This math and literacy packet includes complete the patterns, two number puzzles (1-5 and 6-10), Hh is for hat, dot letters, and “My wish is…” writing project. All the activities are St. Patrick’s Day themed. For dot letters, write a letter on the paper provided; give the children dot markers or paint and Q-tips; finally, allow the children to find the matches, and to dot the matches. Dot letters includes a page of blank shamrocks; add your own letters to the shamrocks! “My wish is…” literacy activity can be done as a craftivity, or it can be done just as a writing project. Make copies, and cut out the literacy activity paper below. Ask the children what their wish is; write what they say on the paper. Lastly, the paper can be pasted onto a paper bag puppet project; or it can be left as is. Your Early Learners will enjoy all of these hands on math and literacy activities!

Valentine’s Day Post Office Dramatic Play Props contains various props to add to your dramatic play area. They are Valentine hearts post office themed props. Included are various signs, labels, employee badge, checklist, postcards, and envelopes. Stock your dramatic play area with dress up clothes and accessories; have postal worker clothes and accessories if possible. Add various sizes of boxes for sorting. Add papers, postcards, envelops, writing utensils, stamps, and stickers either in your dramatic play area, or place your writing center close to the dramatic play area. Add a cash register and play money to the dramatic play area. Allow children to help create a mailbox to add to the area. I have included directions on how to create a mailbox. Laminate the signs, and add them wherever they fit in your dramatic play area. Laminate the labels, checklists, postcards, and envelopes; add to the dramatic play area. Allow children to write on the checklist, postcards, and envelopes with dry erase markers. Have extra non laminated postcards and envelopes for children to write, stamp, and decorate with stickers. There are two hours signs. One has hours listed; the other has no hours listed. The children can make their own marks on the blank hour signs. Other signs include Weigh Boxes Here, Sort Boxes, Sort Envelopes, Pay Here, Welcome, Open, and Closed. Labels include mail truck, tape, mailbox, hat, paper towels, parcels, envelope, and stamps. Everything either has hearts or red border with white dots included for a Valentine’s Day theme added. After your dramatic play area is set up and ready, invite the children to engage in play. Weigh Boxes Here sign included Sort Boxes sign included Sort Envelopes sign included Pay Here sign included Welcome sign included Open and Closed signs included Two Hours signs included Checklist included Heart envelopes included Postcards with heart stamp included Mail truck, tape, mailbox, hat, paper towels, parcels, envelope, and stamps labels included Sixteen pages worth of props This resource has thirteen pages of activities, one page of holiday craft ideas, and one example page. Early Learning Standards researched and referenced as a guide. This resource aligns with the following standards: UK Early Years Foundations: Early Years Outcomes Head Start Early Learning Outcomes Framework The Early Years Learning Framework for Australia My Play based resources touch on universal Early Learning standards. Thank you for taking a look at my resource. I hope you find it helpful. Don’t forget to leave feedback! I greatly appreciate all feedback. Click my linktree to follow me on social media and to sign up to my newsletter to stay up to date on new content, discount bundles, and sales. https://linktr.ee/ecplayandlearn

Your students are sure to enjoy this hands on booklet. Colourful Autumn Leaves Book will help your students learn all about the different colours of autumn leaves. Read to students for a group activity, and have them follow the hands on directions as you read; you may also place the booklets in your reading center for children to look through after the group reading activity is finished. This booklet is UK spelling version. To prep, fold the pages in half, cut the pages into two parts and trim if necessary. Next, staple the corner of the pages. When putting the book together, the page with words goes first, and the page with the picture that matches the word goes next. After the books are prepped, give the books to the children and read along with them. The booklet includes the sight words in, the, some, are. You may allow the children to circle, highlight, or underline the sight words as they read along with you. You may also allow the children to dot the sight words with dot markers or place a sticker under the sight words. Choose whichever way works best for you and your students! The booklet also has colour words. The colour words are typed in the correct colour. There is a “My favourite autumn colour is___.” page. Ask the children what their favourite autumn color is; write their answer on the line provided. Older children may be able to write their answer without help. There is a page included that allows the children to colour autumn leaves. Lastly, there is a “My autumn picture” page. Let the children draw their own autumn picture.

