Bandicoot's Bumbershoot
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Fox Island, Washington, United States
About the store
Welcome to Bandicoot's Bumbershoot! With six years of experience as a Toddler and Preschool teacher, I’ve seen first hand how a "learning through play" approach can transform a classroom.
I hold an M.S.Ed and have a passion for creating engaging, safe, and tech-friendly educational environments. I know you’re busy, so I focus on creating ready-to-go resources that require minimal prep but deliver maximum impact. My goal is to provide you with the tools to build excellent rapport with your students and families through high-quality, research-backed play that makes your life easier!
What You'll Find Here:
- Research-based Materials
- Easy to Implement Activities
- Learning through Play!
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Cold Climate Animals HAM (hibernation, adaptation, or migration) Game
Exercise and Science combined! With HAM (Hibernation, Adaptation, or Migration), children will have fun moving around while learning about cold climate animals. They will decide whether the animals hibernate, use adaptations, or migrate to survive while having a blast with their friends!
If you like this movement game, please check out Lucky Envelope! Lucky Envelope combines mathematics and movement for a fun and interactive way to learn about Chinese culture.
Click here for Lucky Envelope
PreK - 1st
Physical Education, Vocabulary
Chinese New Year Printable Decor
Everything you need to decorate your classroom for Chinese New Year. Includes a full-sized door couplet (Happy Spring Festival! Smooth sailing with each year; success with each step.), upside-down fu (luck) characters for decorating doors, and Happy New Year Banner in Mandarin, Cantonese, and English!
PreK - 12th
Asian Studies, Chinese
Hibernation Groove: A Music and Movement Science Game
Bring science to life with an engaging movement-based lesson that helps young learners understand what hibernation is and feel it through music, rhythm, and imaginative play. This resource blends life science, music, and gross motor learning in one ready-to-use package designed for busy teachers who want simple setup and high student engagement.
PreK - 1st
Biology, Music, Physical Education
NGSS
K-LS1-1
Spring Calendar Numbers (March, April, May)
This adorable calendar numbers set features caterpillars, butterflies, snails, worms, ladybugs, and a variety of different colored mushrooms! Using these calendar numbers, students will enjoy learning how to count sequentially, identify numerals, and determine what comes next in a pattern. Other objectives include developing an increasingly complex vocabulary, learning to identify letters and learning to identify sight words.
Included:
-Season and month labels for March, April & May
-Three dist
PreK - 2nd
English Language Arts, Math
Cold Climate Animals Science Mini-book
Real photographs depict ten animals and how they survive using adaptation, hibernation, or migration. Animals included: polar bear, penguin, gray wolf, leopard seal, Eurasian elk, caribou, snowy owl, musk ox, arctic hare, and puffin. Dotted font encourages students to practice their writing skills while learning about cold climate animals!
PreK - 1st
Science, Writing
The Legend of the Upside Down Fu: Multicultural Mini-Book
A great addition to your Chinese New Year activities! The Legend of the Upside Down Fu is a multicultural mini-book which explains how one mistake became a Chinese New Year tradition that is still going on today! Objectives include multiculturalism, social studies, reading, writing, and vocabulary.
PreK - 2nd
Asian Studies, Reading, Writing
The Case of the Back to School Scavenger Hunt
The Case of the Back to School Scavenger Hunt is a great activity to introduce students to your classroom. A fun and engaging story line leads them into the world of Chilly Detective Agency, where they will help Detective Penguin Sleuth solve a mystery! Each clue gives them a new piece of information they will need to solve the case. Have fun watching your students solve a mystery while they learn all about their new classroom!
Children will:
-Learn to improve their auditory memory and follow
PreK - 3rd
English Language Arts
United States of America Flag Packet
The United States of America Flag Packet contains three highly engaging, hands-on activities which allow students to learn about the history of America and the American flag while also learning objectives from the following domains: fine motor, cognitive, speech, writing, visual art, and mathematics. Perfect for your 4th of July themed unit!
PreK - 2nd
English Language Arts, U.S. History
Multicultural Dramatic Play Chinese Marketplace
All real photographs depict items found in a typical Chinese marketplace. Signs authentically priced using Renminbi currency, and play money (yuan) is included. Everything you need to set up an authentic multicultural experience in your dramatic play area. Your students will love learning about another culture through play!
PreK - 1st
Asian Studies, Math
Flower Power Patterns (real photographs)
Flower Power Patterns is a fun and hands-on way to learn about botany while working on the concept of patterns. Children will enjoy the flexibility to create their own patterns using all-real photographs depicting a variety of different kinds of flowers, while also having the opportunity to complete simple and complex patterns. Objectives of this activity include learning to create and complete simple and complex patterns, understanding the basic properties of living things, identifying plants b
PreK - 1st
Math
Lucky Envelope: A movement-based multicultural math game
Movement and mathematics combined! Children will learn social-emotional skills, the gift of giving, mathematics, and multiculturalism, all while strengthening their large muscle skills.
If you like this movement game, please check out HAM! HAM combines science and movement for a fun and interactive way to learn about cold climate animals.
Click here for HAM
PreK - 2nd
Math, Physical Education
Chinese New Year Multicultural Bundle
Everything you need for your Chinese New Year Unit!
Includes: Dramatic Play Chinese Marketplace, Lucky Envelope (movement-based, multicultural, math game), Chinese New Year Printable Decor for the Classroom, The Legend of the Upside-Down Fu (mini-book), and a week's worth of Chinese New Year themed homework!
