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PlayDoh is the medium to excite your students about using critical thinking. This set of task cards (118 art challenges and 64 color building challenges) are appropriate for 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders. The variety of task cards allows you to differentiate the activity and make the experience different every time! This set is perfect for indoor recess, Makerspaces, guided learning, and small groups. Your students will beg to use these task cards again and again.

Teaching addition and subtraction under Common Core standards 1.OA.7 and 1.OA.8 can be intimidating. This packet will ease some of your anxiety with well planned practice for the different types of problems your students will encounter - results unknown, start unknown, or change unknown. This incredible packet is full of word problems for your students to master and manipulative mats for them to visualize what they know from the problems. Included in the packet: slide 1 title of packet slid

Common Core standard 1.OA.6 can be DIFFICULT to teach! Well, this packet will make it easier for you and your students. I have broken down the steps for solving difficult addition and subtraction facts into making ten, breaking apart numbes to subtract, and using doubles to help add. This packet includes illustrations for solving each type of problem, worksheets, flashcards, and recording sheets. Included in the packet: slide 1: title of packet slide 2: sign for making ten when adding

This set of 60 slides (216 challenge tasks) will excite your students to think like an inventor and use critical thinking to solve problems. Included in the task cards are black and white challenges (easy to print) and color task cards for building structures around the world. This set uses basic K'nex pieces and can be used by younger students all the way up to older elementary students. These task cards can be used in Makerspaces, small groups, AIG/Gifted classrooms, or recess. This will an ac

This literacy center will be a favorite of your students!. Your students will create sentences using cards with articles, nouns, verbs, adjectives, and prepositions on them. They will practice parts of speech, create and write detailed sentences, use correct grammar, and illustrate their silly sentences to show comprehension. Your students will not realize that this fun and silly center is actually practice to make them better readers and writers. The recording sheets are differentiated for

This packet will make teaching subtraction under Common Core standard 1.OA.4 easy. Subtraction can be difficult, but relating it to a known addition problem can make the computation easier. This packet includes practice mats for using manipulatives word problems, and a memory matching game for subtraction facts the related addition facts. Included in this packet: slide 1: title slide 2 - 15: practice mats (includes number bonds and tens frames) 4 number bond addition mats, 4

This packet will make teaching adding 3 numbers and understanding the properties of addition under Common Core standards 1.OA.2 and 1.OA.3. This packet includes practice mats for whole group teaching, word problems, tens frames practice cards, and a memory game for the Commutative Property. Included in this packet: slide 1: title slide 2: practice mat slide 3: number cards slide 4: adding 3 dice recording sheet ( blank for repeated practice) slide 5-11: word problem cards slide 12-18:

This great packet will help you teach Common Core standard 1.OA.5 with no tears! I have created worksheets, practice mats, number lines, and word problems with recording sheets for independent practice. Included in packet: slide 1 title slide 2 -11 worksheets on combinations of sums slide 12 student number lines 0-20 (5 on a page) slide 13 student number lines 0-10 (5 on a page) slide 14 - 17 word problems with missing addends worksheets slide 18 - 21 Equation yes or no? worksheets slide

This is a huge unit for teaching subtraction under the Common Core standard 1.OA.1. This unit will make teaching subtraction easy with practice mats for whole group teaching, worksheets for practice (some blank for repeated practice), and many games for repeated play to help your students master subtraction. Included in the unit: slide 1: title slide 2-8: practice mats (results unknown, change unknown, and start unknown slide 9-20: worksheets slide 21-29: subtraction word problems game s

This Silly Sentence Center if perfect for your little ones to practice making sentences, perfecting their punctuation and capitalization, and illustrating its meaning. Your Kindergarten and 1st grade students will love making sentences, switching nouns, verbs, and adjectives to make new sentences, and illustrating their creations. With modeling, this center could be used for independent work in writing, fluency, and comprehension. Slides included: 1 Title page 2 1st grade standa

Tired of students forgetting what you teach as soon as the marker is dry on your anchor chart? Well, this packet will help. Each skill includes an anchor chart poster for you, smaller bookmarks of the anchor chart for your students, and foldables to reinforce the teaching. You can create your own anchor charts or use the ones provided to teach important literacy skills. The bookmarks can be printed and given to each student at the end of teaching to give them a reference in their journals.

This unit will make teaching addition under the Common Core math standard 1.OA.1 easy! To help your students understand the 3 problem types of result unknown, change unknown, or start unknown I have created 6 practice mats that use tens frames or number bonds. Your students will be able to visualize how to solve these types of problems after using the practice mats during your whole group instruction. Then 11 worksheets are included to provide independent practice or assessment data. Then on

This set of 41 slides (140 task cards) will excite your students into thinking creatively and use critical thinking to problem solve. Wood planks are sold under many names, but they all do the same thing - make endless fun! These task cards include black and white challenge cards and color cards of structures around the world. You can use these cards for Makerspaces, small groups, clubs, recess, and AIG/Gifted classrooms. Your students will want to use these cards over and over again.

These practice mats will help your students to think through word problems and use manipulatives to solve them. Whether the problem has a result unknown, a change unknown, or a start unknown, your students can learn how to apply each one and calculate the answer. These mats are whole page images that can be printed on cardstock and laminated for repeated use. These mats should be used with every type of math problem whether it is just numbers or in a word problem. Included in this packet

Idioms can be difficult for children to understand and even more perplexing for our English as a second language students. This unit gives your students daily practice with idioms and their literal and nonliteral meanings. This unit has 389 slides in color and black and white with images for most idioms. It can be used in a variety of ways, such as morning work, morning meeting, whole group literacy, guided reading small group, independent centers or any other way you can imagine! Slides:

This product is everything you need to organize your small groups in Reading and Math. This packet includes independent center ideas, a reading groups/choice board, a math groups/choice board, 4 styles of headers, contracts, choice posters for reading and math, and choice cards for reading and math center activities. Management is explained with alternatives to make it work for your classroom.

Using Orton-Gillingham techniques, I created sound discs for teaching sounds until mastered, for small group instruction for sounding out words, blending, and decoding, and for independent work in blending, decoding, phonics, spelling, and decoding. These sound discs can be manipulated by your students for a hands-on approach to sounding out words. Your students' fluency rates will improve when sounds are practiced until mastered and reviewed continuously. Included in this packet are: 186 sou

Using Orton-Gillingham techniques, I have made sound discs for all of the letters of the alphabet that can be used in a guided lesson to review sounds until mastered, in a small group for building words and blending, or independently to practice fluency, blending, or building words. This freebie includes 8 pages of sound discs. A great feature is that the discs can be cut quickly using a 2-inch circle punch. If you like this freebie, check out the complete packet including 186 sound discs tha

Using Orton-Gillingham techniques, I have made sound discs for all of the letters of the alphabet that can be used in a guided lesson to review sounds until mastered, in a small group for building words and blending, or independently to practice fluency, blending, or building words. This freebie includes 8 pages of sound discs. A great feature is that the discs can be cut quickly using a 2-inch circle punch. If you like this freebie, check out the complete packet including 186 sound discs tha

This behavior chart goes with a TEAM decor or theme. It gives your students a chance to move up or down during the day depending on behavior.