Grab this Thanksgiving-fun resource here today for FREE!!!
It is filled with Thanksgiving-themed posters, pocket chart cards, and beginning sound clip-it cards. Play the Alphabet Pie “I Have, Who Has” game with your students and create a kid-friendly alphabet treat! Gobble yours up today!
What does preschool look like in your home? There are plenty of advocates for keeping a child, a child and not starting school too soon. But, if you have little ones growing up in your homeschool, you’ve certainly heard, “Do you have school for me?” or “When can I do school?” Oh, the teachable hearts of our little ones! And what a joy it is for us to be able to encourage their love for learning.
So, where do you start? There are TONS of awesome **FREE** printables out there. You can find some of my favorites at 3Dinosaurs, Confessions of a Homeschooler, and 1+1+1=1. But, be warned…you will be entering the world of colored ink and laminating…lots of laminating :). So be picky, versus spending a summer like I did printing and laminating. We certainly do not come close to using even half of the free printables I have compiled.
As you may have heard, this year I am transitioning my kids’ work to interactive notebooks. They just make sense for us homeschoolers who need a record what our children have accomplished. And even if you don’t *need* to keep a record, notebooking provides you and your children with a great reference tool for the next year–you will be able to visually build upon (and re-use) what your children have learned.
So why not start your notebooking journey with Preschool? We are compiling My First Interactive Math Notebook–developing number sense, understanding number order, learning how to count, and the discovering how to add and subtract within 10. It has been such FUN!
Plus, we are working on a new letter each week/two weeks. Here is a peek at what that looks like:
The manipulatives we are using include: Handwriting Without Tears chalkboard and Wood Pieces Set to work on basic letter formation; capital and lowercase letter beads to work on letter orientation; plus play-doh and our ABC FUN sheets (I’m in the process of updating these sheets and adding numbers 1-20 :).
The notebooking activities include letter formation–crayon to paper for both capital and lowercase; identifying/finding the letter; building the letter (similar to the wood pieces we use); writing the letter BIG and small; sorting the capital from the lowercase; learning the letter’s beginning sound and ABC order. Plus lots of little extras (purposeful cutting practice–we cut the letter as well as a letter craft each week; simple mazes; magnify and match–capitals and lowercase; sequencing life cycles, events, and sizes; identifying items in pictures that have the target sound; visual discrimination–figuring out what doesn’t belong, or is “wacky” in a picture) to reinforce this learning.
But, most of all we are having FUN and loving this stage of life! It is a beautiful, sweet time in your child’s school career so fill it up with lots of Mommy&me time!
Get back to school with this set of self-discovery crafts–fun, hands-on activities for your littlest learners!
Crafts are more than just FUN, they encourage self-expression and develop fine motor skills. This set of crafts focuses on one of your child’s favorite topics–themselves! Here’s all that is included:
My Name Caterpillar—Ordering the letters in their first name. (Editable file for letters included).
My Name Begins With—A to Z Correct letter formation, beginning sound picture match and letter drawing. These sheets can be used throughout the year to teach letter formation and beginning sounds.
This is Me—Drawing each part of their face and then putting it altogether.
All of Me—Cutting and gluing together their body (head, torso, arms, legs)
My Hand—Outline hand and number their fingers
Is My Foot a Foot?—Outline shoe and measure; compare to a ft.
My Family—Drawing people, cutting and constructing a house
My Birthday is On—Birthday (month/day); counting & labeling
I Live Here—Locating their state on a map of the USA; learning the state abbreviation
State Mobile (state name, flag, bird and flower); editable file for state name and sites for collecting state graphics included
I’ve Been Here—map of USA to color locations; frame for picture or drawing
My Favorite Color—Cut out and color a lollipop…yum! Plus, learn the color names!
My Favorite Animal—Cut out and glue together a finger puppet of their favorite animal
I Like to Eat This for Breakfast—Choosing their favorite breakfast foods and making a “breakfast plate”
I Like These, Too—A place to put all of those extra foods, or animals
Grab a free copy! Enter today to be one of three lucky winners (giveaway ends Sunday, August 14). Or, get it while it is on sale!
Have a great school year!
These MATH BOOKLETS are a GREAT addition to your Kindergarten math curriculum! They are designed to reinforce the Algebraic Operations & Thinking that your little ones need to master before advancing to First Grade.
