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All About Reindeer Activities and Craft

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Learn all about reindeer with these 15 interactive reindeer activities and adorable reindeer craft. Integrate literacy, science, social studies, and math into your thematic reindeer unit. These reindeer activities are the perfect addition to your Christmas activities for preschool, kindergarten, and first grade. Students learn about reindeer through a nonfiction text with nonfiction text features. They'll complete math activities and literacy activities, all while making a cute Christmas craft!

The countdown to holiday break is on... which means the challenge of keeping students engaged is in full effect! One of my favorite ways to keep student engagement high is with these interactive all about reindeer activities and craft. These reindeer activities can be … [Read more...]

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20 January Fine Motor Activities for Morning Tubs

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Strengthen fine motor skills with fine motor morning tubs for winter! These 20 January fine motor activities for math and literacy are the perfect soft start to your mornings in your preschool or kindergarten classroom. Students will practice 1:1 counting, number order, patterns, 2D shapes, rhyming words, abc order, and more with these winter centers! These winter fine motor activities are great for winter math centers, winter literacy centers, winter morning work, or winter early finishers.

It's no secret that students thrive on consistency and predictability, so it only makes sense to begin each day with a consistent and predictable routine! Creating a structured morning routine that keeps everyone engaged and learning, while you are busy taking care of the day's … [Read more...]

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Thanksgiving Centers for Kindergarten

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Celebrate Thanksgiving, as you review math and literacy skills, with these engaging Thanksgiving centers for kindergarten & first grade. These Thanksgiving Escape Room activities can be used for a classroom Thanksgiving Party or turkey math and literacy centers. Students will practice CVC words, syllables, rhyming words, decomposing five and more. They will enjoy finding out which turkey in disguise stole the pumpkin pies with these Thanksgiving math centers and Thanksgiving literacy centers!

I love teaching my students all about turkeys during the last week leading up to Thanksgiving, but I also like to bring in some additional Thanksgiving themed activities throughout the entire month of November. One of my favorite ways to do this is with these math and literacy … [Read more...]

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Multisensory CVC Word Activities

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Looking for CVC word activities that will help your preschool and kindergarten students develop phonemic awareness, reading fluency and decoding skills, as well as vocabulary and sight word recognition? Today, I am sharing my favorite multisensory CVC word activities for orthographic mapping. These hands-on CVC word activities are great for reading intervention groups, morning work, early finishers and more. Practice blending and segmenting with these short vowel activities.

CVC word activities are essential for early literacy development, and help children develop phonemic awareness, vocabulary, sight word recognition and so much more. By working with CVC words, children learn to segment and blend sounds together, which is a crucial skill for … [Read more...]

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Editable Name Writing Practice Activities

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Looking for some fun and engaging name writing activities for preschool and kindergarten? These back to school name writing practice mats and name building activities are perfect for helping students learn how to write their name. Early elementary students get to practice tracing their name and building their name with magnetic letters. These editable name mats work well for centers, morning work or early finisher activities. Use these name practice mats with your favorite name books for kids!

Teaching preschool and kindergarten students to write their names is an important milestone in their educational journey! Not only does it help them develop essential fine motor skills, but it also fosters a sense of identity and ownership over their work. To help students master … [Read more...]

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I'm Ashley, a Kindergarten teacher who loves live music, Mt. Dew (no coffee for me), and the color yellow. I believe learning should be developmentally appropriate, engaging, rigorous, but most importantly FUN... so welcome to my blog where content,
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