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Kindergarten Back to School social studies activities
Behavior Management Green and Red Choices®️ Preschool, Pre-K, and Kindergarten
Red and Green Choices is a GAME CHANGER! It will change the way students act in your classroom! Making choices, how to interact with others, and act/behave is a skill (aka character education) we need to teach just like we need to teach letters and sounds. It takes lots of practice and visual supports for little learners. Included are 34 green choices (good choices) cards and 29 red choices (bad choices) cards. You choose the choices you think will best fit the needs of your class. Use the c
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PreK - 1st
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Also included in: Social Skills (SEL) and Character Curriculum Bundle for Little Learners
First Then Board & Visual Schedule Flipbooks (EDITABLE) for Special Education
If you are looking for an individual schedule book, visual schedules, or a first then board, this Positive Behavior Support resource has it all! Please note: All editable files are compatible with Microsoft PowerPoint. Some pages may now be edited using Google Slides.Included in this download: - 6-tabbed and 2-tabbed flip book options- 200+ visual schedule icons (these are not editable)- First then board (separate from flip book)- First next then board (separate from flip book)- Token boards (wi
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PreK - 2nd
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STEM Bins® Teambuilders for Back to School and End of the Year - STEM Activities
★ GRAB MY NEW STEM BINS TEAMBUILDERS GROWING BUNDLE!★ STEM Bins® Teambuilders are a wonderful way to build your classroom community and allow students to practice and reflect on essential character skills. They are ideal for use at the beginning of the school year as you are introducing STEM Bins to your class, and are also perfect for collaborative STEM activities at the end of the school year. The following STEM Bins® Teambuilders are designed to accompany my STEM Bins® ,found at the following
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PreK - 5th
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All About Me Activities, Graphs, and More for Preschool, Pre-K, and Kindergarten
All About Me is loaded with fun, back to school activities to help your students get to know each other and their teachers during those first few weeks of school! It includes get to know you graphs, class books, posters, and mini books. These exciting activities will help you build a caring classroom community of learners who will support each other all year long! Each activity has a page of teacher tips to help you create the activity easily and ensure it will go smoothly. You can use these
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PreK - K
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Also included in: Social Skills (SEL) and Character Curriculum Bundle for Little Learners
Editable Name Tracing & Writing Practice Activity Worksheets: PreK, Kindergarten
Making name writing practice pages can be tedious and boring, or it can be quick and easy. These EDITABLE ones are a breeze to use! Just type in your class list. 14 different sheets will automatically populate for each student. This packet is perfect for kindergarten teachers! The practice sheets include tracing, coloring, writing, and fine motor activities.They are NO PREP! Just print them once you've entered your class list. They can be used for morning work, seatwork, or homework. You can ev
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PreK - K
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Editable Morning Meeting Daily Slides Activities Digital Resources Morning Work
Are you ready to turn your morning meeting into the best part of your daily routine? Unlock the power of morning meetings with this Editable Morning Meeting Daily Slides & Activity Pages Yearlong Set, designed for K-6 grade. These NO PREP INTERACTIVE EDITABLE morning meeting slides will revive your morning routine in a fun and engaging way. These Editable Morning Meeting Daily Slides are an easy-to-use, time-saving way for you to build a consistent morning routine and a strong classroom co
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K - 6th
Name Tracing Editable Practice, Name Activity, Name Writing Practice Editable
Name Tracing Editable Practice, Name Activity, Name Writing Practice Editable for Preschool and KindergartenHelp your students learn their names with this bundle of over 100+ fun & editable bundle of printables. Easily program your whole class to create custom pages for each of your students. ATTN NEW UPDATE: This bundle has been updated to include a class chart for each set of editable name resources to make it even easier to plug in names and populate throughout!Included in this download:
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PreK - 1st
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Little Learners Science BUNDLE (for preschool, pre-k, and kinder)
Make science FUN and hands on in your classroom using Science for Little Learners Curriculum. It’s low prep and easy for you too!Use a small table or a small bookshelf to create an engaging science center full of hands-on materials for students to explore and investigate using the included printables, vocabulary cards, book, anchor charts, tons of REAL PHOTOGRAPHS, and discovery pages (science journal pages)! Included is a read-aloud book for circle time, anchor charts, and a suggested book list
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PreK - K
All About Me Rainbows Back to School Activities
All About Me Rainbows are a back to school beginning of the year activity perfect for getting to know your students! This beginning of the school year activity will help you {and the class} learn about your new students and make your room bright and colorful.You will find out:how old your students aretheir birthday if they have siblings and their namesif they have pets and their namesfavorite colorfavorite foodwhat they want to be when they grow upfavorite animalfavorite bookfavorite subjectwh
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K - 3rd
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Also included in: Back to School Activities BUNDLE
5 Senses - Science for Little Learners (preschool, pre-k, & kinder)
Make the 5 senses FUN and hands on in your classroom! Use a small table or a small bookshelf to create an engaging science center full of hands on 5 senses materials for students to explore and investigate using the included printables, vocabulary cards, book, anchor charts, and discovery pages (science journal pages)! Included is a read aloud book, My 5 Senses! for circle time, anchor charts, and a suggested book list. There is even a half page note you can send home to families, so they can co
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PreK - K