There are 21 booklets in this set:
I Can Add 1 to That
I Can Add to 2 with Me and You
I Can Count by 2 with Shoes
I Can Add to 3 at the Sea
I Can Count by 3 with Peas, Please
I Can Add to 4 at the Store
I Can Count by 4 with Paws & Hooves
I Can Add to 5 with my Fingers
I Can Count by 5 with Gumballs & Nickels
I Can Take Away from 5 Little Monkeys
I Can Add to 6 when I Eat
I Can Take Away from 6 (The Very Hungry Caterpillar)
I Can Add to 7 with Easter Eggs
I Can Take Away from 7 Apples
I Can Add to 8 with Ollie the Octopus
I Can Take Away from 8 Trick or Treat
I Can Add to 9 with my Potato Peep
I Can Take Away from 9 with Birds on a Line
I Can Add to 10 and Celebrate!
I Can Count by 10 with Candy & Dimes
I Can Take Away from 10 at the Amusement Park
In the first half of each I Can Add Booklet, as you read the text, your students will glue in the numeral tiles, or write in the numbers to make the equations true. This section teaches the commutative property—i.e. your students will learn that whether they add 3 + 1 or 1 + 3 the answer will be 4.
Then they will practice writing all previous numbers and tallying the target number. Next, they will glue in number representation (or picture) tiles as demonstrated in the first half of the book and write each equation. A base ten frame with the target number highlighted is included to help your visual learners.
The I Can Take Away Booklets (beginning with the number 5) are laid out in a similar fashion. Your students will decompose numbers less than or equal to 10 into pairs using object and numeral tiles (and crossing out those items that were taken away). Then they will record each decomposition by writing the equation. Number lines for “jumping back” are included on the equation recording pages.
The I Can Count By (2, 3, 4, 5, & 10) Booklets will encourage your students’ mastery of these skip count series. Common units (pairs, quadrupeds, pennies, nickels and dimes) are presented in these booklets. Your students will count within the series using these units and a number line.
These booklets are easy to use. Simply print, cut, stack and staple! Your kids will need a crayon or pencil, scissors and glue.
These booklets are on sale {HALF OFF} today–HAPPY 4th of JULY!! You can grab them here!
I’ve also posted this sample booklet–it’s a freebie! Grab yours here!
Here is a new life skills/motivational reader to spur your students into “Going GREEN.” Grab a copy while it’s free in my TPT store! I’d love it if you’d leave some feedback, too!
Did your little jedi’s have fun learning with Kindergarten Jedi? Their adventure continues with PADWAN MATH!
It is a math smorgasbord for First Graders. Here’s a look at what’s included:
**I Spy Shapes Booklet (Color & Count 2- and 3-Dimensional droid shapes)
**May the Fourth Calendar Sheet–includes even/odd; writing the date numerically; season identification; number of days in the month; number of days in school—one more/less and ten more/less; written as hundreds, ten and ones; as a place value equation and as money; skip counting by 4s and a simple word problem based on fourths.
**May the Fourth Ten Frames (Use this sheet to help your students count Days in School—1/2 a ten frame (5 days) for each week
**Stormtrooper’s Skip Counting (by 5s and by 10s)
**Chewie’s Countdown (Write the numbers from 24 to 0 in descending order)
**Chewie’s Ten More/Ten Less (Use the spinner to select a number; then write 10 more & 10 less)
**Luke’s Spin, Write and Subtract (Subtraction within 20)
**Luke’s Lost Addends (fill in the missing number to make the equation true)
**Luke’s Locate and Add (choose the two numbers, when added together, equal the number in the middle of the circle)
**Darth’s Double and Take Two (Double the number given; then subtract two from that answer)
**Yoda’s True or False (sort the equations)
**Leia’s Find the Fraction (Choose the right answer for the fraction represented by the shaded area)
**Leia’s Equivalents (Circle the fractions in each grouping that are equivalent)
**Leia’s Lines of Symmetry (Draw the mirror image of the mask shown)
**Han’s Half-sies (Draw a straight line between the dots to cut the object in half)
**Han’s Halve it! (Color half of each group of items)
**Han’s Teaching Clock (base clock with quarter and half hour overlays)
**Han’s Half Hour Hop (Draw the time on each clock—a half hour more than the time shown on the previous clock)
**Han’s Time to Travel I (time to the half hour)
**Han’s Time to Travel II (time to the quarter hour)
**C3PO’s Droid Store I (More or Less; Write the Inequality)
**C3PO’s Droid Store II (Determine the coins that make the amount of each droid part)
**C3PO’s Money Chart (Use with C3PO’s Droid Store)
**Padawan Sum Wars Board Game (addition and subtraction within 40, inequalities, adding three numbers, and ten more)
**Swat a Sith Time Game—30 Star Wars themed time scenario cards (quarter, half and full hour before and after). Your students will SWAT the answer to each time change scenario. Clocks for every quarter hour are included. Blank clocks and editable time scenario cards are also included.
