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Kindergarten Christmas-Chanukah-Kwanzaa social studies resources for Easel Activities
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
Community Helpers Workers Activities 1st Grade Kindergarten Social Studies
This set of activities will help students understand workers in their community and the jobs they do. Includes workers, jobs and occupations, vehicles, and city services.Includes:Helpers and Jobs Sorting CardsMatch the picture of the worker with the correct name and job description. These work well as a whole group pocket-chart activity. Includes 26 cards.Workers, Vehicles, and City Buildings CardsThese make a fun matching activity for young learners or vocabulary development for your ESL/ELL st
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PreK - 1st
Also included in: Kindergarten Math & Reading YEAR LONG BUNDLE 1300+ Pages
Scissor Skills Santa Beard Worksheets | Christmas Activities
Combine Christmas fun with fine motor with our Santa's Beard Scissor Skills activity pages. Each of the 45 beard-trimming pages give students different line styles to cut with increasing complexity. When students have finished the cutting activity they can also color, cut and glue the page into a bright backing paper for a fun classroom display of Santa's curly beards. Perfect for:kindergarten and preschool learnersremediation with students who are challenged by cuttingfine motor developmentprin
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PreK - 1st
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Gingerbread Man STEM Challenges
These gingerbread STEM activities are perfect for kindergarten, first grade, and second-grade engineers working together or alone in centers this Christmas. A great addition to your unit on gingerbread this December. This resource uses the engineering design process to solve problems all winter. Your kids will have fun building a boat, a bridge, and a hideout for the gingerbread man. Each challenge has a bonus challenge to help differentiate. Make this holiday season fun with hands-on STEM activ
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K - 2nd
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Also included in: Winter STEM BUNDLE
Australia: An Introduction to the Art, Culture, Sights, and Food
This slideshow helps elementary students quickly learn about famous places, food, art, and the culture of Australia. You can use this slideshow at the beginning of a unit on Australia. You can also print it out and use it as a book for student research. This slideshow also has 4 questions at the end of the slideshow to review what students have learned. This download comes as a PDF file and is NOT editable as a PDF. However, you can open this slideshow in the TPT EASEL program and add or delete
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K - 6th
Also included in: Mega Country Bundle: Introductions to the Art, Culture, Sights, and Food
Christmas Errorless and Differentiated Journal Writing for Special Education
With three different levels included, this fun Christmas Journal pack is perfect for all of your non-writers, emerging writers, and writers! These journals are perfect for students who have difficulty coming up with their own thoughts, by allowing them to do more than just copy sentences, errorlessly choosing how to complete each sentence to express their own thoughts!This pack is about all things related to Christmas time, including Santa, Christmas tree, gingerbread house, snowman, and more! T
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PreK - 12th
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Also included in: The Mega Christmas Bundle for Special Education
Kindergarten Christmas Math & Reading Worksheets Counting Addition Sight Words
This set of Christmas activities and worksheets for kindergarten will keep your students practicing essential math and reading skills amid all the holiday excitement. Math Worksheets:Repeating PatternsCookie Count and GraphLet’s Count 0 to 10Gingerbread Math Facts (addition to 10)Place Value Match Up (teen numbers)12 Days of Christmas Count and Write Mini Book (numbers to 12)Reading Worksheets:Christmas Cookie CVC Rhyming WordsChristmas Is Here Sight Words Mini BookWord Family Gingerbread Houses
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PreK - K
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US Government / 3 Branches / Election / Voting Unit - Differentiated Resources
This unit is perfect for your special education, elementary, or co-taught US History class. Topics covered are the three branches of government, important documents (Declaration of Independence, Constitution, and Bill of Rights), political parties (Democrat and Republican), and voting. Perfect to prepare for a discussion about the upcoming election!
A WIDE range of resources allow for each learner to be successful at their own level and give multiple ways to learn.
Interactive Notes: 2 levels
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PreK - 12th
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Gingerbread Man & Ninjabread Man Read Aloud - Reading Comprehension
These Gingerbread Man printable or digital interactive read aloud lesson plans compare and contrast the classic story with another version. The lessons are designed to be taught over multiple days. This allows students an opportunity to dive deeper into the texts, make connections and comparisons to the characters and events, and most importantly, fall in love with the stories.Each lesson, provides students a different purpose for revisiting the texts, talking about them, and responding to them.
