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Free holidays resources for GATE
Halloween Activity / STEM Challenge - Witch's Brew
Design a witch's brew potion that bubbles! Students will need to mix various ingredients until they find two that create a chemical reaction to make the potion bubble. This is a very fun activity even your youngest scientists will love! ContentsGetting StartedSuggested Material List (you will need baking soda, vinegar, and various other baking supplies)Teacher NotesPrintable Challenge Poster: Hang at your STEM center or near where the STEM creations are, especially if they will be on display for
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K - 4th
Also included in: STEM Activities and Challenges for K-2 - Whole Year Bundle
Halloween Logic Puzzle FREEBIE!! Costume Contest
Check out this FREE LOGIC PUZZLE and WRITING PROMPT for OCTOBER!Looking to engage your students with some deductive logic fun this Halloween Season? This logic puzzle is designed to challenge upper elementary students and is perfect for Halloween seatwork, homework, math centers, literacy centers, early finishers, or sub plans. Find this LOGIC PUZZLE, along with many other engaging Halloween Activities, in this BUNDLED RESOURCEHalloween BUNDLE 30% Off Each Individual Resource!Find Fabulous Octob
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4th - 6th
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Also included in: Halloween Reading Activities | Persuasive Writing
FREE Christmas and Holidays Around the World STEM Challenge Passport
Looking for a FREE Christmas and Holidays Around the World STEM Challenge Passport? Are you planning to do some Christmas and/or Holidays Around the World STEM challenges? If yes, then here's a great FREEBIE just for you! Use this FREE Christmas and Holidays Around the World STEM Challenge Passport to track your students' progress! It works well with my Christmas Around the World STEM Challenges BUNDLE and Holidays Around the World STEM Challenges BUNDLE.Included are five pages that you can use
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2nd - 5th
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CRITICAL THINKING SQUARE PUZZLES Christmas Activity Brain Teasers Logic GATE
CHRISTMAS SQUARE PUZZLERS are fun, yet challenging brain teasers. They exercise critical thinking & problem solving, build perseverance & stamina, and stimulate the brain while disguising it all as fun. Similar to Scrambled Squares, these differentiated, logic puzzles must be reconstructed so that the images match on every interior side. Use them for centers, stations, rotations, fast finishers, enrichment, GATE (gifted & talented education), and/or a class reward. Adored by all ages
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Not Grade Specific
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Also included in: CRITICAL THINKING SQUARE PUZZLES BUNDLE Holidays Brain Teasers
5th Grade Division Review Game J.K. Rowling Harry Potter Activities
Practice division with remainders while learning facts about J.K. Rowling in this fun math game, similar to 20 questions! After completing worksheets, students practice their writing skills with an informational paragraph on their subject. Reinforce content from multiple disciplines in one activity. This activity is perfect for review, early finishers, whole class, differentiation, enrichment, and sub packets! Browse the Kitten Approved Curriculum Freebie Library for more freebies!!Buy all 28 ga
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5th - 6th
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Also included in: Math Worksheets Mixed Review 5th Grade Bundle
Holiday Theme Logic Puzzles (3 included)
This free set of three logic puzzles will challenge and engage your students while letting them have fun. Students will use their critical thinking skills. The holiday-related stories are fun to read and solve using deductive reasoning skills. A grid is used to find the solution.
Answer keys included
If you are looking for additional seasonal activities for your students, take a look at my Winter Math Bundle for Upper Elementary OR the bundled items are sold individually in my store (the bu
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4th - 6th
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STEAM Bins Activities / STEM Bin Activities (Fall)
STEAM BIN / STEM BIN FALL EDITION ! STEAM Bins/STEM Bins Activities is a great resource to get students collaborating with one another, exploring ways to build structures, manipulating resources, and team building. It also allows them to express their creativity in different ways through Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Mathematics. STEM bin Activities allow students to think critically and solve problems. Practicing these skills are essential for children throughout their life. STEAM
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PreK - 4th
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Christmas STEM Challenge Freebie - Winter STEM Freebie
This STEM pack has everything you need to implement a fun Christmas themed STEM challenge. Your students will be engaged and learning while having fun seeing who can stack the most mini cups in the shape of a Christmas tree.
