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Beginning of the School Year Activities


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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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How to Make Simple Name Puzzles that Your Kids will Love

You can make your own name puzzles with plastic bottle caps and recycled containers. Use the free name activity when teaching young children to recognize their names. The activity will also help them with spelling their name. Plus, you can use them for many different literacy activities. Ideas for use include a daily sign in procedure, CVC word activities or sight word activities for preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten. Use this fun name activity in your early childhood literacy centers.

You can make your own name puzzles with plastic bottle caps and recycled containers. Use the puzzles to teach kids to recognize and spell their names, plus use them for many different literacy activities.

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Name Cards: Make Name Cards for Your Word Wall

Use this free template to make name cards for your preschool, pre-k, or kindergarten word wall. The free printables are great for your writing center, circle time activities, literacy centers. Great for name spelling, name recognition and name writing, and phonemic awareness activities when teaching in an early childhood classroom. Use the fun name cards in pocket charts, on bulletin boards too. Children will especially love that they can see their pictures and names on your word wall.

Kids love seeing their name cards up on your classroom word wall. Use the free updated templates to make your own name cards. Use them for your word wall and for a variety of literacy activities.

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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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