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How to Plan the Best First Day of School Activity for Your Classroom

August 5, 2023August 5, 2023 - themeaningfulteacher Leave a comment

My back to school tips for easily creating an engaging first day of school activity for your students!

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First Week of School Activities | Back to School

July 9, 2022August 8, 2023 - themeaningfulteacher Leave a comment

My top 5 engaging first week of school activities that your upper elementary students will love!

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Teaching Customary Measurement Conversions

March 10, 2022January 29, 2023 - themeaningfulteacher Leave a comment

My favorite lessons and resources to teach customary measurment conversions in my fifth grade classroom!

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Activities for the Last Days of School

May 29, 2021May 29, 2021 - themeaningfulteacher Leave a comment

Celebrate the end of the year and the last days of school in the classroom with these engaging and low-prep activities that your students will love!

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October drags, man. Spook it up with this Hallowee October drags, man. Spook it up with this Halloween math activity! 👻

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👻Halloween Math Around the Room Activity!👻 👻Halloween Math Around the Room Activity!👻

32 questions, covers whole number addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and place value.

Hang them around the room, and have your students walk around solving and recording their answers on the answer sheet.

Then, they’ll take their answer choices and the corresponding colors, and color the picture according to their choices!

Comment 👻 below and I’ll send you the direct link!

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It’s tpt sale day! If you’re browsing - grab t It’s tpt sale day! If you’re browsing - grab things that you can use alllll year to make lesson planning easier.

Two things from my store that fit the bill:
1. Prefix, Suffix, and Root Word worksheets and activities bundle
2. Math color by numbers for your grade level (3rd, 4th, 5th, or 6th)

Comment if you want a direct link to anything - or head straight to my shop through the link in my bio!

Happy shopping!

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So excited to gift one of you $10 to spend during So excited to gift one of you $10 to spend during the tpt sale tomorrow!

This new, growing bundle of 6th grade math color by number activities will be SO cheap to grab during the sale, and you’ll automatically get all of the new activities when they’re added this fall!

Tag all the 6th grade teachers ya know! I’ll pick a random comment tomorrow at 7pm PST and dm you for your email, to send you the gift card in time to use during the tpt sale!

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6th grade math color by numbers are here!!!!!! Te 6th grade math color by numbers are here!!!!!!

Teacher consensus in the reviews is that EVEN sixth graders love the chance to color in math class.

This solving one step equations resource just got a MAJOR update! Grab it in my tpt store through the link in my bio 🔗

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SAVE this reel! 📌 My latest blog post has a bu SAVE this reel! 📌

My latest blog post has a bunchhhh of great BTS read alouds for big kids, and simple, totally free activities to accompany each.

These are great for an extra 15 min at the end of the day during the first week, or even month of school!

To see the roundup, head to themeaningfulteacher.com and this post will pop up in the middle of the page!

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