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Spring Sequencing Activities Free

3/8/2017

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SPRING Sequencing Grow a Plant Activities

6 step sequence cards - print on card stock and cut out. Discuss what is happening in the pictures. Children place in sequential order.

• 6 step sequence cards with labels (color)

• 6 step sequence cards without labels (b/w)

• 6 step sequence cards with labels (b/w)

• 4 step sequence cards in color

• 4 step sequence cut and paste (b/w)

• Large manipulatives about growing a plant for a small group oral language sequencing activity

• Draw a picture about growing a plant.

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St. Patrick's Day Free Activities

3/1/2017

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St. Patrick's Day is on March 17th - here are some free activities to download and add to your "green" classroom celebration.

9 free preschool and kindergarten activities for St.Patrick's Day

St. Patrick's Day 10-frames counting mats 0-10. Use play dough, counters, gold foil coins or real clover leaves as counters
Liam Leprechaun cut and paste labeling activity - 3 differentiated levels.
St. Patrick's Day trace and count printables (3). Count the sets, recognize and trace the numbers, add extra details (coins, shamrocks?) and color if desired.
Set of large upper case shamrock alphabet letters.
Leprechaun action rhyme printable to "read" and color.
St. Patrick's Day cut and paste "complete the sentences" activity.
"All about my favorite leprechaun" dictate and draw printable. Discuss the page; younger children dictate their words and draw pictures, teacher writes the words
St. Patrick's Day rainbow and pot of gold number cards 0-10 - match numerals, 10-frame dots and number words.
Set of number flashcards 0-20, plus a set of 10-frame flashcards, 0-20. Use for matching, sequencing, subitizing, recognition, and memory, concentration and snap games.

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Valentine's Day Curriculum Themes Bundle

2/3/2017

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This 188 page bundle includes 5 of my Pre-K for a Day curriculum packs, all related to the theme of Valentine's Day. This bundle would be perfect to use as part of a curriculum lesson plan in February. With all the activities and centers that I stuff into these Theme for a Day packs, this bundle could extend for at least 2 weeks or more. Some activities could be saved until next year.

The 5 packs in the bundle each focus on an important concept that can be linked to Valentine's Day. The emphasis is on sharing, caring, and talking about love, as it is experienced in early childhood. Hands-on centers and activities also feature letters, numbers, colors, shapes, pre-writing and emergent reading skills.

Valentine's Day curriculum bundle for preschool and preK

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Here is a peek at some of the pages from the separate packs in the bundle.

Friends and Valentines 1 - THE COLOR RED

Friends and Valentines 2 - HEART SHAPES

Friends and Valentines 3 - WAYS WE COMMUNICATE

Friends and Valentines 4 - THE PEOPLE WE CARE ABOUT

Friends and Valentines 5 - CELEBRATE VALENTINE"S DAY

FREE activities and printables to download instantly for Valentine's Day
Lots of Valentines activity packs
Valentine's Day theme at TeachersPayTeachers
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Chinese Lunar New Year for pre-K and K

1/22/2017

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This Chinese New Year pack includes 100 pages of printables to create centers and activities for early learners.

The activities include:
• Animals of the zodiac flash cards
• Animals of the zodiac word wall cards with header
• Animals of the zodiac coloring posters
• Math mats – count sets of fortune cookies into traditional Chinese bowl
• Tangram puzzle – match 7 shapes, or cut and paste
• 3 songs plus a picture to color or add to
• Color/cut out a Chinese flag
• Mah jhong tiles flash cards 1-8 – match, sort, or arrange in number sequence.
• Poster in color and b/w – Happy Chinese New Year.
• 2 story starters – draw and/or dictate
• Trace and color – eating with chopsticks
• 6 piece puzzle – red lantern photo
• Count to 10 in Chinese – pictograms, Chinese words, English numbers
• Connect the matching pictogram numbers.
• Happy new year/spring banners cut and paste
• Emergent reader – A Lantern Rainbow (in color)
• Emergent reader – A Lantern Rainbow (in b/w)
• Order by size – bowls of food for New Year’s feast.
• Color posters – 6 Chinese icons (lantern, panda etc)
• Dragon border stationery
• Color by number – Chinese lantern
• Chinese lion mask
• 3 coloring pages
Set of 10-frame firecracker cards 0-10
• Set of dragon number cards, 0-20
• “Lucky money “number cards 0-10 – match sets of coins with the children holding red envelopes
• Shape cards – cut each card in half, children match the halves (12 shapes)
• Play dough mats (2)
• 6 Piece puzzles (2)

Check it out here.

Here are 3 FREE posters to use to celebrate the Year of the Rooster, beginning January 28th, 2017. One poster is in color, one is in b/w, and the other leaves a space for a child to draw the rooster.