This booklet is filled with cute, baby animal pictures. It is informative; it contains the name of each baby animal, and it also contains sight word sentences. Your students will enjoy reading along with you and learning baby animal names. I hope you find Baby Animal Book UK Version to be a helpful, interactive read along booklet. To prep, fold the pages in half, cut the pages into two parts; trim. Next, staple the corner of the pages. When putting the book together, the page with words goes first, and the page with the picture that matches the word goes next. After the books are prepped, give the books to the children, and read along with them. The booklet includes the sight words I, see, the. You may allow the children to circle the sight words as they read along with you. As an alternative, you may allow children to use the code provided to help them mark the sight words. The booklet also includes UK spelling of the word favourite. There is a “My favourite baby animal is___.” page. Ask the children what their favourite baby animal is; write their answer on the line. Older children may be able to write their answer without help. Also included is a “My drawing page.” Let the children draw their own animal pictures. Ten pages of book pages.

This Valentine’s Day Maths packet includes Valentine cupcake roll a number, four number line puzzles, and Valentine’s Day chocolate kisses memory matching game. These are perfect play based learning activities to add to your Valentine’s Day themed math center. Children will learn number recognition, learn colour recognition, and practice fine motor skills. For Valentine’s cupcake roll a number, make a copy for each student. You may laminate to use again if you wish. Allow children to roll dice. Allow children to count the dots on their dice. Allow children to decorate their Valentine cupcake with candies. They may use real candies such as conversation hearts, or they may use foam stickers or mini erasers to decorate. Encourage the children to put the same number of candies on their cupcake as the number that they rolled. Valentine’s Day number line puzzles come in Valentine owls and Valentine teddy bear. Both owl and teddy bear puzzles come with numbers 1 to 10 and numbers 11 to 20. Laminate the puzzles. Cut the puzzles down the lines. Place whichever puzzle you wish to use in your maths station. Allow children to put the puzzle together by lining up the numbers in correct numerical order. For Valentine’s Day chocolate kisses memory matching game, allow children to match the chocolate kisses by color. Make two copies of each chocolate kiss card. Laminate and cut out the cards. The chocolate kisses come in blue, green, orange, yellow, pink, purple, red, grey, and white. Encourage children to make matches by finding kisses that are the same colour. This resource has eight pages worth of activities. Most of the cards and puzzles are two to a page.

This packet includes lots of opportunities for children to practice cutting straight lines. These are perfect for Early Years fine motor practice. The pages come with fun graphics. Trim the edges of the pages if needed, and let your children enjoy cutting practice!

These posters will brighten up your room, and children will love the cute bookmarks! The bookmarks come in coloured and black and white. Children can colour the black and white version for some creativity! The posters come in four different options. I have provided so many choices for you! Choose from green with white polka dots frame, chalkboard background, chalkboard frame, or stitched ribbon border. The polka dot frame is lovely! The chalkboard background is the best in my opinion, but it will use a lot of ink. If you can splurge on ink to decorate your classroom, go for the chalkboard background! If you want the chalkboard look without using so much ink, the chalkboard border is perfect! The stitched ribbon border is very lovely as well; it will work well if your classroom is decorated in a natural, rustic, or minimal theme. The ribbon border is also perfect if you are ink conscious; it will take less ink! Laminate pages. Cut out posters and bookmarks. Display posters in your classroom. For the black and white bookmarks, allow children to colour the bookmarks before laminating and cutting them. Give the bookmarks to the children to use when reading. This resource comes with six llama posters in four different options for a total of twenty four poster options; the resource also comes with three coloured bookmarks and three black and white bookmarks.

Laminate the pages, and cut out the mats. Allow the children access to play-dough and mats. There are directions and creativity prompts on the mats. Read the directions and prompts to the children. Allow the children to manipulate play-dough on the mats. Children will use fine motor skills; they will learn to follow a few step directions, and they will engage in creativity. These are great station activities. Your students are sure to have so much fun with these play based play-dough mats! Let students learn skills while engaging in fun play! Twelve pages worth of play-dough mats.

