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This Valentine’s Day pack for Kindergarten contains 30 no prep literacy and math activities. Aligned to the Common Core kids can focus on the alphabet, blending and segmenting, sight words, writing for literacy etc. For math, it includes basic numbers and counting, addition and subtraction, shapes, measurements, time, patterns and fractions. Since these require no prep, simply copy the pages needed and you’re ready to go. There are separate pages for Australian spellers. Here’s what’s includ

Practice reading CVC words in their word family groupings by putting together these puzzles and focusing on blending the letter sounds. Just print, cut and go! You can find this cheaper as part of a big bundle HERE.Includes the following words and word families in both color and black and white. Relevant page numbers follow. AT cat, rat, bat, hat (3, 23) AN fan, man, pan, van (4, 24) AD bad, dad, mad, sad (5, 25) AP cap, gap, map, nap (6, 26) ED bed, fed, led, wed (7, 27) EG beg, leg, Meg, peg (

Alphabet books: These little color and black and white alphabet books fold to make 8 pages but use only 1 sheet of paper. As emergent readers with predictable text your kids will be ‘reading’ in no time while focusing on gaining confidence with reading and writing individual letters. There is a free book included in the preview for you to try with your kids!You can buy this as a bundle more cheaply with alphabet activity and color books included HERE! OR you can purchase this as part of a MEGA

These calming strategy cards were created to help children manage their own anger. Simply look through the cards with your child, asking them to choose the strategies they’d like to try. Hole punch the corners and put them together on a ring, or put the cards up on a board where your child can see them easily. Add more cards or take them away as your child decides what works best for them. Different situations and different levels of anger may call for different strategies, so developing a range

These beginning sounds picture sorts help kids focus on initial sounds. Cut out the pictures, decide whether they start with the target sound and glue in the correct column. For a challenge draw a line between pictures and their matching words using word length and ending sounds as clues. Just print and go! PURCHASE AS PART OF AN ALPHABET BUNDLE: if you're looking for lots of different kinds of alphabet activities in one discounted pack! If you have any questions regarding this product please

This Australian Aboriginal Dreamtime story pack contains 5 fun activities for Kindergarten/Grade 1 students to incorporate ELA and cultural studies with art and drama. 1. Dreamtime Story: How the Birds got their Songs and Colors 2. Find Words in the Story activity: focusing on 7 words (and, it, was, the, some, birds, color and colors) 3. Australia map and animals: coloring activity 4. Rainbow Birds art activity with student instruction poster 5. Detailed notes for performing this story with you

These upper case and lower case alphabet punch cards with beginning sounds pictures help children develop their fine motor skills at the same time as alphabet recognition. Just print and separate and they’re ready to use! If you want them to be re-used over and over, laminate the cards and use pegs instead of a hole punch and dry-erase markers or crayons to color or circle the correct pictures. There’s a list of all the picture words used, in case there’s doubt with the picture clue! There are

Practice correct letter and number formation with these alphabet and number formation cards. Includes uppercase letters, lowercase letters and numbers 1-10. Just print onto cardstock, cut in half to separate the cards, laminate and go! Use them with erasable markers or play dough. PLEASE CHECK THE PREVIEW to see whether the formation guidelines are suitable for your kids before purchase - letter formation is not universally the same. For Australian-specific letter formation check out these Aust

This bundle contains 7 word puzzle packs. • 80 CVC Word Puzzles • 80 Long Vowel Puzzles • 80 Digraph Word Puzzles • 120 Word Blend Puzzles • 40 CVC to CVCE Magic E Word Puzzles • 180 Final Sound Puzzles: Digraphs and Double Sounds • 180 Final Sound Puzzles: Ending Sounds All packs can be purchased separately. ***Do not purchase this bundle if you have already purchased any of these word puzzle packs… unless you’re really sure!*** Click on the highlighted links for each individual pack to take a

These 50 teeny tiny books using CVC and Dolch sight words have been created to supplement any reading and writing program. They use predictive text of varying difficulty so they can be used throughout the year with students at different levels. The text is a dotted font which is not clear in the thumbnailsThey include: - 20 books with 7 sentence strips - 30 books with 10 sentence strips - 118 CVC (consonant, vowel, consonant) words (eg cat) - 103 Dolch sight words (all pre-primer and primer word

