Teacher Giveaway! Weekly $25 Teachers pay Teachers Gift Card Giveaway April 6, 2020

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Teacher Giveaway! Monthly $100 Teachers pay Teachers Gift Card Giveaway - April 2020

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Prize: $100 Teachers Pay Teachers Gift Card

Giveaway Organized by: Kelly Malloy (An Apple for the Teacher)

Co-hosts:   An Apple for the Teacher, Mrs Wenning's Classroom, Roots and Wings, Teach Me T, MRS GROOMS ROOM, Kamp Kindergarten, TheBeezyTeacher, Essie's Classroom Resources - Esther Bobb, The Craft of Teaching, Right Down the Middle with Andrea, 180 Days of Reading, The Froggy Factory, Jackie Crews, Teach Play with Mrs J, Star Kids, Kelly McCown, Reading and Writing Redhead, Chocolate 4 Teachers, The Fun Factory, Sweetie's, Mrs Hansens Helpfuls,Teacher Ms H, and Mickey's Place.

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A List of Authors Doing Virtual Story Time or Art Lessons

It has been amazing seeing all of the people donating their times and talents to help keep our students learning and busy during this crazy time!  One thing I have especially loved is all of the authors who have been doing virtual story times or art lessons.

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Here is a list of all the ones I have seen so far.  I will keep adding to the list as I hear about new ones.

Lunch Doodles With Mo Willems  

The author of Knuffle Bunny and the Pigeon Books teaches students how to draw some of his famous characters.  These would make great story starters for students to write their own versions of his books.

Carmen Agra Deedy 

The author of Rita and Ralph's Rotten Day reads this story about two friends who are having trouble being friends.

Jon Scieszka 

The author of The True Story of the Three Little Pigs reads this outrageously funny "other version" of the famous tale of the three little pigs.  This is always one of my students' favorites!

RJ Palcacio 

Author RJ Palacio is reading her best selling book Wonder over on her Twitter page.  She reads a few chapters at a time.  I read this to my class every year, so they have been excited to hear from the author herself!

Peter H. Reynolds

The author of The Word Collector is sharing his read alouds on his Facebook page. He shares not only his own books, but books from other authors as well.

James Dean

The author of the Pete the Cat books goes live on his Instagram page  weekdays at 1:00 PM EST to read his groovy books!

Jarrett J. Lrosoczka 

The author of the Lunch Lady and Jedi Academy series has drawing lessons on his YouTube channel.

Kate Messner

Author Kate Messner shares a read-aloud of The Next President: The Unexpected Beginnings and Unwritten Future of America's Presidents along with several other of her books on her YouTube channel. 

She is also sharing a book club with her chapter book, Ranger in Time: Rescue on the Oregon Trail.  Students can ask her questions about the book or writing as well.

Dav Pilkey

The author of much loved series like Captain Underpants, Dog Man, and Ricky Ricotta has a web page called Dav Pilkey at Home where he shares drawing lessons, excerpts from his books, writing prompts, and more!  If your students LOVE Dav Pilkey as much as mine do, they will love this site!

Chris Van Dusen

Author and illustrator, Chris Van Dusen, shares some drawing lessons and reads A Piglet Named Mercy (which he illustrated) on his Instagram.  He also has how to videos of drawing many of his characters on his YouTube page.

Jamie Lee Curtis  

The author shares her book Is There Really a Human Race? on the Instagram page, Save with Stories.  They also have a ton of other read alouds from authors and actors!

Lauren Tarshis 

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The author of the amazing I Survived series is sharing a read aloud of her I Survived The Destruction of Pompeii, AD 79 chapter book.  The first two chapters are in the video above, but you can find all of the chapters on the Scholastic YouTube page.

While it's not necessarily the author for this series, Daniel Radcliffe and other well known actors are reading Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.  

Have you seen any other author's reading books?  Leave a comment below.

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The Best Book Deals this Week

One of the positive side effects of being stuck at home is that we have more time to read.  I know I have been, and so have many of my students as well! 

If you are looking for some new reading material for you or your students, here are some great book deals going on now!

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BOOK DEALS YOU DON'T WANT TO MISS THIS WEEK!

I've been working on The Miracle Morning for Teachers which is available for FREE with Kindle Unlimited right now.

My students have been big fans of Pax, and so are many others as it has won a ton of awards! You can get the Kindle version for under $2 right now!

My students also love graphic novels, so they will love seeing Click on Kindle unlimited for free! It's all about finding friendships in middle school and seeing where you "click".  It's a perfect read for your Smile fans!

I first read The Handmaid's Tale when I was in high school, and after watching the series on Hulu, I've been wanting to read it again.  It's a great time to get it now while it is free on Kindle Unlimited!

Mercy Watson is a BIG hit in our classroom!  I love that my students can read Mercy Watson to the Rescue for FREE on Kindle Unlimited.

