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Winter social studies Common Core RI.K.9 resources
Celebrations & Holidays Around the World Lessons, Crafts, Passages - Christmas
Are you looking to teach your students about celebrations and holidays around the world? This unit includes a study of 16 different celebrations and holidays around the world, where you and your students will “travel around the world” and see how other countries celebrate holidays. These holidays around the world crafts, passages, powerpoints and response pages will help your students have a better understanding of the world and the many cultures around the globe. You can use the PowerPoint wi
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K - 1st
December: All About Snow (Made For Me Literacy)
Our December Made For Me Literacy unit is all about snow! Gabrielle Dixon from Teaching Special Thinkers and I have collaborated to bring you a literacy curriculum that spans multiple subject areas, including reading, writing, math, science, and cooking!You can grab the Growing Bundle here.Included in each monthly unit:• One fiction and non-fiction Story Time Packs • Interactive comprehension assessments (printable and electronic files included)• Low-prep anchor charts• Easy Art Activities • Ada
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PreK - 1st
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Also included in: Made For Me Literacy -- (Level B Bundle 1) Special Education Curriculum
NATIVE AMERICAN THEMATIC UNIT
A fun, engaging way to learn all about the different Native American tribes is by using this Native American Social Studies Unit!This product includes a variety of resources while teaching a Native American thematic unit. Resources are included for social studies, read aloud lessons, whole group or small group instruction, as well as, literacy and math centers!THIS RESOURCE INCLUDES:Science/Social Studies Lesson Plans Use these lesson plans to GUIDE your thematic Native American unit. Native A
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PreK - 2nd
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Winter Animals Who Hibernate or Migrate - Hibernation Migration
Your students will have so much fun learning about what bears, chipmunks, butterflies, geese, snails, humpback whales and bumblebees do to prepare for winter. We study animals who migrate and animals who hibernate. These activities are perfect for kindergarten, first or second grade students. WINTER ANIMAL ACTIVITIES8 Animal Reading Passages We study four animals that hibernate and four animals that migrate (chipmunk, bear, bumblebee, snail, goose, monarch butterfly, humpback whale and penguin
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K - 2nd
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SPACE AND SOLAR SYSTEM SCIENCE ACTIVITIES AND LESSON PLANS FOR KINDERGARTEN
Ignite curiosity and spark imagination as your kindergarteners learn about all things space! These well thought out activities focus on various topics about our solar system. Use the detailed lesson plans and suggested read alouds to help guide your instruction! The whole group activities are a great way to tie in literacy and science. Use the literacy and math centers during your small group teaching time.What's Included:Whole Group Lessons: This unit includes five days of whole group activitie
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K - 1st
Also included in: THEMATIC UNIT ACTIVITIES FOR LITTLE LEARNERS | GROWING BUNDLE
Presidents’ Day Unit with Slideshow – All About Washington and Lincoln
This Presidents’ Day unit is packed full of learning and fun! Complete with an informational PowerPoint about Presidents’ Day, George Washington, and Abraham Lincoln, a tricorn and stovepipe hat project, and lots of printable materials, this set will turn your students into little historians. With eye-catching display materials including headers for several anchor charts along with colorful vocabulary word wall cards, children will have what they need to read, talk, and write about two important
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K - 1st
Penguins Informational Text Lessons - Nonfiction Text Features, Comprehension
This "Penguins" printable or digital interactive read-aloud lesson plan pack includes rigorous text dependent questions, differentiated graphic organizers, response to text writing activities, a craftivity, and detailed lesson plans. These Penguins activities will help you meet several core standards while maintaining your tradition of reading aloud for pleasure. You will guide students to use evidence from the text to deepen their understanding about Penguins and respond in meaningful ways. The
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K - 1st
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Animal Research Project - Penguins Differentiated Texts - Leveled Readers
Start an animal research project on Penguins. These fun and engaging printable texts are resources that your young researchers will actually be able to read! Each text type has differentiated levels to support every reader in your class.This text pack includes everything your students need to complete a research project on penguins.Full-Color Penguin Texts• Leveled student readers (4 levels)• Mentor texts (2 versions)• Penguin labeled diagrams (3 versions)• Post cards (4 levels)• Trading cards
