Free Life Skills File Folder Activities for the independent work station in special education classrooms. Practice life skills for community integration!
Learn how you can use Legos and technology integration to create a fun learning center! Tools mentioned include: PicCollage, Google Slides, PowerPoint, Seesaw, Book Creator & Flipgrid.
This is perfect for reinforcing addition concepts. Use simple addition to 20 with pictures for math centers, independent practice, homework, or small group study to help students with basic addition facts. And perfect for whole-class activities, math stations, fast finisher activities, and review. These worksheets will help your kindergarten students practice Counting and Cardinality , addition with pictures and practice writing numbers too. These worksheets include: 15 pages to practice addition with objects pictures. 15 pages to practice Counting and Cardinality , addition and practice writing numbers. This is a Counting and Cardinality lesson in Kindergarten Common Core Standards: K.OA.A.1 How to use these worksheets: Skill Practice Homeschooling Homework Math Centers Morning Work Independent work THANK YOU! I appreciate you purchasing my teaching resources, and I hope you'll enjoy using them in your classroom. FOLLOW ME HERE You may also be interested in : Count and Match | Numbers 1-20 Worksheets Odd and Even Worksheets picture subtraction Worksheets Before After Between Worksheets LEAVE A REVIEW to EARN TpT CREDITS FOR FUTURE PURCHASES !
Save yourself time with this ready to use station set of activities to practice tener expressions! Six games and activities to practice and review common phrases using TENER in the present tense. 33 pages - 7 MB - Zip
Say It, Make It, Write It Free Printable Mats - How to Use Them Six Different Ways. Find out how to use this one free printable resource in your classroom 6 ways! Perfect for literacy centers, literacy work stations, sight word practice or even your maths centers | you clever monkey
Your new favorite teaching strategy: This pared-down version of learning stations keeps the movement, interactivity and variety while minimizing the prep work.
Click here to download this free letter and number formation activity for preschool, prek, kindergarten, or even 1st grade. This game is great for literacy stations, centers, or homework practice.
Practice high-frequency word GOOD with this action pack printable worksheet. Your child will find, trace, and write the word GOOD in a sentence.
These editable word work activities are perfect for small groups or centers and help every level of reader as they become stronger readers!
Perfect for morning work, station, or Daily 5. Have your students practice their spelling words with these worksheets. Practice makes perfect...
Practice recognizing and counting basic geometric shapes with this printable worksheet. How many shapes do you see in this picture?
Short A is usually the first phonics sound you teach in kindergarten and first grade so I figured it'd be a great sound to show you teaching...
I’ll admit, when I first began using stations the main reason was so I didn’t have to make copies for 200 students. The copy machines at my school were frequently broken, out of toner, and often inaccessible due to high need from other teachers and the lack of regular and predictable planning periods. If I wanted to make copies, I either had to get to school around seven or stay well after the final bell rang. Even then I might not be able to print what I needed for my students because the paper might be locked away to save the district some money. Stations were a perfect solution to my copy machine dilemmas. However, once I began using stations I found many more reasons to keep using them in my seventh grade science classes. Perhaps most importantly, students love stations and are motivated simply because they can be out of their seats and be more in charge of their learning (more on that later). Stations are super easy to differentiate and can be used to meet the needs of all of your students. Also, they are easy to use and quick to set up. If you’ve never heard of stations, ever considered using stations, or if you currently use stations and they aren’t quite as effective as you’d like, keep reading. Students practice identifying variables and writing hypotheses with these Scientific Method Stations. What are stations? Stations are a way for students to practice lesson content while moving around the classroom instead of being seated at desks. (That might sound scary when considering certain classes—believe me, I’ve been there. However, I’ve used stations with even my most rambunctious, out of control classes of 35+ seventh grade students. It can be done successfully.) Stations can be questions or short tasks posted on the perimeter of the room. In my science classes I typically used questions that could be answered with students’ notes, textbooks, knowledge, or skills. I included a variety of question levels—some easy and straightforward and others rigorous and challenging. I have also set up measurement stations with tasks to complete such as finding the volume of an object using the water displacement method or predicting the mass of an object and then using a balance to see how close their predictions