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teaching materials - seasons & holidaysPuppet & Flannelboard Stories for Seasons & Holidays

Grade Level: Preschool - 1st Grade
Price: $12.99
Product #: 1003700
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Use finger plays, flannelboard stories, and puppets to hold young learners' attention while they learn basic concepts. Stories, directions, and patterns for the puppets and flannelboard pieces are provided along with many activities.

In this book children are introduced to many basic concepts through the exploration of a variety of literature selections. The flannelboard stories, rhymes, and finger plays are presented in four thematic units. Each unit is based on a season. The contents will assist the students with basic phonemic awareness and auditory discrimination and can be used to provide an introduction to phonics. The selected stories are favorites.

Simple, easy-to-make puppets and related activities accompany each presentation. Young learners are introduced to seasons and holidays by acting out different pieces of literature.

Pages: 96
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student made books fall / first gradeI Can Make It! I Can Read It! Fall

Grade Level: First Grade
Price: $12.95
Product #: 2003509
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Your proud young readers will say, "I can make it and I can read it!" when they complete these irresistible, interactive booklets. You can be sure they'll want to share their reading success with friends and family too.

These student-made booklets help develop essential early literacy skills through rhyming, repetitive, or predictable text. As they color, cut, paste, and write, your little ones will also be developing their fine-motor skills.

Choose from 20 booklets to complete your favorite fall themes, such as fire safety, bats, spiders, and scarecrows. Fun formats include shape books, accordion books, pop-up books, and more!

This book includes the following favorite themes:

  • Let's Get Ready for School!
  • Binky Rides the Bus (Bus Safety)
  • A Friend to Grow With
  • All About Me!
  • Who Helps Me?
  • Around My Neighborhood
  • The Four Seasons
  • All Dolled Up! (Months of the Year)
  • In the Tree
  • A Tasty Poem
  • Dalmatian Dolly's Safety Rules (Fire Safety)
  • Mr. Owl
  • Let's Go Batty!
  • The Busy Spider
  • Hello, Mr. Scarecrow!
  • One Dark Night
  • Native American Rock Art
  • Pilgrim Children
  • Gobble! Gobble! What's for Lunch?
  • Time for Harvest!

Pages: 96
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Seasons and Months Theme Thematic Unit Teaching Resource BookMonths and Seasons Thematic Unit

Grade Level: First, Second, Third Grade
Price: $9.99
Product #: 1003106
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This reproducible teaching resource is filled with ready-to-use lessons and cross-curricular activities. Also included are management ideas, creative suggestions for the classroom, and a bibliography.

At its core are two high-quality children's literature selections: Chicken Soup with Rice and The Apple Pie Tree.

For each of these featured books, activities are included which set the stage for reading, encourage the enjoyment of the book, and extend the concepts gained. In addition, the theme is connected to the curriculum with activities in language arts (including daily writing suggestions), math, science, social studies, art, music, and life skills.

Suggestions and patterns for bulletin boards and unit management tools are additional time savers for the busy teacher. Furthermore, culminating activities are included, which allow students to synthesize their knowledge in order to create products that can be shared beyond the classroom, highlight this very complete teacher resource.

This thematic unit includes:

  • literature selections - summaries of children's books with related lessons (complete with reproducible pages) that cross the curriculum
  • poetry - suggested selections and lessons enabling students to write and publish their own works
  • planning guides - suggestions for sequencing lessons each day of the unit
  • writing ideas - daily suggestions as well as writing activities across the curriculum
  • bulletin board ideas - suggestions and plans for student-created and/or interactive bulletin boards
  • curriculum connections - in language arts, math, science, social studies, art, music, and movement
  • group projects - to foster cooperative learning
  • culminating activities - which require students to synthesize their learning to create a product or engage in an activity that can be shared with others
  • a bibliography - suggesting additional literature and nonfiction books on the theme


Pages: 80
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Learning / Education Game for Teaching Weather
Whatever the Weather Game

Age Level: 4 & up
Price: $14.99
Product #: 3140066

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Be the first to build your scene in this cool weather game! Strengthen strategic thinking and understanding of changes in weather from season to season. Directions in English, Spanish, and French are included. 2-4 players.
Contents:
1 game board, 4 playing pieces, 1 die, 4 game mats, 4 ground pieces, 4 children, 4 seasonal trees, 8 seasonal objects
Choking Hazard Warning for Educational materials
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classroom materials - patternsBig & Easy Patterns: Holidays and Seasons

Grade Level: Preschool - 6th Grade
Price: $17.99
Product #: 1002602
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Lots of patterns are presented for each of the four seasons and their corresponding holidays, including St. Patrick's Day, Easter, Mother's Day and more. The book also includes teacher-tested ideas for using the patterns.

There are several ways to use the patterns in this book. They are big and easy to cut out, so they can be used by students for easy-to-prepare art projects. They can also be used for classroom decorations, story prompts, word banks, puppets, paper dolls, big books, and shape books.

Pages: 224
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