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K - 3rd
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POLAR ANIMALS THEME ACTIVITIES FOR PRESCHOOL, PRE-K AND KINDERGARTEN
It's winter and time to learn all about polar animals! This science based unit ties science, math and literacy together and provides you with tons of activities about polar animals for an entire week of instruction!Use the detailed lesson plans to guide you through five days of polar animals lessons and activities. A list of preferred picture books is included to tie in with each activity. Your learners will explore facts about polar bears and penguins. They will get to see what blubber does up
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PreK - K
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K-ESS2-2
, K-LS1-1
Also included in: THEMATIC UNIT ACTIVITIES FOR LITTLE LEARNERS | GROWING BUNDLE
AMERICA PRESIDENT'S THEME ACTIVITIES | AMERICAN SYMBOLS | KINDER AND FIRST GRADE
Looking for engaging activities to celebrate President's Day? A full week of activities is here at your fingertips!Use the detailed lesson plans to guide you through five days of lessons that focus on the importance of the US President. A list of preferred picture books is included to tie in with each activity. Activities cover George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, American symbols and much more!Add the American themed literacy and math centers to your plans to guarantee student engagement while y
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K - 1st
Also included in: THEMATIC UNIT ACTIVITIES FOR LITTLE LEARNERS | GROWING BUNDLE
Library Research | The Ultimate BUNDLE
Scaffold student learning throughout grades K-5 with these research projects for elementary library classes! Your students will develop their research, writing, and technology skills beginning in Kindergarten and progressing through 5th grade. Help your students progress in their mastery of research skills in elementary school! Each grade builds upon skills learned in previous years.Included in this ultimate bundle of resources:ANIMAL RESEARCH K-5 BUNDLE:Guide your students in an engaging anima
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K - 5th
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Community: Reading Comprehension, Writing and Craftivities
Read and Respond to your Favorite Picture Books!Do you love reading picture books to your class and need follow up activities? Try this Community: Read and Respond Pack. It is the perfect way to strengthen comprehension and writing skills along with some fun craftivities to keep your kids engaged! Download the preview for the complete table of contents to see which activities/skills are included with each book.Features: • Activities for 5 Picture Books: Career Day by Anne Rockwell, Clothe
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PreK - 2nd
Also included in: November: Reading Comprehension, Writing and Craftivities BUNDLE
Snow Kindergarten NO PREP Winter Weather Printables
This unit contains both a printable packet version AND individual JPEG files for each document so that you can easily upload to Google Classroom. Since they are in JPEG format, students should be able to write on the documents in Google Classroom.Check out these full unit and year long bundles below!Whole Year Bundle!Unit 1Unit 2Unit 3Unit 4Unit 5Unit 6Journey into reading with this NO PREP packet of literacy printables that can be used in so many ways. You can use it for reading and writing cen
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PreK - 1st
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Also included in: Take a Reading Journey Kindergarten Unit 3 NO PREP BUNDLE
Christmas Around the World Germany - German Christmas Craft and Activities
Are you looking to teach your students about Christmas in Germany? This unit includes a study of German Christmas, where you and your students will “travel the world” and discover how people in Germany celebrate the holidays.This unit includes a craft, reading passage, powerpoint file (with real world images) and response pages to help your students have a better understanding of the world and the many cultures around the globe. This German Christmas study includes:A PowerPoint with REAL image
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K - 1st
FREE January Lesson Plans for Kindergarten - Curriculum Map - Homeschool
I am excited to share my free lesson plans with you! This month we are blending and segmenting CVC words - focusing on middle sounds, writing expository how-to pieces, reading and writing about winter, working on our fluency and comprehension, learning about how animals migrate and hibernate in the winter time, and we are diving into measurement, data and graphing in math. These lesson plans will take the guess work out of what standards and activities you should be teaching this month in kinder
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PreK - 1st
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Winter Activity Bundle - Writing, Math, Literacy and more!
