These play-dough mats have lowercase alphabet letters and beginning sounds pictures. This activity will help children learn letter recognition; it will also give children fine motor skills practice. Laminate the mats, and cut along the border. Place the mats in your fine motor manipulatives station alongside play-dough. Allow children to use play-dough to form lowercase letters. Also, allow children to use play-dough to decorate the beginning sounds pictures. Twenty-six pages of mats for every letter of the alphabet are included. Early Learning Standards researched and referenced as a guide. This resource aligns with the following standards: UK Early Years Foundations: Early Years Outcomes Head Start Early Learning Outcomes Framework The Early Years Learning Framework for Australia My Play based resources touch on universal Early Learning standards. Thank you for taking a look at my resource. I hope you find it helpful. Don’t forget to leave feedback! I greatly appreciate all feedback. Click my linktree to follow me on social media and to sign up to my newsletter to stay up to date on new content, discount bundles, and sales. https://linktr.ee/ecplayandlearn

These play-dough mats have uppercase alphabet letters and beginning sounds pictures. This activity will help children learn letter recognition; it will also give children fine motor skills practice. Laminate the mats, and cut along the border. Place the mats in your fine motor manipulatives station alongside play-dough. Allow children to use play-dough to form uppercase letters. Also, allow children to use play-dough to decorate the beginning sounds pictures. Twenty-six pages of mats for every letter of the alphabet are included.

This St. Patrick’s Day theme activity gives children many opportunities to practice their names. Write children’s name on the rainbow strip. Next, let children build their name with magnet letters. Let children stamp their name with letter stamps. Finally, let children write their name in rainbow colors; they may use crayons, markers, or pencils. Thank you for taking a look at my resource. I hope you find it helpful. Don’t forget to leave feedback! I greatly appreciate all feedback. Click this link to follow me, and to stay up to date on new content, discount bundles, and sales. https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/bekastks If you like this resource, check out these other St. Patrick’s Day activities. https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/st-patrick-s-day-activities-packet-12075884 https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/st-patrick-s-day-math-and-literacy-activities-12082182

This booklet is filled with cute, baby animal pictures. It is informative; it contains the name of each baby animal, and it also contains sight word sentences. Your students will enjoy reading along with you and learning baby animal names. I hope you find Baby Animal Book UK Version to be a helpful, interactive read along booklet. To prep, fold the pages in half, cut the pages into two parts; trim. Next, staple the corner of the pages. When putting the book together, the page with words goes first, and the page with the picture that matches the word goes next. After the books are prepped, give the books to the children, and read along with them. The booklet includes the sight words I, see, the. You may allow the children to circle the sight words as they read along with you. As an alternative, you may allow children to use the code provided to help them mark the sight words. The booklet also includes UK spelling of the word favourite. There is a “My favourite baby animal is___.” page. Ask the children what their favourite baby animal is; write their answer on the line. Older children may be able to write their answer without help. Also included is a “My drawing page.” Let the children draw their own animal pictures. Ten pages of book pages.

Your students are sure to enjoy this hands on booklet. Colourful Autumn Leaves Book will help your students learn all about the different colours of autumn leaves. Read to students for a group activity, and have them follow the hands on directions as you read; you may also place the booklets in your reading center for children to look through after the group reading activity is finished. This booklet is UK spelling version. To prep, fold the pages in half, cut the pages into two parts and trim if necessary. Next, staple the corner of the pages. When putting the book together, the page with words goes first, and the page with the picture that matches the word goes next. After the books are prepped, give the books to the children and read along with them. The booklet includes the sight words in, the, some, are. You may allow the children to circle, highlight, or underline the sight words as they read along with you. You may also allow the children to dot the sight words with dot markers or place a sticker under the sight words. Choose whichever way works best for you and your students! The booklet also has colour words. The colour words are typed in the correct colour. There is a “My favourite autumn colour is___.” page. Ask the children what their favourite autumn color is; write their answer on the line provided. Older children may be able to write their answer without help. There is a page included that allows the children to colour autumn leaves. Lastly, there is a “My autumn picture” page. Let the children draw their own autumn picture.

Valentine’s Day Post Office Dramatic Play Props contains various props to add to your dramatic play area. They are Valentine hearts post office themed props. Included are various signs, labels, employee badge, checklist, postcards, and envelopes. Stock your dramatic play area with dress up clothes and accessories; have postal worker clothes and accessories if possible. Add various sizes of boxes for sorting. Add papers, postcards, envelops, writing utensils, stamps, and stickers either in your dramatic play area, or place your writing center close to the dramatic play area. Add a cash register and play money to the dramatic play area. Allow children to help create a mailbox to add to the area. I have included directions on how to create a mailbox. Laminate the signs, and add them wherever they fit in your dramatic play area. Laminate the labels, checklists, postcards, and envelopes; add to the dramatic play area. Allow children to write on the checklist, postcards, and envelopes with dry erase markers. Have extra non laminated postcards and envelopes for children to write, stamp, and decorate with stickers. There are two hours signs. One has hours listed; the other has no hours listed. The children can make their own marks on the blank hour signs. Other signs include Weigh Boxes Here, Sort Boxes, Sort Envelopes, Pay Here, Welcome, Open, and Closed. Labels include mail truck, tape, mailbox, hat, paper towels, parcels, envelope, and stamps. Everything either has hearts or red border with white dots included for a Valentine’s Day theme added. After your dramatic play area is set up and ready, invite the children to engage in play. Weigh Boxes Here sign included Sort Boxes sign included Sort Envelopes sign included Pay Here sign included Welcome sign included Open and Closed signs included Two Hours signs included Checklist included Heart envelopes included Postcards with heart stamp included Mail truck, tape, mailbox, hat, paper towels, parcels, envelope, and stamps labels included Sixteen pages worth of props This resource has thirteen pages of activities, one page of holiday craft ideas, and one example page. Early Learning Standards researched and referenced as a guide. This resource aligns with the following standards: UK Early Years Foundations: Early Years Outcomes Head Start Early Learning Outcomes Framework The Early Years Learning Framework for Australia My Play based resources touch on universal Early Learning standards. Thank you for taking a look at my resource. I hope you find it helpful. Don’t forget to leave feedback! I greatly appreciate all feedback. Click my linktree to follow me on social media and to sign up to my newsletter to stay up to date on new content, discount bundles, and sales. https://linktr.ee/ecplayandlearn

