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Movie Time!!!!

This is a movie watch-along to go with DreamWorks' The Penguins of Madagascar. Students will focus on the main idea and theme of the movie. There are 2 sheets for students to complete either during or after the movie. Students will be identifying the main idea, providing supporting details, and describing the theme!

This is a great product to help keep students engaged and focused during the movie while also building comprehension skills!

I hope you enjoy it! Please rate and review.

Credits:

Darnell, E., & Smith, S. J. (Directors). (2014). The Penguins of Madagascar [Film].DreamWorks Animation

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Movie Time!!!!

This is a movie watch-along to go with DreamWorks' Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted. Students will focus on the main idea and theme of the movie. There are 2 sheets for students to complete either during or after the movie. Students will be identifying the main idea, providing supporting details, and describing the theme!

This is a great product to help keep students engaged and focused during the movie while also building comprehension skills!

I hope you enjoy it! Please rate and review.

Credits:

Darnell, E., McGrath, T., Vernon, C., Stiller, B., Rock, C., & Schwimmer, D. (2012). Madagascar 3: Europe's most wanted.DreamWorks Home Entertainment

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Movie Time!!!!

This is a movie watch-along to go with DreamWorks' Madagascar 2: Escape to Africa. Students will focus on the main idea and theme of the movie. There are 2 sheets for students to complete either during or after the movie. Students will be identifying the main idea, providing supporting details, and describing the theme!

This is a great product to help keep students engaged and focused during the movie while also building comprehension skills!

I hope you enjoy it! Please rate and review.

Credits:

Darnell, E., & McGrath, T. (Directors). (2008). Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa [Film]. DreamWorks Animation; PDI/DreamWorks

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Movie Time!!!!

This is a movie watch-along to go with DreamWorks' Madagascar. Students will focus on the main idea and theme of the movie. There are 2 sheets for students to complete either during or after the movie. Students will be identifying the main idea, providing supporting details, and describing the theme!

This is a great product to help keep students engaged and focused during the movie while also building comprehension skills!

I hope you enjoy it! Please rate and review.

Credits:

Darnell, E., & McGrath, T. (Directors).(2005).Madagascar [Film].DreamWorks Distribution

This engaging set of Back to School Math Worksheets is perfect for early learners and kindergarten to 1st-grade students to review and practice essential math skills. Great for the first weeks of school, this no-prep printable packet includes a variety of fun and educational worksheets to reinforce:

✅ Counting from 1 to 20

✅ Addition to 20

✅ Subtraction to 20

✅ Before and After Numbers

✅ Identifying Even & Odd Numbers

✅ Comparing Numbers ("Compare the Apple")

✅ Number Identification (1–20)

What's Included:

10+ black-and-white printable worksheets

Clear directions on each shee

Great for morning work, centers, early finishers, or homework

Perfect For:

Back to School

Math Centers

Homework Packets

Review and Reinforcement

Sub Plans

This engaging set of Back to School Math Worksheets is perfect for early learners and kindergarten to 1st-grade students to review and practice essential math skills. Great for the first weeks of school, this no-prep printable packet includes a variety of fun and educational worksheets to reinforce:

✅ Counting from 1 to 20

✅ Addition to 20

✅ Subtraction to 20

✅ Before and After Numbers

✅ Identifying Even & Odd Numbers

✅ Comparing Numbers ("Compare the Apple")

✅ Number Identification (1–20)

What's Included:

10+ black-and-white printable worksheets

Clear directions on each shee

Great for morning work, centers, early finishers, or homework

Perfect For:

Back to School

Math Centers

Homework Packets

Review and Reinforcement

Sub Plans

This is a fun activity for students to practice addition, subtraction, multiplication, and simplification of fractions by converting measurements for a recipe! The recipe comes from Sally's Baking Addiction, and it is her Peanut Butter Bars Recipe. This can be done as a whole group, in small groups, or by individual students. If you have the ability to have the students make the recipe after solving the puzzle, it is totally worth it! They will love being able to make something that they solved a puzzle for and have a delicious treat afterwards.

