I've been in the Early Childhood Education field for over twelve years. Early Childhood Ed is my passion! Now, I am providing quality Early Childhood resources, and looking for quality resources from other educators.
I've been in the Early Childhood Education field for over twelve years. Early Childhood Ed is my passion! Now, I am providing quality Early Childhood resources, and looking for quality resources from other educators.
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!
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!
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
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.
This Halloween Monsters Lesson Plan comes with science/sensory activity, fine motor activities, maths activities, literacy activities, an art activity, and a gross motor activity. This lesson plan will be perfect to accompany your Halloween themes! Science/sensory is monster soup with observation sheets. Fine motor manipulative activities are monster do-a-dot sheets with and without letter M m. Literacy activities include do-a-dot letter M m, monster write letter M m, and “If I had a pet monster…” writing prompt with picture space. Maths activities are monster counting, monster roll a number, and monster addition. Art activity is monster paper bag puppet. Gross motor activity is monster foot hopscotch. Activity pages are included for all lesson plan activities except art. The art lesson plan does come with detailed instructions. All lesson plans come with detailed instructions. Follow the detailed directions of each lesson plan. Colourful picture examples are included. Actual activity pages are black and white for ink saving. Your students are sure to have fun with all these engaging monster themed activities!
Thirty-one pages of actual lesson plans and/or activities included. This lesson plan is full of many hands on activities!
This is a great pre-k owl lesson plan filled with hands-on activities! Owl art, math, manipulative, science, and cooking activities are included. There are six activities total including a owl lacing card print-out provided for you. Two owl templates are also provided; the templates go along with the owl puppet lesson. Your young learners are sure to enjoy all the play based activities.
These are posters to display at your Pre-K or Kindergarten centers. The posters include art center, science center, math center, literacy center, dramatic play center, block center, manipulatives center, and sensory table, and music and movement. Each poster has one girl and one boy of diverse ethnicity to represent students in your classroom well. These posters come in two different background options. One background is white with colorful dots and white bubbles on blue border; this is a fun option! The other background is plain white with a burlap border; this is a more natural option!
Laminate the pages. Cut out the posters. Display the posters on your classroom walls by the correct center. Children can look at the pictures in the poster to figure which center it is.
This resource contains nine center posters with dots background and nine posters with burlap border for a total of eighteen poster options.
Laminate the pages, and cut the out the cards. These cards can be used in a daily schedule pocket chart, or they can be used on poster board with Velcro or on a bulletin board focus wall. Display the pocket chart cards next to your written daily nursery or reception class schedule; display your schedule in whichever way is most convenient for you. Also, display the cards in whatever order you want your daily schedule to be.
I have provided header cards as well as rectangle cards. The header cards come in two different size options; one option is slightly bigger than the other option. Both options of header cards should fit in most pocket charts. The rectangle option should also fit well in most pocket charts.
I have also provided an editable written schedule. Type out your detailed schedule; display your written schedule next to the schedule cards. After you have your schedule displayed in a way that works for you, you will be ready to teach your students how to follow the daily schedule. Early learners do well when they have a schedule and when they know what is expected of them. The pictures on the schedule cards will help your early learners understand the schedule.
This resource is a zip file. The cards are protected PDF format, but the written daily schedule comes in both Word and PDF format that are both completely editable. The written daily schedule is a grid of three columns and twelve rows with plenty of room for you to type your schedule with details. There are eleven cards in three different options.
This is a UK classroom version. If you would like a card added, please email me @ecplayandlearn@gmail.com, and I will add the card you need for your daily schedule.
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 this resource to be a helpful, interactive read along booklet.
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 I, see, the. You may allow the children circle the sight words as they read along with you, or you may use the color code provided and allow the children to color the sight words.
The booklet also includes “My favorite baby animal is___.” page. Ask the children what their favorite 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.
Autumn Number Bonds Game Make 5 is an interactive way for your students to learn number sense, basic operations, parts and whole, and how to create and solve number bonds. Use this for for group time instruction as well as for your autumn maths station. Students will combine numbers to create number bonds that add up to 5. This activity comes in both colorful and black and white options.
Pick from either colorful or black and white options. Make copies of the apples, pumpkins, and seeds for your students. Make an extra copy of the apples, pumpkins, and seeds; make a copy of the part, part, whole apple and the part, part, whole pumpkin. Laminate your copies. First, use either the part, part whole apple or the part, part whole pumpkin during group work. Explain parts and whole. Use a dry erase marker to write numbers that add up to 5 on the parts circles. After your students understand the concept of parts and whole and adding to make 5, give them either an apple or a pumpkin paper with number 5 number bonds. Also, give them either apple or pumpkin seeds. The seeds have numbers 0 to 5. Allow your students to cut the seeds and paste them on the empty circles of the number bonds to create 5. Help any child who needs help cutting out the seeds.
Next, cut out the apples, pumpkins, and seeds that you laminated. Stick Velcro on the empty circles of the number bonds. Stick Velcro on the back of the seeds. Place either the apple or pumpkins and the seeds in your math center. Allow children to Velcro the seeds to the empty circles of the number bonds on the pumpkin or apple to create 5 on their own.
This game comes with six activity pages in color, and six activity pages in black and white for a total of twelve activity pages. An answer key is also provided.
