Welcome to my shop! I'm so happy you are here! I have experience as an elementary teacher (1-5), teacher mentor, guest teacher and mom (twins!). The belief that ALL students can be creative thinkers guides all that I do. I am certified to teach gifted education and am pursuing my ESL endorsement. Elementary Math and integrated unit planning are my favorite subjects to teach. There is a little something for everyone in my shop! Please feel free to contact me with any questions!
Welcome to my shop! I'm so happy you are here! I have experience as an elementary teacher (1-5), teacher mentor, guest teacher and mom (twins!). The belief that ALL students can be creative thinkers guides all that I do. I am certified to teach gifted education and am pursuing my ESL endorsement. Elementary Math and integrated unit planning are my favorite subjects to teach. There is a little something for everyone in my shop! Please feel free to contact me with any questions!
Christmas Maths Activities
Looking for Christmas Maths activities that are EASY and FUN? Students can review their maths skills with puzzles, Christmas hidden pictures and riddles! Perfect for Christmas maths centers, Christmas early finishers, Christmas maths morning work, as enrichment or for small groups. Common core aligned and geared towards Year 6. An answer key is included. This print version is in both printer friendly black & white and full color! The Google Slides DIGITAL version is also included!
This is the PRINT & DIGITAL version.
This Christmas Maths Pack for Year 6 Includes:
*Coordinate Graphing Mystery Picture
*Multiplying and Dividing Fractions
*Rounding and Comparing Decimals to the ten thousandths
*Volume
*Interpreting Line Plots with fractions
*Christmas Fraction Word Problems
*Order of Operations
*Writing and Solving Equations
*Scaling
*Christmas Logic Problems
*Christmas Ordered Pairs Hidden Picture- Create a fridge-worthy picture by connecting the coordinate points!
This Bundle contains two of my popular Christmas packets! These packets are perfect for early finishers or enrichment. Save 20% when you BUNDLE! Please see each product for a full preview!
1. Christmas Math Pack for 5th Grade
2. Christmas Creative Thinking Pack
This Bundle contains two of my popular Christmas packets! These packets are perfect for early finishers or enrichment. Save 20% when you BUNDLE!
1) Christmas Math Pack for 4th Grade
2) Christmas Creative Thinking Pack
This BUNDLE includes my Summer Math Pack for 3rd Grade and my Summer Creative Thinking Pack. Please see the full descriptions below:
This Summer Math Pack contains 29 pages of summer-themed math practice for 3rd graders. This pack is fully aligned to 3rd grade common core standards. These packets are fun, engaging and many activities are self-checking! It makes great practice before school starts!
This packet reviews:
Word Problems for all operations- one and two step
Finding the missing number in an equation
Rounding
Three digit addition and subtraction
Area and Perimeter
Shapes
Fractions
Graphing- creating a scaled graph and a bar graph
Plotting numbers on a number line
Measuring to the nearest ¼, ½ and ¾ inch
Time
Common Core Standards
3.MD.A.1, 3.MD.B.3, 3.MD.B.4, 3.MD.C.5, 3.MD.C.6, 3.MD.C.7, 3.NBT.A.1, 3.NBT.A.2, 3.NBT.A.3, 3.OA.A.1, 3.OA.A.2, 3.OA.A.3, 3.OA.A.4, 3.OA.B.6, 3.OA.C.7, 3.OA.D.8, 3.NF.A.1
Summer Creative Thinking Packet
These language rich creative thinking Summer activities may be used individually or stapled together to create a Summer activity packet (black line cover included). Fostering creative thinking has been shown to increase learning in all areas. This Summer Activity Packet will do just that!
Included in this Summer Activities packet you will find:
*Student Cover- a blackline student cover is included in this summer activity
*The ABC’s of Summer- for this summer activity, write one word for every letter of the alphabet that has to do with summer
*In Summer You Can’t… - Find some activities that you cannot do in summer
*Endless Summer- tell how things would be different if it were always summer
*Can Summer GET Any Better? Yes! It Can! - Make summer bigger, add something to summer and replace/remove something
*Summer Inventions- Using some given items, create a summer invention
*Summer is Great…Mostly…- what are some things that are not so great about summer?
