Teaching Heart Blog
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A place for teachers and parents with a teaching heart! Colleen Gallagher created this site to share teaching ideas, printables, inspiration, links, lessons, units, activity sheets, and so much more.
Teaching Heart Blog
2y ago
Teaching Heart Blog Post By Colleen Gallagher
Well, I gave in… My third graders have been singing THE CORN SONG seen below for weeks. I decided to use it to engage them in a multiplication craft. This is a fun and easy craft to set-up. Just print two pages. The students fill in the answers to the problem and fill in the vocabulary. Then color and cut. It’s Corn!!
You can download this file at TPT.
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Teaching Heart Blog
2y ago
Teaching Heart Blog Post By Colleen Gallagher
My third graders were struggling with the distributive property of multiplication. I had to break it into small steps and come up with resources that helped them get the property. They finally have it.
This resources has been so helpful and is now in my TPT store at https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Distributive-Property-of-Multiplication-Craft-8689171
•Files and a craft I use with my third graders to help them understand the distributive property of multiplication.
•Pages 3-11 are lesson resources (a bonus of sorts)
•Pages 12 – 17 are t ..read more
Teaching Heart Blog
2y ago
Teaching Heart Blog Post By Colleen Gallagher
I have desks in my classroom with traditional chairs, but I like to have other places for my students to sit throughout the day. Sometimes they get to make a choice of where they sit. Over the years I have tried out many types of chairs for small groups or optional seating time. Below are three tried and true seats from my classroom. Students love the option of sitting in something besides their desks! Here are some great chairs that will last you for years to come.
I love both of these sets of chairs above for my classroom. The little green on ..read more
Teaching Heart Blog
2y ago
Teaching Heart Blog Post By Colleen Gallagher
Sharing free printables with you for classroom folders. Last year I moved away from seperate folders for each subject and decided to declutter my students desks by having just one multi-pocket folder for all loose papers and any novel studies we were doing. I loved how much neater and organized my students desks were.
My Catch-Up Folders
Unfortunately, I do not think Amazon carries these folders. They are the Nicky’s Folders found here.
If you wish to use my template for your folder, I have it on TPT. If you have PUBLISHER you will be able to modif ..read more
Teaching Heart Blog
3y ago
Teaching Heart Blog Post By Colleen Gallagher
I have finally started to think about back to school. Engagement is always on my mind when I think of school! Towards the end of last year my students were really into POP-ITs. Were yours? I kept thinking, I need to find a way to incorporate Pop-Its into my lessons… finally, I decided to get crafty with them.
Did you see my last post on the tags I made if you want to give Pop-Its as a back to school treat or maybe a a birthday treat? Click here to see those.
I begin my year in math teaching place value / rounding. I wanted to use Pop-Its in a cente ..read more
Teaching Heart Blog
3y ago
Teaching Heart Blog Post By Colleen Gallagher
The Pop-It’s were so popular last year that I decided that they would be my Birthday treat for my students this year. I created tags that can be used with the Pop-It’s for a back to school gift. I created three tags for back to school. They print in color with four per page. Then you just hole punch them and attach it to the Pop-It, and you have a great gift! Below is one of the three back to school tags.
Then I created a Birthday Tag for my birthday treats this year. It is seen below.
As of today, you can download these on my TPT store. I will l ..read more
Teaching Heart Blog
3y ago
Teaching Heart Blog Post By Colleen Gallagher
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At the end of the year, I like to bring that beach feeling into my classroom. We made lots of beach math crafts to decorate a beach math drop. You can download the multiplication beach balls for free!
Some decorated desks that match Beach Day!Easy backdrop from the dollar storeSome of our beach themed crafts. The buckets and the fraction flip flops are in my TPT store. The beach balls were d ..read more
Teaching Heart Blog
4y ago
Teaching Heart Blog Post By Colleen Gallagher
As I mentioned in my last post, I have been teaching Virtual for a few weeks now since my school closed until the New Year. I am working hard to keep online teaching before Holiday break similar to how I would end the year in the actual classroom.
Today, we worked in winter PJ’s! The kiddos modeled their PJ’s and we danced to a few Just Dance songs to get the wiggles out! Plus we performed in our PJ’s too!
Since I have been at my current school I have performed the Christmas Carol with my third grade classes each year. I read this Children’s Book ..read more
Teaching Heart Blog
4y ago
Teaching Heart Blog Post By Colleen Gallagher
I started the school year in class with my students in early August and we made it 57 days of social distance schooling until we shut down. We are due to go back on January 7th! I have been teaching online for about three weeks now. I wanted to keep my holiday “fun days” still fun for the kids even if they are virtual. I have done Grinch Day since I started teaching in 1998. Here are some pictures from Grinch Day fun and activities on a regular Grinch Day in class. Click here!
I want to share a printable with some activity ideas for a VIRTUAL Grinc ..read more
Teaching Heart Blog
4y ago
Teaching Heart Blog Post By Colleen Gallagher
Looking for some engaging lessons to teach your students about main verbs, helping verbs, linking verbs, and verb tenses? My teaching partner and I created these lessons to excite our students about grammar. We have grammar sets for many of the third grade grammar standards. Verbs is one of our larger packets. We created it with a sports theme. In fact, each of our grammar sets is based around a theme. We have done very well on state testing due in part to these lessons. Also, our students love grammar time because of these sets! You can view all o ..read more