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Kindergarten Christmas-Chanukah-Kwanzaa social studies graphic organizers
Gingerbread Book Comparison, Retelling, and Writing Study Unit
Gingerbread book companion study using the books The Gingerbread Man (by: Karen Schmidt), The Gingerbread Baby, The Gingerbread Girl, The Gingerbread Cowboy, The Gingerbread Bear, The Gingerbread Pirate, The Ninjabread Man, The Gingerbread Boy (by: Paul Galdone), and The Runaway Tortilla. Compare a few or all of the gingerbread books!Compare the books and create a Gingerbread Book comparison chart comparing the characters, and repeated phrase, ending. Use the character cards for each book as you
Grades:
PreK - 1st
Mooseltoe Activities Book Companion Reading Comprehension & Craft Holiday
This fun story written by Margie Palatini is perfect for the month of December. Many reading strategies, writing connections, math games and a fun moose craft are filled in this package. Your students will just love this classic story and enjoy all of the fun resources that are filled inside. There is much to choose from and differentiate for your learners. Newly updated with colorful posters and sorts. Included your will receive:Table of ContentsWriting:To Do ListDecorate a Tree ListDecorate
Grades:
K - 2nd
Also included in: Christmas MEGA Activities BUNDLE Reading Comprehension Writing Crafts
Christmas Reading Activities - 12 Days of Christmas Read-Alouds
These reading activities for 12 popular Christmas picture books are perfect for December! Each book has a few reading response activities to target different reading comprehension skills.Part of a HUGE December bundle, at 45% off for a limited time. Please click here for a look: December/Christmas Activities BUNDLE: 8 packs in one!Fill December with fun while covering many Common-Core reading comprehension and writing standards!This pack includes comprehension and writing activities for 12 popul
Grades:
K - 2nd
Also included in: Christmas Activities Bundle
Christmas Themed Slides Templates for Google Slides: December | Holiday
130+ Google Slides Templates with a Christmas and Holiday Theme perfect to use for December with your kindergarteners, first, second, third, fourth and fifth graders. Google Slides templates are a fun way to present information to your class. You can add text, images, links, etc. to make them fit your classroom needs. ★Please note that these templates are not editable but there are many versions of each and some that have no text heading so you can add your own text/title. The fonts I used have
Grades:
K - 5th
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Community Helpers Unit
This Community Helpers Unit has everything you need to teach your little learners about the people who play important roles in our communities. This Unit has a variety of activities that go into a fun and engaging deep dive into these vital professions, and the best part is that they are all CCSS aligned! What is included?10 mini lessonsWrite the room (editable)Dramatic play centersAnchor chartsCraftsEmergent readersA lapbookSTEM activitiesSight word activitiesClassroom community activitiesCheck
Grades:
PreK - 2nd
Rosa Parks Timeline for Women's History Kindergarten & First Black History
Teaching your students about people who have made a difference? Use this timeline after reading any age appropriate book on Rosa Parks' life! This resource has four facts; just enough for young children in kindergarten & first grade to order. Perfect for Black History Month, Women's History Month or any time of the school year that you want to teach your students about people who have had an impact!Rosa's timeline shows FOUR life events:Rosa went to jailPeople did not use the bus.Rosa did no
Grades:
K - 1st
HOW TO CATCH AN ELF Read Aloud Activities
Give your students a festive and educational activity experience with How to Catch an Elf - the book it! It's a K-1 Literacy Companion that will support the reading and writing partnership by offering a week's work of story sheets that pair directly with the context of this fun read aloud! Post reading, your students will engage in varied literacy activities that pair directly to the text: rhyming, procedural writing, character traits and sequence. Goal of the Book Kit Resource(s):Tying reading
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K - 2nd
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Also included in: Christmas Book Companion Craft BUNDLE
Black History Month Craft Garrett Morgan Activities The Traffic Light Bulletin
This Black History Month Inventors Garrett Morgan craft is an engaging stop light activity! This activity project is simple to make and can be differentiated for the needs of your students! Garrett Morgan is known for inventing the precursor to the yellow wait light and an early gas mask. Students make their own modern day stop lights on a triangular prism and fill the other two sides with information, with different choices so that you can easily switch out the panels for the needs of your s
Grades:
K - 2nd