This math and literacy packet includes complete the patterns, two number puzzles (1-5 and 6-10), Hh is for hat, dot letters, and “My wish is…” writing project. All the activities are St. Patrick’s Day themed. For dot letters, write a letter on the paper provided; give the children dot markers or paint and Q-tips; finally, allow the children to find the matches, and to dot the matches. Dot letters includes a page of blank shamrocks; add your own letters to the shamrocks! “My wish is…” literacy activity can be done as a craftivity, or it can be done just as a writing project. Make copies, and cut out the literacy activity paper below. Ask the children what their wish is; write what they say on the paper. Lastly, the paper can be pasted onto a paper bag puppet project; or it can be left as is. Your Early Learners will enjoy all of these hands on math and literacy activities!

This color words booklet is filled with many different color words and accompanying pictures. On the second part of each page, the children can color the color word. Older children can be encouraged to color the color words the correct color; don’t worry too much about which colors younger preschoolers use. The main goals for younger preschoolers are that they are being introduced to colors, and that they are handling a book. The last page is “My favorite color is” and “My drawing.” Help children write their favorite color, and let them draw a picture. For prep, fold the pages in half, cut the pages into two parts and trim if necessary. Next, staple the corner of the pages. After the books are prepped, give the books to the children, read along with the children, and let them color. Thirteen book pages. My children love this book, and I am sure your students will enjoy it as well!

This bear themed activity packet includes five activities. The included activities are B is for bear, bear paw prints, what do bears eat? activity, bear hole punch/lacing card activity, and bear cave gross motor activity idea. Your students are sure to have fun as they learn about bears through these play based, engaging activities! Print several pages of the bear paws. Laminate and use in a follow the bear prints game. As an extension, you could do hand print art. When their hand prints are dry, allow the children to examine the bear paw print cut outs alongside their own hand prints. Ask the children to compare and contrast the bear paw prints to their hand prints. A black and white ink saving option is included for bear paws. For the activity what bears eat, laminate the cut-outs. Put Velcro on a poster board, and put Velcro on the cut-outs. Ask the children to Velcro to the boards only the foods that bears eat. Make as many copies of B b is for bear, and place the pages in your literacy center. You may wish to laminate B b is for bear page and give children dry erase markers. The children can use dry erase markers to write letter B b, or they can copy the letter on other paper. Both colored and black and white versions are included for B b is for bear. For fine motor hole punch, let the children use a hole puncher on the circles around the bear. After using the hole puncher, the children can use string for lacing. And for gross motor bear cave activity, set up a bear cave area for children to crawl in and out. There are seven pages of activities included.

Laminate the pages. Cut out the clip art. You might want to do this as a story time activity first. Tell the children during story time that they are going to create their own story. Tell the children that it is going to be a Imagination Land story. Show the children a few pieces of clip art; then ask one child to choose a clip art. If the child chooses a tree, say the story is going to take place in the forest. Then ask another child to choose a clip art. This time choose clip art that will be a character. If the child chooses a super hero, say that the story is going to have a superhero in the forest. Lastly, ask another child what will happen. If the child chooses an ice cream, say that the superhero is eating ice cream in the forest. Keep asking children one by one to add to the story. Hold the laminated pieces of clip art up for the children to see as you help them tell their story. Next, put the clip art into three small boxes; one box for setting, one box for characters, and one box for plot. Place the boxes on a table in your literacy center. Show the children the storyboard. Show them how to use it. Explain that the first part is for where they want the story to take place, the second box is for the characters, and the third box is for what they want to happen in the story. Show the children that they may place clip art on each section. They may have planets on the setting part, they may have pirates and superheros on the character part, they may have camping things or treats, etc on the plot part, and so on. After the children understand how to use the board, let them place whichever pieces of clip art they choose on the board to create their own stories on their own. You may place Velcro on the board and the clip art if you wish, or you may just let the children lay the clip art on the board. Personally, I would just let them lay the clip art on the board. I also wouldn’t worry about cutting out the clip art out perfectly; I would leave some white. The clip art is on the small side, and this should be a helpful product for you! Don’t make it too tedious! Seven storyboard pages included. Thank you for taking a look at my resource. I hope you find it helpful. Don’t forget to leave feedback! I greatly appreciate all feedback.