Better Building Blocks

This set of activities is Oregon Specific. This is a week-long curriculum around Hardiness zones, annual and perennial plants, and planting schedules. The planting schedule worksheet is meant to be used alongside a seasonal gardening chart, like the spring and winter charts provided on the Territorial Seed Company website. Students will: hypothesize their hardiness zonerecognize and map other hardiness zones of Oregonlearn about annuals and perennials and how to protect perennials from extreme

This Venn diagram is meant to be used with two texts: The 3 Little Pigs The 3 Little Fish (a twisted tale) After reading/listening to these two tales, students will be able to place key facts about each story on the correct part of the Venn diagram, in order to identify basic similarities and differences between the two texts.

Students should listen to/read two stories: Little Red Riding Hood 3 Little Pigs This Venn Diagram is meant to be used to compare facts about the two antagonists (the wolves). Students should cut and paste the facts into the Venn diagram in order to identify basic similarities and differences between the experiences of the two characters. This activity meets CCSS RL.K.9

Students will research and create a Wanted poster to show the scientific name, physical features, diet, negative effects, habitat, natural predators, and prevention (either natural, chemical, or both) of a garden pest in your region. They should also consider the "reward" of eliminating the pest.

Students can show their knowledge of a native plant species by creating a "dating profile." Students will list the scientific name, potential height, ideal growing conditions, key features/adaptations, uses, pollination methods, and similar species in a creative way.

Students will research and create a Wanted poster to show the scientific name, negative effects, features, and habitat of a invasive species in your region. They should also consider the "reward" of eliminating the weed.

With this activity, students can use and improve their spacial reasoning skills to see the practical application of rigid transformations in action. Students arrange a tangram and then decorate, engaging their experimental reasoning and creativity skills. This activity allows hands-on exploration of an everyday scenario and could be used or adapted to many grade levels. It could be used as an anticipatory set, a warm up, a rainy day activity, or a post-unit review for a unit on transformations.

Students can use this activity to sort objects into not just 2, but 3 different categories! Students will be able to identify if an animal belongs on a farm, in a safari, or in the ocean. This activity meets CCSS L.k.5a

Use these 31 products to meet all your kindergarten language arts needs! Common Core aligned, these worksheets are broken down to help students meet kindergarten level curriculum in a concrete and obtainable way! As a bonus, there is a worksheet that plays off CCSS RI.k.8 and allows students to find sensory details in a text.

This set of mini puzzles will challenge your students to match the homographic words and pictures. With over 20 kindergarten appropriate puzzles, this is sure to engage little ones!

Here is a set of two worksheets that students can use to practice writing their letters! Teachers can hand out the worksheet with the uppercase letters and ask students to write lowercase, or vice versa! This can be used as a work at your own pace activity, or treated like a timed test. Letters are given in random order, so students cannot predict letters using alphabetization. This worksheet meets kindergarten standard L.K.1A

Students will first learn about some of the common pests found in the Western United States, tracking whether they are native, winged, and what parts of the plant they damage. Secondly, students will research a pest of their choosing. They will have to look up their pests' preferred diet, natural predators, and both chemical and integrated pest management strategies for their pest.

This worksheet is meant to allow students to find meaning in the illustrations of a written work. Students should be able to identify what person, place, thing, or idea the illustration depicts. This worksheet meets CCSS RI.K.7

Students can use this activity to sort objects into not just 2, but 3 different categories. Students will be able to identify whether a vehicle belongs on land, in the sky, or in the water. This activity meets CCSS L.k.5a

This worksheet has a double fill in the blank for each sentence. Students will pick a noun and then a verb to complete the sentence for each picture! There are two worksheets which could be used simultaneously or as a pre and post assessment. This resource meets CCSS L.K.1B

The Pythagorean Theorem can be used to find the shortest distance between two points. In this activity, students will be finding the total distance of a fiber optic line using the Pythagorean Theorem multiple times. Included is a class worksheet, notes for teaching, and an answer key

This product includes 11 wheels for the following word families: -an -at -ap -en -et -ig -ip -og -op -ug -un For students struggling to sound out the words, there are photos as a reference. For students who are understanding phonics well, you can create a flap to cover the pictures so that students can only use the photo as a way to check their work! There are 6 words on each word wheel, and there are a few "challenge" (non-CVC) words thrown in (stop, frog, and when)!

Once students can recognize sounds of letters, allow them some creative freedom to come up with their own words to associate with each letter! This is a great activity for building schema, and will be an activity that parents will love as well! You will receive one page for each letter of the alphabet. Suggestions are given at the end of the document for students who are struggling and for students who complete their work early. This is a perfect add on to a letter practice booklet, as a languag

Memory match with letters and pictures to help students decode the beginnings of words with phonics and then pair those sounds with letters! This activity meets common core standard RF.K.3.A by using the most frequent sound for each letter (notice I is not for "ICE" or some other long vowel word) Additionally, this activity supports standard RF.K.2.D by helping to students isolate the initial sounds in simple words. It also helps support standard L.K.1a by allowing students to recognize and nam

This resource comes with written informational text on lions and cheetahs. Students are to use the Venn Diagram to compare and contrast the important facts on these wildcats, using a cut and paste method. This resource requires students to listen/read for information so that they are able to effectively place the facts into the chart. This resource meets CCSS RI.k.9