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ZOO ANIMALS Math Literacy Centers and Activities Theme Unit Preschool 132 pages
ZOO ANIMALS Theme Unit Pack for Preschool - This is a comprehensive set of activities with a ZOO ANIMALS theme - make hands-on, interactive centers and learning games for your preschool and pre-K classroom. 132 pagesClick on the PREVIEW link to see most pages, and to decide if this is the educational level you are looking for. Contents:Large zoo animal cut outs for small group recognition, description, bulletin board, flannel board, stick puppets etc. (16 zoo animals)Word/picture strips plus hea
Grades:
PreK - K
Also included in: HUGE BUNDLE 23 Big Theme Packs for Year Preschool PreK All Subjects
Community Helpers and Their Tools
Community Helpers - What tools do they use? This is a collection of activities about Community Helpers and the tools that they use in their work, for preschool and Pre-K.45 pagesThis resource has been updated.The primary emphasisis the social studies aspect of furthering the understanding our community, and the fact that most adults have jobs in order to make money to support themselves and their family.The secondary emphasis with these activities is on oral language and discussion; vocabulary e
Grades:
PreK - K
Super Social Skills
Learn social skills like superheroes!Lessons include:⭐️Safe⭐️Respectful⭐️Responsible⭐️Understanding Feelings⭐️Asking About Other People⭐️Thinking About Other People⭐️Problem Solving⭐️Learning ExpressionsLessons for each topic may include:✰ Poster – discuss and display this poster throughout the lesson for easy visual reference.✰ Social story – read through the story together with students and discuss. ✰ Power Card – students, teachers, and aides can keep these cards with them in class and transi
Grades:
K - 6th
Also included in: Bundle: Fall Speech Lesson Plans Materials (Year 1)
Hibernation Migration Adaptation Winter Animals Kindergarten Science
Hibernation, Migration, and Adaptation of winter animals is the focus of this 10 day inquiry-based kindergarten science unit!
Also includes a shelter design challenge full of critical thinking and hands-on problem solving!
Next Generation Science Standards* aligned!
Literacy skills are embedded into the lessons: Non-fiction text, speaking/listening, writing response, and technology
A compelling question guides the unit and supporting questions help students to focus their knowledge and build
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Grades:
PreK - 1st
Santa's Sleigh: A Science Unit on Force and Motion
We visited Santa’s top secret reindeer-training facility and discovered the secrets of Santa’s sleigh. It’s not all magic...some of Santa’s sleigh driving know-how is based on science. Teach your Santa fans about force and motion with this hands-on unit about Santa’s sleigh and the reindeer’s work. Based on the disciplinary core ideas of the Next Generation Science Standards: K-PS2 Motion and Stability. For more information, go to: http://www.nextgenscience.org.Note from Jayne…Friends, I'm so pr
Grades:
PreK - 2nd
Also included in: Seasonal Science Units: Force and Motion AND Rocks and Dirt
Growth Mindset lessons using The Dot, Ish, and Sky Color by Peter H. Reynolds
When you are teaching students about growth mindset, I believe it is vital to use stories they can relate to. If they are seeing other characters showing both a growth mindset and a fixed mindset, they will be more likely to understand what each look like.