were. When I noticed students had a hard time finding information in textbooks, I had stations where students had to find a specific piece of information using glossaries, tables of contents, or indexes. I’ve even cut up a worksheet and posted it around the room as stations. Answering the questions on a worksheet can be tedious, but when that same worksheet is in station form it becomes more engaging and meaningful. When students are up and around the room doing stations they’ll need to record their answers. This can be done on notebook paper that they hand in when they’re finished or in their interactive notebooks. How do I set up stations in my classroom? Start off by writing the questions or tasks you want your students to answer. Use fairly large font so they are easy to read from a distance of several feet. Then print them out and cut them up. If you want, you can laminate them so they are in good condition by the time the last class of students goes through them. I personally did not laminate them, so I always had some rips or pencil marks on the papers by the end of the day. Instead of laminating I just used extra tape to prevent the majority of damage. Once you have your stations printed, cut out, and maybe laminated you can tape them around the room on walls, windows, or tables. Finding space in my classroom was always easy because my room was ginormous. I also had countertops bordering the walls of three-quarters of my classroom. The space you leave between stations obviously depends on how many stations you have, but whenever possible try to leave at least a yard between them. This helps the students stay focused on their task instead of socializing with nearby groups. It also helps the teacher spot misbehavior earlier and sprout fewer gray hairs. When should I use stations? There were two purposes for using stations in my classroom: practice or review. If I was using the stations as a way to reinforce the material we learned, I scheduled them after taking notes and doing a whole class practice. Basically, I wanted my students to have the fundamentals down and the ability to be decently independent before beginning stations. If students needed to review material, I typically used stations as a review activity the day or two before a test. I’ve also had luck using stations before big breaks like Thanksgiving break, winter break, spring break, or summer vacation. Whenever students are especially squirrelly, stations are usually a good choice because students can move around the room and still engage in the material they need to learn and understand instead of wasting learning time. (Stations have kept me sane on more than one occasion before a break.) What behavioral expectations should be established before beginning stations? Before beginning stations, you MUST go over your behavior expectations. Otherwise, the students have a 95% chance of turning feral within three minutes. Here are the station expectations I went over every time we did stations. Students will have no more than three students to a station at any time. If there is already a group at that station, then they must go to another station. Students do not have to go in order. They may skip around to any station as long as they write their answers in the correct location on their own papers. As long as students are on task and working, students may pick the student(s) they want to work with. Students may also work individually. Students will receive only one warning for off task behavior. If they are off task a second time, they will have to complete the assignment individually in their seat using a worksheet form of the stations. Students may only visit the answer sheet twice during the stations. When students finish the stations they need to check all of their answers and return to their seats. How do I monitor behavior during stations, and what do I do about misbehavior? If you aren’t directly supporting a group of students, walk around the room and monitor behavior. Keep an eye and ear out for horseplay. Whenever students misbehave or don’t follow a station expectation give them a warning. If students have a second problem, direct the offending students back to their seats and give them a worksheet form of the stations to complete individually. Remind students they cannot get out of their seats for the remaining station time, otherwise you might find them messing with their friends and wandering around the room “working on the stations.” Depending on whether your stations consist of questions or tasks, your students might not be able to do every station on their worksheet. In that case instruct them to skip the station or complete it individually later on. Biggest advice here: don’t let small misbehaviors get out of hand. Immediately give the warning/consequence and briefly explain to the student what they did wrong and why it’s a problem. Here is an example of how that might sound: “Billybobjoe, you were visiting another group again. When you do this it is distracting to other students and you can’t learn. Because you didn’t follow the station expectations, now you will finish the stations at your desk by yourself on this worksheet.” How can I use stations to meet the needs of all of my students? Stations are excellent for differentiation