Here are some terrific free activities and resources for winter, New Years, the Lunar New Year, Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday, and general use for the month of January. Teachers will be adding new resources to this page throughout the week, so be sure to check back to see what’s new. Don’t miss the last section which has freebies that are applicable for ALL grades! To add your favorite resources, just follow these three guidelines: 1) Your item must be something you will ALWAYS give away for free; 2) Your item MAY be related to the month but it doesn’t have to be; and 3) Submit no more than 3 items.

The Essay Map is an interactive graphic organizer that enables students to organize and outline their ideas for writing assignments. 

Use this graphic organizer to develop an outline for an essay that includes an introductory statement, main ideas, supporting details, and a conclusion.

The reference sheet focuses on the following

• Inches, feet, yards, mile
  
• Ounces, pounds, ton
  
• Pints, quarts, gallon
  
• Grams, kilogram
  
• Centimeter, Kilometer, decimeter, meter
  

Blank check templates in three versions - Dollar, Euro and Pound Sterling. Great for teaching about written numbers.