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Set of 23 different play dough mats to aid fine motor skills. The set currently contains 3 sets; shapes, spring and transport. Simply laminate to be able to use over and over.

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This pack includes 2 sheets with 12 pictures of the most common school supplies, 1 sheet with 6 pictures of classroom elements (with traceable words), and 2 backpack templates.

Kids will have fun colouring the pictures and tracing the words and then complete the backpack activity by cutting them out and pasting them on the backpack templates.

Words included:

1. book
2. notebook
3. crayons
4. eraser
5. scissors
6. pencil
7. glue
8. paper
9. lunchbox
10. ruler
11. colored pencils and pencil crayons
12. computer
13. trash can and garbage bin
14. chair
15. desk
16. whiteboard
17. door
18. window

BACKPACK TEMPLATE ORIGINAL SIZE: 8.5x14-inch paper (22x36 cm): LEGAL.

You can choose from two options:

•An empty backpack where they can colour and decorate as they wish and paste all the vocabulary words they worked on previously.

•A template that includes a pocket. For the pocket version, they’ll paste it onto the backpack in the space provided and then place each cut-out inside.

Kids will enjoy decorating their backpacks with the items they’ve worked on, making this a fun and educational experience!

Delve deeper into Salina Yoon's heartwarming tale of friendship with our Penguin and Pinecone: A Friendship Story worksheets. This pack of 5 worksheets is designed to supplement your child's understanding and engagement with the story.

The first component of the pack includes a list of vocabulary words extracted from the book to help your child improve their linguistic skills.

The second component is a worksheet that can be used during guided reading sessions, or alternatively, it can serve as a comprehension quiz/test to measure your child's understanding of the story.

To incorporate an element of fun, we have also included 2 imaginative color worksheets. These allow your child to express their creativity and relate it personally to the story of Penguin and Pinecone.

The final inclusion in this pack is a 2-page story sequence worksheet. This will aid your child to follow the narrative in a cohesive manner and understand the progression of events and the impact those events have on the characters' dynamics.

Encourage your child to utilize these worksheets while reading Penguin and Pinecone for a wholesome and enriching learning experience.

Like this story check out more children's book companions like

Who Took the Farmer's Hat

Little Blue Truck

I Like Myself

This is a fun way to review some antonyms. Lay them out face down and play a game of memory. If you are uncertain where they are the correct antonym, the pictures match. You can also use these to play Go Fish. I hope you enjoy them!

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Product Description: Self Portrait Template | Monthly Name Writing Practice

Engage your students in a creative and reflective activity with this Self Portrait Template paired with Monthly Name Writing Practice! This versatile resource is designed to promote artistic expression, develop writing skills, and encourage self-awareness in students, making it an ideal addition to your classroom routine.

Why Teachers Love It:
This Self Portrait Template | Monthly Name Writing Practice resource is perfect for building routines that encourage personal growth and skill development. Students love drawing their portraits and seeing how their handwriting evolves over time, while teachers appreciate the insight into their students' interests and progress.

How to Use:

1. Introduce the activity at the beginning of each month.
2. Encourage students to reflect on their interests, draw their self-portraits, and practice writing their names.
3. Compile the completed worksheets into a portfolio to showcase growth at the end of the school year.
4. Use the worksheets as bulletin board displays or for parent-teacher conferences to highlight student development.

What’s Included:

• 12 monthly self portraits ( 2 options)
• 1 yearly book cover
• 1 flexible-use self-portrait worksheet
• 2 All About Me worksheet options

Whether you’re teaching pre-kindergarten, kindergarten, or early elementary grades, this Self Portrait Template | Monthly Name Writing Practice is a must-have resource for fostering creativity, self-discovery, and skill-building in your students.

If you like this resource, be sure to check out our other activities!

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Elevate your early elementary morning meetings to a whole new level of educational excitement with these True or False Morning Meeting Slides or Morning Meeting Games. Watch your students eagerly participate, build their knowledge, and develop essential critical thinking skills.

These slides can be used throughout the day, not just during Morning meetings. The slides can be used as a brain break or as a game! There is a 30-second timer on each true or false question that can be used for a game mode.

You will present one slide and it will be a true or false question with a background picture that matches the question. Students will answer the true or false and then press the slide again and another slide will pop up that will state true or false with another picture matching the question and a video linked to explain the answer or a funny video related to the question.

How is this different than other morning meeting slides or games?

• Diverse picture backgrounds that go with each question instead of the same blank background.
• Linked videos to every true or false answer slide.
• A timer to use if you play a game with your class.
• EDITABLE (You can delete and insert your own videos or questions)

This opportunity will engage, inspire, and revolutionize your classroom. Don't miss out on unlocking the magic of engagement with your class!

The topics and what is included:

• 23 True or False Question Slides

• 23 Answer Slides

• Videos linked to answer slides

• Backgrounds with real and diverse pictures.

