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Preschool Back to School social studies games
Back to School Math and Literacy Centers for Preschool, Pre-K, and Kindergarten
Back to School Math and Literacy Centers are loaded with fun, hands-on school themed activities to help your students build math and literacy concepts! Now includes two fine motor activities, one writing center, six literacy activities, and eight math activities. Literacy skills covered are letter identification, beginning sounds, handwriting, name writing, syllables, building vocabulary words, opposites, and writing/journaling. Math skills cover are one to one correspondence, counting, addition
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PreK - K
Kindergarten - Morning Work Tubs - Bins - Back To School Fine Motor Activities
What's the difference between dreading morning arrival time and loving it? Morning Work Tubs! Engage your kindergarten students with these Back To School, fine motor-focused, morning work bins that explore new concepts and offer valuable practice through play for essential skills in both Math and ELA. In this set, you will find everything you need to organize, set up, and get started including over 30 activities.Why Morning Work:►keeps students engaged in meaningful activities►provides hands-on
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PreK - 1st
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Back to School Rules BIG BUNDLE | School Rules & Supplies | Good Choices
This Back to School Bundle Includes How to Use School Supplies, School Rules Good Choices Sorts, and the Good Choices Thumbs Up and Yoga Games for School Rules and Supplies! It includes Digital Slides, Pocket Chart Sorts, Practice Sorts, and 2 Games for Classroom Rules, Procedures, and Expectations, and How to Use School Supplies. This set is perfect for back to school so that you can set those expectations early and practice making good choices! This set includes 9 School Scenarios (The Carpet,
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PreK - 1st
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Who Am I? - Community Helpers Powerpoint Game #1
Community helpers games are great for teaching students about different community jobs. In this "Who am I" game, students must guess the community worker. There are 10 questions and you just click on each question to go to it. Each question has 3 clues and student have to guess which community helper it describes. Clues include tools they may use, what they do, and where they may work. Great for a whole class review or rainy day activity. Great for individual practice on the iPad! Extra licens
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PreK - 2nd
Also included in: Kindergarten Games Bundle
Kindergarten NEW Math TEKS K.2BD: Number Puzzles (Numbers 1-20)
These math number puzzles help kindergarten students instantly recognize numbers 0-20 in a fun way! They can be used in math centers (math stations), small group instruction settings such as guided math, or in tutoring or intervention. While these puzzles were designed for kindergarten, they can provide enrichment for budding preschool students and make a great back to school center for first grade students.
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PreK - 2nd
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Color Sorting - Crayon Color Match Activity - Learning Colors - Sorting by Color
Kids love this interactive, hands-on color activity for toddlers, preschool, pre-k, early childhood, childcare, early intervention, occupational therapy, speech therapy, and SPED classrooms. Use this fun color sorting activity to work on basic concepts and pre-math concepts.Children will have the opportunity to work on color identificationsortingcounting skillsfine motor skills The set includes printable crayon box pouches in 11 colors and 6 crayons in each of the 11 colors. The colors include
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PreK - K
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Morning Meeting Activities & Games
These Activities & Games for Morning Meeting are the perfect go-to for your classroom! Print, laminate, and put on a binder ring for convenient access.85 activities, songs, and games are included and are divided into sets for the beginning, middle, and end of the year.Includes the following:Page 2: How to Teach Activities and GamesPage 3: Side TabsPage 4: CoversPage 5-23: Beginning of the Year Activities & Games *Page 12-13: EDITABLE “I Have…Who Has” cards *Page 24: EDITA
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PreK - 6th
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Also included in: Morning Meeting and Back to School BUNDLE! {9 Products in One!}
Beginning Sounds Match Up l Letters of the Alphabet l Game and Interactive Book
This is a fabulous set for the beginning of the year to review initial sounds! Perfect for any station or small group! There are 104 alphabet cards (2 letter cards and 2 pictures for each letter of the alphabet). This game is played like memory. The students lay out all of the cards (face down), flip over 2, and hope they get a match! The match is the picture to the initial sound letter. For example, "a" and the picture of the acorn. I have also included a recording sheet for the game!The
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PreK - 1st
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Also included in: Phonics Games BUNDLE Card Match Up Letters and Sounds
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The Kissing Hand School Tour [Scavenger Hunt] *Editable*
After reading the classic first day of school story "The Kissing Hand" by Audrey Penn, take your students on a tour of the school!Use these clues to place throughout your school in different rooms that your students need to become familiar with throughout the school. On their school tour, students begin their fun quest to find Chester the Raccoon! During their quest, they will become familiar with the different rooms and meet other teachers and staff in the building. This will make them feel a l