These counting number puzzles include skip counting by 1s, 2s, 5s and 10s to 120, counting on from 1-120 and number words one to ten. There are 61 color and 61 black and white puzzles. Just print, cut and go! Themes include Flying, Dining out, Fairy Tales, Daily Events and Busy Kids. Included in this pack1-10: 6 color and 6 black and white 11-20: 2 color and 2 black and white 21-30: 2 color and 2 black and white 31-40: 2 color and 2 black and white 41-50: 2 color and 2 black and white 51-60: 2 c

This do-a-dot and color the alphabet pack is great for developing fine motor skills while gaining confidence with the alphabet. It contains one page for each letter of the alphabet in both upper case and lower case PURCHASE AS PART OF AN ALPHABET BUNDLE: if you're looking for lots of different kinds of alphabet activities in one discounted pack! Just print and they’re ready to go – or laminate to use over and over! Things to do – depending on ability and attention span! • Stamp dots in each ci

This Australian Aboriginal Dot Painting and Dreamtime Story BUNDLE contains 14 fun and simple activities for Kindergarten/Grade 1 students to incorporate literacy, math and cultural studies with art and drama. This bundle combines 2 packs together: Australian Aboriginal Dot Painting: Art, ELA, Math and Culture Australian Aboriginal Dreamtime Story: How the Birds got their Songs and Colors Australian Aboriginal Dot Painting 1. Dot painting with printed dots included that add up to 100. 2. Math

These alphabet books are a fun way to practice letter recognition and formation, letter sounds and how they are used in words. Each 8-page book is created from 1 piece of paper. You can buy this as a bundle more cheaply with emergent alphabet and color books included HERE! OR as part of a MEGA ALPHABET BUNDLE.Each book follows the same format. Firstly, construct a book according to the folding instructions. Page 1: cover – write their name and trace the letters correctly Page 2: Trace the lower

Word Families: 20 Word Family Board Games with CVC and CCVC words for lots of fun and engaging practice. The format and boards are the same for each word family so your kids will pick up how to play quickly and will soon be independent. Simply choose the board and die, roll the die and move around the board by finding the words on the board indicated by the die. Children only need a counter. Please note: Most of these boards are contained in my Hands-On Word Family activity packs and bundle, so

This Australian Aboriginal Dot Painting pack contains 9 fun and easy activities for Kindergarten/Grade 1 students to incorporate literacy, math and cultural studies with art. 1. Dot painting with printed dots included that add up to 100. 2. Math recording sheet for dotted artwork. 3. Dot painting without printed dots for free expression. 4. Australia map coloring page. 5. Animal and animal tracks booklet. 6. Write the words. 7. Animal tracks desk decoration. 8. Family-themed fridge magnet. 9. D

This CVC Play Dough pack encourages children to find 105 CVC words plus 11 nonsense words. There are 24 short a words, 18 short e words, 25 short i words, 20 short o words, 18 short u words and 11 nonsense words. - Simply laminate the mats or put them in protective sleeves. - Children make snakes with their play dough then form the letters, sounding them out as they go. - Then they can write the word below using dry erase markers. - For the nonsense words they can draw a picture of what the w

This Tracing Lines pack is excellent for developing fine motor skills in young children. It specifically incorporates all the recommended lines and shapes that children need to practice BEFORE they start writing. This will help them have the necessary confidence and skill set to manage the early writing process more successfully. Contents:30 pages of Line tracing activities, which cut down into 110 tracing strips (half color, half black and white) Laminate to re-use with dry erase markers (or li

These CVC clip cards help kids read 3-letter words and hear the individual sounds by encouraging them to clip both the beginning and final sounds for each word. There are 90 color and 90 black and white clip cards. Just print, cut, fold in half and glue or laminate. Grab some small pegs or paperclips and they’re ready to go! MIDDLE A WORDS: bad, bag, bar, cap, cat, dad, fan, gag, gap, ham, jam, jar, mad, map, mat, pad, sad and tap. MIDDLE E WORDS: bed, beg, fed, gem, hem, hen, jet, leg, men,

This mega alphabet bundle contains 19 alphabet packs. Practice letter recognition, correct letter formation, distinguish between uppercase and lowercase, beginning sounds, matching and reading common 3-letter words. There are emergent alphabet and color readers as well. Your children will get lots of fine motor skill practice, plus the opportunity to work alone and in pairs. Most do not require prep although some are best laminated for repeated use and the spinners and plane word and picture sor