Winter Activities 48 Contractions Puzzles - Hats and Mittens Literacy Center

Students match up the hats with contractions to the mittens with the component parts in this Winter Themed Literacy Center.

✅ 48 Mittens and Hats Contraction Puzzles - Just cut on the lines to separate the mittens from the hats.

❤️ Optional Recording Sheets and Awards

❤️ Students can work independently or in pairs and record the contractions and their components if you'd like them to.

✅ 4 Recording Sheets – 2 color and 2 black and white to color

✅ 4 Mitten Smitten Contraction Awards – 2 color and 2 black and white to color

✅ Answer Keys

✅ Just print, and cut the puzzles apart on the straight lines.

✅ Mitten Smitten Contractions Puzzles!

Common Core: Contractions

Conventions of Standard English

• • CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.2.2c Use an apostrophe to form contractions and frequently occurring possessives.

★ Give students just the puzzles with the contractions that are appropriate for them.

★ This activity can grow with your students as they learn more contractions.

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Winter FREEBIE – Sight Word Game Boards – First 100 Dolch Words

Winter Holiday Sight Words Literacy Centers Game Board Activities –

5 Different Game Boards

5 different Winter themed game boards for the first 100 Dolch sight vocabulary words. I have included 2 spinners. (The last 120 Dolch are available in my product listings.) One of the spinners has lower numbers to make the game go slower. You could also use dice. Gameboards are themed around

Winter, Gingerbread Houses, Snow, and Penguins.

Winter Sight Word Game Boards – Set 2 – Last 120 Dolch Words

Winter Sight Words Literacy Centers Game Boards Activities –

5 Different Game Boards

5 different Winter themed game boards for the last 120 Dolch sight vocabulary words. I have included 6 spinners. (The first 100 Dolch are available in my product listings.) Some of the spinners have higher numbers to make the game go faster. You could also use dice. Gameboards are themed around

Winter, Gingerbread Houses, Snow, and Penguins.

(No Christmas Graphics other than candy canes and trees.)

Winter Poems/Songs for Shared Reading and Fluency

Winter Poems / Songs /Finger Plays and Chants – Shared Reading and Fluency -

32 page file – All Illustrated with Winter Graphics-

39 Songs/Poems/Finger Plays and Chants-

Prints nicely in color or grayscale-

Just choose those you like, and print just those pages.

Winter DIBELS Blending Build A Word Wheels – Make up to 63 Sets of Wheels!

Winter Blending DIBELS Build A Word Wheels – Set 1 – Different Ways To Use and Record – 63 Different Combinations of Wheels, so you can make 63 Word Builder Wheels with this set! - Includes 4 Word Builder Awards and 8 Recording Sheets –

Great for Differentiating Word Building Practice with your students -

7 inner wheels and 9 outer wheels as described below.

21 Page Download - Print as many of each wheel as desired to make up to 63 different Word Builders…

Winter Compound Words Puzzles – 90 Compound Words!

Winter Mitten Smitten Compound Word Puzzles

Literacy Center Activities, Recording Sheets and Awards

23 Page Download –

90 Compound Word Puzzles – Mittens with separate words match up to hats with compound words. Just cut on the lines to separate the mittens from the hats. Students match up the mittens to the correct winter hats. Students can work independently or in pairs and record the compound words and their components if you'd like them to.

Winter Contractions Puzzles – 48 Contractions!

Winter Mitten Smitten Contractions Puzzles

Literacy Center Activities, Recording Sheets and Awards

17 Page Download –

48 Mittens and Hats Contraction Puzzles - Just cut on the lines to separate the mittens from the hats. Students match up the mittens to the correct winter hats.

Students can work independently or in pairs and record the contractions and their components if you'd like them to.

Winter Cookie Dunkin’ Synonyms – 60 Pairs! 120 Words

Winter Cookie Dunkin’ Synonyms Literacy Centers, Recording Sheets and Awards

4 Ways to Play

30 page download – 120 Words (60 pairs of synonyms) –

5 complete sets with different backings (backings different from antonyms center so they won’t get mixed up!) and print color to keep them separate.

Winter Emergent Readers: Winter Fun! – 3 Different Reading Levels for Differentiation!

Winter Emergent Readers and Harder- Winter Fun Mini Books - 29 Page Download -

3 Different Levels – Emergent Reader and 2 Harder- 4 versions of each book- and pocket chart cards (some cards illustrated)

12 versions in all - Easy Assembly -Choices: full color illustrations OR black and white OR illustrate their own OR Write their own. Pocket chart vocabulary cards included

Winter Emergent Readers – “Animals in Winter” – 3 Reading Levels for Differentiation!

Winter Readers - Animals in Winter - Mini Books - 34 Page Download -

3 DIFFERENT READING LEVELS – Emergent Reader and 2 Harder- 4 versions of each book-

12 versions in all - Easy Assembly -Choices: full color illustrations OR grayscale OR illustrate their own OR Write their own. Pocket chart vocabulary cards included

Winter DIBELS Cookies and Cocoa – Set 1

Winter Literacy Centers - DIBELS Cookies And Cocoa Onset Rime Set 1 – Match each Cookie to a Mug of Cocoa to make a word… Real or Nonsense? C-V-C Prints nicely in color or grayscale.-Winter theme-

23 Page Download - 3 Ways to Play - 24 different cookies with onsets (beginning sounds and digraphs) match up to a variety of Mugs with rimes (–at, -ip, um, ed, ot, etc.).

Winter Onset Rime Cookie Dunkin’ Level 2

Winter Literacy Centers - Cookies and Cocoa – Dunk A Cookie! – Level 2 - Onset Rime – Match each Cookie to a Mug of Hot Chocolate to make a word… Real or Nonsense? 48 onsets and 84 rimes- Prints nicely in color or grayscale.

34 Page Download - 3 Ways to Play - 48 Cookies with onsets (beginning sounds, digraphs, blends and trigraphs) match up to a variety of Mugs with more complex rimes than in set 1 (–ear, -ight, ain, eat, end, etc.).

Winter Cookie Dunkin’ Antonyms Literacy Center

Winter Literacy Centers - Cookie Dunkin’ Antonyms Literacy Centers, Recording Sheets and Awards

4 Ways to Play

30 page download – 120 Words (60 pairs of antonyms) –

5 complete sets with different backings and print color to keep them separate.

Winter Skip Counting and Counting Math Centers

Winter Math Centers Counting and Skip Counting –

Snowmen, Penguins and Gingerbread

38 Page Download – Perfect for 100th Day or any day!

Snowmen, penguins and gingerbread people make this activity perfect for a Winter introduction to or review of counting and skip counting by ones, twos, fives and tens to 100.

Winter Subtraction Math Centers – Snowflakes and Trees – 190 Subtraction Facts! Differentiate…

Winter Math Centers: Snowflakes Subtraction Center Match Game! -

44 Page Download - 190 Subtraction Facts to 18

Match the Subtraction Fact Snowflakes to the correct

Winter tree.

Winter Addition Math Centers – Snowflakes and Trees – 100 Addition Facts to 18

Winter Math Centers: Snowflakes Addition Center Match - 100 Facts to 18 - Differentiate!

34 Page Download - 100 Addition Facts to 18 -

Match the Addition Fact Snowflakes to the correct

Winter tree.

Winter Snowman Triangle Fact Families Math Center

Winter Math Centers - Snowman Fact Families Triangle Fact Snowmen

102 Snowmen with all number families to 18 allows for differentiation!

(54 Different Snowman Graphics)

25 Page Download

Being able to write the number facts for a Fact Family is an important skill that helps students realize how memorizing one fact helps you to know 3 other facts right away!

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