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Looking for engaging, appropriate, and EASY-to-prep activities for your students' first day of kindergarten? This is it! I have always started my year off by reading The Kissing Hand by Audrey Penn and wanted to make the whole first day's theme around that story, so I created this mini-unit! Each of the 6 activities included in this book are designed for whole group use so they are easy to implement for your first day (some could easily be adapted for centers, too). All of the student page

This is a complete set of "rainbow writing" handwriting pages. There is a page for each letter of the alphabet. Perfect for beginning printing practice! Students trace each nicely-sized letter five times with a different colored crayon, creating a rainbow a rainbow effect. There is a space on the bottom for students to draw pictures of things that begin with that letter. The students in my kindergarten rainbow write once a week, prior to completing the handwriting sheet for the week. It re

Learnin' Letters Boom Boom is filled with over 75 pages of hands-on whole group activities and small-group learning centers that go along with the well-loved children's book, Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by Bill Martin,Jr., John Archambault and Lois Ehlert. It's perfect for your kindergarten literacy block in August or September. This activity pack fufills the kindergarten Common Core standard for letter recognition. Here are the specific contents of the pack: Whole Group Activities Chicka Chicka N

This is a double pack of my Rainbow Writing Numbers 1-20 and Rainbow Writing ABC Edition priced at a discount! Children love to rainbow write letters and numbers. They trace each character with five of their favorite colors of crayons or colored pencils. It's an enjoyable way to get in lots of handwriting practice. The letters and numbers on these pages are large enough for preschool and beginning kindergartners to experience success. These are perfect for a super easy-to-prep and easy-to-

Need an easy way to introduce yourself to your new students and parents this back-to-school season? This EDITABLE PowerPoint file is perfect for you! Just type the text you'd like into the pre-made text boxes and insert a picture on each page. The formatting, cute clip art, borders, and graphics are all taken care of for you! Print, staple, and you're ready with a super cute Meet-the-Teacher book for open house or the first day of school! Here are the pre-made pages included in this pack...Y

Do you love creating dramatic play centers for your students but feel that there is never any time during the school day to just let kids "play"? Here is a way to sneak some learning into dramatic play without your students suspecting anything! ;) All of the templates are very easy to prep. Just print, copy, and place into your play centers! This product includes 35 templates to encourage students to write, read, and use math while they are playing. Several templates for each the following pl

This is a week-long, teacher-tested primary weather unit bursting with super resources including comprehensive lesson plans for each day. Lesson plans include science activities/experiments, art projects, read aloud suggestions, and writing responses for the sun, wind, clouds, rain and rainbows. Lesson plans have photographs of samples of art projects, step-by-step directions for activities, full color posters highlighting key concepts of each lesson, and several reproducible printables for s

It's time to explore apples! This unit focuses on fun, hands-on, inquiry-based science activities that revolve around apples. I was tired of sifting through apple units and activities in my teacher resource books that were really only reading or math activities with an apple picture on them, so I created this apple unit for science. I hope that it's useful to you and your students. Here is what's included (experiments and activities include recording sheets, some are differentiated): 1. Appl

All teachers hate the learning loss that students can suffer during the summers off from school.This 55 page PDF file is meant to bridge the summer break between kindergarten and first grade. The packet includes the following: Math Addition Flash cards/Memory Match Subtraction Flashcards/Memory Match Counting Pennies Matching Cards Number Cards 0-40 Weekly counting schedule Writing ABC Printing Reference Page Fix-It Sentences My Summer Journal (pages with writing prompts) Reading Summer B

Need some easy activities for the final few days? How about some work to finish off your students' kindergarten portfolios?? This PDF file includes seven reproducible writing prompts to help your kindergarten students reflect back on their fun-filled year while keeping their writing skills sharp! Prompts include any needed directions. Writing Prompts Included Are: Chicka Chicka Boom Boom, Welcome to your new classroom! Special Times in Kindergarten Kindergarten Favorites Field Trips Are

