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5 Activities for Classifying 2D Figures in Upper Elementary

5 Activities for Classifying 2D Figures

Try engaging students during math with these 5 activities for classifying 2D figures. Squares, circles, hexagons, pentagons, and on and on and on.  There are so many 2D shapes, all with different attributes for students to learn. On the way to mastering the upper elementary math standards, students need to

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Cookies for Santa Classroom Activity

Cookies for Santa Classroom Activity

Learn more about the cookies left for Santa all around the world with this Cookies for Santa Classroom Activity. Do you leave cookies for Santa at your house? If you don’t, do you have any other December holiday traditions? We are all familiar with leaving cookies for Santa, but do

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Holiday Picture Books for Read-Aloud: Countdown to Break

Holiday Picture Books for Read-Aloud: Countdown to Break. 

Let’s gear up for winter break with these 12 holiday picture books for the upper elementary classroom. Today, we are preparing for the holiday season with a little holiday countdown created specifically for the upper elementary classroom. In our 12 days of break, we aren’t giving turtle doves, or french

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December Holiday Activities and Ideas

December Holiday Activities and Ideas

Need some December holiday activities and ideas that aren’t just based around religious holidays; we’ve got some ideas for both the expected and unexpected holidays in December! December is a month that often feels like it absolutely flies by. Starting just a few days after Thanksgiving break and ending early

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Gingerbread Fun for the Upper Elementary Classroom (Blog Post)

Gingerbread Fun for the Upper Elementary Classroom

Gingerbread Day is December 12, and we are ready to explore some Gingerbread fun for the upper elementary classroom! We are huge advocates of using as many different methods of engaging students as possible in the upper elementary classroom, especially if you are most of the way through the first

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Using Animated Shorts to Teach ELA Skills (Blog Posts)

Using Animated Shorts to Teach ELA Skills

Using animated shorts to teach ELA skills can be a fun way to engage students and practice skills in a way that allows students to see how another medium uses the same tools to tell a story. There is just something super magical about the way animated short films can

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November Holiday Activities and Ideas (Blog Post)

November Holiday Activities & Ideas

We are getting full swing into the holiday season with these November holiday activities and ideas! November is a busy month in the United States. Coming off of Halloween on the 31st (which you may have celebrated the first week of November) and then going into your first longer break

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10 low cost/no cost reward ideas for upper elementary students

Low-Cost/No-Cost Reward Ideas for Upper Elementary Students

When your students need encouragement and motivation, consider implementing some of these low-cost/no-cost reward ideas for upper elementary students! Although we wish that learning new things and growing in knowledge and understanding was enough to motivate our students all year long, deep down, we know that most people need some

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