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Time: Hour and Half Hour - Are you looking for a fun way to practice telling time? Your students will love this scavenger hunt activity! Each child receives his own paper watch to wear while they record the times on their friend’s watches. The pack includes activities and worksheets for teaching hour and half hour in digital, written word and clock face formats. Included in the pack are: - A set of 12 wrist watches (hour) - A set of 12 wrist watches (half hour) - 3 differentiated “record the

Use these cards to warn children that their behaviour is not acceptable. Leave a stop sign on their desk when you notice them misbehaving and give them the opportunity to identify and correct their behaviour themselves. Once you notice an improvement you can take the card back. This encourages self regulation and saves your voice for teaching! :) Simply print them out, glue them back to back and laminate.

This week's freebie - Fun with Tangrams pack. Contains templates to make your tangram puzzle pieces, directions for use, extra brain teasers and a booklet with 12 tangram puzzles and solutions. Great activity for early finishers or as a maths center, building problem solving skills in a fun way! Hope you like it! Do let me know if there's any way I can improve it for you. And if you love it then let me know! :)

Are your students struggling to line up quickly and quietly? Well this “Line Up Survival Kit” is here to save you! It’s filled with great ideas, songs and chants to get your class lined up and moving quietly around the school! Included in the pack: - Line Up Order - 28 ideas on 7 pages - Lining Up Chants - 16 songs and chants on 4 pages - Line Up Challenge - 20 ideas on 6 pages Print, cut and laminate the cards. Then punch holes in the top left corner and put them on a keyring. Keep the “Line

The idea behind these "Brain Breaks" is that you have a stack of ideas for activities and games for when your class need to give their brains a little break. They'll still be using them of course but just in a more fun way! Some of the best ones are very active and give a noisy class a chance to burn off some energy before settling back down to work. I've divided the activities into categories and colour coded them because I'm like that. :) And it will make life much easier! Sometimes you might

Sight Word Fun! Looking for a new way to practice reading sight words? Your class will love this fun sight word egg and pancake flipping game! Contains the words from the 3rd and 4th Dolch lists: Do, can, could, when, did, what, so, see, not, get, were, them, like, one, this, my, would, me, will, yes, big, went, are, come, if, now, long, no, came, ask, very, an, over, its, your, ride, into, just, blue, red. This game is a great small group activity. Print the spatulas and frying pan (or for ev

The start of a new school year is a great time to teach reflection and goal setting skills. Included in the pack are: - Drawing and writing worksheets for memories and goals. - Star craftivity for memories from Kindergarten, 1st Grade, 2nd Grade and 3rd Grade. - Star craftivity for goals for 1st Grade, 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade and 4th Grade. - Multiple variations of each for easy differentiation. This activity has been designed to be used after a reflection upon everything that happened and e

This gingerbread man themed pack contains everything you will need to teach these positional language phrases to young children or English language learners: On Under Behind In Front Of Beside There are large flashcards for creating a classroom display as well as for introducing vocabulary and playing whole class flashcard games. These cards are in 3 packs, one with both images and text, one with only images and one with only text. There is also a smaller set of cards for the students to pla

Reading Log - Combines summarizing, rating, word work, creative writing and reflection skills and provides a record of reading done and a focus for reading time. It's format makes it easy for students to use independently, selecting tasks in their order of preference or for use as a whole class with the teacher dictating task selection. This reading log is designed to be used for one novel over the space of 3 to 4 weeks. After independent/shared reading time the students will be given 15 - 2

Sight word fun: Are you looking for a new way to practice reading sight words? Your students will love this scavenger hunt activity! Each child receives his own paper watch to wear while they read and record the words on their friends' watches. They’ll be having so much fun they won’t even realize all the reading and writing they are doing! *Dolch List 1 words* had, she, in, a, they, his, it, and, for, was, the, but, that, of, he, on, said, you, to Included in the pack are: - 20 pages of

