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Fantastic Spring eBundle 2018

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Create excitement this with this Spring eBundle of learning activities and crafts. Valentine’s Day, St. Patrick’s Day, Easter and pretty flowers are only some of the fabulously fun themes included. (Affiliate links included in this post.)

Ages: Preschool to Grade 2
Includes: Valentines, Spring, Easter
Sale date: January 14-23
Value: $150 on Sale for $14.95
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Spring eBundle

 

 

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VALENTINES

14 Super Cool Valentines Day Science Activities
This ebook contains bubbly, hands-on, colorful projects that will delight kids ages 3-10. Treat your students to some of their first lessons in chemistry, thermodynamics, acids and bases, catalysts, solubility, surface tension, color mixing, and static electricity with these simple and engaging heart-themed science experiments.

Printable Valentines Day Tracing Sheets
A set of 8 Valentines Day themed tracing worksheets to download and print at home. This love themed pack of tracing sheets are designed with preschoolers working on pencil control, fine motor skills and learning letters in mind.

Valentines Day Activity Pack for Preschoolers
Looking for something to help teach your preschoolers about kindness and friendship, as well as letters and numbers?! This Valentine’s Day Activity Pack includes six super fun activities and multiple variations of each!

8 Valentines Day Adding and Subtracting Activities
These 8 activities help children practice adding and subtracting within 10. There are games, task cards, expression sorts, and more.

Valentines Day ABC Order
This Valentines Day ABC Order literacy center set is perfect for hands-on practice. Students alphabetize differentiated groups of sight words to the 1st and 2nd letters. Plus, there’s a challenge set of words for sorting to the 3rd and 4th letter.

Hands-On Valentines Pre-K Pack
This hands-on downloadable workbook is designed to help anyone teach their preschoolers (and pre-k students) this Valentine’s season. Using fun, differentiated and creative methods of learning.

Valentines No Prep First Grade Math
Celebrate Valentines with a fun math set! Work on addition, subtractions, place value, fractions, fact families, and more!

Broken Hearts Letter Matching Game
A set of A-Z letter puzzle matching cards with a Valentines Day theme!

Valentines Letter Games Bundle
These letter games are designed to have fun while practicing letter recognition. Just print, play and enjoy learning!

Nature Crafts for Kids
Fun Nature Crafts

SPRING

Bug Theme Pom-Pom Match Packet
These are perfect for preschoolers and young learners to develop fine motor skills & color recognition!

50 Nature Crafts for Little Kids
50 Nature Crafts for Little Kids is a fun book that is packed full of nature-themed crafts for your kids to enjoy throughout the year.

Spring Science Packet
Spring is the perfect time to get outside and learn about the world we live in! This spring science packet contains 10 fun and easy activities to do with your little learners. 7 of the activities contains printables for the lesson.

Spring Printables Pack
The Spring Printables Pack contains 75 spring-themed printables with activities for kids ages 2 to 7. The activities in this pack cover a range of skills, including colors, same vs. different, patterns, puzzles, fine motor, mazes, math number identification, counting, addition, subtraction and literacy letter identification, alphabetical order, phonemic awareness, word searches.

Spring-Themed, Editable Name and Word Tracing Pack
This spring-themed printable tracing pack can be customized for names, words, or numbers … a low-prep activity that is perfect for classroom or home! This is a Montessori-inspired pack to help with name recognition and writing, sight word reading and spelling, and identifying cultural spring symbols.

Flowers Word Family Picture Sort
Sort the short vowel pictures on each flower into the correct short vowel word family flower pot.

Plant Life Cycle
Plant life cycle vocabulary cards and activity sheets for preschool students.

Spring Beginning Sounds Bundle
Add these beginning sound matching cards to your spring literacy centers. Practice beginning sounds and phonemic awareness with frogs, ducks, and rainbows! Bonus Rainy Day themed rhyming match up cards also included!

Insects, Bugs, and Creepy Crawlers Yoga
Kids yoga poses that are themed to go with your favorite insects, bugs, and creepy crawlers. Included is twelve yoga cards with descriptions of how to get into the pose and 12 full sheet pictures of the yoga poses. All poses included pictures of real kids in the insect, bug, and creepy crawler themed poses!

Spring Theme Pack for Preschool & Kindergarten
This 300-page theme pack has a huge variety of activities for your spring seeds, plants, and gardening unit in preschool or kindergarten! You’ll get printable vocabulary cards and nonfiction books with real photos, emergent readers that your learners can read and color all by themselves, clip cards, beginning reading games, printable math centers, activity pages, and more.

Rainbow Activity Booklet to Teach Colours Through Hands-On Learning
Promote play-based learning with this interesting and engaging printable activity This booklet includes colouring pages, interactive activities, and bonus material that you can print off again and again!

Rainy Day Make Ten Addition Activity
Help kids learn how to add numbers to make ten with this printable rain cloud activity! Kids can color in the correct number of raindrops and attach them to their clouds to make ten!