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Also included in: Preschool, Pre-K, and Kindergarten Complete Curriculum BUNDLE
Feelings Emotions Unit (SEL) for Preschool, Pre-K, and Kindergarten
Feelings and Emotions SEL unit is loaded with fun activities to teach and build your student's emotional vocabulary and social skills. It includes posters/cards, a graph, feeling wheels, emotions write the room, and real feeling photographs. These fun feelings and emotion activities will help you build a caring classroom community of learners who will support each other all year long! The activities have a page of teacher tips and/or photographs to help you create the activity easily. You can
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PreK - 1st
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Also included in: Social Skills (SEL) and Character Curriculum Bundle for Little Learners
Kindergarten Alphabet Activities Centers Worksheets Crafts Prek Preschool Pre-K
This complete alphabet bundle has everything you need to teach students letter names, letter sounds, fine motor skills, handwriting and so much more! This bundle is geared towards preschool, pre-k, transitional kindergarten and kindergarten students. Children love to make alphabet crafts, anchor charts, mazes, dabbing, alphabet drawings, cut and paste activities, worksheets and play alphabet games.This bundle comes with 11 activity packs that are engaging for students and low prep for you! Thi
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PreK - 1st
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Fire Drill Routine, Book, & Posters
Fire Drill book and routine posters! Fire drills can be scary for younger students. It’s loud and there are kids everywhere! I hope this helps make fire drills less scary and manageable for your students.At the beginning of the year, I will read this book a few times and then we will practice the fire drill before it happens. This book explains what to expect during a fire drill, what a fire drill will look like and sound like, and that it is NOT real (even if there are firefighters there).Extra
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PreK - K
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Also included in: Social Skills (SEL) and Character Curriculum Bundle for Little Learners
Map Skills- Reading a Map and Activities
✅⭐️Are you studying maps in your primary classroom? If so, then you will love this all inclusive NO PREP set! Not only does it go over cardinal directions and how to read a map, it also reviews parts of a map such as the map key, title, and compass rose. It is a perfect lesson to include in your social studies geography unit!⭐Please know that this resource is a PDF. It is great for distance learning if you are sending home packets or are able to transfer it to Google Slides™ to use in Google Cla
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K - 5th
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All About Me Pennant
Have students create this pennant at the beginning of the year as a great get to know me activity. I plan to laminate them and hang them up in a banner style in the front of my class. The pennant is made to be printed on 8 1/2" x 11" paper.For an online version to use with Google Classroom follow this link: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/All-About-Me-Pennant-Google-Slides-Version-for-Distance-Learning-5645304
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K - 6th
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First Grade Math Centers: Number Sense, Counting Forward, Ten Frames (and more!)
Number Sense fun in this differentiated JAM-PACKED unit filled with 247 pages of everything you need to introduce numbers at the beginning of the first grade year. This pack covers 4 main standards/concepts: counting to 120, reading and writing numbers to 120, counting forward from any number and ten frames / twenty frames. It includes super fun math centers, differentiated worksheets and activities, materials, assessments, games, and more!See TONS of REAL PICTURES of this unit here: Building Nu
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K - 1st
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School Rules Pocket Chart Sort | Back to School | Beginning of the Year Activity
This beginning of the year or first day of school pocket chart sort is perfect for introducing your classroom and school rules to your students. This back to school pocket chart sort comes with 48 school rule cards. You will work with your students to sort the cards into good choices and sad choices in a pocket chart. I have also included 4 independent practice printables that the kiddos use to sort behaviors of the classroom, playground, hallway, and school bus. Many teachers tell me that they
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PreK - 1st
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EDITABLE NAME TRACING & WRITING PRACTICE WORKSHEETS MORNING WORK ACTIVITY KINDER
EDITABLE NAME TRACING AND WRITING WORKSHEETS FOR KINDERGARTEN AND PRESCHOOL (INCLUDES I CAN WRITE MY NAME)Are you looking for custom name worksheets for your kids to practice and master their names? Look no further! This name practice pack is editable and provides 3 different tracing sheets. Create practice sheets for your whole class (maximum of 30 students) in a few minutes. All you need to do is fill a table (with students' names only and all the pages will be generated for you! Viola! Y
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PreK - 1st
Kindergarten Morning Work - Kindergarten Writing Prompts - Google Slides + More
These easy-to-follow Kindergarten morning work slides will save you so much time and cultivate writing skills and creativity in your students. Engage them in productive activities right from the start of the day! These interactive slides make morning work a breeze for both teachers and students alike, ensuring an engaging start to every kindergarten morning.*****The best part? No more rushed morning trips to the copier!*****✋ Teachers, here's the deal. If you’re sick of mornings feeling chaotic
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PreK - K
First Week of School Plans | Kinder or First Grade | Beginning of Year
Need your first week of school planned for you? These lessons and activities for the first week of first grade or kindergarten are super engaging and low-prep and perfect for back to school! It's important to begin setting clear expectations, creating a classroom community, and teaching rules and procedures right away on day one. Doing this will help you and your students have a smooth year together! With so many things to think about while you're getting ready for a new group of littles, it's s
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K - 1st
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Also included in: First Grade Resources Bundle- 40 Resources Included!