Various summer fine motor practice pages are included in this resource. This resource includes summer themed do-a-dot activities, summer themed scissor skills practice pages, cut and paste summer collage art activity, and fireflies in a jar dot with finger paint craft. For the do-a-dot activities, allow the children to dot the circles on the summer themed pages with a bingo dauber or a dot marker. For the scissor skills practice pages, there are straight line bugs in the grass, straight line cut in half summer graphics, cut from corner to corner summer graphics, and cut the circle beach ball. Give the children scissors; allow the children to cut the dots on the pages. For the cut and paste summer collage, there are summer graphics; there are also kids at the beach clip art for this activity. Provide the children with poster board, construction paper, or card stock. Allow the children to cut out the summer graphics; allow the children to paste their graphics onto paper to create a collage. Children will use their fine motor skills as they cut and paste, but you can also provide other art materials that allow for creativity for the children since this is also an art project. You can also provide such materials as glitter, crayons, and markers. After the children have cut and pasted and created their collages, they can decorate their pictures more! Allow for as much creativity as possible! For the fireflies in a jar dot with finger paint craft, the fireflies have circles on the glow part. Give the children yellow washable finger paint. Allow the children to dip their fingers into the paint; allow the children to dot the circles on the fireflies with the finger paint. Students will enjoy these fun summer themed fine motor skills pages. They are a great, engaging and fun way to practice these important early skills! There are seventeen pages full of fine motor activities.

These posters will brighten up your room, and the posters and bookmarks will help children be calm and mindful. The bookmarks come in coloured or black and white. Children can colour the black and white version for some creativity! The posters come in four different options. I have provided so many choices for you! Choose from green with white polka dots frame, chalkboard background, chalkboard border, or burlap border. The polka dot frame is lovely! The chalkboard background is the best in my opinion, but it will use a lot of ink. If you can splurge on ink to decorate your classroom, go for the chalkboard background! If you want the chalkboard look without using so much ink, the chalkboard border is perfect! The burlap border is very lovely as well; it will work well if your classroom is decorated in a natural, rustic theme. The burlap border is also perfect if you are ink conscious; it will take less ink! Laminate pages. Cut out posters and bookmarks. Display posters in your classroom. I would suggest these mindfulness posters be displayed in a quiet corner/ quiet area. For the black and white bookmarks, allow children to colour the bookmarks before laminating and cutting them. Give the bookmarks to the children to use when reading. This resource comes with five posters in four different options for a total of twenty poster choices; this resource also comes with three coloured bookmarks and three black and white bookmarks.

Australian Animals Literacy Activities includes Australian animals pre-writing papers, Australian animals alphabet do-a-dot activity, and Australian animals alphabet writing papers. Allow students to progress from letter recognition, to pre-writing skills, to writing letters. Black and white options are available in this resource if you choose to use an ink saving option. This resource also comes with Australian animals book suggestions. For pre-writing papers, choose which papers you want the students to use; place papers in your writing station (center). There is a blank paper with graphics only also. Place writing utensils. Allow children to trace the various marks. Allow children to use the blank paper to make their own pre-writing marks. This is good for fine motor as well as pre-writing practice. For do-a-dot letters, pick which papers you want to use. Place the papers in your literacy station (center). Place washable markers alongside the papers. Allow children to do the letters with the markers. Encourage children to say the name of the letters aloud. Each paper includes a realistic graphic of an Australian animal and the beginning letter. This activity also helps with fine motor skills in addition to letter recognition. For writing papers, choose which papers you want to use; place papers in your literacy station (center). Place writing utensils alongside the papers. Each paper includes a realistic graphic of an Australian animal as well as the beginning sound in uppercase and lowercase letter. Encourage children to try to write the letter on the line provided. There is also plenty of space on these writing papers for children to draw and/or make marks. If children are having difficulty copying the letters, this is fine! All that matters is that they are seeing the letters and are practicing writing skills whether that be pre-writing marks and scribbles, drawings, letter like marks, or fully formed letters. This resource includes sixteen pages of activities in two different options including ink saving option. * Total of 32 pages worth of activity options to choose Early Learning Standards researched and referenced as a guide. This resource aligns with the following standards: UK Early Years Foundations: Early Years Outcomes Head Start Early Learning Outcomes Framework The Early Years Learning Framework for Australia My Play based resources touch on universal Early Learning standards. Thank you for taking a look at my resource. I hope you find it helpful. Don’t forget to leave feedback! I greatly appreciate all feedback. Click my linktree to follow me on social media and to sign up to my newsletter to stay up to date on new content, discount bundles, and sales. https://linktr.ee/ecplayandlearn

