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Patriotic Themed Letter Recognition Centers and Puzzles
By Jennifer Connett
These patriotic themed letter and number cards and puzzles are a great Fourth of July, Memorial Day or any patriotic holiday activity for preschool and kindergarten students. Students can practice letter and number recognition by matching capital and lowercase letters and matching numbers and number words up to 20.
What is Included:
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:
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
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:
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 product is included in the following bundle:
Holiday Alphabet Cards and Puzzles Bundle
Hundreds Chart Mystery Picture Eagle
By Jennifer Connett
This hundred's chart mystery picture and puzzle is perfect for a bird themed, patriot themed or USA themed activity. It would be great in a math centers for students to reinforce their knowledge of numbers. There are several ways to use this packet: 1. You can use page 3 only and have the students simply color the mystery picture. 2. You can use page 4 and pages 6-10 and have students draw the cards and then fill in the right color. 3. You can use pages 6-10 and have students put the picture together like a puzzle. 4. You can use the answer key and cut it apart to make small puzzles.
Fourth of July Alphabet Clip Cards
By Jennifer Connett
These patriotic alphabet clip cards are the perfect way for preschoolers and kindergartners to practice letter recognition and matching capital and lowercase letters with a 4th of July theme. Students can also practice building fine motor skills by using clips to mark each letter.
What is Included:
There are 4 clip cards for each letter of the alphabet. Activities include matching the capital letter to a matching capital letter, matching a lowercase letter to the matching lowercase letter and matching capital letters with the correct lowercase letters.
How to Use:
Students will take one clip card, look at the letter on the star and then clip the letter that matches. The teach may choose to use small manipulatives, like mini erasers, bingo chips or counters to mark each correct response. The cards can also be laminated for students to use dry erase markers to mark correct answers.
Where to Use:
Skills Assessed
These patriotic letter clip cards are a low prep option for teachers to give to students to complete. The cards simply need to be printed and cut apart before being placed inside a learning station.
Related Links:
Alphabet Activities
Fourth of July Sight Word Cards for Fry 101-200
By Jennifer Connett
These Fourth of July sight word cards make a fun patriotic literacy center or patriotic sight word game for students to enjoy while practicing sight words from the Fry word list. This set of cards focuses on the Fry 101-200 words.
These sight word cards have a variety of uses in the classroom from games, to instructional tools, to center props.
Ways to Use
Each word is printed on its own star card for students to use to practice reading, writing and spelling each sight word.
Skills Assessed:
Fourth of July Sight Word Cards for Fry 1-100
By Jennifer Connett
These Fourth of July sight word cards make a fun patriotic literacy center or patriotic sight word game for students to enjoy while practicing sight words from the Fry word list. This set of cards focuses on the Fry 1-100 words.
These sight word cards have a variety of uses in the classroom from games, to instructional tools, to center props.
Ways to Use
Each word is printed on its own star card for students to use to practice reading, writing and spelling each sight word.
Skills Assessed:
This product contains all of Fry's first 100 sight words:
a, about, all, an, and, are, as, at, be, been, but, by, called, can, come, could, day, did, do, down, each, find, first, for, from, get, go, had, has, have, he, her, him, his, how, I, if, in, into, is, it, like, long, look, made, make, many, may, more, my, no, not, now, number, of, oil, on, one, or, other, out, part, people, said, see, she, sit, so, some, than, that, the, their, them, then, there, these, they, this, time, to, two, up, use, was, water, way, we, were, what, when, which, who, will, with, words, would, write, you, your
Fourth of July Sight Word Cards for Fry 201-300
By Jennifer Connett
These Fourth of July sight word cards make a fun patriotic literacy center or patriotic sight word game for students to enjoy while practicing sight words from the Fry word list. This set of cards focuses on the Fry 201-300 words.
These sight word cards have a variety of uses in the classroom from games, to instructional tools, to center props.
Ways to Use
Each word is printed on its own star card for students to use to practice reading, writing and spelling each sight word.
Skills Assessed:
Fourth of July Preprimer Sight Word Spelling Cards
By Jennifer Connett
These Fourth of July sight word spelling cards make a fun patriotic literacy center for students to enjoy while practicing spelling sight words from the preprimer or kindergarten word list.
What is Included:
Each sight word card features a star with the sight word printed on it. Students will use the boxes to the right of the word to spell the sight word on the star.
Ways to Use
When using these cards inside a literacy center, the letter tiles can be used to spell the words, or teachers can provide letter stamps, letter clips, scrabble tiles or other types of letter manipulates for students to use to spell each sight word.
