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September 17, 2015 By Nicole Franklin · Leave a Comment

Pumpkin Alphabet Puzzles

Practicing letter matching will be so fun with this set of free printable pumpkin puzzles!  Preschoolers and kindergarteners can sharpen their upper and lower case recognition skills while putting together broken pumpkins.  Busy bags at home (or table top learning centers at school) can be used while older siblings are doing homework or during a quiet time during the day.  The great thing about printable

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September 15, 2015 By Nicole Franklin · Leave a Comment

Apple Pie {Scented} Spin Art Craft

The delicious smell of apple pie is one of my favorite things about fall!  We won’t be making apple pie in preschool this year, but our spin art apple pies still smell just as yummy!  In just a few simple steps and with little assistance, preschoolers can create their own apple scented craft.  Spin art is always a huge hit with my preschoolers! Affiliate links

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September 15, 2015 By Nicole Franklin · Leave a Comment

Fine Motor Counting Spider Activity

Spiders are such a fun theme to learn about and fit into our fall farm and even Halloween themes coming up!  I’m all in as long as the spiders aren’t real!  Our cute little clothespin spider is perfect for toddlers and preschoolers to practice counting from 1 to 8, practice 1:1 correspondence, and strengthen their fine motor skills.  That’s a lot of skills jam-packed into

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September 6, 2015 By Nicole Franklin · 1 Comment

Apple Stem Letter Matching

Letter practice could not be more fun (or cuter!) with our Apple Stem Letter activity.  Preschoolers can match letters in their names while practicing recognition.  Older kids can practice sight words and spelling words!  My preschool class will be practicing recognizing the letters in the word apple during our apple theme along with counting apple seeds and sorting colored apples! Apples are one of my

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September 4, 2015 By Nicole Franklin · Leave a Comment

Teach Color Matching with Stickers

Simple learning with stickers! Simple is what I am all about.  I have always been one to wait until the last minute to get things done.  I do some of my best preschool planning while drying my hair and brushing my teeth! The activities that we do in preschool (and at home!) are super simple but still super fun.  This includes our latest activity that

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August 31, 2015 By Nicole Franklin · Leave a Comment

Apple Seed Counting Cards

Practicing number identification and counting with one-to-one correspondence is so much fun with this set of Apple Seed Counting Cards!   Apple Seed Counting Cards Apple seeds are so tiny that they can help develop and strengthen those fine motor muscles in preschoolers each time they are pinched and picked up.  Using apple seeds is a way to add a fun and even real dimension

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August 29, 2015 By Nicole Franklin · 1 Comment

Shape Sort Sticky Wall

During the first week of preschool, I set up activities for quick {yet still fun} assessments to see what skills my preschoolers already knew at the beginning of the school year.  Sorting by category, size, and color is taught and used throughout the school year with 3 year-olds.  Our Shape Sort Sticky Wall introduced sorting by shape and tied in shape recognition too!  I am

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August 21, 2015 By Nicole Franklin · 3 Comments

Alphabet Letter Stones

Creating easy to use materials for my classroom is so fun!  I have used my summer break to stock up on fun printables (the smiley shapes are my favorite!), simple busy bags or independent table centers, and super fun manipulatives (homemade and from the dollar store!). One of coolest things I made for my preschoolers are these Alphabet Letter Stones! Aren’t they beautiful?  They were

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August 20, 2015 By Nicole Franklin · 1 Comment

Apple Color Sorting Activity

One of the first themes that we explore in preschool is apples!  Apples usually mean that fall is just around the corner – one of my favorite times of the year!  My preschoolers learn with apples in different ways, but in my classroom I always try to keep the activities simple.  The Apple Color Sorting Tree is a super simple math activity to set up

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August 19, 2015 By Nicole Franklin · 1 Comment

Queen Elsa’s Frozen Snow World

Queen Elsa is well loved by my preschoolers at school and by my own preschooler at home!  If one child starts singing, “Let It Go” or “Do You Want to Build a Snowman?” they all start singing along.  Frozen is acted out on the playground and talked about during snack time.  The love {and obsession} with the movie isn’t going anywhere which is why creating

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