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$Mad Minute Multiplication Math / Ice Cream Celebration$

Mad Minute Multiplication Math / Ice Cream Celebration

By Polka-dots in the Panhandle

Mad Minute Math is a unit to enhance multiplication facts. Each week I give a one minute timed multiplication fact test. Everyone starts at x0. If the student passes within the minutes time, they go on to the next number and earn a piece of the ice

Subjects:

Basic Operations, Mental Math, Test Preparation

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th

Types:

Homework, Posters

$9.50

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Mr. Popper's Penguins A Primary Literature Unit

By Polka-dots in the Panhandle

This is an interactive unit that goes along with the book Mr. Popper's Penguins. I will be using this book as a read aloud with my first grade students but it could easily be used in a small group or literature circle type setting. Included in this

Subjects:

Balanced Literacy, Creative Writing, Tools for Common Core

Grades:

1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd

Types:

Activities, Assessment

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Fairy Tale Economics

By Polka-dots in the Panhandle

This resource was created out of a need to teach a somewhat difficult concept in a fun and approachable way. This unit combines the economic concepts of: need vs. want, goods and services, producer and consumers, trade, entrepreneurship, opportunity

Subjects:

Creative Writing, Economics , Tools for Common Core

Grades:

Kindergarten, 1^st, 2^nd

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Projects, Printables, Lesson

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2D Shape Friends

By Polka-dots in the Panhandle

This cute craft and writing project is a great companion to any 2-Dimentional Shape or Geometry Unit. It is also a great companion to the popular children's story "The Greedy Triangle." This unit includes all of the templates just download and

Subjects:

Geometry, Writing, Tools for Common Core

Grades:

Kindergarten, 1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd

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Lesson

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Hour of the Olympics

By Polka-dots in the Panhandle

The unit was designed to accompany the Magic Tree House Book #16, Hour of the Olympics. It includes comprehension questions for each of the ten chapters, character maps, a character map writing activity, a map skills activity, four non-fiction close

Subjects:

Reading, Writing, Tools for Common Core

Grades:

1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd

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Activities, Assessment

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Regions of the United States

By Polka-dots in the Panhandle

This unit consists of the five regions of the United States: * Northeast * Southeast * Midwest * Southwest * West I've created a study guide for the students as well as an assessment with a key. The study guide separates the states within a

Subjects:

Social Studies - History, U.S. History, Geography

Grades:

2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th, 5^th

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Study Guides, Printables

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Simple, Compound and Complex Sentence Task Cards

By Polka-dots in the Panhandle

I created these task cards for my students to use as a review for simple, compound and complex sentences. These can be used as a center activity or for independent review. I use them as a scavenger hunt and place them throughout my room. The

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Grammar, ELA Test Prep

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th

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Printables, Task Cards, Centers

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Spill the Beans

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This is a great activity for building number recognition and number sense. You will need to give each student a cup and the same number of counters as the sum. The students will shake the counters in their cup and then spill or gently dump them in

Subjects:

Math, Back to School, Tools for Common Core

Grades:

Kindergarten, 1^st

Types:

Activities, Centers

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How To Fill A Classroom Bucket; K-5 Interactive Unit

By Polka-dots in the Panhandle

The activities in this mini-unit are designed to go along with the book, Have You Filled A Bucket Today?, by Carol McCloud. We created this unit so that it could be used with a variety of grade levels from kindergarten to fifth grade. With this in

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Character Education, Back to School

Grades:

Kindergarten, 1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th, 5^th

Types:

Projects, Task Cards, Lesson

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My Place in Space: A Primary Map Skills Writing Project

By Polka-dots in the Panhandle

This unit is designed to go along with the books: "Me On The Map" and "Me and My Place In Space." Like these stories this writing project starts with the student in mind with the Me page, it then moves outward to: my home, my street/neighborhood, my

Subjects:

Geography, Writing, Earth Day

Grades:

Kindergarten, 1^st, 2^nd

Types:

Unit Plans, Printables, Lesson

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The Very Busy Spider: A Primary Mentor Sentence Unit

By Polka-dots in the Panhandle

This unit is designed bring mentor sentences into a kindergarten or first grade classroom. The primary focus of this unit is proper conventions, penmanship and basic sentence structure. This unit takes a sentence from the mentor text: The Very Busy

