This Distance Learning Home Packet resource includes a weekly calendar with suggested activities and accompanying activity pages for parents to do with children at home. Included are the weekly calendar with suggested activities, a blank weekly calendar for parents to write their own activities, “My family is special because…” writing prompt with plenty of room to draw, oil and water lava lamp science experiment, dancing rice science experiment, rain clouds in a jar science experiment, cinnamon germs hand washing experiment, directions for crafting a microphone, and random letters and numbers 1-10 for letter and number search. Letter and number search is appropriate for Pre-K and K. The rest of the activities should work well with any early elementary age child as well. Parents should print out the writing prompt and letter and number search, but the rest of the pages do not need to be printed if parents do not want to do so. Teachers, you may email this packet with your parents, or share it with them via Google Drive. This particular version is PDF version, but I give permission for this resource to be shared with parents only, and to be used in whichever way is most helpful to you; feel free to save on your Google Drive if you wish. This resource has 19 usable pages of activities for parents.

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.

This packet comes with Valentine’s Day heart memory matching cards and Valentine’s Day heart puzzles. Children will match the hearts by colour for both memory matching and puzzles. Memory matching game comes with hearts in red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, pink, white, grey, and black. Puzzles come with hearts in red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet, purple, pink, brown, black, grey, and white. Both memory matching game and puzzles includes colour words. Make two copies each heart for both memory matching and for the puzzles in order to have matches. Laminate, and cut out the cards and puzzles. Allow children to find matching colour hearts. If you liked this resource, you might also like Valentine’s Day Maths Packet [](http://Valentine’s Day Maths ) 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 Valentine’s Day Maths packet includes Valentine cupcake roll a number, four number line puzzles, and Valentine’s Day chocolate kisses memory matching game. These are perfect play based learning activities to add to your Valentine’s Day themed math center. Children will learn number recognition, learn colour recognition, and practice fine motor skills. For Valentine’s cupcake roll a number, make a copy for each student. You may laminate to use again if you wish. Allow children to roll dice. Allow children to count the dots on their dice. Allow children to decorate their Valentine cupcake with candies. They may use real candies such as conversation hearts, or they may use foam stickers or mini erasers to decorate. Encourage the children to put the same number of candies on their cupcake as the number that they rolled. Valentine’s Day number line puzzles come in Valentine owls and Valentine teddy bear. Both owl and teddy bear puzzles come with numbers 1 to 10 and numbers 11 to 20. Laminate the puzzles. Cut the puzzles down the lines. Place whichever puzzle you wish to use in your maths station. Allow children to put the puzzle together by lining up the numbers in correct numerical order. For Valentine’s Day chocolate kisses memory matching game, allow children to match the chocolate kisses by color. Make two copies of each chocolate kiss card. Laminate and cut out the cards. The chocolate kisses come in blue, green, orange, yellow, pink, purple, red, grey, and white. Encourage children to make matches by finding kisses that are the same colour. This resource has eight pages worth of activities. Most of the cards and puzzles are two to a page.

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

Australian Animals Literacy Activities includes Australian animals pre-writing papers, Australian animals alphabet do-a-dot activity, and Australian animals alphabet writing papers. Allow students to progress from letter recognition, to pre-writing skills, to writing letters. Black and white options are available in this resource if you choose to use an ink saving option. This resource also comes with Australian animals book suggestions. For pre-writing papers, choose which papers you want the students to use; place papers in your writing station (center). There is a blank paper with graphics only also. Place writing utensils. Allow children to trace the various marks. Allow children to use the blank paper to make their own pre-writing marks. This is good for fine motor as well as pre-writing practice. For do-a-dot letters, pick which papers you want to use. Place the papers in your literacy station (center). Place washable markers alongside the papers. Allow children to do the letters with the markers. Encourage children to say the name of the letters aloud. Each paper includes a realistic graphic of an Australian animal and the beginning letter. This activity also helps with fine motor skills in addition to letter recognition. For writing papers, choose which papers you want to use; place papers in your literacy station (center). Place writing utensils alongside the papers. Each paper includes a realistic graphic of an Australian animal as well as the beginning sound in uppercase and lowercase letter. Encourage children to try to write the letter on the line provided. There is also plenty of space on these writing papers for children to draw and/or make marks. If children are having difficulty copying the letters, this is fine! All that matters is that they are seeing the letters and are practicing writing skills whether that be pre-writing marks and scribbles, drawings, letter like marks, or fully formed letters. This resource includes sixteen pages of activities in two different options including ink saving option. * Total of 32 pages worth of activity options to choose 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.

