Taking Care of Yourself
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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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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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Students will read more quickly and effectively when given appropriate strategies for reading and instructed how to match those strategies to each reading situation. There are many important strategies to learn. This set focuses on the strategies that will enhance student reading during Guided Reading experiences.
This set includes strategy cards that you can use in your classroom to remind students of the strategies as you learn them. Also included are posters that you can use to teach each strategy. Print the posters on large paper if possible and display them where the class can see them. If you are using them in a whole group lesson you can print smaller versions. Each poster is followed by a lesson plan that will help you teach each reading strategy.
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Happy New Year Thematic Unit is filled with Curriculum Essentials for Math, Literacy, and More: Featuring Clocks, Calendar and New Year's Fun
New Year unit is divided into areas of literature, music, art, literacy, math, independent practice, creative writing, word wall, and guided reading. The activities are clearly written, easy to use, and need limited amounts of preparation.
Literacy Activities:
New Year Lotto: Matching Upper & Lowercase Letters
The Party Palace: Blending & Segmenting Words
Happy New Year: Naming Letter Sounds
New Year Raceway: Reading Sightwords Fluently
Math Activities:
New Year Clocks: Matching Time to The Hour
Moving Hands: Manipulating a Clock to Tell Time
New Year's Bear Party: Joining Groups of Objects
Happy Friday Dance: Constructing & Using a Calendar
Countdown: Counting Backwards From a Given Number 0-20
Independent Practice
New Year Balloons: Reading Color Words
What Time Is It? Reading Analog Clocks and Writing Times Digitally
Fix The Clock: Drawing Hands on an Analog Clock
Firework Number Match: Matching Numerals 11-20 to a 10+Number
January Calendar: Trace & Write Numerals
Party Time: Matching Upper and Lowercase Letters
Art Projects
Party Hat & Streamers
Cone New Year's Hat
Baby New Year/GrandFather Time Flip-it
Writing Prompts/Word Wall
Happy New Year
What Will Happen This Year?
Happy New Year Word Wall
Songs/Fingerplays
A New Year
Months of the Year Song
Days of the Week Song
Guided Reading Books
Happy New Year
Tick Tock
Winter Indépendant Writing Center Activities
Winter Sport Reading Intervention Games
Winter Guided Sight Word Readers Set 1