Olive the Other Reindeer Read Aloud Lesson Plans - Christmas Activities
These Olive the Other Reindeer read aloud activities will teach your preschoolers about the adorable Christmas story, Olive the other Reindeer, with week-long interactive lesson plans and story comprehension activities.Our interactive read-aloud lesson plan is designed to be taught over multiple lessons. This allows students an opportunity to dive deeper into the text, make connections to the characters and events and most importantly, fall in love with the story.Each lesson provides students a
Grades:
K - 2nd
Also included in: December Read Aloud Bundle - Holiday Comprehension Activities
Ruby Bridges Timeline Black Women's History Kindergarten & First
Teaching your students about people who have made a difference? Use this timeline after reading any age appropriate book on Ruby Bridges' life! This resource has four facts; just enough for young children in kindergarten & first grade to order. Perfect for Black History Month, Women's History Month or any time of the school year that you want to teach your students about people who have had an impact!You are receiving a timeline for an event in Ruby Bridges' life.The timeline depicts/tells F
Grades:
K - 1st
Maps and Globes Worksheets - 1st Grade Map Skills - Kindergarten Mapping Skills
Introduce and teach kindergarten and first grade students all about Maps and Globes, Cardinal Directions, Landforms, and Bodies of Water using this fun and engaging geography unit! These map skills worksheets cover landforms, oceans, relative directions, maps, globes, map keys and symbols, compass rose, Venn Diagrams, 24 geography words, and let your students design their own maps. These maps and globes activities are designed to use with ANY social studies curriculum!Students will practice, cre
Grades:
K - 1st
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December NO PREP Printables Packet - Christmas/Holiday Season - First Grade
Get ready for December with this HUGE packet of easy-to-use, no-prep, engaging printables that your little learners will absolutely love! This download covers a wide variety of first grade math and literacy skills with high-quality and efficient learning activities on each of the 100 pages! Perfect for centers, assessment, individual practice, whole-group work, homeschool, and distance learning! Many of the pages can even be turned into interactive worksheets using TpT’s new digital feature!This
Grades:
K - 2nd
Rules and Laws Social Studies Unit
RECENTLY REDONE AND UPDATED! This unit features 5 activities about the rules and laws in our community. It could be used anywhere from Kindergarten up to 2nd or even 3rd grade. Included in this set:
-Posters with definitions
-Rules and laws bubble map- Students give several examples of each
-Writing piece- What would your community be like without laws?
-Rules and laws tree map- Cut and sort pictures of laws and rules.
-Rules at home, rules at school, and laws flipbook.
Grades:
K - 3rd
Also included in: Social Studies Curriculum Bundle
Gingerbread Man Story Elements Mini-Pack Characters Setting Problem Solution
This includes a differentiated Gingerbread Story Elements activity for the book The Gingerbread Man by Jim Aylesworth: 3 levels to target the needs of your students * Level 1- Students draw characters and setting, and write problem and solution **Level 2- Students cut and glue sentences, then illustrate ***Level 3- Students cut and glue pictures, then color inFor the whole pack, which includes many more differentiated activities, click here:Gingerbread Man Mega-PackHappy holidays!Visit my s
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K - 2nd
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Gingerbread Cowboy Gingerbread Pirates and Gingerbread Boy in the City
This Gingerbread set includes activities to go along with The Gingerbread Cowboy by Janet Squires, Gingerbread Pirates by Kladstrup and The Gingerbread Boy by Richard Egielski. The primary focus in these stories is sequencing and comparing and contrasting. There are anchor charts included, lesson plan guides, comprehension activities, writing, crafts and more. This unit can be used for distance learning and google classroom with the new TpT digital tool. Please note that this is part of a larger
Grades:
K - 3rd
Also included in: Gingerbread Activities BUNDLE Boy Man Girl Baby Friends Cowboy Pirate
Presidents Day Activities George Washington & Abraham Lincoln Craft Kindergarten
These Presidents Day activities set you up to teach all about George Washington and Abraham Lincoln! Your Kindergarten-second grade learners will use timelines, mini-books, graphic organizers, a Presidents' Day poem, a game, and crafts are all included! You are able to teach about each of them independently and then compare and contrast them. Inside you will find:Abraham Lincoln Teaching PosterGraphic OrganizersAbraham Lincoln Mini-Book Abraham Lincoln Timeline Abraham Lincoln Facts Craftivity G
Grades:
K - 2nd
Gingerbread Activities BUNDLE Boy Man Girl Baby Friends Cowboy Pirate
