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This is a fun Christmas game mat for matching Christmas figure faces with their feet. It includes 8 cards for faces and feet. This can also be played just like memory match/concentration using the face to the feet or using the mat. It's perfect for a center, table work, small group/pairs, or whatever best suits your needs!

The characters included are Rudolf, Santa, gingerbread man, Mrs. Claus, girl elf, snowman, angel, and boy elf.

This Includes:

• 8 Faces Cards
• 8 Feet Cards
• Game Mat
• Cover and Game Suggestions
• 2 Tab Labels (to be used on a file folder)
• Card Backs (Optional)

SUGGESTION: Print the cards and mat on card stock and laminate for longer durability. The mat could also be printed on paper and mounted inside a file folder to make a file folder game.

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Increase critical thinking skills with this Thanksgiving-themed Costa's Levels of Inquiry activity! Students will categorize questions based on Costa’s Level 1, 2, and 3, promoting deeper understanding of Thanksgiving traditions and ELA skills. Perfect for engaging middle and high school students in critical analysis and creative thinking during the holiday season!

What's Included

• 10 Thanksgiving-themed questions for categorizing into Costa's Level of Questioning
• Answer key

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This AVID Costa's Levels of Thinking Early Finisher Packet includes a variety of critical thinking activities for middle and high school students. It features a passage with leveled questions, a creative "Finish the Story" activity using Costa’s levels, and an exercise where students categorize questions by thinking level. Perfect for classroom use or independent practice, this packet helps deepen understanding and encourages higher-level thinking!

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What's Included

1. Passage with Leveled Questions

• Overview: This activity provides students with a short, engaging passage followed by questions categorized by Costa's Levels of Thinking.

2. Costa’s "Finish the Story" Activity

• Overview: This creative writing activity allows students to apply Costa’s Levels of Thinking as they finish a partially written story. Each stage of the activity corresponds to a different level of thinking.

3. Categorizing Costa's Questions Activity

• Overview: In this activity, students are given a set of questions related to a topic and must categorize them into Costa’s Levels of Thinking. This helps students learn how to identify different types of thinking questions.

Bonus Features

• Answer Key: An answer key is provided for teachers to quickly check the categorization activity and leveled questions.
• No-Prep, Print-and-Go Format: Just print and distribute!

Perfect For:

• Early finishers
• Enrichment activities
• Critical thinking lessons
• Independent or small group work
• Sub plans

In this fun and back to school, no prep lesson and emergency sub for your Geography program, students will embark on a geographical journey to find specific countries using an atlas or google earth skills to develop their country finding ability, before labelling and coloring in the map. All neatly contained within a single A4 sheet.

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C'est à nouveau cette période de l'année ! (Je sais je sais). Mon école organise des entretiens dirigés par des élèves; et pour ceux d'entre vous qui suivent un format similaire, ce kit contient tout ce dont vos élèves ont besoin pour se préparer à leurs entretiens et vous permettre de respirer!

11 activités imprimables pour que vos élèves se préparent, réfléchissent, se fixent des buts et s'organisent pour leur entretien auto-dirigé :

• Page de couverture (nom);
• L'heure de mon entretien ;
• Fiches d'auto-évaluation détaillées ;
• Souvenirs de ce terme;
• #SNAP - Un aperçu de chaque sujet ;
• Cartes imprimables - pour mettre en valeur les pièces dont ils sont fiers/pas fiers ;
• Questionnaire - habitudes + comportements (Toujours, souvent, rarement, jamais);
• Liste de contrôle pour les entretiens dirigés par les étudiants ;
• Interview baratin (mot pour mot);
• Objectifs SMART.

3 activités modifiables pour s'adapter à vos attentes et règles :

• Fiches d'auto-évaluation détaillées - version modifiable ;
• Questionnaire - habitudes + comportements (Toujours, souvent, rarement, jamais) - version modifiable ;
• Liste de contrôle d'entrevue - version modifiable.

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The Editable Orange Shirt Day Truth and Reconciliation Workbook - Every Child Matters is a must-have resource for teachers looking to educate their students about the history of residential schools and the significance of Orange Shirt Day. This fully editable workbook provides a comprehensive, age-appropriate exploration of truth and reconciliation, and empowers students to reflect on the "Every Child Matters" message through engaging activities and thoughtful reflection.

