Fluent Minds

This is a great hands on activity that allows the students to create AB, ABB, AAB, ABC, and ABCD patterns using fruit pieces, geometric shape manipulatives, and unifix cubes. It even incorporates the students using SOUNDS to create patterns! This is a great way to actively allow the students to practice patterns and can be used as centers! Print the pages out and use them as mats. You can laminate them as well to keep them for extended use! You could also print them individually and allow studen

This is a sequencing cut and paste. It features Goldilocks and the Three Bears, Little Red Hen, Three Little Pigs, and a Holiday story. It also contains a sight word game print out.

This is a power point that covers capacity and comparing different amounts to each other. Can be used as an interactive hook or review.

These were created to use in conjunction with Orton Gillingham strategies. The hand is a placement for the learner to "pound out" each syllable and tap out each sound they hear with their fingers. They will pound and tap with their non writing hand and use their other hand to write the sounds they hear in the elkonin boxes. This activity can be laminated and used with dry erase markers to be used again and again! There are templates for right handed learners and left handed learners as well.

These Blooms Taxonomy based teacher cards can be printed as posters or printed using the booklet print feature and can be put on a ring as a teacher tool in the classroom. What better way to have a handy and colorful stack of cards to help remind you the level of the lessons you teach! This also can be displayed in your classroom as a visual aid for your students as well. With the new CCGPS, rigor and higher order thinking are HOT topics! Download and print your copy today!

This is a great power point that can be used for a hook, lesson, introduction or review! It covers in detail all the different characteristics of rocks and shows several pictures to help guide them. It covers: - rough, smooth - shiny, dull - hard, soft - big, small - dark, light - sedimentary, igneous, metamorphic - where can you find rocks? - earth materials: soil, rock, water, air

This is a great activity that can be done with buddies or independently to allow the students to get to know where things are in the classroom. Items can be edited to match specific things in your classroom!

This is a great resource to print and laminate to create an area in your classroom where you can post "the bridge" posters. Wonderful to use to showcase your metalinguistic charts. This is to be posted in the English classroom. The Spanish teacher should also post one in a similar area in the Spanish classroom. The Spanish version is included as well in this set.

This is a power point that can be used a an introduction, a review game, or a hook! It covers everything about our countries most important symbols and our nations presidents as well. The way the words come in allows the students to guess what it is first before the words appear (good for our advanced readers!) It helps with the difficult break down of our world, continent, country, and state identification.

This a great game for boys or girls or any learner that loves cars! You can use any small toy cars and move each sound into the parking lot as you read. The learner can write the word in the boxes and then practice sounding out the word as they "park" each car. This is a great hands on way to help students to isolate each sounds and blend the word! If you are practicing a 3 letter word you would only use 3 cars. The cars start at the bottom parking lot and the child would move each car up to the

This is a template to guide the students in an addition dice game. The students will roll the dice write the number and the corresponding dots in the box. They will do this twice. Then they will count touch to find the final answer.

This is a game the students can play with dice. The recording sheet is used to record what they roll and then ESTIMATE if it is closer to 5 or 10. They can use more than 1 die to increase the difficulty.

Can you see it, smell it, or hear it?... Then it is a physical property! This is an interactive introduction to physical properties. It can be played as a game or as a review method.

This is an activity that can be used on several levels for each of the students. I use it as a game where 2 students act as the cashier and customer. Once student has a bag of money and the other the store mat. (They can be laminated and you can write in your own amounts or write in your own amounts for each student to individualize) Each student will take turns buying an item of their choice, counting out the coins, giving it to their partner (cashier) and checking it with them. Then switch. Yo

This is a Dominoes GO FISH game. The students will place several dominoes face down on the desk. They will take turns flipping one domino and recording their number, then they must decide if the number is closer to 5 or 10.

Using this template is simple way to track a students letter name and sound knowledge for multiple testing periods. Use a different colored ink pen to check each letter name and sound. The back page can be used to test students once they have mastered all letter names and sounds for additional skills such as blends, digraphs, vowel teams, vowel control, and long vowels.

This is a fun way to review building CVC words. It is COLOR coded to helps students distinguish beginning, middle, and end sounds. Also, it includes pictures to help aid students.

This sheet can be either laminated or used on a Elmo or over head to guide and model to the students how to label, organize, and count amounts of money.

This is a cut and paste activity that allows the students to practice counting coin amounts with guidance. It is a combination of penny, dime, and nickel.