Education resources for parents and teachers
Looking for a fun learning center that will help your students think about community workers? Try these free sorting mats! (This post contains affiliate links.) Recently I released a community helpers theme pack. Included in that pack is a giant set of community helper sorting mats. Today I'm sharing a free sample! Your download comes with four sorting mats and six pictures for each mat. How to ...Read More
Today I'm sharing a variety of Letter V activities for preschoolers. We hope you get a chance to try some! (This post contains affiliate links.) My Three loves doing "activities" with me, and letter of the week activities are at the top of our list! Letter V Activities After months of doing alphabet activities, he knows all his letters and most of their sounds. But we still do these letter recognition ...Read More
Looking for community helper books? This is a very comprehensive list! Recently I released a community helpers theme pack for preschool and kindergarten. It's over 280 pages of community helper activities and printable books! My preschooler and I read book after book together as I put together this giant list of recommended reads. If you're looking for a specific helper, just scroll down until you ...Read More
Looking for a-e worksheets to help your beginning reader or speller? Try these! Do you have a child or student who can't seem to get the difference between short a and a-e words? Does he read snake as snack? Or plane as plan? Maybe it's a guessing game - sometimes he gets it right, and other times he doesn't. The key to mastering the silent e (sometimes called "magic e") words is a lot of ...Read More
It's another set of no-prep reading games! This time we focus on short a and a-e words. This post contains affiliate links. My Five is really getting the hang of silent e! I created our last game for a-e words. It's one of our favorites - Four in a Row. Why we love Four in a Row reading games They're quick. They're fun. They pack in a lot of learning. How to play Print a game board. ...Read More
If you're looking to teach a community helpers unit to preschool and kindergarten, you are going to fall in love with this theme pack! I'm working to create a giant resource of themed packs for parents and teachers of children in preschool and kindergarten. You may have seen my All About Me pack and my Fall Theme Pack. Today I'm sharing the newest addition... a giant Community Helpers Theme! It's 280 pages of ...Read More
想给你的拼字的练习,ee和eawords? Try this free game! (This post contains affiliate links.) I'm on a mission to create a free spelling game for every list in the Within Words Pattern spelling stage. (Huh? If you want to know more, read this post.) All this means is that I'm starting with long vowel patterns and moving on toward other spelling patterns you find within the word - such as ...Read More
It's time for another set of free emergent readers! This week we're sharing a pet-themed set. This set of four books is the newest in our sight word reader collection. With the addition of these books you can download a total of 132 free books! Each book introduces one or more new sight words. This set teaches the words does and play. Some of the books are simpler, like this one. Picture ...Read More
If you're working on that tricky silent e, these games are a great way to practice reading a-e words. A few days ago I shared my fold and read cards for a-e words. You know, words like tape, shake, and cape. I created those to help my kindergartner understand how silent e (sometimes called "magic e") changes the sound of the vowel. They worked even better than I'd hoped! Today I'm sharing another set of ...Read More
Looking for a nonfiction book that preschoolers can read? Try this fun pumpkin book! (This post contains affiliate links.) I've been printing my free Color Me Readers and books from my theme packs to help my preschooler learn more about concepts of print. When I give him the right support, he loves reading these simple books. Today I'm sharing one book from my Fall Theme Pack. My goals today were to help ...Read More