purposes. Students can choose what works for them. For example, I let my students determine if they wanted to work independently, with a partner, or in a group of three. They also determined the order in which they completed the stations. They could skip around or go in numerical order while working at their own pace. Posting an answer sheet gave my students support by allowing them to check their work or get help with a problem they were struggling with. While my students were working, I was free to meet with a small group of students who needed extra support. Sometimes I determined ahead of time who should be in that day's support group and other times I left it up to the students to come to me for assistance. Consider posting answer sheets (like I did with the Changes in States of Matter Stations) so students can check their work and get assistance if needed. Another way to differentiate is by arranging the stations from easiest to hardest. For the most part, students are pretty good at determining their levels of understanding. Whenever I arranged the stations this way, I explained it to my students and let them choose where they needed to be. Providing the right context and reasoning is important for this. Don’t just say: left is easy, center is medium, and right is hard. Then you’d have a flock of students on the left with no one really benefiting. Explain that the stations on the left side are for students who feel they are having difficulty with the content and need to build up their knowledge and skills first. The stations in the center are a medium level of difficulty for students who feel they have a fairly good understanding of the content and are ready for reinforcement practice. The stations on the right side of the room are for students who feel they understand the material very well and need a challenge. When I explained it this way, my students didn’t feel bad if they were on the left side. As for the right side, many were eager for a challenge and would start by looking at the questions to see if they were ready or needed to go more towards the center. When arranging by level of difficulty, give your students a number of stations to complete. If there are 30 stations, maybe have them choose any 10. Having students complete all of the stations can defeat the purpose of arranging them this way. What do I do when students finish the stations at different times? There are several solutions to this. You can set a timer and have students complete as many stations as they can in 20 minutes. If there are a small number of stations or if the questions/tasks are relatively quick to get through, you can start a five-minute timer after the first five students finish; then announce that everyone needs to be done in less than five minutes. You can have students begin their homework or an individual class assignment at their seats. They can read a book. I’ve tried all of these methods in my class and switched it up depending on the student or lesson needs. What stations do you use in your own classroom? I'm so glad you asked. :) In my Teachers Pay Teachers store you can find many of the stations I have used in my seventh grade science classroom. Currently, these are the stations in my store: Scientific Method Stations: These can be used in a variety of ways. Most often my students used these stations to identify independent and dependent variables and write hypotheses. Changes in States of Matter Stations: These stations give students practice with the key points of melting, freezing, vaporization, condensation, and sublimation. Genetics and Heredity Stations: These stations give students practice with a variety of genetics topics. They are great to see what students know or to review key concepts. Human Body Organ System Stations: Students practice the important characteristics of the skeletal system, circulatory system, respiratory system, muscular system, digestive system, and nervous system. Properties of Matter/Physical Science Review Stations: I use these stations to review physical science concepts before the unit test. They go over atoms, states of matter, changes in states, physical and chemical changes, law of conservation of mass/matter, homogeneous and heterogeneous mixtures, elements, and compounds. Measurement in Science Stations: These stations are all about the tools and units used to measure metric length, volume, mass, and density. Density Stations: My students always need extra practice with density before things really sink in. These stations help them understand. Volume Stations: These stations focus on finding the volume of solids and liquids and measuring correctly. Mass and Weight Stations: Students get practice with the difference between mass and weight with these stations. If you haven’t already, try using stations in your classroom. With the correct implementation, they can really benefit your students. Plus, you don’t have to make a bazillion copies ;) Are you a middle school science teacher? You might be interested in my newsletter. Sign up for my newsletter here. Just for signing up you'll receive an exclusive freebie that you can't get anywhere else.
Use these 10 games for handwriting practice, allowing kids to improve legibility, sizing, placement, and more as they play.
