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Fun Elementary Activities: Math and Literacy Ideas

This board is all about fun elementary activities for math and literacy ideas. Here we share the best printable, digital, and DIY ideas and games for kindergarten, first grade, and second grade. Find writing activities, place value, shapes, back to school ideas, holiday fun, rhyming, sight words, and so much more! This board has a little bit of everything you need to make teaching a breeze.
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Sunshine and Lollipops

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We can all use a little positivity in our lives. I find that when I feel as though my day is a bit difficult, I read a quote or count my blessings and it simply makes me feel better. I have positive quotes everywhere in my house: office, livingroom, kitchen. bedroom and more. These quotes have a reflection page to go along with them that can be used in your classroom or even for YOU!! i think you will enjoy these! #positivemindset #positiveideas #mindsetquotes #quotesforyourspace

Inspirational Quotes

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Children need to understand multiplication and also memorize the facts. This Multiplication Facts 5 Times Table has visuals across the top to support understanding and also the facts and answer choices...the best of both worlds! It also includes the commutative property and gives the reverse facts as well. Take a look and see if your students or children might benefit from these Boom Learning Cards! #Multiplication #productsof5 #multiplicationfacts #sunshineandlollipops
CVC words are so important for emergent readers. This Spell the CVC word supports children in learning to listen for Beginning, Middle and Ending phonemes in order to spell easy CVC words. This resource is asking your students to look at the image provided and choose the correct spelling for the word that represents the picture. If you want to try a sample, simply click and play!#phonics #cvcwords #spellingcvcwords #sunshineandlollipops #Boomcards CVCactivities
Telling time on an analog clock can be difficult for some students especially because there are digital clocks everywhere you look. These fun BOOM™ Cards will help your students & children learn how to tell time to the half hour & hour which is an important life skill! These are paperless & self checking! If you want to try a sample of Boom Cards. Don't be late & run on over!! #Sunshineandlollipops #Boomcards #tellingtimetothehour #analogclocks #Tellingtimetothehalfhour

Distance Learning Digital Resources Google Slides/Classroom™

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Lucy Stone was an unsung hero of the #suffrage movement, an #abolitionist and fought for women’s rights. This resource attempts to put her life in kid-friendly language in a PowerPoint presentation that the teacher can read to the class OR if you choose to, you can have students read it independently or with partners. You know your class better than I do! First in a series for #Women'sHistoryMonth #history #lucystone #womensrights #factsandopinions #americanhistoryforelementary
This fun craft incorporates 3 fun facts about Abraham Lincoln: A craft stick Log Cabin, A penny, and that he used to keep notes under his hat! So have some fun digging up facts about Abe and create this craft and writing activity! # abrahamlincoln #presidentsdaycraftforkids #presidentdayideaforfirstgrade
If your students are like mine, they will love learning about Abe Lincoln our 16th President of the United States. Abe was a popular President and kids seem to love learning about him. This Abe Lincoln log cabin craft and writing activity will encourage your students to research and find some unique and interesting facts about Abe. Enjoy! #presidentsdayactivitiesforkids #abelincoln #logcabincraft #abelincolnwritingidea

Social Studies and History

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Just for one day, wouldn't it be fun to laugh and laugh and laugh all day long...kids smiling and laughing, teachers happy and just elated all day long for ONE DAY? Sound impossible? I don't think so...not if you create that day to celebrate National Let's Laugh Day! The day is March 19th, BUT you can celebrate laughter all day long any day you choose with these fun activities. #specialdays #Nationalletslaughday #specialdaystocelebrateinmarch #march #marchactivities #writingactivities
Looking for a fun and motivating resource for Dental Health Month? YES? Then you will love this resource which includes traditions of what children from around the world do after they lose a tooth, writing frames and a cute craft to celebrate dental health month. Grab your floss and take a look at the full resource...I know you will love it and your #teeth will too! #dentalhealth #dentalhealthcrafts #toothfairytraditions #toothpoem
If you are looking for a fun and motivating resource that includes traditions of what children from around the world do after they lose a toorh, narrative, creative, opinion and how to writing frames and a cute craft, then take a look at this!!! #teethpaperbagpuppet #toothfairytraditions #Loosetoothpoem

