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 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!

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 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

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

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!

These posters will brighten up your room, and children will love the cute bookmarks! The bookmarks come in coloured and black and white. Children can colour the black and white version for some creativity! The posters come in four different options. I have provided so many choices for you! Choose from green with white polka dots frame, chalkboard background, chalkboard frame, or stitched ribbon border. The polka dot frame is lovely! The chalkboard background is the best in my opinion, but it will use a lot of ink. If you can splurge on ink to decorate your classroom, go for the chalkboard background! If you want the chalkboard look without using so much ink, the chalkboard border is perfect! The stitched ribbon border is very lovely as well; it will work well if your classroom is decorated in a natural, rustic, or minimal theme. The ribbon border is also perfect if you are ink conscious; it will take less ink! Laminate pages. Cut out posters and bookmarks. Display posters in your classroom. For the black and white bookmarks, allow children to colour the bookmarks before laminating and cutting them. Give the bookmarks to the children to use when reading. This resource comes with six llama posters in four different options for a total of twenty four poster options; the resource also comes with three coloured bookmarks and three black and white bookmarks.

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 posters will brighten up your room, and the posters and bookmarks will help children be calm and mindful. The bookmarks come in coloured or black and white. Children can colour the black and white version for some creativity! The posters come in four different options. I have provided so many choices for you! Choose from green with white polka dots frame, chalkboard background, chalkboard border, or burlap border. The polka dot frame is lovely! The chalkboard background is the best in my opinion, but it will use a lot of ink. If you can splurge on ink to decorate your classroom, go for the chalkboard background! If you want the chalkboard look without using so much ink, the chalkboard border is perfect! The burlap border is very lovely as well; it will work well if your classroom is decorated in a natural, rustic theme. The burlap border is also perfect if you are ink conscious; it will take less ink! Laminate pages. Cut out posters and bookmarks. Display posters in your classroom. I would suggest these mindfulness posters be displayed in a quiet corner/ quiet area. For the black and white bookmarks, allow children to colour the bookmarks before laminating and cutting them. Give the bookmarks to the children to use when reading. This resource comes with five posters in four different options for a total of twenty poster choices; this resource also comes with three coloured bookmarks and three black and white bookmarks.

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 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.

These posters will be perfect for decorating your classroom for back to school! One of the posters includes UK version spelling for the word “colours.” If anyone wants to see this in US spelling version also, please email me @ ecplayandlearn@gmail.com, and I will create another version as well! Laminate pages. Cut out posters. Display posters in your classroom. The posters have good Early Childhood Education quotes that will be wonderful to display! There are also a few with nice classroom texts. The graphics are lovely and will bring warmth to your classroom. I have provided two different border options. The yellow ribbon option is for a more minimal look; it will also save on ink usage. Enjoy! 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 or sign up for my newsletter to be up to date on FREEBIES, sales, and new resources. https://linktr.ee/ecplayandlearn If you like this resource, you might also enjoy these posters. https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/classroom-posters-sloth-12173086 https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/classroom-poster-llama-12173083 You might also want to check out my Back to School Bundles. https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/back-to-school-bundle-12173790 https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/back-to-school-packet-us-spelling-version-12173792