These mini-activities will keep your students gainfully occupied while you tend to other students, have a partially-filled classroom for any reason, the get-to-know you time, or extra time at the end of the day. The activities for language arts and math for grades 3-6 include:
- SLAM posters (Student Likes are Marvelous) (students sign their name and favorite under the topic)
- Cooperative story time (using topic words, students create a sequential story)
- What I didn’t do last summer (an amusing twist to the traditional creative writing assignment)
- GOAL! Setting goals for the school year (help your students set yearly goals)
- Back-to-School Math Review Bingo (good for any level)
- Create Your Own Math Problem (students create word problems for their classmates to solve)
- School Supplies Sudoku (this sudoku uses images rather than numbers)
- School Supplies Sudoku - Answer