This fun unit will have your students learning all about sequencing while reading some super fun gingerbread stories. This was created for TWO WEEKS of whole group guided reading and writing. There are daily lesson plan ideas, anchor charts, literacy connections, sorting activities, crafts and writing connections. In addition you will also focus on comparing and contrasting the different version of stories. This is a bundle of four other units:Gingerbread Boy Gingerbread Man Gingerbread Baby &a
Grades:
K - 2nd
Elf Directed Drawing (How To Catch An Elf) K/1
Elf Directed Drawing is an activity I love to use to engage kiddos in a fun holiday "How To" writing activity. Students can use this to plan and write a story based on the writing prompt "How to catch an elf". Included in this purchase you will receive:
3 options for brainstorming and planning your elf trap
2 options for writing a story with different lined paper
2 options for writing a story with different lines AND a word bank
1 set of directed drawing directions with pictures
If you like t
Grades:
K - 3rd
Gingerbread Man Loose at School and The Gingerbread Man Loose at Christmas
This Gingerbread set includes activities to go along with Gingerbread Loose in the School and Gingerbread Loose at Christmas. The primary focus in these stories is sequencing and comparing and contrasting. There are anchor charts included, lesson plan guides, comprehension activities, writing, crafts and more. This unit can be used for distance learning and google classroom with the new TpT digital tool. Reading Strategies:• Colorful Sequencing Posters• Colorful Sorting Cards• Making Predictions
Grades:
K - 2nd
Also included in: Christmas MEGA Activities BUNDLE Reading Comprehension Writing Crafts
Main Idea and Key Details- Non-Fiction Winter Passages and Craft
This is a fun, winter craftivity for teaching the concept of main idea or main topic! Let your students join the winter fun by finding the main idea and the supporting details and then recording it on a snowman craft! This makes a creative bulletin board or school hallway display!There are 8 different themes/main topics included in this packet. There are two versions of the worksheet. One page has lines to support beginning writers and the other page has no lines for students who are stronger w
Grades:
K - 2nd
Also included in: Main Idea and Key Details- A Year of Non-Fiction Passages
Winter Crafts Christmas December Activities | Sequencing Stories with Pictures
Engage your little learners in hands-on story book retelling practice that will result in a meaningful craft that shows off all their hard retelling work.In this Winter retelling collection, you'll get access to 1 3 amazing titles that are perfect for mixing and matching in December and January. These kits are perfect for a fun mini lesson, core retelling practice or a weekly literacy center!Text Pairing:The Little Reindeer by Nicola KillenThe Great Santa Stakeout by Betsy BirdThe Hanukkah Hamst
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Grades:
K - 1st
Fairy Tale Story Maps, Retelling Activities, Fairy Tale Sequencing, Map Skills
Kids will love using these fairy tale story map retell printables to create story maps to practice retelling stories, sequencing, and map skills to build oral language, vocabulary, and comprehension skills. This resource was also designed to help you integrate social studies and teaches kindergarten and first grade children about map skills such as using a compass rose and following cardinal directions.Story Retell Maps Include: Story Mapping with Little Red Riding HoodStory Mapping with The Gi
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Grades:
PreK - 2nd
Biography Research Reports--Using Pebble Go
Looking for an easy way to assist students in using a digital tool like Pebble Go to do research? This comprehensive packet features 26 different historical figures found on the Pebble Go research database. All 26 historical figures have three different research templates to use. You will find a template for students to use for research that corresponds perfectly with the Pebble Go site, a fun facts page, and a writing page with pictures of each person and primary writing lines. ****************
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Grades:
K - 2nd
Also included in: Research Reports Bundle Using Pebble Go
Jan Brett Christmas Troll Activities Book Companion Reading Comprehension
This fun Jan Brett unit will have your students enjoying the holidays with these troll themed stories. During this unit, your students will focus on problem and solution. There are many other strategies included as well such as character analysis, questioning, main idea and details and lots of writing and crafts. This was created for one week of whole group guided reading and writing. There are daily lesson plan ideas, anchor chart posters, literacy connections, sorting activities, crafts and
Grades:
K - 2nd
Also included in: Reading Comprehension Guided Reading with a Purpose BUNDLE
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