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Kindergarten Autumn social studies graphic organizers
End of the Year Camping Day Themed Activities Countdown to Summer
Find details here.After this packet you'll wish there was "s'more"!!These are wonderful activities for the fall of the year, for a class reward day, or for the end of the year. Each activity is designed to support the Common Core ELA Standards using a camping theme.So...grab a flashlight and a sleeping bag or towel and let's enjoy the day!The packet contains:Craft...Sitting around the campfire.Mini Story on CampingFlip story on campingSequence Writing...first, next, thenWriting a paragraph...cam
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K - 3rd
Also included in: November Special Event Themed Bundle with Activities and Crafts
Halloween Activities | Creepy Carrots Creepy Underwear Creepy Crayon
* * Limited Time Spooky Deal * *Do you love Jasper Rabbit as much as I do? This Creepy Series is dedicated to the trio of amazing Jasper Rabbit stories featuring different read aloud activities to support: Creepy Carrots, A Creepy Pair of Underwear and Creepy Crayon! by the legends, Aaron Reynolds + Peter Brown.This bundle is here to help build comprehension with its *targeted* mini lessons & corresponding activities (for up to 5 days - per kit) that invite K-1 learners to listen, interact
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K - 1st
Community Helpers Unit
This Community Helpers Unit has everything you need to teach your little learners about the people who play important roles in our communities. This Unit has a variety of activities that go into a fun and engaging deep dive into these vital professions, and the best part is that they are all CCSS aligned! What is included?10 mini lessonsWrite the room (editable)Dramatic play centersAnchor chartsCraftsEmergent readersA lapbookSTEM activitiesSight word activitiesClassroom community activitiesCheck
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PreK - 2nd
All About Pumpkins Unit- Pumpkin Life Cycle- Pumpkin Investigation-Pumpkin Craft
Use this BEST SELLING unit as you explore all about pumpkins during science and integrate them during literacy! It is filled with activities to learn about the pumpkin life cycle, do a pumpkin experiment, have a pumpkin investigation, and enjoy all the reading and writing activities included! It is perfect to engage the K-2 learner!SAVE BIG with First Grade Science for November!Inside you will find:Science ResourcesUnit Teaching Plan Introducing Pumpkins Pumpkin Facts Poster Pumpkin Parts Poster
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K - 1st
CREEPY CARROTS Read Aloud Activities | Halloween Craft | Sequence of Events
Limited Time “Spooky Season in July” Half Off Discount Help build comprehension with this interactive read aloud resource, *targeted* mini lessons & corresponding activities (for up to 5 days) that invite kindergartener and first graders to listen, interact and show what they know via crafts, printable(s) and group discussion!This read aloud kit pairs with mentor text, Creepy Carrots by Aaron Reynolds & Peter Brown. It's a perfect October Read Aloud or Halloween Read Aloud for the prim
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K - 1st
Also included in: Halloween Activities | Creepy Carrots Creepy Underwear Creepy Crayon
Rosa Parks Timeline for Women's History Kindergarten & First Black History
Teaching your students about people who have made a difference? Use this timeline after reading any age appropriate book on Rosa Parks' life! This resource has four facts; just enough for young children in kindergarten & first grade to order. Perfect for Black History Month, Women's History Month or any time of the school year that you want to teach your students about people who have had an impact!Rosa's timeline shows FOUR life events:Rosa went to jailPeople did not use the bus.Rosa did no
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K - 1st
Interactive Read Aloud Lesson Activities and Craft BUNDLE
Hook your little readers with an interactive read aloud, focused mini-lessons paired with matching student response sheets and varied crafts that look amazing on a monthly bulletin board! Each individual kit is built to support you up to 5 days with 5 different activities depending on your classroom schedule and student needs!There are a total of 36 read aloud kits included that pair with high-quality picture books! Each individual kit focuses on the unique ELAR skills that support the mentor te
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K - 1st
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Apples Activities, Apple Life Cycle, Apple Tasting, Apple Craft
Get your 5 senses ready as you investigate with these apple activities, explore the apple life cycle, apple tasting, how we use apples, create an apple craft, and more! Easily integrate literacy with this unit that is packed with activities for your students--graphic organizers, an interactive reader, sorts, and more--to learn all about apples! Save BIG when you buy this unit in the Science for September bundle!This apple unit is filled with activities that are interactive for the K-2 learner. I
