If you want your children to learn more about body organs and their functions, these human body printables for kids are just what you need!

If you are having trouble figuring out the a fun and easy way to display student work, than this post is for YOU!

A Gardening Printable For Preschoolers to bring fun learning into Spring. This ten frame activity is perfect for introducing and practicing counting from 1-20!

Giant letter dot it game - fun for center time, small group, or inside recess. Try it with numbers, shapes, studnet names, or sight words. Perfect for preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten.

Too many worksheets make for one uncooperative boy. It’s easy to get in a rut. Ask a soon-to-be-first-grader and they’ll tell you: ruts are NOT fun. To mix it up, I put together a guessing game for my son that I discovered in “Rainy Days and Saturdays” by Linda Hetzer. I labeled brown lunch sacks with the numbers one through 10. Then I ran around the house and collected 10 objects (e.g., an apple, crayon, flip-flop sandal, etc.) when my son was out of the house, stuffed one object in each bag, and stapled the top shut. When he got home, the fun began. I gave him the bags to feel and guess what was inside. A scotch tape dispenser is the same shape as a snail. I had never noticed this before, but my son sure did. (Clever, huh?) He listed the guesses on a page of his spiral notebook. When he finished touching, smashing, and squeezing each bag, he opened them and wrote down each of the objects in the second column next to his guesses. My son only guessed one object correctly and he was disappointed. I told him that we sure rely on our eyes a lot to tell us what things are; he agreed. I applauded his creative guesses and his mood changed from deflated to proud. I have a feeling we’ll be playing this little game again sometime.

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A fun Alphabet Spring Theme Printable set that will help your preschoolers with letter recognition, identification as well as upper and lowercase.

Light refraction is the bending of light, or the change in direction of the rays as it moves past a boundary. For example, when light crosses through a window, it is refracted and can create a rainbow. A prism illustrates this theory. As light passes through the prism, it refracts and separates into an entire ...

Practice number matching with paper cups! It's a fun, hands-on way to learn numbers and counting. So grab the free printable mats and try this math activity

Giant letter dot it game - fun for center time, small group, or inside recess. Try it with numbers, shapes, studnet names, or sight words. Perfect for preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten.

Need a great math activity? Try this Post-It Number Match game to get kids moving! A great preschool math activity; number sense activity from Busy Toddler.

This easy masking tape mummy Halloween craft is perfect for preschool! Make this almost mess free Halloween Craft at home or school!

As with anything for kids, learning to write and practice name writing has to be fun! Making it a hands on experience can be so much more meaningful.

My kiddos are always asking for hands on science activities, even if it’s one we have done over and over like this Hovercraft Science experiment project.

Working on addition? Try making a post-it math activity as a great alternative to worksheets! An easy number sense activity for math facts.

This fun rhyming game is perfect for introducing rhyming to preschoolers! It works especially well when you've tried everything else and can't get it to click. #rhyming #phonologicalawareness #preschool

Colorful Attendance Chart This Editable Colorful Attendance Chart was especially designed for VPK and Pre-K classrooms. Being a VPK teacher myself and trying every year to find the right decor pack for my classroom was always a challenge. That's why I decided to create it. It is work in progress as I will continue to add things on the way. Included: -Present tag -Absent tag -Small Polaroids to insert child's picture -Medium size Polaroids to insert child's picture All editable ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Other VPK / Pre-K Resources available here: VPK Creative Curriculum Pacing Calendar Creative Curriculum 10 Studies Lesson Plan Bundle VPK Pacing Calendar --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

By: Diane Kashin, Ed.D, RECE. After three decades of fascination with all things early childhood education, I still wonder where the future path will lead? What will the the field of early childhoo…

This week our theme unit was "All About Me". We learned how special and unique each one of us are. We read lots of stories. Some were si...

A fun Alphabet Spring Theme Printable set that will help your preschoolers with letter recognition, identification as well as upper and lowercase.

Roll a Monster drawing game. Great for the PreK or preschool age! And you can make some fun challenges for older children to extend the use! Practice counting using dice. Practice shapes. Practice drawing basic shapes. Great fine motor skill practice! You can even write specific colors on the game to make it fun color practice. Item is a black and white, 2 page, PDF file for standard 8.5 x 11 computer paper. Print this as many times as you like and have fun drawing with your little one! A challenge: If you need something a bit more challenging, you can try using two dice. Roll one die, and that tells you what to draw, what shape, etc. Roll the second die and have your child add the total together. The sum can be the total number of heads/bodies/arms/legs drawn. You can also do subtraction, etc.

For our Letter Craft we did VOLCANO!This one was particularly fun because they were able to create their own lava using their color pastels.Give it a try!Things you need:Brown construction paperRed…

It's fun to come up with creative ways to build fine motor skills while encouraging learning, and this fingerprint apple counting activity hits the mark. Kids can build fine motor skills needed for functional tasks such as handwriting, keyboarding, and clothing management while building and developing math addition skills at the same time, and all with an apple theme! Add this activity to some of these great apple activities for themed learning.

Pre-writing skills for your young ones are so easy to implement just by introducing shapes! Try these 10 free shape tracing worksheets to help children prep for essential drawing and writing skills!

I’ve been looking at a lot of old videos and photos lately and came across these pics of a little family play session we had a while back. I know kinetic sand has been around for a while now and lots of people have even figured out how to make it themselves, but we’re old fashioned […]

One to one counting, number recognition, color recognition, pencil grip strengthening, and scissor skills... this easy fall math activity for kindergarten and preschool has it all!

