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1st grade Christmas-Chanukah-Kwanzaa social studies internet activities
Maps and Globes - 7 Continents and Oceans- Landforms Map Skills Activity
This interactive and engaging resource will help your students learn all about Map Skills, Globes, Continents, Landforms, and Communities! These Map Skills activities will not only have your students learning the importance of locating on places on maps and globes, they’ll also be learning about constructing and reading a simple map, using cardinal directions and identifying map symbols. Lastly, they'll also compare and contrast basic land use in urban, suburban, and rural environments.This Maps
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1st - 3rd
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Landforms Digital Activities for Google Slides™
Make learning about geography come to life with this landforms unit for young learners! Your students will have the opportunity to explore the major landforms that shape our Earth in a fun and engaging way... and all digitally! The best part: it is paperless, no-prep and Google™ saves student's work automatically.Included are the following landform activities:1. A Virtual Field Trip consisting of 14 major landforms (using links to Google Earth™):beachcanyondeserthill island lakemountain ocean pl
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1st - 3rd
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Also included in: Landforms Print & Digital Activities BUNDLE
Christmas Games Would You Rather | This or That | Holiday Brain Break
Get your students moving, having fun, and continue building your classroom community with these fun THIS or THAT slides! Each slide includes real photographs and hand signals to represent each choice. This game is perfect for a Christmas Party, Winter Party, or a quick brain break during the entire month of December.Includes 50 slidesUse in PowerPoint or Google Slides
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1st - 3rd
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Map Skills Digital Activities for Google Slides
Learning about map skills is super fun when using Google Classroom and Google Slides. In this resource, students have fun identifying, sorting and labeling maps, globes, landforms, bodies of water, cardinal directions and more! These activities can easily be separated and assigned over several lessons.Activities included in these Map Skills Google Slides:- Four slides introducing, sorting, identifying and recognizing uses for maps and globes.- Four slides introducing, sorting, identifying and la
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K - 2nd
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Also included in: Map Skills Printable and Digital Bundle of Activities
Holidays Around the World Unit, Books, Research, Crafts
Holidays Around the World and Christmas Around the World is a great way to introduce your students to different cultural celebrations! This Holidays Around the World unit will take your class to 13 different countries! Distance learning? No problem! Digital holidays around the world options are included preloaded for Google Slides™ and Seesaw™! You can even spread this unit out through the year as holidays come up.You will begin by making your Holidays Around the World suitcase and passport. Thi
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K - 3rd
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Christmas Junior Reading Comprehension Mystery - Santa's Smashed Sleigh
This Christmas Junior Reading Mystery, Santa's Smashed Sleigh, is a fun way to incorporate reading comprehension, spelling, and the start of learning the art of deductive reasoning. Calling all student detectives to help Santa figure out who smashed his sleigh!The Case of Santa's Smashed Sleigh is one of the mysteries in my 'Junior Reading Mystery - Once Upon a Crime' series. It is structured and packaged differently from my more challenging Once Upon a Crime Reading Mysteries. The mysteries in
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1st - 2nd
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12 Days of Christmas Countdown - Christmas Activities Print and Digital
These are the original 12 Days of Christmas Countdown activities for the classroom! This HUGE DIGITAL and PRINTABLE 12 Days of Christmas bundle includes Christmas activities that will save your sanity during the weeks leading up to Christmas Break.This bundle is packed full of Christmas-themed digital and printable activities. Each themed set contains a variety of educational, engaging, seasonal activities that cover reading, writing, and math standards. Here are the themes you will find in ou
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1st - 3rd
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Holiday Christmas Theme Day Elf, Reindeer, Candy Cane, Santa, Tree, Gingerbread
Are you trying to find a way to keep your student's engaged and learning? Themed days may be just for you. I am so excited to use these PAPER HOLIDAY THEME activites in December. This bundle includes elf, reindeer, candy cane, Santa, Christmas Tree and gingerbread activities. Each day provides letters to send home, banners, literature activities for the book of your choice, writing extensions, crafts, word work activities, scoots, math games and activities, and so much more. With the holiday ex