*Too Many Arm Floaties- List other uses for arm floaties in this summer activity
*A New Summer Sensation- Combine two summer things to create a new summer invention
*The Perfect Summer Beverage- The only thing your town can drink is lemonade, describe how you will enforce this
*And the Question is…-write questions that have the answer "sunburn"
*Signs of Summer- a sign showed up in your neighborhood. Tell how it has to do with summer.
*Summer Poetry
*It’s Just so HOT!- In this summer activity, come up with some creative ways to keep cool!
*Let’s Go Play! -Design a new summer game/toy/activity
Common Core Standards
W.2.5, W.2.8, W.3.1, W.3.2, W.3.4, W.4.2, W.4.8, W.5.4, W.5.8, L.2.1, L.2.2, L.2.5, L.3.1, L.3.2, L.4.1, L.4.2, L.5.1, L.5.2, L.5.3
Who doesn't love a puzzle? This Summer Hundred Chart Hidden Picture is super motivating and features 120 3rd grade common core aligned problems. The following skills are covered:
Find the missing number in a multiplication problem
Rounding
3 digit addition and subtraction
Fractions
Multiplication and Division within 100
Word Problems
Place Value
This Hidden Picture is included in my:
Summer Math Pack for 3rd Grade
Common Core Standards
3.NBT.A.1, 3.NBT.A.2, 3.NBT.A.3, 3.OA.A.1, 3.OA.A.2, 3.OA.A.4, 3.OA.C.7, 3.NF.A.1
This Summer Math Pack contains 29 pages of summer-themed math practice for 3rd graders. This pack is fully aligned to 3rd grade common core standards. These packets are fun, engaging and many activities are self-checking! It makes great practice before school starts!
This packet reviews:
Word Problems for all operations- one and two step
Finding the missing number in an equation
Rounding
Three digit addition and subtraction
Area and Perimeter
Shapes
Fractions
Graphing- creating a scaled graph and a bar graph
Plotting numbers on a number line
Measuring to the nearest ¼, ½ and ¾ inch
Time
Standards
3.MD.A.1, 3.MD.B.3, 3.MD.B.4, 3.MD.C.5, 3.MD.C.6, 3.MD.C.7, 3.NBT.A.1, 3.NBT.A.2, 3.NBT.A.3, 3.OA.A.1, 3.OA.A.2, 3.OA.A.3, 3.OA.A.4, 3.OA.B.6, 3.OA.C.7, 3.OA.D.8, 3.NF.A.1
This Spring Math Pack is designed to cover many 5th Grade Common Core Standards in a way that is engaging and fun for your students. Included are graphing, line plots, multiplying fractions, word problems and so much more. This math packet is perfect for review, small groups, extra practice or early finishers. Many of the activities in this packet are self-checking.
Included in this Spring Math Pack for 5th Grade you will find:
*Spring Coordinate Graphing Mystery Picture – combine a love of math with a love of art as students use the ordered pair to complete this intricate mystery picture. This picture does use graphing with simple fractions.
*Color by Product- Students will multiply 2 and 3 digit numbers
*Multiplying and Dividing Fractions
*Multiplying and Dividing Decimals
*Adding and Subtracting Decimals (with visual models)
*Multiplying whole numbers by fractions greater than or less than one and explaining the outcome
*Comparing Decimals to the ten thousandths
*Rounding Decimals to the ten thousandths place to find the answer to a Spring Riddle
*Volume
*Interpreting Line Plots with fractions
*Fraction Word Problems
*Order of Operations
*Writing and Solving Equations
*Scaling word problems
*Spring Logic Problems
*Finding and Graphing Ordered Pairs
A full answer key is included!
