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This monster themed, back to school resource unit can be utilized over the first few weeks of first grade. (It would also be suitable as an end of year thematic unit for kindergarten.) The literacy and math worksheets / activities reinforce kindergarten academic skills while inspiring motivation and awareness of the students’ own talents, features, and abilities. The ‘Alphabet Game’ fosters an increased awareness of classmates’ characteristics. All the included activity sheets are listed below.

This free math packet comprises 4 worksheets for skill practice using dice: Addition to 12 Addition to 18 Subtraction from 10 Subtraction from 20 A recording sheet is included. Coloring the stars adds more fun to the exercise. The math activities in this packet support the development of the following concepts: addition and subtraction within 20; addition strategy of counting on; the meaning of the plus, minus and equal signs; commutative property of addition (3+5=5+3). This activity could be

*By request, the Mega Monster Fun unit has been adapted to suit 2nd graders! This monster themed, back-to-school resource unit can be utilized over the first few weeks of second grade. (It would also be suitable as an end of year thematic unit for first grade.) The literacy and math worksheets / activities reinforce first grade academic skills while inspiring motivation and awareness of the students’ own talents, features, and abilities. The ‘Alphabet Game’ fosters an increased awareness of cla

This free Earth Day rhyming page complements the Rhyming Word Fun Lists resource. Good rhymers make good readers! Rhyming is fun and educational. Knowledge Base- Reinforce these phonics concepts: short vowel sounds, long vowel sounds, consonant sounds, digraph sounds, blends, silent letters, syllables, onsets/rimes (word families), rhyming awareness The spelling of rhyming words is not constant as in word families: rhyming words - mate, wait, straight word families - mate, late, rate Individ

This free literacy resource presents digraphs – which produce single sounds (phonemes). There is a black and white chart as well as a slightly different version in color.

Valentine Math Bump Games - great for integrating with your Valentine's Day activities. Four games titled, "Take Heart": (students apply basic math skills of addition and multiplication) 1. roll 2 dice, add, and multiply by 5 2. roll 2 dice, add, and multiply by 6 3. roll 2 dice, add, and multiply by 7 4. roll 2 dice, add, and multiply by 8 The game boards could be laminated or placed inside a plastic sleeve.

This alphabet coloring sheet with the stylized lowercase letters provides fun and creativity for your students.

*Click on the 'Preview' button to download a free Easter activity. This Easter-themed unit integrates the first grade long e (Easter) and short e (egg) Dolch sight words with the phonic skill of blending onsets and rimes (word families). The pack includes sheets of sight words and word families for a word wall, blank templates to be used however you wish, a 'Spin and Write' activity, coloring sheets (Easter egg posters, bookmarks, Easter card), 'Roll & Color' game, a foldable Easter Book, and

My Easter Book - Trace and Color {Easter Freebie} This book is full of delightful Easter eggs to trace and color. What a fun way for your students to practice the fine motor skills of folding, cutting, tracing, and coloring. The folding and cutting directions are included. (1 sheet = 4-page book) Others in the Foldable Book series: Thanksgiving Foldable Book - Trace and Color Winter Foldable Book - Trace and Color Christmas Foldable Book - Trace and Color and a bundle of the two: Winter and C

This pack will help your students recognise / review each of the letters of the alphabet and distinguish the upper and lower case letters. Your students can follow and colour each patterned path of upper and lower case focus letters. Extra Challenges: Find and circle/underline/trace certain letters; name things that begin with the focus letter sound. Extension Activity: Practise handwriting by tracing the bold letters at the top left of each sheet. Included in this pack: 26 activity sheets – one

*Click on the 'Preview' button to download a free Easter activity. This Easter-themed unit integrates the second grade long e (Easter) and short e (egg) Dolch sight words with the phonic skill of blending onsets and rimes (word families). The pack includes sheets of sight words and word families for a word wall, blank templates to be used however you wish, a 'Spin and Write' activity, coloring sheets (Easter egg posters, bookmarks, Easter card), 'Roll & Color' game, a foldable Easter Book, and

My Summer Book - Trace and Color What a fun way for your students to practice the fine motor skills of folding, cutting, tracing, and coloring. The folding and cutting directions are included. (1 sheet = 4-page book)

These mental maths games provide a fun way for your students to revise / reinforce operations - addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. Each game can be played in pairs or a small group; each student has their own game sheet. The winner is the first person to reach the top of any column. The games can even be played individually: the aim is to race to the top to see which column wins. *In every grid, each row presents a maths fact for each of the numbers in the race. ~Variation: U

*Click on the 'Preview' button to download a free Easter activity. This Easter-themed unit integrates the second grade long e (Easter) and short e (egg) Dolch sight words with the phonic skill of blending onsets and rimes (word families). The pack includes sheets of sight words and word families for a word wall, blank templates to be used however you wish, a 'Spin and Write' activity, colouring sheets (Easter egg posters, bookmarks, Easter card), 'Roll & Colour' game, a foldable Easter Book and

VIC Infant Cursive Handwriting - Rainbow Write the Alphabet & Colour Initial Sound Pictures - Australian Version Each blackline sheet in this resource contains a matching upper and lower case letter of the alphabet (with a starting arrow) and pictures of things beginning with that letter sound. Your students can rainbow write inside each letter outline using the colours of the rainbow – red, orange, yellow, green, light blue, dark blue and purple (or a variety of any colours). These activity s

My Graph Book *Updated: May, 2017 What a fun way for your students to practice the fine motor skills of folding, cutting, and coloring, while reinforcing the mathematical graphing concept. The folding and cutting directions are included. You will probably need to model this process. (1 sheet = 4-page book) Your students can collect and record their group data on the data and tally sheets. You then have the option of each group member making the group graph book, or recording whole class data

Say, Make, Write, Read, Color ... -ake, -ap, -at, -en, -in, -og, -ug Word Families This word families bundle would integrate well with your CVC/CVCe phonics work. Each pack includes a cut & paste activity sheet and word family book. Extension Activities: Focus on individual phonics / spelling concepts initiating from words in each book. Examples: short vowel / long vowel phonemes and graphemes, digraphs, consonant blends, silent letters, syllables, onsets/rimes (word families), CVC and CVCe w

*Australian Version (Victoria) This literacy pack includes activities that foster understanding and working knowledge of concepts of phonics, phonemic awareness and word recognition for Foundation and Year 1 students. There are two copies of some of the alphabet sheets – Victorian Infant Cursive font / Primer Print font. Phonics concepts supported in this pack: letter-sound correspondences (the alphabetic principle) - consonant sounds, short vowel sounds, long vowel sounds; consonant blends; dig

This Easter activity sheet is a variation of the 'About Me' sheet in 'About Me - Literacy Resource'. There is also a free Easter activity sheet here - just click the preview button. (K-6) This is the U.S. version, there is also a British English version listed.

Good rhymers make good readers! Rhyming is fun and educational. Knowledge Base- Reinforce these phonics concepts: short vowel sounds, long vowel sounds, consonant sounds, digraph sounds, blends, silent letters, syllables, onsets/rimes (word families), rhyming awareness The spelling of rhyming words is not constant as in word families: rhyming words - mate, wait, straight word families - mate, late, rate There is more rhyming fun here: Rhyming Word Fun Lists.