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THIS IS A HUGE BUNDLE of Adaptive Books! This huge bundle includes adapted books for all holidays, counting, colors and much more!

Right now there are 40 sets of adapted books included in this set worth $208.00! Each set includes multiple books giving you approximately 106 books to use with your students! PLUS, as I make additional books I just throw them into this set! These books will provide additional support and resources to your classroom all school year!

What is included?

This set includes a plethora of resources and it will keep you busy throughout the school year! I have included animals, holidays, counting, shapes, colors and more.

While many sets are made with the early literacy / early math skills in mind there are also books that can be used as your students grow their skills. I have even my biggest sellers are included in this massive bundle of 40 products!

Why Adapted books?

I personally love using adapted books. I have found them to be motivating to even my most reluctant learners. They are a great resource for such a wide range of learners as well as I can easily modify my instruction for the needs of each student.

I have used them with students who are just learning to sit in their seats and follow directions. Adapted books can easily be modified for students by providing less visual options.

I have also used them with student who are reluctant learners. They may already be confident in the skills presented in the books, however benefit from a learning activity they know they will do succeed with. It is a great starting activity!

Do you have a student who is working on identifying "wh" questions? Place a post it note over picture on each page. Read, ask the "wh" question, and your student can check their answer by checking under the post it note.

Once I have my books prepared they are sturdy, easily cleaned & stored. I store mine in a crate that supports hanging folders. They are sorted by topic and easy to grab and go. We use them in stations, with substitutes, my classroom aides, and when student want to read with peers. They are often requested as well!

How are they prepared?

These books do require some prior prep work. Once they have been created however they are able to be used year after year with a variety of students. I generally print, laminate, bind and velcro them so they can be reused. The adaptive books are designed with students ability to interact with learning material. Each book has interactive icons. Students will have options of 8-10 choices for each story.

So, why wait?

40 Adaptive Book Sets included in this bundle :

Back to school - 3 books

Baseball - 4 books

Basic colors - 4 books

Christmas Shapes - 5 books

Christmas Simple Shapes - 9 books (9 shapes)

Chores

Colorful Christmas - 4 books

Counting Colors #1-10 (red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple) - 28 books

Counting Rainbow #1-10

Counting Rainbow #11-20

Descriptions - 3 books

Desert animals - 4 books

Dinosaurs - 5 books & extension activities

Fall - 4 books

Fall Counting 1-10: 4 books

Fall Shapes - 4 books

Farm - 4 books

Halloween Shapes

ocean animals - 4 books

Polar animals - 4 books

rainforest animals - 4 books

Social Skills following directions - 2 books & activities

Springtime - 4 books

Spring - Plant a Garden

Spring Counting #1-10 - 12 books

Summer - 4 books

Thanksgiving - 3 books

Valentine Books - 2 books

Wetland animals - 4 books

Who/What questions - 4 books

When - 5 books

Winter - 4 books

Winter Counting - 4 books

**I will not be including my mini units in this bundle, however you can expect it to continue to grow!! Grab it before the price increases further:) *.

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Looking for a versatile and engaging resource to kickstart your classroom each day? This comprehensive set of 50 check-in slides is perfect for any subject area, advisory periods, or as conversation starters, bell ringers, or SEL activities. These slides are designed to foster reflection, build community, and create meaningful conversations in your classroom, all while being easy to use and adaptable to your needs.

Product Features:

• 50 Unique Check-In Slides: With a wide variety of themes including emojis, weather, animals, colors, songs, and more, these slides ensure that your students start the day reflecting on their emotions, sharing their thoughts, and connecting with their peers.
• Flexible Use: Whether you're teaching math, language arts, science, or social studies, these slides can be seamlessly integrated into any lesson. They are also perfect for advisory periods, morning meetings, or as part of your SEL (Social Emotional Learning) curriculum.
• Year-Round Utility: With 50 unique slides, this resource can be used for 10 weeks straight without repeats, making it a staple in your daily routine. Whether you need a quick bell ringer, a conversation starter, or a community-building activity, this resource has you covered.
• Build Community: Encourage students to share and listen to each other's responses, fostering a positive and supportive classroom environment. These activities help students develop self-awareness, empathy, and communication skills.
• Engage All Learners: The diverse range of check-ins ensures that there’s something for every student, whether they relate more to visuals, emotions, or metaphors. This inclusivity helps every student feel seen and heard.

Ideas to Use:

• Morning Routines: Start each day with a quick and easy check-in to gauge your students' mood and mindset.
• SEL Activities: Incorporate these slides into your social-emotional learning curriculum to help students develop key emotional intelligence skills.
• Bell Ringers: Use these slides as an engaging way to transition into your daily lessons, helping students shift their focus and prepare mentally.
• Advisory Periods: Foster deeper connections and discussions during advisory time with thought-provoking questions and activities.
• Conversation Starters: Encourage students to share and discuss their thoughts, building communication skills and classroom community.

