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ACK Word Family Sorting Activities

ACK Word Family Sorting Activities
, Not Grade Specific,

ACK word family sorts in three parts: picture cards and word cards go into ACK and not ACK groups, with back, pack, shack and whack set against brush, cash and moth, then real and nonsense words such as yack, gack and vack are sorted.

Author The Connett Connection

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Tags Real And Nonsense Words, Phonics Sort, Nonsense Words, Literacy Centers, Hands On Center, ACK Words, Digraphs, Ending Digraphs, Digraph Sorting, Kindergarten Phonics

Addition Clip Strips

Addition Clip Strips
, Not Grade Specific,

Clip strips for addition within 10: students solve each sum on a strip and clip the clothes peg showing its answer onto that problem.

Author The Connett Connection

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Tags Addition Practice, Clip Strips, Hands-on Learning, Fine Motor Skills, Math Centers

AG Word Family Sorting Activities

AG Word Family Sorting Activities
, Not Grade Specific,

AG word family sorting activity with three card sorts: AG and not-AG pictures, AG and not-AG words, and real words such as bag, wag and rag versus made-up words like kag, vag and qag.

Author The Connett Connection

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Tags CVC Words, Real And Nonsense Words, Phonics Sort, Nonsense Words, Literacy Centers, Hands On Center, AG Words, AG Word Family

AGE Word Family Sorting Activities

AGE Word Family Sorting Activities
, Not Grade Specific,

AGE word family sorts in which students separate words like cage and wage from other words such as cape and mule, and real words from nonsense words such as zage and bage.

Author The Connett Connection

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Tags Phonics, Word Families, Silent E, Sorting Activities, Hands-on

AM Word Family Sorting Activities

AM Word Family Sorting Activities
, Not Grade Specific,

Three sorts for the AM family: students separate AM words and pictures from other CVC words and pictures, then decide which AM-pattern words are real, like ham and jam, and which are nonsense, like zam and vam.

Author The Connett Connection

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Tags CVC Words, Real And Nonsense Words, Phonics Sort, Nonsense Words, Literacy Centers, Hands On Center, AM Words, AM Word Family

AN Word Family Sorting Activities

AN Word Family Sorting Activities
, Not Grade Specific,

Three -an word family sorts: picture cards such as can, van and fan against bag, jam and crab; word cards such as pan and tan against bed and cub; and real -an words against nonsense ones such as kan, xan and zan.

Author The Connett Connection

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Tags CVC Words, Real And Nonsense Words, Phonics Sort, Nonsense Words, Literacy Centers, Hands On Center, AN Words, AN Word Family

Animal Sort: Carnivore Herbivore Omnivore

Animal Sort: Carnivore Herbivore Omnivore
, Not Grade Specific,

Carnivore, herbivore or omnivore: students sort 18 animal photo cards, from a polar bear and a giraffe to a pig and a raccoon, onto header cards or sorting mats by what each animal eats.

Author The Connett Connection

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Tags Science Sort, Hands On Assessment, Carnivore, Herbivore, Omnivore

Apple Counting Syllables Sorting Activity

Apple Counting Syllables Sorting Activity
, Not Grade Specific,

Syllable sorting with an apple theme: students count the syllables in each picture card's word and place the card on the mat for 1, 2, 3 or 4 syllables.

Author The Connett Connection

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Tags Hands-on Literacy Center, Apple, Apple Syllables, Fall Syllables, Autumn Syllables, Counting Syllables, How Many Syllables

Apple Letter Cards for Games and Centres

Apple Letter Cards for Games and Centres
, Not Grade Specific,

Uppercase and lowercase letter cards shaped like apples cover every letter from A to Z, ready for letter-recognition games.

Author The Connett Connection

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Tags Letter Recognition, Alphabet Matching, Hands-on Learning, Sensory Activities, Phonics, Apples, Alphabet Activities

Apple Number Cards for Games and Centres

Apple Number Cards for Games and Centres
, Not Grade Specific,

Apple-themed number cards for 1 to 20: a numeral card and a matching number-word card for each number, from 1 and one to 20 and twenty.

Author The Connett Connection

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Tags Numbers, Hands-on Learning, Number Identification, Seasonal Fun, Apple Theme, Fall And Autumn, Counting To 20, Counting To Twenty, Number Recognition

Art Movements Interactive Foldable Booklets – EBOOK

Art Movements Interactive Foldable Booklets – EBOOK
, Not Grade Specific,

Foldable art history booklets that students cut, fold and glue into an interactive notebook or lapbook, then fill with notes on styles from the Early Renaissance through Pop Art and Op Art.

Author Knowledge Box Central

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Tags Art Movements, Interactive Learning, Art History, Hands-on Activities, Educational Resource

Back to School Letter Recognition Seek and Find Mats

Back to School Letter Recognition Seek and Find Mats
, Not Grade Specific,

Young learners hunt for target letters on school bus seek-and-find mats, practising uppercase A-Z and lowercase a-z identification at the start of the year, with letter cards to match.

Author The Connett Connection

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Tags Back To School, Letter Recognition, Seek And Find Mats, Hands-on Literacy Center, Handwriting Practice

Counting Cars 1–20 – Hands-On Number Printable

Counting Cars 1–20 – Hands-On Number Printable
, Not Grade Specific,

Rows of cars in groups of five let students count and trace the matching number from 1 through 20, then practise tracing the full sequence forward and backward on two closing pages.

