Back to School Resources for PK, Kinder And First Grade

 If you are looking for back-to-school resources for early elementary, you've come to the right place!

This Water Cycle packet is filled with fun and engaging water cycle activities and worksheets to help your first and second grade students learn this important science concept. In this downloadable resource, you will find key vocabulary posters, a water cycle science experiment, an observation journal, a cut and paste water cycle worksheet and some center activities too! This resource also includes a non-fiction student reader that your students will love.

This Water Cycle Resource Includes:

• Original Water Cycle Song

• Water Cycle Posters

• Water Cycle Experiment

• Observation Journal

• Acting Out The Water Cycle Activity

• Pocket Chart Center Activity

• Interactive Student Reader/Color Book

• Water Cycle Worksheets

The printables in this resource come in both color and black & white options so that you can print what works best for you.

Looking for a way to get to know your students at the beginning of the year? This All About Me Student Book is just what you need. Your students will love writing and drawing about the important things in their lives. They will also love sharing their All About Me book with their class. This book is great for kindergarten and 1st grade students. Not only will you get to know your students, but this book can be used as an informal assessment tool. Use the pages in their book to assess your students knowledge and beginning of the year abilities.

Make copies of the pages that you would like the students to include in their books, and place them in the writing center. As the students finish their pages, collect them and make each student their own book. Place the books into the class library so your students can read about each other. Or, save the books and have the children make a new copy at the end of the year. Let them compare the two books to see how they have changed.

Start the year with writing activities designed for Kindergarten or early writers. These writing prompts will have your kinder students writing every day with activities designed just for kindergarten! Make a monthly writing journal to watch your students' progress.

Overview of September (see preview):

✎ Week 1 practices prewriting skills.

✎ Week 2 practices writing the most important word – their name.

✎ Week 3 practices writing a friend’s name.

✎ Week 4 looks closer at the word parts and letters in their names.

Writing in Kindergarten is so important. “Emergent literacy research has shown us that children are not ruined by being allowed to write before they can read. Rather, they learn many important concepts and develop the confidence that they can write” (Cunningham, 1995, p. 25).

At the beginning of the school year, your students come at all different levels of writing development.

With this No Prep, Print and Go September morning work your Pk – K students will practice emergent math and literacy skills .

This month has

• A page to identify all pictures for the month.

• 5 pages with syllables, letter identification, vocabulary, math, and concept discrimination.

• 5 pages of initial sound awareness

• 5 pages of rhyming

• 5 pages of color words

• 5 pages of matching letters

Mix and match the pages as you need them during the month.

These Back to School Write the Room activities are perfect for your kindergarten or first grade students. Your students will love reading and writing all the school related words and vocabulary. This Back to School resource makes a great center or writing center activity and is perfect for August and September. Perfect to work alone or in pairs. This resource includes 3 DIFFERENTIATED recording sheets.

Your students will be searching for:

• letters,

• words and/or

• sentence cards

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Phonics Resources

We have some great phonics resources at Pint Size Learners! Follow us to see new products and updates.

PK/K

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Shared reading of these seasonal alphabet charts can be done in whole groups, small groups or centers.

Different ways to read the charts are:

· Read the tall lowercase letters

· Read the vowels

· Read the boxes with people

· Read the boxes with places

Charts include

· Back to school

· Halloween

· Thanksgiving

· Christmas

· Winter

· Valentine’s Day

· Spring

Centers

· Make copies of the blank chart and laminate it. At a center have the students use dry erase markers and fill in the chart with pictures and/or words.

· Make copies of the black and white versions of the charts. At a center students outline the boxes of tall lowercase letters green, boxes with vowels red; boxes with people blue, etc. (see headers)

· Make copies of the alphabet charts that don’t have letters. Students use magnetic letters and put the correct letter in each box.

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These CvC center activities and worksheets will give your kindergarten and first grade students an engaging way to practice reading CvC words.

• CVC Puzzles

At a literacy center, students match the pieces to form the pictured word. There are 12 puzzles for each vowel. The puzzles are color coded by vowel for scaffolding and organization.

• CVC Clip Cards

At a literacy center,

· students clip the picture that matches the written word.

· students clip the vowel that that is in the pictured word..

There are multiple cards for each vowel.

• CVC Worksheets

Choose from the 9 worksheets that best meet the needs of your students.

