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Whats in This Book?.. . . . . . . . . . 4

Through the Year

Autumn.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Winter.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Spring.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Summer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Halloween.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Thanksgiving.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Christmas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Hanukkah.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Valentines.Day.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

100th.Day.of.School.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Animals

Cats.and.Dogs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Elephants.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Lions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Giraffes.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Kangaroos.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Bears.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Snakes.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Butterflies.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Ants.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Fish.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Places

At.the.Store.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

At.the.Playground.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

At.the.Beach.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

On.the.Farm.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

In.My.Room. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Fairy Tale Fun

Goldilocks.and.the.Three.Bears.. . . . 80

The.Three.Billy.Goats.Gruff. . . . . . . . 83

The.Three.Little.Pigs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

The.Gingerbread.Man.. . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Hansel.and.Gretel.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

Things That Move

Cars,.Trucks,.and.Buses. . . . . . . . . . . . 95

Boats.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

All.Aboard!.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

Planes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

Bikes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

In My World

Apples.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

Trees.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

Water.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

Crayons. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

Vegetables. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122

Shirts.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125

Hats.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128

Ice.Cream.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

Shapes.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134

Shoes.and.Socks.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137

My.Family.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

Answer Key. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143

CONTENTS

4 Critical and Creative Thinking Activities EMC 3391 Evan-Moor Corp.

Critical and Creative Thinking Activities, Grade 1 contains 46 themes, each presented in a three-page unit that gives students valuable practice with a broad range of thinking skills. The engaging themes will keep students interested and will have them begging to do the next set of activities!

The first and second pages of each unit get students thinking about the topic in a variety of ways. They may be asked to draw on prior knowledge or to generate new ideas.

The last page of each unit features one of a number of stimulating and entertaining formats, including logic puzzles, riddles, and secret codes.

How to Use This Book Use the activity pages during your language

arts period to keep the rest of the class actively and productively engaged while you work with small groups of students.

The themed sets of activity pages provide a perfect language arts supplement for your thematic or seasonal units. And youll find any number of topics that complement your science and social studies curricula.

Your students will enjoy doing these fun pages for homework or as free-time activities in class.

Whats in This Book?

Sample Unit

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Which elephant is Etta?Read the clues.Cross out the elephants that are not Etta.

Then circle Etta.Write Ettas name above her. Etta is not eating. Etta is not splashing herself.

Etta is not a baby. Etta is standing. Etta has tusks.

Elephants

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Which elephant is Etta?Read the clues.

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What would be fun abo

ut having an elephant

for a pet?

Why would it be hard

to have an elephant fo

r a pet?

What is another anima

l that

is big? has roug

h skin?

is gray? has tusk

s?

Circle the elephant tha

t is different.

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about having an eleph

ant for a pet?

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ElephantsHow is an elephant the same as a rabbit?

How is an elephant different from a rabbit?

Elephants

eat .

live

.like to

.

What is wrong with this picture?

What is the name of another animal that begins with E?

The valuable thinking skills practiced in this book (see inside front cover) are not generally addressed in state standards. However, thinking skills require content to be practiced. The activities in this book have been correlated to the Language Arts and Mathematics standards.

Visit www.teaching-standards.com to view a correlation of this book to your states standards.

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Color the leaves to make a pattern. Use yellow and orange.

In autumn

the weather .

the leaves .

people .

What will happen next?

Autumn

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What sound does it make?

A leaf when you step on it:

Rain on the roof:

Wind in the trees:

1.Draw a tree in autumn.

2.Draw 12 leaves on the tree.

3.Draw 8 leaves on the ground.

4.Draw 3 leaves falling from the tree.

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The second picture is different from the first picture in 8 ways. Can you find and circle them all?

In autumn, you might have to wear an extra .

Autumn