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Random Number Place Value helps students recognize the value of numbers in a way that's unpredictable and fun. Students will be engaged in this approach on visual and tactile/kinesthetic levels. Random Number Place Value starts out with the very basic Tens and Ones (units). Students can easily recognize the value of each group of tens and ones. I simply touch the Random Number Generator and then students then match that number dragging groups of tens over to the tens place and ones over to the

Here are some chants and songs that I use with my class during the month of November. The following 5 songs and chants are in three formats: SMARTBOARD, PDF, and WORD (in RTF). I am Thankful, Autumn Leaves are Falling Down, Five Fat Turkeys, Five Little Pilgrims on Thanksgiving Day, & In the Apple Tree. *There is a font included that needs to be installed for the SMARTBOARD and WORD documents to be viewed correctly. Patriotic Powerpoint Presentations Pack 1 (collection of 4) U.S.A. - Inter

60% OFF for a limited time! Clothespin Spelling October (Smartboard) is an easy, fun and engaging tool that will help your students learn their spelling words. Clothespin Spelling October stimulates visual and kinesthetic learning and is based on Clothespin Spelling which has been downloaded over 5,000 times and one of the highest rated products of all time on Teachers Pay Teachers. "What a great idea! Work (thinking skills, spelling practice, et.) and fun (It's a game!) in the same place. W

Here are some chants and songs that I use with my class during the month of October. The following 5 songs and chants are in three formats: SMARTBOARD, PDF, and WORD (in RTF). Fall Leaves, Halloween, I'm a Jack-o-Lantern, It's October, & Mr. Pumpkin. Included are also the following two chants: In the Graveyard and Halloween Time (only in SMARTBOARD format). *I use the SMARTBOARD files to teach the songs. I print out the PDF/WORD documents for the students to keep in a chant folder. November

Clothespin Spelling Version 1.1 is a fun time-filler! (Now comes with a guide!) Say you have 10 extra minutes...what to do? Well, click on Clothespin Spelling and have students drag letters up to form the spelling words they are studying that week. *Version 1.1 - What is new? I have added a new page of Alphabet Letters (all caps). If you have a proper noun or name you want your students to learn with Clothespin Spelling...now you can! If there's anything else you want added let me know in the

The U.S.A. - Interactive States & Capitals is an essential tool for teachers and students. It includes a total of 108 SMARTBOARD pages designed to test your students' mastery of the location of the current 50 states (United States) and the names of their capitals. Help your students master their states and capitals via 2 interactive, easy-to-use, well designed files (States & Capitals and Drag & Drop States) geared to make learning a fun experience for all. Includes: States & Capitals - A SM

The U.S.A. - Interactive States & Capitals is an essential tool for teachers and students. It includes a total of 212 SMARTBOARD pages designed to test your students' mastery of the location of the current 50 states (United States) and the names of their capitals. Help your students master their states and capitals via 3 interactive, easy-to-use, well designed files (States & Capitals, States & Capitals Matching, and Drag & Drop States) geared to make learning a fun experience for all. Include

Here is a Verb Word Search worksheet I use with my class to help them understand which words are verbs. I use the SMARTBOARD display to explain the worksheet to my students. After a mini lesson on verbs I have my students look for 14 verbs in the class library or textbooks. After finding and writing 14 verbs down on the worksheet, the students choose 4 of the verbs and create sentences with them. I have the files in both Rich Text Format for Windows/Mac (so you can edit) and PDF. The fonts are i

This phonics blending activity allows students to touch and drag letters with ease to help them blend sounds to make words. This interactive activity was specifically designed for the SMARTBOARD. The sounds in this SMARTBOARD activity correspond to Theme 4 (Story #3 - "Bud's Day Out") of the Houghton Mifflin Reading Series. *This SMARTBOARD file is best viewed full screen. Theme 4 - Story 3 focuses on triple s clusters, short u and has a review of s clusters. I have created moveable letters

Here are a set of 15 SMARTBOARD pages that accompany Theme 5 of the Houghton Mifflin Reading Series. Each page corresponds to a lesson in the Houghton Mifflin manual. And contains moveable letters that a teacher or student can drag easily to blend and make real or nonsense words. This phonics activity contains the following pages: Clusters with s, Triple Clusters with s, Digraphs sh, th & wh, Digraphs ch & tch, Short u, Three variations of Long a & the silent e (CVCe), Final nd, ng and nk, Long

