Designed for those "early finishers" ~ a collection of THINKING TASKS, not busy work. A different, creative approach, that your students will appreciate. Keep this collection in a file folder crate, and teach your students a routine for accessing the "The Thinking Spot."
Included in this Spring Sample Pack:
"The Thinking Spot" Crate Label
Invent a Plant
Flower Power (Category Brainstorm)
Doodle Spring
Character Trading Cards
Puddle of Fun
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Pumpkin Emotions/Feelings Poster and Memory Game
One Pumpkin, Many Emotions! Use this engaging pumpkin to help review some basic emotions. A poster and memory game cards are included in this download.
Related Product:
Pumpkin Shapes
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An excellent resource for early finishers or for independent work time that requires higher level thinking with SCAMPER terms (Substitute, Combine, Add Something, Magnify/Minify, Put to Other Uses, Eliminate, Rearrange) and words from Bloom's Taxonomy: Create and Evaluate.
You will find a color version which you can laminate for durability. A black line version is also included to make individual student copies.
Includes two different headers for you to choose from!
This is part of a bundl
An early reader book about India! Includes basic information, please see the preview for a look at the black line text. Also included, color and black line vocabulary cards to review prior to reading.
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Use these creative and critical thinking activities to provide enrichment for those early finishers in your classroom! You can choose to use them as individual sheets, or combine them and use the booklet cover.
Includes:
Cover (in case you want to make student packets)
Shark Scramblegories
Surf's Up!
Crab Synonyms
Paisley Coloring
Ideal Road Trip
Favorites: School Year Reflections
Highlight of My School Year
I will miss...
Dear Future Me
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An excellent resource for early finishers or for independent work time that requires higher level thinking!
You will find a color version which you can laminate for durability. A black line version is also included to make individual student copies.
This is part of a bundled package:
Monthly Choice Boards Primary {HOTS for Early Finishers}
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All children need validation, including with how they are feeling. A quick way to “check-in” with your students at the beginning of class is to ask “How do you feel today?” Students can give you a visual hand sign, showing 1 to 5 fingers, indicating how their day is going. A quick visual scan will give you an idea of those students who might need a little extra support during the day. If needed, students can draw and write to express why they are feeling a certain way. This is especially us
Tom Tiger can be lots of different shapes! Use the predictable text in this emergent reader to strength early reading skills and knowledge of shapes.
Tom Tiger can be a:
circle
square
triangle
rectangle
diamond
heart
pentagon
star
octagon
hexagon
Vocabulary cards for each shape are also included in color and black line versions.
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Creative writing prompts for early finishers!
Print these handy writing prompt cards and place on an O-ring. Students who finish early can flip through and find a prompt just right for them. Each open-ended prompt is designed to encourage student choice and creative thought.
Includes 20 different prompt cards ~ enjoy!
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Try this sample of creative and critical thinking activities to provide enrichment for those early finishers in your classroom! You can choose to use them as individual sheets, or combine them and use the August booklet cover.
Includes:
Hot Air Balloons
Find the Shapes (visual discrimination)
PeliCAN Thinkergories
Book Lists (perspective taking)
S'more Symbolism
Camping Improvements
Door Decor
Remote Redesign
Lemonade Wars
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What Does the Fox Say? He asks questions! And his questions start with Who? What? When? Where? Why? How? Which?
Includes color and black line posters (two different layouts) and question starter cards that students can use as reminders of how questions start.
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Asking a Question:
Raise your hand
Wait patiently and quietly
Question Starters:
Who
What
When
Where
Why
How
Includes two boy versions and two girl versions.
Also includes compliment cards to give to students to recognize those that are good at asking questions!
PDF file that prints to standard 8 1/2" by 11"
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A set of 24 icebreaker questions to use anytime during the school year. Questions can be copied, cut out, and placed in a basket/bowl for students to draw from ~ or can be copied onto sticky notes, then covered with another sticky note and hung on the board for students to choose from at random. A color copy and a grayscale copied are both included. A student chooses a question, answers it, then asks another student in class to answer the same question. Great fun for the class!
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Adorable animals for each letter of the alphabet! Use as an anchor chart for alphabet fluency practice or as a reference in writing!
Includes color and black line versions.
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Practice color words with the predictable text in this emergent reader!
The pattern starts with:
I see a red car.
I see a pink car.
I see a green car.
I see a yellow car.
I see a black car.
I see a brown car.
Then evolves to:
I see a purple van.
I see an orange truck.
I see a white ambulance.
I see a blue police car.
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An opportunity for students to practice two key areas of creativity!
Fluency: Students list multiple words that fit given requirements.
Flexibility: Students draw pictures that start with the given letter that fit specific categories.
Letter M Sample in the Preview!
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WANTED: Alphabet Letters
Also Known As (Recognizing Lots of Different Fonts)
Student job: Find, Capture, and Paste to the page
(Give your students old newspapers and magazines to look through and find examples of the targeted letter.)
Letter M Sample in the Preview!
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PreK - K
English Language Arts, Phonics & Phonological Awareness
Choose from a floral or plain lunchbox, and use this emergent reader to help your students read predictable text which switches from "is" to "are".
What Is Inside My Lunchbox?
A banana is inside.
A sandwich is inside.
Strawberries are inside.
Milk is inside.
Yogurt is inside.
And _____ is inside.
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PreK - 1st
Reading, Reading Strategies
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