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Covers 144 homographs! Your students will love working with homographs when they can do it with these cute pups! These silly pups love dressing up and posing for pictures.They also love sharing a dog house with their best friend. But which two dogs share each doghouse? Match the missing word in each sentence with the homograph on each doghouse to find out! 12 sets of cards make this perfect for centers or early finishers and will allow students to do this activity over and over (which they w

This fun, engaging word search is a companion to my Animal Adaptations Vocabulary Bingo, available in my store along with over 600 other literature, science, social studies and math bingo games. The terms included in this activity are adapt, adaptation, aestivation, behavioral adaptations, body coverings, camouflage, chemical defenses, commensalism, countershading, defense mechanisms, exaptations, evolution, extinction, genetic mutation, hibernation, instinct, learned behavior, migration, m

This is a free preview of my "Words to use instead of...." products. Expand your students’ descriptive vocabulary with this fun, engaging word search! The familiar format exposes students to a wide range of synonyms for the overused "said." The words are placed horizontally, vertically and diagonally, as well as forwards and backwards. An answer key is included (I prefer the color version, but black and white is also provided). This versatile activity can be used for a wide range of skill leve

What a fun way to reinforce content area vocabulary for small groups or the whole class! These familiar activities will have students actively thinking about and discussing the language of recycling. The bingo game is ideal for discussing both new and familiar terms, because students only have to recognize the word matching the definition, not generate it. 30 game boards are included to allow for whole class participation. The special calling cards, featuring fold over flaps to hide the answers

A fun way to practice equivalent number combinations! Students choose the numbers they write in the pepperonis, so every game is different. Choose numbers or a combination of numbers and number criteria to define the target number. Students then search for any two numbers on their board which, when added or subtracted, yield the target number. Students will discover that some numbers can be formed with more combinations than others, and will use this information when playing subsequent games. An

This fun, engaging word search is a companion to my Salmon Vocabulary Bingo, available in my store along with over 600 other literature, science, social studies and math bingo games. The terms included in this activity are: adult, alevin, anadromous fish, caudal fin (tail fin), dam, dorsal fin, egg (roe), estuary, fish, fish ladder, fish passage barriers, fresh water, fry, gills, homing instinct, kelt, milt, natal stream, parr, parr marks, redd, riparian zone, salmon run, scale, smolt, smoltific

Finally, a fun way to reinforce the language of literature with small groups or the whole class! This familiar activity will have students actively thinking about and discussing the words Andrea Wang used to bring the story of Watercress to life. Because students only have to recognize the word matching the definition, not generate it, it is ideal for discussing both new and familiar terms. 30 game cards are included to allow for whole class participation. The special calling cards, featuring

Students will sharpen their observational skills and deductive reasoning as they try to guess the secret snowman. This can be used as a 2-player game, small group activity or whole class activity. Visit my store, LEARNING FUN, for more freebies and other activities that make learning fun.

Finally, a fun way to reinforce the language of literature with small groups or the whole class! This familiar activity will have students actively thinking about and discussing the words Margot Lee Shetterly used to bring the characters of the picture book version of Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race to life. Because students only have to recognize the word matching the definition, not generate it, it is ideal for discussing both new and familiar terms. 30

Finally, a fun way to reinforce the language of literature with small groups or the whole class! This familiar activity will have students actively thinking about and discussing the words Patricia Palacio used to bring the story of White Bird to life. Because students only have to recognize the word matching the definition, not generate it, it is ideal for discussing both new and familiar terms. 30 game cards are included to allow for whole class participation. The special calling cards, featur

MONKEY ROUNDING provides practice rounding 2-digit numbers to the nearest 10 or 3-digit numbers to the nearest hundred. 2- 6 students can play this engaging board game. Students take turns flipping over a banana card and rounding the number on the card. If correct (other players can check the rounding chart included) the player looks on the number card to see if it has 1, 2, 3 or 4 bananas. The number of bananas determines how many spaces the player can move along the monkey trail. But they will

Let the canine crew of THE BARKER help your students learn to identify the four different types of sentences! These 4-legged pirates roam the high seas in search of treasure - dog bones, of course! 2 - 6 students compete to be the first player to build their canine crew. Students take turns reading a sentence and determining if it is a statement, question, command or exclamation. A correct answer entitles the player to roll the die and move along the game board. If a player lands on a

Students mix and match base words with single or double consonant endings in this engaging activity. 120 words are covered, in 8 sets of 15. The left side cards show the dog used in the set and the base word (along with the consonant which will be used—single or doubled). The right side card shows the final consonant or double consonant, and the dog in another pose, activity or costume. By mixing and matching the two types of cards for each dog, all of them can be used to form words. If a st

Students will practice adding the values of coins and learn to anticipate possible outcomes in this simple game. After playing a game or two, players will realize that sometimes it's better to take a lesser value coin rather than take a higher value coin which makes an even more valuable coin an end coin. You will need play coins for this activity.

What a fun way to expand student vocabulary! This activity will have students thinking about and discussing the interesting and often humorous vocabulary of the names of groups of animals. 30 game boards are included in each set. TWO DIFFERENT SETS OF 30 GAME BOARDS ARE INCLUDED (a total of 50 different animal group names) because once your students play this game, they’ll be asking for more! Print out a few for use as a center or enough for the whole class.

Choose a standard 5x5 grid or the 6x6 super bingo versionWhat a fun way to consolidate basic multiplication facts. This familiar activity has a twist that challenges fact knowledge in a different way - the answer is given, it is the equation which yields the answer that students have to search for. BUT - not all boards have an equation for every product AND they may have more than one equation with the desired product, requiring them to strategically choose one to mark.

Finally, a fun way to reinforce the language of literature with small groups or the whole class! This familiar activity will have students thinking about and discussing the words Erin Entrada Kelly used to bring the characters of The First State of Being to life. Because students only have to recognize the word matching the definition, not generate it, it is ideal for discussing both new and familiar terms. Two games are included: chapters 1-16 and 17-40. There are 30 cards in each set to allo

Your students will have a roaring good time exchanging ones for tens in this dinosaur themed game for 2-4 players. Help the dinosaurs hatch! Collect dinosaur eggs by taking a nest card and choosing hatchling dinos to match the number of eggs in the nest. When you have a 10 frame filled with hatchlings, you can trade them for a full grown dinosaur (a 10 card). The first player to get 5 dinosaurs wins (or play to 3 or 4 dinos for a shorter game). Includes optional cards to play to 100, exchangi

What a fun way to reinforce the importance of being kind to others at school! This activity will have students actively thinking about and discussing ways to spread kindness in the school setting. 30 game cards are included to allow for whole class participation. To play, mix up the cards into a face down pile. Before beginning play ask each student to find one act of kindness on their card (except the center one!) that they will complete during the week. Students should mark this space with a h

Addition, subtraction, multiplication, factors, odd/even...you choose the skill or skills students will practice with TRI-NUMBERS. Students join the colorful triangle cards according to the criteria you choose. For example: numbers with a sum of 10, numbers with a difference of 2 or 3, numbers that yeild an even sum, numbers that yields an odd product, numbers with 5 as a factor...use one or more of the 24 criteria choices given, or use the blank cards to write your own. Students may work with 0