Math Standards Covered:
5.MD.B.2
5.MD.C.3
5.MD.C.4
5.MD.C.5a
5.MD.C.5b
5.NBT.A.3
5.NBT.A.4
5.NBT.B.5
5.NBT.B.7
5.OA.A.1
5.OA.A.2
5.OA.B.3
5.NF.A.1
5.NF.A.2
5.NF.B.5b
5.NF.B.7
5.G.A.1
Valentine’s Day Math & Literacy BUNDLE for 4th Grade
Your students will fall in LOVE with this Valentine’s Day Math & Literacy BUNDLE! Everything from word problems to puzzles and games. This Valentine's Day Math & Literacy BUNDLE is perfect for review, early finishers, small groups, centers and guest teachers!
This Valentine’s Day BUNDLE includes:
Valentine's Day Math Pack for 4th Grade
Valentine’s Day Creative Thinking Pack
Included in this Valentine's Day Math Pack for 4th Grade you will find:
*Valentine’s Day word problems for all operations. One and two step
*Writing fractions as a decimal
*Ordering fractions with different denominators or numerators
*Valentine’s Day Hundred Chart hidden picture! Students will answer 120 questions to find the hidden picture
*Valentine's Day Math Color by Product- Multiply two double digit number or a four digit number by a one digit number to find the correct colors
*Rounding numbers to any place value, expanded form and word form up to the millions
*Valentine's Day Math Map Problem Follow the directions to draw a map of Cupid’s Neighborhood! Identify rays, line segments, lines and right triangles within the map. OR use the map that is already provided to answer the questions
*Valentine’s Day Fraction line plots
*Valentine Card shapes
*Cupid’s Busy Day- a multiplication game for the hundred chart
Included in this Valentine's Day Activity packet you will find:
Don’t Know What You've Got
Love is Grand?
World Without Love
The ABC’s of Valentine’s Day
Really, You Shouldn't Have
Will You Be My BETTER Valentine?
Love is in the Air
A Valentine’s Day Surprise
The Future of Candy Hearts
Valentine’s Day in Pictures
A Remote by Any Other Name
Love Machine
Answer: Valentine’s Day
Love City
A Unique Valentine
A Valentine's Day Mystery
The Procrastinating Valentine
Pucker Up
I love Cinquains
Cupid’s New Job
Sample Answers included with these Valentine's Day activities to get you and your class thinking!
Valentine’s Day Math & Literacy BUNDLE for 3rd Grade
Your students will fall in LOVE with this Valentine’s Day Math & Literacy BUNDLE! Everything from word problems to puzzles and games. This Valentine's Day Math & Literacy BUNDLE is perfect for review, early finishers, small groups, centers and guest teachers!
This Valentine’s Day BUNDLE includes:
Valentine’s Day Math Pack for 3rd Grade
Valentine’s Day Creative Thinking Pack
Valentine's Day Math Pack for 3rd Grade includes:
*Valentine’s Day Word Problems
*Valentine's Day Math Graphing Data and Picture Graphs
*Valentine's Day Addition and subtraction to 1000 in a fun Color by Answer
*Valentine's Day Ordering Numbers
*Valentine's Day Multiplication and Division fact families up to 100
*Valentine's Day Area with tiling and multiplication- Design a house for Cupid using the given units!
*Valentine's Day Comparing Fractions
*Valentine's Day Rounding to the nearest ten and hundred
*Valentine's Day Time and Money
*A Valentine's Day Math Hundred's Chart hidden picture- solve 100 problems to find the Valentine picture!
*Cupid’s Busy Day- a Valentine's Day Multiplication Game for the hundred chart
Included in this Valentine's Day Activity packet you will find:
Don’t Know What You've Got
Love is Grand?
World Without Love
The ABC’s of Valentine’s Day
Really, You Shouldn't Have
Will You Be My BETTER Valentine?
Love is in the Air
A Valentine’s Day Surprise
The Future of Candy Hearts
Valentine’s Day in Pictures
A Remote by Any Other Name
Love Machine
Answer: Valentine’s Day
Love City
A Unique Valentine
A Valentine's Day Mystery
The Procrastinating Valentine
Pucker Up
I love Cinquains
Cupid’s New Job
Sample Answers included with these Valentine's Day activities to get you and your class thinking!
