💡 Make Math Memorable: Glow-in-the-Dark Geometry for Upper Elementary & Middle School

If you’re looking for a fresh, unforgettable way to teach geometry, it’s time to turn out the lights—literally—and let your math lessons GLOW! This Glow-in-the-Dark Geometry Activity is a visually captivating, hands-on experience designed to help students explore and apply core geometry concepts through glowing, interactive stations powered by blacklight and neon materials.

Perfect for upper elementary and middle school classrooms, this activity transforms traditional learning into an exciting and immersive math adventure.

🌟 Why Glow-in-the-Dark Geometry Works

Let’s face it—geometry isn’t always the most exciting topic for students. But when you add blacklights, neon tape, and a glow-filled classroom transformation, engagement skyrockets! This hands-on learning experience taps into student creativity while reinforcing essential math skills like:

• Identifying angles (acute, obtuse, right)

• Understanding lines (parallel, perpendicular, intersecting)

• Exploring circles, polygons, quadrilaterals, and triangles

• Applying math vocabulary and geometric reasoning

It’s more than just fun—this activity is rooted in deep, standards-based learning and encourages collaboration, critical thinking, and lasting retention.

📦 What’s Included in the Glow Geometry Kit?

Everything you need to plan a successful glow-themed math day is included in this ready-to-go resource:

✅ Step-by-step teacher instructions
✅ Full materials list with links to glow-in-the-dark and neon supplies
✅ 6 interactive geometry stations, including:

• Types of Angles

• Types of Lines

• Properties of Circles

• Polygons and Attributes

• Quadrilaterals

• Triangle Classifications
  ✅ Student task cards (color + B&W options)
  ✅ Printable worksheets for recording answers
  ✅ Inspiration images to guide glowing creations

Whether you're prepping for a math night, classroom review activity, or simply want to inject some excitement into your next geometry unit, this is the perfect solution.

🏫 Perfect For…

• Classroom transformations

• Small group or center rotations

• Math review days

• Interactive bulletin boards

• STEAM nights or school-wide math events

This activity is especially effective in grades 4–8, and is adaptable to both whole-group and station-based instruction.

✨ Let Your Geometry Lessons Shine

One of the best parts of teaching is watching your students light up—literally and figuratively—with curiosity and excitement. With this Glow-in-the-Dark Geometry Activity, your classroom will buzz with energy as students explore math concepts in a completely new way. And the best part? It’s low-prep, high-impact, and guaranteed to be a lesson they remember.

Ready to bring your math class to life?
Grab the Glow Geometry Activity now and start glowing up your geometry block today!

🎉 Make Your Pregnancy Announcement Extra Special with a Classroom Gender Reveal Activity!

Are you a teacher with big news to share? If you're expecting a little one and want a fun, heartfelt way to involve your students in your pregnancy journey, this Classroom Gender Reveal Activity is just what you need!

Whether you’re looking to build excitement, create lasting memories, or simply make your announcement a little more magical, this activity is a low-prep, high-impact way to bring your class together for a moment they’ll never forget.

🍼 A Sweet Surprise for Your Students

Imagine your students’ faces lighting up as they solve a word puzzle to reveal if their beloved teacher is having a boy or a girl. This interactive activity isn’t just adorable—it’s a beautiful way to celebrate a major life moment with your classroom community.

Designed specifically for primary and elementary students, the activity is age-appropriate, engaging, and easy to implement. It’s the perfect blend of fun and learning!

📦 What’s Included in This Gender Reveal Activity

This printable resource includes everything you need to pull off a joyful and memorable classroom reveal:

• ✅ Two Word Puzzle Versions – One for a boy and one for a girl

• ✅ Two Answer Keys – So you can quickly check or walk students through the solution

• ✅ One Decorative Poster – Add a festive touch to your classroom setup

Just print, prep, and party!

💡 Why Teachers Love It

This Classroom Gender Reveal is more than just a party—it’s a connection-builder. Here's why teachers are raving about it:

• ✂️ Low-Prep, Easy Setup – No need to spend hours planning!

• 🎉 Interactive and Fun – Students love solving the puzzle and being part of the big reveal.

• 🧡 Memorable and Personal – It’s a heartwarming way to share your joy with your students.

• 🧑‍🏫 Builds Classroom Community – Milestones like this help students feel closer to their teacher.

Whether you're doing a casual announcement or planning a full mini-party, this activity fits beautifully into your day.

🌈 Turn Your Big News into a Big Celebration!

Pregnancy is a journey full of beautiful moments—and what better way to mark one than with your classroom family? This Classroom Gender Reveal Activity brings laughter, excitement, and a touch of magic into your day, all while letting your students share in your special moment.

Ready to make your announcement unforgettable?
Grab the Classroom Gender Reveal Activity now and celebrate with your class in style!

