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Included in this packet are practice worksheets for six of the nine sections of the CogAT, Form 7, Level 5/6 (K-1st grades). You can purchase each of these sections individually in my store, or save yourself $1 and some hassle, and buy them all together here. The sections included are: Sentence Completion Picture Classification Number Puzzles Number Series Figure Classification Figure Matrices For more worksheets and activities, check out my store or visit my website at www.expandingmindslea

Expanding Minds Learning is excited to bring you preparation for the CogAT, Form 7 (Level 5/6)! These fun and colorful worksheets will help prepare your 5 or 6-year old (K or 1st grader) for the latest version of the CogAT without feeling like it's a test. This worksheet covers the Figure Matrices section in the Nonverbal Battery. Answer Key is included. You can purchase all my CogAT prep worksheets in one bundle here. For more worksheets and activities, check out my store or visit my websi

Expanding Minds Learning is excited to bring you preparation for the CogAT, Form 7 (Level 5/6)! These fun and colorful worksheets will help prepare your 5 or 6-year old (K or 1st grader) for the latest version of the CogAT without feeling like it's a test. This set of worksheets covers the Number Series section in the Quantitative Battery. Answer Keys are included. You can purchase all my CogAT prep worksheets in one bundle here. For more worksheets and activities, check out my store or vis

Expanding Minds Learning is excited to bring you preparation for the CogAT, Form 7 (Level 5/6)! These fun and colorful worksheets will help prepare your 5 or 6-year old (K or 1st grader) for the latest version of the CogAT without feeling like it's a test. This set of worksheets covers the Sentence Completion section in the Verbal Battery. Answer Keys are included. You can purchase all my CogAT prep worksheets in one bundle here. For more worksheets and activities, check out my store or vis

Expanding Minds Learning is excited to bring you preparation for the CogAT, Form 7 (Level 5/6)! These fun and colorful worksheets will help prepare your 5 or 6-year old (K or 1st grader) for the latest version of the CogAT without feeling like it's a test. This set of worksheets covers the Number Puzzles section in the Quantitative Battery. Answer Keys are included. You can purchase all my CogAT prep worksheets in one bundle here. For more worksheets and activities, check out my store or v

Expanding Minds Learning is excited to bring you preparation for the CogAT, Form 7 (Level 5/6)! These fun and colorful worksheets will help prepare your 5 or 6-year old (K or 1st grader) for the latest version of the CogAT without feeling like it's a test. This set of worksheets covers the Figure Classification section in the Nonverbal Battery. Answer Keys are included. You can purchase all my CogAT prep worksheets in one bundle here. For more worksheets and activities, check out my store o

Use this worksheet to practice for the Picture Classification section of the CogAT, Form 7. The format is the same for levels 5/6-8 (grades K-2). Students must look at a group of pictures and determine what they have in common. Then they will select the object that belongs with the group. These questions can also help your students prepare for many other gifted tests, intelligence tests, or aptitude tests. An answer key is included. You can purchase all my CogAT prep worksheets in one bundl

Let your students use their logic skills to solve these easy to medium Sudoku puzzles. Each puzzle is on a 4x4 grid and includes an answer key and step-by-step explanation of one way to solve. Two of the puzzles use the numbers 1-4. One of the puzzles uses shapes instead of numbers. For more worksheets and activities, check out my store or visit my website at www.expandingmindslearning.com.

In this fun alphabet activity, your students will have to listen to the clues you read them and deduce the answer. They will build vocabulary and critical thinking skills. This is one of the first activities I created for Expanding Minds Learning. I started doing this game with my son on the way to school. I keep his school calendar posted on the wall near the door so I can see what they will be doing each week. I check what the letter of the week is on our way out the door. Near the beginning

This fun Halloween-themed worksheet is a great way to sneak in some practice on number series. Use this to practice for the Number Series section of the CogAT or general number patterns practice. There are 4 patterns: an increasing pattern, two ABAB patterns, and an ABCABC pattern. It's good practice to expose students to a variety of types of patterns so they can learn to recognize them. Practice makes perfect, and the more practice you give your child, the more "second-nature" pattern recogni

Word search in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. This worksheet contains only 8 search words, so it is great for PreK to Elementary students. For more worksheets and activities, check out my store or visit my website at www.expandingmindslearning.com. Don't forget to leave me some feedback and a great rating if you're happy with my products!