Students will be given a list of ingredients that have "weird" measurements on them. They will need to convert all of the measurements into the simplest form. Students will have to add, subtract, multiply, divide, and convert fractions from improper fractions to mixed numbers and put all of the measurements into simplest form. Once students solve the puzzle and get the correct answers that match the answer key, then they will receive the steps to prepare the Peanut Butter Bars/Cups. ** I recommend doing the bars. They are definitely easier to do, especially in a classroom setting, but the cups do look better. They both taste the same though.**

I hope you enjoy it and make something yummy! Please rate and review.

Credits

McKenney, S. (2022, May 3). No-Bake Chocolate Peanut Butter Bars. Sally’s Baking Addiction. https://sallysbakingaddiction.com/no-bake-chocolate-peanut-butter-bars/#tasty-recipes-69036

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These zoo themed letter and number flashcards and puzzles are a great animal activity for preschool and kindergarten students. Students can practice letter and number recognition by matching capital and lowercase letters, matching numbers and number words up to 20.

What is Included:

• Alphabet cards for capital and lowercase letters
• Number cards for numbers 1-20 and number words.
• 2 piece alphabet puzzles that match capital and lowercase letters
• 3 piece pizza number puzzles for 1-20

Students will love the hands on activities in this resource. There are a variety of different games and activities that students can complete independently or with a partner.

Students will have fun practicing letter recognition and identifying beginning sounds with these flower craftivities for the letter Z. Students can express their creativity while decorating their alphabet craft.

This product includes three letter crafts: 2 options for words that start with Z and one for letter recognition or matching.

What is Included:

• 2 craft templates with pictures for each letter
• 1 craft template for letter matching for each letter

Each flower craft is a single page craft template for easy craft set up. The shapes are easy for little hands to be successful in cutting each piece on their own. In addition to using these flowers for crafts, they can also make a great sorting center.

Students will have fun practicing letter recognition and identifying beginning sounds with these flower craftivities for the letter Y. Students can express their creativity while decorating their alphabet craft.

This product includes three letter crafts: 2 options for words that start with Y and one for letter recognition or matching.

What is Included:

• 2 craft templates with pictures for each letter
• 1 craft template for letter matching for each letter

Each flower craft is a single page craft template for easy craft set up. The shapes are easy for little hands to be successful in cutting each piece on their own. In addition to using these flowers for crafts, they can also make a great sorting center.

Students will have fun practicing letter recognition and identifying beginning sounds with these flower craftivities for the letter V. Students can express their creativity while decorating their alphabet craft.

This product includes three letter crafts: 2 options for words that start with V and one for letter recognition or matching.

What is Included:

• 2 craft templates with pictures for each letter
• 1 craft template for letter matching for each letter

Each flower craft is a single page craft template for easy craft set up. The shapes are easy for little hands to be successful in cutting each piece on their own. In addition to using these flowers for crafts, they can also make a great sorting center.

Students will have fun practicing letter recognition and identifying beginning sounds with these flower craftivities for the letter W. Students can express their creativity while decorating their alphabet craft.

This product includes three letter crafts: 2 options for words that start with W and one for letter recognition or matching.

What is Included:

• 2 craft templates with pictures for each letter
• 1 craft template for letter matching for each letter

Each flower craft is a single page craft template for easy craft set up. The shapes are easy for little hands to be successful in cutting each piece on their own. In addition to using these flowers for crafts, they can also make a great sorting center.

Help your students master** CVC words** with these 20 engaging worksheets focusing on short vowel sounds (a, e, i, o, u). Perfect for Kindergarten and 1st Grade phonics centers, morning work, or homework, these activities will help build decoding and spelling skills in a fun, hands-on way.

⭐ What’s Included:

✅ 20 printable worksheets

✅ Word searches for CVC words

✅ Cut & paste activities

✅ Short vowel (a, e, i, o, u) practice

✅ Picture and word matching

✅ Writing missing sounds

✅ CVC word scramble activities

⭐ How to Use:

✨ Use in small group phonics instruction

✨ Place in your literacy centers

✨ Send home for independent practice

✨ Use as morning work or early finisher activities

⭐ Why You’ll Love It:

✅ Easy prep – just print and use!