Valentine’s Day Math & Literacy BUNDLE for Year 4
Your students will fall in LOVE with this Valentine’s Day Math & Literacy BUNDLE! Everything from word problems to puzzles and games. This Valentine's Day Math & Literacy BUNDLE is perfect for review, early finishers, small groups, centres and guest teachers!
This Valentine’s Day Math and Literacy BUNDLE for Year 4 includes:
Valentine’s Day Creative Thinking Pack
Included in this Valentine's Day Math Pack for Year 4 you will find:
This pack includes:
Valentine’s Day Word Problems
Graphing Data and Picture Graphs
Addition and subtraction to 1000 in a fun Colour by Answer
Ordering Numbers
Multiplication and Division fact families up to 100
Area with tiling and multiplication- Design a house for Cupid using the given units!
Comparing Fractions
Rounding to the nearest ten and hundred
Time and Money
A 100 Chart hidden pictures- solve 100 problems to find the Valentine picture!
Cupid’s Busy Day- a Multiplication Game for the hundred chart
Included in this Valentine's Day Activity packet you will find:
Included in this Valentine's Day Activity packet you will find:
Don’t Know What You've Got
Love is Grand?
World Without Love
The ABC’s of Valentine’s Day
Really, You Shouldn't Have
Will You Be My BETTER Valentine?
Love is in the Air
A Valentine’s Day Surprise
The Future of Valentine Heart Sweets
Valentine’s Day in Pictures
A Remote by Any Other Name
Love Machine
Answer: Valentine’s Day
Love City
A Unique Valentine
A Valentine's Day Mystery
The Procrastinating Valentine
Pucker Up
I love Cinquains
Cupid’s New Job
Sample Answers included with these Valentine's Day activities to get you and your class thinking!
100th Day of School Fun Pack UK Version
Give your students an amazing 100th Day of School to remember with this creative and unique set of 100th Day of School Activities and centres. A 100th Day of School Parent letter is included in this 100th Day of School Activity Pack so that you can be prepared with volunteers and snacks.
All vocabulary, spelling and money is for the UK. You can find the US Version HERE
In this 100th Day of School Activity Pack, you will find:
100th Day of School Parent Letter
*100th Day of School Certificate- This certificate is available in full colour or black line master
*100th Day of School Hat- A creative and fun twist on the 100th Day of School Crown. Instructions and photographs included.
*100th Day of School Necklace- counting mat is included
*100th Day of School Trail Mix- Have students count out 100 ingredients
*Hop to 100
*100 Ways to Show 100
*Flip to 100- Students will flip a coin 100 times and record their results and answer questions.
*Roll to 100- students will roll a dice 100 times, record their results and then answer questions about their results
*Which has 100?- An estimating activity
*When I am 100- Students will predict how their life will be when they are 100 years old
*Fun with the 100's Chart- Three 100's Chart activities- Find the Missing Numbers and Chart Puzzles
100's Chart Hidden Picture- This 100th day of school activity includes three levels of difficulty.
-a number match
-a set of addition and subtraction problems that can be completed using the 100's chart
-a wide variety of skill review- from tally marks to money. Pick the set that works best for your class or individual students on the 100th day of school!
These 100th Day of School activities will have students cheering "Best 100th Day of School EVER!!!!"
To complete these 100th Day of School activities with younger students, it would be helpful to ask for a parent volunteer for each 100th Day of School centre/activity.
You can set up these 100th Day of School activities to complete in one day. You can also celebrate the week of the 100th Day of School by spreading out these activities for the whole week.
Be sure to read through these 100th Day of School activities because some of them will require some advanced preparation.
Have a FANTASTIC 100th Day of School!!!!
Students will fall madly in love with this Valentine’s Day Math Pack for 4th Grade! Included are 30+ pages of puzzles, games and activities that are fully aligned with 4th Grade common core standards! This Valentine’s Day Math pack is super engaging and students won’t even know that they are learning! This pack is perfect for early finishers, review, sub folders and centers!
This is also a great way to review before standardized tests!
