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Award Cards for Your Students

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Award Cards to Improve Academics & Citizenship


Catch your students' attention with award cards; and begin a meaningful classroom discussion about academics, citizenship, and learning achievements.

These award cards provide an opportunity to:

  1. Enhance Self-Esteem
  2. Motivate Students
  3. Encourage Complete Assignments and Homework
  4. Improve Classroom Behavior

Multiplication Practice for 3rd Graders

STUDENTS PRACTICE  MULTIPLICATION FACTS WHILE LEARNING STATES AND CAPITALS

Multiplication Game - USA states and capitals
Multiplication Practice - USA


Spin, name and color USA map. Students become motivated and engaged

in the first 5 minutes!  Students love playing this game, and multiplication fact practice   is part of the game!  This is a spin, name and color USA map. Working with a partner, color in the USA map while knowing your multiplication facts. Tables included for practice are: 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 12. This is a NO PREP activity.   



Just download, print and hand out. Students use a paper clip-pencil spinner 

to know their facts. Directions are included both for the students and the teacher. 

Check lists included so students can check their answers for both multiplication facts and USA state and capital knowledge.   Cover to make a folder for this activity is also included. This would be appropriate for grades 3 and 4 and homeschoolers or anyone learning multiplication and would like to add USA geography to the fun.  You might use this in a learning center, seat work or morning work.  This can be a perfect time filler with a very positive outcome.


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Grab this resource now to engage your students in learning multiplication facts, USA geography, USA States and Capitals with smiles on their faces!
Easy set up, play goes on for many days until their maps are completely colored in.  Play for about 20-30 minutes, set them away and wait for them to ask, "May we play Multiplication-USA again!"

Multiplication Practice - USA states and capitals
Multiplication Facts & USA - Find Yours HERE

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Teaching Resources for February | Elementary Grades


Teaching Resources that engage your students in meaningful learning and save YOU time.   Browse below to see some of the Teaching Resources that will brighten your room and engage your students in reading, writing, speaking and listening.  Find math resources that teach the language of all around numbers and facts that engage thinking.  

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All the book companions for your favorite read alouds for the first week of school. Set the tone of your classroom with children's literature. 
Find your favorite:


click book companions to find the entire list.


Teach literacy and life lessons with children's literature and use my book companions for many favorite books from your classroom library.  

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Abraham Lincoln 

Writing Prompts - Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln Writing Prompts

Three pages to write about Abraham Lincoln. Easy graphic organizer to write a very short biography, page to write what you know about Lincoln and one page to write some important facts and highlights about AbrahamLincoln. You could use these pages after any book about Abraham Lincoln. 

The biography page includes a space to write his birthplace, birthdate, family, and height. Jot down some important facts about Lincoln's life. Write one question you might have for Lincoln if you met him. Draw a small portrait of Lincoln. Display some of your favorite books about Abraham Lincoln and use these writing pages to create a writing center for February.




The Day It Rained Hearts, by Felicia Bond. This book is a very sweet story about imagination, creativity and friendship. Cornelia Augusta finds herself in a rainstorm of hearts! What fun! 

There are 21 pages here to respond in writing to this cute valentine story. It's a favorite and children love to find out who the valentines are for.... book talk notes and teacher notes included. You can easily assign these pages for distance learning and school-at-home.

This book companion is to be used with the book; The Day It Rained Hearts, by Felicia Bond.


Complete a Reading Interest Survey. Easy to use. Download and print. Find out valuable information to build reading skills in your classroom.  Take a Reading Interest Inventory of your students and learn about their thoughts about reading. This information can help you plan your lessons to reach each student in your classroom and teach them to become lifelong readers.

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Reading Survey - Improve Reading Achievement
Once you know your students’ interests, you have an opportunity to find books that they enjoy. If they enjoy reading, they will read more. If they read more, reading achievement will be reaching new heights. Taking time to do Interest Inventories is an investment that will pay dividends later, especially for the struggling readers who might not think they would enjoy reading anything. With the right topic choice based on interest, you might hook every kid onto reading this year!








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Classroom Posters

Catch their attention with these bright, colorful and meaningful classroom posters to teach admirable character traits. These posters can be a springboard for important class discussions on building good character. Display them in your classroom and refer to them often. Attitude in your classroom makes a difference.

There are 12 posters:

  • Be Brave
  • Be Wise
  • Be Curious
  • Stand Tall
  • Be Reliable
  • Be Resourceful
  • Be Loyal
  • Be Honest
  • Dream Big
  • Be Clean
  • Be Kind
  • Be Clever

Make your classroom colorful and bright and teach admirable character traits.



multiplication facts practice
Riddles for Math - Multiplication

  Students engage in solving catchy and fun  riddles  and LEARN their multiplication facts, too! Each page starts out with a riddle to read and think about... students then complete the multiplication facts and match the number and letters to solve the riddle.

This multiplication practice resource

for school or at home includes:

  • 20 riddle pages with multiplication facts 
  • and fun pictures to color
  • multiplication facts from 0 - 12, mixed on each page
  • answers for riddles page


This math activity engages children in learning their multiplication facts. Students can complete the multiplication pages independently, with a partner, in a small group or with the entire class. Also works great for distance learning and school at home. Great for small group math station while teacher time is with another small group. These pages are appropriate for 3rd graders and homeschoolers who are learning their multiplication facts.

100 Days of School Interactive Booklets

 One Hundred Days of School  - What's the Count?

Celebrate the 100th day with these bright and colorful interactive booklets!

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Easy to make! Only 2 pages and you will have created an eight page booklet. Students interact to read, spell, solve and draw with the number 100 in mind.

  • Read 100 sight words
  • Spell 100 words
  • Solve 100 math facts
  • Draw 100 geometric shapes

Your students will love making it to 100 on each of these pages.

Print in colors to add to the celebration.

Also included are more pages to make your 100th day a bit special.

  • A 100th day Coloring Page
  • A 100 circle chart
  • 100 buttons in a jar [page] to count and color
  • Number Grid from 1-100
  • Fill in the missing numbers from 1-100 chart
  • 100 Days Smarter coloring page



How will you celebrate the 100th day of school without any sugar?  Here are five ways you can do that and your students will be smarter and healthier. 

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 #1.  Make an Interactive Booklet where students read 100 sight words, spell 100 words, solve 100 math facts, and draw 100 geometric shapes.  They love making this booklet and especially love making it to 100 for each of the tasks included

Read 100 Sight Words -  Spell 100 words
Solve 100 Math Facts - Draw 100 geometric shapes

#2.   Many teachers like to graph food items.  If you are inclined to make a 100's graph, let's make a healthy list of food items you might use instead of those sugary ones