Special days

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Whether you are collecting and checking data for your Special Education students or simply to create learning groups appropriate for differentiated lessons or maybe you have to check progress for IEP goals. This Data collection has many ideas activities for math and ELA Data Collection! This resource is best for Kindergarten ! Take a look at the complete resource to see if it will work for your students! #datacollectionIEPgoals #datacollectionkindergarten #Responsetoeducation #differentiation
These Give ME 5 Goal setting HANDS AND WRITING FRAMES are perfect for encouraging and supporting your students with academic and social goals. They can be used to support IEP goals as well and can be individualized for each student. Editable slides are included. They are versatile and can be used for pretty much anything with which your students may need support! See if these might work with your class! #goalsetting #Newyeargoals #academicgoals #Socialgoals #IEPgoals
Tap,Tap,Tap Those CVC Sounds An Activity to Integrate Sensory Needs with Spelling from Joy from Joy on TeachersNotebook.com (20 pages) - Tapping to spell CVC words is an activity for K-2 to integrate sensory needs with tapping to spell words. It can be used as an intervention or station and can be used to differentiate instruction.

Special Education Ideas

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Encourage your children or students to think about kindness and how others have been kind to them. After creating this booklet, have you children come up with acts of Kindness or ideas that can be done while keeping social distance. It is a great time to think of ways to spread kindness to all. Take a look and see if you might want to use this with your class as a send home activity or to use as a home educational idea! #spreadkindness #actsofkindness #ideastoshowkindness #homeschool
Kindness is so important for our students to understand and learn. Demonstrating ways to show kindness and be kind at an early age will definitely pay off in the future. Thinking about why it is important to be kind; to think about how you feel when someone is kind to you and how others may feel when you show them kindness is an important social skill as well as an important character trait to have as our students grow and learn! #kindnessbookletforkids #kindnssbooklet #kindness #socialskills
At times #tattling can be a problem especially if you teach primary. BUT FIRST,students need to understand the difference between tattling just to get someone in trouble and reporting something that is important & hurtful. This #tattlingorreporting resource will help your students understand the difference. If you think it is something you can use for your students, ENJOY! #Tattlingvsreporting #Tattlingvstelling #tattlingintheclassroom #tattlingorreporting #tattling

Character Education

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If you are looking for some bright EDITABLE Seasonal binder covers and spines to add a little fun and brightness to your life and work, then these just might do the trick. I know how I LOVE to be organized and these Seasonal Binders will help you stay organized all through the year! #seasonalbindeers #Monthlybinders #Teacherorganizationbinders
Organization is key to a less stressful teaching year! If you are looking for some beautiful bright EDITABLE watercolor binder covers and spines to add a little fun and brightness to your life and work, then these just might do the trick. #teacherorganization #classroomorganization #bindersandspines #teacherbinderorganization
Organization is key to a less stressful teaching year! If you are looking for some beautiful bright EDITABLE watercolor binder covers and spines to add a little fun and brightness to your life and work, then these just might do the trick. #teacherorganization #classroomorganization #bindersandspines #teacherbinderorganization

Teacher Organization

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Parts of Speech, Conventions of Language and Grammar are so important when reading and writing. These sorts are a great way to support your students in getting to know parts of speech and more. Students sort and write specific words under correct headings, which provides lots of reinforcement and practice for these skills!
$1.50 #readandwritetheroom #firstgrade Read the Room Noun, Verb and Adjective Sort Fun Is It a Noun, Verb or Adjective? For Stations or Anytime Created Especially for First Grade. Can be used as a fun way to review parts of speech at the end of the year too!
Read the Room: Is It a Noun, Verb or Adjective? For Stations or Anytime for First Grade

Parts of Speech

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It is almost time for school to start and if you live in the south, you just might be back in school already. So with school starting or almost starting, you just might find these Tuesday Tips for Back to School helpful as you start back to greet those smiles and hear the chatter and giggles!