Are you looking for fun and engaging activities for winter? This bundle of activities has everything you need for a fun-filled winter season with your students! This winter activity bundle comes complete with thematic activities for polar bears, penguins, and snowmen as well as color-by-code activities, winter bookmarks, winter BINGO and a winter bulletin board set! This bundle is truly all in one and has everything you need to keep your students engaged in hands-on learning all through the wint
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K - 1st
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K-LS1-1
, 1-LS3-1
Introduction to Bering Land Bridge - Theories of Migrating to the Americas
Introducing our new Introduction to the Bering Land Bridge Theory, Migration, Geography and Ice Age product! With this curriculum, your students will gain an in-depth understanding of the Bering land bridge and its impact on human and animal migration. The curriculum includes three pages of informational text, a color by number page to help students visualize the geography of the Bering land bridge, and a note page with answers. The curriculum is designed to be accessible to both high school and
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6th - 12th
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Also included in: Hominin Evolution | Human Evolution Complete Lesson GROWING BUNDLE!
Transportation: Land, Air and Sea Picture Sort Graph Activity for RI.K.7,RI.K.9
Get a new teacher mug! https://artbytheodora.etsy.comThis store offers a Teacher Rewards Program. Buy any 9 products during a school year (August to June) and get the 10th product of your choice free. Send a DM (direct message) anytime.Topic of Activity: Transportation: Land, Air and SeaTheme: TransportationSubjects: Writing + Social StudiesActivity: Picture Sort Chart Graphing ActivitySkills Developed: *Students develop fine motor skills through cutting and gluing.*Students develop organization
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January - May BUNDLE Kindergarten Math and Literacy Printables
This unit contains both a printable packet version AND individual JPEG files for each document so that you can easily upload to Google Classroom. Since they are in JPEG format, students should be able to write on the documents in Google Classroom.To find our WHOLE YEAR literacy bundle, CLICK HERE!This bundle contains over 200 printables - January, February, March, April, and May. All are for kindergarten and get progressively more difficult with each month. Each month contains at least twenty li
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PreK - 1st
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Food Culture and Cultural Geography - Sorting Mats & Activities!
Explore the rich tapestry of global food culture and cultural geography with "Food Culture and Cultural Geography," a captivating unit study designed to foster hands-on learning and deepen students' understanding of diverse cultures around the world. Perfect for diverse learners, this comprehensive resource offers a variety of activities tailored to accommodate different learning styles and abilities.Key Features:Sorting mats provide hands-on learning opportunities for students of all ages and a
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PreK - 12th
Also included in: Wings of Fire Book 1 Novel Study and Food Geography Bundle
Cut and Paste Bundle
For more information visit: http://www.layercakelessons.com/cutandpasteworksheets/
A full year's worth of Cut and Paste Activities covering every single Common Core Reading and Math Standard for Kindergarten!
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PACKS IN THIS BUNDLE
Back to School Cut and Paste
Autumn Cut and Paste
Winter Cut and Paste
Spring Cut and Paste
End of Year Cut and Paste
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PreK - 1st
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Black Bear Nonfiction Reader/Emergent Reader
This includes a teacher copy which is a color copy, a student book that is also color or you can choose from two black and white versions. One simple black and white or a fill in vocabulary words version. It is an easy reader to allow students to become acquainted with brown bears and vocabulary words associated with brown bears.
I have student interact with the story by having them read and color in the pictures the appropriate color. Students also highlight specific words we are studying.
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PreK - 2nd
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Architecture Around the World: Designing from A-Z! Coloring Book by Xena Stryker
Embark on a vibrant journey across the globe with "Architecture Around the World: Designing from A-Z!" This breathtaking coloring book invites you to explore and reimagine iconic landmarks while learning about the creatives that designed them. Featuring meticulously hand-drawn illustrations, this coloring book captures the essence of architectural marvels from every corner of the world. From the soaring heights of the Eiffel Tower to the intricate patterns of the Taj Mahal, each page unveils a n
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PreK - 6th
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K-2-ETS1-2
, MS-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-ESS3-1
, 5-ESS3-1
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Holidays Around the World Israel - Hanukkah Lesson and Activities, Menorah Craft
Are you looking to teach your students about Hanukkah? Check out this holidays around the world unit that includes a study of the geography and holiday customs and traditions in Israel.This unit includes a craft, reading passage, powerpoint file (with real world images) and response pages to help your students have a better understanding of the world and the many cultures around the globe. This Hanukkah study includes:A PowerPoint with REAL images A Passport with stamps for IsraelPieces to cre
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K - 1st
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