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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

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

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

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

You’re going to just fall in LOVE with this pack! It contains 5 cute Valentine’s Day themed activities to keep your class busy this February. They’re great for early finishers and provide a challenge for your gifted and talented students but are still accessible to all. Included are: 1 color by letters worksheets (b&w) 2 color by sight words worksheets (b&w) 2 color by addition worksheets (b&w) 5 answer sheets (color) These pictures are just like traditional color by numbers pictures but chi

*Updated for 2015* The beginning of a new 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 2014 (with 3 different drawing and writing options for easy differentiation). - Star craftivity for goals for 2015 (with 3 different drawing and writing options for easy differentiation). This activity has been designed to be used after a reflection upon everything th

Nativity word wall and flashcards with adorable images! This nativity pack contains : A nativity scene poster 18 small word wall cards 18 large flashcards I hope you enjoy using these flashcards and word wall cards to retell the story of the birth of Jesus this Christmas. They make a beautiful wall display and are useful for practising reading, spelling and writing nativity words. The flashcards can also be printed in duplicate to create a matching pairs game which can be played in small gr

Irish resources at last!! :) This gingerbread man themed pack contains everything you will need to teach these positional language phrases in Irish: Ar an Faoin Os comhair Taobh thiar In aice leis 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

Math center using jigsaw puzzle pieces - Teaches number bonds, number sentences, addition, subtraction, greater/than less than. In this pack you will find a set of jigsaw pieces with the numbers 0 to 20 written on them. There is also a set with the multiples of 10 up as far as 100. Each of these pieces is green in colour for easy identification of the numbers and to differentiate them from the yellow symbol pieces and the red and blue letter pieces from my CVC word pack also available in my T

This Irish language nativty pack contains : A nativity scene poster 24 small word wall cards as Gaeilge 18 large flashcards as Gaeilge The words and phrases included are: An Chéad Nollaig, An Leanbh Íosa, Íosa Críost, Muire, Iósaf, Aoirí lena gCaoirigh, Aoirí, Aoire, Caora, Na Trí Ríthe, An Triúr Saoithe, Rí, Saoi, Aingeal, Na Bronntanais, Ór, Tuis, Miorr, Stábla. I hope you enjoy using these flashcards and word wall cards to retell the story of the birth of Jesus this Christmas. They make a

Number work center for working on counting and number matching skills using cute little bees and butterflies! :) In this pack you will find a set of 11 Flower cards, numbered from 0 –10. There is also a sheet with 12 bees and another with 12 butterflies. Print and laminate the flower cards and print, cut and laminate the bees and butterflies separately. The idea for this center is that the child place the correct number of bees or butterflies on the flower. It can be used as an independent ma

Jigsaw pieces for creating wall displays and as a color mixing center. In this pack you will find a set of 12 large jigsaw pieces in different colors. The name of each color is clearly written on each puzzle piece. These can be used to create a classroom display to teach the names and spellings of the colors. Also included is a heading for this display with the word “colors” spelled out on jigsaw pieces. There are also 12 small jigsaw pieces. These can be used for matching with the large set o

Jigsaw pieces for creating wall displays and as a colour mixing center. In this pack you will find a set of 12 large jigsaw pieces in different colours. The name of each colour is clearly written on each puzzle piece. These can be used to create a classroom display to teach the names and spellings of the colours. Also included is a heading for this display with the word “colours” spelled out on jigsaw pieces. There are also 12 small jigsaw pieces. These can be used for matching with the large