Layla Henry- Fancy Free in 4th- Blog
Fancy Ideas for the Everyday Classroom
Poetry is a great way to reinforce grammar concepts like parts of speech, figurative language and punctuation. I always have my class make poems for the different seasons or holidays to collect to put in our end of the year scrap book. I had great success with my mini-unit for Fall Poetry, so I decided to create a similar… Read More
Tis’ the season for your students to understand prime, composite, factor trees and multiples! I am very excited to share my new math activity pack with you! Included in this pack: Prime Number Hunt Great for whole group instruction and as an introduction to what whole Color the Gingerbread Independent or partner practice- progress monitoring! Prime or Composite? Perfect for… Read More
We just finished double digit multiplication, which was quite a feat. Before we dive into long division (gasp!), we are studying the relationships between multiplication and division problems- that’s right, Fact Families! I’ve created this C-U-T-E Fact Family Neighborhood set to help my students see how numbers are related with multiplication and division. Your students will tour from 2nd Street… Read More
I am soooo excited to share my AWESOME Halloween Number Sense Review Set. We are getting close to our quarterly student assessment period known as “The Benchmark”. I wanted to create a few fun activities to review different Number Sense Activities for my class to prepare them for this assessment. I tried to cover everything we have done so far… Read More
Word Problems can be as scary as a monster for your students. I created this set after seeing my students struggle with decoding what a word problem is actually asking. My students had a number line test this past Friday and 8 of the 20 questions were word problems. Most of the problems missed were those… Read More
Rounding has been a struggle for my 30 little 4th graders. We are supposed to be rounding to the millions but after getting some mixed test results back from their unit test, I decided to scale back to concentrate on the skill at hand. I made these Rounding Through the Thousands task cards to help hone in on… Read More