Why Teachers Should Buy It:

1. Differentiated for Various Reading Levels: With two differentiated versions (Primary and Junior), this resource is perfect for classes with students at different reading levels. Whether you're working with younger students or those who need more challenging material, both versions allow for an inclusive and engaging learning experience for all.
2. Editable for Personalization: The fully editable PowerPoint format allows you to customize the content to meet your classroom's unique needs. Add local context, adjust the reading passages, or simplify the activities to suit your students’ abilities.
3. Supports Meaningful Conversations: This workbook offers a structured and respectful way to introduce the difficult topics of residential schools and reconciliation. The activities, which include reading comprehension, reflection questions, and creative tasks, foster empathy and understanding in your students.
4. Engaging Content: Students will learn about Phyllis Webstad’s personal story, the origins of Orange Shirt Day, and the broader history of Indigenous peoples in Canada. The workbook includes beautiful, easy-to-follow visuals and worksheets designed to captivate and educate.
5. Promotes Critical Thinking and Reflection: Encourage students to critically reflect on the impact of residential schools through thoughtful questions, journaling activities, and art-based projects such as designing their own "Orange Shirt" to symbolize the “Every Child Matters” movement.
6. Complete Resource for Educators: Whether you're new to teaching Orange Shirt Day or an experienced educator, this resource provides everything you need to facilitate these vital conversations in your classroom. It's easy to use, visually appealing, and ready to print or edit.

Included:

• Two differentiated versions (Primary & Junior) for various reading levels
• Reading passages on Phyllis Webstad’s story and the history of residential schools
• Indigenous culture vocabulary and illustrations
• Reflection and comprehension worksheets
• Creative activities (e.g., designing an Orange Shirt)

Ensure that your Orange Shirt Day lesson is impactful and informative with the Editable Orange Shirt Day Truth and Reconciliation Workbook - Every Child Matters. Help your students understand the importance of reconciliation and foster a culture of respect and inclusivity in your classroom.

Need to help your students learn to take notes and a way for you as the instruction to understand what they understood and what they need help with?

This is a great organizer that students can use to evaluate what they understand and what they need help with.

This fun and engaging sorting activity for your students to explore the uses of light and sound. This printable resource includes 12 pictures that students can cut, paste and sort into categories of light and sound. It's a no-prep activity that promotes critical thinking and understanding of these concepts. This activity can be used after a discussion about how sound and light help us communicate in our daily lives. Students will be easily able to make connections when sorting these pictures.

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These inquiry cycle cards are what your IB PYP classroom needs! They follow Kath Murdoch's essential phases of inquiry : Tuning In, Finding Out, Sorting Out, Going Further, Making Conclusions, and Taking Action. Perfect for inquiry-based learning environments, these cards help students visualize their learning journey and critically reflect on which phase they are in during any unit of inquiry. Each of the cards include the inquiry phase, associated questions and pictures to help students conceptualize the phases in each unit.

This resource includes six cards that can be used in various ways:

• Classroom Bulletin Board: Display the inquiry cycle prominently on your bulletin board to create a constant visual reminder for students.

• Reflection Tool: Use the questions on each card to facilitate student reflections during different phases of their learning journey.

• Group Activities: Encourage group discussions by asking students to categorize their activities or knowledge based on the inquiry cycle phases.

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Challenge your students higher order thinking skills with these five logic puzzles that have a Halloween theme. Wake their brains while having fun working through a logic grid puzzle.

Each puzzle includes a scenario, a set of clues, and a grid that students may use to mark off the clues as they work their way through the clues. A teacher instruction page and answer keys are also included.

Looking for some fun printable autumn and fall September activities? These rebus puzzle worksheets and stations are a blast! These puzzles are for kids ages 7-12. These puzzles are extra fun because they come with a final challenge! Once students solve the rebus puzzles, they will collect the shaded letter. Then they will unscramble the letters to get the answer to the jokes!

Please see the preview for all pages included.

What's included?

• Answer Keys
• 2 Worksheet Puzzles
• 2 Puzzle Stations with Answer Recording Sheets

Please note that this product contains two puzzles total, but each puzzle has a worksheet and stations format.

Why different formats?

The worksheets are perfect for independent work (homework, gift, reward, early finisher, etc.), while the stations are great for group work or a class activity.