Set up a fun phonics activity for preschoolers and school aged children with this sorting objects into baskets game! Easy, low-preparation and adaptable
These fun, engaging, NO PREP word work activities help students practice their words effectively and are the perfect option for your 1st or 2nd grade class!
These fun, engaging, NO PREP word work activities help students practice their words effectively and are the perfect option for your 1st or 2nd grade class!
Hands-on sight word activities are a motivating way to help children learn how to read common sight words. Making Sight Words in Play Dough
Practice high-frequency word ARE with this action pack printable worksheet. Your child will find, trace, and write the word ARE in a sentence.
Ready to create learning stations? They require a purposeful and strategic design in order for the experience to be meaningful. Start here!
If you're looking for a new way to practice sight words this year, this sight word game is quick and easy and makes learning them all the more fun!
These fun, engaging, NO PREP word work activities help students practice their words effectively and are the perfect option for your 1st or 2nd grade class!
Practice high-frequency word FOR with this action pack printable worksheet. Your child will find, trace, and write the word FOR in a sentence.
Support learning at home with these helpful printable worksheets and workbooks suitable for toddlers, preschoolers and kindergarten. Used by teachers and homeschool parents to accelerate their child's educational development.
Practice high-frequency word AND with this action pack printable worksheet. Your child will find, trace, and write the word AND in a sentence.
Your new favorite teaching strategy: This pared-down version of learning stations keeps the movement, interactivity and variety while minimizing the prep work.
A blog about autism resources and support from a special ed teacher with first-hand experience.
We're mixing pen and paper with digital in our blended classrooms, and everything's going great. At first (for me) it was just about throwing in some digital
The Sentence Game Let’s face it, writing is hard. It takes lots and lots of practice to master the many skills a writer needs. But practice can be boring. Not now! I’ve created a sentence writing game your kids will love. With this game they’ll write sentence after sentence without complaining, because it’s a game. It’s very simple, but practices very essential skills- capitalization, punctuation, grammar, and spelling. The game can be played with 2 or more players. There’s even a way to play it with your whole class. Each student needs a word grid and a sentence/scoring sheet. Each set of players will also need one die and a scoring guide. Here's how it's played: v Each player rolls the die. The players then circle that number of words on their word grid. They circle the words down the first column, in order. Words cannot be skipped. v Now each player writes one sentence, using as many of the circled words as they can. If two sentences are written, only the first sentence will be scored. All of the circled words do not need to be used, but players earn one point for each grid word in their sentence. The words from the word grid cannot be changed. (ie. quickly cannot be changed to quick.) Important: After writing the sentence, players underline the grid words they used. This makes it easier for the checker to check the grid words. v Once all sentences are written, players pass their sentence/scoring sheet to the right. These players score the sentence and write the score in the box on the right. To play with your whole class, simply roll the dice once. Every student in class will use that number to circle the words on their grid. Once all the sentences are written, students can exchange their sheet with a partner for the scoring. After your students understand how to play you can play a round anytime you need a time filler. Students can keep their word grid and sentence/score sheet in a folder or their binder so it’s always handy. This game also works very well in a literacy center. Click on this image to download The Sentence Game. Happy writing!
These fun, engaging, NO PREP word work activities help students practice their words effectively and are the perfect option for your 1st or 2nd grade class!