What books have you been reading while you are staying at home? Leave a comment below to let me know!  I am always looking for new books to read!

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The Best Multiplication Read Alouds

I love combining read-alouds with just about any subject content, and multiplication is no different!  Here are some of my favorite read-alouds for helping your students gain a better understanding of multiplication.

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The Best of Times by Greg Tang

Greg Tang uses poetry and illustrations to provide students with rules and strategies for mastering their multiplication facts.

Two of Everything 

This is a tale of a poor Chinese farmer and his wife. Mr. Haktak finds a brass pot, and after his wife drops her hairpin into it, they realize that it is a magic pot that doubles everything.  

This is a great book for teaching a doubling strategy or introducing the concept of multiplication. 

2X2 = Boo! A Set of Spooky Multiplication Stories

Author Loreen Leedy introduces the multiplication facts from 0 through 5 with six funny math stories. This book is another perfect introduction to a multiplication unit.

Count on Pablo

Pablo is excited to help his grandmother (Abuela) sell vegetables at the farmer's market.  See how he uses multiplication to help!  

365 Penguins

The family in this book finds themselves receiving a new penguin each and every day! This book is bound to make your kiddos laugh as they count along with the ever growing penguins!

Other Multiplication Resources

If you're teaching multiplication and looking for some other great tools to help your students, check out the following resources:

Multiplication Color By Number

Kicking It Math Multiplication Fact Fluency Program  

Roll the Die and Multiply

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Teacher Giveaway! Weekly $25 Teachers pay Teachers Gift Card Giveaway March 30, 2020

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Math Dice Games Your Kids Will Love

My students absolutely LOVE when we play math games using dice! We use dice to practice not only math facts, but just about any other math skill as well!  There is something about rolling dice that makes just about any math practice fun!

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You can use any regular set of dice for these games, or you can use this on-line virtual dice roller from your computer!  The nice thing about the virtual dice roller is that you can roll up to 60 dice at a time with ZERO noise!

Some game ideas:

Math Facts

Roll 2 dice and find the sum, difference, product, or quotient.

Challenge: Roll 3 dice and do the same as above.

Roll 2 dice and find the sum, difference, product, or quotient.

The picture above could be:

                                                   4 + 3 = 7

                                                   4 - 3 = 1

                                                   4 X 3 = 12

                                                   4 / 3 = 1 r. 1

Multi-Digit Addition and Subtraction

Roll 2 - 5 dice.  Write down the number.  Roll again and add or subtract the second number from the first number. 

This could be:

                                 6,345 + 5,321 = 11,666 
                                                   or
                               
                                 6,345 - 5,321 = 1,024

Multi-Digit Multiplication

1. (2 digit X 1 digit) 

Roll 2 dice.  Write down the number. Roll 1 dice.  Find the product.

This would be:

46 X 6 = 276

2. (3 digit X 1 digit) 

Roll 3 dice.  Write down the number. Roll 1 dice.  Find the product.

3. (2 digit X 2 digit) 

Roll 2 dice.  Write down the number. Roll the dice again.  Find the product.

Long Division

1. (2 digit divided by 1 digit) 
Roll 2 dice.  Write down the number. Roll 1 dice.  Find the quotient.

This would be:

65 / 6 = 10 r. 5

2. (3 digit divided by 1 digit) 
Roll 3 dice.  Write down the number. Roll 1 dice.  Find the quotient.

Place Value

1. What is the place value of the ___?

Roll 2-6 dice depending on students level.  Then ask them what is the place value of each #?

This would be 152,414. 

So you could ask:

1. What is the place value of the 5? ten thousands

2. What value is the 2? 2,000

Challenge: You can increase the level by making the place values decimals.

2. Ten more, ten less

Roll 2 dice and have the students tell you what is the number that is ten less or ten more.

Roll 3 dice and have the students tell you what is the number that is one hundred less or one hundred more.

Roll 4 dice and have the students tell you what is the number that is one thousand less or one thousand more.

Rounding

Roll the dice and then round the number to the greatest place, hundreds place, tens place, etc.

This would be 6,511

rounded to the greatest place = 7,000

rounded to the hundreds place = 6,500

rounded to the tens place = 6,510

Geometry

Perimeter and area 

1. Roll the dice.  Write down the number.  Roll the dice again.  Use the two numbers to find the perimeter of a rectangle with those dimensions.

What would the area of that same rectangle be?

The perimeter would be 8 + 8 + 4 + 4 = 24 

and the area would be  8 X 4 = 32

or to make it challenging,

2. Roll one die.  What would the perimeter of an equilateral triangle with that length be?
What would the perimeter of a pentagon with that length be?
Shape identification
1. Roll one die.  What would the shape with that number of sides be?
What other math skills could you use dice for? I would love to hear your ideas!

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