April Showers Bring May Flowers

May is the perfect month to teach kids about PLANTS!




plant diagram


Make a fun flower diagram with the kids, then go outside with some fun flower/plant field guides or some pictures from books or the internet and find and identify different flowers and plant parts.

Click on the picture above to get directions for making the plant diagram.

Enjoy the great weather and all the lovely plants! :)

 

Fun with 3D Shapes - Ideas, Activities, and Resources

Are you looking for a few more ideas, activities, or resources for a unit on 3D Shapes?

I have LOTS of blog posts from September and October of 2011 on geometry but to make the 3D Shapes posts easier for you to find, here's a sampling of some of the posts listed below.

Check the list below! Click on any of the links below to go to the specific blog post.

~ Making 3D Shapes with Manipulatives
~ 3D Shapes Videos and Songs
~ 3D Shapes Word Search Puzzle
~ 3D Shapes Crossword Puzzle
~ What is a Cube?
~ What is a Cylinder?
~ What is a Cone?
~ What is a Sphere?
~ What is a Prism?
~ What is a Pyramid?
~ Make an Icosahedron
~ 3D Shape Attributes
~ 3D and 2D Shapes Venn Diagram
~ Nets of 3D Shapes

Have fun with 3D Shapes! :)

 

W!N Great Teaching Resources at The Learning Lab

Stacey at The Learning Lab is hosting a great GIVEAWAY of wonderful teaching resources for you to win from May 5-12. These teaching resources would be great to use in a classroom or in a homeschool setting.



The Learning Lab

 

Stacey has 3 different giveaway packages.... K-3, 2-5, and 3-7.

Bundle for Grades K-3

My donation, 2D Shape Bingo Game, is in the 1st package with the other resources for Kindergarten to Grade 3. To learn more about Shape Bingo, click on the picture below.



Shape Bingo

To learn more about the GIVEAWAY and to enter the GIVEAWAY, just click on the top picture.

Best of luck, I hope you win LOTS of fabulous teaching resources!  :)

 

Teacher Appreciation 2 Day Sale at TpT

Teachers pay Teachers is having a HUGE SALE on May 7- 8th to celebrate Teacher Appreciation Day.




TpT Sals

 

Use the PROMO CODE: TAD13   at check out to get an extra 10% off!

Plus I've put everything in my TpT store on sale also!  I'm giving 20% off everything. Click here.

LOTS of other sellers will have sales going on also!

HAPPY TEACHER APPRECIATION DAYS  EVERYONE!

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Simple Fish Anatomy Diagram

Here's a simple diagram of a fish that the kids can label and color. It's a little follow-up to yesterday's blog post with the fish word search puzzle and fish craft activities. It's a good way to review some of the vocabulary that was on the fish word search.

gills - organs used for breathing
scales - outside covering of most fish
fins - used for swimming and balancing in water



Answers:
 Top Row: mouth, eye
Bottom Row: gills, scales, fin, tail fin

This diagram is now at my website. Just click on the picture above to grab your copy.

If you missed yesterday's blog post, you can read it by clicking the link below.

http://learningideasgradesk-8.blogspot.com/2013/04/fun-fish-word-search-puzzle-plus-fish.html

Have fun with fish.

 

 

Fun Fish Word Search Puzzle plus Fish Crafts

As the weather gets warmer it's fun to incorporate a fun fish or ocean theme into the kids' learning.

Here's a little science word search freebie about fish. It includes vocabulary for the parts of a fish as well as a small list of different types of fish.
Just click on the picture below to go to my website to download this free item plus lots of other free science word search puzzles.




Free Fish Word Search Puzzle

If you'd also like to do some fun fish crafts with the kids, here's a few that use inexpensive craft materials to get you started. Just click on the picture below to get directions for the different crafts.




Fun Fish Craft Activities

If you're working with very young kids, you might like the following math product which is for sale in my TpT store. It's called Ocean Life Counting Puzzles. Just click on the picture below to read more about this product.




Ocean Life Counting Puzzles



 

Have fun! :)

 

 

Boston Strong - Teachers for Boston





Boston Strong - Teachers for Boston
 

Michaela at The Center Based Classroom has put together a fundraiser to raise money for the victims of last week's bombing at the Boston Marathan.

Michaela asked sellers at the site Teachers Pay Teachers if they would like to donate products to the fundraiser from their TpT stores. She received an overwhelming response. You can see the pictures below of all the teaching products that were donated.

There are 2 bundles. The 1st bundle is for Grades K-2 and is valued at $150. The 2nd bundle is for Grades 3-6 and is valued at $170.

You can purchase either bundle for $20 and the ENTIRE DONATION goes to the ONE FUND to help victims of the Boston Marathon bombing.

To learn more about this wonderful fundraiser and/or to purchase a bundle in which the entire donation goes to the One Fund, click on the top picture above to go to Michaela's blog.

Thanks!