with unlike denominators and decimals, sometimes in the same word problem or algorithm.  Included are 34 problems which can all be added and/or subtracted (so 68 problems total), Pow! game cards, ideas for instruction of the TEK, ideas for differentiation, answer keys, etc.

{FLASH DOLLAR DEAL} Valentine's Day Acrostic Poems - $1.00
By Sally Hansen - Purposeful Plans

Valentine's Day, Poetry; Grades PreK-6

There are 13 Valentine's Day Acrostic Poems to choose from!  Included in this Resource are brainstorming webs!  In addition, there are back and white pictures ready for primary grades, complete with 13 acrostic poems on lined paper.  For the upper elementary grades, there are black and white pictures with 13 acrostic poems on lined paper, as well.  To leave room for other creative uses, there is a full page of lined paper for back side, too.  What a deal!

Valentine Seek & Find Collages and Logic Puzzles - $3.50

By Margo Gentile

Valentine's Day; Grades K-3

Mix and match these differentiated activities for Valentine themed centers. Task cards-2 find & seek collages, 8 deductive reasoning puzzles, answer sheets and more question cards. Fun & challenging for K-3.

Other WW5U5 Team Members on TpT to Visit:

Believe to Achieve by Anne Rozell
Scipi - Science and Math
Mickey's Place
Primarily Learning
Urbino12

As always, I encourage comments below and any ideas or suggestions by tweeting me @ATeachersTeach or contact me via e-mail.

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