Kids love music! I try to find ways to incorporate it throughout our school day. It is such an amazing learning tool. My Songs for the Year

I usually try to put together Montessori lessons or any other activity after my daughters are asleep. I find that once they see me getting ...

This sink or float experiment with salt water density is an awesome way to teach about so many science elements! Give it a try!

Have you tried Brag Tags yet? I LOVE them. They are a great way to make kids feel special. They help to create a positive classroom environment. They can be used as a positive behavior system. I crea

This product includes anchor charts for each Reading Literature and Informational Standard for Grades 3-5 that provide skills and strategies at your students' fingertips. Why Reading Notebook Anchor Charts?The charts in this product are meant to be used inside students’ reading or writing notebooks. This is why they are shown two on a page. I don’t know about you, but the budget on copies has always been an issue we are always trying to find ways to save paper and copies! More importantly, as ELA teachers we tend to use a lot of anchor charts in our classroom. With the number of charts we make- it would be impossible to keep all of them up throughout the year and sometimes students probably forget they are even there. Having them right in their notebooks allows easy accessibility to help during independent Reading or Writing. You might also find these useful for parents to use at home. Since I began using anchor charts inside our Reading and Writing Notebooks, I have noticed my students are able to work better independently. They have the tools they need to support their learning. The charts have also been helpful in planning and presenting lessons. For example, when talking about “theme,” you have examples and ways to find it by using the chart. This helps to bring a large and broad topic down to a concrete idea.This set also includes a variety of graphic organizers for both fiction and nonfiction. What is included? >>> READING LITERATURE CHARTS <<< The following charts are included aligned to the 3 clusters of the Reading Literature Standards for Grades 3-5. Key Ideas & Details Wise Readers ask Questions Who… What…When…Where…Why…How Using Text Evidence Inference Character Feelings Character Traits Recount Stories (Somebody Wanted But So Then) Recount Stories (Who? What? When? Where? Why? How?) Summarize Stories (Somebody Wanted But So) Think FAST about the Characters FAST Chart (3 Versions) 5 Elements of a Story Story Mountain Crafting a Theme Statement Theme THEMEssage Common Themes Craft & Structure Literal vs. Nonliteral Language Figurative Language Idioms 1 (blank) Idioms 2 (blank) Idioms 1 Idioms 2 Allusion Poetry, Drama, & Prose Point of View Point of View (blank) Integration of Knowledge & Ideas The Quest Movie vs. Text (Blank) Movie vs. Text (Filled in) Comparing Themes, Topics, & Patterns of Events Good vs. Evil Thinking about Theme Revealing the Theme Extra Reading Charts & Tools The Story in a Nutshell Graphic Organizer (1 per page) The Story in a Nutshell Graphic Organizer (2 per page) Main Idea & Details Boxes & Bullets (2 per page) What's the Big Idea?! Boxes & Bullets Graphic Organizer for Text Writing a Summary (1 per page) Let's Talk Genre! (Genre Notebook Chart) Traditional Literature Notebook Chart My Reading Log (2 per page) Words We Should All Spell Correctly Transitions Responding to Fiction 1 Responding to Fiction 2 Responding to Nonfiction Readers Choose Just Right Books My New Year's Reading Resolutions Ways I Can Help Myself Grow as a Reader Parts of Speech Reading is Thinking (boy) Reading is Thinking (girl) >>> READING INFORMATIONAL NOTEBOOK CHARTS <<< Key Ideas & Details Super Star Partnerships Wise Readers Ask Questions Using Text Evidence Types of Informational Texts Main Ideas and Supporting Details Inference Talking about the Text Main Idea and Key Details (Graphic Organizer) Main Idea and Key Details (Graphic Organizer) Summarizing Nonfiction (Somebody Wanted But So) Summarizing Nonfiction (Notes with Example) Summarizing Nonfiction (Notes with Example) cursive font Determining Importance Determining Importance (Interesting or Important) Sentence Starters for Main Idea See, Think, Wonder (Blank) Craft & Structure Alpha Boxes Context Clues Firsthand vs. Secondhand Account Primary vs. Secondary Sources Description Sequence Compare & Contrast Cause & Effect Problem & Solution Cause & Effect Graphic Organizer Nonfiction Signal Words 1 Nonfiction Signal Words 2  Integration of Knowledge & Ideas Reasons & Evidence Text Features 1 Text Features 2 Text Features 3 Combining Texts Combining Texts Combining Texts (Graphic Organizer) Bonus* Readers Gonna Read (My To-Read List) 🛑 Are you a member of the TLL Membership? These materials are already included. If you are not a member, click here to learn more. The TLL Membership gives you an all-access pass to hundreds of ELA resources for teachers in Grades 3-5.If you ever find that you are looking for a specific chart that is not included, please let me know at [email protected]. I am ALWAYS looking for ways to improve the quality of my resources. :)  Let’s connect! The Literacy Loft Blog The Literacy Loft on Instagram The Literacy Loft on Pinterest The Literacy Loft on Facebook

Looking for a fun kids art activity? Try tape resist art. It's a quick, easy, and works for kids of all ages. It's a must try this summer.

Candy Corn Craft For Kids | Fun paper Halloween idea! Use a free printable PDF template to cut out & make. Great for preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, and elementary.

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