K - 1

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Looking for a fun and engaging way to help your students learn to read, spell and write r controlled vowels? Start by introducing your students to the r controlled vowels by creating an interactive anchor chart with your students. Everything you need for the anchor chart is included. Just print, cut and let your students help you create it. Single page posters for each r controlled vowel are also included. Then set your students free to practice reading, spelling and writing r controlled vowels with the 3 different center activities. Also included in this resource are NO PREP worksheets that can be used as centers, morning work, homework, small group instruction or independent practice.

In no time, your students will be AR, ER, IR, OR, and UR masters!

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Practicing CvCC words will be loads of fun with these working with words center activities and worksheets. Recognizing the ending sound (s) of words is an important phonics skill for beginning readers. You will find 3 hands on CvCC center activities - puzzles, clip cards and making words mats, plus 7 worksheets.

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Roll the dice, spin the spinner, unscramble the words or play tic tac toe with a friend – your kindergarten or first grade students will have fun learning cvc, cvce, ccvc, and cvcc words with these No Prep phonics worksheets.

We have also included a reading passage for your students to find the specified words for each type of word pattern. 
Just print and go with these phonics practice sheets.

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Are your kindergarten or first grade students working on beginning blends? Here are 5 CCVC word activities that will allow them to have fun practicing this standard.

This CCVC unit contains activities that can be used in whole group, small group or centers.

All activities use the same 24 pictures to make it easier for your students to work independently.

Response sheets are included to provide the students the opportunity to write the initial consonant blends.

The activities include:

•24 CCVC Puzzles

•24 CCVC Clip-It Cards

•Worksheets

•Interactive CCVC

•CCVC at the Pocket Chart

 

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Do vowel pairs give your students problems? Help your first grade or second-grade students decode words in context and in isolation by applying common letter-sound correspondences with these vowel pair activities.

Each vowel pair has 3 different activities in this phonics unit.

• The first activity is a print and go activity sheet where your students read a sentence containing a word with the specific vowel pair, then cut and paste a corresponding picture.

• The second activity is a word sort, complete with sorting mats and word cards. We have included a response sheet so they can record their sorts. 

• The third activity is a booklet for each vowel pair for your students to fold and make and then write the specified words.

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Does your class need some hands-on practice with magic e, cvce, or silent e words? This phonics unit is perfect for kindergarten or first grade students, tricky silent e will become fun! Included in this unit of CVCE words are seven activities to meet the needs of various levels of students in your classroom. Some black and white versions are included.

The activities include:

• 4 Vowel Sound Sorting Mats and Pictures

• 12 Interactive Cut and Paste (changing cvc to cvce words)

• 12 Making/Writing CVCE Words Cards

• 16 Matching Picture to Text - Clip-It Cards

• 10 Sight Word/CVCE Scrambled Sentences

• 3 Tic Tac Toe Reading CVCE Words Game Cards

• 3 worksheets

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Let your kindergarten and first grade superheroes have fun with this print and go Kindergarten/First Grade worksheet pack. They will cut and paste, spell words, read sight words, write words, add and subtract and more.

Included are:

Literacy:

•Initial Blends

•Short Vowel Sounds

•Long Vowel Sounds

•Sight Words

•Writing

Math

•One More and One Less with a number line

•Subtraction

•Addition

•Data Collection and Interpretation (Glyph)

•Counting by 2

Digraphs

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Do your kids need more practice working with digraphs? These fun engaging print and go, resources are for you! Students will be reading, writing, drawing, cutting, gluing, and analyzing various words that include the digraphs.

This resource is a collaboration between Teacher' Toolkit, Practice Makes Perfect and Pint Size Learners.

Your students will be:

• Identifying  words

• Distinguishing where the  sounds come in a word

• Writing  words

• Producing  words

• Understanding the meaning of  words

FREE

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Do you need more authentic fun ways to get your kindergarten or first grade students reading and writing? They will love this Free Beginning Blends Write the Room literacy center activity. You can differentiate these activities by using the 3 levels of recording sheets included.

This resource is part of a bundle of Write the Room activities for the entire year, See it here.

The students should find a word/sentence posted in your classroom and write it in the correct box on the recording sheet.

There are three levels of the recording sheets so you can differentiate this activity.

1. Match the picture on the recording sheet to a picture card.

2. Find a picture card that has a word with a specific letter.

3. Find a sentence card that has the word on the response sheet.

Have fun teaching phonics!

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Halloween and October Resources for Pre-K and Kinder

October is here and you know what that means! Tons of thoughts of ghosts, goblins and fun. Here are a few October products you can use with your Pre-k or kindergarten class.

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This resource has both reading and math center activities and worksheets.