Subjects:

Balanced Literacy, Grammar, Autumn

Grades:

Kindergarten, 1^st, 2^nd

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$Mad Minute Math /4th Grade - Multiplication fact review$

Mad Minute Math /4th Grade - Multiplication fact review

By Polka-dots in the Panhandle

Mad Minute Math is a one minute timed mixed math test that I start at the beginning of the year as a remediation for multiplication. Upon entering fourth grade the students should know their multiplication facts up to 10. We all know that not all of

Subjects:

Math, Basic Operations, Mental Math

Grades:

4^th, 5^th

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Activities

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Stealing Christmas Graphic Bundle

By Polka-dots in the Panhandle

Graphic bundle contains all the images that are shown here. Each image is saved separately as a .png file with 300ppi. Images include two Christmas trees, holly and berries, wrapped presents, sleigh, and other Grinch-like characters. These graphics

Subjects:

Other (Specialty), Holidays/Seasonal, Christmas/ Chanukah/ Kwanzaa

Grades:

PreK, Kindergarten, 1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, 6^th

Types:

Clip Art

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$Primary Math Assessments: Numbers 1-10$

Primary Math Assessments: Numbers 1-10

By Polka-dots in the Panhandle

This unit contains ten math assessments to cover the numbers 1-10. It is designed to last for an entire nine week/quarter. It contains a recording sheet that can be printed for each student and used to track their progress on each of the ten

Subjects:

Math, Numbers, Tools for Common Core

Grades:

Kindergarten, 1^st

Types:

Assessment, Rubrics

$5.00

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Regions of the United States - Close Reads

By Polka-dots in the Panhandle

I created these close reads as a tool for my students to more fully understand about each region of the United States. There are three passages and questions for each region. One page has a overview of the region. The other two pages deal with

Subjects:

Reading, Geography, Informational Text

Grades:

3^rd

Types:

Homework, Printables

$4.50

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Witches Brew A Cross Grade Level Buddy Activity

By Polka-dots in the Panhandle

This is a fun way to celebrate Halloween in the classroom and encourage some cross grade level learning. This unit contains two separate sorting work mats, a parent letter explaining the activity and requesting donations, a fun poem, and three

Subjects:

Graphing, Other (Math), Halloween

Grades:

Kindergarten, 1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd

Types:

Activities, Lesson

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Ice Cream Addition: Activities to Practice Adding Three Numbers

By Polka-dots in the Panhandle

These activities can be used during whole group, small group instruction and/or during center or workstation time. I created these activities in order to give my students a fun hands on approach to learning how to add three numbers. The first

Subjects:

Numbers, Word Problems, Tools for Common Core

Grades:

Kindergarten, 1^st, 2^nd

Types:

Activities, Printables, Games

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Pronoun Task Cards

By Polka-dots in the Panhandle

I created these task cards for my students as a review for common narrative pronouns, he, she, him, her, they, them, I etc. These can be used as a center activity or for independent work. Check our blog, polka-dotsinthepanhandle.blogspot.com for

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Grammar, Test Preparation

Grades:

2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th

Types:

Task Cards, Centers

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How to Write a Gingerbread Story: A Primary Writing Mini-Unit

By Polka-dots in the Panhandle

This unit was designed to help my students write their own gingerbread story. The unit includes a graphic organizer, writing page with conversions checklist and a template for a fun craft. For more information, ideas, and freebies check out the

Subjects:

Balanced Literacy, Writing, Christmas/ Chanukah/ Kwanzaa

Grades:

Kindergarten, 1^st, 2^nd

Types:

Projects, Activities, Lesson

$2.00

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Third Day in 3rd Grade

By Polka-dots in the Panhandle

This packet is for the beginning of the school year for third grade, actually the 3rd day of school. They activities include: Synonyms Antonyms Sentence structure Writing Math / hundred's chart/ place value / basic operations Creative art Have

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Math, Back to School

Grades:

3^rd

Types:

Printables

$2.00

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We teach Fourth grade and Kindergarten and live in the Northwest Florida Panhandle. We are a mother and daughter who love exchanging educational ideas. We are always creating things for our classes that tie in children's literature and art.

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