This resource includes Back to School All About Me Activities. This packet comes with two choices of writing activities, stick puppet templates, paper bag puppet templates, All about Me Poster, photo template for a family photo collage, and a Getting to Know You gross motor game. The writing activities come with diverse children clip art so that the various children in your classroom can be represented. One writing option comes with lined paper for children to write sentences; or you may help children write their sentences. The other option is for Pre-K and K children and children struggling with writing; this option provides a box for children to draw a picture. Allow children to pick which paper they want. Allow children to finish the sentence “I am very good at”, or help children write, or allow children to draw a picture of what they are good at doing. I have also provided a black and white version with a girl and a black and white version with a boy for both types of writing/drawing activities if you prefer using black and white. Very detailed instructions are included for the rest of the activities. Your students are sure to enjoy these engaging back to school activities! These are perfect to help your students ease into the school year! This packet has seventeen pages worth of activities.

This resource includes Back to School All About Me Activities. This packet comes with two choices of writing activities, stick puppet templates, paper bag puppet templates, All about Me Poster, photo template for a family photo collage, and a Getting to Know You gross motor game. The writing activities come with diverse children clip art so that the various children in your classroom can be represented. One writing option comes with lined paper for children to write sentences; or you may help children write their sentences. The other option is for Pre-K and K children and children struggling with writing; this option provides a box for children to draw a picture. Allow children to pick which paper they want. Allow children to finish the sentence “I am very good at”, or help children write, or allow children to draw a picture of what they are good at doing. I have also provided a black and white version with a girl and a black and white version with a boy for both types of writing/drawing activities if you prefer using black and white. Very detailed instructions are included for the rest of the activities. Your students are sure to enjoy these engaging back to school activities! These are perfect to help your students ease into the school year! This packet has seventeen pages worth of activities. This version has UK spelling version of “favourite.”

Use these movement cards during movement and dance, gross motor game times, or brain break times. These cards will provide students with much needed fun, gross motor practice; students will engage in physical development exercise and stretching. These cards come with animal actions and yoga poses. Laminate the cards; cut out the cards. The cards come in both colourful and black and white options. Choose whichever option you want to use. You may pick a card, show the card to your students, then read the card. Allow students to imitate the movements. You may also choose to let students take turns picking a card. Older children may read the cards to the other students. For younger students, have the child give you the card after the card is picked; read the card. There are fifteen animal movement cards and six yoga cards in both black and white and colored versions. There are a total of 42 cards.

This packet includes so many opportunities for children to practice cutting skills. Straight lines, curves, circles, and ovals included. The pages come with fun graphics. Trim along the borders, and let your children enjoy cutting practice!

This packet includes lots of opportunities for children to practice cutting straight lines. These are perfect for Early Years fine motor practice. The pages come with fun graphics. Trim the edges of the pages if needed, and let your children enjoy cutting practice!

Laminate the pages, and cut out the mats. Allow the children access to play-dough and mats. There are directions and creativity prompts on the mats. Read the directions and prompts to the children. Allow the children to manipulate play-dough on the mats. Children will use fine motor skills; they will learn to follow a few step directions, and they will engage in creativity. These are great station activities. Your students are sure to have so much fun with these play based play-dough mats! Let students learn skills while engaging in fun play! Twelve pages worth of play-dough mats.

Various summer fine motor practice pages are included in this resource. This resource includes summer themed do-a-dot activities, summer themed scissor skills practice pages, cut and paste summer collage art activity, and fireflies in a jar dot with finger paint craft. For the do-a-dot activities, allow the children to dot the circles on the summer themed pages with a bingo dauber or a dot marker. For the scissor skills practice pages, there are straight line bugs in the grass, straight line cut in half summer graphics, cut from corner to corner summer graphics, and cut the circle beach ball. Give the children scissors; allow the children to cut the dots on the pages. For the cut and paste summer collage, there are summer graphics; there are also kids at the beach clip art for this activity. Provide the children with poster board, construction paper, or card stock. Allow the children to cut out the summer graphics; allow the children to paste their graphics onto paper to create a collage. Children will use their fine motor skills as they cut and paste, but you can also provide other art materials that allow for creativity for the children since this is also an art project. You can also provide such materials as glitter, crayons, and markers. After the children have cut and pasted and created their collages, they can decorate their pictures more! Allow for as much creativity as possible! For the fireflies in a jar dot with finger paint craft, the fireflies have circles on the glow part. Give the children yellow washable finger paint. Allow the children to dip their fingers into the paint; allow the children to dot the circles on the fireflies with the finger paint. Students will enjoy these fun summer themed fine motor skills pages. They are a great, engaging and fun way to practice these important early skills! There are seventeen pages full of fine motor activities.

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

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.

Children can use their fine motor skills by picking up small, white craft pom-poms and gluing them on the cup of hot-cocoa. This fine motor skills activity also doubles as a craft project. 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 this other winter activity. https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/snow-pre-k-lesson-and-sequencing-cards-12079236

Cut out the do-a-dot cards; set a few of the cards in your maths station. Give the children do-a-dot markers. The cards have the numeric number on the upper left corner. Allow the children to identify the number and to find the matching numbers on the pumpkin. Allow the children to dot the matches. Example: If the card has number 10, the children should find all number 10’s and place a dot on each number 10 on the pumpkin. Help children find the correct number to dot if they need help. The cards also have the number word at the bottom; the word is dotted. Children may trace the number word, or they may dot the word with dot markers. Do-A-Dot cards are numbered 1 - 10. The cards come in both small or large card options; choose whichever works best in your classroom. This activity provides opportunity for maths skills practice, fine motor skills practice, and even some literacy skills practice. 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 linktree link to follow me on social media and to subscribe to my newsletter in order to stay up to date on new content, discount bundles, and sales. https://linktr.ee/ecplayandlearn If you like this resource, check out these pumpkin ten frames cards for maths station. https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/pumpkin-ten-frames-cards-12180411