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Cultural celebrations sensory bin

Print pictures or bring artifacts of the cultural holidays. Words or sentences describing the pictures and artifacts can be printed to make it into a scavenger hunt.

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Use Ocean Sensory Bins for:

Letter Matching Seashells (capital with lower case)

Compare and Contrast (Animals: Compare two different types of ocean animals, such as sharks vs. dolphins, or squid vs. octopus)

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Skill: Activities for figurative language

1. Matching pictures with examples

2. Matching sentences to type of figurative language

Any ideas for what items to add to bin?

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Christmas-themed sensory bin where students build CVC words using magnetic letters or puzzle pieces and then match them to the appropriate picture.

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Past and Present verb tense/First grade

Day 1: Have students review verbs. Match pictures with words and act up the verb.

Day 2: Discuss present verbs and match the pictures to the ing ending.

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I've used bins for the 5 Senses. Students get an item & must describe using pre-taught vocabulary then add it to a 5 senses chart. Students thent write descriptive sentences.

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Use rocks and toy cars, trucks and airplanes to teach about transportation. Extend it by having students explain where you find that vehicle (in the air, land, water). You could add community helpers and have them match the worker with the vehicle as well.

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Texture Bin

-This bin can be used to develop descriptive words for different textures.

-Possible items: sandpaper, feather, rocks (both smooth and rough), etc

-Students will feel the items and come up with the descriptive word. Create a list of these words.

-Model writing sentences and then allow students to write sentences using different objects with the same texture words already listed.

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Math Match

Get a bin put the Math symbols, +×÷=-

Have another bin with words that relate to the symbol

Limit the words by grade level, the older they are the more words they'll have

Student will get a paper that will have a few examples and they'll match the word to the example.

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Past tense of Irregular Verbs (Middle School)

Have a bucket with the pictures of the verbs in their base form. Then have students match them with their past tense and use them in a sentence

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In my 2nd grade class we read Charlotte’s web. We could do a farm/carnival theme to teach novel vocabulary or lifecycle of a spider etc. I think I would use miniature farm animals shapes, some Halloween spider web, fake grass or leaves.

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I am a middle grades teacher. My school is 70% Hispanic and 30% MLs. We serve alot of students who are considered new comers. This year as an 8th grade teacher, I would use sensory bins for those students to connect their vocabulary words to their visual learning. A great way would be starting in our current unit which is Ecosystems. I could create a bin where student have to choose a card with a description of an organism. They would then partner with another student who has their own organism and have to identify the symbiotic relationships ( mutualism,Prey/predator , Commensalism ) between those two organisms.

I could use toys as well.

Taneshia Moore

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I would use a sensory bin to help with letter identification. I would place lowercase and uppercase letters in a sensory bin and have the students match the letters to the correct letter on the handout. I would take the sheet up at the end of the lesson so that I will know what to focus on with this student and it can also help identify those students who are struggling with letter identification.

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Learning goal: adjectives/noun groups

-use any theme related to grade level content of holiday with multiple items that are different sizes, shapes, textures, colors, etc

-students choose an item and identify the noun and adjective of each item

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Using sensory bins for retelling using events from the story. Lower students can sort the pictures of the events and higher students can sort the sentences in order to differentiate the sensory bin. You can include sentence frames/conversation starters using transitional words.

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Use the bins with different shapes 2 and 3D. Match, identify, older could count verticies, faces...catagorize, compare and contrast.

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Multiplication Facts

-students practice fact fluency.

-have multiplication problems in the sensory bin. And have a placemat with answer options, or you can have them record answerson an answer sheet.

-this can be used with holiday or theme based sensory items in the bin.

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Rhyming words-Kinder

Language skill: identifying rhyming words and using them in sentences.

-Place pictures and/or words that rhyme in two containers for students to find and match.

-Clap out syllables in the words.

-Review the meaning of the words.

-Use the words in a sentence.

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Module 2/Kinder : Weather wonders

- Have students identify what weather is their favorite, have pictures and textures that could represent vocabulary (eg. cotton for clouds)

You can also expand each day, including pictures of activities you can do in each weather they have talked about (eg. a picture of a kid playing outside in a sunny day)

See this link: https://twocraftymakers.com/weather-sensory-bin-ideas/

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After some snow earlier this winter, my two toddlers developed a huge interest in the weather. I wanted to bring their questions on rain, snow, and rainbows to life and set to work creating a

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2nd grade phonics lesson: vowel teams with objects and written vowel teams. Students pick an object and determine the correct vowel team to spell the word.

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Letter and sound identification with mini Open Court Cards. Student can match the letter to the sound card.

Students can choose one letter/sound match and write two words for the sounds.

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4th grade science standards: winter themed sensory bins. Use fake snow as a filler, add animals. Discuss climate, weather, animals and their adaptations.

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Shape sensory bin:

1. Identify names of shapes.

2. Sort and group pictures/ items

3. Match shape with real world pictures or objects.

4. Compare/ contrast 2 shapes.

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Using a sensory bin as pre-reading exercise can help them make predictions. Then use it as a during-the-reading exercise to solidify their understanding.

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Goal:

Identifying colors for early childhood kiddos.

putting lots of rainbow items, colored pasta, colored confetti etc.

Matching colors to colors words.

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Frog Life Cycles (or any life cycle!)

• teach vocabulary for stages of the cycle

• students sequence the cycle

• ask student to fill out a graphic organizer with pictures of each stage

• write sentences about each stage of the cycle

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Field Trip Preview Sensory Bin

This year, many of my newcomers have been unsure what’s going to happen on field trips to places like the science center or a farm.

I like the idea of filling a sensory bin with pictures or models of what they might see or experience on the trip. When they return, we could use the same sensory bin to write personal narrative about their experience.

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I’m trying to think how I can use the resources that I already have, such as sequencing cards, to make fun sensory activities with for the SS students that I push in with.

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In opening a unit about American Formation and Immigration in HS, I had a blind bag with items in it like bread (related to factory and industrialization, tea (related to Boston Tea Party) , ship (related to Mayflower) train, etc. I had to borrow my daughter’s toys. 🤣 Suprisingly, my HS students enjoyed touching and talking about the items.

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Pasta, beans, and letter beads. Depending on the activity, you may say the sound and have students look for the letters.

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We can use sensory bins to teach colors, occupations, food, and so much more.

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How-to Writing Sensory Bin

teach sequencing words

read how-to story that uses sequencing words

find and order the story using sequencing words and sentence stems

Extend: students will write their own how-to story using sequencing words

(this would be an introduction to a whole how-to writing unit to pre-teach vocabulary and writing process)

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For elementary level - Use water beads to create an ocean environment. Then use sentence stems to discuss the objects within the bin.

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The Claw

Objective: identify color, shape, size, material of an object using adjectives.

In two teams, the students using the tweezers, listen to the teacher's command (adjective) and the fastest student who picks the correct item scores.

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Reading Comprehension for tough stories (testing)

read a story together

students can sequence major events

have students retell the story in their own words

answer comprehension questions after

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Identifying numerals and matching with one to one correspondence

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Use sequencing pictures and have students put in order and use sequence words - for example, how to build a snowman. Use winter themed items in bin.

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Halloween Sensory Bin

teach common Halloween vocabulary

Have students sort pictures and words

Ask students to create sentences using vocabulary words

Extend- students will write sentences or a story using at least 5 of the words