Engaging Homophones and Homographs Activity for Grades 3–6 | Fun ELA Craftivity

Make Homophones and Homographs Stick with This Fun and Easy ELA Craftivity

Let’s be honest—homophones and homographs are some of the trickiest concepts for students to master in upper elementary grades. Whether it's "there," "their," and "they’re" or "tear" (a drop of water) vs. "tear" (to rip), these words can trip up even our strongest readers and writers. That’s exactly why I created a hands-on, low-prep Homophones and Homographs Craftivity that helps students engage with these confusing word pairs in a way that sticks.

Why Teach Homophones and Homographs with Crafts?

Craft-based learning isn’t just fun—it’s effective. When students connect visual, hands-on activities to abstract concepts, they retain more and stay engaged longer. This craftivity invites students to analyze, illustrate, and apply their understanding of homophones and homographs in a creative way. Best of all? It works beautifully as a grammar station, literacy center, small group task, or early finisher activity.

What’s Included in the Craftivity?

This resource is loaded with everything you need to make teaching homophones and homographs easy and effective:

• ✅ Homophone and Homograph Definition Posters (in color and black & white)

• ✅ Step-by-Step Lesson Instructions with Visuals

• ✅ Teacher Demonstration Samples

• ✅ Printable Templates for students to create their own “Guess My Word” crafts

These components make it easy for students to not only identify and define confusing word pairs but also to use them in context—and illustrate the difference, which deepens comprehension.

Perfect for Grades 3–6

Whether you're teaching 3rd, 4th, 5th, or 6th grade, this activity fits seamlessly into your ELA block. It’s aligned with common core standards for vocabulary and word meaning, and it’s ideal for review or reinforcement. Plus, the final product makes for an awesome bulletin board display that shows off your students’ learning and creativity.

Teacher Tips for Implementation

• 💡 Use it after a mini-lesson on homophones/homographs to reinforce understanding.

• 💡 Pair students up for collaborative learning and discussion.

• 💡 Keep finished products on hand for test prep season—they’re great review tools!

• 💡 Laminate posters to reuse year after year in your grammar center.

Grab Your Copy Today

If you're looking for a meaningful, low-prep grammar activity that your students will love and remember, this is it. With minimal prep and maximum engagement, your learners will gain the confidence and clarity they need to tackle tricky word pairs head-on.

👉 Click here to grab the Homophones & Homographs Craftivity on TPT

Boost Math Engagement with a Zombie-Themed Order of Operations Escape Room

Are you looking for a fun, engaging way to reinforce order of operations in your 5th or 6th grade math classroom? Look no further than this Order of Operations Digital Escape Room—a spooky, zombie-themed breakout game that turns PEMDAS practice into an unforgettable adventure!

Whether you're planning Halloween activities or just want to inject some excitement into your math lessons, this no-prep digital resource is the perfect fit for upper elementary students. With just a few clicks, your class can dive into a haunted virtual world where their problem-solving skills determine whether they escape a zombie attack or become the next victim!

🧠 Why Use a Digital Escape Room for Math?

Escape rooms offer a unique blend of critical thinking, collaboration, and content mastery. When students are immersed in a themed challenge, they're more motivated to complete tasks and stay engaged. This digital escape room transforms traditional math problems into an interactive quest that feels more like a game than a worksheet.

Students will work through three skill-based levels:

• Level 1: Solve order of operations problems with basic operations

• Level 2: Add in parentheses to test sequencing skills

• Level 3: Incorporate exponents for a true PEMDAS/GEMS challenge

🎮 A Math Game That Feels Like a Video Game

One of the standout features of this escape room is its video game-style design. Each slide is carefully crafted to mimic a game interface, complete with spooky zombie visuals and interactive click-based navigation. Students are drawn in immediately, and best of all, they're practicing essential math skills while they play.

Use this resource in:

• Math centers

• Independent practice

• Early finisher activities

• Sub plans

• Halloween or October-themed lessons

• Distance learning or hybrid settings

🎃 Classroom-Ready for Halloween (or Any Time of Year)

While this activity is perfect for October, it’s designed to work year-round. You can easily integrate it into any order of operations unit, or use it as a seasonal bonus to keep students motivated during the fall slump. For added fun, play haunted house background music during the activity to increase immersion!

💻 Formats That Work for You

This product includes both Google Slides and PowerPoint versions, so it’s flexible for any digital classroom setup. Just have students enter Present or Slideshow mode and they’re ready to begin.

🔑 Final Thoughts

If you're looking to review order of operations in a way that your students will actually enjoy, this Order of Operations Zombie Escape Room is a must-have. It’s engaging, rigorous, and packed with Halloween spirit—making math class a thrilling experience your students won’t forget.

Ready to escape the zombies and master PEMDAS? Click here to check it out on Teachers Pay Teachers!

