ELA Activities Bundle: This growing bundle includes seasonal writing activities and games for students to use as tools to practice their skills! You will find both digital and printable activities in this bundle. Use for morning meetings, centers, small groups, tutoring, and more! 16 Resources Included: Roll a Story Seasonal (5 boards in each with editable template) Spring Summer Holidays & Important Days (1 board in each with editable template) Back to School Earth Day Easter Cinco De Mayo Back-to-School Activities All About Me Cell Phone End of Year Activities Flower Memories Cell Phone Memories Think Fast Games A timer will be set for 1 minute total. Each answer is one point. Most points wins! Examples: 3 activities done over summer break, 3 book titles, 3 items found in a classroom. Back to School Spring Summer Word Wander Just Like Boggle™ word work game for centers and early finishers. It comes with 60 Word Wander task cards and a Google Slides version where students can digitally type their words and points. It also comes with an Editable template for you to make your own OR allow students to make their own Cover-Ups Reading Comprehension 15 Cover Up boards for checking comprehension for any book or story.. When students are done with their reading, they can grab a Cover Up board (consider having them laminated and printed on colored paper) and use the book that they are reading to answer the questions. Then students will use sticky notes to write out their answers and place them directly on top of the question on the Cover Up board!
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Comprehension Mats BUNDLE ~ Daily Reading Comprehension Practice for the Whole Year has 20 different printable reading comprehension mats for 10 months! Buy the bundle and SAVE $ (4 packs for FREE)! This BUNDLE is a collection of monthly Comprehension Mat resources. Each pack is now included! View the detailed previews and products included BELOW! Watch the video preview to see Comprehension Mats in action! 3 RESOURCES IN 1: PDF or PPT - Just open the PDF or PPT file and print! GOOGLE SLIDES - Assign each reading comprehension passage in Google Slides, which includes interactive pieces to move and text boxes to fill in. SEESAW - Add an activity to Seesaw with the included images! Comprehension Mats are great for small group instruction, homework, and morning work. These printable activities have a short reading passage and 3 follow-up sections to complete. Components of Comprehension Mats: Students must read the passage 3 times and color a seasonal shape after each read. They will build fluency through repeated reading. They draw or write about the story or a connection they make. They answer and complete different questions. This resource provides a lot of reading practice each month to help build comprehension skills and fluency. The skills covered in Comprehension Mats: Reading for information Locating text evidence Locating, highlighting, and recording short vowels Locating, highlighting, and recording sight words Locating, highlighting, and recording verbs, nouns, and adjectives Answering questions in complete sentences Making connections Sequencing story events 6 ways to use Comprehension Mats in your classroom! Print Comprehension Mats on cardstock, laminate, and use with whiteboard markers! Shrink and print Comprehension Mats and use in your interactive notebooks! Copy Comprehension Mats back to back with the cover page to create a booklet! Copy and put into a folder. Use for morning work or fast finishers! Use with Seesaw by uploading the image files included in this resource and assigning it to your class (instructions provided). Use with your class in Google Classroom (instructions provided). Look at the PREVIEW for a look at the table of contents and a breakdown of what a Comprehension Mat looks like and how it can be used. The video preview shows examples of Comprehension Mats in action. The activities align with the Common Core standards for first grade. This is perfect for first grade, but could also be used for a challenge in Kindergarten and for extra practice/as review for second grade. Additional pages are provided for Canadian users. Additional pages include Canadian spelling and content. Related Products Listening Mats BUNDLE Writing Mats BUNDLE Math Mats BUNDLE Word Mats BUNDLE Word Families: Short Vowel BUNDLE Spring Writing & Words Stay connected with Proud to be Primary♥Join our email list and get weekly teacher tip emails and access to our FREE resource library. ♥Visit our website at Proud to be Primary for tons of engaging ideas for teaching kids in the classroom!♥Join our Facebook group and connect with thousands of PROUD primary teachers like yourself. Please read the description, review the preview file, and read the FAQ in our Help Center carefully before purchasing. Question not answered? Reach out to support at [email protected]. All digital sales on Proud to be Primary of resources are considered final and non-refundable. © Copyright Proud to be Primary, Elyse Rycroft. All rights reserved. Permission is granted to copy pages specifically designed for student or teacher use by the original purchaser or licensee. This product is licensed for personal classroom use ONLY unless multiple licenses are purchased. The reproduction, alteration, adaptation, copying, or sale of any part of this product is strictly prohibited. Read the full Terms and Conditions HERE.