Why This Resource?

Creating a classroom environment where students feel connected, understood, and engaged is key to successful learning. These check-in slides are designed to help you achieve that goal effortlessly. By incorporating these daily check-ins into your routine, you’re not just starting the day on the right foot—you’re building a classroom culture where every student feels valued.

Get ready to make mornings the best part of the day with these engaging, reflective, and fun check-in slides. Perfect for year-round use and suitable for students of all ages!

A worksheet with background information on the real life figure of Macbeth plus close reading questions. An excellent complement to Shakespeare's play.

Do you kids like word searches, mazes, and I Spy games? These are all about the beach and summer. Have fun finding the words, getting yourself through the maze and finding objects. Answer key included for word search.

Celebrate the season with our "Thanksgiving Color By Numbers BUNDLE Seasons Winter"! ❄️ This comprehensive bundle is perfect for engaging students in festive and educational activities. Our Holiday Math No Prep Worksheets Color By Number BUNDLE ensures no hassle for teachers or parents, making it ideal for the busy holiday season.

This Fall Coloring Pages Thanksgiving Color By Number set includes Thanksgiving Color by Number and Writing Pages, providing both art and literacy opportunities. The Thanksgiving Color By Number Context Clues pages add an extra layer of educational fun. This Thanksgiving Themed Fun Book features NO PREP Activities that are ready to use, perfect for your classroom or home.

The bundle includes a Thanksgiving Activity Pack and a November Activity Book, packed with a variety of engaging tasks. The Color by Number Thanksgiving Fall / Holiday Theme pages will keep children entertained and learning. Additionally, the El Dia de Accion de Gracias Color by Number pages offer bilingual educational content.

This bundle makes a great Thanksgiving Birthday Day Party gift or a cute Thanksgiving coloring book for children. The coloring pages will help children from PreK to 4th grade develop their fine motor skills while having fun. Included are Thanksgiving picture pages that bring the holiday spirit into every activity.

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✨Preschool autumn Fall Coloring Sheets | Printable Autumn Coloring activity✨

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These hands-on Winter Literacy Puzzles are a great option for your kindergarten winter literacy centers. These printable puzzles include 45 Winter Literacy Mystery Picture Puzzles!

Each winter-themed mystery puzzle focuses on a specific literacy skill. Students are asked to match the puzzle pieces to the puzzle mats to reveal the mystery picture to solve the mystery puzzle! These puzzles are also great for your early finishers, enrichment opportunities, morning work, or even intervention groups.

⭐ These Winter Literacy Puzzles are also included in the following bundles: 

• Kindergarten Winter Math and Literacy Centers.
• Mystery Picture Puzzle Bundles.

What’s included in this Winter Mystery Picture Puzzle Kindergarten resource?

This huge Winter Puzzle resource includes 16 Mystery Picture Puzzles.

• All the puzzles come in color and black and white versions.
• Each puzzle picture is a fun photo of a Winter theme. 

Literacy Picture Puzzles included: 16 in total

• Uppercase Alphabet Recognition (2 puzzles)
• Lowercase Alphabet Recognition (2 puzzles)
• CVC Words (6 puzzles)
• Rhyming Match (3 puzzles)
• Vocabulary (3 puzzles)

How to best use these kindergarten mystery picture puzzles in the classroom:

• These puzzles allow for independent learning as they are SELF-CHECKING.
• This makes these puzzles perfect for early finishers, enrichment opportunities, morning work, or centers. 
• Alternatively, these picture puzzles can be used with small intervention groups to practice specific literacy skills with teacher guidance.

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Transform your classroom's writing sessions with our Daily Writing Prompts for Year 3-6 students, specially designed for the month of December. These writing prompts are meticulously crafted to engage students' creativity and enhance their writing skills through a variety of fun and thought provoking prompts. Ideal for the Daily 5 writing block, this collection offers a seamless integration into your daily routine, ensuring your students have a structured and stimulating writing prompts every day.

Key Features:

• Engaging Writing Prompts: Includes exciting prompts that are themed for the month of December (this is a US version). These prompts are designed to spark imagination and encourage detailed, creative responses from students.
• Versatile Formats: Available in both PowerPoint (and editable) and PDF formats, making it easy to use with different teaching tools and preferences. Whether you're projecting the prompts on a screen or distributing printed copies, we've got you covered.
• Daily 5 Writing Integration: Perfectly aligns with the Daily 5 writing framework, helping students develop their writing skills through consistent practice and varied prompts. Each day's prompt is designed to fit seamlessly into your Daily 5 routine.
• Month Long Coverage: With unique writing prompts, you'll have a fresh and engaging writing activity for every school day in December (plus more!). This ensures your students remain motivated and excited about writing throughout the month.

