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Balloons Over Broadway Thanksgiving READ ALOUD STEM™ Activity
Have a classroom Thanksgiving Day Parade! Make learning fun with this Thanksgiving STEAM challenge in which students design their very own Thanksgiving Day Parade Balloon! An excellent companion activity to the fall read aloud book Balloons Over Broadway by Melissa Sweet.Not only do students design the balloon, but as an added challenge they must create a device to keep it floating in the air!Students plan, design, and execute their own ideas. After they have completed their activity, there is t
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K - 5th
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NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
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Also included in: Thanksgiving READ ALOUD STEM™ Activities and Challenges BUNDLE
3-D Shapes Activity with Monsters (Geometry Math Craft for Elementary)
This fun elementary craftivity will get kids excited about 3-D geometric shapes while incorporating art into the classroom. This product includes 7 different shape (monster) templates (both in color and as line art for the student to color) and 3 accompanying worksheets. Please open my preview file to view everything that is included. This activity can also foster teamwork when students work together in groups of two to assemble their 3-D shape monsters.Save Money, buy the bundle! Monster Themed
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K - 2nd
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Also included in: 2-D & 3-D Shapes Monster Bundle
2D Shape Pattern Block STEM Challenge Cards
The perfect addition to your morning STEM tubs, these challenge cards ask students to make a variety of different 2D shapes from pattern blocks. Ideal for building visual discrimination skills as children have to rotate and flip smaller shapes to create the new shape.Focus shapes included - triangle, square, rectangle, rhombus/diamond, hexagon, trapezoid. Perfect to use as an invitation to play in the Early Years, as math centers or even as a cross-curriculum literacy center for early readers to
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K - 3rd
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Math Logic Puzzles Shapes - Early Finisher Activities - levels A,B,C BUNDLE
These pattern block math logic puzzles for kindergarten, first, and second grade make a great, NO PREP math center activity, morning work activity, or challenge math activity. These logic puzzles keep students highly-engaged while improving and developing their logic and visual discrimination skills. These brain teasers are a great way to teach your students to persevere through challenging tasks and help to develop their growth mindset. This bundle includes three different levels of math logic
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K - 2nd
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Creativity Activities and Challenges MEGA Bundle Finish the Picture, STEM
Need a quick, no prep, creative STEM challenges to get your students to think outside the box?! Creativity challenges can be used as a quick warm up before a STEM challenge to help jumpstart students’ creativity. They can also be used for morning work, brain breaks, and at various other times throughout the school day.This bundle includes 100+ Creativity Challenges and Activities. Featuring Balloons Over Broadway, Snowflake Bentley, Valentine's Day, Groundhog Day, Earth Day, Halloween, Christmas
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K - 5th
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Classroom Management & Behavior Plan & Incentive Reward - Brag Tags Bundle #2
Are you looking for something to spice up your classroom behavior management system? If so, I have the deal for you! Brag tags! They have changed the way my kids behave in my classroom! Prior to brag tags my kids were not nearly as motivated to work hard towards their behavior and academic goals. Prior to brag tags I was constantly spending money on refilling my treasure box. As teachers we spend enough of our own money on things. Brag tags helped this cause for me!In this 250-page bundle you w
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PreK - 6th
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Goldilocks STEM Activity - Goldilocks and the Three Bears STEM Challenges
What do you get when you combine fairy tales and STEM? A fun, hands-on STEM Tale! This fairy tale with a twist guides students through the engineering design process to create a new bed for Goldilocks. The storybook can be read aloud together. Students will complete it as they work through the STEM activity.The STEM ActivityYour students will help Baby Bear build Goldilocks a new bed of her own! In this story, there is a bit of a twist that will tap into SEL topics like empathy.What You'll Get:T
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K - 3rd
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NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-PS2-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
Name Activities and Worksheets - Crafts - Bulletin Board Alphabet Name Practice
Preschool, pre-k and kindergarten students absolutely love to learn all about their name with these adorable crafts, activities, worksheets, puzzles, crowns, class graph and so much more. This resource is perfect for summer school, your back to school season, classroom centers, tutoring, homeschooling, daycare, summer camps and more!Built in scaffolding makes it so easy to differentiate.Children identify and match letters in their name, trace, color, cut + paste and make crafts. Then, they can
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PreK - 1st
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Visual Discrimination MEGA Bundle Fine Motor Activities