This is a packet of Growth Mindset lessons which use the three books from Peter H. Reynolds collectively called the Creatrilogy. You will need to purchase these books or be able to borrow them to teach these lessons. Each book has wonderful
Grades:
K - 5th
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Social Skills All Year Cards - Social Skills Activities
Looking for seasonal and timely social skills activities for your classroom or social skills groups? This comprehensive set of social skills cards covers a variety of social skills including topic maintenance, understanding facial expressions and body language, social problem solving, and understanding the perspectives of others. You will enjoy the easy-to-use, organized social skills activities. Kids love the timely topics and engaging activities. This kit contains 240 cards covering season
Grades:
K - 6th
Project Based Learning - Animals in Winter | PBL | plans | rubric | assessment
Animals in winter is a perfect resource for project-based learning. Let your students explore the wonders of how animals use different strategies to survive changes in their environment.This project based learning unit focuses on the animals chosen by the students, two animals that hibernate (bear and hedgehog), two animals that migrate (monarch butterfly and duck), and two animals that adapt (rabbit and deer) during the season of winter. This PBL was “piloted” on a preK class and they had a GRE
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Grades:
PreK - K
Social Emotional Learning Curriculum First Grade SEL Activities Kindergarten 2nd
Are student behaviors an issue in your classroom? Captain Kindness and The Behavior Bunch are here to save the day! This social emotional learning unit will teach students about kindness, respect, manners, friendship, helping others, and gratitude. CLICK ON THE PREVIEW TO SEE EVERYTHING INCLUDED IN THIS RESOURCEIf poor student conduct has become a problem in your class, it's time to enlist the behavior superheroes! With the help of these guardians of good behavior, your class will be ready to jo
Grades:
K - 2nd
Five Senses Pack {Bundled}
Five Senses Packs Bundled!I have bundled both my five senses packs so you can save big! Here is what is included:• Vocabulary Cards: Introduce vocabulary at the beginning of the unit and refer to throughout learning. Print and place in a pocket chart or around the room.• Five Senses Lotto Game: Game boards for each of the senses and pictures to go with each sense. Students pick a card and place on the correct card.• My Five Senses Emergent Reader: A simple reader that teaches about the fiv
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Grades:
PreK - 1st
Emotions Unit
Great for distance learning! This emotions unit includes activities, printables, posters, and more to make emotional learning fun and accessible for your students! Teachers (SLPs, counselors, and social workers, too!) devote much time helping students understand and process their emotions. To support you in this important endeavor, I've created an emotions unit complete with printables and activities that address social, literacy, math, and fine motor skills. This product can be used as a comple
Grades:
PreK - 2nd
Also included in: Emotions Bundle
Apples: An Inquiry Based Unit of Study
Increase student engagement and deepen understanding!
Do you want your students to explore, investigate, research, study, and pursue topics based on curiosity to increase their understanding of the world?
This Apples: Inquiry Based Unit of Study will help you do create a more engaged, self motivated, and collaborative group of little learners. Go beyond the “cute” apple activities and delve into answering the questions that students really are interested in. Students will work collaborativel
Grades:
PreK - 2nd
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Social Emotional Learning BIG BUNDLE!!
Get all of my social emotional curriculum units, posters and teaching tools! They are great for teaching 11 different social emotional skills! They can be used on their own or with other social emotional curriculums! I use them throughout the entire year in kindergarten to help my students grow in their social and emotional development. The Social Emotional Themes are:1) Listening2) Independence3) Feelings and Emotions4) Kindness5) Persistence6) Problem Solving7) Impulse Control and Self-Regulat
Grades:
PreK - 5th
Winter SEASONAL CHANGES Activities and Centers for Preschool and Pre-K
Winter seasonal changes numbers, literacy and science activities and centers for preschool and pre-K.This pack is developmentally appropriate for preschool and pre-K children and would work well in a Winter or January seasonal curriculum plan. IMPORTANT: Be sure to click on the PREVIEW link to see some more pages, and to make sure this is the educational level you are looking for.33 pagesBesides the activities, songs, stories and games listed for the day, this pack includes these centers and pr
Grades:
PreK - K
Also included in: JANUARY Themes Curriculum BUNDLE for PreK and Preschool 15 Packs
Social Skills: Social Monsters
Take advantage of your early elementary students imaginations with this social skills packet! Students become “Monster Trainers” and guide their monsters through four social skill levels, completing fun, engaging activities along the way!
First, students pick their monster. They’ll meet 8 monsters, each with their own social skill struggle:
►Finding it hard to make friends
►Getting upset easily
►Not liking to lose
►Not being able to calm down
►Thinking everything is a BIG problem
►Being sh
Grades:
K - 3rd
Also included in: Social Skills Bundle: Elementary
Impulse Control: Social Emotional Learning
Help your students learn impulse control and self-regulation skills in this social emotional learning unit. Students will learn to identify how fast their bodies are going and strategies to make their body go just right. Want to see it in action? Check out this blog post!You can get all my social-emotional units in one bundle here.Impulse Control and Self-Regulation Activities Included:I Can Boss My Body - draw a picture of how you look at each speedWhat strategies do you want to try?I Can Boss
Grades:
PreK - 2nd
Also included in: Social Emotional Learning BIG BUNDLE!!