KinderSurvival: Kindergarten Back to School Curriculum
What is KinderSurvival?
KinderSurvival Curriculum is a week long program designed to assist teachers in their first week of kindergarten. The saying goes, “Get them fed and get them home and that’s a successful first day of kindergarten!” Well, we know that there is so much more than that going into a successful first day and week. This program was designed by a teacher, for a teacher in hopes that all necessary material could be found in one document. Furthermore, that all material could be
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K
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First Week of Kindergarten First Day Lesson Plans Back to School Activities
The first day and first week of kindergarten can be overwhelming for students AND teachers! Save time and make the first week back to school a BREEZE with planned-for-you activities, lesson plans, classroom management tips, and visuals. Use the time you save planning to focus on setting your students up for success. Get ready to become Kindergarten Experts together! What You Get: First Week of Kindergarten scripted lesson plans (5 days worth) Beginning of the year activities - for ALL subjects
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K
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Social Skills (SEL) and Character Curriculum Bundle for Little Learners
Social skills (SEL) are essential skills that teachers need to teach just like they need to teach letters and sounds. It is a life skill! The social skills units in this bundle include tons of visual supports, classroom routines, social stories, songs, engaging activities, vocabulary building, booklists, specific SEL lesson plans, positive notes, and much more. Create a classroom community of confident students who can solve problems, follow rules and routines, be kind to others, have empathy to
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PreK - 1st
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Chicka Chicka Boom Boom Activities EDITABLE Name Writing Practice + Hat
$1 STEAL through Monday only! Your students will LOVE celebrating their names with these Chicka Chicka Boom Boom activities and name hats. These editable name worksheets and practice activities are perfect for Kindergarten, Pre-K, and Preschool students at the beginning of the year (or anytime)!This resource includes 5 editable name activities perfect for back to school name practice. Type your class list in once and the rest will auto-fill! You will need Adobe, which is a free program, to edit
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PreK - K
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Importance of learning social studies
Social studies offers valuable insights into history, geography, and much more. Social studies captivates students by providing them with perspectives from the past, present, and future, allowing them to understand history and navigate current events. It enables them to appreciate how previous generations have shaped their present reality. In essence, social studies opens their eyes to the vastness of life beyond their immediate surroundings.
Benefits of learning social studies
Learning social studies offers many benefits to students in terms of helping them develop a holistic understanding of the world. Namely, it helps them:
- Learn about the achievements, challenges, perspectives, traditions, and customs of different societies
- Evaluate information, analyze evidence, and make informed judgments about complex social, economic, and political issues
- Become active, responsible, and engaged citizens
- Comprehend global issues such as human rights, environmental sustainability, and economic disparities
By teaching social studies, teachers can help students develop critical thinking skills, foster civic engagement, and promote social awareness and responsibility.
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On TPT, social studies resources come in various formats, from worksheets to interactive notebooks to units. They can be used to enhance learning, assess a student’s mastery of social studies concepts, or to reteach a tricky topic. With plenty of TPT resources at your fingertips, teaching and learning social studies will be so much easier.
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If you’re a teacher or parent looking for printable or digital social studies resources, TPT has an extensive array of instructional materials for every learning need, topic, or grade level. Whether you’re teaching students about America’s democratic process, the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., how to read maps, or World War II, we’ve got you covered.
Social studies resources on TPT offer informative lessons, engaging texts, intriguing facts, interactive puzzles, and enjoyable trivia games. These grade-specific resources ensure that all students can access age-appropriate materials that stimulate their minds and enhance their creative thinking abilities.
For instance, first graders can explore worksheets on senses and emotions, followed by a coloring page featuring Harriet Tubman. Older students can test their knowledge with quizzes on statistics and capital cities, then delve into the history of the Underground Railroad through an informational sheet or enjoy a word search focused on civil rights leaders. With such a wide variety of subjects and topics covered, our social studies pages provide endless opportunities for students to explore the world in captivating ways.
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