Arctic Animals Thematic Unit
One of my favorite activities to do during January is Arctic Animals. The science content is great, the books are great, and face it, the animals are adorable!
These are the great books that I use when I teach this fun unit.
To make this unit even better, my favorite video of all time is available on youtube!
Science Fun
And be sure to bring snow into your classroom using this great artificial snow!
All you do is add water to make 10 gallons of ice-cold fun!
Cross-Curricular Thematic Unit
Are you looking for Academically Challenging yet Developmentally Appropriate Thematic Units? You will love this unit as you and your classroom or homeschool students learn about the Polar Animals that live in Arctic Regions such as penguins, polar bears, walrus and more?
Teach the Common Core Standards with confidence by using these strategically linked cross-curricular, thematic activities. You and your students will love them! They are classroom tested with perfect results!
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Arctic and Antarctic Regions Thematic Unit.
You will love this unit as you and your classroom or homeschool students learn about the Polar Animals that live in Arctic or Antarctic Regions such as penguins, polar bears, walrus and more?
Teach the academic Core Standards with confidence by using these strategically linked cross-curricular, thematic activities. You and your students will love them! They are classroom tested with perfect results!
Contents include:
Shared Reading Activities:
The Whale & The Penguin: Group Poetry Activity
Arctic Friends: Retell a Story
Literacy Activities
Glacier Bay: Phoneme Segmentation
Glacier Melt Down: Fluently Naming Alphabet Sounds
March of the Penguins: Alphabet Letter Fluency
Arctic Hunt: Nonsense Word Fluency
Walrus Waddle & Walk: Writing Beginning Sounds
Igloo Match: Matching Upper and Lowercase Letters
Arctic Animal Names: Writing Missing Letters
Math Activities:
Polar Bears in the Cave: Counting On
Penguin Playground: Adding to and Taking Away
Inuit Count: Joining Sets
Rescuing Penguins: Identifying Teen Numbers
Polar Bear Fishing: Comparing Quantities
Comparing Igloos: Comparing Written Numerals
Inuit Friends: Composing Numbers
Writing Prompts/Word Wall
Arctic Word Wall
The Penguins
Polar Animals
Label It
Guided Reading Books
Arctic Friends
Class Made Book
Arctic Friends
Art Projects
Walrus
My Inuit Friend
Penguin
Science
Ice Race: Exploring Properties of Water
North Pole Facts?South Pole Facts
Blubber Experiment:How Polar Animals Keep Warm
Songs
North and South
Arctic Friends
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Contents include:
Literacy Activities
The Whale & The Penguin: Group Poetry Activity
Arctic Friends: Retell a Story
Glacier Bay: Phoneme Segmentation
Glacier Melt Down: Fluently Naming Alphabet Sounds
March of the Penguins: Alphabet Letter Fluency
Arctic Hunt: Nonsense Word Fluency
Walrus Waddle & Walk: Writing Beginning Sounds
Igloo Match: Matching Upper and Lowercase Letters
Arctic Animal Names: Writing Missing Letters
Math Activities:
Polar Bears in the Cave: Counting On
Penguin Playground: Adding to and Taking Away
Eskimo Count: Joining Sets
Rescuing Penguins: Identifying Teen Numbers
Polar Bear Fishing: Comparing Quantities
Comparing Igloos: Comparing Written Numerals
Eskimo Friends: Composing Numbers
Writing Prompts/Word Wall
Arctic Word Wall
The Penguins
Polar Animals
Label It
Guided Reading Books
Arctic Friends
Class Made Book
Arctic Friends
Art Projects
Walrus
My Eskimo
Penguin
Science
Ice Race: Exploring Properties of Water
North Pole Facts?South Pole Facts
Blubber Experiment:How Polar Animals Keep Warm
Songs
North and South
Arctic Friends
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Writing Center Resources for Winter
Are you looking for engaging writing activities that can be set up in your permanent writing, phonics, word work, literacy center, writing work station, or literacy centers by any name? You will be so excited about this time-saving easy to differentiate resource!