This is just a small sample of one of my many STEM challenges. For the complete Christmas STEM challenge set please visit:
Christmas STEM Challenges for the Month of December
STEM challenges work best with groups and encourages design and construction, while working thr
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Grades:
2nd - 5th
February Idioms from the Heart
February Idioms from the Heart is a combination history and figurative language lesson.
Each of the forty original sentences, organized as two separate activities of twenty items each, are constructed around an idiom with the word heart in it. Students are challenged to interpret the hidden meaning in each one. The preliminary Student Page briefly explains the history behind our language's large collection of idiomatic expressions that erroneously attribute human emotions and person
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5th - 8th
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Back To School Menus - Choice Boards and Activities- 3rd Grade - 5th Grade
Are you looking for your enrichment or exemplary tasks to be done for the year? The Back To School choice boards are perfect for your early finishers or students that need a challenge or even a simple way of bringing the holidays into your classroom.You can use this by telling students to complete 3 boxes or as a tic-tac-toe challenge. Each box comes with a matching work page.Print at the beginning of the unit and give to each student so they can work on it throughout the unit.Spring Choice Boar
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3rd - 5th
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Also included in: Holiday BUNDLE Choice Boards and Activities- 3rd - 5th Grade
Gift of the Magi - Adapted Text Version (Narrative/Short Story Study)
A perfect tale for the winter season, this classic short story, "The Gift of the Magi" by O. Henry, makes the perfect holiday text for my gifted 4th grade students. Since this version of the text is a freebie, feel free to download and assess the reading level for the needs of your students! The text has been rewritten to suit the reading level of upper elementary students and includes a wide variety of vocabulary words, intentional literary elements, and loads of figurative language. The litera
Grades:
4th - 7th
Halloween Critical Thinking Logic Puzzles
These two logic based puzzles are great for deductive reasoning and critical thinking skill reinforcement. Enjoy! Please take a moment and rate this product.
If you like these, you may be interested in checking out other logic puzzles in my store. Just look in the Logic Puzzles catergory.
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Grades:
1st - 3rd
STEM Leprechaun Trap Planning Sheet
Here's an easy planning sheet for your kids to outline their plans for making a leprechaun trap. It's great for St. Patrick's Day fun at home and in the classroom. There's a full color printable and an ink saving black and white printable.
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Here are the links to some of my other STEM units:
GOLDILOCKS AND THE 3 BEARS STEM
LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD STEM
JACK AND THE BEANSTALK STEM
THREE LITTL
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1st - 3rd
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Project Based Learning - Holiday Tea
Project Based Learning - Holiday TeaThis Freebie is taken from a complete Project Based Learning Unit. The complete unit contains a research component where students research a country and share a sweet treat or sample of a favorite food. - Resources for your holiday tea- Gingerbread Man design- Holiday Tea invitation or design your own- Organizing your tea (decorations, paper goods, additional food, favors)- Spice Tea recipe with shopping list- Cocoa Mix Recipe- Gingerbread Man Recipe with doub
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3rd - 6th
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Christmas Song Titles in Gobbledygook
Gobbledygook, high-sounding language that confuses and amuses, is the subject of this fun Christmas activity. Students are challenged to identify the titles of twenty-six popular Christmas tunes written in extreme gobbledygook. The activity is organized into two handouts--Set One with twelve titles and Set Two with fourteen. An introductory page for students explains the nature and origin of the term.
The last page is a graphic organizer for writing a letter to Santa in gobbledygook.
Grades:
6th - 9th
Witch's Brew - a Halloween Math and Writing Activity FREEBIE!