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K - 2nd
Christmas Craft for Speech Therapy: Santa Sequencing Categories Articulation
Looking for a fun Christmas Santa speech therapy craft to use in your therapy room? This low prep engaging and fun Christmas speech therapy craft is just what you need to motivate your students to work on their speech goals. This Christmas craft will target articulation and language goals for all of your speech therapy groups from kindergarten through fourth grade. articulation targets language targets 10 words for every sound in the initial, medial and final position of words images and words i
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K - 3rd
Christmas Speech Therapy Activity Reindeer Articulation and Language Worksheets
Looking for a fun Christmas reindeer speech therapy activity to use in your therapy room? This engaging and interactive Christmas activity is just what you need to motivate your students to work on their speech goals. This fun Christmas activity will target articulation and language goals for all of your speech groups from kindergarten through fourth grade. articulation targets language targets 4 words for every sound in the initial, medial and final position of words images and words in print
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K - 3rd
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Also included in: Seasonal Articulation and Language Speech Therapy Craft BUNDLE
Map Skills Worksheet Me On The Map Activities First Grade Kindergarten
Get K-1 kids excited about map skills and geography with this hands-on social studies bundle. Includes neighborhood map activities, reading & following map directions, compass rose, map key, & Me On The Map activities kids will love!Take your students on a journey as they learn all about how to use maps! Students will have the opportunity to: make their own 3-dimensional mapsfollow a route through a neighborhood, a zoo, and help find a lost doguse a compass rose to follow directions on a
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K - 2nd
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1st Grade Math Science Social Studies Boom Cards™ BUNDLE for Distance Learning
These 1st Grade Math, Science, and Social Studies Boom Cards™ were made to make practicing skills engaging and fun for young students. This bundle includes 34 Boom Card™ decks. These were made with first grade students in mind, but you can adapt it to your lessons to review the skills with second graders or to challenge high level kindergartners. Digital Centers are a great way for you to allow students to review and have enrichment during small group instruction or distance learning. Using th
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1st
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Rooted in Reading Christmas Lesson Plans for Dasher with Reindeer
Dasher by Matt Tavares is a wonderful story for the Christmas season. It is a beautiful story about how Santa got his reindeer! We also pair with this a nonfiction reader for reindeer and bison. This unit encompasses everything you need for a week of Reading instruction (Comprehension, Nonfiction Connection, and Vocabulary). Check out the preview to see the different activities we have included.The best part?! This teaching resource is DIGITAL and PRINTABLE! That means it can be used in a tr
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1st - 3rd
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7 Continents Virtual Field Trips Bundle
This BUNDLE includes 7 Virtual field Trips for your students, one to each of the 7 continents! Look at the previews for more detailed information about what each virtual experience includes!What Are You Purchasing? When you purchase and download this product, you will receive PDFs with clickable link to each Google Slides™ presentation. Once you click on each link, you will be directed to make a copy of the presentation in Google Slides™. You will also receive a printable scavenger hunt page as
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PreK - 3rd
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National Parks Virtual Field Trip BUNDLE - Fun Friday Brain Break Activity
Take your students on a virtual field trip to 10 national parks! This bundle includes ten virtual field trips, one for each of the featured national parks. ⭐Internet access is required to use this resource.Each virtual field trip includes:A brief PowerPoint/Google Slides presentation (23-25 slides, including title page, section dividers, and numerous brainstorming slides):Basic information about the national parkLinks to 360° photos of 6 points of interest in the parkLink to explore a place in t
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K - 4th
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Build a Reindeer Addition & Subtraction Christmas Math Game - Holiday Activity
This fun and engaging addition and subtraction within 20 Christmas math game works will all interactive whiteboards (Smart Board, Promethean, Mimio), tablets and computer stations. A perfect game to use as a math center, for a whole class collaboration activity or for individual play while distance learning. With nearly 300 questions and many different dress up items, your students will never get tired of practicing math. Note: An internet connection is required to play this game. For in-class l
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K - 1st