✅ Builds foundational phonics and spelling skills

✅ Engaging for young learners

✅ Clear, kid-friendly designs

CVC words

short vowels

Kindergarten phonics

first grade phonics

literacy center

phonics worksheets

cut and paste

word search

spelling practice

reading practice

Give your learners the tools to navigate daily life while practicing essential ELA skills!
This Safety Signs Literacy Bundle features 60 engaging worksheets, 30 high-frequency word cards, and 180 differentiated task cards—designed for diverse and neurodivergent classrooms.

This Safety Signs Literacy Pack includes 60 cut-and-paste spelling worksheets, 30 sight word cards, and 180 differentiated task cards—perfect for special education, functional literacy, and life skills classrooms.

🖋️ WHAT’S INCLUDED: • 30 Color Worksheets • 30 Black & White Worksheets • 30 Word Wall / Sight Word Cards • 180 Task Cards at 3 Levels (60 per level)

🎯 PERFECT FOR: • Functional Reading & ELA Support • Special Education & Life Skills Programs • Community Signs Lessons • Early Intervention or ESL Practice • Visual Learners & Students Needing Hands-On Support

💖 WHY EDUCATORS LOVE IT: ✔️ Ready-to-use & Print-and-Go ✔️ Clear visuals support sign recognition ✔️ Builds spelling, matching, and word fluency skills ✔️ Ideal for centers, homework, or remedial folders

📌 WAYS TO USE: • Whole Group & Small Group • Independent Task Folders • Homework Assignments • Virtual or Face-to-Face Learning • Remedial or Tiered Instruction

PRO TIP: Laminate the worksheets or drop them in a Clear Dry-Erase Folder. The students can complete the worksheets, you can wipe and reuse them!

✴Safety / Community Words Included:

hot, gas, exit, fire, stop, heavy

toxic, yield, beware, danger, detour

hazard, no bike, no pets, no swim

no walk, caution, deadend, first aid, hydrant

no touch, keep off, keep out, no enter, warning

electric(high voltage), hospital, slippery, wet floor, wet paint

✴HOW TO ACCESS YOUR DIGITAL FILES:

Once purchased, you will download a PDF file with directions on downloading your products. Click on the link provided in the PDF file. You will be able to download the files via Google Drive.

✴Please review TOU before purchasing.

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Practice fine motor skills while creating fun Christmas dot art with these dot painting pages. This Christmas themed art activity is perfect for preschoolers and early elementary students to practice hand eye coordination while making a holiday craft.

Dot Art Pages Available

• bells
• candy cane
• Christmas tree
• fireplace
• hat
• lights
• ornament (2)
• reindeer
• sack
• Santa
• sleigh
• stocking
• wreath

Make learning money fun and visual with this Coin Count & Tally Worksheets!

This engaging worksheets allows students to count realistic U.S. coins, record their totals using tally marks, and write the total value. A great resource for practicing real-world math, money recognition, and counting skills — perfect for K–2 learners.

What’s Included:

2 b&W worksheet with real coin images

✏️ Skills Practiced:

Coin identification (Penny, Nickel, Dime, Quarter)

Skip counting by 1s, 5s, 10s, 25s

Writing tally marks

Calculating total value

Perfect for:

Kindergarten, 1st Grade, 2nd Grade

Math Centers

Money Unit

Homework

Morning Work

Sub Plans

Looking for a fun Back to School craft activity?

This 'All About Me Activity' is an ideal complement to your August and Back to School activities. This beginning of the school year activity will help you learn more about your new students and make your classroom bright and colorful. It's perfect for building connections among students and helping them get to know each other. Just let them write, cut, and glue to create adorable "All About Me Rainbows" decor for the classroom.

This Back to School All About Me Rainbows Writing and Craft Activity is perfect for creating beautiful handmade rainbows where students can express their personalities, interests, and more.

★ WHAT'S INCLUDED ★

You will receive one (1) ZIP file containing:

➤ Two cloud templates in small and large sizes.

➤ Colorful, white, and blank strips.

➤ Rainbow Fill-In Fun:

✧ Your Student's age and Birthday.

✧ Their Siblings.

✧ Their Pets.

✧ Their Hobbies.

✧ Their Skills (what can they do?)

✧ Favorites: color, animal, food, school subject, movie, and song.

✧ What they want to be when they grow up.

✧ Why are they special (I am special because...)

✧ 07 Adjectives that describe them the best.