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PreK - 1st
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Careers, Community Helpers Guessing Game Digital & Printable
This Careers and Community Helpers Guessing Game makes learning about careers and community helpers interactive and FUN! Students pretend to be "Career Detectives" and use their clues to solve 17 riddles. ✅ Both a digital for Google Slides™ and a PowerPoint version of the presentation are included, as well as a printable mini coloring book!✨THIS RESOURCE INCLUDES:✅ A digital for Google Slides™ Career Guessing Game with 17 clever career riddles. Students (or educators) read the riddle, use the cl
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PreK - 1st
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Also included in: School Counseling SEL Curriculum 10 Classroom Guidance Lessons #2
Cracking the Classroom Code™ Alphabet Review Escape Room
Will your class escape in time? This is a review game for the letters of the alphabet. This game is to be played as a whole class, with the teacher leading the students in the game. This is an interactive game where the students are timed. They are trying to escape the pirates, and save the alphabet. You, the teacher, can decide how much time your students get to complete the task. I would suggest 20 minutes, but it is up to your discretion. You can project a timer for your class, or put one som
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PreK - 1st
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Back to School (Stage 1 STEM) Bundle: 50+ Icebreaker Activities
Back to School Icebreaker STEM Bundle! Need back to school icebreakers or games that get students moving, communicating, working in teams, and building relationships? Here are 50+ of our favorite basic activities that are low-cost and low-prep for any classroom or subject!Working as a team, they will learn lessons in communication, innovation, hidden assumptions, and creativity that are central to the engineering process. Use as a warm-up, icebreaker, team building activity, or basic STEM and en
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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MS-ETS1-2
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Back to School BINGO Game | Back to School Vocabulary | School Vocabulary ESL
Back to School BINGO is the perfect game for elementary students of all ages! Engage in exciting rounds of BINGO while practicing listening skills and mastering school-specific vocabulary. With 30 unique boards included, the fun never ends! This resource offers several options for BINGO boards, whether you want to print in color or black & white, or would like to play with or without words, you'll have just what you need! Back to School BINGO can be played with the whole class or in small gr
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PreK - 6th
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Alphabet Dominos Letter Sound Game
Fun, engaging, interactive and GIANT game.HOW TO PLAY:Print dice pieces out on paper, I use color cardstock to brighten them up and to make sure they would hold up. You can decide how many domino pieces you want students to use, all of them or split up and have students work in groups. Students will connect the pieces just like they would with dominos. They will match a letter with a picture that starts with that letter sound. They can connect them vertically or horizontally. Includes two differ
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PreK - 1st
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Also included in: Domino Games BUNDLE
Beginning Sounds Game - CVC Words Phonics Game for Smartboards & all Whiteboards
Practice beginning sounds with this fun and engaging CVC words phonics game for Smart boards, whiteboards and computers. Students must figure out the missing letter and touch the bee that is carrying that letter. If correct, the bee will fly to the blank space, fill in the letter and then cheer and dance. Your students will love the fun bee characters, animations and sounds and will forget that they are learning!Click here to watch a quick video demo of the game in action.Download the 'Preview'
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PreK - K
MEGA BUNDLE of 14 Beginning Piano Games, Rhythm Activities, Music Worksheets
Establish a strong foundation for your youngest piano students with this mega bundle of 14 educational beginning piano games, activities, worksheets, and more! Increase your piano students' focus, engagement, and motivation. Improve their retention of early-level music concepts. Make learning fun with easy-to-use activities!This awesome bundle of beginning piano games and activities is perfect for beginner piano students, group piano classes, music camps, private piano lessons, the music classro
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PreK - 3rd
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More or Less | Counting | Comparing Numbers 1-10 | Boom Cards | Math | Fall
Compare numbers by counting the objects in the jars. Put the star on the jar with more or less objects in it. Directions are clickable for audio support.Preview the game here.There are 20 task cards in this deck preset to play 10 per game in a random order. Teachers have the ability to hide cards, which allows you to focus strictly "more" or "less."⭐⭐Click here to follow me and receive notifications for freebies, new products, and special sales!⭐⭐Get more Boom Cards here.To use Boom Cards, yo
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PreK - 1st
How To Use Classroom Supplies Challenges
These are 20 challenges for your students to practice these 10 supplies in the classroom. There are 2 levels for each of the supplies listed below:-glue sticks-glue bottles-scissors-pencils-crayons-markers-expo markers-play dough-dabbers-paint brushesThese are can be used to introduce classroom supplies or perfect for a review during back-to-school time.