This pre-k lesson plan includes some good, hands-on activities for learning all about families. Family art, math, literacy craftivity, manipulatives, and sensory table activities are included. Rainbow gingerbread family print-outs and diverse families print-outs are included. Two literacy craftivity print-outs are also included. Children will learn more about the world through these engaging family activities.
Laminate the pages, and cut the out the cards. These cards can be used in a daily schedule pocket chart, or they can be used on poster board with Velcro or on a bulletin board focus wall. Display the pocket chart cards next to your written daily preschool schedule; display your schedule in whichever way is most convenient for you. Also, display the cards in whatever order you want your daily schedule to be.
I have provided header cards as well as rectangle cards. The header cards come in two different size options; one option is slightly bigger than the other option. Both options of header cards should fit in most pocket charts. The rectangle option should also fit well in most pocket charts.
I have also provided an editable written schedule. Type out your detailed schedule; display your written schedule next to the schedule cards. After you have your schedule displayed in a way that works for you, you will be ready to teach your students how to follow the daily schedule. Early learners do well when they have a schedule and when they know what is expected of them. The pictures on the schedule cards will help your early learners understand the schedule.
This resource is a zip file. The cards are protected PDF format, but the written daily schedule comes in both Word and PDF format that are both completely editable. The written daily schedule is a grid of three columns and twelve rows with plenty of room for you to type your schedule with details. There are eleven cards in three different options.
These are posters to display in your nursery or reception classrooms for your stations. The posters are UK stations specific with UK spelling. The stations included are expressive art station, role play station, home station, construction and block station, exploration and discovery station, sensory station, maths station, fine motor: manipulatives station, literacy station, and music and dance station. If you need a title changed or if you need another station poster added, please email me @ ecplayandlearn@gmail.com; I will be very happy to change/ add posters to fit your needs. I very much wish for these poster to suit your classroom stations.
Each poster has one girl and one boy of diverse ethnicity to represent students in your classroom well. These posters come in two different border options. One border is blue with bubbles. The other border is a realistic looking yellow ribbon for a more minimal look.
Laminate the pages. Cut out the posters. Display the posters on your classroom walls by the correct station. Children can look at the pictures in the poster to figure which station it is.
This resource comes with a total of twenty posters.
Autumn Number Bonds Game Make 10 is an interactive way for your students to learn number sense, basic operations, parts and whole, and how to create and solve number bonds. Use this for for group time instruction as well as for your autumn maths station. Students will combine numbers to create number bonds that add up to 10. This activity comes in both colorful and black and white options.
Pick from either colorful or black and white options. Make copies of the apples, pumpkins, and seeds for your students. Make an extra copy of the apples, pumpkins, and seeds; make a copy of the part, part, whole apple and the part, part, whole pumpkin. Laminate your copies. First, use either the part, part whole apple or the part, part whole pumpkin during group work. Explain parts and whole. Use a dry erase marker to write numbers that add up to 10 on the parts circles. After your students understand the concept of parts and whole and adding to make 10, give them either an apple or a pumpkin paper with number 10 number bonds. Also, give them either apple or pumpkin seeds. The seeds have numbers 0 to 10. Allow your students to cut the seeds and paste them on the empty circles of the number bonds to create 10. Help any child who needs help cutting out the seeds.
Next, cut out the apples, pumpkins, and seeds that you laminated. Stick Velcro on the empty circles of the number bonds. Stick Velcro on the back of the seeds. Place either the apple or pumpkins and the seeds in your math center. Allow children to Velcro the seeds to the empty circles of the number bonds on the pumpkin or apple to create 10 on their own.
This game comes with ten activity pages in color, and ten activity pages in black and white for a total of twenty activity pages. An answer key is also included.
These pumpkin tens frames cards will be perfect for fall maths! Laminate, cut out, and place a few of these cards in your maths center. These ten frame cards come in two different sizes. Children can use their fingers, dot markers, or maths counters to help them count. The cards include a number in numeric and word form. The large cards include pumpkins to count as well as dots on the ten frames. The small cards include pumpkins on the ten frames. These cards provide variety for counting. There are also two blank cards with double ten frames. Write your own number and number words. Add stickers and dots for the children to count; allow children to count up to twenty!
This resource includes ten large cards in both colourful and black and white options, ten smaller cards in both options, and two blank cards for a total of 42 different cards to choose from.
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.
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.
This resource includes a Mother’s Day card and Mother’s Day bookmarks. This is a small part of my Mother’s Day Activity Packet that I have provided to you for free. You can get the full packet by clicking the link at the bottom.
Cut out the bookmarks. Some book marks are colored, and some book marks are not so that the children can color them.
For the Mother’s Day cards, cut out the cards; let the children color them; then let the children color a picture or paint hand prints on the front.
Children and their loved ones will love these Mother Day crafts!
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This is a collection of sand recipes that can be used in your sensory bin or sand and water table. Included are recipes for flour sand, sugar sand, glittery sand, scented sand, foam sand, and sand slime. Pictures are included. There is also a science observation sheet included. Allow children to observe the different sand, ask them questions, and record their observations.
Two pages of recipes, four pages of picture examples, and two pages of observation sheets are included.
Laminate and cut out the cards. Pass out these sweet end of the year cards to your students. You can give gifts that go along with the cards if you want. Suggestions are bubbles, sidewalk chalk, candy, and plastic party sunshades.
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