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 both lowercase and 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 out along the border. Place the mats in your fine motor manipulatives station alongside play-dough. Allow children to use play-dough to form uppercase and 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

Happy Holidays Art UK version comes with holiday cut and paste collages, My Christmas Colours page, My Hanukkah Colours page, My Kwanzaa Colours page, decoration pages. The decoration pages come in reindeer, holiday llama, Christmas tree, holiday cupcake, and two gifts. I have also provided a few holiday craft ideas that can be given to parents for gifts. UK spelling version of the word colours is provided. For holiday cut and paste collages, print out the collage pages. Give your students construction paper, scissors, and glue. Let them create their own holiday collages. There are a wide variety of holiday images for your students to choose. Images include children, candy cane unicorn, holiday llamas, Christmas sloths, summer Christmas snowmen, snowflakes, elves, candy, yeti, a variety of Christmas images, a variety of Kwanzaa images, and a variety of Hanukkah images. For the colours pages, let students choose from My Christmas Colours, My Hanukkah Colours, or My Kwanzaa Colours. Provide either paints or crayons and markers. You can also provide colourful sequins, jewel stickers, craft buttons, felt stickers, etc. Allow students to colour and decorate the pages in colours associated with the Holiday that they picked. For the decoration pages, allow students to use paints, crayons, markers, sequins, jewel stickers, craft buttons, felt stickers, and whatever else you wish to provide to decorate the holiday pages. 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

Happy Holidays Art comes with holiday cut and paste collages, My Christmas Colors page, My Hanukkah Colors page, My Kwanzaa Colors page, decoration pages. The decoration pages come in reindeer, holiday llama, Christmas tree, holiday cupcake, and two gifts. I have also provided a few holiday craft ideas that can be given to parents for gifts. For holiday cut and paste collages, print out the collage pages. Give your students construction paper, scissors, and glue. Let them create their own holiday collages. There are a wide variety of holiday images for your students to choose. Images include children, candy cane unicorn, holiday llamas, Christmas sloths, summer Christmas snowmen, snowflakes, elves, candy, yeti, a variety of Christmas images, a variety of Kwanzaa images, and a variety of Hanukkah images. For the colors pages, let students choose from My Christmas Colors, My Hanukkah Colors, or My Kwanzaa Colors. Provide either paints or crayons and markers. You can also provide colorful sequins, jewel stickers, craft buttons, felt stickers, etc. Allow students to color and decorate the pages in colors associated with the Holiday that they picked. For the decoration pages, allow students to use paints, crayons, markers, sequins, jewel stickers, craft buttons, felt stickers, and whatever else you wish to provide to decorate the holiday pages. 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

Summer Christmas Bingo is perfect for Australian or Hawaiian teachers and students who are celebrating Christmas in the summer season or summer like weather; this is also perfect for teachers in other parts of the world to teach students about the differences in Christmas around the world! This is a great addition to your holiday themed maths station, and it is especially perfect to play during groups. I hope your students enjoy Summer Christmas Bingo! These have cute summer Christmas themed graphics such as a snowman with sunshades and floaty, surfing snowman, sloth with Santa hat and sunglasses, summer refreshments, bright colored Christmas trees, sun, palm tree, bright colored Christmas elves, and more! Bingo games are wonderful for introducing children to maths skills such as finding matches, for improving critical thinking skills, for improving concentration skills, and just for making learning into a fun game! Laminate cards. Cut out the bingo cards, and cut out the calling cards. The bingo cards should just be trimmed along the black border; the calling cards should be cut into small, individual cards. Call out the holiday pictures and colours. Let children use bingo daubers, dot markers, dry erase markers, or math counters to mark their squares. Play as a typical game of bingo. If markers are used, just wipe the laminated cards clean to be used again. Game includes six Bingo cards plus calling cards.