Skills Assessed:
This packet contains all 40 Preprimer Sight Words:
a, and, away, big, blue, can, come, down, find, for, funny, go, help, here, I, in, is, it, jump, little, look, make, me, my, not, one, play, red, run, said, see, the, three, to, two, up, we, where, yellow, you
Fourth of July Primer Sight Word Cards
By Jennifer Connett
These Fourth of July sight word cards make a fun patriotic literacy center or patriotic sight word game for students to enjoy while practicing sight words from this primer or kindergarten sight word list.
These sight word cards have a variety of uses in the classroom from games, to instructional tools, to center props.
Ways to Use
Each word is printed on its own star card for students to use to practice reading, writing and spelling each sight word.
Skills Assessed:
This product contains all 52 Primer Sight Words:
all, am, are, at, ate, be, black, brown, but, came, did, do, eat, four, get, good, have, he, into, like, must, new, no, now, on, our, out, please, pretty, ran, ride, saw, say, she, so, soon, that, there, they, this, too, under, want, was, well, went, what, white, who, will, with, yes
Fourth of July Sight Word Cards for Third Grade
By Jennifer Connett
These Fourth of July sight word cards make a fun patriotic literacy center or patriotic sight word game for students to enjoy while practicing sight words from this third grade sight word list.
These sight word cards have a variety of uses in the classroom from games, to instructional tools, to center props.
Ways to Use
Each word is printed on its own star card for students to use to practice reading, writing and spelling each sight word.
Skills Assessed:
This product contains all 41 third grade sight words:
about, better, bring, carry, clean, cut, done, draw, drink, eight, fall, far, full, got, grow, hold, hot, hurt, if, keep, kind, laugh, light, long, much, myself, never, only, own, pick, seven, shall, show, six, small, start, ten, today, together, try, warm
Fourth of July Sight Word Cards for First Grade
By Jennifer Connett
These Fourth of July sight word cards make a fun patriotic literacy center or patriotic sight word game for students to enjoy while practicing sight words from this first grade sight word list.
These sight word cards have a variety of uses in the classroom from games, to instructional tools, to center props.
Ways to Use
Each word is printed on its own star card for students to use to practice reading, writing and spelling each sight word.
Skills Assessed:
This product contains all 41 First Grade Sight Words:
after, again, an, any, as, ask, by, could, every, fly, from, give, going, had, has, her, him, his, how, just, know, let, live, may, of, old, once, open, over, put, round, some, stop, take, thank, them, then, think, walk, were, when
Fourth of July Preprimer Sight Word Cards
By Jennifer Connett
These Fourth of July sight word cards make a fun patriotic literacy center or patriotic sight word game for students to enjoy while practicing sight words from this pewprimer or pre-k sight word list.
These sight word cards have a variety of uses in the classroom from games, to instructional tools, to center props.
Ways to Use
Each word is printed on its own star card for students to use to practice reading, writing and spelling each sight word.
Skills Assessed:
This packet contains all 40 Pre Primer Sight Words:
a, and, away, big, blue, can, come, down, find, for, funny, go, help, here, I, in, is, it, jump, little, look, make, me, my, not, one, play, red, run, said, see, the, three, to, two, up, we, where, yellow, you
Fourth of July Sight Word Cards for Second Grade
By Jennifer Connett
These Fourth of July sight word cards make a fun patriotic literacy center or patriotic sight word game for students to enjoy while practicing sight words from this second grade sight word list.
These sight word cards have a variety of uses in the classroom from games, to instructional tools, to center props.
Ways to Use
Each word is printed on its own star card for students to use to practice reading, writing and spelling each sight word.
Skills Assessed:
This product contains all 46 Second Grade Sight Words:
always, around, because, been, before, best, both, buy, call, cold, does, don’t, fast, first, five, found, gave, goes, green, its, made, many, off, or, pull, read, right, sing, sit, sleep, tell, their, these, those, upon, us, use, very, wash, which, why, wish, work, would, write, your
Zeno High Frequency Word Cards Patriotic Theme
By Jennifer Connett
This sight word set includes all Zeno sight words all printed on red, white and blue cards. These are great for practicing sight words for a patriotic themed literacy center! Directions for Flash Cards: Print on card stock, cut apart and laminate for durability. Directions for Matching Game: Print the cards out twice on card stock, cut apart and laminate for durability. Other ideas: Place a set of cards in ABC order.
