Danielle Swartz

Make St. Patrick’s Day math fun and hands-on with this St. Patrick’s Day Number Sort!Students will practice recognizing numbers in multiple representations as they sort ten frames, counting on fingers, tally marks, and dominoes. This engaging activity helps build strong number sense while giving learners meaningful practice with different ways to show quantities. Perfect for math centers, morning tubs, small groups, or independent practice, this St. Patrick's Day-themed sort keeps students mo

🍀 Lucky Letter Match – St. Patrick’s Day Alphabet Matching & Beginning Sounds Center 🍀 Make literacy practice fun this March with this engaging, hands-on St. Patrick’s Day alphabet matching center! Students will match uppercase letters to lowercase letters and a picture that begins with the letter sound, helping build important early literacy skills in a playful, seasonal way. This activity is perfect for preschool, Pre-K, and Kindergarten students and works great for literacy centers, sm

Build number sense with these engaging Number Clip Cards 1–20!These hands-on clip cards help students practice counting, number recognition, and quantity matching in a fun, interactive way. Learners count the objects on each card and clip the correct number — making this a perfect low-prep activity for math centers, morning tubs, small groups, or independent practice. Designed for little hands, these cards also strengthen fine motor skills while reinforcing early math concepts.

Make Valentine’s Day math fun and hands-on with this Valentine’s Day Number Sort!Students will practice recognizing numbers in multiple representations as they sort ten frames, counting on fingers, tally marks, and dominoes. This engaging activity helps build strong number sense while giving learners meaningful practice with different ways to show quantities. Perfect for math centers, morning tubs, small groups, or independent practice, this Valentine-themed sort keeps students motivated while

Make letter learning hands-on and fun with these ABC Playdough Mats.These engaging alphabet mats help students build letter recognition, vocabulary, and fine motor skills while having fun with playdough. Each mat features a bright rainbow border, one uppercase and lowercase letter, and three matching picture prompts to support letter–sound connections. Perfect for literacy centers, morning tubs, small groups, or independent practice, these mats encourage students to form letters and create pic

Use this fun color matching activity after reading the book "Pete the Cat I Love My White Shoes" by Eric Litwin.

This game is designed to help children learn their letters and letter sounds. Children can work together in a small group to play this game. Children should roll the dice and move their piece that many spots. If they land on a letter they have to say the letter they land on. If they land on a letter with a speech bubble around it they have to say the letter sound.

Use these quick and easy pom-pom pattern cards to help students learn patterns.

This is a great game for students to work on independently or with a partner. Children will practice their letter identification skills when looking to find their letter among all the other letters. Can your students find all the letters and circle them?

I use these with my pre-kindergarten students. After printing and laminating each page students use a dry erase marker to write the letters inside the bubble letter, they then write it independently on the line. Students then use magnet letters to place in the circle. Students must find the correct magnet letters. Students should repeat each letter as they are writing it and then say the sight word.

These cards are great to use in a preschool or kindergarten room. They will help students practice writing their letters and writing a word with the letter in it. This is great to put in a writing or literacy center to have students work independently.

This is great for students to discriminate the difference between letter shapes. I use this in a small group, usually have a large paper and flash cards with letters on them. The flash cards between the children. They must then look at their card and say "Yes a __" or "No not a ____" this also helps build their skills in creating a sentence. They then place the card on the correct side. Well with COVID and new forms of teaching I made individual mats and cards for each students so we are not sha

These cards are great for independent work! My students love working on these and trying to find the letters. I bought smaller clothespins on Amazon to use for these cards but standard ones would work just as well. Children should look at the letter that is in the center of the card. Every time they see that letter around the outside they should place a paper clip on it. Teachers can quickly check students work to make sure they were on task and completed their work correctly.

Use these sight word sentence builders to help your students build up their sight word fluency. Glue the list with all the sentences on top of a large envelope. Place the word and picture cards inside the envelop for children to use. *laminate for durability.

This is a great activity for the beginning of the year for preschool students. Helps student to be able to identify the difference between letter formations by matching the uppercase letters together. Children also get to see a picture of a word that starts with that letter! Great resource for small groups of independent activities.

A roll and cover game using feelings. Children roll the dice and cover up the picture on their paper with the feeling they rolled. Continue playing until the entire board is covered.

Build snowman out of different shapes. Great for small groups, independent work, and in a math center. Teachers can talk about the different attributes the shapes have.

This is a great independent task for students to completer while in small groups. Print and laminate all pages, use hook and loop tape for students to be able to place the capital letters in the correct spot. Children love working on this by themselves.

Use this ABC linking train set in your transportation unit. Works on ABC order along with identifying letters to place them in order. Take it a step further and have children identify the letter sound or a word that starts with the letter.

This is a great game to get your students counting numbers 1-6 and also recognizing numbers 1-6. Students will use a dice to roll and then cover what they rolled. There are 3 versions of the board for various levels.