Education resources for parents and teachers
If you're looking for a colorful sensory activity, try some Jello sensory play! We're moving through the alphabet, and I share a sensory idea for each letter. We played with coins in cloud dough for letter C, created a farm in a box for letter F, and hunted for magnetic objects for letter M. What to do for letter J? Jello, of course! I bought three boxes of Jello at the grocery store. ... Read More
Today I'm sharing a set of printable books to help your child master the short a word families! (This post contains affiliate links.) Inside a book After reading the word family name on the cover, your child will open the book and read the opening sentence: "I can read the ___ family." The page on the right will be a word within that family. I chose to make these words big, bold, and colorful. The word family ... Read More
Today I'm sharing a free printable game for mastering those doubles facts. A math game for the doubles facts Our game for learning the doubles facts is a very simple memory game. Simply print the cards, laminate for durability, and place them face down in a grid. Take turns flipping over two cards to find a match. If the cards go together, you keep them. At the end of ... Read More
I've shared three sets of handwriting pages for preschool and kindergarten for the upper and lowercase alphabet. Now I've got you covered with pages for writing numbers, too! Handwriting pages for writing numbers For preschoolers just starting to write their numbers, I recommend my Numbers of All Sizes handwriting pages. Your child starts on at the red dot and follows the arrow to write ... Read More
Today I'm sharing five fun letter J crafts for preschoolers. J is for Jewels I printed a letter J and gave my boys each a pile of colorful jewels from the craft store. I put down the globs of glue for my Two. Jupiter Marble Painting I printed a giant circle on a piece of paper and put it in a box. We poured red, yellow, brown, white, and orange paint (the colors of ... Read More
So what do you do when you're trying to teach math to a preschooler and he just doesn't want to sit still? You've got these great worksheets all printed out, and he shows zero interest. In fact, he resists them. That's okay. Preschoolers need very few traditional worksheets. In fact, many early childhood teachers don't use them at all. So what do we do instead? We teach children using active, ... Read More
Today I'm sharing a giant collection of beginning sound match mats! Get all 25 sets of picture mats and letter cards in one download. What a hands-on way to practice letters and sounds! If you've got a little one who's working at learning letter sounds, this activity is for you! I've created a total of 25 picture mats with matching letter cards. Each set builds on the previous one, ... Read More
Today I'm sharing a list of nursery rhymes and songs for letter J. Print out the free letter book so you and your child can enjoy them over and over again! List of nursery rhymes and songs for letter J (free printable book!) Each of the books in my Little Letter Book collection contains six nursery rhymes and songs for a particular letter. Here are the songs and rhymes you'll find in the Little Letter J Book: Jack ... Read More
I like to share a variety of ideas for writing each letter of the alphabet. Today we're writing letter D. (This post contains affiliate links.) As part of our letter D activities, my preschooler created the letter in a variety of ways. I printed a giant letter (get it in this post), and we filled it with Duplos. My Four made a D with dice. This was ... Read More
Get out some milk cap letters for these bright short u spelling mats! The pack has a set of words for six different word families: Here's a page from the download. You can see that you'll need to cut the sheets in half across the horizontal line. When you print the pages front to back, this is what you'll see when you turn the cards over. That makes these great for ... Read More
