End of Year Math Review

End of Year Math Review

As every teacher knows, the end of the school year brings challenges. We are all but standing on our heads to get the last drop of teaching in. We had our end of trimester test and a few things to review. During this trimester we had our PARCC testing. So with kiddos that were tired and just as ready as their teacher to go to the beach we had to get creative.

I sat and created a game that would review all the standards I needed to review with the students before their big test. Of course my color printer and the school color printer were not working and took forever to fix. I laminated, cut, and sorted. It took me a while to prepare this game, but the results were completely worth it.

My kids loved it. I broke them into groups of 4 or 5. I will be ordering game pieces this summer for this reason because they used a piece of paper. ( I had to pack up my room too during this time so of course I got ahead of myself packing).  

Working hard as a group to solve. 

I had them roll a dice. Move their piece. Everyone solved the problem to check the work. No one looses a turn and if someone gets a problem incorrect the person who caught it had to explain the steps to getting it correct.  They had great accountable talk. Total success!!!

I hope it works as well in your room. It does not have to be just for the end of the year. It could be used as just a review anytime. 

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Love, 

Miss Stetson

Week 3 Seller's Challenge My Masterpiece

This week’s challenge took a little longer than  expected. I took an older product and recreated it into a masterpiece. I have been brainstorming for awhile how to make this work better. I am so pleased with how this project turned out.

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Tier 2 words are so important. I always think of Tier 2 as words that we do not use in our everyday language, but we read them in text. This activity is a great way to build vocabulary. It can be used in morning meeting or during vocabulary block. It is an entire year worth of words , so you never run out of ideas.

I included a completed file with answers for you as well.

I hope everyone enjoys.

Love,

Miss Stetson

Amazed

This holiday season I have locked myself to the computer. I have organized files, deleted unnecessary files, and went shopping for wedding stuff. The one thing I have accomplished is updating old files. 

When I began my TpT journey I did not realize how hard it was to format centers. I had always made really simple centers and did not use clipart often. I found myself frustrated and annoyed. I felt this way because I was constantly comparing what I did to everyone else. It wasn't until 4 months ago that I discovered PowerPoint to make centers instead of using Word. 

If you are new to making items for your classroom, whether it is worksheets, centers, or classroom management tools PowerPoint is the way to go.  I know there is a ton of other formatting programs out there. This is one many of us have on our computers. I have used an older version and a newer version and I am so happy I read someone's blog about this. 

Tonight instead of getting ready to ring in the New Year, I have been updating a few of my centers. ( My fiancé is a fireman saving the world so I didn't want to go out and have to drive in the dark). My fluency in working on activities is always improving. I am in no way a professional nor do I have any affeliaction to Microsoft, but if you ever have any questions in how to troubleshoot basic tasks please feel free to contact me at missstetsonclassroom@gmail.com. 

This is a link to my updated center. Please feel free to download for free and leave feedback. I would appreciate your feedback so I know how to improve my product. 

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Thanks for your support as always, 

Miss Stetson