Category: Pre-Reading
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Name writing with bingo dobbers
When your young child is learning how to write their name small pencils are not the best option to start with. Their small hands lack the fine motor control to manipulate the tiny pencil. Fat pencils, markers and the fat crayons are good for helping them grip and have better control. One medium I love…
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P is for Pumpkin
Since this month is all about pumpkins we can’t pass a month worth of also talking about the letter P! We had a ton of left over pumpkin seeds from the pumpkin seed pumpkin craft we did so I made a letter P on the computer with a cute picture of a pumpkin and let…
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Farm Letter Matching
I came across this GREAT resource for farm themed activities. Today we just did the letter matching game to practice letter names and upper and lower case matching. But there is a TON of other things to do in the pack. I totally suggest you head on over to 2 Teaching Mommies and download it!…
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Lacing Letters
One of the beauties about teaching Kindergarten for several years before deciding to be a stay at home mom is the masses of stuff I had accumulated that is now at my disposal to use with Landon. Some of the things are way beyond where he is academically but a lot of my alphabet and phonics stuff…
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Name and letter recognition practice
Here’s an activity for practicing all kinds of skills. This has fine motor, cutting, writing, letter recognition skill all packed into one activity. The original has the letters to his name on the bottom of the paper. He cut the letters out and then we worked together to spell out and find the letters and…
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Fizzy Sidewalk Paint
Yesterday was a high of 105. So anything we were going to do outside HAD to be done before like 6am, since it was already 85 degrees by then. We didn’t make it out by 6, but pretty early in the morning. Quite a while ago {before blogging days} I had made some sidewalk paint…
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ABC Book (Free Printable!)
Today we started working on an ABC book that I created for my classroom way back. I think it’s funny that he’s working on the things I work with my kinders on at the beginning of the year. There’s a part of me that really don’t want him to work on any more Pre-K stuff…