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Learning through play e-book is on sale today!

The learning through play e-book is on sale today!

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Don't wait this special offer is only available until Midnight on Monday Nov. 26, 2012!!

This special offer is now closed!  But you can still purchase your favorite e-books from the individual authors just click on their links below.


Thanksgiving weekend special offer

 

The Learning Through Play bundle includes all these e-books and resources:

The Garden Classroom, by Cathy James of Nurturestore The Garden Classroom brings you fifty-two creative and playful outdoor activities, giving you a whole year’s worth of garden-based projects to enjoy with your children. Value $9.99  

Exploring More Great Artists Volume 2 Lesson Plans, by MaryLea Harris of Pink and Green Mama Exploring More Great Artists Volume 2 is a 79-page e-book PDF featuring 13 complete art lessons exploring the life and work of 10 great artists with full color photo directions, step-by-step instructions, and supply lists. Value $10  

Alphabet Crafts, by Allison McDonald of No Time for Flashcards Alphabet crafts is a complete resources of letter crafts from A-Z. Value $8  

Alphabet Glue, by Annie Riechmann of Bird and Little Bird These three editions of Alphabet Glue are literary-themed e-magazines for families, filled with projects, printables, activities and booklists. (editions 7, 8 and 9)Value $12

Play Grow Learn Issue 1, by Christie Burnett of Childhood 101 Bursting with ideas for playing inside and outside, with activities for moving, talking, cooking, creating, thinking, singing, imagining and constructing, Issue 1 of Play Grow Learn includes 62 pages of inspiration for parents and educators of children from birth to 5 years. Value $4  

Raising a Creative Kid: Simple Strategies for Igniting and Nurturing that Creative Spark, by Jillian Riley of A Mom with a Lesson Plan Just what you need to transform your environment into a creativity growth center, Raising a Creative Kid includes creative exercises following each of the sections that makes moving into a creative lifestyle as easy as possible. Value $7.99

Parenting with Positive Guidance: Building Discipline from the Inside Out, by Amanda Morgan of Not Just Cute Parenting with Positive Guidance gives you the tools for understanding your child’s behavior and effectively teaching and guiding your child toward increased self-control while fostering a healthy parent-child relationship. Value $9  

Read and Write at Home, by Erin Wing of Small Types Read and Write at Home is a collection of resources and printables to help parents establish fun literacy routines at home. Value $4.25  

Everyday Sensory Alphabet Activities, by Melitsa Avila of Raising Playful Tots Everyday Sensory Alphabet Activities is your go to solution for wriggly jiggly children who want to craft and play with alphabet activities that focus on the process along with audio from educators about alphabet learning to set things going in the right direction. Value $9

It's Turkey Time Literacy and Math Printables for Prek-K, by Christine Lanyon of Scribble Doodle Draw It's Turkey Time Literacy and Math Printables for Prek-K brings you fun literacy and math activities teachers and parents can use to encourage learning during the Thanksgiving holiday. Value $5 


The Playful Family, by Shawn Ledington Fink of Awesomely Awake The Playful Family brings you nearly 100 ways to play and engage as a family even during the busiest times. Value $4.99  

Mudworks Bilingual, by MaryAnn Kohl Mudworks Bilingual is a best-selling Spanish / English bilingual work from the award winning author MaryAnn Kohl, with fifty of the best squishy kid-tested art activities and recipes. Value $14.95  

Arty's Art Projects, by Sally Haughey of Fairy Dust Teaching In Arty's Art Projects, Arty the gnome shares twenty five of his art projects. Value $7.99

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T is for turkey




T is for Turkey!  I love these printables from Confessions of a homeschooler.  I print out a copy for each kid and then give them gem stones to place on each letter T and then they circle the letter T on the next worksheet.  You could also use bingo dabbers, rocks, coins, etc..


Printable letter worksheets build the letter T with gem stones


Learning letters using fun materials

Another fun activity is building the letter T.  I give the kids gem stones and they build the letter.  After creating the letter T the kids grabbed some ribbon and started creating pictures.  So much fun!

Build letters and pictures with gem stones and ribbon



We also made this fun craft and made turkeys out of Styrofoam balls, Popsicle sticks and feathers.  Simply paint the balls brown, once they are dry stick feathers in and the Popsicle stick, add eyes and a nose and voila, a cute little turkey for your Thanksgiving table.