Allow children to learn about things associated with the December holiday season through this bingo game! This is a great addition to your holiday themed maths station, and it is especially perfect to play during groups. I hope your students enjoy Happy Holidays Bingo! Graphics such a holiday cookies, snowmen, snow globes, and winter owls, etc. are on the bingo cards. Bingo games are wonderful for introducing children to maths skills such as finding matches, for improving critical thinking skills, for improving concentration skills, and just for making learning into a fun game! Laminate cards. Cut out the bingo cards, and cut out the calling cards. The bingo cards should just be trimmed along the black border; the calling cards should be cut into small, individual cards. Call out the holiday pictures and colours. Let children use bingo daubers, dot markers, dry erase markers, or maths counters to mark their squares. Play as a typical game of bingo. If markers are used, just wipe the laminated cards clean to be used again. Game includes six Bingo cards plus calling cards. 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 is a collection of process art and open ended art lesson plans. Lesson plans include Clay Numbers and Letters, Dry and Wet Chalk Marks, Sensory and Texture Painting, Brush and Roll Watercolors, Dribble Dye, Hand-print Banner, Foil and Tissue Paper Collages, Hole Punch Art, Textured Collage, String Print Making Painting, Circle Art, and Foil Print Making Painting. Each lesson plan is detailed; each lesson includes goal, materials, activity procedure, simplification, and extension. Just follow the plans, and modify as needed for your students. Many process art and open ended art lesson plans included Colour mixing mats also included Hole punch and lacing card templates included My Artwork frame included Mats come in yellow and blue, red and yellow, red and blue, red and green, red and white and blank mat Mats are Venn Diagrams Allow children to put paint on the mat and mix together to create a new colour Allow children to choose whichever two colors they wish to use on the blank mat Allow children to paint with the mixed colours Hole punch cards come in various animal faces and several blank Blank cards allow for open creativity and can be used in the hole punch art listed in this lesson plan collection Laminate leftover cards; allow children to hole punch leftover cards as well; add string for lacing Give children My Artwork frame to paint, draw, paste a collage, or create whatever they wish Twelve lesson plans, thirteen pages of activities, and a few picture examples are included Total of 25 lessons and/or accompanying activities 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 Holiday packet comes with Holiday name practice sheets and Holiday writing prompts. The Holiday name practice comes in both colourful and black and white versions. The name practice sheets also comes with the option of reindeer graphics or snowman holiday cupcake graphics. For Holiday name practice, write children’s names on the ribbon strip. Next, let children build their names with magnet letters. Let children stamp their names with letter stamps. Finally, let children write their names; they may use crayons, markers, or pencils. The writing prompts come in several options. The options are “For the Holidays, I”, “For Christmas,I”, “For Hanukkah, I”, and “For Kwanzaa, I.” Choose the papers that best suit your students. Give a paper to each student, and ask each student to complete the sentence. The papers come with space to draw pictures. You can choose a paper that has three lines or only two lines with more drawing space. When the children complete the phrase, write the sentence on their papers. If older children want to write some words themselves, help them do so. Allow children to draw pictures that go along with their sentences on their writing papers. 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. Follow me on social media! https://linktr.ee/ecplayandlearn If you like this resource, check out December Holidays Literacy and Maths! https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/december-holidays-literacy-and-maths-12210812

