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Make Dot Day an unforgettable experience in your classroom with this engaging resource inspired by "The Dot" story by Peter H. Reynolds. These activities are perfect to help students express their creativity, build confidence, and understand the powerful message of making their mark. Inside, you’ll find: ✅ Reading response activities for The Dot story ✅ Art projects and templates for students to create their own dots ✅ Hands-On Math with Dot candy ✅ Bulletin board ideas to display st

Make math meaningful, engaging, and interactive with this Math Work Mats Activities Bundle! These hands-on math mats are designed to help students build number sense, strengthen fact fluency, and practice essential math skills through active learning. Perfect for math centers, small groups, or intervention, these work mats encourage students to think, build, and solve using manipulatives. There are 8 math work mats included:ADDITION WITHIN 20SUBTRACTION WITHIN 20PLACE VALUE TO 100PLACE VALUE

If you're looking for a way to organize your guided reading and math data and have student data easily accessible, you will love this product! With this product, you will easily organize students' reading and math data. You can easily see student names and record pre/post test data, fact fluency data, oral reading fluency, reading level, and goals/notes! The tabs are EDITABLE, which means you can easily type in your student names! What’s Included in Guided Reading Data?•Binder Covers (3 styles,

Word problems can be tricky! These visuals will help your students while they solve math word problems! I have included posters and bookmarks for two word problem solving strategies, CUBES and UPS Check. C- circle key numbers U- underline the question B- box key words E- eliminate the extra information S- solve and check U- understand P- plan S- solve Check All posters and bookmarks come in color and black and white!

The Reading Toolkit and Math Toolkit are perfect for guided reading and math! The toolkits contain items perfect for your little learners! What is included in the Reading Toolkit? 1. Reading Toolkit Labels 2. Comprehension Bookmarks -Retelling Bookmark: characters, setting, BME, problem, and solution -Retelling Bookmark: characters, setting, beginning, middle, and end -Main Idea and Details -Cause and Effect -Making Connections -Theme -Fact and Details -Topic an

These North Pole Express Stations and Activities go right along with the book, The Polar Express, by Chris Van Allsburg. My class and I have so much fun having a Polar Express Day. We read the book, dress in our pajamas, drink hot chocolate, and have a ton of fun with these Polar Express stations and activities! There are passenger tickets, 10 station signs, and differentiated station activities included. The stations are engaging, fun, and full of literacy and math skills. All stations includ

Students will love learning and practicing place value through these hands on math work mats for place value to 1,000. Each place value mat includes 8 numbers in standard form, a place for students to show or model the number (open space, and a hundreds, tens and ones chart), a place for students to write the number in expanded form, and a place to write the number in written form. Math manipulatives (hundreds, tens, and ones) are included as well!

This Math Toolkit is perfect for guided math or math workshop! The toolkit contains items perfect for your little learners in the primary grades! What is included in the toolkit? 1. Math Toolkit Labels (small and large) 2. Math Bookmarks -Number Line (0-10, 0-15, 0-20, 0-100) -Open Number Line -Five Frame -Ten Frame -Two Ten Frames -Addition Frame -Subtraction Frame -Number Words up to 20 -Days of the Week and Months of the Year -Coins -Shapes (2 Dime

Students will love learning and practicing their math word problems through these hands on math work mats. There are 30 numberless word problems included. Plus editable boxes to add your own word problems! Numberless word problems are perfect for differentiation. The Math Work Mats provide space for students to use a variety of problem solving strategies. There is space for students to draw a picture, use a ten frame, a number line, part-part-whole, number bond, write an equation, and write a w

These End of the Year Donut Awards are the perfect way to celebrate your students' academic achievements! My students loved celebrating their classmates achievements and their individual achievements while eating delicious donuts! What is Included?Donut Awards banner in color and black & white3 Donut Awards posters24 premade donut certificates - personalize with student name, teacher name, grade, school, year, etc.2 editable donut certificates - personalize with award name, student name, teache