We're mixing pen and paper with digital in our blended classrooms, and everything's going great. At first (for me) it was just about throwing in some digital
It's about that time of year again where my students {and I} feel *blah* about workstations. Although the kiddos are still excited to go to workstations (duh), their attention span is minimal and some of them seem to forget the rules. What to do? - Introduce some new and exciting things into the workstations. - Review rules of workstations. - And if it's not working... change or omit it. Enter here Silly Sentences! I always like to introduce these into the pocket chart when my students are independently reading! The kids go *bananas* for this work station! I keep all of the parts of the sentences in one container. {Now let me be honest, this took a while to cut and laminate, since its such a big packet. However, you could pick and choose which words you would like to add to your Silly Sentence Work Station* My directions are hanging beside the pocket chart and, I place the colored numbers at the top for students to use to make their sentence! This makes it SUPER easy to follow the directions! Which is what my bambinos need! Below you can see some pictures of the constructed sentences using the color coded strategy! So simple, yet TONS of fun! It's a great opportunity not only to construct the sentences, but to read as well! My students create the sentence, read the sentence and then record the sentence! The best part about this is their are SO many possibilities for sentences! If you would like to check it out at my TpT store click here! I also finished up my new writing station re-do. There is now a must do sheet which you can learn more about at First Grade Jungle. Ms. Thomas shared these fill in the blank pre-writes with me which I LUSH! The Littles have been having the HARDEST time staying focused and producing quality work from this station. It was time for a change! via First Grade Jungle Monthly words for writing via Busy Teacher Cafe Do you have the writer's eye? via Cara Carroll at The First Grade Parade Now I have NO idea where those charts came from or the ones below! But whoever did them, THANKS I love them! If you know please let me know! They have been saved on my computer for a while (before pinterest)! *Update: these posters can be found here: http://mrsgilchristsclass.blogspot.com/2011/08/writing-center.html Now I have more for my revamp of my ABC/ Word Study, Work Work, Word Wall Station…. check back for that tomorrow! But here is a sneak peak of one of my new Work Work Stations, found on pinterest! Hopefully this excited the littles!
Jenga game cards are easily my favorite way to teach and reinforce basic math fact, phonics, or grammar practice.
Hi! Today I'm here to share some ideas for using plastic eggs! These eggs are perfect for spring, and don't necessarily have to be used j...
Item description This resource contains 10 no-prep worksheets for CVC practice. Perfect for morning work or literacy stations. Look at the pictures in each box and say the word. Using the word bank, fill in the CVC words on the lines. Color the pictures when finished. INCLUDED IN YOUR DOWNLOAD: ✎ 10 CVC Word Writing Worksheets ✎ 1 Answer Sheet This product includes both PDF and JPEG image files. Dimensions 8.5×11 inches Black and white pack, no color ink Digital files – ready to download and print ✿ Please follow me if you want to receive notifications when I upload new products and freebies. ✿ THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR SUPPORT. Emery
Hey friends!! I am halfway through my first full week with my kiddos and I am TIIIIIRED but wow, I really love this year's bunch! I am so proud of how well they are doing already. We are going to have a great year! I wanted to share with you one of my favorite games to play with my firsties. Before I started teaching 1st grade I had never done weekly spelling tests. At the start of last year was looking for a fun way to practice the words every week and I came across the idea for this game. I honestly have no memory of who told me about it or if it was even called "Beat The Teacher". Y'all, my kids were OBSESSED with this game. They begged to play it every morning (and it showed up on more than 1 list of favorite memories in our memory books at the end of the year). It has already become a class favorite this year as well. The game is really simple. I give them a word and they write it in the middle of their white board. "Ready, set, go" and we all race to write the word in all 4 corners of the board. When you are finished you tap the end of your marker on your white board. If I win, I get the point. If a student wins, the class gets the point. So simple and so much fun! And let me tell you, I don't just LET them win. I am usually racing right along with them (the longer the word the harder the race for some reason)! We would always play to 10 (we took it to 20 later in the year) and I kept a tally in the corner of our board to see where we were. This year I am using ten frames to track our progress (I'm all about sneak attack subitizing practice haha). The scoreboard actually was a great opportunity for some real world math talk. They were always discussing how far ahead the leader was, or how many more we each needed to get 10 or 20. You can grab the scoreboard labels here. You could make the prize anything you want, but I always did stickers. For each game last year, I had a container filled with 28 stickers (one for every student). If they won, they each got a sticker, if I won I got all 28 stickers and wore them around all day. They thought that was pretty hilarious. On the match point I'd always say "This is for allllllll the stickers" and you could hear a pin drop in the room. The stakes were HIGH! There are just 2 rules: You can't start early and your words have to be written neatly enough to be read. The starting early issue gets stopped pretty early because if you get caught cheating, I automatically got the point for the round. The rest of the class does NOT like that! Instant self policing!! It also didn't count if you wrote so fast that you can't read the words. (We usually do these on whiteboards with handwriting lines so that generally helps the neatness factor). We play on our whiteboards but you could do this on a piece of paper and just write the word 4 times in a row. Recently I've been thinking up ways to use this to practice math facts...more on that in another post. I'd love to hear how this goes with your class if you decide to try it! :)
While phonics instruction is important, sight words are also a vital part of teaching kids to read {and spell}. These easy to make sight word puzzles are a fun way to work on those important sight words and they only take minutes to make! {Yay! for low prep!} *This post contains affiliate links. Easy ... Read More about Easy to Make Sight Word Puzzles
Buy the Spelling in a Snap BUNDLE & SAVE $$!Need to spice up your word work stations and/or spelling practice in your classroom? This packet includes 20 print and go activities that are sure to keep your students engaged and having fun while working with words! Activities included:Colorful Roll ...