🎉 Make Fractions Fun This Summer with a Beach-Themed Math Center! 🐚

Looking for a fun, low-prep way to keep your upper elementary students engaged in math review as the school year winds down? Say goodbye to boring worksheets and hello to sunshine and simplification with the Simplifying Fractions Summer Math Center—a seasonal favorite for 4th, 5th, and 6th grade classrooms!

This interactive activity brings fraction practice to life with 24 hands-on task cards that challenge students to reduce fractions to their simplest form. But here’s the twist: these fraction problems are shaped like colorful sea shells, making it easy to turn your regular math station into a beach-themed escape your students will love.

💡 Classroom Tip:
Hide the shell-shaped fraction cards in a sandbox or sensory bin and let students “dig” them out with plastic shovels. Add a few beach towels, sunglasses, and some calming ocean wave sounds, and you’ve got yourself a full-on mathcation right in your classroom!

✨ Why Teachers Love It:

✅ Targeted Practice: Focused exclusively on reducing fractions to lowest terms—great for test prep or concept reinforcement.
✅ Perfect for Centers: Use it in small groups, rotations, or with early finishers.
✅ Engaging & Seasonal: Students stay motivated with the play, summer theme.
✅ Low Prep: Just print, cut, and go! Includes student answer sheets and a teacher answer key for easy checking.

🌞 Perfect For:

• Spring or summer-themed math centers

• End-of-year review activities

• Interactive bulletin boards or beach-themed classroom days - Fraction fluency reinforcement in upper elementary

• Keeping math fun and fresh during the final weeks of school

📦 What’s Included:

• 24 shell-themed fraction task cards

• Student recording sheets

• Teacher answer key

• Themed setup guide for creating your own beach-style math station

Whether you're prepping for state tests, reviewing key skills, or simply adding some excitement to your end-of-year routine, this Simplifying Fractions Summer Math Center is a must-have for your 4th–6th grade classroom.

Ready to bring the beach to your math block?
Click here to grab the activity on TPT now!

🌸 Celebrate Mother’s Day with a Meaningful Math Craft for Upper Elementary!

🌸 Celebrate Mother’s Day with a Meaningful Math Craft for Upper Elementary!

Mother’s Day is the perfect time to bring creativity and purpose together in your classroom—and what better way to do that than with a math activity that turns into a beautiful keepsake?

If you're looking for a low-prep, engaging, and standards-aligned activity for your 4th, 5th, or 6th graders, this Mother’s Day Fraction Flower Craft is exactly what you need. It’s the ideal blend of math fluency and creative expression—plus, it makes a heartfelt gift for moms, grandmas, or caregivers.

💡 Why Teachers Love This Fraction Craft

This isn’t just another holiday art project. It’s a purposeful math activity designed to help students:

• Practice equivalent fractions

• Add and multiply fractions

• Simplify fractions

• Convert improper fractions to mixed numbers

• Or even create their own problems using a customizable template

Best of all, it’s differentiated—so you can meet the needs of a range of learners without prepping multiple lessons!

🖨️ What’s Included in the Download:

• Printable Fraction Flower Craft templates

• Versions for multiple skill levels

• Easy-to-follow instructions for students and teachers

• Optional blank templates for student-created fraction problems

• Bulletin board display materials for a spring-themed math wall or hallway display

🎯 Perfect For:

• Mother’s Day math centers or rotations

• Early finisher activities with academic value

• Small group instruction or spiral review

• Student-made gifts or Mother’s Day bouquet projects

• Bulletin board displays that showcase both math and creativity

Whether you use it as a formal math station or a fun Friday review activity, this fraction flower craft will quickly become one of your spring favorites.

💐 Make Mother’s Day Memorable AND Mathematically Meaningful

Your students will be proud to take home a gift that’s not just cute—it shows off their growing math skills, too! And you'll love knowing this activity checks all the boxes: academic, creative, differentiated, and holiday-themed.

📌 Ready to try it out?
Click here to grab the Mother’s Day Fraction Flower Craft on TPT →

Mock Trial Classroom Activity for The Giving Tree: Teach Persuasive Writing, Character Analysis, and Public Speaking

Bring the Courtroom to Your Classroom with a Mock Trial of The Giving Tree

Looking for a fresh, dynamic way to teach persuasive writing, literary analysis, and public speaking? Step into the world of courtroom drama with a Mock Trial Activity based on The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein! This engaging, standards-aligned simulation turns your ELA classroom into a courtroom, where students put the Boy on trial for being a bad friend to the Tree.

Why a Mock Trial?

Mock trials aren’t just fun—they’re powerful tools for critical thinking and collaboration. This activity encourages students to dig deep into character motivation, explore moral responsibility, and back up their claims with textual evidence. Whether they’re defending the Boy’s actions or making a case for his guilt, your students will build key skills while engaging with literature in a whole new way.

What’s the Case?