Garden Themed Early Learning Printable Pack
This garden-themed early learning pack is great for the pre-K to K age range! With 4 games and activities, it includes a Bingo game for 4 players, cutting and pre-handwriting sheets, an I-Spy game, and a matching game! The pack is B&W so that kids can color the games in themselves.

Spring Theme Color Graphing Set
Work on colors and graphing skills together with these fun spring themed centers and activities! Use the whole class winter color graphing set to graph umbrellas during circle time, use the spring spin, color & graph printables for morning work or independent math practice and use the spring spin & graph sets for math centers.

Butterfly Life Cycle Easy Reader Books & Journal
There are four easy reader books with the life cycle words. Plus it includes life cycle bookmarks and an easy to make a journal in an easy reader book style. It also has some writing activities and reader strips that match up to the books.

Sheep Beginning Sounds Match
This Sheep Beginning Sounds Match is an engaging and hands-on way to practice identifying beginning sounds! To prep, print out the sheep and the pastures on cardstock, then cut out. Let your kids match sheep with matching pastures.

Awesome Printable Flower Activities for Kids
Get ready for the amazing season of Spring, we have some really fun and completely awesome flower activities for kids to celebrate while learning and practicing skills such as color matching, fine motor skills and so much more!

Easter Coupons for Kids to Create
Spring eBundle: Personalized Easter Coupons

EASTER

25 Printable Easter Activities
Explore Easter with these printable easter learning activities! Cut, paste, shape, mold and manipulate as you learn!

Easter Coupon Booklet & Easter Egg Hunt Printables
Set up your own Easter Egg Hunt in minutes with these done for you clues that work in any home & use the personalized Easter Coupons as a basket stuffer or a gift!

Montessori Inspired Easter Preschool Pack
This unique Montessori inspired Easter pack is perfect to teach preschoolers language, math concepts, literacy, fine motor skills and much more. The pack is made with a mixture of real photos and gorgeous watercolor clipart giving it a realistic touch.

St. Patrick’s Day

St. Patrick’s Day Activity Pack
In preschool, we use the month of March to teach our students about the weather and rainbows, but it’s also a time to have fun with leprechauns, fairies and gold coins! These printable St. Patrick’s Day activities are all about rainbows and all things green and yellow, making them the perfect supplement to your weather theme or St. Patrick’s Day parties.

March ABC Order Literacy Center Set
A differentiated ABC Order literacy center set and related worksheets, all with a March theme including St. Patricks Day and more. Students alphabetize sight words to the 1st and 2nd letters. Plus, there’s a challenge set of words for sorting to the 3rd and 4th letter.

MIXED

Fun Felt Busy Box Ideas – Holiday Edition
Fun Felt Busy Box Ideas for Valentines Day, Easter, Birthdays, Christmas etc. Perfect for traveling with young kids!

Think Spring Bundle
THis bundle has 20 easy crafts, 12 printable activities and 14 coloring pages – All with a spring, Easter or St Patricks Day theme!

Don’t miss this great deal on Spring activities for your kids.

Teaching Your Child Colors

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Teaching Your Child Colors




Teaching Your Child Colors

Learning colors is a concept that can start at birth. Just by talking with your child you are teaching them. As you get them dressed you say things like, “Let’s get this red shirt over your head.”

A lot of the teaching of concepts to young children does not have to be in a formal setting. That is one of the things I love so much about teaching preschool. The learning comes through playing and it should be the same way in your home. Don’t stress about teaching formal lessons, just have fun playing and talking with your child. You will find out that they are learning through your playtime together.

A suggestion for a fun time with your child would be to have a special color day. Use part of the day or the whole day and dedicate it to one of the colors. I start with the primary colors. Although I didn’t teach the term “primary colors” until they were in pre-kindergarten, I like to start with the basics so I begin with red, blue and yellow. By the way, always be watching for signals that your child is ready for the next learning concept. For instance your child may ask, “How do you get the color green.” That is your clue that you can introduce the learning concepts of primary and secondary colors.

In the subsequent posts I will give different ideas of activities you can do for each of the colors. Use all of them in one day or use the different activities over several days. Just enjoy the time with your child and the learning will follow.

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Learning Activities for the Color Blue
Learning Activities for the Color Yellow
Learning Activities for the Color Green
Learning Activities for the Color Orange
Learning Activities for the Color Purple

Let’s Play with Toy Guns

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Let’s Play with Toy Guns

I believe toy guns are getting a bad rap. I must say I hadn’t given it a lot of thought before but now I have a grandson and a couple of great-nephews, so an interest in guns is something we are going to have to deal with.

I raised two girls so guns were never a big subject around our house. We played with water guns and bubble blowing guns but that was about it. But when I was a little girl, I had a cap gun. I wore it in my holster as I strutted around in my cowgirl boots and hat. I loved playing with my cap gun when I was really young. As I got older, I was allowed to use our BB gun. I have always been fascinated with guns but I am definitely not a violent person. The first time I shot a bird, I cried. (We were trying to keep sparrows out of the purple martins’ birdhouse.) It only stunned him, so he eventually flew away but I didn’t shoot at any more birds.

