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This Halloween Five Senses Packet will help you incorporate the fun of learning about the five senses with the excitement of Halloween! With a fun hands-on activity for each of the five senses, this Halloween resource will be a spook-tacular addition to your science unit! The following activities are included in this resource: Halloween Sound Bingo Halloween Taste Test Read the Room: Halloween Shadows (Sight) "Trick or Treat, Smell my Feet" Scent Experiment Halloween Feel Boxes (Touch) *Hal

Common Core Math Meetings are a great way to ensure that your students are exposed to the 1st Grade Common Core Anchor Standards each and every day. Each page correlates with one of ten anchor standards. Translation: your students will practice 10 Common Core essential skills every day! This allows you and your students the opportunity to recognize where they may need help and provides a spiral review of essential first grade skills, regardless of the math lesson you are teaching that day. I beg

This is part three of the Common Core Math Meetings. The problems get progressively more difficult with time. Common Core Math Meetings are a great way to ensure that your students are exposed to the 1st Grade Common Core Anchor Standards each and every day. Each page correlates with one of ten anchor standards. Translation: your students will practice 10 Common Core essential skills every day! This allows you and your students the opportunity to recognize where they may need help and provides

This is part five of the Common Core Math Meetings. This is the final installment of the Math Meetings for first grade. The problems get progressively more challenging with time. Common Core Math Meetings are a great way to ensure that your students are exposed to the 1st Grade Common Core Anchor Standards each and every day. Each page correlates with one of ten anchor standards. Translation: your students will practice 10 Common Core essential skills every day! This allows you and your student

This is part two of the Common Core Math Meetings. The problems get progressively more difficult with time. Common Core Math Meetings are a great way to ensure that your students are exposed to the 1st Grade Common Core Anchor Standards each and every day. Each page correlates with one of ten anchor standards. Translation: your students will practice 10 Common Core essential skills every day! This allows you and your students the opportunity to recognize where they may need help and provides a

This is part four of the Common Core Math Meetings. The problems get progressively more difficult with time. Common Core Math Meetings are a great way to ensure that your students are exposed to the 1st Grade Common Core Anchor Standards each and every day. Each page correlates with one of ten anchor standards. Translation: your students will practice 10 Common Core essential skills every day! This allows you and your students the opportunity to recognize where they may need help and provides a

These differentiated graphic organizers are the perfect addition to reading centers or to a lesson on author's purpose.

It’s time to go apple picking! This differentiated Read the Room activity is an engaging way to practice essential Common Core skills while meeting the needs of all your students. In this activity, students search for 10 apples (red or green depending on ability level) that feature words containing short a vowels. Red apples include a picture for those students who may need some extra help! The students sort the words by word family on the recording sheet. 20 apple activity cards and a recording

Common Core Math Meetings are a great way to ensure that your students are exposed to the 1st Grade Common Core Anchor Standards each and every day. Each page correlates with one of ten anchor standards. Translation: your students will practice 10 Common Core essential skills every day! This allows you and your students the opportunity to recognize where they may need help and provides a spiral review of essential first grade skills, regardless of the math lesson you are teaching that day. I beg

Common Core Math Meetings are a great way to ensure that your students are exposed to the 1st Grade Common Core Anchor Standards each and every day. Each page correlates with one of ten anchor standards. Translation: your students will practice 10 Common Core essential skills every day! This allows you and your students the opportunity to recognize where they may need help and provides a spiral review of essential first grade skills, regardless of the math lesson you are teaching that day. I beg

Common Core Math Meetings are a great way to ensure that your students are exposed to the 1st Grade Common Core Anchor Standards each and every day. Each page correlates with one of ten anchor standards. Translation: your students will practice 10 Common Core essential skills every day! This allows you and your students the opportunity to recognize where they may need help and provides a spiral review of essential first grade skills, regardless of the math lesson you are teaching that day. I beg

This engaging activity is the perfect introduction to capacity and measurement units or the perfect addition to math centers. Students work with a partner and take turns flipping over a pumpkin card onto the numbered mats. Students then predict which pumpkin will hold more seeds and record their predictions on the recording sheet. I give my students real pumpkin seeds so they can test their findings! They love this activity! The differentiated version challenges students to take their learning a

Common Core Math Meetings are a great way to ensure that your students are exposed to the 1st Grade Common Core Anchor Standards each and every day. Each page correlates with one of ten anchor standards. Translation: your students will practice 10 Common Core essential skills every day! This allows you and your students the opportunity to recognize where they may need help and provides a spiral review of essential first grade skills, regardless of the math lesson you are teaching that day. I beg

Common Core Math Meetings are a great way to ensure that your students are exposed to the 1st Grade Common Core Anchor Standards each and every day. Each page correlates with one of ten anchor standards. Translation: your students will practice 10 Common Core essential skills every day! This allows you and your students the opportunity to recognize where they may need help and provides a spiral review of essential first grade skills, regardless of the math lesson you are teaching that day. I beg

It’s time to fly some kites! This differentiated Read the Room activity is an engaging way to practice essential Common Core skills while meeting the needs of all your students. In this activity, students search for 10 kites (red or green depending on ability level) that feature words containing “long i” vowels. Red kites include a picture for those students who may need some extra help! The students sort the words by their word family on the recording sheet. 20 kite activity cards and a recordi

These challenge cards were created as a way to differentiate my Common Core Math Meetings (found in my store). I cut out challenge cards 1-10 and put them on a ring. My fast finishers who perform consistently well on the Math Meetings and need a challenge grab a ring of challenge cards. If they finish a problem quickly during the Math Meeting, they can do the activity listed on the challenge card under the same number and write it next to their original answer. This is a wonderful way to keep al

Uh Oh! Sam has escaped! Can you help him get back to his mat? Students will sort the addition equations as “true” or “false”. There is a recording sheet included where students can record their answers and prove their reasoning with illustrations. This activity correlates with Reading Street Story 1.1 “Sam, Come Back!” but can be used in any classroom, regardless of reading series! It meets the 1st Grade Common Core Standard 1.OA.D.7. Enjoy! :) first grade addition true false CCSS 1.OA.D.7 Sa