Author KD's Kids School Shop

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Tags Counting, Counting Cars, Math Printable, Math Worksheet, Number Identification, Preschool, Math Centers, Tracing, Handwriting Practice

Exploring Astronomy: Asteroids Interactive Foldable Booklets - EBOOK

Exploring Astronomy: Asteroids Interactive Foldable Booklets - EBOOK
, Not Grade Specific,

Asteroids interactive notebook foldables: four cut-and-fold booklets on the asteroid belt, types of asteroids, the largest asteroids such as Ceres and Vesta, and interesting facts.

Author Knowledge Box Central

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Tags Astronomy, Asteroids, Foldable Booklets, Interactive Activities, Hands-on Learning

Fall Number Cards for Games and Centres

Fall Number Cards for Games and Centres
, Not Grade Specific,

Number cards from 0 to 20 pair each numeral with its written number word, giving young learners a card set for recognition and matching games.

Author The Connett Connection

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Tags Numbers, Hands-on Learning, Number Identification, Seasonal Fun, Fall Counting Activity, Numbers 1-20, Counting To 20

Finish the Pattern

Finish the Pattern
, Not Grade Specific,

Finish the Pattern asks learners to inspect each picture sequence, determine the repeating unit, and choose the image that belongs in the blank. The required pieces are printed on the same page for cutting and pasting into place. Because the patterns use visual symbols rather than numerals or words, every response is checked by whether the completed sequence continues its established repetition.

Author Cherry Workshop

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Tags Pattern Recognition, Math Skills, Hands-on Learning, Cognitive Development, Interactive Learning

Five and Ten Frame Robot Craftivity

Five and Ten Frame Robot Craftivity
, Not Grade Specific,

Robot craft for number bonds to 5 and 10: students complete statements like '__ and __ make 5' and then fill in the robot's five-frame or ten-frame mouth to show that combination.

Author Rodriguez's Resources

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Tags Craftivity, Numeracy, Hands-on Learning, Math Concepts, Visual Representation, Printable Five Frame

Fold & Read Booklet: All About Magnets

Fold & Read Booklet: All About Magnets
, Not Grade Specific,

Mini booklet on magnets that students fold from one page, with simple definitions of what a magnet is and what attract and repel mean.

Author Rodriguez's Resources

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Tags Magnets, Science Education, Interactive Learning, Hands-on Activities, Elementary Students

Fold and Read: Mini Reading Booklets

Fold and Read: Mini Reading Booklets
, Not Grade Specific,

Reading concepts bundle of five fold-and-read booklets introducing theme, author's purpose, fact and opinion, point of view, and fiction versus non-fiction through short definitions and examples.

Author Rodriguez's Resources

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Tags Reading Booklets, Language Arts, Literature Learning, Hands-on Interactive, Early Reading

Force and Motion Science Experiment

Force and Motion Science Experiment
, Not Grade Specific,

Students hypothesise, then blow on six different balls to test how much wind-force each needs to start rolling, recording results on soft-to-vigorous force scales.

Author At the Core

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Tags Science Experiment, Force, Motion, Wind-force, Hypothesis, Hands-on Science, Experiments, Activities, Force And Motion

Geometry: 3D Shapes

Geometry: 3D Shapes
, Not Grade Specific,

Students fill in a table with the number of faces, corners and edges for 3D shapes such as the cube, cylinder, hemisphere and triangular pyramid, using the completed cone row as a model.

Author Elementary Resources 4 U

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Tags Interactive Worksheet, Geometry Instruction, 3D Shapes, Properties Investigation, Hands-on Approach

Hands-Off Hygiene – Social Story for Kids

Hands-Off Hygiene – Social Story for Kids
, Not Grade Specific,

A first-person social story teaches a child that bowel movements belong only in the toilet, pairing a plain hygiene rule with a play-dough alternative for the same soft, squishy sensory interest.

Author SEN Resource Source

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Tags Social Story, Autism, SEN, Poo Story, Smearing Feces Autism, Is Poop Smearing A Sign Of Autism, Social Story Clipart, Autism Poop Smearing, Autism And Poop Smearing, Poop Smearing Autism, Smearing Poop On Walls, Play With Feces, Autism Fecal Smearing, Fecal Smearing Autism

Measurement: Investigation

Measurement: Investigation
, Not Grade Specific,

Hands-on length investigations: students test whether their body is wider than it is long, estimate and measure 14 pieces of string, and read a ruler in centimetres and millimetres.

Author Elementary Resources 4 U

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Tags Measurement, Investigation, Math Activities, Hands-on Learning, Length Exploration

Mr McDonald's Farm Interactive Early Years and Foundation Homeschool Worksheets

Mr McDonald's Farm Interactive Early Years and Foundation Homeschool Worksheets
, Not Grade Specific,

Old MacDonald Had a Farm becomes an interactive sing-along chart of animal sounds, followed by a page for tracing each animal's name and two pages of labelled animal cards to cut out for the chart.

Author KD's Kids School Shop

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Tags Interactive Worksheets, Preschool Education, Literacy Development, Hands-on Learning, Animal Recognition