I love using this Witch's Brew Halloween Math and Writing center with younger students. It is fun and engaging, yet it requires students to use some higher level thinking. There are 28 task cards for this center. All task cards are open ended so there is no one right solution to the problem. Students are given a number of ingredients and a total of all the ingredients in the witch’s brew recipe they are to create. For example, they might be told the brew has 4 ingredients for a total of 12 items
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1st - 3rd
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Black History - Jamestown - Leveled passage - Reading Comprehension Questions
Are you looking for a leveled text with comprehension questions that teaches students about important history? This 3-page text tells the important story of the first Africans to arrive in Jamestown. It makes a great supplement to a unit about Black History, Jamestown, Colonial America, the Civil War or Civil Rights. You get the article and the activities as a pdf printable AND they are ready to use in Easel!This free sample is part of my larger, differentiated resource, The First Africans -
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5th - 7th
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FREE Rosa Parks Book Companion Womens History Month + Reading Comprehensionn
Free book companion of Reading Comprehension Rosa Parks. These task cards (PDF) are perfect for Black History Month or Women's History Month and can be easily assigned on Seesaw for a fun lesson! Kid-Friendly way to cover multiple concepts/skills!Illustrated story page for teaching/reviewNew vocabulary words“Snazzy” words student practiceAdaptable Speech Sounds/Sight Words worksheetReading ComprehensionExcellent activity for Reading Comprehension, spelling, vocabulary, phonics, synonyms and rhy
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K - 2nd
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St. Patrick's Day Scattergories
Note: If your students enjoy this activity, checkout my packet of Year Round Scattergories which includes games for all holidays, seasons,and beginning of the school year.
This is one of the activities from my larger learning packet, St. Patrick's Day Enrichment Fun for Early Finishers. For this activity students name St. Patrick’s Day-related words that belong in given categories and that begin with certain letter/sounds. A second page is provided with blanks so you can choose your own lette
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2nd - 6th
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Halloween Logic Puzzle Freebie
Introduce your youngest students - in 1st-3rd grade - to the fun of critical thinking and deductive reasoning. Use this Halloween-themed, 4x4 table logic puzzle as a:Whole group activityQuiet seat work for early finishersTake-home work to be enjoyed with family Find more Everyday Learning Logic Puzzles, including our unique blend of geography and science content-driven logic puzzles that extend learning in a whole new way. No prior knowledge needed!
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K - 3rd
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Giant Holiday Seek-A-Word Puzzle
This free item is for Seek-A-Word enthusiasts of any age. Go on a search for 55 different holiday-related names, words, and phrases all hidden in one puzzle! Not for the faint of heart.
Download, enjoy, and share!
Grades:
6th - 8th
January Rhymes and Analogies with Writing
Welcome your students to the new year with this FREE January vocabulary builder with a related graphic organizer for writing.
Begin with RHYMING IN THE NEW YEAR, a fun anagram activity focusing on words that rhyme with NEW and YEAR. A companion graphic organizer for writing, THREE YEARS, provides the basis for a composition about a favorite year from the past, the present, and a much-anticipated year from the future.
Next, JANUARY ANALOGIES provides a thinking-skills challenge with
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Grades:
6th - 9th
March Freebie: Better Late than Never: Procrastination Week
Who among us, student and teacher alike, has not stepped over an unpleasant task and assigned it to an undetermined future date? For a select group, piddling around is standard procedure. Procrastination, it seems, is pretty much one of the common denominators of human behavior. So why would we be surprised that the second week in March is designated as NATIONAL PROCRASTINATION WEEK--that is, unless it gets put off until sometime later.
This free download, entitled BETTER LATE THAN
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6th - 9th
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Free Wonky Donkey | Teacher Pay Teacher | Reading Comprehension Morning Work
Freebie Reading Comprehension book companion of The Wonky Donkey. These task cards (PDF) are perfect for Spring! Kid-Friendly way to cover multiple concepts/skills!Reading Comprehension questionsIllustrated story page for teaching/reviewNew vocabulary “Snazzy” words Adaptable Speech Sounds/Sight Words student practice Spelling, phonics, synonyms, and rhyme!Look into these Big Money-Saving Bundles!January Mega-Bundle (10 Book Companions + 1 Virtual Field Trip)February Mega-Bundle (Valentines + Bl
Grades:
1st - 4th
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