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Looking for engaging, appropriate, and EASY-to-prep activities for your students' first day of kindergarten? This is it! I have always started my year off by reading The Kissing Hand by Audrey Penn and wanted to make the whole first day's theme around that story, so I created this mini-unit! Each of the 6 activities included in this book are designed for whole group use so they are easy to implement for your first day (some could easily be adapted for centers, too). All of the student page

Two cute, free color by number sheets to help you get through your classroom Halloween celebration as easily as possible! :)

This 100-page unit is designed to introduce beginning consonant blends to your primary students. The unit is based on "Blend Friends" -animal puppets that introduce a pair of consonant blends. Each blend friend writes a letter to the class filled with consonant blends. There is an activity that goes along with each letter. The letters are meant to be introduced to the whole group. For practice, this unit also contains consonant blend literacy center activities. Each activity comes with a prin

This is a complete set of "rainbow writing" handwriting pages. There is a page for each letter of the alphabet. Perfect for beginning printing practice! Students trace each nicely-sized letter five times with a different colored crayon, creating a rainbow a rainbow effect. There is a space on the bottom for students to draw pictures of things that begin with that letter. The students in my kindergarten rainbow write once a week, prior to completing the handwriting sheet for the week. It re

Over 100 pages of predictable, emergent autumn, pumpkin, Halloween, and Thanksgiving themed sight word readers for your kindergarten students! These booklets are easy to print AND prep...every graphic is in black and white and readers are printed two-to-a-page. Just copy back-to-back on the "staple twice on the left side" setting on your school's photocopier. Slice in half with the paper cutter and you've got yourself a class set of booklets! Easy! Students will love the fun illustrations

This is a double pack of my Rainbow Writing Numbers 1-20 and Rainbow Writing ABC Edition priced at a discount! Children love to rainbow write letters and numbers. They trace each character with five of their favorite colors of crayons or colored pencils. It's an enjoyable way to get in lots of handwriting practice. The letters and numbers on these pages are large enough for preschool and beginning kindergartners to experience success. These are perfect for a super easy-to-prep and easy-to-

Learnin' Letters Boom Boom is filled with over 75 pages of hands-on whole group activities and small-group learning centers that go along with the well-loved children's book, Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by Bill Martin,Jr., John Archambault and Lois Ehlert. It's perfect for your kindergarten literacy block in August or September. This activity pack fufills the kindergarten Common Core standard for letter recognition. Here are the specific contents of the pack: Whole Group Activities Chicka Chicka N

This is a mega (80 pages) PDF file of frog-themed displays to decorate your primary classroom! You will be organized and coordinated with froggy themed: Welcome Sign Hop on In! Desk Tags Monthly Calendars Months/Years Toppers for Calendar Months of the Year/Days of Week Posters Centers Signs Birthday Bulletin Board Set Color Words Poster Daily Schedule Set Alphabet Number Chart 1 to 100 Boys, Girls, Hall, Nurse Passes Student of the Week- Pond Pal Classroom Supply Labels-Blank copies Hoppy He

Do you love creating dramatic play centers for your students but feel that there is never any time during the school day to just let kids "play"? Here is a way to sneak some learning into dramatic play without your students suspecting anything! ;) All of the templates are very easy to prep. Just print, copy, and place into your play centers! This product includes 35 templates to encourage students to write, read, and use math while they are playing. Several templates for each the following pl

Need an easy way to introduce yourself to your new students and parents this back-to-school season? This EDITABLE PowerPoint file is perfect for you! Just type the text you'd like into the pre-made text boxes and insert a picture on each page. The formatting, cute clip art, borders, and graphics are all taken care of for you! Print, staple, and you're ready with a super cute Meet-the-Teacher book for open house or the first day of school! Here are the pre-made pages included in this pack...Y

This is a week-long, teacher-tested primary weather unit bursting with super resources including comprehensive lesson plans for each day. Lesson plans include science activities/experiments, art projects, read aloud suggestions, and writing responses for the sun, wind, clouds, rain and rainbows. Lesson plans have photographs of samples of art projects, step-by-step directions for activities, full color posters highlighting key concepts of each lesson, and several reproducible printables for s

This FREE product provides students with a meaningful way to say goodbye to their student teacher at the end of her time with your class. There are several reproducible student writing pages and a full-color class book cover to make your life easier! Hopefully this freebie will make a nice keepsake for your student teacher and provide some help with the transition as she moves on. There are lots more freebies at my blog, KindergartenKel! http://kindergartenkel.blogspot.com. Happy Teaching! Ke

It's time to explore apples! This unit focuses on fun, hands-on, inquiry-based science activities that revolve around apples. I was tired of sifting through apple units and activities in my teacher resource books that were really only reading or math activities with an apple picture on them, so I created this apple unit for science. I hope that it's useful to you and your students. Here is what's included (experiments and activities include recording sheets, some are differentiated): 1. Appl

This is free download is for an emergent reader called "A Scarecrow", which is based upon the beloved children's book The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything. It also included a black line master for a sequencing necklace to go with the story. Enjoy - Kelly

This fabulously FREE item is helpful for teaching beginning readers about the silent "e" phonics rule. Included in this mini-packet are word cards to change CVC words into CVC-silent e words, real and nonsense words sorting mats and magic "e" wand templates to engage students. Visit me at kindergartenkel.blogspot.com for more freebies! Thanks! Kelly Findsen

Need some easy activities for the final few days? How about some work to finish off your students' kindergarten portfolios?? This PDF file includes seven reproducible writing prompts to help your kindergarten students reflect back on their fun-filled year while keeping their writing skills sharp! Prompts include any needed directions. Writing Prompts Included Are: Chicka Chicka Boom Boom, Welcome to your new classroom! Special Times in Kindergarten Kindergarten Favorites Field Trips Are

**Updated to include numbers 11-20 on 8/8/13** This PDF file contains rainbow writing practice pages for numerals 0-20. Students first trace each large number with five different colored crayons, giving them developmentally appropriate, enjoyably repetitive practice. The bottom of each page focuses on number sense. Students draw objects to represent each number. Perfect for preschool or for the beginning of the year in kindergarten. My students love rainbow writing and ask to do it often!

ENGAGING PRACTICE FOR FIRST GRADE LETTERLANDAre you like me and are required to teach phonics using the Letterland curriculum? I'm always on the hunt for more engaging ways for students to practice their Letterland words so I created these Boggle boards. Don't use Letterland? These Boggle boards are still great word work practice for your beginning first grade students!!! Here's what's included in this PDF file: -2 differentiated levels of Boggle boards for each of the first grade Letterland un

**Just updated on 8/4/13 with fresh graphics and fonts~ now more printer-friendly with black and white student pages!!** A write the room set that's perfect for kindergarten! This is a set of 26 write the room sheets, one for each letter of the alphabet. Students use a clipboard to go on a classroom word hunt for 5 words that begin with each letter. Then, they circle the letter in the word. Great for environmental print awareness. Pair with my rainbow writing ABC set for an easy 15-20 minu

All teachers hate the learning loss that students can suffer during the summers off from school.This 55 page PDF file is meant to bridge the summer break between kindergarten and first grade. The packet includes the following: Math Addition Flash cards/Memory Match Subtraction Flashcards/Memory Match Counting Pennies Matching Cards Number Cards 0-40 Weekly counting schedule Writing ABC Printing Reference Page Fix-It Sentences My Summer Journal (pages with writing prompts) Reading Summer B