The U.S.A. - Interactive States & Capitals is an essential tool for teachers and students. It includes a total of 108 SMARTBOARD pages designed to test your students' mastery of the location of the current 50 states (United States) and the names of their capitals. Help your students master their states and capitals via 2 interactive, easy-to-use, well designed files (States & Capitals Matching and Drag & Drop States) geared to make learning a fun experience for all. Includes: States & Capita

This phonics blending interactive activity allows students to touch and drag letters with ease to help them blend sounds to make words. This interactive activity was specifically designed for the SMARTBOARD. The sounds in this SMARTBOARD activity correspond to Theme 1 of the Houghton Mifflin Reading Series. Theme 1 focuses on the short a and i sounds. I have created moveable letters that students can drag around the a or i to form words. After dragging a letter to form a new word, I have the stu

This phonics blending activity allows students to touch and drag letters with ease to help them blend sounds to make words. This interactive activity was specifically designed for the SMARTBOARD. The phonics in this SMARTBOARD activity corresponds to Theme 6, Story #1: The Sleeping Pig, of the Houghton Mifflin Reading Series. Theme 6 - Story 1 focuses on the following phonics: long o with silent e, long u with silent e, final ft, lk, nt, review long i with silent e, and contractions. I have cr

Here is a Question Sentences worksheet I use with my class to help them work on writing questions and using the proper punctuation. I use the SMARTBOARD to display questions sentences when explaining the worksheet to my students. After a quick review about questions I give them a noun...for example animals or maybe leprechauns (depends on months and themes). Then I have them create 6 questions regarding that noun. Now, I have the questions listed, but you can edit the Word document to have the s

This Family Tree activity is a great way to reinforce the family relations and vocabulary in Theme 4 of the Houghton Mifflin Reading Series. After reading the story Who is in a Family, I discuss the vocabulary associated with family. I ask my students if they can name all the people in their family. We discuss how people in a family are related. The following day I revisit family relations. I ask them to name some family vocabulary. I then show them a display of the finished Family Tree Activity

This Shell Design activity is a fun way to encourage expository writing. This activity also helps prepare 1st graders for expository writing tests. After reading the story Moving Day (in the Houghton Mifflin Reading Series), I have my class describe the different kinds of shells the hermit crab finds. I write out (with the help of my class) a description of the last shell the hermit crab finds on the SMARTBOARD. The following day I have the students take out their Houghton Mifflin books and look

This art activity is a great way to reinforce the short o vowel sound taught in Theme 2 of the Houghton Mifflin Reading Series. After reading the story Hot Fox Soup, I discuss the short o sound and have my students find the words that contain the short o vowel sound. Then I see if my students can name words with the short o sound. The following day I show them a display of the finished Fox's Vat Activity on the SMARTBOARD. I have the students take out their books and list the characters in the s

This phonics blending interactive activity allows students to touch and drag letters with ease to help them blend sounds to make words. This interactive activity was specifically designed for the SMARTBOARD. The sounds in this SMARTBOARD activity correspond to Theme 2 of the Houghton Mifflin Reading Series. Theme 2 focuses on the short o, e and u sounds. I have created moveable letters that students can drag around the o, e or u to form words. After dragging a letter to form a new word, I have t

This art activity is a great way to reinforce adjectives taught in Theme 10 of the Houghton Mifflin Reading Series. After reading the story Fireflies for Nathan, I discuss adjectives with my classroom and have them come up with some adjectives of their own. The following day I show them a display of the finished Adjective Art Activity on the SMARTBOARD. I have the students come up with adjectives that describe fireflies and I list them on the SMARTBOARD. I tell them they will describe their fire

This phonics blending activity allows students to touch and drag letters with ease to help them blend sounds to make words. This interactive activity was specifically designed for the SMARTBOARD. The phonics in this SMARTBOARD activity corresponds to Theme 7, Story #1: That Toad is Mine, of the Houghton Mifflin Reading Series. Theme 7 - Story #1 focuses on the following phonics: Vowel pairs ow, & oa, and the review of vowel pairs ai & ay. I have created moveable letters that students can drag