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K - 1st
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Snowmen at Christmas Read Aloud Lessons - Snowman Craft - Christmas Activities
These "Snowmen at Christmas" printable or digital interactive read aloud lesson plans and Christmas activities are designed to be taught over multiple lessons. This allows students an opportunity to dive deeper into the text, make connections to the characters and events, and most importantly, fall in love with the story.Each lesson, provides students a different purpose for revisiting the text, talking about it, and responding to it.We include rigorous text dependent questions, differentiated g
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K - 1st
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Amelia Earhart Build an Airplane READ ALOUD STEM™ Activity
Integrate STEM and Social Studies in your classroom during Women's History Month with this Amelia Earhart STEM Challenge! Travel through the skies with Amelia Earhart! Build an Airplane STEM Challenge is a fun and unique way to engage your students during Women's History Month. Teach students that anyone can be a successful pioneer in industry regardless of gender. Students begin the activity by reading about Amelia Earhart and learning vocabulary on different aspects of flight (thrust, lift, dr
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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: Women's History Month READ ALOUD STEM™ Activities BUNDLE #1
Christmas Bingo (30 different playing cards & calling cards included!)
Students always love a good game of bingo! Use this Simply First Christmas Bingo to play in your classroom with your students to celebrate the Christmas holiday :)*30 DIFFERENT playing cards included as well as calling cards!Check out my other Bingo games!*Fall Bingo*Halloween Bingo*Christmas Bingo*Winter Bingo*Valentine Bingo*St. Patrick's Day Bingo*Spring Bingo*Easter Bingo*Character Bingo*Summer BingoWant them all? A bundle is available with all 10 bingo games at a discounted price!!
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PreK - 5th
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Also included in: Bingo Bundle! (10 total games)
LETTERS TO SANTA - HOW TO WRITE A FRIENDLY LETTER
The holidays…what a great time to learn how to write letters!! Writing Santa is not only magical but it is a great way to harness that excitement for letter writing! This set contains everything you will need to teach your lesson. The Goal: This letter encourages letter writing and increases the spirit of Christmas.Who will like Letters to Santa? You will find it fits most students in Kindergarten through Second Grade depending on their levels of abilities and needs.What is inside this product?P
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K - 3rd
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50 States of the USA Activity Bundle (Map and Flags)
Try it on EASEL! This resource includes a ready-to-use interactive activity students can complete on any device. This “50 States of the USA” activity includes fun worksheets for all 50 states, including Washington DC. Each activity aims to build and strengthen the following skillsets for Pre-K thru 1st Grade students.1. Trace it—Penmanship.2. Find it—Critical thinking and problem-solving.3. Color it—Creativity and fine motor skills. The activities also help familiarize young students with the US
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PreK - 2nd
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Also included in: USA State Symbols and Maps MEGA Bundle | Geography
Peru: An Introduction to the Art, Culture, Sights, and Food
This slideshow helps elementary students quickly learn about famous landmarks, food, art, and the culture of Peru. You can use this slideshow at the beginning of a unit on the Amazon River, Andes Mountains, South American art, or Machu Picchu. You can also print it out and use it as a book for student research. This slideshow also has 4 questions at the end of the slideshow to review what students have learned. This download comes as a PDF file and is NOT editable as a PDF. However, you can open
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K - 5th
Also included in: Mega Country Bundle: Introductions to the Art, Culture, Sights, and Food
Olive the Other Reindeer Read Aloud Lesson Plans - Christmas Activities
These Olive the Other Reindeer read aloud activities will teach your preschoolers about the adorable Christmas story, Olive the other Reindeer, with week-long interactive lesson plans and story comprehension activities.Our interactive read-aloud lesson plan is designed to be taught over multiple lessons. This allows students an opportunity to dive deeper into the text, make connections to the characters and events and most importantly, fall in love with the story.Each lesson provides students a
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K - 2nd
Also included in: December Read Aloud Bundle - Holiday Comprehension Activities
CHRISTMAS Word Wall Vocabulary Cards & Worksheets Word Search ABC Order
This is a set of Christmas word wall cards and companion worksheets. The cards can be used in your writing center, for read and write the room activities, bulletin boards, and more. You can even print two sets and use them for partner pairing or a memory game. They are also a great way to teach Christmas vocabulary to your English language learners!Includes:32 word wall cardsChristmas heading/title card4 worksheets and answer keysChristmas Word Wall Cards:SantaMrs. Clauselfstockingreindeernorth
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K - 2nd
December Morning Work {1st Grade} PDF & Digital Ready!
