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Winter Dollar Up Task Cards - REAL PHOTOS - Rounding - Money - Life Skills
By FUNctional Academics Educator
Winter Dollar Up Task Cards - an engaging resource designed to enhance students' rounding skills, focusing specifically on rounding prices up to the next dollar. This set uses real product images of common items students would encounter during the wintertime, adding a seasonal touch to the learning experience.
What’s Included?
Guide:
Task Cards:
Data Collection + Student Recording Sheets:
Version 1 Wording: “Round up to the next dollar:”
Version 2 Wording: “What’s the next dollar up?”
Levels:
TOTAL:
⭐ 48 REAL WINTER PRODUCT IMAGES
⭐ 384 DIFFERENT TASK CARDS
Ideas for Use:
Elevate your teaching with these WINTER Dollar Up Task Cards, perfect for integrating real-world scenarios into your lessons and fostering valuable life skills in a seasonal context. Ideal for diverse settings, these task cards make learning engaging and practical.
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Matching Money Coin Value Puzzle Cards for Winter
By The Treasured Schoolhouse
Immerse your students in the enchanting realm of winter with this fun set of 2-piece puzzle matching cards designed to enhance their coin recognition skills and master the art of counting money. Featuring a delightful wintery theme, these cards offer an engaging and educational activity for learners of all ages.
The set showcases six different coins per card, each with a value less than $1, including the distinctive half dollars, quarters, dimes, nickels, and pennies. As budding learners, they'll not only become acquainted with the appearance of various coins but also develop a keen understanding of their respective values.
To conquer these puzzles, players must diligently count the combined worth of the featured coins. Adding up the values of each coin fosters the essential skill of money counting. Once the sum has been calculated, the next step involves locating the corresponding puzzle piece displaying that precise value.
This set includes:
UPDATE: This set of cards has been updated from 13 to 28 cards to match coin values.
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December Holidays and Customs Crossword Puzzle
By Reading Club Fun
December is full of fun and festivities, special events and holidays. Communities are full of helping hands and neighbors helping neighbors. Students will enjoy learning about the customs and festivities that take place in the month of December with this crossword puzzle!
Concepts Explored: December | Hanukkah | Chanukah | Kwanzaa | Christmas | New Year | New Year's Eve | holidays | charity | giving | collection | donation | community | tradition | customs | holiday customs
Winter Warm-Up Beverages and Activities Activity Set and Math Puzzle
By Reading Club Fun
Enjoy a Winter Beverages and Activities (Indoor & Outdoor)-themed Two-Page Activity Set and Math Puzzle with this discounted set! Includes the following products:
Topics explored: winter | December | January | February | coffee | tea | cocoa | winter activities | winter sports | planning | party planning | budgeting | math | party | indoor activities | outdoor activities | budget | penguins | ice skating | hockey | snow | bowling
Snow Fun Packet! Vocabulary-rich Puzzles about Snow, Wintry Weather
By Reading Club Fun
Snow is falling again. Winter is back. Children will enjoy this flurry of fun puzzles, all centered around snowy weather and winter fun.
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Winter Sports, Cool Winter Action – Puzzles for Indoor and Outdoor Activities
By Reading Club Fun
Winter sports and activities. A great set of themed puzzles that encourage winter outdoor and indoor activities – sports and physical exercise – to keep kids moving.
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Getting Ready for Winter Puzzles – What People and Animals Do to Prepare
By Reading Club Fun
Fall is here. Winter weather is coming. People and animals have many jobs to do to be ready before winter weather sets in. And, once prepared, we get to enjoy the winter season and all the changes it brings. This set includes:
Time for a New Year 2024 Crossword Puzzle
By Reading Club Fun
Happy New Year! It's time to start anew. Fill in this Crossword Puzzle with dozens of words related to time, how time passes, how we tell time, the calendar, and other words that contain the word 'time'.
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Concepts explored: New Years | New Year’s | Eve | Old Father Time | Baby New Year | time | tradition
Winter Wonderland (Activities, Penguins and Festivals) Puzzle Packet with Bonus
By Reading Club Fun
It's a Winter Wonderland! Learn about penguins and winter festivals, and explore a range of winter vocabulary words (including rhymes) with this themed set!
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Keywords: winter | January | February | hibernation | hibernating | skiing | snowboard | snowflakes | penguin | penguins | polar bears | winter festival
Winter Vocabulary (Synonyms) Crossword Puzzle & Word Search
By Reading Club Fun
Learn winter related vocabulary words and their synonyms with this Crossword Puzzle and Word Search Puzzle!