This December Holiday packet includes literacy and maths activities for celebrating various holidays. There are Christmas graphics; there are also graphics that will work for any December Holiday celebration; there are graphics like gifts and holiday cupcakes. The packet includes Holiday pre-writing practice, Holiday do-a-dot letters. Holiday 1 to 1 correspondence counting cards, and Holiday roll a number card. Print and cut all the cards out along the borders. For Holiday pre-writing cards, the cards come in different sizes with variations of pre-writing marks. There are also blank cards with graphics only. Place whichever cards you choose in your literacy station along with writing utensils. Allow children to trace the various marks. Allow children to use the blank cards to make their own pre-writing marks. This is good for fine motor as well as pre-writing practice. For Holiday do-a-dot letters, pick which cards you want to use. Place the cards in your literacy station. Place washable dot markers in your literacy center. Allow children to dot the letters with the markers. Encourage children to say the name of the letters aloud. This also helps with fine motor skills in addition to letter recognition. For Holiday 1 to 1 correspondence, the cards have numbers and number words. The cards also have a unicorn and a number of cupcakes that match the number on the card. Place the cards in your maths station. Give the children foam stickers that can represent candy. The stickers can be candy stickers, or they can just be glittery circle stickers. Tell the children that they need to decorate the unicorn’s Holiday cupcake with candies. Allow the children to stick one sticker on each cupcake on the card. Encourage the children to touch the foam stickers then count each number to figure out the end number. For Holiday roll a number, place this card in your maths station. Allow the children to roll dice. Allow children to count the dots on the dice that they rolled. Allow children decorate the Holiday cupcake with candies. Allow children to place the correct amount of foam stickers on the Holiday cupcake. Example: If a four is rolled, four stickers should be placed on the cupcake.

Unicorn Colors Memory Matching Game is a fun, engaging way for children to learn colors, practice math skills, practice literacy skills, and practice critical thinking skills; this matching game can be used during a group activity. Colors included in these cards are red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, pink, brown, black, gray, and white. Make two copies of all the cards. Laminate and cut out the cards. Use the cards for a memory matching game. Allow children to find unicorns that are the same color; allow children to make matches based on color. Color words typed in the matching color are also included on the cards. Kindergartners can be encouraged to recognize the color words; older preschoolers can be encouraged to recognize letters; some older preschoolers may even recognize some color words. Give the children opportunity to learn in a variety of ways at their own paces. There are six pages worth of cards.

Unicorn Colours Memory Matching Game is a fun, engaging way for children to learn colours, practice maths skills, practice literacy skills, and practice critical thinking skills; this matching game can be used during a group activity. This resource has UK spelling. Colours included in these cards are red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, pink, brown, black, grey, and white. Make two copies of all the cards. Laminate and cut out the cards. Use the cards for a memory matching game. Allow children to find unicorns that are the same colour; allow children to make matches based on colour. Colour words typed in the matching colour are also included on the cards. Older children can be encouraged to recognize the colour words; early learners can be encouraged to recognize letters; some older early learners may even recognize some colour words. Give the children opportunity to learn in a variety of ways at their own paces. There are six pages worth of cards.

Students will practice one to one correspondence with these fun turkey cards. This is perfect for Thanksgiving stations or any autumn themed station! Choose from colourful or black and white options. Students will touch real objects as they count which allows children to learn one to one correspondence; this means they will learn that one is always one, two is always two, three is always three, etc. For an extension, you can place two cards in the maths station which allows children to add two numbers using real objects as they begin to learn simple addition using real objects. Laminate and cut out the cards. Place one or two turkey cards and a Create it! mat in your maths station. The turkey cards have both numbers and number words on them. This is a fun, play based way to learn one to one correspondence, counting, and even simple addition! Turkey cards and Create it! mats available in both colourful and black and white options Sick small foam stickers on the turkey feathers Children will touch and count the stickers on the feathers Place real objects in the maths station alongside the cards and mats Example: small fluffy craft feathers, mini erasers, or block maths counters Create it! mat comes in full size and smaller size options; smaller size is perfect for mini erasers Ten turkey cards in colour; ten turkey cards in black and white; one large Create it! mat in colour; one large Create it mat in black and white 20 cards and 3 mats total