Students will love learning and practicing place value through these hands on math work mats for place value to 100. Each place value mat includes 8 numbers in standard form, a place for students to show or model the number (open space, and a tens and ones chart), a place for students to write the number in expanded form, and a place to write the number in written form. Math manipulatives (tens and ones) are included as well! PLACE VALUE WORK MATS FOR… •numbers up to 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70

These goals will allow students to easily monitor and evaluate their own progress in reading and math! The goals are created for first and second graders and are based on the Common Core Standards. These goals are also EDITABLE! There are over 60 goals for reading and math! The goals are separated into different reading and math categories, so you will easily be able to find the goal you need! Reading categories include: Reading Literature, Reading Informational Text, and Foundational Skills. Ma

These first grade math assessments are perfect to use as quick checks or exit tickets! They are a perfect way to quickly assess your students’ understanding of a math concept. These half sheet math quick checks are fast, student friendly, and provide the teacher with valuable information to guide and differentiate their instruction. Teachers will be able to easily assess student understanding on first grade math standards using these half sheet exit tickets/quick checks. Teachers can keep track

This is a FUN and ENGAGING way for students to understand 2D and 3D shapes through hands on learning! Students build 2D and 3D shapes using toothpicks and playdough (can use marshmallows or other candy)! Students will learn to understand a shape's properties by recognizing sides, flat surfaces, edges, and vertices. Please see the preview for everything included! Materials Needed: Maker Space Work Mats Shaper Maker Cards Tooth Picks Playdough (marshmallows or other candy work well too) Dry Erase

This Spring Math Cut and Paste Packet has many math skills perfect for students in grades 1-3 and requires NO PREP! Cut and paste worksheets are engaging and interactive and are designed to make learning fun through a hands-on approach! This pack includes the following cut and paste worksheets: -single digit addition -adding three single digit numbers -two digit addition without regrouping -two digit addition with regrouping -adding three two digit numbers -three digit addition without regroup

There are 150 word problems included in this product! The word problems can easily be differentiated because you will write the numbers on the lines. Students can glue the word problem to their word problem journal (included) or simply glue it to a notebook. There are a variety of differentiated journal pages included! What is Included? -Word Problem Types (that are included in this product) -Teacher Tips -6 Journal Cover Options -Word Problem Key Words (for addition and subtraction) -7 Differ

Second Grade Morning Work (The Bundle) includes all three of my second grade morning work packs. Included are over 160 pages of morning work pages that focus on second grade standards. Also great for enriching first graders or for providing review for third graders! The following skills are covered: Language Arts word families rhyming words complete/incomplete sentences short vowels and long vowels compound words contractions r-controlled vowels nouns/verbs/adjectives proper nouns category class

Are you ever in a rush to gather last minute sub plans? I know I am! Can you get your hands on the book, Santa's Stuck, written by Rhonda Gowler Greene? All you need is the book and this no prep packet! Just print, copy and you are ready to go! This packet contains 23 activities for reading, writing, word work, grammar, math, science, and health that will keep your kids busy all day (or a couple of days)! A daily schedule, detailed lesson plans for the activities, and an over of activities are a

Students will love learning and practicing their subtraction facts through these hands on math work mats for subtraction within 20. Each subtraction mat includes 8 subtraction problems, a place for students to solve the subtraction problem (open space, ten frames, a number line and an open number line included), a place for students to write the equation, and a place to find the answer! Math manipulatives are included as well! SUBTRACTION WORK MATS FOR… •-0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 •doubles and near do

If you're looking for a way to organize your guided math data and have student data easily accessible, you will love this product! With this product, you will easily organize students' math data and whole class data. You can easily see student names and record pre/post test data, fact fluency data, and goals/notes! The tabs are EDITABLE, which means you can easily type in your student names! What’s Included?Binder Covers (3 styles, color, BW)Half Sheet Guided Math Data Labels (color and BW)3 X 3