Use these for:

• Rewards
• Class party
• Early finishers
• Gift to students
• Group collaboration activity

How do we play?

If you are using the worksheets, print and play! If you are using the stations you will print the six station cards (per puzzle) and one answer recording sheet per student or group. Spread the station cards around the classroom how you want, and tell students to find the puzzles and solve them using their answer recording key.

Make any kids' activity time a blast (with ZERO prep)! Featuring 6 puzzle challenges that reveal a final secret code, this fun and engaging printable game will be a huge hit for kids ages 7-12.

How is this Escape the Museum Placemat Game NO PREP?

NO LOCKS

NO HIDING

NO CUTTING, FOLDING, OR TAPING/GLUING

YOU LITERALLY JUST PRINT & GO

Our escape room game is designed to be easy to set up and play, with no props or complicated instructions required. Kids can complete the puzzles individually or in small groups, making it a great activity for classrooms, youth groups, or team-building exercises. With no cutting, folding, or taping required, our no-prep escape room allows you to start experiencing the thrill of the escape room today, while only having to do one task: print the placemat!

WHAT’S INCLUDED IN THE INSTANT DOWNLOAD?

~one Escape the Museum-themed placemat game

~sizes 11x8.5 and 18x12

~black and white or faint image background

~Answer key

Gameplay: 20-30 minutes

Ages: 7-12

Number of players: As many as you want!

HOW DO YOU PLAY?

1. Print the one-sheet game.
2. Read the instructions at the top of the page to get started (each puzzle has additional instructions).
3. Start where indicated and follow the directions to solve the puzzle. The answer to the puzzle will direct you to which direction to take in the maze.
4. Continue solving the puzzles and taking the correct direction in the maze. Once all puzzles are completed, collect the letters from the maze in the path taken.
5. Finally, unscramble the letters to get the secret code.

WHAT GAMES ARE INCLUDED?

~Lockbox

~Text Message

~Atbash Cipher

~Line, Word, Letter

~First Place

~Pictogram

WHAT DO I NEED AND HOW DOES IT WORK?

Print the one-page placemat and hand them out with a pencil. THAT’S IT! No other prep is required!

WHERE WOULD I USE THIS GAME?

~Rainy or sick day

~Parties

~Restaurant activity

~Gift or reward

~Teambuilding Game

~Fast-finisher activity

~Welcome activity

Challenge your students higher order thinking skills with these five logic puzzles that have a Halloween theme. Wake their brains while having fun working through a logic grid puzzle.

Each puzzle includes a scenario, a set of clues, and a grid that students may use to mark off the clues as they work their way through the clues. A teacher instruction page and answer keys are also included.

Turkey Mystery Picture Puzzles Activities

Engage your students this Thanksgiving with fun, interactive picture puzzles that reinforce addition and subtraction skills! This Thanksgiving-themed resource includes a variety of puzzles where students solve math problems to reveal hidden images. Perfect for practicing addition and subtraction fluency, these puzzles are ideal for centers, early finishers, homework, or seasonal math activities.

In this delightful set, you'll find 10 engaging puzzles in color and B&W options:

• Puzzle # 1: Addition To 10
• Puzzle #2: Subtraction Within 10
• Puzzle #3: Addition To 20
• Puzzle #4: Subtraction Within 20
• Puzzle #5: Add and Subtract within 20 (Mixed Review)
• Puzzle #6: 2 Digit Addition
• Puzzle #7: 2 Digit Subtraction
• Puzzle #8: Add and Subtract 2 Digit (Mixed Review)
• Puzzle #9: 3 Digit Addition
• Puzzle #10: 3 Digit Subtraction

Make math festive this Thanksgiving while helping students build confidence in their skills! Great for grades K-2, but can be easily adapted for other grade levels as needed.

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Drug Free Week Words Activities Pack is a fun and educational resource designed to help students understand the importance of making healthy choices and staying drug-free. This activity pack includes a variety of engaging word-based activities that promote awareness during Red Ribbon Week.