September Themes BUNDLE of 16- All About Me, Back to School, Health Lesson Plans
This BIG 637 page September bundle includes 16 packs, all related to the theme of All About Me. This MEGA bundle would be perfect to use as a back to school theme in September. With all the ideas, activities and centers that I provide in these Themes packs, this bundle could definitely extend for the full month of September, and have enough left over for next year!Be sure to click on the PREVIEW link to see some more pages, and to make sure this is the educational level you are looking for.Packs
Grades:
PreK - K
Insects: Science, Literacy, & Math An Integrated Unit
Are you looking for something to wow first graders and parents alike? Are you looking for something that will cover Common Core Standards in an exciting, interactive way?
Get into insects and metacognition with this science and language arts unit. This interactive unit is great for community events such as Open House, Back to School Night, or Science Night.
This insect unit includes:
An Insect Exploration Book lined & Cloze frames with Home Letter
A Student-made Insect Book, including
Grades:
K - 2nd
HOMES Rooms and Furniture Centers and Activities for Preschool and Pre-K
The teaching theme focus for this packet is homes and houses, with the emphasis on Rooms and Furniture.. This is third of 3 units about homes.This pack is developmentally appropriate for preschool and pre-K children, and would be especially helpful as part of a "Families" early childhood curriculum, or taught in November with other units about family and neighborhood.41 pages IMPORTANT: Be sure to click on the PREVIEW link to see some more pages, and to make sure this is the educational level y
Grades:
PreK - K
Also included in: Homes Theme BUNDLE - Activities, Centers and Printables for Preschool
Editable Thematic Unit Planning Template
This is an editable template pdf that allows teachers to plan for thematic units. It includes options for teaching a chosen topic for either 10 days or 10 weeks. This planner features various prompts to support teacher planning including key concepts to be taught, vocabulary, student outcomes and activity planners. There is space to record lists of books/websites needed during the unit as well as an assessment rubric and student evaluation.
This 18 page pdf includes everything you will nee
Grades:
K - 8th
May Social Emotional Learning Curriculum Year Long 1st Grade SEL Activity
Looking for a game-changing social emotional learning curriculum to help students improve their behavior and social skills? These SEL activities are the ultimate tool to transform your learning environment in just 15 minutes a day! Before I discovered these social emotional learning strategies my students were struggling with emotional outbursts, fighting, tattling, and more. But with the Behavior Bunch superheroes, my students started improving rapidly - making friends, being respectful, and li
Grades:
K - 2nd
Transportation Around the World (Real Photos)
** 60 REAL Photographs
** Water, air, land, and human-powered types of transportation from around the world
** Pictures from North and South America, Europe, Asia, and Africa. Six of these pictures show the unique ways that children get to school in India, Burma, Indonesia, and the Philippines.
** These pictures are perfect for a transportation unit and can be incorporated into many other areas of learning as well, including multicultural studies and geography. Use them for writing prompts, d
Grades:
K - 3rd
Anti-Bullying Activities with Games, Cut and Paste and Coloring Pages BUNDLE
This character education bundle on bullying, friendship, pink shirt day, respect, rules, sharing, manners, kindness, friends, fairness, work habits, responsibility (and more) has cut and paste activities, worksheets, a memory game, coloring sheets and 20 bookmarks. Use in your literacy center, sub tub or for morning work. Great for all year! Very low prep.You might also be interested in:Character Education BundleAnti-Bullying Activities and Readers K-3 Low PrepAnti-Bullying Activities - Poetry,
Grades:
PreK - 2nd
Growth Mindset with Aesop's Fables
This is a Growth Mindset bundle containing four individual lessons using Aesop's Fables.
The Crow and The Pitcher
The Lion and The Mouse
The Ant and The Grasshopper
The Tortoise and The Hare
These fables are really great, simple to understand stories that work so well with many ideas of Growth Mindset. For example; The Aesop's fable The Tortoise and the Hare helps kids think about slowing down and doing their work correctly as well as trying things even if they might not do very well at firs
Grades:
K - 5th
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