Simply set up your space, and change monthly or thematically to meet your needs. Click on the preview above to see the anchor cards included and idea for classroom set up. Find out more about setting up a writing center here.Contents Include:
Can Have Are Labels & Worksheets
Write a Story Task Card
Write a Story Worksheets
Label-It Task Card
Label-It Student Worksheets
Make a List Task Card
Make a List Student Worksheet
Make a List Word Wall
Write The Room Task Card- Sight Words
Write the Room Word Cards
Write the Room Task Card- Alphabet
Write the Room Word Cards
Write the Room Worksheets
Backwards Words Task Card
Backwards Words Worksheets
Backwards Word Word Cards
QR Words/Letters Task Card
QR Words/Letters Worksheets
QR Sight Words
QR Alphabet Letters
Writing CVC Words
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The Mitten Thematic Unit is academically challenging and developmentally appropriate, and features the traditional story, "The Mitten." Expand on great literature, reach across the curriculum, and strategically teach core standards as you enjoy bringing Mitten Mania into your classroom.
Table of Contents:
Shared Reading Activities
The Mitten: Retell a Story
Mitten Poetry Activity: Group Reading Activity
Literacy Activities:
Little Lost Mittens: Reviewing Early Phonics and Phonological Skills.
Shake and Fill Mittens: Reading and Writing CVC Words
Warm Mittens: Naming Sounds or Reading Nonsense Words
The Kittens’ Mittens: Naming Alphabet Sounds
Kittens’ Mittens Words: Reading CVC Words
QR Mittens: Writing Sight Words
Makin’ Mittens: Reading Sight Words
The Lost Mitten: Producing Rhymes
Mitten Colors: Reading Color Words
Math Activities:
Mitten Spots: Naming Numbers Fluently
The Mitten Shop: Counting by Tens
Mitten Bingo: Identifying Numbers 11-30
Mitten Problems: Decomposing Numbers
Mitten Sort: Sorting Mittens by Shape
Mitten Pairs: Understand Number, Quantity Relationships
Mitten Numbers: Writing Numbers from 0-20.
Dice Mitten Throw: Adding Dice
Writing Prompts/Word Wall
Write a Story
My Mittens
Who Will Crawl Into My Mitten?
Mitten Word Wall
Make a List of Mitten Words
Class Book
Millions of Mittens
Guided Reading Books
The Mitten: Level A
The Mitten Level C
Art Projects
Mitten Art
Mitten Wreath
The Mitten Retelling Puppets
Songs
Oh Where, Oh Where
Fuzzy Mittens
The Mitten
Winter Indépendant Writing Center Activities
Winter Sport Reading Intervention Games
Winter Guided Sight Word Readers Set 1
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Snowman Thematic Unit
The Snowman cross-curricular unit is divided into areas of literature, music, art, literacy, math, science, independent practice, creative writing, word wall, and guided reading. The activities are clearly written, easy to use, and need limited amounts of preparation. Your students will think learning is "snow fun!"
This complete Snowman Unit is filled with games and activities that your classroom or homeschool students will love, and will offer you numerous curriculum options that will tie academic learning to a snowman theme.
Table of Contents
Literacy Activities:
Snowman Spill: Automaticy of Lowercase Letter Sounds
Snowman Match-up: Matching Letters and Sounds
Build a Snowman: Blending and Segmenting Words
Snowman Melt: Reading High Frequency Words
Snowman Melt: Identifying Alphabet letters
Draw a Snowman: Reviewing Early Phonics and Phonological Skills
My Favorite Things: Identifying Medial Sounds
Beginning Sounds: Identifying and Writing Beginning Sounds
A-Z: Fluently Connecting Dots From a-z.
Writing the Alphabet A-Z and a-z: Practicing Alphabet Letter Formation
Math Activities:
Snowball Fight: Comparing Numbers
The Snowman's Buttons: Decomposing Numbers
Snowman Sets: Joining Sets Using a 10 Frame Strategy
Snowman Sums: Making a Sum of 10 Using an Unknown and a KnowN Addend With Visual Representation.
Symmetry Snowman: Symmetry Activity
Snowman Puzzles: Using Geometric Shapes to Construct a Snowman
The Tallest Snowman: Measurement
Snowman Number Hunt: Matching Quantity and Numerals
Math Journal Prompt (Labels): Joining Sets
Guided Reading Books
The Snowmen (Level B)
The Snowmen (Level C)
Writing Prompts/Word Wall
My Snowman
How To Build a Snowman
Snowman Word Wall
Snowman Label-it (3 Levels)
Science
The Melting Snowman: Observing States of Matter
Science Journal Page: Why does the sun melt the snowman?
Art Projects
Snowman Gallery Art Show
Marshmallow Snowman
Shape Snowman
Painted Snowman Portfolio Sample
Songs
Five Little Snowmen
I'm a Little Snowman
Drawing a Snowman
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These are not your typical worksheets, they are made for adult/child interaction and teaching to complete. These higher-level thinking pages will challenge students and deepen mathematical understanding.