Santa and his friend the penguin are lost! Can you help them get back to Rudolph and the igloo? * * * Please rate and comment if you find this useful * * * Children practice letter identification and fine motor skills as they find capital and lower case letters in the maze. This little activity focuses on the letters S and P and makes a cute addition to your literacy centers during the Holidays. Print and laminate the sheets and allow children to complete the trail through the maze using era

CVC word fun! :) *Updated to add extra worksheets!!* In this pack you will find a set of jigsaw pieces with the letters of the alphabet on them. The consonants are in red and the vowels in blue to help with identification and to differentiate them from the green and yellow number pieces from my Number Jigsaw pack. The jigsaw pieces can be used for free play and exploration of letters and words. They slot together to encourage blending and segmenting skills and make word work a lot of fun! Or

*Updated to add 5 more free borders and frames, including some Christmas ones!! Now you get 13 for free!!* Please rate and follow if you like them. :) And let me know if there's anything I can do to improve them. Enjoy these free borders! Use them to brighten up your worksheets and other teaching documents. Feel free to use them in your own TPT products, just make sure to give me credit (see the terms of use file). Included in the zip file are 13 different .png borders and my terms of use fil

Add a little St. Patrick’s Day fun to your literacy centers this year with these cute shamrock word family puzzles. :) Included are: - 10 CVC word family puzzles on shamrocks in both colour and b&w - 2 worksheets to practice writing and spelling the words - 2 answer sheets Print and laminate the colour shamrocks and cut into pieces. Use as a literacy center by providing the child with the checklist sheet to write the words on as he/she completes each puzzle. This reinforces the spelling of ea

We’ve found a letter from Santa but it’s written in pictures! Who is it for? What does it say? Challenge your class to use the code sheet to crack Santa’s code (and learn some problem solving skills as they do it!). Included in the pack are: A coded letter from Santa & worksheet A code sheet with Christmas images representing each letter of the alphabet 4 more pages of coded words to solve (16 words total) 26 small Christmas images Blank code sheet for children to create their own code Blank

Sentence work - Children work on reading, sentence formation, punctuation, spelling and letter formation skills as they use the jigsaw pieces in this literacy center to create sentences. In this pack you will find: - 9 six word sentences on different colored jigsaw pieces - 3 pages of extra words - “fill in the missing words” worksheets (in color and b&w) - “write the sentences” worksheets (in color and b&w) - “write and draw” worksheets (in color and b&w) - an answer sheet to encourage self

Vowel Sounds Do your students struggle with those tricky short vowel sounds? They’ll love this clothes pin activity and get some great practice identifying middle sounds in CVC words. Included in the pack are: - 16 photograph cards with two vowel choices - 16 photograph cards with three vowel choices - 2 Record sheets - 2 Answer sheets Simply cut out the cards (there are two per page) and laminate them. Then add some wooden clothes pins and you’re ready to go! The children select a card, look

**Updated to add new watches!!** Are your students always forgetting to bring their library books in on the correct day? Or forgetting when it’s their turn for show and tell? Well then these reminder wrist watches are just what you need! At the end of the day give each child a paper wrist watch with the reminder written on it to wear home. This will help the children (and parents!) to remember things like when field trip money is due and when consent forms need to be returned. Included in the

Use this cute penguin literacy center to practice letter matching, letter identification, letter formation and alphabetical order. :) This pack contains : Upper Cases Letters on Penguins - flashcards Lower Case Letters on Penguins - flashcards Mr. and Mrs. Penguin worksheets (in color and b&w) Penguin Pile Up worksheets (in color and b&w) Iceberg! Iceberg! worksheets (in color and b&w) These cute penguin flashcards can be used in lots of ways to teach about upper and lower case letters. As an

Sight Word Fun Looking for a new way to practice reading sight words? Your class will love this fun sight word fly swatting game! Contains the words from Dolch lists 1 and 2: the, to, and, he, a, I, you, it, of, in, was, said, his, that, she, for, on, they, but, had. at, him, with, it, up, all, look, is, her, there, some, out, has, be, have, go, we, am, then, little, down. This game is a great small group activity. Print a fly swatter (or provide a real one) for each child. The teacher calls