Included in this Valentine's Day Math Pack for 4th Grade you will find:
*Valentine’s Day word problems for all operations. One and two step
*Writing fractions as a decimal
*Ordering fractions with different denominators or numerators
*Valentine’s Day Hundred Chart hidden picture! Students will answer 120 questions to find the hidden picture
*Color by Product- Multiply two double digit number or a four digit number by a one digit number to find the correct colors
*Rounding numbers to any place value, expanded form and word form up to the millions
*Follow the directions to draw a map of Cupid’s Neighborhood! Identify rays, line segments, lines and right triangles within the map. OR use the map that is already provided to answer the questions
*Valentine’s Day Fraction line plots
*Valentine Card shapes
*Cupid’s Busy Day- a multiplication game for the hundred chart
A full answer key is included!
CCSS Math Standards:
4.MD.A.1
4.MD.A.2
4.MD.A.3
4.MD.B.4
4.NBT.A.1
4.NBT.A.2
4.NBT.B.5
4.OA.A.1
4.OA.A.2
4.OA.A.3
4.OA.B.4
4.NF.A.2
4.G.A.1
4.G.A.2
4.NF.C.6
Enjoy this FREE Valentine's Day Math Game for the 100's Chart. Be the first to make 120 hearts fall in love this Valentine's Day!
It's Valentine's Day, Cupid's busiest day of the year! He needs to make 120 hearts fall in love before the clock strikes midnight. Roll the dice and help him collect 120 hearts before Valentine's Day ends! This game is also part of my Valentine’s Day Math Pack for 3rd Grade
On each turn , students will roll the dice and move their game piece according to the direction page. They will need to add, subtract, multiply and be familiar with multiples to move their piece. The first person to reach 120 hearts wins the game.
This Valentine's Math Game Includes:
Teacher Instructions
Student Instructions
Cupid's Busy Day game board
Put this out as a center or use this Valentine's Math hundred chart game as an early finisher's activity.
Happy Valentine's Day!
Valentine’s Day Maths Pack for Year 4
Your students will fall in LOVE with this Valentine’s Day Maths Pack! Everything from word problems to puzzles and games. This pack is perfect for review, early finishers, small groups, centres and guest teachers!
This pack includes:
Valentine’s Day Word Problems
Graphing Data and Picture Graphs
Addition and subtraction to 1000 in a fun Colour by Answer
Ordering Numbers
Multiplication and Division fact families up to 100
Area with tiling and multiplication- Design a house for Cupid using the given units!
Comparing Fractions
Rounding to the nearest ten and hundred
Time and Money
A 100 Chart hidden pictures- solve 100 problems to find the Valentine picture!
Cupid’s Busy Day- a Multiplication Game for the hundred chart
This Winter Math Packet is 28 pages of engaging math puzzles, color by answer and MORE! Completely aligned to 3rd grade common core standards, this Winter Math Pack includes an activity for almost every standard. Included in this pack you will also find a BONUS Fillable PDF so that students can complete this packet on their laptops or Chromebooks using Adobe Reader!**
This pack includes:
4 pages of creative Winter word stories
3 different types of graphs/diagrams
Addition and subtraction to 1000 in a fun Color by Answer
Multiplication and Division fact families up to 100
Find the missing number
Area with tiling and multiplication
Area as an additive with rectangular figures
Fractions on a number line
Comparing Fractions
Rounding to the nearest ten and hundred
Time and Money
A 120 Chart hidden pictures- solve 120 problems to find the picture!
**Please note that this is my first attempt at a fillable PDF. I am not charging any extra for this bonus feature. The color by number is not included in the fillable PDF as that needs to be done by hand. I would LOVE your thoughts and/or opinions on it! You can e-mail me directly at karenemorris05@yahoo.com
CCSS:
3.MD.A.1
3.MD.A.2
3.MD.B.3
3.MD.C.5
3.MD.C.6
3.MD.C.7a
3.NBT.A.1
3.NBT.A.2
3.NBT.A.3
3.OA.A.1
3.OA.A.2
3.OA.A.3
3.OA.A.4
3.OA.B.5
3.OA.B.6
3.OA.C.7
3.OA.D.8
3.NF.A.1
3.NF.A.2
3.NF.A.3c
3.MD.C.7d
This Christmas Maths Pack is 26 pages and designed for Year 6 students. It covers TONS of maths concepts in fun and engaging ways. This Christmas Maths Pack is perfect for the week before Christmas or holiday breaks!
