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Sight Word Activity Mats

These sight word activity mats provide many ways to practice and learn sight words. More than just playdough mats, these mats are an interactive tool that includes writing words, building words, finding words in sentences....your kids will love this learning activity. Dolch primer, Dolch pre-primer, and Fry sight word lists are available. These no-prep printables are perfect word work activities for older preschool, pre-k, or kindergarten classroom or struggling readers. #sightwords

These sight word activity mats provide many ways to practice and learn sight words. Writing, building, finding….your kids will love this learning activity

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Flower Printable Book : Color Emergent Reader for Spring

Kids will love these free flower books. They can learn color words as they read the simple, predictable text. The checklist on the last page serves as a great review or can be used as a flower scavenger hunt. Perfect for your spring garden theme, Earth Day theme, plants theme, or flowers theme unit or lesson plans in your preschool or pre-k classroom. Take the free printables to the playground or on a walk through the neighborhood or use in your writing center. #preschool #preschoolactivities

The sweet flower printable book is a great for emergent readers. Kids can learn color words as they read the simple, predictable text. The checklist on the last page of the flower book serves as a great review or can be used as a flower scavenger hunt.

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How to Make Fun Literacy Activities with a Free Editable Hand Printable

Use this editable free printable to create custom and fun literacy activities for your kids. Teach letter recognition, phonemic awareness, sight words, names, word families, rhyming, etc. Many activity ideas are included. The activities are perfect for your literacy centers in your preschool, pre-k, kindergarten and home school classroom. Spring, summer, winter, and fall....your kids will love these activities year round.

Use this free editable template to create custom and fun literacy activities for your kids. Teach letter recognition, phonemic awareness, sight words, rhyming, word families, etc….

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How to Explore Nature with This Free Scavenger Hunt Book

Use these free printable nature scavenger hunt books to encourage kids to write, draw, and read while exploring their world. Perfect for pre-k, preschool or kindergarten age kids. Use the free printables in the classroom, on the playground, during nature walks or hikes, on camping trips, in the backyard, or during summer camp. Use this emergent reader for your plant and seeds theme, spring theme, and pond theme unit and lesson plans. #preschool #preschoolactivities

Use these free printable nature scavenger hunt books to encourage kids to write, draw, and read while exploring their world. 

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Try out these hand strengthening activities for kids. The fun fine motor activities will build and improve strength in little hand muscles. From squeezing activities to hole punch and plunger activities, these ideas to increase hand strength are perfect for preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, occupational therapy classrooms, and at home. From theraputty, toys like squigz, and squirt guns your preschoolers will love these ideas. Check them out today.
Use these free printable nature scavenger hunt books to encourage kids to write, draw, and read while exploring their world. Perfect for pre-k, preschool or kindergarten age kids. Use the free printables in the classroom, on the playground, during nature walks or hikes, on camping trips, in the backyard, or during summer camp. Use this emergent reader for your plant and seeds theme, spring theme, and pond theme unit and lesson plans. #preschool #preschoolactivities
Alphabet activities such as making letter collages or using letter mats are a great hands-on way to teach letter identification and reinforce letter-sounds. Here are over 200 material ideas that you can use for your collages or letter mats. A printable reference list or art and other materials is included. Better than worksheets, these are perfect hands-on activity for your preschool and pre-k classroom or lesson plans. Your young children will love this sensory learning opportunity. #preachool

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Kids love these hole punch activities. Use the printables to build fine motor skills, for hand strengthening, and to improve hand-eye coordination in a fun and exciting way. Perfect for your preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, special education and occupational therapy classroom. The printables include shapes and many themes and seasonal printables to use during spring, summer, winter, and fall. #finemotor #finemotorskills #preschool
Use these 11 different printable name puzzles with your preschoolers for name and literacy activities. Find ideas for the whole year! Perfect for your preschool or kindergarten classroom, or at-home learning or homeschool. Teach your kids to spell their names, construct their names, and the beginning steps to writing their names with these hands-on activities. Make learning fun in fall, winter, spring, & fall with themes from pumpkin, Thanksgiving, caterpillar, snowman, and many more!
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
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 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

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