Concepts explored: ice | snow | winter | blizzard | cold | boots | gloves
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New Years 2024 Around the World Puzzles – Global Culture and Diversity
By Reading Club Fun
This fun puzzle set turns the transition to a new year into an opportunity to teach about diversity and global culture by exploring a range of traditions for marking “New Year’s Day.”
For most of the world, the big New Year’s Eve celebration is on December 31st. By contrast, in other countries or for some groups, the beginning of the new year may start in March or another month (in our puzzle these are posted in parentheses at the end of the clue). These celebrations also have religious significance or a wider array of traditions associated with them.
Teachers may want to use this activity set as part of a discussion about understanding and valuing the differences between people. Set includes:
Concepts explored: resolutions | new year around the world | global |diversity | culture | baby new year | New Year | New Year's Eve | New Years | midnight | world | customs | resolution
Winter Vocabulary Bingo Game (with 24 boards) 20% Off
By Reading Club Fun
Winter is here! This high-quality Winter vocabulary bingo game offers a fun, active way to foster spelling, winter vocabulary, and listening skills. This is a great game for a whole-class activity, or to put in a classroom center for kids to work on in small groups.
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Comes with:
• 24 different playing boards.
• 60 calling cards, vocabulary words and the letter of the column they are in.
• Quick Look Key – laminate and mark off to keep track of which cards were called. Helps to quickly verify winners.
• BONUS: Free Winter Word Search Puzzle to reinforce the vocabulary used in the bingo game.
How it works:
The caller shuffles the calling cards to mix them up, then reads the top calling card. It has 2 parts:
1. A spelling tip to help kids locate the column to look in. For example: "This word has the letter 'W' in it. This guides the player to look in the "W" column.
2. The definition or clue, required to find the vocabulary word.
When a player has covered 6 illustrations in a row horizontally, vertically or on a diagonal, they call out "Bingo!" and the caller checks their board.
Concepts explored: winter | snow | bingo | game | vocabulary | spelling | listening skills | class | classroom activity | season | seasonal | party games | fun
Winter Vocabulary Word Search - 60 Words - Old Man Winter Snow Queen
By Reading Club Fun
Winter is rich with vocabulary words that kids will love to explore.
This "Winter Is Here" Word Search Puzzle offers 60 vocabulary words and features engaging characters: Old Man Winter and the Snow Queen.
SAVE – Get our Winter Excitement: Myths, Weather Facts packet for extra puzzles and resources!
Vocabulary Words Used:
black ice blanket blizzard boots coat cold December dusting Fahrenheit February fireplace flu flurry forecast freezing rain frost frostbite frozen gloves hail hat hot chocolate hypothermia ice ice hockey ice skating icicles January mittens myth nor’easter Old Man Winter personification salt sand truck scarf season skiing sledding sleet slippery snow snow angel snow day snow fort snow shovel snowball fight snowblind snowboarding snowdrift snowflake snowman snowplow soup storm temperature thermometer thirty-two degrees windchill winter
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Winter Sports Picture Subtraction Math File Folders Special Ed & Elementary
By Alyssa Stamm
Use these differentiated Winter Sports picture subtraction file folders for a fun activity or centers in your special education or math classes in January! There are 3 different file folders. These file folders are perfect for math centers, independent work, progress monitoring, and task boxes!
What is Included?
3 file folder activities
- Picture Subtraction within 5
- Picture Subtraction within 10
- Picture Subtraction within 20
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Winter Sports Picture Addition Math File Folder Special Education & Elementary
By Alyssa Stamm
Use these differentiated January Winter Sports themed picture addition file folders for math in your special education classroom in January! There are 3 different file folders to reach all levels of learners! These file folders are perfect for math centers, independent work, progress monitoring, and task boxes!
What is Included?
3 file folder activities
- Picture Addition Sums up to 5
- Picture Addition Sums up to 10
- Picture Addition Sums up to 20
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Winter Clothes Math Counting File Folders for Special Ed & Elementary
By Alyssa Stamm
Use these differentiated January winter clothing themed counting file folders for math practice in your special education classroom! With 5 different levels, there is something for every learner! Great for extra practice, work bins, and independent centers in your classroom!
What is Included?
5 file folder activities:
- Counting 1-5
-Counting 5-10
-Counting 1-10
-Counting 11-20
-Counting 1-20
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Winter Sports Number Matching Math File Folders Special Ed & Elementary
By Alyssa Stamm
Use these differentiated January Winter Sports themed number identification file folders for math centers, independent work, progress monitoring, or a work task system! There are 3 different file folders with two levels in each folder.
