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Practice the concept of equal shares with this coloring activity. Directions: Color the shapes showing 1 whole BLUE. Color the shapes split into 2 equal shares, or halves RED. Color the shapes split into 4 equal shares, or fourths GREEN.

Picture sort using long i and short i vowel sounds. Students sort pictures using fun ice cream cones!

Itsy Bitsy Spider Craft / Sequencing Activity Have students retell the Itsy Bitsy Spider (as retold by Iza Trapani) using lines from the poem as the spider's 8 legs. There are 5 different parts to the poem, so there are 5 different spider sheets. The spider's body can be positioned to be crawling up or down.

Students can review present tense and past tense verbs with this fun coloring worksheet featuring creatures of the sea.

Students practice the vocabulary whole, halves, and fourths with this activity. Students use the "key" to add toppings on their pizza according to the directions given.

Are you tired of having to give out new punch cards every time the students reach 10 or 20 punches? These punch cards last a bit longer. Simply print out on cardstock and write the student's names. I start the year letting students visit the treasure box after 10 punches. The 10th punch is the circle. You could easily make it 20 punches. Or the seemingly unreachable 40 punches! The punch cards fit in library pockets, but my students just leave them on the corner of their desk.

Students cut and past long e and short e words onto BEE hives.

Use 3/4 small dixie cup full of STARBURST brand jelly beans. These are often sold at Wal Mart around Easter.

Identify verbs in a sentence. Students determine whether verb is past tense or present tense with this cute dachshund dog coloring sheet. Directions: Circle the verb. If the verb present tense, color the dog brown. If the verb is past tense, color the dog yellow.

5 sheets to practice or review telling time to the hour and half hour.

Students take turns blending words that use the long i vowel while trying to make "4 in a row." Students can use 2 color-counters or small scraps of paper as markers.

Students will match homophones by cut and paste.

Young Scientists can compare "parents" to their "young" in this picture sort.