"Danny and the Dinosaur" | Picture Book Study
A no-prep picture book study companion for Syd Hoff's 'Danny and the Dinosaur,' providing discussion questions, activities, crafts, and supplementary reading/skill practice for early readers.
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A no-prep picture book study companion for Syd Hoff's 'Danny and the Dinosaur,' providing discussion questions, activities, crafts, and supplementary reading/skill practice for early readers.
Six printable craft templates (two per letter) that reinforce phonics/letter recognition for the letters S, A, and T through hands-on making of a swan, sailboat, alligator, astronaut, turtle, and teddy bear.
If there is one thing we can count on young learners to absolutely love, it would be animals! From a very young age, many young children strike an interest in animals of all kinds. We know that incorporating interests in our lessons can increase student engagement. There are many ways to incorporate animals into learning! This is an…
Get ready to unleash your inner bat expert with the Bat Craft Cut and Glue Activity, a hands-on project that’s way easier than trying to befriend an actual bat. With just a few snips and dabs of glue, you’ll go from a pile of paper pieces to a fully assembled (and far friendlier) bat. No mosquito diet required! Here’s how it works:…
A cross-curricular thematic unit on the ocean/under-the-sea topic for grades 1-3, combining language, math, and science activities with printable worksheets, games, crafts, and a student booklet.
A complete 36-week, scripted Social-Emotional Learning curriculum for Grades K-2, organized into 4 units of 9 weekly lessons each, covering feelings, friendship, sharing, kindness, respect, listening, self-control, asking for help, problem solving, gratitude, growth mindset, and safety.
A hands-on 'All About Me' rainbow craft where students share personal facts on colored strips glued to a cloud template, creating a display of shared and individual attributes.
Six printable craft templates (two per letter) that reinforce phonics/letter recognition for the letters P, I, and N through hands-on making of a popcorn spring pop-up, parrot, image-strip viewer, insect with movable wings, narwhal, and decorated hand/nails.
A no-prep roll-and-draw dice game where students build a drawing of a cake design step by step based on die rolls, practicing observational/copying drawing skill.
A pre-k/kindergarten activity workbook combining letter tracing, coloring, mazes, dot-to-dot, and other fine-motor/pre-literacy games.
A cut-and-paste craft activity for young students to build their own school bus, for back-to-school/first-week-of-school use.
Comprehensive letter-of-the-week pack teaching uppercase and lowercase letter U through tracing, sorting, coloring, mazes, puzzles, crafts, and digital Boom Card games.
A foldable paper 'cootie catcher' (fortune teller) game for practicing reading, writing and spelling CVC words with a phonics focus.
A printable craft-and-game set for practicing recognition of the 220 Dolch sight words, organized by Dolch difficulty level (Pre-Primer through Third), using a cookie-jar theme.
A week-long thematic lesson-plan template/organizer for a preschool/kindergarten 'Bears' unit, laying out activities across each day and each learning center.
A shape-identification and matching activity that uses a pizza theme to teach 2D shape recognition for math lessons and math centers.
Practice matching addition and subtraction results using a caterpillar-themed file-folder math center (leaves are attached to the caterpillar body according to the correct result).
A printable hide-and-seek game: letter cards for H/h are hidden around the house or room for the child to find, reinforcing letter recognition through play.
A dice-based 'roll and draw' art activity where students build a grumpy nightcrawler (earthworm) illustration one feature at a time based on random die rolls, practicing drawing, lines, shapes and creative decision-making.
Provide a large multi-activity letter-S practice pack covering recognition, tracing, sorting, phonics and fine-motor skills, in both a US-spelling and a British-English-spelling printable set, plus supplementary crafts and a digital activity.
A printable letter-tile game combining spelling (language) practice with point-value addition (math) practice, Scrabble-style.
Hands-on PreK science activity packet covering fossil-making/fossil hunting and plant growth from seed.
A printable hide-and-seek game: letter cards for J/j are hidden around the house or room for the child to find, reinforcing letter recognition through play.
Provide a collection of whole-class music games and activities for K-6 classrooms, usable by teachers with or without formal music training