Let's play with toy guns.
Let’s play with toy guns.

The idea of toy guns around the house hit me the other day because I was adding pieces to our dress-up clothes. I had purchased a soldier outfit and a police officer outfit. I was looking for a badge at the Dollar Tree when I ran across a package with a toy gun, a badge and a pretend walkie talkie. I hesitated because I have heard all the controversy about playing with guns and the possibility of instilling violence in our children, but are we missing a teaching opportunity?

My son-in-law serves in the army. Carrying a gun is part of his job. I have deep respect for all of the individuals serving in our armed forces. They carry guns to protect us and people in other countries. I believe that teaching our children how the military men and women are protecting us is a wonderful lesson. Yes, it is sad that there are wars but it is wonderful that there are people willing to put their lives on the line for others.

Then there are the police officers. They also carry guns as part of their jobs and put their lives on the line for others. Teaching respect for our police officers and learning about how they serve us are just a couple of lessons that can be incorporated into your child’s play with toy guns.

There are people that use guns to hunt for food. Wild game is healthy for you and is fairly cheap, in comparison to store bought meat. Many people around the world depend on hunting for their food. They don’t have or can’t afford to run to the grocery store to pick up something.

Lessons that can be slipped in while the children are playing with their toy guns:

  1.  Respect for our military and police.
  2.  Serving and protecting others.
  3.  Honoring our veterans.
  4.  Our Constitution and the 2nd Amendment.
  5.  How to properly handle a gun.
  6.  Where our food comes from.
  7.  The benefits of forgiveness and the consequences of revenge.

If we are worried about how our children will grow up and handle guns, shouldn’t we be talking with them about it, while they are young? Rather than avoiding or not allowing the opportunity for role playing and discussion, we should be giving them the opportunity to play and explore.

As children turn into young teens, many start playing violent video games or start sharing their interest of guns with their peers. Is this who and what you want to influence your child about the use of guns?

Some parents are worried that allowing their children to play with toy guns will create violent adults. According to an article on WebMD, titled Toy Guns: Do They Lead to Real-Life Violence?, “studies show no link between playing with toy weapons in childhood and aggression in adulthood”.

So let the kids play with their toy guns and let’s use the opportunity to instruct and raise more gun responsible teens and adults.

LEGO® KidsFest Indianapolis 2014 and a LEGO® Linky

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LEGO® KidsFest
LEGO® KidsFest

LEGO® KidsFest is coming to Indianapolis, November 7 – 9, 2014. I am so excited to be able to attend this year. The event is being held at the Indianapolis Convention Center. The Convention Center will be packed with tons of fun building opportunities and exhibits. There will be three acres of space providing lots of construction zones, dozens of life-sized LEGO® models and displays and much more. Check out some of the awesome activities here.

Sometimes these events sell out so you might want to get your tickets early. Currently, there is limited availability for the Friday session as well as both Sunday sessions. The Saturday sessions are sold out. To avoid long lines and sell outs, click this link to purchase your tickets now: http://www.legokidsfest.com/indianapolis/tickets.html
There will be no tickets to sell at the door once a session is listed as “sold out”.

LEGO® Linky

LEGO® KidsFest learning fun.

Since my blog is all about fun learning activities, I thought this would be the perfect time to host my first Linky. LEGO® building blocks can be used for so many learning activities. They are great for developing fine motor skills. They can be used for sorting. I have seen them used for teaching and reinforcing math skills such as graphing or addition and subtraction. And let’s not forget they are great for learning to follow instructions and constructing things. You might have a budding architect on your hands.

For this link up I want to see all things LEGO®. Whether you are doing arts and crafts with LEGO® building blocks or doing math, please link your post here. Whatever type of learning activity you do with LEGO® building blocks, please share it. I can’t wait to see all of the wonderful ideas you guys have.

By linking up you are giving me permission to use a picture from your post to feature you on my site or through social media sites such as Pinterest. Pictures will only be used to feature the post that you shared and will always contain a link directly to your blog.



Community Helpers – Overview

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Teaching your child about community helpers can help them understand and feel more secure in their ever widening world. Learning about community helpers can help them realize that they don’t need to be afraid when they hear sirens in the neighborhood or in the car. The sirens are signaling that there are people out there to help take care of them. Police officers are there to help us when there is an accident. Firemen help us if there is a fire. The doctor and dentist help keep us healthy and the school teacher helps us learn new things.

When I taught preschool, we studied community helpers in the three year old classroom. At home, you might want to introduce some of them even earlier; for instance, the doctor. Children have to go to the doctor regularly, from birth, so reading books and talking about the doctor may help put them at ease. Before my children went to their first dental appointment, I read books to them so they would understand what was going to happen.

In the following posts you will find book suggestions and crafts to do with your children to help make learning about their world fun. Enjoy playing pretend with your children as they become the doctor and you are the patient. Please come back and leave comments about the books and crafts you enjoyed together. I would love to see pictures too. You can share them on the Love to Laugh and Learn Facebook page.

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