Introduce hyperbole by using puzzles, task cards, no-prep printables and more! A variety of activities to use as learning stations for independent practice or for small groups for remediation. There are 14 hyperboles included: weighs a ton so hungry, I could eat a horse afraid of your own shadow ton of homework knocked me over with a feather walked 100 miles waited forever skinny as a toothpick move mountains never stops talking a million things to do jumped so high, I touched the sky whole world staring cried a river
Practice sight words in a fun way with this Sight Word Guess Who Game! This free printable makes it fun and easy for kids to practice reading skills.
Teacher tested tips and activities for using dry erase markers with kids in the classroom. Classroom management tips and creative dry erase activity ideas.
These fun, engaging, NO PREP word work activities help students practice their words effectively and are the perfect option for your 1st or 2nd grade class!
These editable word work activities are perfect for small groups or centers and help every level of reader as they become stronger readers!
Grab your FREE hair salon scissor skills printable to use with your preschool and kindergarten students! Use at home and at school!
Ready to create learning stations? They require a purposeful and strategic design in order for the experience to be meaningful. Start here!
Use this no prep digraph fluency reading game to help kindergarten and first grade students practice reading words with beginning digraphs.
Improve students' spelling by teaching them final stable syllables (C+le). With a variety of activities included, students will stay interested and engaged. Activities include a sorting station, puzzles, five practice worksheets, an interactive notebook activity, task cards, and games. There is also a post-assessment for you to see your students' progress. Here is a list of all the pages you will find in this product: Page 1: Cover Page 2: Anchor chart Pages 3-4: Headings for FSS sorting activity Page 5: 6 cards - pictures with words for -cle Page 6: 6 cards - pictures with words for -ple Page 7: 6 cards - pictures with words for -ble Page 8: 6 cards - pictures with words for -dle Page 9: 6 cards - pictures with words for -gle Pages 10-16: 21 mixed practice FSS puzzles Pages 17-18: Sorting activity recording sheet with answer key Pages 19-22: FSS interactive notebook activity and answer key Pages 23: Cut and paste practice Pages 24-25: Cut and paste sort Pages 26-27: Fill in the blank with FSS words and answer key Pages 28-29: FSS crossword puzzle with answer key Pages 30-31: Four in a Row game and instructions Pages 32-39: Rumble in the Jungle FSS board game, gamecards, and instructions Pages 40-44: 24 FSS riddle task cards and cover for a small manila storage envelope Pages 45-48: Recording sheet for task cards and answer key Pages 49-52: Two page post-assessment and answer keys Page 53: Terms of Use and Graphics Credit
Combining sentences encourages students to take two or more short, choppy sentences and combine them into one effective sentence — to make their writing more readable and engaging. Sentence combining is a skill that develops over several short practice sessions.
