Books and Giggles
Inside: Grab these free printable veterinarian letter sound matching puzzles to help your preschoolers and kindergartners work on phonological awareness. Are you planning a community helpers or pets unit? Need to work on important early literacy skills? Grab a toy stethoscope and a stuffed animal dog or cat to help put together these free printable…
Inside: free printable mail carrier ABC clip cards that are perfect for working on letter recognition during your community helpers unit! Are your kids interested in playing mail carrier? There are so many options for their imagination! You can supplement your dramatic play (such as with our free community helper hats) and sneak in some…
Inside: These free printable baseball name activities are a fun way for children to practice recognizing and spelling their names. Teaching children about the letters in their names is a great way to spark their interest in learning more about the alphabet. You’ll find a variety of name tracing worksheets here on the blog and…
Inside: Print off these free balloon letter sound clip cards to go with a birthday or carnival theme – use them to give students practice matching uppercase letters, lowercase letters, and letter sounds. Recognizing letter-sound relationships is super important for early literacy. Once kids know letter names (i.e. they can sing the ABC song) and…
Inside: a free printable color words activity to use after reading the book Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? Use these clip cards as part of your kindergarten color word reading lessons. I never get tired of reading Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Bill Martin Jr. and Eric Carle…
Inside: Letter D craft with a free printable template. Add this to your stash of favorite letter crafts for preschoolers, or plan to use it during your fire safety unit when you talk about how dalmatians are firehouse dogs. Letter D Craft This adorable letter D craft is just begging for you to make it!…
This fun free printable letter R craft helps you celebrate Earth Day, or really any day! You can use this to teach your little ones not just about the letter R and its /r/ sound, but also about the importance of reducing, reusing, and recycling. We already have a popular Earth Day craft here on…
Inside: a free printable uppercase and lowercase letter match activity that you can use after reading aloud The Three Snow Bears by Jan Brett, or with a polar bear unit. I love Jan Brett’s beautiful winter books and have made activities for The Mitten and a cute craft for The Snowy Nap. Today I’m adding…
Inside: Match the snowmen to their hats with this cute printable winter beginning sounds activity for preschool or kindergarten. These snowmen need their hats, but they each want a certain hat… Winter Letter Sounds Activity In this hands-on snowman-themed activity, children will identify the picture that each snowman is holding, and then find the hat…
Inside: these free, editable winter name worksheets give your preschoolers practice recognizing and writing their names. Last fall I emailed out a simple “My name is…” worksheet for back to school, and I received a lot of positive feedback from subscribers. So, I thought I’d make you a winter themed one, decorated with a cute…
Inside: this winter syllable sorting printable activity is a fun, interactive way for preschoolers to work on phonological awareness. They will practice distinguishing one- and two-syllable words, and segmenting the two-syllable words. Weeeeee! Raise your hand if you love sledding! (or you did as a kid) Today we’re pretending to slide over a bump or…
Inside: this Christmas letter tracing activity has preschoolers tracing and finding lowercase letters. Imagine the squeals and laughter as children squirt frosting onto sugar cookies. These paper letter tracing “cookies” are almost as much fun, but not nearly as messy. (Not that you shouldn’t do both!) Christmas Letter Tracing Activity If you’re looking for an…
Inside: This free printable Christmas stockings letter sounds activity gives preschoolers hands-on practice working on letter recognition and initial sounds. “The stockings were hung by the chimney with care…” One of the exciting things about Christmas is hanging up stockings for Santa to fill. You can use that idea to make working with the alphabet…
This free Christmas fine motor skills printable is perfect for your Holidays Around the World unit, especially for Christmas in Hawaii or Australia. Preschoolers can use these to practice line tracing and scissors skills. Surf’s up! Santa is catching some waves in this fun, easy-prep activity. You can pair this with our tropical Christmas sensory…
This holiday letter J activity for preschool is just right for the winter season! You can use it during Polar Express week, after teaching the song Jingle Bells, or whenever else it fits in your December or January plans. The ring of jingle bells always puts me in a festive mood. They remind me of…
Here’s a fun way to help preschoolers recognize the letter I and remember the short /i/ sound – with a cute I is for Iguana game! Iguanas are one of my favorite letter I words for teaching little ones. It turns out that iguanas are interesting – so you’ll have their attention! Letter I Game…
Inside: use this cute giraffe theme phonemic awareness game to work on distinguishing the palatal sounds /sh/, /ch/, /j/, /y/, and /r/. This would be a fun addition to a zoo unit. I dipped my toe into the Science of Reading this summer. It has a huge emphasis on phonemic awareness. I was interested to…
Inside: This s’mores writing tray is a fun way for preschoolers to practice letter formation. Use these free printable cards during your camping theme week! Today I’m sharing a guest post from Karen at ABC’s of Literacy. Karen is a former kindergarten teacher and instructional coach turned homeschooling mom with a ton of creative early…
Inside: These free printable Letter E dot marker worksheets give preschoolers practice recognizing uppercase and lowercase E along with the short and long e sounds. If your kids are fans of Do-a-Dot markers, I think they’ll enjoy these letter E worksheets. There are both lowercase and uppercase pages featuring elephants, eggs, electricity, emeralds, and eating….
Inside: This free printable Farm theme CVC Words activity has students matching short vowel words to pictures – all in a cute chicken and egg scene. Howdy! Today we’re on the farm and headed to the chicken coop for some eggs — and a little reading practice. This is a cute activity to add to…
Inside: These summer five senses games all use a free printable spinner and cards. Students can use them to practice matching each sense to an example. Ahhh, summer! Imagine the taste of watermelon, the feel of sand between your toes, and the smell of the barbecue grill. Add in the sound of bees buzzing and…
Inside: a racecar theme vowel game to help your students learn the letters a, e, i. o, and u. Perfect for your transportation unit, and for motivating little learners who love cars! Vroom! Vroom! It’s time for some vowel practice with this cute race car theme free printable. You can add this to your transportation…
Inside: these free printable shark alphabet worksheets come with a fun spinner activity. Students can work on letter recognition and distinguishing easily confused letters. Cue your favorite the shark music – and get ready for a fun little activity. You can pull these out during shark week, add them to your ocean theme activities (like…
These free printable letter sounds worksheets have a fishing theme that’s fun for summer! Fishing is a fun summer theme for preschoolers, and these worksheets fit right in. Fishing Letter Sounds Worksheets These free worksheets are meant for children just starting to learn letter sounds. There are only 4 letters per page, so as not…