★ WHY YOU’LL LOVE THIS RESOURCE ★

➤ This "Rainbow All About Me" printable is a fun and easy way for students to introduce themselves or get to know each other better. It’s colorful, cheerful, and perfect for building connections in the classroom.

➤ Pre-filled Strips: These fun, ready-made strips have easy prompts that help students talk about their favorite things, special interests, and what makes them unique in a fun and colorful way!

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“Welcome To a World Where Education Becomes Nothing Short of Spectacular.”

Do you need a fun way to practice word family and phonics skills? These foldable books provide students will a fun way to practice and target word family and phonics skills. These mini books are great for independent reading practice and small group activities.

There are 8 AN word family foldable books. Students will practice reading AN words, writing AN words and reading simple sentences with AN words. The books are differentiated to allow students on different levels to be successful.

Foldable Books Included:

• I Can Read AN Words with 3 words (2)
• I Can Read AN Words with 6 words (1)
• My AN Word Book (1)
• I Can Write AN Words (2)
• I Can Read (2)

These mini books allow students to practice reading, writing and identifying AN words in isolation as well as providing practice with reading words in the context of a sentence with the I Can Read books. Students will stay engaged with learning new words and will have a book to take home and review with parents.

Ways to Use:

• Early Finishers
• Homework
• Independent Work
• Small Group Activity
• Sub Plans

These foldable books provide an alternative way for students to practice the focus skill. These no prep books are an easy to use, print and go activity that can be used as early finishers, homework or sub plans.

These pizza themed letter and number flashcards and puzzles are a great summer activity for preschool and kindergarten students. Students can practice letter and number recognition by matching capital and lowercase letters, matching numbers and number words up to 20.

What is Included:

• Alphabet cards for capital and lowercase letters
• Number cards for numbers 1-20 and number words.
• 2 piece alphabet puzzles that match capital and lowercase letters
• 3 piece pizza number puzzles for 1-10

Students will love the hands on activities in this resource. There are a variety of different games and activities that students can complete independently or with a partner.

Ways to Use the Cards:

• Matching Game: Match capital and lowercase letters or numbers to the number words.
• Fishing Game: Attach a paper clip to the card and use a magnetic fishing pole to "catch" the letters or numbers.
• Salt/Sand Tray: Use these cards as a model to show students what to write in the sand.
• Letter or Number Hunts: Have students find the letters or numbers that you have hidden around the room.
• ABC Order or Number Order: Have students place letters or numbers in the correct order.
• Pocket Chart Game: Place the cards into a pocket chart and hide a picture behind one of the cards. Have students guess which card the hidden picture is behind.

With a wide variety of uses, these cards will allow students to be engaged with learning their letters and numbers, as well as learning number words and practice counting.

How to Use the Puzzles

• Task Box Activities
• Math Centers
• Morning Baskets or Tubs

All of the cards and puzzles in this resource can be stored in task boxes. This allows teachers to have an easy to set up activity that students can easily clean and put away themselves.

Skills Assessed:

• Number Recognition
• Number Words to 20
• Number Order
• Letter Recognition
• Matching Capital and Lowercase Letters
• Letter Order

Each part of this resource is low prep. They all just need to be printed out and cut apart before use. The teacher may choose to laminate the pieces for durability.

This letter Z alphabet color by code packet is sure to excite your preschoolers and kindergartners with this fun way to practice learning the letter Z. These letter recognition alphabet worksheets are differentiated and versatile!

What is Included:

• 1 color by code to practice capital and lowercase letter Z
• 3 color by code to practice just capital letter Z
• 3 color by code to practice just lowercase letter Z

Each color by letter alphabet page students will use 2 different colors of their choice to compete each color by code worksheet.

Ways to Use:

• Independent letter recognition practice
• Emergency Sub Plans
• Early Finishers
• Quiet Time Activities
• Alphabet Center
• Small Group Activity
• Homework

These pages make a great addition to any sub plans as they are no-prep and easy to pass out and keep students busy. They are also great quiet time activities to give to those children who do not nap. These color by code activities also make great take home activities for parents to see the skills their children are working with.

Skills Assessed:

• Following Directions
• Letter Recognition
• Matching Letters
• Color Words