Easy turkey craft for preschoolers and kindergarten


Turkeys are always fun to paint!  Kids can draw their turkey first, outline with black marker and then paint!   

Kids craft paint a turkey


Leaf rubbings are always a favorite at our house in the fall.  We like to go for a walk, collect leaves and then come back and complete our crayon rubbings.  They look great laminated and make a great fall placemat! 

kids craft create a fall placemat with leaf rubbings


In the fall, we of course work through my  It's Turkey Time, Math & Literacy Activities bundle You can also read more about it on my post Thanksgiving fun! 

Thanksgiving printable worksheets for preschool and kindergarten

We work on a variety of literacy concepts including beginning sounds like in the activity below.  Students cut and paste the beginning letter sounds that match the picture and then write the letter in the box beside.

Thanksgiving printable learning beginning letter sounds

The bundle also includes math activities like counting and tallying concepts.  In the following activity the students counted and tallied all the different colored feathers on the turkey and figured out which color had more, less, etc..

 Thanksgiving printable center activity tally the turkey feathers
These activities can be found in my bundle It's Turkey Time, Math & Literacy Activities bundle for sale in my TPT store.


Preschool and kindergarten math and literacy activities for thanksgiving




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Thanksgiving literacy and math activities for young learners

There have been so many fun Thanksgiving literacy and math activities popping up all over the web!  I thought I would share a few of the activities we have been doing in kindergarten.  

Thanksgiving math and literacy activities for kindergarten


All of these activities are part of my Thanksgiving Literacy and Math Bundle unit.  ( I also sell the unit separately as Math activities and Literacy activities if you prefer) found at my store on TPT. 

thanksgiving literacy and math activites for kindergarten and preschool

We used our fine motor skills and clipped paper clips to the turkey.

using paper clips to show number recognition on a turkey
The kids were able to use one to one correspondence and place the correct number of feathers to each turkey.

preschool counting activity for thanksgiving
The kids cut out pictures from magazines of their favorite foods.

Thanksgiving craft for kids favorite meal

They colored the turkeys by shape.

Learning to recognize shapes by coloring in the turkey

They worked on beginning sounds by gluing the beginning letter beside the picture and then printing the letter in the box beside.

Thanksgiving literacy activity learning beginning letter sounds


We counted and tallied all the different colored feathers on the turkey and discussed which had more, less, most, etc 

Learn counting and tally concepts with this turkey activity
And we read and colored a mini book using color words.

thanksgiving mini book on learning color sight words

All of these printable pages are part of my It's Turkey Time, Math & Literacy Activities bundle for sale at my TPT store.  Click on the link to see a complete list of all the activities available in the bundle.
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Halloween activities for kindergarten

Halloween is always an exciting time for kids of all ages!  Since kids are already excited about the day I might as well use their enthusiasm to try and engage them in learning activities with a Halloween theme.  No sense in fighting it!   

My Halloween literacy and math unit covers many different topics including one to one number correspondence, measurement activities, and more.  I've included pictures of some of the activities included in the unit.


In this activity, we put the correct number of pumpkin seeds onto the numbered pumpkins.

Counting activity for preschool count pumpkin seeds


We used tweezers to pull out monster hair and then used tallies to complete a graph.

Halloween fine motor activity pick up monster hair with tweezers Halloween math and fine motor activity graph monster hair


We used Halloween stamps to fill in this number chart.

Halloween math activity for preschool counting with stamps

We measured different Halloween characters like this ghost using pumpkin seeds.  We then counted and recorded the number of seeds on our worksheet.

Halloween math activity for kindergarten measuring with pumpkin seeds


We practiced making words in our small group center work by moving the pumpkins around to make different words.

Halloween literacy activity for kindergarten making words with pumpkins
As always we read a ton of books during our Halloween theme.  One of our favorites is the 5 little pumpkins book.  The kids love to sing the song.  I made this interactive board that we use when we sing the song.  It pictures a fence and 5 pumpkins that have velcro on the back.  When we sing the song as a large group, I have my helper remove 1 pumpkin at a time.  During small group time I give each student a page and they move the pumpkins on and off as we re-tell the story. 

Halloween hands on learning with interactive story re-telling with velcro pumpkins

More Halloween ideas can be found by clicking on the pictures below:

Halloween fine motor activity picking up erasers with tweezers
 
Halloween art activity for kids mixing colors to make Jack O'lanterns

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