All Paths Lead to Math: Math Enrichment Lessons
A set of math enrichment lessons for grades 2-4, built around a 'Nonsensical Daily News' theme in which absurd/silly news-style headlines are used as the context or hook for math word-problem lessons.
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A set of math enrichment lessons for grades 2-4, built around a 'Nonsensical Daily News' theme in which absurd/silly news-style headlines are used as the context or hook for math word-problem lessons.
A math center worksheet that uses ancient-China history facts (papermaking, silk, the Silk Road) as context for multiplication and estimation practice.
A no-prep, summer/end-of-year-themed digital board game (hosted externally as a linked online slide/board, not embedded in the PDF) for reviewing and practicing informative-writing skills, marketed to homeschool/co-op families as well as classroom teachers.
A teacher's guide with day-by-day lessons for introducing the CCSS Standards for Mathematical Practice to upper elementary students, building a math problem-solving community and growth mindset.
A no-prep, summer/end-of-year-themed digital board game (hosted externally as a linked online slide/board, not embedded in the PDF) for reviewing and practicing opinion-writing skills, marketed to homeschool/co-op families as well as classroom teachers.
Serve as a short instructional booklet teaching what percentages are, how to convert between fractions/decimals/percentages, and how to find a percentage of a number, for grades 4-5.
A creative writing activity where students write a limerick about the end of the school year and summer vacation.
Give students practice recognizing whether an equation represents multiplying by 1, 10, or 100, using a fill-in-the-blank and color-coding format, with an included answer key.
Cross-curricular unit (reading, writing, math, vocabulary) on the human skeletal system for grades 3-4.
Introduce students to the life and art of Vincent Van Gogh through a nonfiction reading passage paired with cross-curricular practice in reading comprehension, math, vocabulary, and art.
Provide a ready-to-use emergency/substitute-teacher lesson built around a reading passage about Tyrannosaurus rex, for grades 3-4.
A crossword-style number puzzle workbook (crossnumber puzzles) reinforcing 4th-grade whole-number addition/subtraction/multiplication/division, numeration, and introductory fractions, at introductory and advanced difficulty levels.
A Virginia SOL-aligned Grade 4 mathematics practice test used to prepare students for the state SOL math assessment, with an answer key and a teacher's guide for administration and scoring.
A New York State-aligned Grade 4 math practice test (full-length, 40 questions) building mastery and state-test readiness, with a scored answer key and teacher's guide.
Provide apple-bakery themed math task cards for Grade 3-4 practice with money math and basic arithmetic.
A multi-activity pack for a 3rd-grade Ancient Egypt unit, aligned to Virginia SOL, covering vocabulary, reading comprehension, elapsed time math, and a craft/emoji-hieroglyphics activity.
A cross-curricular book companion/mini-unit built around the picture book 'Four Feet, Two Sandals' (by Karen Lynn Williams & Khadra Mohammed), integrating reading, vocabulary, writing, social studies, and math activities tied to the book's refugee-camp setting.
A step-by-step narrative writing practice unit that scaffolds students through analyzing a sample narrative, planning, drafting, self-editing, and timed writing practice to prepare for state writing tests (e.g. STAAR, FSA).
Math worksheet using a Cafe Du Monde beignet-shop scenario to practice multiplication, division, unit rates, tables, money, and weight-conversion word problems.
November Daily Math Practice: Enhancing Grades 3 to 5 The November Daily Math Practice is an invaluable academic resource designed to sharpen math skills in students at the grade levels of 3 to 5. As a robust learning tool, it paves the way for daily reinforcement of mathematical concepts, with each page offering six distinct problems.
First day of a week-long, first-week-of-school interdisciplinary unit: students pick a future career, begin researching it, and practice multiplication fact fluency and word-problem skills, alongside close reading about Chippewa/Ojibwe tribal history.
A set of open-ended writing prompt cards to give students practice writing extended responses across many topics.
A cross-curricular unit built around a nonfiction reading passage on glaciers, combining reading comprehension, creative writing, figurative-language vocabulary, and math word-problem practice.
Editable interactive slide deck of weekly September writing prompts for creative and reflective/informational writing practice.