FREE March Math & TpT Giveaway

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If you're an email subscriber you already know about the monthly math freebies and giveaways. This month will be three TpT $25.00 gift cards!

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Reading Logs Grow & Guide Student Reading

Do you use reading logs with your students?

Have you found an easy method for recording and collecting what they've read?

Reading logs come in all shapes and sizes. The best ones are those that engage the reader, involve the parents/guardians, and help develop life long readers. Students should have a goal for daily reading. Giving them a visual reading log helps them to see what they have accomplished. Visual reading logs can be given weekly or monthly. Motivating and engaging students in reading is vital to improving their daily reading fluency. Start your students on a daily reading log challenge today!

Reading Logs - Weekly

Students color in each star for five minutes they've read on the weekly reading logs. Then write down which books they have read each week. It's easy to assign on a Monday for the week and collect the following Monday. You can involve parents by having them sign the weekly reading logs. Involving parents in the reading process helps show children how reading is an important skill that needs to be practiced daily.

Reading Logs - Monthly 

Students color in each star for five minutes of daily reading. This reading log is perfect for monthly homework packets or folders. Parents sign the reading log once a month. By having parents check and sign the reading log, it helps reiterate that reading is an important skill that students need to continuously work on.

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Using reading logs will help foster a love of reading with your students. Encourage them to read in small time sessions of  five minutes to build up their reading stamina. Students may not be able to sit and read for a whole twenty minutes. Giving them the opportunity to grow and develop reading habits is important.

Happy Reading!

February TPT Sale & Gift Card Winners

Did you hear about the Sale?

It's happening today and tomorrow!

Use coupon code TICKTOCK. 

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Also Congratulations to Danielle & Megan who both won Teachers Pay Teachers Gift Cards!!


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Closet Makeover

Do you have a hallway closet that needs TLC? 

That's exactly what we had in our 1970s house. A front hallway closet that needed some TLC. It was an unusable space that needed repurposed. We housed all of our cleaning supplies, plastic bags, and the occasional coat (before the bar fell out). We needed help to get this closet back on track and helping our family of five be more organized.

The Closet Makeover Plan. 

My husband created the plans for the closet to become a mudroom for our family. We designed exactly how we wanted everything to function from the drawers to the shelf.

This is a drawing of one of the two shelf supports. He created the drawings with the dimensions of our closet. Then asked me for approval before making any cuts. 

This is the original mock up of the closet. Originally we were going to have four drawers, but after the drawings were created, the drawers were going to be too small. We went with a 3 panel, 3 drawer design instead.

Attention to Details.

Everything in the mudroom closet was easy to medium difficulty for my husband. He used his woodworking tools to create everything inside.

The closet is narrow, only 56 inches inside with a 48 inch opening to the hallway. Each panel inside is 14.5 inches. Each panel was designed with two double hooks (for a total of 6 hooks). The hooks we purchased were a pack of Black 2 prong coat hooks here (affiliate link).

The bench is 56 inches long with a depth of 18 inches. We also hand picked and purchased the Black 4 inch drawer pulls here (affiliate link). The insides of the drawers are 13 inches by 15 inches to hold at least four pairs of adult shoes. The kids have one drawer and my husband & I each have our own shoe drawers. Our kids are 4, 3, and 0, so their shoes are small right now. We may re-evaluate drawer ownership in the future. 

Final Results. 

We are very pleased with the renovations. Our hallway closet has never been so organized and well kept. This is giving us momentum to start our next renovation project.

Happy DIY-ing!

Pi Day Math Centers Elementary

Do you want to engage your students with Math Centers?

Ready to celebrate Pi Day?

Pi Day Math Centers 

These Pi Day activities are intended to help students understand Pi in its relation to the world and mathematics. Students will rotate through the six different Pi Day math centers (stations) to learn the history of Pi, add and subtract fractions of pie, the formulas associated with Pi for circumference, and other key Pi concepts. Math centers are a great way for students to independently work and learn all about Pi day. 

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Math Centers include: 

1. Vocabulary

2. Practice with Adding Pie Fractions with Like and Unlike Denominators

3. Practice with Subtracting Pie Fractions with Like and Unlike Denominators

4. Using measurement to find the circumference with Pi

5. History of Pi 

6. Word Problems of Adding and Subtracting Fractions

7. Technology or Pie Eating Station (OPTIONAL)

Students favorite math center activity of course is the pie eating station. If only they could eat pie every day! Make it a memorable day and have students bring in cookies, pies, or any round dessert to share. 

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 -BONUS "Pi Eating" Station Table Tent included!

-Student Station Guide or Student Mini Book of Pi helps students record their answers from each Math center

-ALL ANSWER KEYS included

Remember to keep it light and fun! Pi day math centers will keep your day organized and fun. It will be a math day your students will remember how much fun they had with their teacher and classmates, also eating all that pie!

Happy Teaching!