Try this fun crossword puzzle with your students when you're learning about feelings. This puzzle covers angry, cold, tired, sad, funny, thirsty, happy, and hungry. Bonus feelings/manners-themed cryptogram puzzle included! Also includes a worksheet where students get to draw what they think of when they hear different feelings. Includes happy/sad, tired/awake, and brave/scared. Answer keys are included. For more worksheets and activities, check out my store or visit my website at www.expandi

This packet contains eight pages of rhyme problems plus answer keys. The student is presented with four pictures and after saying what each picture is aloud, he or she must pick out the one that does not rhyme with the others. The word families covered are: at, ock, un, ap, ed, ing, ig, ab, ub, an, op, ell, in, ot, ake, ail, ish, one, ug, ill, en, ip, ee, ook For more worksheets and activities, check out my store or visit my website at www.expandingmindslearning.com. Don't forget to leave me

Students will fill in the missing spots on the ladybugs to follow the pattern. This worksheet is good practice for the Number Series section of the CogAT. Skills: pattern recognition, numbers For more worksheets and activities, check out my store or visit my website at www.expandingmindslearning.com.

Match pairs of mother and baby animals in this matching worksheet. This worksheet is great for vocabulary building, as it includes the correct terminology. An answer key is included. Use this with an animal theme, a baby theme, or for Mothers' Day. For more worksheets and activities, check out my store or visit my website at www.expandingmindslearning.com. Don't forget to leave me some feedback and a great rating if you're happy with my products!

This Labor Day, teach your young students about all different types of jobs and occupations. Over 20 jobs are included in this packet in 6 different worksheets. Worksheets include a crossword puzzle, drawing activity, matching, reading clues, and more! Answer keys are included. For more worksheets and activities, check out my store or visit my website at www.expandingmindslearning.com.

Download TEN activities in this New Years Themed Activity Packet. Activities designed for a variety of ability levels from PreK through elementary school. 1. Word Search 2. Maze 3. Unscramble 4. Number Series Practice 5. Picture Patterns 6. Finding Identical Objects 7. Draw a Snowman 8. Picture Classification Practice - Winter Objects 9. Coloring Page 10. Make a Party Hat For more worksheets and activities, check out my store or visit my website at www.expandingmindslearning.com. Don't forget

A compound word is formed when two or more words are joined to form one word. The meaning of the compound word may be very different from the meanings of the component words. We use compound words all the time, and we don’t even think about it anymore: football, butterfly, fireworks, moonlight, everything, inside, and so many more. For a child who is just learning all sorts of new vocabulary words, compound words can be an interesting and exciting phenomenon. In this set of worksheets from Exp

This game is fantastic whenever you have a lot of fun-size bags of M&Ms on hand (think Halloween or Easter). Sort the M&Ms by color, then create a picture graph showing how many of each color. Then eat them, of course! This is great practice for sorting colors, and a fun and simple introduction to graphing. I've also included some blank sorting and graphing pages for when you have those bags with special holiday colors. For more worksheets and activities, check out my store or visit my websi

Over 10 worksheets and activities included in this packet! Block Patterns - cut out the block shapes and put them together to make the given pattern Figure Classification - find the figure that doesn't belong with the others Clockwise and Counterclockwise Cardinal Directions (north, south, east, west) - follow directions on a grid Left and Right from different perspectives Horizontal, Vertical, and Diagonal Tallest vs. Shortest - around the neighborhood theme Less Than - fire engine theme Most