READING:

There are 8 different word families included (at, an, ake, ing, og, ug, ar, op). Each onset and rime pair and the corresponding pictures are printed on pieces of candy corn.

Simply print and laminate the pages, and cut the pieces of candy corn into 3 parts. Students build the word and match the picture with the word.

Students can make a crown with onset and rimes to wear during class. Then they complete the included worksheets.

MATH:

Your students will have FUN practicing addition facts 1-10 with these candy corn puzzles and word problems. Print, laminate and cut the candy cards apart. Students will see there are many ways to make a sum of 10.

This activity is great as a small group math lesson or as a center activity. We have included a self-check page so your kids can work independently and worksheets for them to complete.

For the word problems, the students read the problem, draw a picture to go with it, write the 2 numbers and the addition statement.

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This Halloween themed alphabet resource includes:

• Clip-It Cards Uppercase - find the matching lowercase letters
• Clip-It Cards Lowercase - find the matching uppercase letters
• Black and White Clip-It Cards for an ink saving option
• Handwriting Practice Worksheets
• Color by Letter Worksheets (matching uppercase and lowercase)
• Letter Search Activities
• Alphabet Mini Books - a foldable book that focuses on writing each letter

There are some activity sheets that are not overtly Halloween that could be used any time during the year. Some examples include the alphabet mini books (no Halloween images), a frog and pumpkin letter search, and the handwriting practice pages.

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This Halloween math resource will give your kindergarten students a fun opportunity to practice math skills and get into the “spirit” of Halloween! With 5 different Kindergarten, CCSS aligned activities they won’t even think about the important skills they are working on!

This unit contains:

• Matching numbers, number words and sets.
• Adding 1 more
• Comparing length
• Counting how many
• Sorting more, less and the same

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Build upon the excitement your students already have for Halloween, with these fun math and literacy centers and activities designed for kindergarten. Your students will be working on important skills like counting sets, patterning, rhyming and so much more. These hands-on Halloween centers are ready to print, cut and use. The Halloween worksheets are no-prep! Just copy and go. All of these activities are great for whole class learning, small group instruction, independent learning centers, morning work or homework. Just choose what works best for you and your students!

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Writing activities designed for Kindergarten or early writers. These writing prompts will have your kinder students writing every day with activities designed just for kindergarten! Make a monthly writing journal to watch your students' progress.

Our kindergarteners write every day with these weekly booklets. Use this packet as a quick write warm up for your Kindergarten students.

October, month 2, has your students practice writing numbers. (November will practice individual letters.)

✎ Week 1 - starts with a per-assessment on page 1, then presents the numbers 1-4 and the number words.

✎Week 2 - practices writing the numbers 5-9 and the number words.

✎Week 3 - practices the number and word ten, numbers 1-10, even and odd numbers.

✎Week 4 - incorporates counting Halloween pictures and can be used as a post-assessment for writing numbers.

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No Prep Print and Go with this Pk – K morning work. There are 25 black and white pages for your little ones to practice emergent reading skills.

This packet includes:

• 5 pages with syllables, letter identification, vocabulary, math, and concept discrimination.

• 5 pages of identifying rhyming words

• 5 pages of initial sound awareness

• 5 pages of numbers

• 5 pages of letter matching

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Fire Safety Month is in October and many schools celebrate Fire Safety Week. If you are looking for fun and engaging resources for your pre-k or kindergarten students then look no further. This 53 page resource is packed with nine fire safety center activities, fire safety worksheets and a fire safety reader. Your students will love learning about fire safety while working on key literacy and vocabulary skills too!

Fire Safety Activities Include:

• Word Wall Vocabulary Cards
• Word Work Center Activity
• Word Work Worksheets
• Read Aloud– Fire Safety
• Sequencing– Stop, Drop and Roll
• Be a Fire Marshal – tour your school with a checklist for staying safe
• Sorting Hot and Cold Center Activity
• Sorting Worksheet
• Student Sight Word Reader (I, see, a, the)

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Make homework meaningful for your students with these FREE Homework Calendars. If you have specific objectives this month that are not included you can edit each day’s item by highlighting the text you want to change and typing a new skill.

Students and their families will enjoy activities such as:

• Before reading a book point out the title of the book, the front cover, and the back cover.
• Place 3 objects in order from longest to shortest.
• As you go on a walk or drive, count the number of red cars, or, cats, or trees, etc., that you see.
• Draw 5 pumpkins with 2 leaves on each.
• Give your child a pile of dry beans. Ask him to count out a set of 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.

I hope you find something you can use!

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