These Bat Numbers and Hermit Crab Letters are great to use as a part of a Nocturnal Animal Unit. You can discuss what nocturnal means, what animals are nocturnal including hermit crabs and bats. Next, add Hermit Crab Letters and Bat Numbers to your literacy and math centers, or to your fine motor center! Give your students dot markers. For Number Bats, let them count the bats and dot them as they count. They can write the total in the box provided. For Hermit Crab Letters, let them find the letters on the hermit crabs that match the letter at the top of the page. Let your students dot the matches! Hermit Crab Letters includes vowels A, E, I, O, and U in both uppercase and lowercase. It also includes a blank Hermit Crab page; write your own letters on this page! Colored and black and white pages are both included for an ink saving option! Twenty four pages of activities are included!

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.

These labels should be helpful in getting you organized during the beginning of the school year. Laminate pages. Cut out labels. Use these labels to label your teacher supplies as well as student supplies. These labels come in black and white and colorful options. They include labels for crayons, highlighters, markers, erasers, glue, glue sticks, scissors, pencils, folders, binder, paper clips, stapler, tissue, pens, paint, and general art supplies. There are twelve pages worth of labels. 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, check out these other resources for your classroom. https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/back-to-school-nursery-picture-schedule-uk-version-12174518 https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/back-to-school-pre-k-picture-schedule-12172429 https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/posters-nursery-classroom-stations-uk-version-12174510 https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/centers-poster-12173081 https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/all-about-me-back-to-school-packet-12173078 https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/all-about-me-back-to-school-packet-2-12173101

This activity packet comes with Monster Name Practice sheet and Monster Build-A-Name. For Monster 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. Monster Name Practice comes in colorful and black and white options. Monster Build-A-Name is editable. For Monster Build-A-Name, edit the letters to match the letters in your students name. Please, only edit the letters; do not claim any of the work in this packet as your own. I have used Pond Free Me for the font for the letters because it closely resembles handwriting that would be familiar to children. You may change the font to anything you wish if you do not want to use this one. You may also choose to change the size and color of the font as well. Click on the letter on the candy, and you should be able to edit the letter. If you have never edited in Word and can not get it to work, please email me. I will explain it to you more. My email is in the ecplayandlearn@gmail.com. I have provided sixteen candies for letters for names. You may re-edit, and you may make more copies if you need more than sixteen letters. After you have all the letters that you need printed out, cut out the monster and the candies. Tell the children that the baby monster needs candy; tell them that the candies will spell their name. Have the children find the candies with the letters that are in their names. Have the children put the letters of their name in order. Have the children tape the candy letters together. The letters should be displayed up and down. I have examples for you to reference. Once the candy letters are taped together, ask the children to spell their names. 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 If you like this resource, check out Halloween Monster Lesson Plan for more monster themed activities! https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/halloween-monsters-lesson-plan-12197262

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

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

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 product consists of four St. Patrick’s Day theme puzzles. Each puzzle has matching St. Patrick’s Day pictures. Laminate the puzzles; cut out the pieces. You can also use a dry erase marker to add letters, numbers, words, etc. Your young learners are sure to enjoy putting together these fun, St. Patrick’s Day Puzzles! This is a great way to allow children to play while working on fine motor skills. 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/math-and-literacy-st-patrick-s-day-activities-12082182 https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/st-patrick-s-day-activities-packet-12075884

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 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.

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

This activity has fun winter patterns for your students to complete! Completing patterns is a great way for early learners to engage in math skills. 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 activitiy. https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/snow-pre-k-lesson-and-sequencing-cards-12079236

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.