What is Included?
3 file folder activities with two levels per folder
-Numbers 1-5 (Number to number and word to number match)
-Numbers 1-10 (Number to number and word to number match)
-Numbers 11-20 (Number to number and word to number match)
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The Nutcracker Music Note Match Game for Christmas [from the Nutcracker Vault]
By Agee and Row Classical Music Appreciation
Learning to read music can have many benefits for students. These colorful music note-matching cards and posters are easy to set up and fun to use! Note-matching games are a great activity for both individual and group learning. They are easy to set up and can be adapted to different skill levels, making them suitable for learners of all ages.
Learning Objectives
What's Included
This activity pack includes full-color and white background posters, matching cards, and full-page posters for learning and checking answers. Great for centers! Simply print the cards and posters, cut out the note cards, and laminate for durability. Students match the note with the correct letter card. This is a great activity for reinforcing note names.
18 Grand Staff Puzzles (18 in all)
Treble Space Notes: f - a - c - e
Treble Line Notes: e - g - b - d - f
Bass Space Notes: a - c - e - g
Bass Line Notes: g - b - d - f - a
5 Wall Posters / Music Center Sheets
Grand Staff: Illustrates the two staves
Treble Clef: Explains at-a-glance what the treble clef looks like
Treble Notes: Displays and defines the notes on the treble clef
Bass Clef: Explains at-a-glance what the bass clef looks like
Bass Notes: Displays and defines the notes on the bass clef
Unlock the Nutcracker Vault: A Fun & Engaging Listening Activity Bundle
By Agee and Row Classical Music Appreciation
Help your students gain a greater understanding of The Nutcracker Suite with this set of listening sheets! The Nutcracker Classical Music Activity Packet provides 268 pages of different activities that will help build a classical music foundation for your students. Its goal is to increase knowledge of The Nutcracker Suite and comprehension of scenes and characters.
See What's Inside
Be sure to check out the preview file above for a closer look into what this activity pack includes. You'll find 17 pages of activity demos, descriptions, and teacher testimonials!
Learning Objectives
Music Featured in Each Pack:
Overture • The Christmas Tree • March • Gallop And Dance Of The Parents • The Presents Of Drosselmeyer • Grandfather Dance • Clara And The Nutcracker • Battle with the Mouse King • In The Christmas Tree • Waltz Of The Snowflakes • The Magic Castle On The Mountain Of Sweets • Clara And Prince Charming • Chocolate (Spanish Dance) • Coffee (Arabian Dance) • Tea (Chinese Dance) • Trepak (Russian Dance) • Dance Of The Reed Pipes • Polichinelle (The Clown) • Waltz Of The Flowers • Pas De Deux (3rd Movement contains "Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy") • Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy • Grand Finale
Nutcracker Listening Activity Sheets (Located in Bonus File Section)
Music Rating Guides - full color/black & white
Listening Sheet - There are no wrong answers! Students can note how they feel and what they imagine while listening to a selected piece of music. Choose from musical instruments, nature scenes, colors, and more.
Weather & Feelings - Weather is a recurring theme in classical music. Does a musical piece remind the listener of a snowy day or a pleasant sunny afternoon? Students can select the weather symbols that come to mind. Is the music happy or sad? A set of emotional characters allows your group to pick the feelings that best relate to a piece of music.
Nutcracker Listen and Color Activity Sheets (22 pages)
Pair art with music! Students color the characters while listening to featured music from The Nutcracker. There are four categories of keywords to circle/highlight that describe their listening experience. Blank lines are for writing in their own words. There are no wrong answers! Discuss and display for further engagement.
"This is a fabulous resource! The kids really enjoyed deciding how the music made them feel. It ties well with the curriculum and I will definitely be using it again!" - Stephen G.
The Nutcracker Checkbox Listening Sheets (24 pages)
Emoji Rating Guide (14 emojis to choose from, color and b&w)
Listening Sheets - there are no wrong answers! Students can use the checkboxes to note how they feel and what they imagine while listening to a selected piece of music. Choose from musical instruments, nature scenes, colors, and more!
The Nutcracker Tracker (1 page)
Students can track their listening progress by coloring a box for each piece! Select a few or listen to all twenty-two!
The Nutcracker Jazz Suite by Duke Ellington (14 pages)
These Nutcracker-themed printable listening sheets offer creative music appreciation! Most performances online of the full suite range from twenty to thirty minutes. Students will recognize some of the most familiar pieces! Great for incorporating jazz into this seasonal favorite.