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K - 1st
Black History Month Craft Garrett Morgan Activities The Traffic Light Bulletin
This Black History Month Inventors Garrett Morgan craft is an engaging stop light activity! This activity project is simple to make and can be differentiated for the needs of your students! Garrett Morgan is known for inventing the precursor to the yellow wait light and an early gas mask. Students make their own modern day stop lights on a triangular prism and fill the other two sides with information, with different choices so that you can easily switch out the panels for the needs of your s
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K - 2nd
Ruby Bridges Timeline Black Women's History Kindergarten & First
Teaching your students about people who have made a difference? Use this timeline after reading any age appropriate book on Ruby Bridges' life! This resource has four facts; just enough for young children in kindergarten & first grade to order. Perfect for Black History Month, Women's History Month or any time of the school year that you want to teach your students about people who have had an impact!You are receiving a timeline for an event in Ruby Bridges' life.The timeline depicts/tells F
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K - 1st
Maps and Globes Worksheets - 1st Grade Map Skills - Kindergarten Mapping Skills
Introduce and teach kindergarten and first grade students all about Maps and Globes, Cardinal Directions, Landforms, and Bodies of Water using this fun and engaging geography unit! These map skills worksheets cover landforms, oceans, relative directions, maps, globes, map keys and symbols, compass rose, Venn Diagrams, 24 geography words, and let your students design their own maps. These maps and globes activities are designed to use with ANY social studies curriculum!Students will practice, cre
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K - 1st
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Fall Themed Slides Templates | September, October and November for Google Slides
130 Google Slides Templates with a Fall Theme perfect to use for September, October and November with your kindergarteners, first, second, third, fourth and fifth graders. Google Slides templates are a fun way to present information to your class. You can add text, images, links, etc. to make them fit your classroom needs. I love to welcome my students every morning with these slides and I use them throughout the day to pace my lessons and provide visuals for my students.★Please note that these
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K - 5th
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Rules and Laws Social Studies Unit
RECENTLY REDONE AND UPDATED! This unit features 5 activities about the rules and laws in our community. It could be used anywhere from Kindergarten up to 2nd or even 3rd grade. Included in this set:
-Posters with definitions
-Rules and laws bubble map- Students give several examples of each
-Writing piece- What would your community be like without laws?
-Rules and laws tree map- Cut and sort pictures of laws and rules.
-Rules at home, rules at school, and laws flipbook.
Grades:
K - 3rd
Also included in: Social Studies Curriculum Bundle
Winter Label It by Kim Adsit and Kim Jordano
This Winter Unit contains labeling activities for each of the following: Penguin, Train, Elf, Reindeer, Polar Bear, Snow Suit, Snow Man, Gingerbread Cookie, Stocking, and Snow Globe. For each of the 10 titles there is a craft, with patterns on easy to use reproducible pages, and the labels. There are also 10 reproducible pages, one for each title and the labels. These require NO PREP and no assembly. There are also 10 brace maps, one for each title. Finally, there are 5 seasonal reproducibles pa
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K - 1st
Presidents Day Activities George Washington & Abraham Lincoln Craft Kindergarten
These Presidents Day activities set you up to teach all about George Washington and Abraham Lincoln! Your Kindergarten-second grade learners will use timelines, mini-books, graphic organizers, a Presidents' Day poem, a game, and crafts are all included! You are able to teach about each of them independently and then compare and contrast them. Inside you will find:Abraham Lincoln Teaching PosterGraphic OrganizersAbraham Lincoln Mini-Book Abraham Lincoln Timeline Abraham Lincoln Facts Craftivity G
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K - 2nd
Fall Label It by Kim Adsit and Kim Jordano
This Fall Unit contains labeling activities for each of the following: apples, pumpkins, turkeys, Frankenstein, school bus, pilgrims, ship, scarecrows, log cabin, and fall tree. For each of the 10 titles there is a craft, with patterns on easy to use reproducible pages, and the labels. There are also 10 reproducible pages, one for each title and the labels. These require NO PREP and no assembly. There are also 10 brace maps, one for each title. Finally, there are 5 seasonal reproducibles pages w
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K - 1st
Last Stop on Market Street READ ALOUD ACTIVITIES (Gratitude Activities)