The Charge: The Boy is on trial for being a bad friend to the Tree.

Was he selfish and exploitative, or simply growing up and taking what was freely offered? It’s up to your student attorneys to argue the facts—and your jury to decide the verdict.

Student Roles That Bring the Trial to Life

Each student steps into a real courtroom role:

• Attorneys (Prosecution and Defense): Craft compelling arguments and question witnesses.

• Witnesses: Step into character and bring testimony to life.

• Judge: Keeps the courtroom in order and ensures a fair trial.

• Jury: Listens closely, deliberates, and renders the final verdict.

• Bailiff: Maintains order and leads the trial proceedings.

This role-based learning fosters empathy and accountability while helping students see literature through multiple perspectives.

What’s Included?

Everything you need to make your classroom courtroom-ready:

• ✅ Complete teacher instructions (with sample images for setup)

• ✅ Editable jury duty notices to assign roles (mail these to your students to generate excitement)

• ✅ Mock trial prep slides to guide each stage

• ✅ Student outline for building their case

• ✅ Printable trial script to structure the courtroom dialogue

• ✅ Courtroom posters (horizontal & vertical) to set the scene

The Skills They’ll Build

This isn’t just about putting a fictional character on trial—it’s about building real-world competencies:

• 🧠 Critical thinking: Interpreting actions and motivations

• 📝 Argumentative writing: Crafting and delivering persuasive statements

• 🎙️ Public speaking: Practicing poise and presence in front of peers

• 📚 Literary analysis: Using textual evidence to support claims

• 💬 Collaboration: Working as a team toward a common goal

Who Is It For?

Perfect for upper elementary and middle school, this activity is designed to be flexible and accessible for a wide range of learners. Whether you’re teaching argumentative writing, or simply want to energize your classroom with a hands-on project, this mock trial delivers unforgettable engagement.

Final Verdict?

If you’re looking to combine literature with real-world skills in a way that students will remember long after the trial ends, this mock trial activity is the perfect case to bring before your class. The courtroom is open—let the trial begin! Click here for the product download!

5 Reasons You Need to Use Digital Escape Rooms in Your Classroom

Looking for a fun, engaging way to enhance learning in your classroom? Digital escape rooms might be your new favorite teaching tool. These interactive experiences challenge students to solve puzzles, decode clues, and collaborate to "escape" a virtual scenario—all while reinforcing academic skills. Here are five compelling reasons to bring digital escape rooms into your classroom:

1. They Boost Student Engagement
Students love a challenge, and digital escape rooms turn learning into a game. The element of mystery and urgency keeps students motivated and focused throughout the activity.

2. They Encourage Critical Thinking
Each puzzle or clue requires students to analyze information, make connections, and think creatively. These activities build essential problem-solving skills in a fun, low-pressure environment.

3. They Promote Collaboration
Escape rooms work best when students collaborate. As they work in teams, students practice communication, compromise, and leadership—skills just as important as academic content.

4. They Reinforce Curriculum Content
Whether you're teaching math, reading, science, or social studies, digital escape rooms can be tailored to align with your curriculum. Students apply what they've learned in meaningful, memorable ways.

5. They’re Easy to Integrate and Adapt
With many pre-made options available online and the ability to create your own, digital escape rooms can fit any subject, grade level, or time limit. They also work great in both in-person and virtual classrooms.

Try one out and see your students light up with excitement—and learning. Have you used a digital escape room before? Let me know in the comments. Want to give it a try? Check out these fun math themed escape rooms for elementary school classrooms:

End of the School Year Digital Escape Rooms for Math Review and Practice

The end of the school year is in sight and testing season is starting! These fun “Escape the School Year” math review digital escape rooms are an excellent way to keep kids excited and engaged in their learning. You’ll find all the versions grades 3-6 available by clicking here. Or click on the grade specific images below!

Are you looking for a particular skill to review? Find all my digital escape rooms by grade level by clicking on the images below:

Don’t forget to pin these images so you can refer back to them in the coming months!

Are you looking for a particular math skill to review and you don’t see an escape room that fits the bill? Let me know in the comments!

March Themed Activities, Games, Crafts and More

As February draws to a close, we are looking forward to all the RAINBOWS March will bring :) This collection of 31 March and St. Patrick’s Day themed activities are finally live and you can download them by clicking this link!

These activities are designed for toddlers, preschool students, prekindergarten and kindergarten kids at home or at school and they are a great way for kids to decompress after a big day at school or for special family connection time over the weekend.

This collection is filled with loads of sensory activities (think oobleck, playdough, sand, paint and more!) as well as fun arts and crafts.

These activities are easy and mostly self explanatory but just in case, lesson plan-like instructions are included for each activity, game and craft.

Follow along @SpaidsintheClassroom and join us for this month of daily activities! Grab all the printables and instructions by clicking here!