These activities will allow your students the opportunity to develop their visual discrimination skills along with their fine motor skills. They will need to pay attention to the color, orientation and position of the objects on the cards to be able to recreate the design themselves.This Mega Bundle includes ALL of my Visual Discrimination activities at 25% off the individual price of each resource.Great for Morning Tubs, Math Centers, Fine Motor Centers, Indoor Recess, or Early Finishers!Visual
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PreK - K
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LEGO Challenge Task Cards {Great for STEM or fun building!}
I am really excited to show you some cute, older-kid friendly LEGO Challenge Task Cards! These are bright, colorful, and can appeal to older students without looking too primary. Don’t’ have LEGOs? That’s okay! These can be used for any building materials you may have—unifix cubes, plastic Flake Discs (Amazon), Bunchems (Amazon or Target), Wiki Stix, pipe cleaners, play-dough, etc. Get those kids engineering and manipulating. They work great as an independent station for special education, a STE
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PreK - 8th
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Rotation Boards EDITABLE
|UPDATED FEB 2017|
These EDITABLE rotation boards are perfect for displaying your centers/rotations for any subject all in one place WITH TIMERS!
There are rotation boards included for 2-6 groups and 2-6 rotations with timers available for 1 min, 2 min, 5 min, 10 min, 15 min, 20 min, 25 min, and 30 min.
There are TUTORIAL VIDEOS included to show you how to work every element of this product including editing text, timer settings, copying slides, and setting automatic slides!
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PreK - 8th
36 Tangram puzzles
This package contains 36 tangram puzzles to be recreated by the students. Each page has 2 boxes, in it are both the puzzle (in black) and the solution (in color). This game practices spatial awareness, geometric concepts, problem solving, shapes and mathematical concepts like symmetry and congruency.There are 36 tangram puzzles in this package, a mix of figures, animals and objects. Tangram is a dissection puzzle consisting of seven flat shapes, called tans, which are put together to form shapes
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PreK - 6th
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Memorial Day Activities Differentiated Readers
Printable readers for Memorial Day activities with two versions of a comprehension check - one asking for complete sentence answers and the other for them to circle their answers. Plus a fun certificate of completion. Please preview to see what's included.Update 5/2018: a second, less challenging reader has been added for differentiation as well as a full sized page reader for easy projection, by request.*Click HERE to see Memorial Day Scoot games**This is included in the MAY BUNDLE*You can see
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K - 3rd
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Also included in: Guided Reading Printable Readers with Comprehension Bundle
Fix it Math Cards! Higher Order Thinking Math Questions
These "Fix it" cards are perfect for math talks and higher-order thinking! Students will use what they know about different math skills to figure out what is wrong on each card and share how they can fix it!★WHAT ARE FIX IT CARDS?★Fix it cards are great questions to pose to your students to promote HIGHER ORDER thinking!These fix it cards pose typical questions in a different way to help your students identify mistakes in another person’s work AND show how they can fix it. Many of the cards have
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K - 2nd
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The Napping House Retelling Pack
The Napping House Retelling Pack is intended to be used after reading the book The Napping House by Audrey Wood. This is a favorite student book. Use this pack to make the story come to life! Here is what is included in the pack.Vocabulary Cards: Print on cardstock, laminate, and cut apart words or leave as a poster. Preview vocabulary from the story prior to reading and/or review vocabulary after reading the story. Place in writing center, pocket chart, or back with magnetic tape and use
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PreK - K
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Kindergarten Math Games - Low Prep Reusable Games for Partners or Math Centers
KINDERGARTEN MATH GAMES / MATH CENTERSI love these simple MATH GAMES for PARTNERS. They’re quick and easy to assemble and the children enjoy playing them over and over. You can use them in multiple ways, but I most often use them:during math workshop for fun skill practiceas independent math centersfor a home-school connectionThere are 20 partner games included in this set. They cover multiple math concepts and skills such as:identifying and comparing shapessequencing numberscomparing numbersrec
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K
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Transportation Pattern Blocks Activity Mats & Task Cards
These transportation pattern blocks activity mats and task cards are perfect for enhancing your transportation unit or lesson. Students can create a picture with the pattern blocks, count and write how many of each block was used, then trace the name of the transportation. This set includes land, water and air transportation. Two versions are included to allow for differentiation. Just provide your kids with pattern blocks and let them complete the challenges/activities. The images on the mats
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PreK - 1st
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Also included in: TRANSPORTATION BUNDLE
Comic Strip Templates - BIG Bundle!
