Polar Express Learning Pack

Description

This Polar Express activity pack is loaded with literacy and math activities {nearly 200 pages}!! It’s a GREAT fit for K-1st learners, although there are certainly activities that preschoolers and 2nd graders could use, too!

This pack also contains 4 EDITABLE activities that can be modified and adapted for lots more learning. See the editable notes below.

 

Part 1: Polar Express Literacy Activities

Within the literacy section of the pack are these activities:

1. Phonological Awareness & Beginning Phonics Activities

• rhyming word hot chocolate matching
• syllable clip cards
• beginning sound letter matching
• beginning sound stamping worksheet
• beginning letter sounds train sorts {with pictures}
• middle short vowel sounds train sorts {with pictures}

2. Phonics & Spelling Activities

• short and long vowel train sorts {with words}; includes “oddball” train cars and EDITABLE PAGE, too!
• written sorts for spelling phonics words
• Roll & Read Game Board {EDITABLE!!}
• Polar Express Dice
• spelling little words from bigger words such as, Polar Express, Hot Chocolate, Silver Bell, and Merry Christmas
• tickets with letters for spelling activities

3. Comprehension & Writing Activities

• picture comprehension sort – it’s in the story or not in the story
• book and movie comparison sort
• book and movie comparison worksheet
• sequencing cards – using pictures, sentences, and numbers
• sequencing worksheets
• vocabulary cards
• figure of speech hunt
• comprehension questions and writing pages

 

Part 2: Polar Express Math Activities

Within the math section of the pack are these activities:

1. Numbers

• dot pages for numbers 1-10 and 11-20
• dot pages for 1 die
• rote counting mazes {for numbers 1-200}
• ordering numbers {EDITABLE PAGE!!}
• greater than, less than train cars {EDITABLE PAGE!!}
• even and odd game with 3 levels of play

2. Operations & Algebraic Thinking

• cut and pattern cards
• ways to represent numbers train sorts {1-20}
• dot pages for addition to 12 {number sentences included or use two dice}
• 12 Squares game for 2 players {addition, subtraction, beginning multiplication and division can also be included}
• addition game
• double digit addition game {no remainder}
• double addition recording sheet
• base ten game with jingle bells

3. Measurement & Data

• roll & tally activities
• roll & graph activities
• roll, tally, graph and record activity
• money {for penny, nickel, dime, and quarter}
• telling time to hour, half hour, and quarter hour activities

4. Geometry

• 2D shapes attributes matching
• 3D objects attributes matching
• pattern block building mats
• pattern block graphing

5. Word Problems

• word problems based on the Polar Express theme
• word problem recording sheet {for showing work}
• writing word problems {number sentence is given; students write a word problem}

Click HERE to see a sample pack!