Teacher Tips

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Everything you need for progress monitoring and data collection for IEP goals, response to intervention for kindergarten and first grade right at your fingertips! Check it out to see the full resource and exactly what is included! #datacollection #RTI #math #sightwords #IEPgoals #money #time #fluency #endofyeargoals

Data Collection

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This fun activity for multiple meaning words is a great way to reinforce homonyms. It is presented in a fun way and after completion can be used for a bulletin board: Can a watch watch you? Your first grade students will love making he watch craft including! Click through and see for yourself!
Labeling your classroom can benefit all children especially emergent readers and English Language Learners. it is also a great idea for home as well as school. Label the Room and Read the Room is a great combo! Take a look at the full resource and see what you think. #labelingtheclassroom #emergentreaders #Englishlanguagelearners #readtheroom

English Language Learners and Emergent Reading Ideas

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With digital all around us, it is hard to encourage children to understand the importance of learning to tell time on an analog clock. If you don’t see a digital clock & you need to know the time, how will you know the time? This is a real life problem that can easily be solved with this fun, interactive trial & error resource! Make it important & fun & you will hook them in! Take a look & don't be late! #analogclocktellingtime #tellingtimetothehour #measurementandtime #googleclassroomtime
Telling Time can be difficult for some learners, these PowerPoint BUNDLE presentations using characters to teach children how to tell time to the hour and half hour, make it easy for students to understand, are repetitive in nature, use examples as well as chants to learn how to tell the time and are visual to support visual learners. Your Kiddos will love this!! #tellingtime #Clocks #tellingtimetothehourhalfhourbundle #mathtellingtime
Are you looking for a game you can teach once and then have ready to use in a minute's notice or for a substitute or even just a quick needed fun break? If this is something you might want, then check out this great ready to print and go resource and you will be delighted! #numberrecognition #additiongames #placevalue

Math, Money, Telling TIme, Graphs, MAth Facts

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Let your students learn how to spell words using spelling patterns. With this resource, your kiddos will color, sort, write the spelling words and learn a ton! Great for home or School! See what you think! #spellingpatterns #spellingsorts #spellingwordsforprimary #phonics #phonicsskills #homelearning #homeschool
Making 2 syllable words is an easy and fun resource that reinforces making closed syllable words. Students will love making 2 closed syllable words by coloring each syllable of a word to make a new word. Answer sheets included along with some fun for everyone! #closedsyllabes #phonics #firstgradephonics #closed2syllablewords
Do you want your kiddos to REALLY learn verbs? I am sure you do. This Verb Charades game is a fun and easy way to reinforce or introduce the concept of verbs! My class begged to play it and even wanted to play it during indoor recess! Take a look! #partsofspeech #verbs #verbgames #verbactivities #verbsfirstgrade

Word work

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These Teacher led following directions activities are fun for all and will help you see first hand who can focus and who may have some difficulty with this skill. Children are encouraged to listen and draw and or color. See what you think! #followdirectionactivities #listenandcolor #followdirections #followingdirections
Do you have some young learners who have difficulty listening and following directions? Following directions is an important concept for young learners to master. Have you ever tried an activity that encourages listening and following directions in a fun and motivating way? These listen and follow direction activities for kids does just that. So...if you are listening and following directions, you will check these out and click through to take a look! #followdirections #listen

Listening and following directions

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These visual morning and dismissal posters with smaller icons included for schedule boards are a great way to give your students the visual support they need in order to follow your expected classroom routines or rules. They are great for everyone, but especially for Emergent Readers, English Language learners and Special Education. These are teacher tested and east to differentiate. They can be customized for your various needs. See what you think... #classroomroutines #englishlanguagelearners
If you are looking for a great way to support your students with following directions for morning routines or even dismissal routines, you will LOVE these Classroom Routine Posters and icons. They are versatile and you can add your own text or simply use the visuals included. if you see something that you need specifically for your classroom simply ask and I am happy to add whatever icon or poster you need to meet your learners' needs! Stop on by and take a look...

Classroom routines

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Sometimes it can be difficult to find easy readers to use to support thinking and comprehension! These stories are written specifically to encourage and support reading comprehension strategies while using sight words or easier words for your students. Take a look and see if these are right for your learners! #readingcomprehension #sightwordactivities #sightwordstories #guidedreadingideas
I always thought teaching Cause and Effect was a little confusing for some students. With this fun Cookie Cause and Effect activity, your students will definitely understand this concept. Grab a cookies and check it out! #causeandeffectactivitiesforfirstgrade #causeandeffectreadingideas #firstgradereadingcomprehension
Many children rely on sounding out when they are faced with an unknown word. Yet, there are many other decoding strategies that need to be learned to become good readers & decoders. These printable sheets will encourage your students to use the chunking strategy to support decoding when reading . So support your emergent readers and encourage them to "Take a Chunk out of Words!" A great start-up activity before a Guided Reading group or just for fun! Take a look to see what's included!