Level 1 Trick Word Cards Patriotic Theme
By Jennifer Connett
This sight word set includes all level 1 trick words (for first grade) all printed on red, white and blue cards. These are great for practicing sight words for a patriotic themed literacy center! Directions for Flash Cards: Print on card stock, cut apart and laminate for durability. Directions for Matching Game: Print the cards out twice on card stock, cut apart and laminate for durability. Other ideas: Place a set of cards in ABC order.
Level K Trick Word Cards Patriotic Theme
By Jennifer Connett
This sight word set includes all level K trick words (for Kindergarten) all printed on red, white and blue cards. These are great for practicing sight words for a patriotic themed literacy center!
Directions for Flash Cards: Print on card stock, cut apart and laminate for durability.
Directions for Matching Game: Print the cards out twice on card stock, cut apart and laminate for durability.
Other ideas: Place a set of cards in ABC order.
This packet contains all 27 Level K Trick Words:
a, and, are, as, be, by, do, for, from, has, have, he, his, I, is, me, my, of, one, or, she, the, they, to, was, we, you
Level 2 Trick Word Cards Patriotic Theme
By Jennifer Connett
This sight word set includes all level 2 trick words all printed on red, white and blue cards. These are great for practicing sight words for a patriotic themed literacy center!
Directions for Flash Cards: Print on card stock, cut apart and laminate for durability.
Directions for Matching Game: Print the cards out twice on card stock, cut apart and laminate for durability.
Other ideas: Place a set of cards in ABC order.
This product contains 84 Level 2 trick words:
again, against, always, America, animal, answer, August, away, beautiful, both, bought, breakfast, brother, carry, change, city, country, couple, cousin, daughter, December, different, done, early, earth, eight, enough, every, family, father, favorite, February, full, goes, great, head, house, January, July, knew, know, large, laugh, learn, lose, Monday, mother, move, night, ocean, often, once, only, picture, piece, place, please, pretty, pull, ready, right, Saturday, school, shall, something, son, special, sure, talk, thought, Thursday, together, tomorrow, trouble, Tuesday, use, used, walk, Wednesday, whose, won, world, young
President Abraham Lincoln / Abe Lincoln VA SOL 2.4c
By 1st Grade Salt Life
Learn about our 16th President, Abraham Lincoln! This mini unit includes lots of fun activities to expand your students learning! VA SOL 2.4c
Included in our mini unit is;
anchor chart,
KWL chart,
fact/opinion sort,
true/false sort,
timeline (color and b/w),
make and take mini book,
invention drawing,
word search,
ABC order practice,
All About Abraham Lincoln graphic organizer,
2 writing papers.
This Abraham Lincoln product is part of our Famous American's Bundle! Save 20% on this pack and 4 others!
Famous Americans Bundle
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Famous Americans Units
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1st Grade Salt Life
By 1st Grade Salt Life
Dive into the fascinating world of our first President, George Washington, with our comprehensive mini unit! Packed with engaging activities, this resource is designed to expand your students' knowledge and make learning fun. Inside, you'll find an anchor chart, KWL chart, fact/opinion sort, true/false sort, colorful and black-and-white timelines, a make and take mini book, an invention drawing activity, a word search, ABC order practice, an All About George Washington graphic organizer, and two writing papers. Aligned with the Virginia SOL 1.2, this mini unit is the perfect tool to help your students explore and understand the life and achievements of George Washington.
This George Washington product is part of our Famous American's Bundle! Save 20% on this pack and 4 others!
Famous Americans Bundle
Looking for more famous Americans? Check out these resources
Looking for more Famous Americans? Click on the link below to see all our
Famous Americans Units
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1st Grade Salt Life
Keywords George Washington, Famous Americans, First president
February Writing Activities / February Journal
By 1st Grade Salt Life
February Writing Journal This download includes 20 February related writing prompts (groundhogs day, presidents day, black history month)! This is a PowerPoint file. Editable pages have been added so you can write your own prompts. Please rate and comment to receive your TeachShare credits! This is also available as part of a bundle for Feb-June Journal Bundle Feb-June More monthly journals available in my store! 1st Grade Salt Life
February Themed Blank Primary Paper!
By 1st Grade Salt Life
Fun blank pages to go along with: Groundhog Day President's Day Valentine's Day This is a PowerPoint file. You can add your own text to customize this for your students! I hope you enjoy this free resource! Please and rate and comment! Your feedback is very valuable! 1st Grade Salt Life