This Christmas Maths Pack for Year 6 Includes:
*Coordinate Graphing Mystery Picture
*Multiplying and Dividing Fractions
*Rounding and Comparing Decimals to the ten thousandths
*Volume
*Colour by Product
*Interpreting Line Plots with fractions
*Fraction Word Problems
*Order of Operations
*Writing and Solving Equations
*Scaling
*Christmas Logic Problems
*Ordered Pairs
Check out the other UK Christmas Products available in my shop!
In this Christmas Coordinate Graph project, students will graph the given coordinate points to create a detailed, “fridge-worthy” Christmas picture. This project covers fifth grade standard 5.G.1
This is also part of my Christmas Math Pack for 5th Grade! You can find that Here: https://www.tes.com/us/teacher-lessons/christmas-math-pack-for-5th-grade-11182257
This Christmas Math Pack is 25 pages and designed for 5th grade students. It covers TONS of 5th grade standards in fun and engaging ways. This Christmas Math Pack is perfect for the week before Christmas or holiday breaks!
This Christmas Math Pack for 5th Grade Includes:
*Coordinate Graphing Mystery Picture
*Multiplying and Dividing Fractions
*Rounding and Comparing Decimals to the ten thousandths
*Volume
*Interpreting Line Plots with fractions
*Fraction Word Problems
*Order of Operations
*Writing and Solving Equations
*Scaling
*Christmas Logic Problems
*Ordered Pairs
CCSS Math Standards Covered:
5.MD.B.2
5.MD.C.3
5.MD.C.4
5.MD.C.5a
5.MD.C.5b
5.NBT.A.3b
5.NBT.A.4
5.NBT.B.5
5.NBT.B.7
5.OA.A.1
5.OA.A.2
5.OA.B.3
5.NF.A.1
5.NF.A.2
5.NF.B.5b
5.NF.B.7
5.G.A.1
Santa’s Village Map Project
This super engaging project is perfect for the week before Christmas! Students will create arrays of different items that might be found in Santa’s Village in the North Pole. This Christmas Map project is a hands-on way to reinforce area, perimeter, factor pairs, map skills and finding and identifying coordinate points on a graph.
For each item student are asked to record the array(s) used, multiplication fact(s) that helped them, the total area and the perimeter of each item. Some items are a simple rectangle, while other aspects, such as the reindeer barn have rooms within the building. Specifications are given for each room in the building.
Two options of this project are included:
Option One:
*All buildings are given (Santa’s house, reindeer barn, candy shop, etc)
*Units are given for each building and students must create the building to the given specification
*Students will add 3 of their own buildings
*Word problems that can be solved with the map are included
*Graphing coordinate points sheet is included
*Blank sheets for students to create their own word and graphing problems are included
Option 2
*All buildings to be included are given (Santa’s Workshop, elf club house, etc)
*Students must decide how big or small to make each building
*Students add 3 of their own buildings
*Students write their own word problems
*Graphing coordinate points sheet is included
This project can be fully differentiated to fit the needs of your students!
CCSS Standards
3.MD.5
3.MD.6
3.MD.7
4.OA.1
4.OA.4
4.MD.3
5.G.1
5.G.2
Christmas Hundred Chart Hidden Picture for 4th Grade
Students LOVE completing puzzles! In this Christmas Hundred Chart Hidden Picture, students will solve 120 math problems to reveal a Christmas Picture!
This Christmas Hundred Chart Hidden Picture includes:
*Interpreting multiplication as a comparison
*Measurement conversions
*Elapsed time
*Money
*Simple fractions
*Writing decimals as fractions
*Division
*Multiplication
*Addition
*Subtraction
This Christmas Hidden Picture makes a great math center or early finisher project!
4.MD.A.1
4.MD.A.2
4.NBT.A.2
4.NBT.A.3
4.NBT.B.4
4.OA.A.1
4.NF.C.6