ENGAGING PRACTICE FOR FIRST GRADE LETTERLANDAre you like me and are required to teach phonics using the Letterland curriculum? I'm always on the hunt for more engaging ways for students to practice their Letterland words so I created these Boggle boards. Don't use Letterland? These Boggle boards are still great word work practice for your beginning first grade students!!! Here's what's included in this PDF file: -2 differentiated levels of Boggle boards for each of the first grade Letterland un

**Updated to include numbers 11-20 on 8/8/13** This PDF file contains rainbow writing practice pages for numerals 0-20. Students first trace each large number with five different colored crayons, giving them developmentally appropriate, enjoyably repetitive practice. The bottom of each page focuses on number sense. Students draw objects to represent each number. Perfect for preschool or for the beginning of the year in kindergarten. My students love rainbow writing and ask to do it often!

This PDF download includes three fire-safety themed emergent readers. The titles included are: The Fire Truck (very simple 2-3 words per page) If There is a Fire (pattern-If there is a fire.... on each page) Dalmatian, Dalmatian, What Do You See?(follows Brown Bear pattern) These readers are super easy to print- just put the copier on the staple twice on the left side and collate setting. The books will be stapled and ready for you right after copying-just slice in half with the paper cutter a

**Just updated on 8/4/13 with fresh graphics and fonts~ now more printer-friendly with black and white student pages!!** A write the room set that's perfect for kindergarten! This is a set of 26 write the room sheets, one for each letter of the alphabet. Students use a clipboard to go on a classroom word hunt for 5 words that begin with each letter. Then, they circle the letter in the word. Great for environmental print awareness. Pair with my rainbow writing ABC set for an easy 15-20 minu

Snow Much CVC Fun is a pack of six easy-to-assemble winter themed literacy centers based on the Common Core Standards for kindergarten: CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.K.2a Recognize and produce rhyming words. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.K.2d Isolate and pronounce the initial, medial vowel, and final sounds (phonemes) in three-phoneme (consonant-vowel-consonant, or CVC) words. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.K.2e Add or substitute individual sounds (phonemes) in simple, one-syllable words to make new words. CCSS.ELA-Literac

Your students will LOVE the activities included in this super fun sight word packet featuring words from the first dolch word list. The activities in the 37 page document are perfect for preschool, kindergarten and first grade students who are new to reading sight words. Included in the packet are: rainbow writing sheets, trace and write sheets, sight word board games for four different sets of words, star word die toss activity, flash cards for the entire pre-primer list, and word scramble wor

"Character Ed. and Community Building Activities"is a fun unit for the first days of the school year in primary grades. Most activities can be tailored to work with grades K-3. The activities in this awesome pack focus on helping students get to know each other, set goals for the year, and learn about your expectations in a fun way. It works really well if you follow the Responsive Classroom model of classroom management, and piecesn(such as the behavior expectations passport) also work with P

Make the few school days surrounding Valentine's Day fun AND educational with these 7 sweet little centers. All 7 centers are aligned to the Common Core Standards for kindergarten and first grade. Recording sheets are included to keep your kiddos accountable for their learning. The printable center games and activities include super cute, full color graphics. The recording sheets are in black and white for economical printing and easy photocopying. The contents of this pack include: Heart B

This 75 page PDF file is packed with literacy based activities to accompany your gingerbread theme. Here is what is included in this pack: UPDATE 12/14/14: Fully revised with new graphics, additional activities! Download the PREVIEW for FREE color by code!!! Emergent Reader with Number word match and comprehension activity Decodable Reader with quick comprehension check sheet Elkonin boxes and letter tiles Full length Gingerbread Man reader Sequencing and Retelling activities, props, puppe

Gobble Gobble! Here is a perfect literacy center game for your little turkeys! You can use these turkey themed sight word cards to play "Gobble, Gobble" which is played just like BOOM (directions are included in case you are unfamiliar). You can also easily omit the special cards needed for the "Gobble Gobble" game and play Turkey Lurkey Sight Word Memory Match with your students. Sight words included on the game cards are: like, see, and, look, he, she, I, the, we, go, my, a, for, have Note