These play-dough mats have both lowercase and uppercase alphabet letters and beginning sounds pictures. This activity will help children learn letter recognition; it will also give children fine motor skills practice. Laminate the mats and cut out along the border. Place the mats in your fine motor manipulatives station alongside play-dough. Allow children to use play-dough to form uppercase and lowercase letters. Also, allow children to use play-dough to decorate the beginning sounds pictures. Twenty-six pages of mats for every letter of the alphabet are included. Early Learning Standards researched and referenced as a guide. This resource aligns with the following standards: UK Early Years Foundations: Early Years Outcomes Head Start Early Learning Outcomes Framework The Early Years Learning Framework for Australia My Play based resources touch on universal Early Learning standards. Thank you for taking a look at my resource. I hope you find it helpful. Don’t forget to leave feedback! I greatly appreciate all feedback. Click my linktree to follow me on social media and to sign up to my newsletter to stay up to date on new content, discount bundles, and sales. https://linktr.ee/ecplayandlearn

These play-dough mats have lowercase alphabet letters and beginning sounds pictures. This activity will help children learn letter recognition; it will also give children fine motor skills practice. Laminate the mats, and cut along the border. Place the mats in your fine motor manipulatives station alongside play-dough. Allow children to use play-dough to form lowercase letters. Also, allow children to use play-dough to decorate the beginning sounds pictures. Twenty-six pages of mats for every letter of the alphabet are included. Early Learning Standards researched and referenced as a guide. This resource aligns with the following standards: UK Early Years Foundations: Early Years Outcomes Head Start Early Learning Outcomes Framework The Early Years Learning Framework for Australia My Play based resources touch on universal Early Learning standards. Thank you for taking a look at my resource. I hope you find it helpful. Don’t forget to leave feedback! I greatly appreciate all feedback. Click my linktree to follow me on social media and to sign up to my newsletter to stay up to date on new content, discount bundles, and sales. https://linktr.ee/ecplayandlearn

These play-dough mats have uppercase alphabet letters and beginning sounds pictures. This activity will help children learn letter recognition; it will also give children fine motor skills practice. Laminate the mats, and cut along the border. Place the mats in your fine motor manipulatives station alongside play-dough. Allow children to use play-dough to form uppercase letters. Also, allow children to use play-dough to decorate the beginning sounds pictures. Twenty-six pages of mats for every letter of the alphabet are included.

Children can use their fine motor skills by picking up small, white craft pom-poms and gluing them on the cup of hot-cocoa. This fine motor skills activity also doubles as a craft project. Thank you for taking a look at my resource. I hope you find it helpful. Don’t forget to leave feedback! I greatly appreciate all feedback. Click this link to follow me, and to stay up to date on new content, discount bundles, and sales. https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/bekastks If you like this resource, check out this other winter activity. https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/snow-pre-k-lesson-and-sequencing-cards-12079236

Laminate; cut out eggs. Tape the eggs onto Popsicle sticks to make puppets. The puppets can be used for finger plays, songs, stories, dramatic play etc. Sing songs and read stories about feelings. Then encourage children to identify the expressions on the puppets, and encourage children to discuss feelings. Later, allow the children to play with the puppets; engage in conversations about feelings with the children as they play with the puppets. The egg puppets have different expressions: happy, sad, angry, confused, and excited. The expressions are emoji faces. Three pages worth of Easter egg emotions.

Allow children to learn about various things associated with school. Bingo games are wonderful for introducing children to math skills such as finding matches, for improving critical thinking skills, for improving concentration skills, and just for making learning into a fun game! This is a great addition to your back to school themed math center, and it is especially perfect to play during groups. I hope your students enjoy playing School Bingo! Laminate cards. Cut out the calling cards. Give children the bingo cards. Call out the pictures. Let children use bingo daubers, washable dot markers, dry erase markers, or math counters to mark their squares. Play as a typical game of bingo. If washable markers are used, just wipe the laminated cards clean to be used again. Game includes four Bingo cards plus calling cards. Thank you for taking a look at my resource. I hope you find it helpful. Don’t forget to leave feedback! I greatly appreciate all feedback. Click this link to follow me on social media and to subscribe to my newsletter for updates on new content, discount bundles, and sales. https://linktr.ee/ecplayandlearn If you like this resource, check out these other Bingo games! https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/summer-bingo-12138252 https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/buggy-bug-bingo-12101773 https://www.tes.com/en-us/teaching-resource/shape-bingo-12095816