Your preschooler or kindergartener will master all the basic skills with this fun interactive printable fall quiet book! This printable fall activity book is perfect to use in the classroom or at your home, just

Add to your community helper unit with these wonderful early childhood ideas featured by Jessi over at Getting Messy with Ms. Jessi! She features the following crafts and activities that are sure to keep your little ones busy learning all about the helpers in your community. Stoplight Craft Photo Source: Getting Messy with Ms. Jessi Provide each of your kiddos with a rectangle of black construction paper. At the top write "Stop," in the middle write "Slow" and at the bottom write "Go!" Place a small amount of red, yellow and green paint onto small paper plates and provide something for creating a circle (small fruit cup bowls would be perfect!). Have your class create their stoplights by encircling each word with the correct color circle. Stoplight Dance Photo Source: Getting Messy with Ms. Jessi Follow up your stoplight craft with a stoplight dance! Create "stoplight" paddles using popsicle sticks and red, yellow and green construction paper. Play music and have your kiddos dance based on the paddle you're holding up. Dance freely when green is showing, dance in slow motion when yellow is up and stop in your tracks when red appears. This activity is sure to please your early childhood kiddos! Creating Fire Photo Source: Getting Messy with Ms. Jessi After you spend time learning about the firefighters in your community, take a little time to create a 'fire'. Give each of your kiddos a piece of yellow construction paper and a bit of red/orange paint. Have them paint their paper as fast as they think a fire would spread. Then have a little additional fun by giving your students paint scrapers to add a fun design. Healthcare Collage Photo Source: Getting Messy with Ms. Jessi Have your class create healthcare collages by providing them with a variety of healthcare items. Think gloves, bandaids, gauze, tongue depressors, etc. What a great opportunity to then discuss the vets, doctors and nurses who provide care for all the people (and pets) in your community! For additional Early Childhood ideas, be sure to check out Getting Messy with Ms. Jessi!

Deconstruct squares and create art with shapes in this follow-up activity to the book Perfect Square; for preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten.

Activities for couples can help them strengthen their relationship. Here are some interesting couple activities that are fun and can spark romance in your life.

Foster a love for science with these fun experiments perfect for even the youngest scientists .

Do you have a child who loves diggers? Put together your own Digger unit study to learn all about them using books, activities and printables.

Christmas season brings a whole new activity book for your kids to learn with - print out our printable Christmas Quiet book and let the fun learning begin.

St Patricks day colouring book. 40 beautifully designed colouring sheets for childrens and adults. Fun screen free activity. Celebrate St Patricks day in all its colour! Colour in and design your own cheeky leprechauns.

These 15 picture book activities go great with your preschooler's favorite stories. Great hands-on activities that help to further explore the books!

Cute and FREE printable community helpers coloring page to make learning about jobs like doctors, garbage collectors, farmers, etc. FUN!

A cute printable activity and lunch idea to go with the beloved children's book "Guess How Much I Love You" by Sam McBratney.

Thank you to Tanya from the wonderful blog, Books4YourKids. She is my guest author with her 20 favorite picture books of 2011.

Boost your child's social-emotional awareness with this collection of 6 great picture books for social-emotional learning. Great for developing empathy and...

How does respect grow? I taught a lesson about respect to a group of fifth graders. I decided to use a flower theme since, it was almost May...

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Over 20 favorite first day of school books for preschool and kindergarten. Fun books about the first day of school and first day jitters.

This is an End of the Year Memory Book to collect some school memories and autographs from their friends.

4 fun activities based on the book, If You Give A Cat A Cupcake! This was a great book to to read to my preschooler for our Letter C themed week; C is for Cat and Cupcake!

A fun book report project that requires only household items!

Spend some time with alphabet peas as they work and play their way from A through Z.

Find just the right picture book about weather to make your weather unit - or even just your next library haul - extra engaging.

One of the fun and hands-on activities from my Seasons K-2 Unit Study is this 4 Seasons Flip Book. Actually, there are two seasons flip books included: one that’s more picture-based with simple language and one goes a little more in-depth. You can get both season flip books in one quick download today. Just click ... Read More about 4 Seasons Flip Book {2 FREE Levels}

A fun Free Printable pack of learning activities with an exciting Pirate theme. Kids will enjoy mastering skills with this pack.

Fun literacy ideas to do in this FREE printable pack.

SEPTEMBER NO PREP MATH AND LITERACY ACTIVITIES

Wow kids of all ages and make a glowing rainstorm !

Need some dinosaur printables for kids? You'll find hundreds of free printables - from worksheets that will help your kids master all kinds of subjects to printable masks they can play with! Free Printable Dino

Color Farm by Lois Ehlert is a great book for toddlers and young preschoolers. I suggest you find the board book version of this book because the pages have shape cut outs that are easily ripped if little hands grab them, the board book is sturdy!

Are maps going the way of the rotary phone? Most of the time our maps are a grid of roads on a screen. Maps are still an essential tool, how...

Best Storytime Ideas for Preschoolers Do you have daily storytime with a classroom of kids? Do you run story time at your library? Do you just enjoy reading stories and doing book inspired activities and songs with your child? If you answered YES to any of these questions then these ideas are for you! Our […]

Educational Resources for Preschoolers Looking for material to add to your curriculum? Want to keep learning fun through play and games? Find it in the library! The Navigating Homeschool Library is always adding great educational material for the whole family! Currently, we have alphabet, counting, shapes, and holiday worksheets, in addition to a few games! … Join Read More »

Enjoy these Spookley The Square Pumpkin activities and craft ideas too, as a great way to talk about how our differences make us great.

Here are 20 free printable busy bags full of fun kid's activities! Perfect for traveling and quiet time.

Weather person, sharing, activities, books, music … see how we add these to our circle times during our preschool day.

Engineering activities for kids that will get their brains and bodies moving! Grab a free engineering challenge printable for even more STEM fun.

It's Monday which means it's time for Must Read Monday with my blogging buddies Kindergarten Planet and The Kindergarten Connection! Oh, and Monday also means it's time for The Bachelorette!! Any other Bachelorette fans out there?!?! Back to Must Read Monday! I just wanted to do a quick post here because all of my books are very similar. This week's theme is cooperation. The books that immediately came to mind are all by the same author and illustrator - Steven Kroll and Jeni Bassett - and I love reading them to my students! *Images are from Amazon and you can find all of these books at Amazon.com! If you aren't familiar with these books, the mice (Clayton and Desmond), are usually trying to win some sort of contest. They end up doing everything individually and throughout the story they realize that doing things with someone else and working together is better! What a great message for teaching cooperation to students! Join the fun on Mondays by using this schedule!

As the mom of boys, I think skeleton books are for all year round! But around Halloween time, we start thinking about bones... Halloween skeleton bones!

Teach your child about shapes with these adorable picture books! Our favorite shape books for preschool feature circles, squares, triangles and more!