Education resources for parents and teachers
Today I'm sharing a variety of letter W activities for 2-year-olds! Are you doing letter of the week with your toddler? I've been sharing a variety of simple activities for 2-year-olds over the past year. We love to share activities that worked for us, but please choose only the ones that your child enjoys. Children go through a tremendous amout of growth and maturity the year that they're two. Some of ... Read More
Teach children some basic geometry with these free 3D shape worksheets! Today I'm sharing two worksheets to help kids explore 3D shapes. Let's dive in! 3D Shape Worksheets The first worksheet asks kids to count faces, edges, and vertices on each shape. First, let's look at some definitions. face - any of the flat surfaces of a solid object edge - a line segment where two faces ... Read More
Looking for letter V activities for 2-year-olds? You're in the right place! I've been teaching my 2-year-old the alphabet - not because we're in a race, or because I think small children need a lot of structured learning - but because it's fun. We keep it light - doing this a few days a week for about 10-15 minutes at a time. And she loves it! Here's our volcano craft - because of course ... Read More
Looking for a bundle of sight word worksheets? Here you go! (This post contains affiliate links.) If you're looking for some quick, no-prep ways to reinforce common sight words, you've come to the right place! First, a quick disclosure. As a general rule, worksheets aren't my go-to. We like to learn sight words in active, hands-on ways. Then we use our sight word books for a fun way to read the words in ... Read More
We're all about quick reading games - try this set of freebies for reading short a words! Here are some free games to help kids read short a words. Not with flash cards, but with a board and a die. It's amazing how simple these games are and how willing my Five is to play them. Just take turns rolling a die and reading the words in the corresponding column. Doesn't get any simpler than ... Read More
We hope you enjoy this set of fun letter U activities for 2-year-olds! We love learning the alphabet! I've been doing letter of the week activities with my toddler over the past year, and it's been so exciting to see her understanding grow! Truth: If we had truly done "letter of the week" we'd have been done more than 6 months ago. But ... this has taken longer than I anticipated (six kids and at an ... Read More
Today I'm sharing a free set of weather-themed sentences that you can use on a pocket chart with your child or students. I absolutely love pocket chart sentences because they offer an easy way to teach so many things: concept of word we read from left to right sentences begin with a capital letter sentences end with punctuation All you have to do is grab the free download at the end of this post. Then print the ... Read More
Try some of these fun letter T activities with your 2-year-old! Have you been following along with our letter of the week series for toddlers? In each post I share a collection of simple activities and printables that will help your 2-year-old learn the alphabet. I'll admit - life gets in the way at our house - so we're finishing this up a month after my little girl turned three. But I'm still ... Read More
Today I'm sharing another set of free reading games for your learners! This time we're focusing on the long i sound. I'm on a mission to create a giant variety of free phonics games for new readers. Here's our next set of games! Free reading games for y, ie, and igh words This week we're focusing on the long i sound in one syllable words. In the download you'll find four game boards with four different ways to ... Read More
We hope you enjoy this collection of letter S activities for 2 year olds! Okay, confession. This is a series for toddlers, but my little girl turned 3 a month ago. Real life gets in the way here - just as I suspect it does at your house! - so we didn't finish the alphabet as soon as I'd hoped. No worries, though - I'm keeping our activities simple so that you can still use them with 2-year-olds. On to ... Read More