I love morning meeting because it gives me the chance to work with all of my students in a whole group. Since most of our day is filled with rigorous interventions, fluency timings, discrete trials and countless hours of data tracking I like to make our morning group a fun and predictable time! Even though I like to make it fun, morning meeting/group is a GREAT time to throw in some functional academics. Here is a picture of our schedule. I color coordinate everything in my classroom. Everything to do with morning group is purple! After the kids have gone to their lockers and turned in homework they start their personal information binders (you can read more about them here). The kids are allowed into the building 15 minutes before our bell rings so I use the binders as our "morning work". As soon as the bell rings we start our morning group. This year I am super excited to announce that I have a SMARTboard in my classroom. If you don't have a SMARTboard no worries. You can easily do the activities using our favorite tools (laminate and velcro!!). We start off by checking in. I have all of my students pictures in the red and one by one I will have them come up and move their picture from red to green. Once everyone is finished we tally up how many students are in each column. Once we are able to master this, I will start to have the kids add the numbers together. And just like that we have already done a picture identification and counting activity. After check in we work on one of my favorite things, greetings. Communication is a HUGE part of my classroom so it is so important to incorporate as many opportunities to socialize as possible. At the beginning of the year I greet every student using the same phrasing "Good Morning Name", I then ask them to say good morning or hello Mrs. Boysal to me. Then I ask "how are you?" and make sure they respond appropriately and then ask me how I am doing. As the year progresses I will add more phrases to the board and have students start to greet each other. I did this last year and it was so much fun to see how much growth my kiddos had with communication and interactions with each other. After greetings comes everyone's go to morning activity, calendar! Calendar is a functional skill that must be done everyday. We don't do anything fancy for calendar but I do have a fun way of picking kids to put up the new date. Everyday I select an apple and a students picture will appear. That student gets to come up and add the date. To make this fun and suspenseful for the students I am going to recover the picture and rotate them every day. This is a great way for kids to practice turn taking. Sometimes kids have to wait more than a week to come up and participate. Another portion of our calendar routine is learning about the weather. I am going to have the students look up the temperature ever day. I made the little thermometer a link right to weather.com (I was feeling so tech savvy when making this :)). We will also work on number writing by filing in the temperature and identifying and understanding seasons. Our next part of morning group is practice. I am fortunate to have ULS and love the spelling that they provide. We work on reading our words, using them in sentences, spelling them in funny voices and writing them. So as I said before communication is so very important. I close out our session almost the same way I start. I get the kids talking!!! During our Let's Chat session I use a number of prompts and questions to get the kids thinking and talking. (Both of these are from Sasha at The Autism Helper) In the end, it is important to remember that when planning a morning group, or any lesson for that matter, ask yourself "what's the purpose of this?" If you can't answer that, then try rethinking what your central goal is. You want everything you do to serve a purpose. What activities do you do during your morning group? Do you keep it fun or do you incorporate functional skills like me? Follow my blog with Bloglovin
20 Would You Rather.... Questions. Great age-appropriate activity for practicing voting, self advocacy and fun class discussion starter.
This lesson focuses on 8 near synonyms for the word happy. It includes: *Word Wall word cards *An introductory group activity *Sentence Frame Oral Practice *Sentence completion activities for morning meeting *Writer's notebook student page
I have been waiting to teach Habit 6 to our fifth graders because team building activities are my favorite activities to do with groups of kids! Habit 6 is all about the we, not the I. Together Is Better: I value other people’s strengths and learn from them. I get along well with others, even people who are different than me. I work well in groups. I seek out other people’s ideas to solve problems because I know that by teaming with others we can create better solutions than anyone of us can alone. I am humble. To begin, we each did a personality assessment that I found available to download here. Students rank themselves on the qualities they feel are most important to them across each row. It is important to learn about your own strengths and weaknesses so you can function best in a group. It is also important to learn about your group member's strengths and weaknesses so you can function best in a group. After we all figured out which "fruit" best described our personality, I told them which fruit they would be paired up with for a group challenge. They read through their partner's descriptions to think about ways that would improve their teamwork and communication skills. Then I introduced the challenge...the LEANING TOWER OF FEETZA! I found this free activity on a great website filled with team building activities, Playmeo. I typed up a quick synopsis to explain the goal of the activity, and with such a simple task (or so we all had thought), I set them off to start right away! Hilarity ensued, conflict ensued, problem solving ensued, chaos ensued! We all had a really great time and an even better debrief session on the challenge, on synergizing and on how knowing more about ourselves can make such a different in our everyday interactions with others.