What a great start to the day! Back to School Morning Work is a rigorous, engaging and fun brain workout that practices skills needed in First Grade. Children will sharpen skills in counting, addition, number sense, reading strategies, phonics, number comparisons and more! This packet contains fun school graphics so it can be used any time of year. You can use this as morning work, homework, in a homeschool setting, or for fast finishers. This packet would also be great for Kindergarten or for s
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K - 2nd
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Also included in: Morning Work for the Year Bundle {1st Grade} PDF & Digital Ready!
Christmas Adapted Book Series
Elevate your special education curriculum with our engaging Christmas-themed adapted books, perfect for special education teachers and parents of autistic students. These books offer an enjoyable way to practice identifying attributes like color, prepositions, location, and sequencing, all within the festive holiday season.This series includes 3 adapted books. In "Let's Build a Gingerbread House," students work on important skills such as following directions related to counting and recognizing
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PreK - 3rd
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Morning Work Kindergarten December No Prep Printables Winter Christmas
December Kindergarten Morning WorkPractice major standards every morning in a fun, consistent format which promotes independent work! Easily differentiate for your students with two levels of the pages provided. Includes practice of numbers, letters, initial, medial and end sounds, patterns, addition(with counting), weather, seasons, and date. Your students will love to say their names with the affirmations each and have fun with the seasonally themed practice.Each month spirals and builds so th
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PreK - 1st
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Also included in: Winter Kindergarten Morning Work Bundle Math ELA Printable Digital
Cardinal Directions Activities and Worksheets for Kindergarten and 1st
Are you looking for age-appropriate and engaging activities to help your little ones with learning about cardinal directions and map skills? I have some great printables for YOU! Check them out!In this download:Pg. 1 CoverPg. 2 Directions Pg. 3 Fish Swim (Follow Cardinal Directions to help the fish.)Pg. 4 Answer KEY Fish Swim (Follow Cardinal Directions to help the fish)Pg. 5 Seal Bubbles (Follow Cardinal Directions)Pg. 6 Answer KEYPg. 7 Treasure Search (Take the ship to a treasure.)Pg. 8 Treas
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PreK - 1st
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Brazil: An Introduction to the Art, Culture, Sights, and Food
This slideshow helps elementary students quickly learn about famous landmarks, food, art, and the culture of Brazil. You can use this slideshow at the beginning of a unit on South America or Brazil. You can also print it out and use it as a book for student research. This slideshow also has 4 questions at the end of the slideshow to review what students have learned. This download comes as a PDF file and is NOT editable as a PDF. However, you can open this slideshow in the TPT EASEL program and
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K - 6th
Also included in: Mega Country Bundle: Introductions to the Art, Culture, Sights, and Food
ESL Christmas Writing December Activities Kindergarten, First Grade 2nd Grade
This Christmas labeling activity is great for kindergartners, first graders, and English Language Learners! Have your children label the picture using the words from the word bank.Next have them write a story using as many words as they can from the word bankThis Christmas Writing can be used in many ways:⭐Small Groups⭐Morning Work⭐Independent Work⭐Writing Center⭐Homework⭐Easel Activity IncludedIncluded✅10 Label It Christmas Themed Printables✅10 Write About It Christmas Themed PrintablesWHAT TEA
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PreK - 2nd
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Costa Rica: An Introduction to the Art, Culture, Sights, and Food
This slideshow helps elementary students quickly learn about places, food, art, and the culture of Costa Rica. You can use this slideshow at the beginning of a unit on Central America. You can also print it out and use it as a book for student research. This slideshow also has 4 questions at the end of the slideshow to review what students have learned. This download comes as a PDF file and is NOT editable as a PDF. However, you can open this slideshow in the TPT EASEL program and add or delete
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K - 5th
Also included in: Mega Country Bundle: Introductions to the Art, Culture, Sights, and Food
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- Become active, responsible, and engaged citizens
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