Education resources for parents and teachers
Today I'm sharing another free activity for learning letter sounds. I created these bright strips as a simple way for my Four to review letter sounds. The download includes 26 strips. I printed the pages on card stock and laminated them (with my awesome home laminator). Then I cut the strips apart and set them out with some clothes pins. For each strip, my son clipped the picture that started with the ... Read More
Today I'm sharing a free letter U printable: U is for umbrella! Free Letter U Printable We are so, so close to being done sharing dot sticker pages. Just R and S to go! (This post contains affiliate links.) My Two enjoys doing these pages as we talk about the new letter and its sound. "U is for umbrella. Uh, uh, umbrella!" We like to use dot stickers to complete the pages, but any small round ... Read More
Today I'm sharing another set of free phonics books! A sample book The first page always begins this way. You can see four sight words on this page: it, is, a, and big. Big is also a word your child should be able to sound out after reading the "ig" book in the previous set of phonics books. Many of the pictures are silly - it adds to the appeal! Can is a sight word. It's also a word your child can sound out ... Read More
Today I'm sharing a free printable make 10 addition game - with monsters! (This post contains affiliate links.) My daughter has been working to master her addition facts this year. Rather than sit and drill her with flash cards, I've been creating a variety of math games to help her with her facts. So far I've shared a game for the doubles facts and one for those harder facts. This is a game we've ... Read More
Today I'm sharing some sensory play for letter U. Just find a bare spot in your flower bed or garden and let your child discover what's underground. My kids love to dig and explore outside. But I don't have any pictures. Because I missed my window! Right now my little boys are outside raking wet leaves. No, raking leaves isn't one of their chores - they're doing it so they have a pile to jump in. ;) It's ... Read More
Today I'm sharing another free letter book! Free letter book - songs and rhymes for letter U (This post contains affiliate links.) We're almost done sharing our entire collection of little letter books! Today I'm sharing rhymes and songs for letter U. When you print and assemble the little book, your child will have six songs and rhymes to listen to. My now four-year-old started to learn his ... Read More
Today I'm sharing a free letter P printable - P is for pig! Free Letter P Printable (This post contains affiliate links.) For those of you keeping track, we've been sharing dot sticker pages since we began our alphabet exploration. We're nearly finished, and you can expect to see dot sticker pages U, R, and S in the next few weeks! (Yes, we're going out of order. Learn why here.) Normally I share a ... Read More
We love to find creative ways to write the alphabet! Today I'm sharing a set of ideas for making letter P. It was easy to come up with ideas for making letter P - what a great letter! You may have seen my letter writing stations for letter K. I decided to do the same thing for letter P. My Four had a hard time being patient when I was setting this up and couldn't wait to get started. He ... Read More
Today we're sharing 9 letter P crafts to create with your preschooler or kindergartner! Letter P Crafts Pepper Prints Painting with vegetables is always fun! We had a huge pepper crop in our garden this year, so we grabbed a few that had seen better days, split them down the middle, cleared out the seeds, and made pepper prints. Prickly Porcupine My Four saw this adorable porcupine project from Preschool Playbook ... Read More
Today I'm sharing my second set of printable books that teach reading with word families. (This post contains affiliate links.) I do a lot of phonics-related activities when teaching my children to read. Sometimes I like to center our phonics work around word families. If you haven't checked out my collection of hands-on word family activities, don't miss them! I'm creating a set of phonics readers to use ... Read More