Yep, get out the flyswatter–your kids are going to love swatting that Sith!
New today! A hands-on, math and literacy pack that will teach your students about Leap Year and the Number Four. This is a differentiated pack of Print-n-Go worksheets for Kindergarteners and First Graders.
It includes a survey of math sheets similar to those in a variety of PreparilliPress products. And great literacy activities from sight word practice to rhyming.
My favorite part of this pack is My Happy Leap Day Birthday interactive reader. It will help your students understand what it would be like to have a birthday on leap day.
We are going to have fun celebrating LEAP DAY on Monday! Hope you do, too.
Be sure to stop by my stores this week and next and grab the SUPER BOWL MATH {Freebies}. There are two to choose from. One for Kindergarteners–this is from My Calendar: Holidays & Celebrations:
And another set for First to Third graders:
Hope you enjoy them!
I’m so EXCITED to share the Ultimate Sight Words Special VALENTINE’S Series with you!! It has been such fun for us to work on! It is LOADED with great hands-on learning, plus lots of engaging activities to get the whole gang ready for Valentine’s Day. Take a look:
The front of each Valentine Sight Word sheet is very similar to the Spot the Sight Word sheets of Series 1& 2 . But, the back is something new! Here, your students will practice drawing–sometimes just tracing, other times finishing a drawing or coming up with their own original artwork!
And the crafts in this special series are Valentine’s Day Cards!!! Aren’t they cute?! Your students will find the sight words and Valentine’s nouns that they are learning on these cards. They’ll then use them to write a special Valentine!
And what would one of our sight word packs be without a FUN game?!? Candy Craze will get your students reading, building sentences with their sight words and drawing (Pictionary-style).
And this series has additional math and literacy work that you can use well beyond Valentine’s Day!
The Valentine’s Party Planning Booklet has been such a help for us in reviewing the basics of writing names, dates, and time. Plus, the learning/re-learning our home address (street address, city, state and zip code) and phone number–vital information all of our kids should master :)!
The math sheets review counting, number order, finishing equations, graphing, addition and subtraction within 10 and 20, writing amounts of money, skip counting and shape recognition–GREAT learning and LOADS of FUN!
You’ll find the Ultimate Sight Words Special VALENTINE’S Series on sale at my TPT store through Monday. You also can enter to win your own copy here! Hope you LOVE it as much as we have!
Winter Pattern Play is such a FUN learning tool! You are going to LOVE it! It is not your average pattern-teaching resource. Instead, it combines pattern identification and skills your students should be mastering (identification of phonemes–beginning and ending letter sounds & blends; one-to-one correspondence; 2-D shapes; colors and skip counting).
Your students will begin learning various patterns (AB, AAB, AABB, ABB, ABC) using the tiles and print-n-teach worksheets.
Then, you’ll combine your students’ pattern identification skills with a phonemic review.
They will listen for beginning and ending letter sounds and blends–like “ch”, “cl”, “ft”, “pr”, “rd”, “sc”, “sl”, “sn”, “st”, “sw”, “th”, and “tr”.
Winter Pattern Play includes a section all about this season’s holidays–complete with pattern and phoneme identification.
Finally, you’ll develop your students patterning skills with 2-dimensional shape identification and drawing; color patterning; one-to-one correspondence using dice and basic skip counting (by evens/2s, odds, 3s, 4s, 5s, and 10s).
Grab Winter Pattern Play on sale this week, or enter my Teachers’s Notebook giveaway and win it Sunday!!