Guided reading resources

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Turkey Trot is a fun game that can be played with partners or in a small group. This fun #Thanksgiving. Games will support your young learners with short vowel sounds in an engaging and super fun way. Trot on over and take a look to see if you might want to use this with your students. #cvcwordsactivities #shortvowelactivities #thanksgivingactivities #Thanksgivinggamesforfirstgrade
This fun Spooky Halloween Sight Word recognition and fluency game will have your students laughing and learning! It is easily differentiated and contains the first 300 FRY words color coded by levels...grab your broom and fly over to check this out...it might be just what you are looking for this HALLOWEEN! #Halloweenactivities #SightWords #Frywords #differentiatedresources #Halloweenactivitiesfor elementary
Thanksgiving: A time to think about everything we are thankful for in our lives...It is also a time to teach our students about how this Thanksgiving came to be, why we celebrate it and learn all about the first Thanksgiving. You will LOVE all that is included in this comprehensive Thanksgiving resource! #Thefirstthanksgiving #Thanksgivingcraftforkids #Thanksgivingfacts #NativeAmericangames #Mayflowerfacts #thefirstthanksgivingstory

Fall Ideas

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Numbers about Me can be used at home or t school as a quick and fun way to Informally assess personal information in Kindergarten, which is a required skill in many Kindergarten classrooms! It does not have to be used as an assessment but rather a fun way to build confidence as students learn how numbers are all around them and how numbers are important in our lives. #numbersaboutmeactivitiy #numbersaboutme #numberskindergarten
What do you want to do when you grow up? When I grow up I want to be...activities, writing frames and ideas to support your first graders to think about what they want to be when they grow up! So many great activities are included: a PowerPoint talking about possible future jobs, Charades Game and Writing Frames. Take a look at the full resource and see it for yourself...I know you will love it! #whenIgrowup #whenigrowupiwantobe #whenigrowupactivites

All about me

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Are you looking for a way to reinforce or teach spelling? You are in luck...this spelling sort activity reinforces spelling patterns to support understanding of those tricky spelling patterns! See for yourself and click through!
Are you looking for a way to reinforce or teach spelling? You are in luck...this spelling sort activity reinforces spelling patterns to support understanding of those tricky spelling patterns! See for yourself and click through!

Spelling patterns

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Having a Growth Mindset and Not a Fixed mindset is so important for our students to learn and know so they can become the best version of themselves! These primary colored posters were created especially for those #primary kiddos. They are written in kid friendly language that make and support understanding of having a Growth mindset easy! Encourage that positivity! #growthmindset #growthmindsetposters #growthmindsetforkids
These Customizable Growth Mindset Banners are a great addition to your classroom decor as a reminder for students to work hard and do their BEST! There are 8 different designs from which to choose and if you don't see any designs you like, then they can be customized to match your classroom! Easy as that!!! Take a look and see what you think! #growthmindset #growthmindsetbanners
Growth Mindset Banner to encourage a positive classroom community and collaboration...this perfect got your classroom and you will ❤️ the polka dots a blue colors!!

Growth mindset activities

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If you are looking for a fun way to reinforce #antonyms that can be differentiated in that you can choose easier or harder antonym pairs or add your own pairs for various children, then this is for your class! #Vocabulary is so important especially for English Language Learners and, as you know, English is NOT any easy language to learn! #vocabularydevelopment #antonymsactivities #antonymsactivitiesforfirstgrade
I am a firm believer that young children learn best when a concept is taught or reinforced in a fun way. If you feel the same way, then this antonym game will be the perfect addition to your #vocabulary curriculum! #vocabularygame #antonymgame #Antonymsactivities #Vocabularygamesforelementary
I am a firm believer that young children learn best when a concept is taught or reinforced in a fun way. If you feel the same way, then this antonym game will be the perfect addition to your #vocabulary curriculum! #vocabularygame #antonymgame #Antonymsactivities #Vocabularygamesforelementary

Vocabulary development

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Reading sight word stories can be a bit tedious at times. BUT...if you have some comprehension questions at the bottom of each page, you can have your kiddos read the words and answer some higher order thinking questions as well. It's a win-win! Look and see if these stories will work with your kids/students!!
This is a fantastic activity to practice sight words at home or at school!

Sight Words

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