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Winter Math Activities with Printable Snowflake Number Circles [Free Printable]

Looking for winter math activities for your kids? Try these snowflake number circles. Use the free math printables in muffin tins or use them to make counting containers. Many ideas are included for counting, number sense, and even basic addition. Perfect for your winter math centers or math work stations in preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten. A great addition to your snow theme, snowman theme, winter theme unit and lesson plans. #preschool #winteractivitiesforkids #preschoolmath

Are you looking for winter math activities for your kids? Try these snowflake number circles. Use the free math printables in muffin tins or use them to make counting containers. Many ideas are included for counting, number sense, and even basic addition.

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Printing Problems? Troubleshooting Tips for Printable Resources

I create lots of printable resources.  Occasionally, people experience problems editing my editable resources or printing resources.  If you are seeing funky fonts or things just aren’t working right, here are a few troubleshooting tips to help you out.

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The Best Gift for Your Class: Christmas Play Dough Mats (free printable)

These mini Christmas play dough mats will make great little gifts for students,  sweet party favors, or just a fun activity to occupy kids during a Christmas or holiday gathering.

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Spectacular Spider Activities: Spidery Learning Activities

Check out these fun spider activities for your preschool and pre-k classroom. These are perfect if you are teaching spider theme, Halloween theme, or October unit and lesson plans. You will find simple ideas for spider learning activities like math, alphabet, and name activities. Plus you will find free printables....spider emergent reader. Spidery hands-on learning fun for your kids. #preschool #spideractivities #earlylearningideas #Halloweenactivities

Check out these fun spider activities for your preschool and pre-k classroom. These are perfect if you are teaching spiders theme unit or lesson plans.

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Apples on Top: Make a Class Apple Counting Book [Free Template]

Here are some free printables to help you make an apple counting book for your kids. Kids will enjoy reading this fun numbers book because it features pictures of them. Perfect for your apple theme, back to school theme, Johnny Appleseed theme unit or lesson plans. The apple activity is also a perfect add to your study of Dr. Seuss and his Ten Apples on Top book. Make the book in your literacy centers then read it during circle time or add to your class library. #applesactivities #preschool

Here is a free printable to help you make an apple counting book for your kids. The book is a perfect addition to your apple theme lesson plans and your kids will enjoy reading this book over and over because it features pictures of them.

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Apple Math Activities for Kids: 7 Math Activities with Numbered Apples [Free Printable]

Check out all the ways you can use these apple free printables for apple math activities with your kids in preschool, pre-k and kindergarten. Perfect for your apples theme, Johnny Appleseed study, BTS theme or harvest theme units and lesson plans. Kids will love the hands-on learning ideas to learn numbers, counting, comparing numbers, etc. Perfect for your early childhood math centers, here are even math game ideas. #appletheme #preschoolmath #preschool

Ideas for apple math activities for your kids. This article includes free numbered apple circles and many ideas to us them. Perfect for your apple theme units and lesson plans.

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Printable Sticky Notes : Graphing Ideas for Preschool

Create custom printable sticky notes with these free printables templates. Add kids' photos and names to the sticky notes and use them for graphing activities, math activities, name activities and additional activities for preschool and pre-k

Create custom printable sticky notes with these templates. You can easily add kids’ photos and names to the sticky notes and use them for graphing and other activities in your preschool class.

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How to Make Name Activities with Free Printable Name Cards

Your kids will love this free printable name activity. Make a name matching set and kids can match pictures with written names. Perfect activity idea for back to school or the beginning of the school year....it helps with learning the names of friends along with spelling, beginning sounds, letter and name recognition. You students will love these activities during the first week and throughout the year in your early childhood literacy centers and writing centers. #preschool #nameactivities

Name activities can help kids get to know each other at the beginning of the year. Use my templates to make your own name matching game and use them for a variety of literacy activities with your kids.

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Your kids will love running their fingers over these fun tactile letters. Find lots of ideas to make DIY tactile cards for your literacy learning centers. Perfect for teaching the alphabet to kids in preschool and pre-k classroom. Better than sandpaper....this is a fun sensory experience. The ideas will work for sight words as well. #preschool #alphabetactivities #sensoryactivities

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Use these custom name writing activity books to help your kids learn name recognition, letter recognition, and learn to write their names with a variety of activities. A child's name is the most important word in their life....and you can use it as an engaging way to teach concepts of print and early literacy. These books are easy to edit or customize and are easy to assemble. Perfect for your preschool, pre-k or kindergarten classroom literacy centers. Use for back to school or year round
Use these 1-20 number activity mats to help your kids in preschool, pre-k and kindergarten learn counting, number recognition, one-to-one correspondence, and number sense.  The mats are a great multi-sensory tool that your kids will love. There are so many ways to explore numbers on just one page. Use playdough to form numerals, trace the dotted numbers, represent the number with finger-counting cards, ten frame, and build the number with counting cubes. #preschoolmath #prekmath #kindergarten
Use these CVC Beginning Sound Clip cards to help your kids hear and see the beginning sounds in words. They will love this hands-on early literacy activity...perfect for teaching early literacy concepts in your preschool, pre-k, or kindergarten classroom. 17 word families are included. Looking for ideas for teaching rhyming, letter sounds, phonemic awareness, and phonological awareness? These activities are perfect for your literacy centers as independent and small group activities.
These easy-to-assemble little alphabet letter books will give your kids a variety of ways to learn letter recognition, letter sounds, and letter formation. Whether you use a letter of the week or no letter of the week, kids love taking these little ABC books home. The simple, predictable text gives kids the opportunity to experience success with reading and starting dots help kids practice correct letter formation. Download your free sample book today. #alphabetactivities #preschool
These rhyming clip cards will help your kids see and hear rhymes in simple CVC words. Kids love clipping clothespins on the rhyming words in this activity. Perfect for small group or independent activities in your preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, or SPED classroom. An engaging way to teach rhyming, early literacy concepts, and phonological awareness to young children. #rhymingactivities
Use these fun editable crayon name puzzles to work on name recognition and a variety of literacy activities with your kids. Your class will love these personalized printable puzzles. Use them in your preschool, pre-k and kindergarten class to work on name recognition, alphabet knowledge, letter recognition and learning a variety of pre-literacy skills. Perfect for your literacy centers. #preschool #nameactivities #alphabetactivities
There are so many ways that your kids can work on name practice with these editable name activity mats. Perfect for early childhood, preschool, and pre-k classroom, this is a fun way to work on name recognition, the alphabet, letter sounds, spelling their names, handwriting practice, fine motor skills...etc.. You can even include pictures. Use for back to school, the beginning of the school year, an all about me theme unit or lesson plans. #preschool #nameactivities #backtoschool

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