Christmas Math Craft and Activity | Shape Santa | December Math
Wanting to celebrate Christmas and tackle a little math in the classroom?! Students create a Santa made from different 2D shapes. As students make their Santas, students analyze the attributes of the shapes.This Shape Santa packet has two different Santa options! Here's what is included:-Santa templates that can be printed on colored paper-Santa blacklines that can be printed and colored (one sheet each)-Recording Sheets with different optionsSanta with Full Body Shapes: Triangle, Hexagon, Re
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1st - 3rd
American Flag & U.S. Patriotic Symbols Virtual Field Trip Flag Day Memorial Day
Looking for an activity about the American flag & patriotic symbols? Let your students take a Virtual field trip using technology! Using this digital resource, your students will learn all about the Flag, Liberty Bell, Statue of Liberty, Bald Eagle, and Star Spangled Banner. It's a great way to supplement or give your students additional background for your Social Studies or Reading lessons. This google slides resource features two digital picture choice boards with over 20 links to engagin
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PreK - 2nd
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Directed Drawings for Christmas | Draw Santa, Gingerbread, Elves, Tree, Stocking
Directed Drawings are the perfect activity for December. Students can draw Santa, a reindeer, an elf, a stocking, a Christmas tree, a gingerbread friend, and a gingerbread house. Each drawing has a writing activity to pair with it. These are perfect for centers, early finishers, or space fillers!- 7 drawings (there are 2 extra this month!)- Picture Directions for each drawing- Writing Sheets for each drawing- Drawing sheets are included with the drawing steps and a space to draw.- All Drawing
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1st - 3rd
Also included in: Directed Drawings Yearlong Bundle for Fall, Winter, Spring, and Summer
December Christmas Math and Literacy Boom Cards
This December NO PREP Packet is filled with Boom Cards to fill your math and word work centers all month. Celebrate Christmas in a digital way! This resource includes 6 Boom Decks. Identifying the Beginning Sound of CVC words, Reading CVC Words, Building Sight Words, Addition and Subtraction, Number Order, Using Graphs to Classify Data. Make sure to click the links in the preview to give it a try.⭐⭐⭐This is part of a $$$ saving Year Long Bundle⭐⭐⭐Watch my Boom Video to learn moreTry this engagin
Digital Grinch Day Party Activities l Google Slides
Don't let all your favorite traditions disappear during this school year! Host the ultimate Grinch Day with this party pack. During your class Zoom call, play games with your students including Bingo and an Obstacle Course. No worries if you can't get to everything during your Zoom call because everything is shareable via Google Slides! After Zooming, there are more party activities for your students to enjoy throughout the school day including writing activities, STEM challenges, art activities
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K - 3rd
Types of Communities - Urban, Suburban, Rural Communities
These digital Types of Communities activities are easy to use as traditional classroom lesson plans, centers, homework, independent work, or they’re great for fast finishers in first and second grades. Busy teachers love these low-prep lessons and activities that are sure to engage their students! With print & digital options, Learning Quests provide a balance of face to face and device-based learning styles for your modern classroom.Why do teachers and students love our Learning Quests?We a
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1st - 2nd
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Virtual Field Trip to the North Pole, Christmas Party Fun, Google Slides
Looking for fun and easy Christmas party ideas? Why not take your kiddos on a virtual field trip to the North Pole where they will make 10 fun stops, filled with fun and learning, in their effort to help Santa find his lost reindeer.Kids will enjoy playing a reindeer game, learning how toys are made, going for a sleigh ride, eating Christmas cookies, doing a candy cane challenge, writing a letter to Santa and more! CHECK OUT THE PREVIEW TO SEE A LIST OF ALL ACTIVITIES!Activities include songs, a
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PreK - 1st
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Also included in: Christmas Bundle | Holiday Traditions
White House Virtual Field Trip, President's Day Activities, Google Slides
Looking for a fun way to engage students on Election Day or President's Day? Take them on a Virtual Field Trip to the White House that includes 10 fun presidential-themed activities for kindergarten or first grade students. Use the clickable Google Slide to display a fun White House backdrop that allows you to easily access the video and website links. Two versions are included, one with Youtube links and the other with SafeYoutube links.Through this Experience, Kids will enjoy:taking a White Ho
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PreK - 2nd
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Also included in: Virtual Field Trips Set 2 for Zoom or Google Meet | Distance Learning
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