Where you will find all resources and materials aimed at Early Childhood and Primary/Elementary Education, covering ELA, Science, Math, ESL, Gifted and Talented, STEM Education, and much more!!!
Where you will find all resources and materials aimed at Early Childhood and Primary/Elementary Education, covering ELA, Science, Math, ESL, Gifted and Talented, STEM Education, and much more!!!
This is a simple and easy to use weekly spelling template for students to record 10 weekly spelling words and then write sentences for each.
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This is a brace map of the parts of a pumpkin. A simple cut and paste activity that goes great with a Fall, Halloween, or Pumpkin Life Cycle unit. Please make sure to rate and leave feedback!
This is a fun visual self assessment for young readers. Every time they accomplish a task related to learning to read, they color in a section of the target. Simply print and write the child's name and display where they have access to it. Parts cover:
Standards
RF.K.1d, RF.K.2b, RF.K.2c, RF.K.3
Knowing Uppercase letters by name
Knowing Lowercase letters by name
Knowing all 26 letter sounds
Knowing how to blend sounds together
Knowing sight words
Knowing CVC words
Knowing how to read
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Great writing paper for primary grades with checklist at the bottom for self-assessment.
Checklist includes:
Capitals
Punctuation
Finger Spaces
Read to Myself
Read to a Friend (with space for friend to sign their name)
This is a great activity as a summative assessment for a space unit. The brochure should be folded into thirds, featuring "Space Travel Brochure" as the front. This brochure includes:
What to bring in space? activity where students name 5 things astronauts need, and then will draw lines to match the words to the astronaut picture.
What will we see in space? activity where students will write the names of the 8 planets.
Some planets we will visit are? map where students shall draw the 8 planets and label them in their correct order from the Sun.
There is a sample brochure included for reference. Please make sure to check out my blog and see ideas from my "Space Day".
http://completelykindergarten.blogspot.com/2013/05/sublime-space-unit.html
First I want to make it known that I do not own Elmer. This pack contains my artistic rendering of the wonderful elephant for personal classroom use to aid in teaching the story.
This pack includes:
1 Elmer cut out puppet
My Favorite Elmer Color Graph
Number 1-12 cards with recording sheet
I am Unique Like Elmer writing page
This is a 12 sided dice featuring all 11 of the Prompts of Depth and Complexity, and a Literacy Menu of Responses, including a FREE CHOICE spot. Students can apply this to any book they are reading or working on.
Simply make the dice, and as students roll the dice they answer the question on the menu that relates to the Prompt of Depth and Complexity that they rolled.
These are also great to use in a literacy center.
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A great independent or partner activity to retell the parts of a story. Comes with original clipart characters from my Book Literacy and Activity Packs. Also aligned with Common Core Standards for Kindergarten and 1st Grade.
This packet includes:
1 brick road to be cut and pasted together (laminate for durability)
A set of characters from popular stories, including The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Goldilocks, Gingerbread Man, and Elmer the Elephant.
Students can use the characters and have them walk along the brick road retelling the parts of the story. Great visual to get students focused on this particular element of a story.
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A collection of Pink Chalkboard themed bunting. Great for classroom displays; I personally use them to display my name and grade outside my class, as well as my calendar math wall.
This packet includes:
26 large pink chalkboard bunting letters
26 small pink chalkboard bunting letters
10 large pink chalkboard bunting numbers
10 small pink chalkboard bunting numbers
This is a perfect activity for the beginning of the year, that offers some simple guidance and explanation but also encourages natural inquiry. Students should understand that what they value about being at school by explaining what they feel is most important during their day. Similar to a "taxonomy" pyramid that organizes information based on importance, students will create a list of what they do each day at school, sort it based on the level of importance to them, and then create the pyramid.
Once all pyramids are made, students will look at each others and complete a comparison recording sheet. This is also great at getting students to see how they each value the different parts of the day, and that the importance could be based on personal interests, what they find easy or challenging, or based on their level or creativity/logic.
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This is a set of clipart for use when teaching "Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?" Clipart is for use in personal and commercial use.
The pack includes color and black and white masters:
Brown Bear
Red Bird
Yellow Duck
Blue Horse
Green Frog
Purple Cat
Black Sheep
White Dog
Goldfish
Teacher
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Here is a combined packet of my popular "Life Cycle of a Star" sequencing worksheet, and "Life Cycle of a Star" vocabulary cards.
Buy both together and receive an immediate discount!
Here are the original descriptions of each:
Sequencing Worksheet
When I began teaching my Space Unit for Grade 1, I could not find any activities that depicted the star life cycle. We were trying to make connections to previous life cycles we had learned (butterfly, plant). This is a great activity to do with Early Childhood students. This depicts 5 stages of the Star Life Cycle:
1. Stellar Nebula (creation/birth of a star by gases being pulled together).
2. Average Star (when a star is burning brightest and appears yellow).
3. Red Giant (the star is burning off lots of gas, emitting heat so it appears red).
4. Planetary Nebular (gases are escaping the star and it starts getting smaller).
5. White Dwarf (the last phase before a star dies and it grows very small before losing all of its gas).
My second language learners loved acting out the start life cycle as well:
Pushing hands together and packing them as if they are squeezing the gas together (Stellar Nebula)
Putting their hands by their faces with big eyes and smile to "shine" brightly (Average Star)
Arms out to their sides and stomping their feet like a giant would (Red Giant)
Arms pulling apart from their bodies to simulate the gas leaking out (Planetary Nebula)
Shrinking down to the floor to get really small (White Dwarf)
I have also included a student sample to help illustrate the different phases.
