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Looking for a fun and easy craft? Just print, color, cut, glue and go! Super cute and perfect for a bulletin board! We're cracking up in (Kindergarten)!! Please click "Follow Me" above for more fun and cute primary ideas!! Thanks!! Lindsay

Looking for some great community building activities? This product includes 25 activities perfect for the beginning of the school year. Each activity takes between 3-5 minutes and are perfect for preschool or kindergarten. This edition focuses on back to school. Activities are centered around learning names, counting, becoming familiar with the school and classroom routines and incorporating kinesthetic learning into each day. Getting the students up and moving and interacting with each ot

Looking for a quick and easy present to send home for Mother's Day? Here is a simple questionnaire students can fill out describing their mothers. Kids love writing about their moms and moms love reading how their kids describe them!! It will be a Happy Mother's Day with this fun and easy gift. Just PRINT AND GO!! A blank template is also included for kids who choose to write about a grandmother, family friend, guardian, or father who takes care of them too. Please check out my store, to

Looking for a fun and engaging way to promote responsibility and time management skills while also getting your kindergarten (or preschool/first grade) students excited about homework? This is for you! A little different from most homework packets, this product promotes time management skills by spreading out the assignments over a month. Students are given the packet at the beginning of the month and color in a square of the homework chart each time they complete a task. All tasks are comple

Looking for a fun and engaging way to promote responsibility and time management skills while also getting your kindergarten (or preschool/first grade) students excited about homework? This is for you! A little different from most homework packets, this product promotes time management skills by spreading out the assignments over a month. Students are given the packet at the beginning of the month and color in a square of the homework chart each time they complete a task. All tasks are comple

Ready for a fun nonfiction lesson to teach students facts about Halloween? This packet provides you with a nonfiction emergent reader, which makes a great read aloud and is perfect for small group reading instruction. Students are able to read this nonfiction emergent reader independently using key Halloween vocabulary words and sight words such as (I, see, a, go, the, and, can). After reading the book, work with students to categorize the Halloween facts learned from the book into four group

A cute addition to your apple unit! A quick and easy way to label parts of an apple. This freebie from Totally Elementary is a great addition to a writing labeling lesson and will supplement any apple unit.

Want a fun Presidents' Day activity that uses both math and reading skills? This product uses a 100's chart to teach 17 fun presidential facts. Each fact centers around a number. Students must find the number on their 100 chart, color in its box and listen/read the corresponding fact. Each fact comes with a picture slide that showcases the presidents and the fun facts. **A printer friendly version of the picture slides (with a white background) is included after the version with the b

Looking for a way to incorporate nightly reading homework in a manageable and efficient way? Download this freebie! With this product, I explain how I run the Book in a Bag program in my kindergarten classroom (I could see this also being implemented in preschool/preK, first grade and possibly second grade classrooms with students who may need a little extra help). Included are the informative bookmarks that are used to help parents and students stay organized and accountable. A student da

Looking for a fun and easy way to countdown to the holidays? Use a bingo dauber (or crayon-marker-cotton ball-etc) to color in the circles on Santa's beard. It's a fun and simple way for kids to practice identifying their numbers and counting while getting excited for the big day!! Countdowns begin from 25, 18, 17, 16, or 15. Each Santa Countdown comes in both color and B&W. Also included is a template with 25 blank circles so you can simply color in the circles without using numbers. Pl

It's Veteran's Day and the perfect time to practice beginning and ending sounds!! This packet will help you assess your students' beginning and ending sounds knowledge through two cute Veteran's Day themed worksheets and two sets of center cards. These center cards can be used to progress monitor by having students point to the correct beginning or ending sound, place a clothespin on the correct beginning or ending sound or by writing down the correct beginning or ending sound on the recording

This fun FIRE SAFETY mini unit from totally elementary is a great addition to your fire safety activities. Included in this FIRE SAFETY mini unit: WRITE THE ROOM (in color and b&w) “I see the” CUT & PASTE Color by Number “I SEE” Emergent Reader The activities included in this packet are great for small group and whole group instruction and independent centers.

Looking for a fun and engaging way to get your kindergarten students excited about homework? This is for you! This product includes: ---Homework Menu for January with 12 Math and English/Language Arts Activities ---Homework Guide for the Homework Helpers -A quick guide, one page explanation *OR* -A homework guide, multiple page explanation ---Activity Guide Pages - to be used to complete the homework activities ---A note to attach to the front of the hom

Fun and simple interactive notebook all about FALL!! It's a perfect addition to a fall unit for preschool, preK, Kindergarten and First Grade students. Students will create their own mini book and then color, cut and paste information on its pages. Beginning sound knowledge will be used as students have to cut and label the pictures in their book. This is also a great way to practice following directions. Students will use their cutting, coloring, and gluing skills in this fun and education

FREEBIE!!! My students needed some help with recognizing numbers 1-10 and putting the numbers 1 - 10 in order. We also used this opportunity to stress the importance of filling the top row of the ten frame first to show five and then moving to the next row and starting on the left. Do your kids need help with these concepts? Download this freebie!! Students can color the turkey, cut out the numbers and paste them on the ten frame in order 1 - 10. I used this as a quick hall display too be

This is a great product to use at the beginning of the year for preschool, kindergarten or even first grade! This letter provides a nice and concise way of communicating your students’ letter identification strengths and needs and offers quick and easy ways parents and guardians can support their learning at home. Included in the letter is a brief description of why learning to identify letters is an important skill to master, a grading scale overview, four quick and easy ways parents can su