By Gigi on September 25th, 2017
These worms are hungry and need help getting to their apples. These free apple tracing sheets make fine motor practice fun!
This packet includes 5 skills sheets:
– Straight lines (1)
– Big hills (1)
– Small hills (1)
– Zigzag lines (1)
– Combination of lines – all 4 above (1)
Encourage children to take their time while tracing and to keep their crayon or pencil on the “ants”. Pre-k children should be working on their pencil grips (tripod grasps) during this activity.
Download the Free Apple Tracing Packet. Happy tracing!
By Gigi on September 18th, 2017
Hooray for fall fun! This Fall/Autumn Math and Literacy Activities pack contains 11 worksheets, a 10 page counting book, and 5 learning center activities that strengthen the following skills:
-Counting
-One-to-one correspondence
-Number recognition
-Number quantity
-Number order
-Set recognition
-Size skills
-Measurement (non-standard)
-Upper and lowercase letter recognition
-Beginning sounds
-Visual discrimination
-Phonological awareness
-Following directions
COUNTING APPLES BOOK (1-10)
Children will cut out the pages of this book and have teachers/adults staple them together. Students can count and write the number of apples on each tree, and then color the pictures. Be sure to keep this activity developmentally appropriate. Some children may need help with cutting and may need you to write the numbers for them. Others may want to count and write their numbers before putting their own pages in numerical order.
MEASURING CARDS ( COLOR 10/B&W 10)
We used Unifix Cubes
, but any small manipulative will do. Students will work to see how many cubes long the items are. Be sure to discuss which are shorter and which were longer, and which items were the same length. Such a wonderful form of non-standard measurement!
BINGO MATS (COLOR 4) AND BINGO DRAW CARDS (COLOR 25)
Print these cards out on cardstock and laminate for heavy use. Provide a small manipulative for children to use as bingo markers. Five in a row (horizontally, vertically or diagonally) equals BINGO!
ALPHABET CLIP CARDS (COLOR 26/A-Z B&W 26/A-Z)
Print these cards out on cardstock and laminate for heavy use. Supply your little learners with clothespins and encourage them to clip each letter’s lowercase partner.
NUMBER SEQUENCING CARDS/STICKS (COLOR 1-20/ B&W 1-20)
Print these cards out on cardstock and laminate for heavy use. Prompt children to place the cards in numerical order. You may also wish to present different groups of cards (e.g., 4,5,_,7,8) and have your preschoolers determine which number is missing. The cards are also a fun way to teach ordinal concepts (first, second, third, etc.).
Hot gluing the cards onto jumbo craft sticks makes this activity extra fun for little hands.
SCARECROW LETTER SPIN & COVER (COLOR 1 SPINNER & 4 GAME SHEETS/B&W 1 SPINNER & 4 GAME SHEETS)
Print these sheets out on cardstock (laminate for heavy use). Cut out the spinner card and attach a paperclip spinner with a round head fastener (brad). Provide vase gems, mini erasers, pom poms, or some other small manipulative for students to use as markers. Dot markers may be used for the black and white sheets. Young learners will spin, identify the letter, and cover it on their sheet. Continue until the sheet is completely covered. When using this activity in small group, children will take turns spinning. First player to cover his/her sheet wins. Trade cards and play again!
WORKSHEETS (11)
With these eye-catching worksheets, young learners will color a scarecrow by numbers, sequence numbered pumpkins, sort apples by size, work to recognize numbers 1-10, and determine the beginning sounds of some fun fall items. Plus, so much more!
Get this Fall/Autumn Math and Literacy Activities pack.
By Gigi on September 4th, 2017
Let’s get spooky and count some spiders! This spider web counting game is a wonderful way to strengthen number sense. By placing a numbered group of spiders on its corresponding web, children demonstrate number quantity knowledge – the understanding that the written number “5” means five objects. Furthermore, this activity helps to develop counting, one-to-one correspondence, and number recognition skills.
So collect some creepy crawlers and download our free numbered spider webs! For heavy use, I recommend printing on cardstock and lamination.
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, but any small manipulative will do. Students will work to see how many cubes long the items are. Be sure to discuss which are shorter and which were longer, and which items were the same length. Such a wonderful form of non-standard measurement!