The perfect impulse control activity you need for your groups, push-in sessions, and SEL morning meetings! This think it or say it activity is perfect for kids (or classrooms as a whole) who struggle with following classroom rules, or even struggle with social skills. This paddle activity includes DIY paddles for each student and a prompt sheet with things that kids might say. Students are then instructed to hold up a paddle if that was something they should say or keep in their head! Perfect for early elementary students, students that struggle with appropriate social skills, and students who struggle with blurting out. Ideas for Use; ⭐Push-In Lessons ⭐Group Lessons ⭐For students who struggle with blurting in class ⭐Students that may struggle with kind words
Use our Free Digital Spinner Would You Rather Game as a classroom bellringer, morning meeting activity, or ice breaker for your small groups!
My kids LOVE m&m's, they may or may not be used frequently as a bribe in our household. I found this idea on Pinterest and it's been ...
This St. Patrick’s Day color by code resource is focused on functional and life skills vocabulary. There are up to 5 categories on each page: Hygiene, Cleaning, Cooking & Kitchen, Vocational/Job, and Community Signs. These coloring pages are another way to encourage practice and discussion around vocabulary, identifying vocabulary, and sorting by categories. Getting Started: Review coping strategies with learners individually, in small groups, as a whole class. Discuss the situations that learners may benefit from using coping skills. Review the key for the coloring page Students look at the color-coded picture and determine which color to use for each space by referring to the key on the top of the page. Any spaces left blank can be filled in by the student’s choice of color! Differentiation: There are multiple levels of coloring pages within this resource, you can differentiate for ease and difficulty by the number of colors for each page You can encourage learners to use different shades of colors Ideas for use: warm-up, morning meeting, transition activity, early finisher, small group, 1:1, whole class, as a craft. You can email us at [email protected] if you have any feedback, questions, and/or requests for resources. What's Inside? 10 coloring pages 10 answer keys - coping skill answer keys for each page Getting Started guide with differentiation suggestions and continued use
Teaching Character Education in the classroom is just as important as phonics and adding and subtracting.
Are you ready to kickstart your day with a burst of enthusiasm and foster a positive classroom environment with Morning Meeting Activities? We’re diving headfirst into the wonderful world of morning meeting activities. We’ll explore creative and interactive ways to start your day on a high note, ensuring that both you and your students are energized and ready to conquer the day ahead. Here are my top 10 Engaging Morning Meeting Activities. Morning Meeting Activity #1 – Deserted Island Deserted Island is an engaging classroom game that sparks creativity and problem-solving skills among students. In this game, the teacher decides if the student can be on their deserted island depending on what the student suggests to bring. For example, my rule – which the kids don’t know ahead of time, might be things that have a short /a/ in the word. So if a student suggests bringing a cat to the deserted island then they can come and I write their item on the board. If the student suggests bringing a dog they could not come since dog does not have a short /a/ in it. So that word would not be added to the board. You play until someone […]
Morning meeting is great, and it's even better when you feel prepared for it. Save this post for a go-to list of morning meeting activities you can use!
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Paper Bag Dramatics: A fun activity for Team Building and Developing Community. Here's an idea that can be used just about anywhere at any time. It encourages groups to solve problems, think creatively, and work as a team.
Ensuring students know the value and power of their courage is crucial for upper elementary students’ social-emotional learning and growth. Get easy-to-implement ideas, courage activities, suggested titles for books on bravery, and courage lesson plans to help you create a classroom community where
I love Morning Meetings with my sixth graders. Our typical Morning Meetings follow the structure from Responsive Classroom, but there are some days that we spend a lot longer on activities than oth…
Measurement and time are usually short lived in my room! That is unfortunate, but it is true. We spend a LOT of time on number sense, addition, subtraction, and place value that I feel like these three first grade standards get short-changed: 1. Nonstandard measurement and comparing/ordering of lengths 2. Telling Time to the half […]
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Preschool social story on sitting and circle time and self-regulation. Perfect for preschool or special education students working on social skills and classroom behavior management.
Perfect for Back to School activities. Perfect for Brain Breaks or Kagan Cooperative Learning (class or teambuilding). Get to know each other and strike up a conversation with your opinions. They can be used in stations or after work is complete with a small group or partners. Use in morning meeting activities! Use them to form a persuasive paragraph by answering the "why" question. Set of 48 cards. (Just Updated - NOW 56 cards) Follow me on Pinterest at Education Contessa for lots of boards filled with ideas and lessons for your classroom. Follow me here on TpT and you'll be notified when I am having a sale or posting new products! All new products are half price for the first 48 hours! Check out my NEW Back To School Would You Rather! https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Back-To-School-Would-You-Rather-Cards-For-Getting-to-Know-Each-Other-4009569
Three different ways to address using age-appropriate materials in middle and high school special education classroom group activities.
