Diana Lyddane

This is the first big packet of activities that I have compiled. I hope everyone likes it. These activities are all aligned with Math Common Core. The following activities that can be used as individual, partner, small group, or whole group work stations. There are also several levels of many of the activities for your different ability level students. Great for differentiation and all with a winter or Christmas theme! Some are in color and some black and white. Number Puzzles 0-20 Number Maps

This is one of my kids' favorite activity. Kids make a colorful kite using tissue paper and water. This builds their excitement before the fact family activity. After the kites dry and kids cut them out, they can choose a fact family and find the equations that go with their fact family. I have included blank bows and Math and ELA variations to use with these kids. Tissue paper and water can also be used on different patterns for activities. Please email or comment if you like this. To find mor

Kids love using paint dots and highlighters. Your kids can use these sight words sheets to highlight the word then use paint dots or bingo dots to stamp the stars or the corners of each letter. This is a tactile way of using sight words. Kids can read the words to a buddy or put them in ABC order. You can use them as an independent center or for work when kids finish early. This includes all 32 kindergarten sight words from Scott Foresman Reading Street. If you would like a powerpoint of these w

For a sample of this, visit my store to grab a freebie for short a. This packet includes 12 real and 12 nonsense CVC words for each vowel for a total of 60 real and 60 nonsense words. That's 120 total CVC cards. There is a record sheet for sorting real and nonsense words on a t-chart for each vowel. There are also 2 word family houses to record words. There are many different ways to use this packet: 1. Sort real and nonsense words for each short vowel. 2. Play memory match game to match word fa

This is a basic chart for the 5 W's. There are also word cards for WHO, WHAT, WHEN, WHERE, WHY. I use this to teach several Common Core standards: W.K.3 L.K.1d And several Speaking and Listening standards where students are asked to ask and answer questions. Please comment!!!! Diana Cole coleslittlepups.blogspot.com

What a fun way to learn about real and nonsense words! I've included 6 real words for each vowel and 6 nonsense words for each vowel. You can work on 1 vowel at a time and have 60 words total to sort. Or you can work on all vowels and have 5 groups working to sort each set of vowel words into real and nonsense groups. I've included a t-chart for kids to record their real and nonsense words. Great for literacy work stations, whole group, or for RTI assessment. Please comment if you like or if you

Included in this mini unit are 48 pages including 4 different work stations that can last one day each or throughout the week. All activities are differentiated including a set for just tens and ones then the same activity including hundreds, tens, and ones. These are great for small math groups, RTI intervention, or to do whole group or on Smartboard. The record sheets could serve as an assessment or practice. These activities meet Kindergarten and First Grade. This could also be used as interv

I use this record sheet with a metacognition lesson. I got the idea from the book "Comprehension Connections" by Tanny McGregor. After teaching a concrete lesson, I have the kids choose a children's picture book and a partner. They will read the book and pause to do their thinking. Their partner will tally in each box each time they were thinking and reading from the text. There are 3 boxes so this could be used for 3 different books.

This bundle includes activities for Tier 1, 2, or 3 supplemental instruction for 1st & 2nd grades. Included: - I Spy Magic E Words - CVC-e & a few CCVC-e - CVC-e basic fluency sentences worksheet - Roll, Say, Keep game board & game pieces - I Have, Who Has Magic e - Read, Think, Understand sentence comprehension & writing activity

Help your students blend CVC words and practice rhyming at the same time. By only changing the beginning letter sound, blending becomes easier for beginning readers making them feel more successful. There is a page with a picture as a visual clue then the next page is the same word without the picture. You can print both or only the pages without the picture to increase difficulty. The pictures are black & white so kids can color them. To make printing and stapling easier, all you have to do is

I created this unit to directly align with Operations and Algebraic Thinking Common Core and Kindergarten Go Math Chapter 5: Addition. However, these activities can be used to supplement any kindergarten or first grade unit because of the direct alignment with Common Core. Below is a list of the activities along with the Common Core it is aligned to. 1. Tens Frame Mitten Addition Match using Tens Frames K.CC.OA.1, K.CC.OA.3 2. Ways to Make Ten Number Sentence Sort K.CC.OA.4 3. What Number Did

I've included many different activities to show the butterfly and frog life cycle and different ways to display it. There are writing activities, a graphic organizer, tree map, etc. I've included several things in color and black and white. Below are a list of activities included. Email me if you have any comments or questions: dcole@dcps.org Visit my blog for more ideas: coleslittlepups.blogspot.com Butterfly and frog pictures for cutting, gluing, and sequencing Cut, Glue, and label the butter

This is similar to my Kindergarten Paint Dot Sight Words but I've increased the difficulty for first grade. It includes every first grade sight word introduced by Scott Foresman Reading Street for First Grade. Each page has 1 word. This is great in independent reading centers, for RTI, intervention, or for your tactile learners. Kids highlight the word then use paint dots (bingo dotters) to dot the stars on the ends of the letters. Then they write the word and write a sentence including the word

The book The Snowman by Raymond Briggs does not have any words. This book is a great way for students to practice the ELA standard where they must find the relationship between illustrations and words (RL.K.7). There are 3 papers for the teacher to use as a modeled activity and one paper for kids to write their own captions or sentences for each picture. This is great to teach text features such as captions as well even though this is not information reading.

These sorting mats can be used in a center if copied on cardstock or students can cut and glue to sort if copied on regular paper. These sorting centers meet several math and ELA common core standards. Included is a sorting mat, record sheet, and sorting cards for each center. Below is a list of each sorting center: 1. letters, not letters 2. numbers, not numbers 3. letters, numbers 4. capital letters, lower case letters 5. words, not words 6. words, letters 7. words, numbers 8. numbers less tha

These are a great visual organizer that you can use for letter recognition or letter sounds. There are many ideas included in this packet. Please comment here or on my blog and let me know what you think or if I can change anything to make it better for you. These can be used to align with the new Common Core. coleslittepups.blogspot.com

Number circle maps are great for showing kids all the ways to make a number with pictures, numbers, and words. You can enlarge these and do these whole group for a modeled lesson or make a math journal out of them. Concept maps are great for higher level thinking and differentiation. This meets the new Math Common Core Standards. Please leave a comment and let me know what you think. I'd love to make more for you if you want. Just let me know.

Give this to the kids so they can look around the room or the school and find characters. I taped characters in my school all around. I found them from The Mailbox Magazine.

This is to be used with my Gingerbread Tens Frames workmat. You can also download these for free. These align with Common Core. If you want these but want them changed in any way please email me or comment on my blog and leave me an email address. coleslittlepups.blogspot.com Diana

This is a great checklist for basic kindergarten math skills. You can keep this the entire year and check off each skill as the child masters it or date each skill.