Super simple learning ideas for kids!
There is this ice cream place near us that only serves vanilla and chocolate custard-style ice cream each day. Along with those flavors, there is a special flavor of the day. We love this ice cream place so much, that I will check out the flavor of the day almost every day just in case we need to make time to go get ice cream
Every year when we go to the beach for a week, we see the cutest sand crabs! We could sit there and watch the crabs run from hole to hole forever. They duck in and out of the holes while making sure it’s safe to keep moving across the sand. This is why our lowercase letter crab match is the perfect activity for preschoolers to
There is nothing better than delicious ice cream on a warm, summery day! Ice cream is one of my favorite themes to end the school year on. It also is a fun theme to use during birthdays. Our free printable ice cream counting mats are the perfect addition to any ice cream or restaurant theme! Ice Cream Counting Mats This free printable ice cream counting
Rainbows are not just beautiful, they are also the perfect way to reinforce color recognition with preschoolers! Our printable rainbow color play dough mats help strengthen fine motor skills while practicing color skills. Older preschoolers can build the color words with play dough. Younger preschoolers, and even toddlers, can build colored rainbows with the matching color. Play dough is a motivating learning material in my
February is here and Valentine’s Day is just around the corner! We are all about those tricky teens and using color words in my preschool classroom, so my little learners are doing a great job with our Valentine’s Day color by number printable freebie. It is a great learning center to practice number recognition, visual discrimination, colors, pencil grip, and controlled fine motor skills. And
Coming back from winter break can sometimes feel like the very beginning of school again when you teacher preschoolers! I like to come back and dive right into the learning fun, but know to keep things simple at first. These snowman number counting cards are the perfect addition to your winter theme in January. They promote fine motor skills, counting, and number recognition. And the
One of my very favorite times of the year is almost here! In my classroom we begin Christmas themed activities right after we get back to school from Thanksgiving break. We begin with our nativity theme which leads us right into a super fun field trip. And then after that we are all about gingerbread men, cookies, ninjas, babies, girls, and boys. If there is
Some of the very first small group activities that I introduce to my preschoolers are printable dice games! Rolling a die adds an extra element of fun to any activity with little kids. These learning activities focus on direction following, math skills, and fine motor pre-writing skills. Our shape roll & color math activity is the perfect printable learning center to reinforce shape identification and
All things pumpkin are slowly creeping back into the stores and it’s still only September! The pumpkin theme is an easy theme to integrate into your classroom because of the flexibility that it offers. Printable activities like our pumpkin patch counting cards can easily be used with whatever manipulatives you have on hand that are orange and round. And that best part is that this
When I have a chance to meet with the parents of the pre-k kids in my classroom, I try to fill the time with non-stop information. My goal is never to be overwhelming, but to find ways to encourage meaningful play and learning at home to! Last year, at our open house parent meeting (similar to a curriculum night at the big kids’ school), I