Benefits:

• Enhances Writing Skills: Regular practice with diverse prompts helps students improve their writing abilities, expand their vocabulary, and develop their storytelling techniques.
• Promotes Creativity: Each prompt is crafted to inspire creativity and critical thinking, allowing students to express themselves freely and imaginatively.
• Easy to Implement: The ready to use PowerPoint and PDF formats make it simple to incorporate into your lesson plans, saving you valuable preparation time.

Perfect for Year 3-6 Students:

These Daily Writing Prompts are tailored specifically for students in years 3-6, ensuring that the content is age-appropriate and engaging for this developmental stage. Whether used as a morning warm up, part of your writing centre, or an end of day activity, these prompts are designed to make writing fun and accessible for all students.

Upgrade your classroom writing sessions with these December Daily Writing Prompts and watch your students' writing skills flourish!

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Want an entire school year of writing prompts for years 3 - 6? Check out this...

Daily Writing Prompts Bundle - An Entire School Year

Are you looking for something fun and different for your students? Maybe you need some extra activities for early finishers...well look no further!

Entertain your class while integrating music and language with Music Wordle! This resources includes 46 Music Wordles that you can assign to your students or play together as a class. You could even hold a competition to see who can solve each Worldle first! There is lots of flexibility on how you can use this resource. I created this in Google Sheets. Your Music Wordle Google Sheet will include links to each of the 46 Music Wordle Puzzles. I've included a solutions tab as well as a table that includes puzzle hints, if you choose to share with your students. Each hyperlink is set up for you to make a copy of the Music World Puzzle before you play.

Four Sets of DBQs and Primary Sources about these World War II topics:

* Home Front
* Victory Gardens
* Japanese-American Internment
* Women in the Military

DBQ and Primary Source Sets

DBQ and Primary Source sets include primary sources with questions, DBQ prompts and Answer Keys. Students have a chance to develop understanding of context, perspective, purpose, audience and context. DBQ prompts prepare them for integration of sources into essay responses. These are excellent ways for students to develop historical thinking skills. APUSH students can benefit from DBQ practice. A Bonus File on "How to Integrate Sources in a DBQ" is included.

Choose which sets to use, or which pages to use. Mix and match or provide different sets to different sets of students.

If you like World War II historical fiction (with some romance!), my book, Hearts at War, highlights the secret and unsung contributions of the Nisei soldiers in the Pacific theater who served as translators and interrogators. Young Adult/Adult/Interracial Romance. Available on Amazon.

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Need to teach tone? Do it in a way your students will immediately understand through greeting cards! This is such a great way to also introduce non-fiction elements such as audience, message, and purpose.

The cards are simple to understand but require a little inferencing too. Using greeting cards means it's a lesson where students can learn and practice quickly.

The lesson has increased complexity, gradual release through group and independent work, and is adapted with a word bank.

What's Included:

• Detailed lesson on what tone is and isn't
• How to identify tone.
• Notes template for students to fill in during the lesson.
• Group practice with explanation.
• Individual practice.
• A two question formative assessment.

NO PREP NEEDED!!

What’s Inside?

- Morse Code Tutorial: A guide to what Morse code is, along with a key, making it easy for students to grasp and use.

- 7 Deciphering Worksheets: Students use their new skills to decode messages that reveal phrases about transportation.

- Interactive Challenges: You can encourage teamwork and competition with timed challenges where groups race to decode messages accurately.

- Answer Key: For quick and easy checking, answer keys are included.

Educational Benefits

- Critical Thinking Enhancement: Decoding messages requires concentration and logical thinking, skills that are beneficial across all areas of study.

- Engagement in Learning: The excitement of cracking codes captures students’ interest and makes learning about history interactive and fun.

Perfect for Various Educational Settings

This activity can be utilized in multiple contexts:

- Technology and Coding Clubs: Offer a unique coding activity.

- After-School Programs: Provide an educational but engaging activity that keeps students learning beyond the classroom

Ready to learn about the American Revolution? This 26 page comic book includes blank templates for students and fact based writing. Covers 1773-1783 and is divided by years. Includes: King George III Stamp Act British Tea Act 13 Colonies British Tea Party and Boston Harbor First Continental Congress George Washington John Adams Declaration of Rights Paul Revere and Midnight Ride American Revolution Battles Minute Men Common Sense by Thomas Paine Declaration of Independence Washington Crossing the Delaware Benjamin Franklin's Trip to France for an Ally Continental Army Treaty with France Yorktown Surrender Treaty of Paris Excellent for introduction, reinforcement, assessment, and for English, Government, and History/Social Studies. Makes learning about the American Revolution fun and interactive! Meets TEKS and CCSS.

FIVE sequencing crafts for five of my favorite Old Lady stories!