Vocabulary Cards:
It has been so popular that I decided to create some vocabulary cards to support this resource. Each card includes the name of the stage in the life cycle, a hand drawn image, as well as a description of what is happening to the star during that particular stage. Print and laminate for durability.
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This is a great activity for covering a variety of Math outcomes while allowing students to get hands on. It allows students to "battle" M&M's against each other to determine which is the strongest color out of the 6. This packet includes:
Teacher Instructions
Student Packet
Prediction Poster
Informational text and response questions
Students will test their M&M's independently, and then compare results with the rest of the class, using various data recording methods to plot the results.
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This mini book gives students information about the specific body systems, and allows the students to label the body parts. This packet includes:
Cover page
Table of contents
5 pages of information about the body system and illustrations
5 pages of labeling body parts and illustrations
Simply print, and set up in a science center, or do as a whole group lesson. Please make sure to rate and leave feedback!
This is a nice set of apple-themed task cards to support and encourage more speaking and listening in the classroom. Cards can be used during whole group, guided reading, or independent practice with fiction and some non-fiction texts. Each card contains a task that requires students to engage in some form of either speaking or listening. Please make sure to rate and leave feedback, and to check out some of my other great items on TPT!
Task Cards include the following activities:
*Peer Pair Share
*Using Puppets
*Tell Me Why
*Who Am I?
*Magic Mike
*Swap a Scene
*Be the Character
*Teacher Questions
*A Picture's Worth...
*Four Words
*Let's Take a Walk
This is a follow up to my Billy Goats Gruff packet. After such great response to that one, I decided to make a similar one for Goldilocks. This packet includes:
Display Characters (Can be printed in a smaller scale if needed)
Display Bowls and Chairs
Color Themed Vocabulary Words (blue=Baby Bear, yellow=Mama Bear, red=Papa Bear, pink=Goldilocks)
2 Flow Maps, for Goldilocks and the 3 Bears
A Goldilocks WANTED poster and writing activity
My Favorite Character graph and answer sheet
Venn Digram for Goldilocks and the 3 Bears
If you liked my Billy Goat Gruff pack, be sure to check this one out too!
A collection of color posters for display in Arabic. Includes:
Green, Yellow, Orange, Red, Pink, Purple, Blue, Brown, White, Black
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This is a fantastic product to introduce to your STEM students, or eager engineers. Similar to "Story Cubes", these are "STEM Cubes". Students roll all the cubes together, and position them to be face up after rolling. Students will determine which materials they can select, how much of each material, how much time they have to build, and can even be suggested a topic to build. Set these cubes out as an independent center, team building, group work, etc...
***PLEASE NOTE*** You must provide your students with the variety of materials featured on the dice in order for them to complete the task successfully. All materials are easily accessible no matter where you are.
This packet includes:
5 Materials dice (with varying materials)
1 Quantity dice (to declare how much of each material)
1 Minutes dice (to show how much time students have to build)
1 Design dice (with suggestions for students on what to build)
1 Blank Minutes dice (for teachers to choose their own timings)
1 Blank Quantity dice (for teachers to choose their own quantities)
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Another great product to use during your Ocean Unit. A collection of common ocean themed vocabulary words with original clipart work.
This packet includes:
-26 vocabulary words with matching pictures
-3 sorting labels
-1 sorting/recording mat for students to write their answers.
I advise you to laminate this product for durability and reuse.
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This is a great hands on unit for K-2 students that is aligned with ELA CCSS, and Next Generation Science Standards for Engineering & Design. Perfect for an OCEAN UNIT or END OF THE YEAR celebration activity!
Students will complete this 2 part activity to create and test different sand mixtures, then select the best one for building and then build the tallest sand structure they can, culminating with completing the ELA and Math activities. The idea is for students to see different combinations of sand, and to test the strength when building.
***Please note additional materials are needed for this activity***
Play sand, cornstarch, baby oil, shaving cream, flour, water, storage containers with lids.
Standards Covered:
K.MD.A.1, 1.MD.A.2, 2.MD.A.1, 2.MD.A.2, W.K.2, W.K.3, W.K.8, W.1.2, W.1.3, W.1.8, W.2.2, SL.K.1, SL.K.3, SL.K.5, SL.K.6, SL.1.1, SL.1.5, SL.2.1
This packet includes:
Cover Page
Introduction and Set up Page
3 pages of ELA, Math and Next Generation Science Standards for K-2
Lesson Procedure
Building Sandcastles Differentiated Self Assessment
Building Sandcastles Differentiated Writing Extension
Building Sandcastles Sand Mixture Recipes
Building Sandcastles DifferentiatedMath Extensions
Building Sandcastles Differentiated ELA Extensions
Building Sandcastles Real World Extension
Building Sandcastles Banner for classroom display
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