Have a blast with this editable Table Talk Dice Game! Perfect for family gatherings, workplaces, and therapy groups. *Getting to know you - includes meaningful and deep questions about yourself. Simply edit using your computer, laptop and phone, no software is required! ⭐HOW IT WORKS IN 3 EASY STEPS⭐ 1. Purchase this listing. 2. After the purchase, your download will be available at http://www.etsy.com/your/purchases. If you bought as a guest, you will receive an automated email from Etsy with your download link. 3. Download the pdf file and print it. ⭐WHAT DO I RECEIVE?⭐ - High resolution 8.5 x 11 inch size PDF File (A4 size) ⭐PRINTING⭐ Print at the photo lab, Kinkos, Staples, Office Depot, Costco, etc. Your printables can also be printed onto white card stock from home or a print shop, like Staples, Office Depot or FedexOffice. ⭐⭐⭐TERMS OF USE⭐⭐⭐ PERSONAL USE ONLY FOR THIS INVITATION- No commercial use in any form, freebies, etc. are allowed•••
Pass the Clap - A Fun Game for all ages! This is a great game for team building. with many benefits in the classroom, and plenty of giggles, too!
Cooperative learning teaching tips, strategies, freebies, and resources from Laura Candler
Too many classroom icebreakers require students to take big social risks with people they barely know. Or they don't really help students get to know each other. Or they are just plain cheesy.
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Self-regulation skills are one of the biggest keys for success for students in the classroom. These are some of the skills that help students focus during lessons, wait their turn to share in group activities, transition to a new task when time is up, and start tasks right away. Self-regulation skil
I love morning meeting because it gives me the chance to work with all of my students in a whole group. Since most of our day is filled with rigorous interventions, fluency timings, discrete trials and countless hours of data tracking I like to make our morning group a fun and predictable time! Even though I like to make it fun, morning meeting/group is a GREAT time to throw in some functional academics. Here is a picture of our schedule. I color coordinate everything in my classroom. Everything to do with morning group is purple! After the kids have gone to their lockers and turned in homework they start their personal information binders (you can read more about them here). The kids are allowed into the building 15 minutes before our bell rings so I use the binders as our "morning work". As soon as the bell rings we start our morning group. This year I am super excited to announce that I have a SMARTboard in my classroom. If you don't have a SMARTboard no worries. You can easily do the activities using our favorite tools (laminate and velcro!!). We start off by checking in. I have all of my students pictures in the red and one by one I will have them come up and move their picture from red to green. Once everyone is finished we tally up how many students are in each column. Once we are able to master this, I will start to have the kids add the numbers together. And just like that we have already done a picture identification and counting activity. After check in we work on one of my favorite things, greetings. Communication is a HUGE part of my classroom so it is so important to incorporate as many opportunities to socialize as possible. At the beginning of the year I greet every student using the same phrasing "Good Morning Name", I then ask them to say good morning or hello Mrs. Boysal to me. Then I ask "how are you?" and make sure they respond appropriately and then ask me how I am doing. As the year progresses I will add more phrases to the board and have students start to greet each other. I did this last year and it was so much fun to see how much growth my kiddos had with communication and interactions with each other. After greetings comes everyone's go to morning activity, calendar! Calendar is a functional skill that must be done everyday. We don't do anything fancy for calendar but I do have a fun way of picking kids to put up the new date. Everyday I select an apple and a students picture will appear. That student gets to come up and add the date. To make this fun and suspenseful for the students I am going to recover the picture and rotate them every day. This is a great way for kids to practice turn taking. Sometimes kids have to wait more than a week to come up and participate. Another portion of our calendar routine is learning about the weather. I am going to have the students look up the temperature ever day. I made the little thermometer a link right to weather.com (I was feeling so tech savvy when making this :)). We will also work on number writing by filing in the temperature and identifying and understanding seasons. Our next part of morning group is practice. I am fortunate to have ULS and love the spelling that they provide. We work on reading our words, using them in sentences, spelling them in funny voices and writing them. So as I said before communication is so very important. I close out our session almost the same way I start. I get the kids talking!!! During our Let's Chat session I use a number of prompts and questions to get the kids thinking and talking. (Both of these are from Sasha at The Autism Helper) In the end, it is important to remember that when planning a morning group, or any lesson for that matter, ask yourself "what's the purpose of this?" If you can't answer that, then try rethinking what your central goal is. You want everything you do to serve a purpose. What activities do you do during your morning group? Do you keep it fun or do you incorporate functional skills like me? Follow my blog with Bloglovin