Domains Include:
Mathematics, Multicultural, Musical Arts, Social, Gross Motor, Reading, Writing, Language, Socio-dramatic Play, Fine Motor, Cognitive, and Vocabulary
PreK - 2nd
Asian Studies, English Language Arts, Math
Fall Calendar Numbers (August, September, October, November)
This adorable calendar numbers set features carrots, squirrels, acorns, apples, corn, hay bales, pumpkins, and different types of leaves! Using these calendar numbers, students will enjoy learning how to count sequentially, identify numerals, and determine what comes next in a pattern. Other objectives include developing an increasingly complex vocabulary, learning to identify letters and learning to identify sight words.
Included:
-Season and month labels for August, September, October & Novem
PreK - 2nd
English Language Arts, Math
Valentine's Day Unit
Valentine's bundle!! Includes 5 days of Valentine's themed homework, Valentine's Vocabulary Detective Agency game, Color Match game, Dandy Candy (sorting and addition) game, Rainbow Hearts game, and Valentine's Card templates. Domains include: Reading, Writing, Social-emotional, Mathematics, Fine Motor, and Visual Art. Everything you need for a fun and successful Valentine's themed week!
PreK - 1st
English Language Arts, Math
Mitten Addition
Mitten Addition is a highly engaging math game in which children practice mathematics, social-emotional, and writing skills while having a blast!
Objectives include:
-number identification
-counting 1-20
-adding two groups to find a total
-setting up an addition equation
-writing numerals
-taking turns
-following simple rules
-working together
PreK - K
Other (Math), Writing
Goldilocks and the Three Bears Comprehension Board Games (Marshall Version)
4 games in 1! Goldilocks and the Three Bears Comprehension Board Games is a great way to help children broaden their understanding of the literary elements connected with this wonderful children's story. In addition, it provides teachers with an authentic and engaging way to assess student learning and provide scaffolding to increase comprehension.
Through this game children will practice....
Reading comprehension
Mathematics/Counting
Social-Emotional/Taking turns & following rules
Thanks agai
PreK - 2nd
Literature, Reading, Reading Strategies
Flower Families Word Sort
Children will love putting together the pieces of this puzzle and using their cognitive skills to figure out which flower belongs in each garden. Fun graphics make this word sort a great addition to your spring/summer Literacy or English Language Arts centers! Objectives include: learning to identify word patterns, rhyming, expanding spoken vocabulary, sorting words into categories, and reading word accurately and fluently.
PreK - 1st
English Language Arts
Summer Calendar Numbers (June & July)
This adorable calendar numbers set features seaweed, coral, starfish, beach balls, sand buckets, blue shovels, and happy suns! Using these calendar numbers, students will enjoy learning how to count sequentially, identify numerals, and determine what comes next in a pattern. Other objectives include developing an increasingly complex vocabulary, learning to identify letters and learning to identify sight words.
Included:
-Season and month labels for June & July
-Two distinct pattern sets (ABC &
PreK - 2nd
English Language Arts, Math
Seuss-Inspired Rhyming Word Sensory Game
This Seuss-Inspired activity has it all! This game includes domains such as reading, writing, mathematics, fine motor, sensory, cognitive, social-emotional, all while keeping a Seuss-inspired feel. Children will work on skills such as identifying letters and sight words, sounding out CVC (consonant vowel consonant) words, sorting words based on visual attributes, counting sequentially and identifying numerals. making purposeful marks and letters, all while having a blast playing a cooperative ga
PreK - 1st
English Language Arts, Math
Spring Homework Packet (No Prep!)
This packet includes 25 engaging and fun spring themed homework pages for March, April, and May! Through these pages children will work on skills in writing, cognitive, mathematics, fine motor, visual art, and reading. There are even special holiday themed pages for St. Patrick's Day, Easter, Cinco de Mayo, and Mother's Day. Answer pages are included!
If you would like a FREE sneak preview of this packet, click the link below!
Spring Homework FREEBIE!!
PreK - 1st
English Language Arts, Math
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About the store
Experience
Welcome to Bandicoot's Bumbershoot! With six years of experience as a Toddler and Preschool teacher, I’ve seen first hand how a "learning through play" approach can transform a classroom.
I hold an M.S.Ed and have a passion for creating engaging, safe, and tech-friendly educational environments. I know you’re busy, so I focus on creating ready-to-go resources that require minimal prep but deliver maximum impact. My goal is to provide you with the tools to build excellent rapport with your students and families through high-quality, research-backed play that makes your life easier!
What You'll Find Here:
- Research-based Materials
- Easy to Implement Activities
- Learning through Play!
Teaching style
Hands-On and Kinesthetic learning
Awards & shining teacher moments
Sigma Alpha Lambda National Leadership and Honors Organization,
Golden Key International Honor Society
My own education history
M.S.Ed. in Curriculum and Instruction – THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, Lawrence, KS 2012
Thesis: Word Recognition, Vocabulary, and Comprehension
Areas of Concentration: Reading Specialist, Children’s Literature
Honors: Sigma Alpha Lambda National Leadership & Honors Organization
B.S.Ed. in Unified Early Childhood – THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, Lawrence, KS 2011
Areas of Concentration: Special Education, Positive Behavioral Support, Multicultural Education
Honors: Graduated with distinction
Additional biographical information
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Sigma Alpha Lambda - National Leadership and Honors Organization
National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC)
National Education Association (NEA)
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