This is a read aloud kit that provides you with targeted lessons, crafts, and literacy activities for up to 5 days using the mentor text, The Last Stop on Market Street in a Kindergarten or First Grade classroom. Included in this Resource:• Comprehension Questioning Card • Lesson Plan Overview (5 Days)• BUS Craft and Writing Prompts• Retelling: Retelling Story Cards, Mini Poster, Anchor Supports, Craft or Printables• Character Traits: Mini Poster, Chart Support, Craft or Printable• Vocabulary:
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K - 1st
Fall Craft Math Activities for Decomposing 10 Scarecrow Pumpkins
Crafts are a fun way to teach students. They practice listening and following directions, as well as fine motor. With these crafts, you also have the added skills of practicing number sense, sums of 5 and sums of 10. You can differentiate them to meet your classroom needs. In addition to fall Math Crafts, you get a math center that aligns with each craft. This is a great way to foster independence after your students have been given explicit instructions.Apple BasketLeaf WreathScarecrow Pumpki
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PreK - 1st
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Also included in: Decompose 10 Math Crafts and Centers Seasonal Bundle
All About Apples Activities & Printables
This packet is perfect for quality thematic apple teaching! Your students will love using the theme of apples to learn new skills and reinforce old ones! This packet includes 62 pages of apple-themed math and literacy activities and no-prep. printables.
Included are apple facts and opinions activities, labeling the parts of an apple, a variety of language arts printables, apple sight word game, Johnny Appleseed fact hunt, math puzzles, apple equations, math printables covering a variety of ma
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K - 2nd
Pumpkin Soup Comprehension | Pumpkin Soup Retelling | Fall Reading
The book Pumpkin Soup by Helen Cooper is a fall favorite read aloud! It is a sweet story of friendship with charming illustrations. It is also the perfect book for reviewing comprehension skills with young learners, including retelling a story with sequencing and story elements. This product includes a variety of comprehension activities to use after reading the book:RETELLING CRAFT: simple cut and glue project with options for sequencing OR story elementsFLAP BOOKS: print and go flap books wit
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K - 3rd
OCTOBER Interactive READ ALOUDS (Fall Crafts and Halloween Activities) BUNDLE
SAVE BIG with this October Read Aloud Bundle! There are 4 read aloud kits included to use throughout the month.The kits offer targeted lessons that accompany the text, story crafts, and varied literacy activities to last a week using a single mentor text in a kindergarten or first grade classroom. Please note: there are multiple activities and can easily be used in isolation alongside the text to support comprehension October Read Aloud Mentor Books:The Golden AcornCreepy Pair of Underwear Litt
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K - 1st
November Read Alouds - Fall Reading Activities - Reading Comprehension
These November Read Aloud lessons and activities are perfect for the fall season. This November bundle includes read aloud activities for the books Thanks for Thanksgiving, Bear Says Thanks, and Turkey TroubleYou can do fun fall book related activities with your students while covering reading comprehension standards at the same time. The books and accompanying activities are great for building reading comprehension and important skills like sequencing, compare and contrast, character traits, w
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K - 2nd
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Fairy Tale Story Maps, Retelling Activities, Fairy Tale Sequencing, Map Skills
Kids will love using these fairy tale story map retell printables to create story maps to practice retelling stories, sequencing, and map skills to build oral language, vocabulary, and comprehension skills. This resource was also designed to help you integrate social studies and teaches kindergarten and first grade children about map skills such as using a compass rose and following cardinal directions.Story Retell Maps Include: Story Mapping with Little Red Riding HoodStory Mapping with The Gi
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PreK - 2nd
Biography Research Reports--Using Pebble Go
Looking for an easy way to assist students in using a digital tool like Pebble Go to do research? This comprehensive packet features 26 different historical figures found on the Pebble Go research database. All 26 historical figures have three different research templates to use. You will find a template for students to use for research that corresponds perfectly with the Pebble Go site, a fun facts page, and a writing page with pictures of each person and primary writing lines. ****************
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K - 2nd
Also included in: Research Reports Bundle Using Pebble Go
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