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December Fine Motor Activities

The December Fine Motor Activities packet will keep your little ones busy during the most wonderful time of the year! This packet contains centers and printables to strengthen fine motor skills. The activities can be used in morning tubs, math tubs, whole group, small group or independently. Children will practice tracing,

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Gingerbread Centers

Today I’m going to show you centers from my Gingerbread Math & Literacy Centers Bundle. It includes 11 centers and activities for your classroom at a HUGE savings! {Click here to order.} There are five language arts centers: The Gingerbread Rhyming Cards activity is always a favorite for the pocket

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Emergent Readers for Fall

Fall is my favorite season of the year! It is an exciting time in Kindergarten, too! We always have so much fun learning about apples, leaves and pumpkins! I created these Fall Emergent Readers to incorporate Fall themes AND to support the reading skills we are working on at this

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Syllables in Kindergarten

Breaking words into syllables – or chunks – is an important component of Phonological Awareness. Having a strong foundation in syllables is an important beginning step in learning to read and write. This skill will help children decode words and read more fluently. I designed these clip cards so children

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Centers for Back to School!

I’m so excited to share with you my Back to School Math & Literacy Bundle! I wanted to make centers with easy to learn directions so the children will have success during center time!  The bundle includes 10 centers in all – 5 literacy and 5 math. Here is a

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Favorite Books for Fall

Fall is one of my favorite seasons! I LOVE opening up my bins of Fall themed books because there are just soooo many to choose from; leaves, scarecrows, apples, pumpkins and owls. It seems that this is my biggest collection of books! This collection also includes my all time absolute

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Visual Daily Schedule

Using a Visual Daily Schedule will help ensure a successful day for your students (and you)! Knowing what is happening throughout the day helps to relieve stress and anxiety in young children. It also helps them to feel safe and secure in their environment. Your transition time will run more

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Back to School Essentials

Back to School can be an overwhelming time of year for kids, parents and teachers, too! Stores are stocked with brightly colored bins, borders, and stickers and it’s easy to get distracted from what we NEED to make our classrooms run smoothly. Over the years I have found that there

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Earth Day FREEBIES for Kindergarten

Earth Day is right around the corner and I have some AMAZING Earth Day FREEBIES to share with you! All of these resources and activities can be used in your Pre-K, Kindergarten and First Grade classrooms. First, is a fun little Earth Day Word Search from my store, Pocketful of Centers.

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Spring Blog Hop

HAPPY SPRING! It feels so great to say that! Although we just had a blizzard and finally dug out from 18 inches of snow . . . I am looking forward to warm weather, the robins returning, buds on the trees, and flowers beginning to pop up.  The #kinderfriends are

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