Promoting Success: December 2015

Wednesday, December 30, 2015

Personal Reflections and New Year Resolutions for Kids

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Before you begin writing your new year resolutions, it is important for students to reflect on their past year. This blog post will motivate students to reflect while giving teachers some fun activity ideas.

How about a pep talk from Kid President?!

So how do we put our reflective thoughts into writing?

Here is a FREE worksheet to help your students reflect on the past year:

Click HERE for this free download.

Once your students have engaged in some personal reflection, they are ready to write goals or resolutions for the new year. Your students will love this interactive notebook activity. You may use it as a stand along activity or include it in their interactive notebooks.

Click HERE to see this new year activity in our store.

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You may also like these new year activities found in our store:

Words of Wisdom Bulletin Board Activity

January Writing Prompts Task Cards

Chinese New Year Task Cards

New Year Clip Art for Commercial Use

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You may also like these Amazon products from our associate store:

Squirrel's New Year's Resolution

(Best Seller on Amazon)

"Do you know how to make a resolution?" Squirrel asked Bear. "Is it like making a snack?"

Bear laughed. "Resolutions are more important than snacks."

"More important than snacks?" said Squirrel. "What is a resolution?"

Squirrel knows that New Year's Day is a great day for making resolutions! But what does it mean to make a resolution, anyway? As she makes visits around the forest she learns about New Year's resoltions and helps her friends get started on theirs. If only she can think of a resolution of her very own...

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New Years Eve Party props

Great for Dramatic Play Centers or as Writing Prompts

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New Year's Black, Gold and Silver Decorations

Your students will be excited to start the new year in your classroom!

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new years eve scavenger hunt games for kids

New Year Scavenger Hunt

Students will enjoy playing this on cold, snowy days during indoor recess!

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Double Dragon Chinese Good Luck Coins

Every student may have one!

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Wednesday, December 2, 2015

Free Christmas Math Fractions Activities and Games for 2nd and 3rd Grade

Christmas is such a wonderful time of the year! Students are highly motivated when we tie Christmas into classroom learning. Today we are sharing a free Christmas comparing fractions game for your 2nd grade, 3rd grade, and special education math students to have fun playing in your holiday math centers or stations.

Note: This blog post contains resources from our TpT store and our Amazon Associate store.

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Free Christmas Comparing Fractions Game

Materials:
Dice
Set of 12 Like Objects (Call these Set A)
Set of 12 Like Objects (Call these Set B)
Empty Bag
Math Journal (or paper)

Players:

Game may be played with 2-6 players (or more). More players makes this game significantly harder. This is a great way to differentiate. Lower students play with partners. Average students play with 2-4 players. Advanced players play with 5 or more.

Step 1:

Place all 24 objects in a bag. (Sets A and B)

Step 2:

First student rolls the dice. The first die determines how many A objects to take out of the bag. The second die determines how many B objects to take out of the bag.

Step 3:

Player 1 writes a fraction answering the question, "How many Objects A out of how many total were drawn?"

Step 4:

Player 2 takes a turn following the same steps.

Step 5:

Players determine whose fraction is larger? The player with the larger fraction earns one point.

Step 6:

The first player to 10 points wins.

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Here are some sample manipulatives from our Amazon Associate store:

They would also make fun student gifts after the activity!