Showing posts with label kindergarten. Show all posts
Showing posts with label kindergarten. Show all posts

Left Right Activities

I am so excited to share my 200th resource, Left Right Activities, with you! Knowing our left from right is a concept which is able to be taught and understood during the preschool years and yet it is something which people can struggle with into adulthood. This packet includes the following printables: - Color posters (pages 4-5) - you can post these posters in your classroom to help your students remember which direction is left and which is right, - Black and white posters (pages 6-7), - Five different sets of printable left and right worksheets that will be fun for kids and help them practice their ability to recognize left from right. Students follow the directions to identify which object is on the right or left. (pages 8-12) - Left/Right board game - First, print your Left/Right game board. I recommend printing on card stock or laminating to make it sturdy. For the game you'll need a die and a game piece for your students. To play,
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Easy Homemade Play Dough + A Freebie

Just a quick post to share an easy homemade play dough recipe and A FREEBIE with you. What you'll need: 2 1/2 cup flour 2 tablespoon citric acid 1 tablespoon salt 1 tablespoon vegetable oil  2 cup boiling water food coloring Directions: Mix all ingredients together to make the dough. Note: Store the play dough in an airtight container. Download your FREE play dough mats by clicking on the picture below.
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Color Grid Reference Game + A Freebie

I played a fun game with my kiddos on a chessboard the other day. They absolutely loved it. This is a great activity because it has more than one focus. While practicing their colors, kiddos learn grid reference and build their fine motor skills during play. Here is what you need: a chessboard pom poms (lots of them) recording sheets (optional)  The objective of the game is simple. Set up the chessboard with pom poms. Call the coordinate points, the children have to read the grid coordinates and identify colors in the correct positions.  Here is the recording sheet I wiped up for this. I created a simple recording sheet without coordinates. You can grab a copy by clicking the picture. The objective of the game is to read the grid coordinates name the color and simply color the recording sheets. Setting up this game is a little bit time-consuming. So I created a resource based on this game. Now I can use this game with my students for independent w
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Woodland Forest Animals Bundle and A Freebie

If you are looking for fun, engaging and simple kids crafts and boredom busters to help you have more fun with your kids, here you go! You only need paper, crayons or markers, scissors for the students and glue. I have  a frog craft for you to download if you’d like!  Zip to the end of this post for the freebie. These Easy Woodland Animal Craft Sets are perfect for Animal Units. It can be a great addition to your bulletin boards! It includes all of the animal parts that can either be printed on cardstock for each student or cut out and used as a template for students to trace on construction paper. You can either copy the template onto white paper and let your students color, cut and paste the animals, or copy onto color paper. Step by step instructions included. This bundle packet includes the following Woodland Animal Craft: Animals Craft Reindeer - Template Cut and Paste   Animals Craft Hedgehog - Template Cut and Paste Woodland Animals Craft Wol
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Color Sight Word Puzzle

Here is a fun game to play with your students. This game is a great way to practice color recognition, reading, and more! Putting a puzzle together can be challenging for those without much experience. However, it will flexing your students brain muscles, and improve fine motor skills. Puzzles are a great option for your early finishers, morning work, or even intervention groups. Puzzles work well as individual work, partner work, and small group work. Students with special needs also do well with these, once they understand the concept. Just print and cut on the lines and you have instant engaging activity. I recommend printing them on cardstock and laminating them. You can put them into plastic baggies. There are 6 puzzle sets, 8 pieces to each puzzle. You can make your sets color coded by printing the cards on the white side of the scrapbook paper. In case you do not have scrapbook paper, I added a different zig-zag background paper for each puzzle set.
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Letter Tiles and Word Cards Freebie

Today I'm sharing a set of word cards and printable letter tiles.They can be used together as a cut and paste activity or separately. The letter tiles are a cheaper version of Bananagrams and Scrabble tiles. You can cut the letters and collect them in a pill organizer. And voila you are ready for word work. If you choose to make word cards (CVC words, sight words) you can use them to play any game that requires or involves word cards.  To get your free Word Cards and Letter Tiles printable click on the picture bellow. Game of the Month: Bananagrams from whatdowedoallday Matching Alphabet Beans Literacy Game from theimaginationtree  Four Ways to Use Bananagrams Tiles to Aid Letter and Word Recognition  from thisfineday And this isn't all, for more word work ideas, follow my Word Work board on Pinterest!
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Bang or Kaboom Must-Have Classroom Game

In case you need a super effective, simple and fun activity for your classroom you must try this game for sure! If you are not familiar with the game BANG! or KABOOM!, here it is. I stumbled upon this awesome game over at Come Together Kids blog. Once my kids learned to play this game it became our class favorite. It's super easy to make. What do you need for this game? - flashcards or popsicle sticks - a few BANG cards - a can - optional: jar labels, scrapbook paper if you want to decorate your can. The best part about this game is that it is easily adaptable. You can use it for letters, sight words, numbers, math facts, etc. It is great to review almost any concept. Depending on the grade, it can be kept very basic, or made much more complex. HOW TO PLAY: Place all the cards or sticks in your can and get ready to play the game! Players take turns pulling out a word card from a can. If they know the answer, they keep the card. If the player is incorrect, the
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