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PreK - 1st
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Also included in: Kindergarten Bootcamp
Monthly Sentence Scrambles Growing Bundle
This is an editable sentence scramble all year long GROWING bundle that will give your students hands on work with sight word recognition and sentence writing. Perfect addition to your monthly/seasonal centers.Teacher Prep:Print, cut, and laminate scrambled sentences. I use cardstock for durability.How to Use:Student sort pictures with the same clipart. For example, they find all the words with turkeys below it. Unscramble the sentence.Students record their sentence on the recording sheet next t
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PreK - 1st
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Write the Room Kindergarten Preschool
Kindergarten students love write the room activities! This is a write the room bundle for the whole year that your kindergarten and first graders will love in literacy centers, morning work, rotations or pocket charts! There are 11 different write the room seasons and holidays in this set. It includes : Back to School Write the Room, Fall / Autumn Write the Room, Halloween Write the Room, Thanksgiving Write the Room, Christmas Write the Room, Winter Write the Room, Valentine's Day Write the Roo
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PreK - 1st
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BACK TO SCHOOL SCAVENGER HUNT FOR PRE-K AND KINDERGARTEN
You have a classroom full of new students in a new school! How do you introduce all the new and exciting places to them? This fun, engaging scavenger hunt is what you need!This file includes Chicka Chicka Boom Boom Clue cards and alphabet letters that can be used on the first day of school or during the first week of school for an exciting scavenger hunt that will introduce students to their new school. CLUE CARDSEdit the clue cards to meet the specific needs of your learning environment. Fol
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PreK - 1st
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Map Skills: Hands On Maps Center Social Studies
Hands-on maps center. Introduce beginning maps skills with this hands-on maps center. Includes: pictorial directions on set-up, "I can" directions, key, compass rose, task cards, interactive map pieces (picture cards of places in a community), differentiated recording sheets, map elements flip book in 3 levels and a "Build Your Own Compass Rose" activities.Use this map learning pack to teach kids beginning map skills! - Flip Books- Interactive "Build a Map" center- "Build Your Own Compass Ro
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PreK - 1st
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CVC Game: Short Vowel Sounds Memory Game: In-Class & Distance Learning
Keep students engaged while practicing 150 CVC words with this fun phonics memory game for interactive whiteboards (Smart Board, Promethean, Mimio), tablets and computers. A perfect game to use as a literacy center, for a whole class collaboration activity or while distance learning. Note: An internet connection is required to play this game because the game runs directly from the pinkcatgames.com website. AMAZING DEAL! With my One Year Digital Games Subscription you will have access to all of t
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PreK - 1st
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Alphabet Centers {Alphabet Matching and Beginning Sound Practice}
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These Alphabet centers and games are PERFECT to use all year long to keep students engaged and working on ABC order and beginning sounds.
This pack includes 5 games/activities that meet a variety of different learning levels. All games help students to practice matching letters, and beginning sounds.
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Importance of learning social studies
Social studies offers valuable insights into history, geography, and much more. Social studies captivates students by providing them with perspectives from the past, present, and future, allowing them to understand history and navigate current events. It enables them to appreciate how previous generations have shaped their present reality. In essence, social studies opens their eyes to the vastness of life beyond their immediate surroundings.
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Learning social studies offers many benefits to students in terms of helping them develop a holistic understanding of the world. Namely, it helps them:
- Learn about the achievements, challenges, perspectives, traditions, and customs of different societies
- Evaluate information, analyze evidence, and make informed judgments about complex social, economic, and political issues
- Become active, responsible, and engaged citizens
- Comprehend global issues such as human rights, environmental sustainability, and economic disparities
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