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Math Bell Ringer Journal: 4th & 5th Grade Morning Work Back to School Activities

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The SuperHERO Teacher
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Grade Levels
4th - 6th, Homeschool
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Pages
210 pages
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I added this resource as a bell ringer activity that was not strictly math calculation based. The students were engaged, and enjoyed discussing their responses.
My students find these very interesting. They are challenging enough for them to get excited to get correct answers, but still aligned with our grade level.

Description

Use this mathematics Bell Ringer Journal for the entire school year to strengthen your students' problem solving and critical thinking skills. This journal includes 275 math themed journal prompts for 4th and 5th grade students. Looking for back to school activities? This bell ringer journal is a great way to create and establish routine while also strengthening skills!

This product provides teachers with an entire school year of mathematics-themed journal prompts in an organized and focused way. The journal is organized by month with 20 entries per month. Students will strengthen their reading, math, writing, problem solving and critical thinking skills with these unique, higher level thinking bell ringers.

NOTE: As of October 28, 2020, a DIGITAL version of this resource is included for distance learning. It is compatible with Google Slides and Google Classroom.

This product is created by The SuperHERO Teacher and Mackenzie Webster. Brittany focused on the career readiness and real-world application prompts, while Mackenzie, who has 10 years of experience teaching 4th grade, designed the graphs and prompts related to the core math principles.

We have included an EDITABLE version of the bell ringer journal to help fit each teacher's needs! You can edit any of the questions and/or headings in the journal.

This resource includes:

  • 275 unique bell ringer prompts based on mathematical practices
  • Answer key
  • DIGITAL version of bell ringer journal
  • Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.
  • Reason abstractly and quantitatively
  • Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others
  • Model with mathematics
  • Use appropriate tools strategically
  • Attend to precision
  • Look for and make use of structure
  • Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning
  • Daily warm-up prompts that focus on analyzing data, career readiness, real world application, and the CCSS for 4-5 math
  • 100% editable to meet your needs (youโ€™ll need to download fonts)
  • Teacher directions
  • Cover pages for each of the months
  • Tabs to keep students organized throughout the year
  • Zero prep. Simply print and distribute.

BENEFITS OF THIS JOURNAL:

  • Cross-curricular prompts: Students will strengthen not only their math skills, but their reading, writing, and communication skills as well.
  • Create routine with your students. Each day, your students will know to grab their bell ringer journal and begin working on the prompt.
  • Forget having to come up with creative bell ringer prompts on the spot each morning, thatโ€™s all taken care of for you! You now have time to focus on your other planning.
  • The prompts provide get students in the โ€œMath Zoneโ€ and ready to focus on the dayโ€™s work!
  • No mess, easy to grade, and simple to keep organized.

Check out what other teachers, just like you, are saying about this resource:

โญโญโญโญโญ "Great quick warm-up (Bell Ringer) for my students and as an overall spiral review for important math topics. Love that it is editable as well!" -Ashley P.

โญโญโญโญโญ "I use this as morning work, and as a math warmup. My students love this resource. They find it engaging, and I often find that it creates engaging conversations." -Bryan F.

โญโญโญโญโญ "My students loved using this for morning work! We were able to work on specific problems that matched our math units at the time. It gave students something to focus on in the morning to get their brains warmed up. Awesome resource!!!" -Roxanne A.

Looking for a middle or high school math bell ringer journal? Check it out here:

Math Bell Ringer Journal for Grades 7-12

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Total Pages
210 pages
Answer Key
Does not apply
Teaching Duration
1 Year
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Standards

to see state-specific standards (only available in the US).
Know relative sizes of measurement units within one system of units including km, m, cm; kg, g; lb, oz.; l, ml; hr, min, sec. Within a single system of measurement, express measurements in a larger unit in terms of a smaller unit. Record measurement equivalents in a two-column table. For example, know that 1 ft is 12 times as long as 1 in. Express the length of a 4 ft snake as 48 in. Generate a conversion table for feet and inches listing the number pairs (1, 12), (2, 24), (3, 36),...
Use the four operations to solve word problems involving distances, intervals of time, liquid volumes, masses of objects, and money, including problems involving simple fractions or decimals, and problems that require expressing measurements given in a larger unit in terms of a smaller unit. Represent measurement quantities using diagrams such as number line diagrams that feature a measurement scale.
Apply the area and perimeter formulas for rectangles in real world and mathematical problems. For example, find the width of a rectangular room given the area of the flooring and the length, by viewing the area formula as a multiplication equation with an unknown factor.
Make a line plot to display a data set of measurements in fractions of a unit (1/2, 1/4, 1/8). Solve problems involving addition and subtraction of fractions by using information presented in line plots. For example, from a line plot find and interpret the difference in length between the longest and shortest specimens in an insect collection.
Recognize angles as geometric shapes that are formed wherever two rays share a common endpoint, and understand concepts of angle measurement:

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