What's Inside:

• Reading passage
• Question Comprehension
• True or False
• Fact or Opinion
• KWL Worksheet
• Critical thinking
• Writing Activity
• Wordsearch
• Crossword (2 options)
• Word Scramble
• Wordsmith
• Maze
• Coloring
• Answer Key

Ideal for:

• Red Ribbon Week celebrations
• Health education lessons
• Morning work or independent activities
• Bulletin board or hallway displays

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Fall Ordering Numbers To 20 Puzzles

Make learning fun with these Autumn-themed number sequence puzzles! Each puzzle is designed to help students practice placing numbers in order while enjoying fall season images.

The product includes 30 puzzles available in both a vibrant color version and an ink-friendly black-and-white option for easy printing. Perfect for math centers, morning work, or as a fun seasonal activity!

This product includes 60 puzzles:

• 20 puzzles for ordering numbers 1-5
• 20 puzzles for ordering numbers 1-10
• 20 puzzles for ordering numbers 11-20

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Blast Off into Math Fun with Outer Space Puzzles!

Set your sights on math mastery with these stellar Outer Space Math Picture Puzzle! This resource includes 10 Different Math Puzzles in multiple difficulty levels to suit different age groups featuring amazing outer space.

These puzzles are a great way to help your students:

• Develop critical thinking skills
• Practice problem-solving strategies
• Reinforce math concepts learned in class
• Perfect for morning work, math centers, early finishers, or homework

These puzzles include differentiation options:

• Addition To 10
• Addition To 20
• Subtraction within 10
• Subtraction within 20
• Addition & Subtraction within 12
• Addition & Subtraction within 18
• 2 Digit Addition With Regrouping
• 2 Digit Addition With no Regrouping
• 2 Digit Subtraction With Regrouping
• 2 Digit Subtraction with no Regrouping

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Check out our FREE Math Picture Puzzle for a sneaky brain teaser!

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Are you excited about Summer Break? If you're in search of a delightful activity, look no further - Ocean Animals Fun Activity Packet is here!
Inside this Sea Animals Activities Book, you'll discover a treasure trove of enjoyable, ready-to-use ocean worksheets perfect for the months of summer.

These activities are specifically crafted to help Kindergarten kids develop essential skills and achieve specific learning objectives. They're versatile and suitable for morning assignments, substitute teacher days, homework, and for those early finishers.

This jam pack offers a variety of differentiated activities, including:

• Dot-to-Dot
• Dot Marker
• Tracing Activity
• I Spy Ocean
• Ocean Ordering Numbers
• Color by Number
• Ocean Grid Puzzles
• Spot The differences
• Ocean Mazes and more!

You can choose the ones that best suit your students' needs.

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Engage students in skip counting multiplication with these fun and interactive puzzles!

Fire Safety Multiplication Number Puzzles provide a hands-on way for students to practice their multiplication skills. Each puzzle features a starting number and a set of skip counting steps. Students can cut the strips apart and order the numbers in sequence to practice skip counting.

These puzzles are perfect for:

• Reinforcing multiplication facts (1s, 2s, 3s, 4s, 5s, 6s, 7s, 8s, 9s, 10s, 11s and 12s)
• Developing skip counting fluency
• Building problem-solving skills
• work independently or in small groups

Includes:

• 24 Puzzles, available in both color and B&W version
• Recording Sheets
• Cover Page

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Whooo Loves Shapes?

Looking for a hoot-astic way to teach basic shapes? Our 2D Shapes Owl Matching Clip Cards Activity are the perfect resource for kindergartners and preschoolers! This resource will help your little ones develop a love for learning with our fun and educational Owl Clip Cards!

This all-in-one pack offers a variety of engaging activities to help young learners identify and recognize essential shapes.

Here's what makes our Owl Clip Cards fly!

• Three Sets of Fun:
  • Clip Cards (15 cards): Children clip the clothespin onto the matching shape on each card.
  • Flash Cards (15 cards): Flash cards with owls in various shapes with corresponding name for quick recognition practice.
  • Sorting Cards (15 shapes): Sort the owl-shaped cutouts by their corresponding shape for hands-on learning.
  • Early Finisher Activity: Keep little learners engaged with a bonus coloring page featuring adorable owl.
  • The complete sets are available in Color and B&W version.

Print, laminate, and cut out the cards for long-lasting use in your classroom or homeschool.

These Owl Clip Cards are perfect for:

• Math centers
• Independent practice
• Small group instruction
• Morning tubs
• Assessment

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