Nutcracker Fairytale Story (45 pages)
Nutcracker Story listening sheets combine music appreciation with a fairy tale theme! Students compose their wondrous tales by choosing the setting, characters, and familiar fairy tale objects inspired by the music. There’s also a drawing box for students to capture a scene from their imaginations. Discuss and display for further engagement!
"I don't feel like I do a very good job of teaching dance/music in our Arts Ed strands, so this was a handy resource as a way of guiding my teaching. I was surprised just how into the Nutcracker my students got!" - Nadine
The Nutcracker Story Writing Packet (30 pages)
These story sheets feature The Nutcracker! Compose a Nutcracker-themed story or use these activity pages for seasonal handwriting practice.
The Nutcracker Word Search (1 page)
No Prep! Word search activities offer many benefits for students. They can help students learn new vocabulary, improve spelling skills, and develop problem-solving abilities. These word search activities are great for reviewing musical concepts in a fun and challenging way! Word search activities also make engaging brain breaks and bell-ringers.
"My students enjoy doing something different in Music Class. This is the first time I used a word find. The students were engaged right away. I needed something to use after our Christmas performance. It was perfect and saved me a lot of time." - Bonnie
The Nutcracker Performance Journal (1 page)
No Prep! Do you need engaging activities to accompany "The Nutcracker?" Students can note their favorite elements from "The Nutcracker" with this scrapbook-style journal/coloring page! Includes favorite dance, scene, costume, moment, character, and music.
"Great to use with our Nutcracker unit. Thanks." - Deborah
The Nutcracker Music Note Matching Game/Center (24 pages)
Learning to read music can have many benefits for students. These colorful music note-matching cards and posters are easy to set up and fun to use! Note-matching games are a great activity for both individual and group learning. They are easy to set up and can be adapted to different skill levels, making them suitable for learners of all ages.
"This was a fun match-up game for my students! They had a fun time with this for a last day soft start!" - Jean
The Nutcracker Handwriting/Tracing Pack (20 pages)
Do you need fun & engaging handwriting activities for December? These tracing and handwriting practice sheets feature The Nutcracker! Each page has a number to trace and write, with a coloring practice at the bottom. Blank pages (with pictures) are also included for additional practice or story writing.
"Love these!" - Conrady Creations
The Nutcracker Scene List Performance Handouts (3 pages)
No Prep! Do you need a scene list to accompany "The Nutcracker?" Performances will vary, but this easy-to-use guide includes the scenes found in most productions! The scene list can be used to follow along, given as student handouts, or used as a planning page for your Nutcracker activities/units.
"My students enjoyed learning about the music from Nutcracker." - Leslie
The Nutcracker Bingo Game (38 pages)
Add this Bingo game to your Nutcracker unit or winter sub plans! Students will enjoy racing to find Clara, the Mouse King, Godfather Drosselmeyer, and more! There are also a few festive objects like cupcakes and ornaments. Great for printing on Astrobrights paper!
"My students LOVED playing Nutcracker BINGO. It was a great activity to use after we learned about the history of and read a version of The Nutcracker. They were extremely engaged, and it was a great review of characters and dances from the ballet/story." - Rebecca M.
The Nutcracker Posters (set of 12)
Bring the magic of The Nutcracker to life with these colorful Nutcracker-themed posters for your bulletin boards! Each poster showcases a beloved musical piece from this enchanting ballet, bringing the magic of the stage right into your classroom or homeschool.
From the dreamy Waltz of the Snowflakes to the exhilarating Chinese Dance, these visually stunning posters will transport you to the Land of Sweets. Perfect for music appreciation, dance classes, or simply adding a touch of holiday cheer, these posters are a must-have for any Nutcracker unit study!
Easel Activity
Pair an engaging digital listening board with these musical selections! Students use the highlight tool to choose keyword lists describing their listening experience. An answer box at the bottom allows students to write a brief description of their thoughts and feelings. Using the pen or any design tool provided, students can decorate a scene or upload an image to the frame! Each board features colorful clipart related to the music. As always, there are no wrong answers. Students can choose any combination of descriptors.
The Nutcracker and Winter Classical Music | SEL Bundle for December ★
By Agee and Row Classical Music Appreciation
"My students love the Nutcracker and these activities are a great, time-saving resource for my unit." - Erin E.
Do you need fun & engaging music activities? "The Nutcracker" and "Hello, December" Listening Sheets are now a bundle! Combine both of these sets for a cozy and festive winter classroom!
Bundle Benefits:
Learning Objectives
What's Included:
Musical Selections included with "The Nutcracker" (two pages per piece:)
Musical Selections included with "Festive December" (two pages per piece:)