Comics are a great way to engage the reluctant learner and can be used across all subject areas to integrate common core as well as content specific standards.
This file is a big bundle of 60 comic strip graphic organizers. Within this set, I have included a big accordion comic strip foldable and a story element graphic organizer that I have my students fill out prior to beginning any comic story.
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Photosynthesis Comic Strip Project
Carbon Cycle Comic Strip Project
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K - 12th
Critical Thinking Activities Logic Puzzles, Algebraic Thinking, Math Enrichment
Engage your students with these critical thinking activities and math logic puzzles. Included in this bundle are 3 critical thinking products for grades K-2. These ready to use logic puzzles are the perfect addition to your classroom to promote mathematical reasoning, problem solving, and creativity!These student friendly critical thinking activities will build a foundation for algebraic reasoning. With 96 puzzles in total, your students will be buzzing with excitement every time they complete o
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K - 2nd
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The Day The Crayons Quit...Book Companion...Color Activities!
Visit this site to learn more!!Updated to to include Color pages and Colour pages.This is one of my favorite stories. So many Common Core Standards can be addressed using this piece of literature. Best is that it will bring a smile to your children's faces as they listen to this delightful tale and maybe even take a peek at their own crayons.Activities are differentiated to meet the variety of levels found in the classroom.The packet contains:Story Recall...Problem identification/how it was so
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K - 2nd
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Visual Discrimination Bundle Part 1 Fine Motor Activities
*This bundle is Part 1 of my Visual Discrimination Activities. You can find Parts 2 & 3 here, or all the bundles are available in the MEGA Bundle!These activities will allow your students the opportunity to develop their visual discrimination skills along with their fine motor skills. They will need to pay attention to the color, orientation and position of the objects on the cards to be able to recreate the design themselves.Visual discrimination skills are important for students to have b
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PreK - K
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35 Different Tangram Puzzles - Black & Color
Here are 35 different Tangram puzzles for you to cut out and use in your classroom! Each tangram is on a 3.7" x 4.9" card and there are 4 cards per page. The color tangrams show the individual shapes while the black tangrams only show the whole figure as a sold color. The tangram cards will go with any sized tangrams. They aren't made to line up directly with the tangrams / aren't sized to any particular tangram set size, but were created give the students challenge cards to work with.I have
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PreK - 11th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Christmas STEM Pattern Block Challenge Cards
Celebrate the holiday season in your classroom with the help of this pattern block Christmas math activity! A hands-on fun way to explore shapes making them the perfect addition to your math centers, morning work or STEM bins this Christmas! Few can resist working with pattern blocks and these Christmas STEM Challenge Cards provide ideal support for young children learning about shapes while also focusing on building visual discrimination, fine motor skills and transforming shapes by rotating, s
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K - 4th
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It's Not a Box! 25 Creative Drawing Prompts Your Kids Will Love
These 25 open-ended drawing prompts range from basic shapes to abstract lines to engage your students' creativity and critical thinking skills! Use them as a drawing warmup, mindfulness activity, or for early finishers. These are perfect for any art class, and can be paired with Antoinette Portis' book Not a Box for a literacy connection. My K-1 students loved these challenges, and they could easily be implemented up to high-school grades depending on the level of depth you encourage. As an art
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K - 10th
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