Less than $5 Presidents' Day Resources (by date, oldest first)

This Webquest / Internet scavenger hunt is a perfect one day activity for middle schoolers to learn more about our Presidents and Presidents' Day. This is a fun lesson for technology classes or history classes.

The lesson includes teacher and student resources, the student handout and an answer key. Two versions of the WebQuest are included to let teachers print the questions or to provide them digitally as an interactive page in an editable Microsoft PowerPoint file. Additionally, a word search puzzle with answer key is included, perfect for early finishers or to use as a part of the lesson.

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This lesson is great for distance learning/remote learning. You can upload it to your school's learning management system (Google Classroom, Edmodo, Canvas, etc.) or share with students via Google Drive.

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• Teacher & Student Resources

• WebQuest questions for students - print and digital versions (editable)

• WebQuest Answer Key (non-editable, .pdf)

• Word Search Puzzle with Answer Key

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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:

• Alphabet cards for capital and lowercase letters
• Number cards for numbers 1-20 and number words (coming soon)
• 2 piece alphabet puzzles that match capital and lowercase letters

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 product is included in the following bundle:

Holiday Alphabet Cards and Puzzles Bundle

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.

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:

• Literacy Center
• Morning Tubs or Baskets

Skills Assessed

• Recognizing and identifying capital and lowercase letters
• Matching a capital or lowercase letter to their letter counterpart

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.

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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

• Flash Cards
• Memory Game
• Sand or Salt Tray Cards
• Writing Center Reference Cards
• Place in Alphabetical Order
• Write the room cards

Each word is printed on its own star card for students to use to practice reading, writing and spelling each sight word.

Skills Assessed:

• Reading sight words
• Writing sight words

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

• Flash Cards
• Memory Game
• Sand or Salt Tray Cards
• Writing Center Reference Cards
• Place in Alphabetical Order
• Write the room cards

Each word is printed on its own star card for students to use to practice reading, writing and spelling each sight word.

Skills Assessed:

• Reading sight words
• Writing sight words

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

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:

• There is one sight word card for each sight word on the preprimer sight word list.
• Letter tiles to use while spelling the words.

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

• Literacy Center
• Small Group Activity

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:

• Spelling Sight Words

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

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

• Flash Cards
• Memory Game
• Sand or Salt Tray Cards
• Writing Center Reference Cards
• Place in Alphabetical Order
• Write the room cards

Each word is printed on its own star card for students to use to practice reading, writing and spelling each sight word.

Skills Assessed:

• Reading sight words
• Writing sight words

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

• Flash Cards
• Memory Game
• Sand or Salt Tray Cards
• Writing Center Reference Cards
• Place in Alphabetical Order
• Write the room cards

Each word is printed on its own star card for students to use to practice reading, writing and spelling each sight word.

Skills Assessed:

• Reading sight words
• Writing sight words

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

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

• Flash Cards
• Memory Game
• Sand or Salt Tray Cards
• Writing Center Reference Cards
• Place in Alphabetical Order
• Write the room cards

Each word is printed on its own star card for students to use to practice reading, writing and spelling each sight word.

Skills Assessed:

• Reading sight words
• Writing sight words

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

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

• Flash Cards
• Memory Game
• Sand or Salt Tray Cards
• Writing Center Reference Cards
• Place in Alphabetical Order
• Write the room cards

Each word is printed on its own star card for students to use to practice reading, writing and spelling each sight word.

Skills Assessed:

• Reading sight words
• Writing sight words

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

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

• Flash Cards
• Memory Game
• Sand or Salt Tray Cards
• Writing Center Reference Cards
• Place in Alphabetical Order
• Write the room cards

Each word is printed on its own star card for students to use to practice reading, writing and spelling each sight word.

Skills Assessed:

• Reading sight words
• Writing sight words

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

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

• Flash Cards
• Memory Game
• Sand or Salt Tray Cards
• Writing Center Reference Cards
• Place in Alphabetical Order
• Write the room cards

Each word is printed on its own star card for students to use to practice reading, writing and spelling each sight word.

Skills Assessed:

• Reading sight words
• Writing sight words

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

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

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.

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

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.

Here's a game for President's Day....or any day featuring Abraham Lincoln and George Washington. This game works on money amounts using 1¢, 25¢, $1, and $5. Players move around the board and when they land on selected spaces, must make the amount shown on the card they draw. If desired, you can use play money or the print the money that comes with the game.

Included for This Game:

• Game Board (2 pages)
• Cover/Directions
• 2 Tab Labels (for file folder)
• 24 Money Value Cards
• 12 Blank Cards
• 1 Die (Dice)
• Money (Coins and Bills)

SUGGESTION: Thee game can be mounted inside a file folder and used as a file folder game or printed on card stock and laminated together to make a game board.

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• Two-Page Activity Set – Learn About the U.S. Presidents, with large crossword puzzle about Presidents' lives, small crosswords about earlier careers of Presidents, "Where did they live? quiz, U.S. currency quiz, and aspirational color-in.
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