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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.

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

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.

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

Start working on time concepts with your students. This packet slowly introduces the concepts of time with four activities. 1. introduction to AM vs PM - listing morning and night-time activities 2. ordering events in your daily schedule 3. comparing pairs of times and determining which comes first 4. counting days on a calendar For more worksheets and activities, check out my store or visit my website at www.expandingmindslearning.com.

Practice with the fraction 1/2 (one-half) with this animal-themed worksheet. This worksheet includes 5 fraction model problems plus an answer key. For more worksheets and activities check out my store or visit my website at www.expandingmindslearning.com.

Addition and Subtraction with Models This packet includes 6 different worksheets, all with different themes: cats, apples, fairy tales (Hansel and Gretel), zoo animals, cookies, and rocks. For more worksheets and activities, check out my store or visit my website at www.expandingmindslearning.com.

We use this to keep a weather journal. Print out several pages of the chart. Each day, cut out and paste one of the weather icons on the correct day. We keep ours in a binder and pull it out each day to track the weather. After a season, we look back through our notebook and talk about trends/patterns we see.

In these fun puzzles, students will use critical thinking and logic skills to find the hidden word using the code. Three of the worksheets give the code. The fourth worksheet gives part of the code presented as a pattern, and the student must use logic to determine how the pattern extends. These worksheets include letters, numbers, and shapes - all combined using critical thinking and logic for some fun! For more worksheets and activities, check out my store or visit my website at www.expandi

Subitizing is the ability to see a quantity and instantly know how many without counting. Your students will build on this skill through elementary school, as it is a foundation for modelling addition and multiplication. Encourage your students to do this worksheet without counting the bears. For more worksheets and activities, check out my store or visit my website at www.expandingmindslearning.com.