Ideas and Inspiration for Early Childhood
I love finding hands on and engaging activities with a variety of manipulatives for my students to use. One of my favorite manipulatives are alphabet magnets! Today I am sharing these fun Valentine's Day Consonant Blend Magnet Mats to help your students identify consonant blends with the letter, "l."*Pair this with our Valentine's Day Centers & Activities for … [Read more...]
Winter is here and many of your students will come in wearing hats, mittens, and coats of all different colors! Today, I am going to share a fun math activity to practice patterns using colored mittens with your students. This pattern activity can be used as a whole group lesson, math centers, math tubs, or in an early finisher bin. *Pair this with our Winter Centers & Activities for Pre-K … [Read more...]
Christmas time in Kindergarten is the most wonderful time of year! I love using Christmas themed activities in my math and literacy center rotations. Today, I am going to share a Christmas Tree Word Family Sort that you can use in your literacy centers or small group. *Pair with our December Kindergarten Printables BundleChristmas Tree Word Family Picture Sort What is a Word Family? A word … [Read more...]
November is the perfect time to get out all the turkey themed activities! It's a great way to bring Thanksgiving fun into the classroom. Today, I am going to share a fun Build a Turkey Number Sense Activity. *Pair this with our Thanksgiving Centers and Activities for Pre-K and Kindergarten!Turkey Number Sense Activity What is Number Sense? Number sense is building understanding and fluency … [Read more...]
Pumpkin themed activities are a fun way to celebrate fall in your classroom! In my class, we have a "pumpkin week", where all of our lessons, activities, and centers are pumpkin themed. One of the skills we work on around this time is one to one correspondence. One to one correspondence is the ability to count each object once, to find out how many. There are plenty of different ways to help your … [Read more...]
Fall is here and that means apples activities galore in Kindergarten! In September, we have a whole week filled with apple themed activities and lessons. Today, I am going to share with you a fun apple beginning sound match that will be perfect for your kids this fall! *Pair this with our Apple Centers for even more apple-themed fun!Apple Beginning Sound Match This matching game is perfect … [Read more...]
