Are you teaching word families? If so, you'll want to check out these Short A Family Flip Books! Not only are these cute, but they are also a great way to help kids practice reading! Kids can create them in the classroom and then bring them home to read to parents or caregivers. I'm excited to offer these flip books FREE to you! Short A Family Flip Books All you need for these flip books are the following: paper scissors crayons or colored pencils stapler Begin by … [Read more...]
Alphabet Building Activity from Lakeshore Learning
Disclosure: I am a blog ambassador for Lakeshore Learning and am compensated for my work. I received the product free of charge, but all thoughts and opinions are 100% mine. Kids learn alphabet letters at different rates. Most kids need a lot of different multi-sensory activities to learn the alphabet letters. Learning letters doesn’t occur in a straight line from A to Z. Students learn from repeated exposure over time and they learn letters at their own pace. It may only take 1 day for a … [Read more...]
Thanksgiving I-Spy Printables
Thanksgiving will be here before we know it! If you need a quick idea to do in the classroom or at home, you have to check out these Thanksgiving I-Spy Printables! Kids love them and they help with visual discrimination. This free printable comes in two versions. The printable that has mostly turkeys is the harder one. Since the turkeys are pretty similar to each other, you have to look closely to discriminate the differences. Each page is filled with pictures to find and … [Read more...]
Halloween I-Spy Printable
Halloween is just around the corner, so I have a fun Halloween I-Spy printable to share with you! This would be a fun class activity, especially for ages 5-10. There are two I-Spy sheets, in color and in black and white. Each page is filled with creatures to find and count. After the creatures are found, students can write the number in the boxes at the bottom of the page. Once all the creatures are counted, see which picture had the most and the least! This is a simple … [Read more...]
Leaf Activities for Preschoolers
Fall is a perfect time to plan some leaf activities with preschoolers. If you live in a place where the leaves change colors, then you know how magical it feels when this happens. Every year I long for the colored leaves to last a little bit longer before they gracefully fall to the ground. Today I'm showing you some of our absolute FAVORITE leaf activities! I hope you'll try some of them out and let me know which one is your favorite! 1. Sticky Leaf Tree Go on a leaf hunt and find all … [Read more...]
Fine Motor Task Cards
This post contains affiliate links. See my disclosure for more details. Fine motor skills are incredibly important to focus on with children. I am constantly adding fine motor activities to our day to help my boys strengthen their hands. Fine motor skills require the use of smaller muscle groups to perform tasks that are precise in nature. These are activities that use hand muscles to manipulate small pieces or use small movements to complete tasks. Whether you are teaching young children … [Read more...]
Q-Tip Painting for Lowercase Letters
Disclosure: This post contains affiliate links to Amazon for your convenience. See my disclosure for more details. Learning alphabet letters is an important thing to learn during the preschool and kindergarten years! A fun, hands-on way to learn this is through this Q-Tip Painting Activity. This activity I'm sharing with you today is for lowercase letters. I've also created Q-tip painting printables for uppercase letters and numbers, too. I love teaching alphabet letters through … [Read more...]
Chapter Books for Preschoolers
Disclosure: This post contains affiliate links to Amazon. See my disclosure for details. Are you looking for chapter books to read aloud to preschoolers? Read-aloud time is my favorite part of the school day and by reading with my children, I've been able to find books that we love and adore. I'm always looking for suggestions for books to read to my kids during our homeschool day. I either preview a book by reading it ahead of time or I get book recommendations from friends. Today I'm … [Read more...]
Q-Tip Painting for Uppercase Letters
Disclosure: This post contains affiliate links to Amazon for your convenience. See my disclosure for more details. There are so many fun ways to teach kids alphabet letters! One way to do it is with this Uppercase Letters Q-Tip Painting activity. This free printable includes 26 pages for all the uppercase alphabet letters. Each page has an alphabet letter that can be filled in with Q-tip painting. At the bottom of each page, there are two pictures that begin with that letter. For the … [Read more...]
Q-Tip Number Painting Activity
Disclosure: This post contains affiliate links to Amazon for your convenience. See my disclosure for more details. Teaching kids about numbers is a lot of fun! There are so many fun activities you can do, including this one! This Q-Tip Number Painting Activity is not only great for learning numbers but also a wonderful way to work on fine motor skills! This printable PDF includes 10 pages. Each page has a number that can be filled in with Q-tip painting. At the bottom of each page, … [Read more...]