Learning with Lorraine

Cut out and laminate these pictures for your library center so your students can retell the story of the Three Little Pigs and the Somewhat Bad Wolf by Mark Teague. I attach the masks onto large popsicle sticks for students to hold onto as they act out each character.

While studying our sense of smell with students, this is a great introductory lesson of things around us that smell good vs. bad. This will teach Pre-K students that our sense of smell is important because it tells our bodies how to stay safe.

I love to use this matching game during center time in Pre-K when we learn about our 5 senses. It has real photos of animals and zoomed in photos of their noses that students have to match.

This printout contains picture cards with descriptive words of good and poor choices in the classroom. It's great for the beginning of the school year when your students are learning how to behave in a school setting. Laminate and allow students to sort each picture card as either a good choice or poor choice.

This is a little book of castles for those studying Pre-K unit "Where We Live" or just have a bunch of students who are obsessed with castles! After printing, you can cut out each page and assemble it into a booklet for students. It contains 9 real-life images of different kinds of castles to inspire students in your Maker's Station or Block Center.

These are large images that can be combined into a book for your block center or another activity that you have planned for your students for exploring bridges. They are large, high-quality images of famous bridges around the world. Enjoy! :)

This printable book displays diurnal and nocturnal animals in their homes. This can be used during the Pre-K "Light" unit of study or other animal studies that you're doing in your classroom. I suggest laminating and placing copies in your block, science, and literacy centers. Students can refer to this book when creating and building animal homes, while reviewing which animals are diurnal or nocturnal. Enjoy!

Are you creating an auto shop for your dramatic play? This package includes real-life images to decorate your DP center. It contains an auto shop sign, auto shop menu with dollar amounts, large images of car parts (wheels, headlights, tail lights) for you to laminate and use velcro to attach to cars made from cardboard boxes. Typically, I like to create my own auto shop sign with the students but I included a printable one in case you don't want to make one. There are also labels for your center

Learning about diurnal and nocturnal animals? Here is a matching game for students to play and enhance their memory, while reviewing different kinds of diurnal and nocturnal animals! This resource can be used during the "Light" Unit or any sort of animal study that you're doing with your students. I suggest printing this on cardstock so the images aren't translucent when playing. Enjoy!

This printable contains 14 images that can be compiled into a little booklet of different types of homes. It contains real-life photos of brick houses, mud houses, tree houses, igloos, and concrete houses. This is perfect for use in the block center to encourage children to think about what homes can be made of and for use in art/makers stations, if creating 2-D or 3-D models of homes.

This product contains all of the sight words that your students will learn throughout their year in Kindergarten (Lists A-H). Memorizing sight words can be boring for students so here's a fun game they can play during their independent reading time or reading centers. This activity would also work for Pre-K students who are emergent readers or review for 1st graders. Each word list contains 25 sight words based off of the Teachers College Reading and Writing program. I've labeled each page on t

This book contains 10 pages of famous architectural buildings around the world. It is a great reference for students for building in the block center or creating sculptures in art.

Need ideas to make math fun? Here are some math centers ideas to use before/after/in between math lessons to sharpen up your students' skills! Print and laminate these game cards that you can use with unifix cubes, dice, and counters. There are labels that you can print out to put the games in bins with materials that are typically already in your classroom.

This book has images of ice castles ready to be printed and laminated for your classroom blocks center. I like to cover blocks with white paper for students so they can be inspired by the images in the book and build their own ice castles. It's a great activity to do during a study of water.

Use these number cards (1-20) as a display or to engage your students in math games. This will help them learn numbers by seeing numerals with their amounts in a 10 and 20-frame. The natural wood theme of these cards fits perfectly in a Reggio-inspired classroom.

Use this in your reading centers or as an educational and fun break with your students! All you need is a dice and manipulatives (counting bears or other small toys) to move around the board. Nine different board games are included in this download. There are 3 for short a, 2 for short e, 2 for short i, 1 for short o, and 1 for short u.

Here's a fun game for your Kindergarteners to practice reading word families! All you will need is a dice and these printables! Included in this download are word families that end with: -at, -an, -ag, -ap, -ad, -ed, -en, -et, -it, -ig, -in, -op, -ot, -og, -un, -ut, and -ug.

This printable is perfect for creating an interactive chart with your students during a whole group lesson and small group activity. I like to use this during my class study of our sense of smell during our 5 senses unit. You can also purchase animal masks and have students engage in dramatic play to find foods that each animal eats.

This is a great resource for doing Reading small groups with Kindergarteners. Students will read and sort words (with images) to determine if the vowels are short or long sounds.

Use this resource in your reading centers with your students! All you need are magnetic or foam letters. You can also use these with dry-erase pockets and have students write the words. There are 12 pages that contain a variety of CVC words with short vowel sounds. Activity Directions: Use magnetic letters to spell a word that labels the picture.