Toodler Kids: September 2011

Easter Color Sorting Printable Activity

Toddlers and preschoolers will love this Easter themed color sorting activity where they can sort many holiday items while learning colors and building vocabulary. Features bunnies, eggs, carrots, baskets, peeps, jelly beans and chicks.

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This FREE Easter themed color sorting activity includes 10 color categories, along with 6 different holiday related pictures to sort.

Instructions:

For toddlers, I recommend laminating the sorting cards and using velcro dots to stick all the pieces.
For preschoolers and up, they can practice cutting & gluing the pieces in their correct category.

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Free Easter Printables for Kids

Get ready for Easter with these fun learning activities featuring adorable bunnies and eggs! Here is a collection of all the Free Easter printables and worksheets found on Totschooling, perfect for toddlers, preschoolers and kindergarten kids. There are currently 18 sets of printables and this list will keep growing as more are added.

This group of FREE Easter printables include a variety of different activities for ages approximately 2-7 years. These involve fine motor skills, math, literacy, tracing, coloring, playdough mats, games, puzzles and more!

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Learning Pack (Subscriber's Page)	Jelly Bean Pack	Playdough Mats
Ten Frame Counting Cards	Color by Number	Number/Quantity Matching
Color Sorting	Shape Matching	Alphabet Match
Beginning Letter Sounds	ABC Egg Hunt Game	Picture & Word Tracing
Sight Word Matching	Sight Word Find & Color	Number Matching Game
I Spy Game	Q-Tip Painting	Lacing Cards

Feed the Dog Sight Word Activity

A fun way to practice sight word recognition is with this free printable game called "Feed the Dog". Forget the flash cards, this is much more motivating for kids! It features Fry's First 100 words, plus blank pages, so it's easy to customize it to your child's or student's skill level.

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This FREE printable Sight word game is perfect for pre-k, kindergarten and 1st grade kids, featuring Fry's First 100 words. You can also use the blank cards included to add your own words.

Materials Needed:

Printer
Paper or card stock
Laminator
Scissors
Tissue box, shoe box, cereal box, etc.

Extension Ideas:

To extend the activity, you can have children write down each sight word before feeding it to the dog. This will practice reading and writing at the same time. After all the bones have been fed, the child can then read their list of words for extra practice.

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Animal Shadow Matching Activity for Toddlers

These free shadow matching printables are perfect for toddlers and preschoolers who love animals! Featuring a farm, a zoo animal train, a pet shop, and a forest/woodland animal themes.

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This FREE shadow matching pack will get your tots and preschool kids matching animals to their shadows. This is great for visual discrimination practice, as well as vocabulary building!

Materials Needed:

I recommend that you laminate and use these transparent velcro dots for kids to stick the animal pieces over the shadows.

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Bees & Flowers Shape Matching

Toddlers and preschoolers will love learning about shapes and matching the bees to their flowers. Great for a Spring or Summer theme, or bug themed activity!

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This FREE printable shape matching activity includes 11 different shapes. Match the bees to the flowers by matching the shapes.

How to Use the Spring Shape Matching Activity

If using as a file folder game, laminate all pages for durability. Then cut out the bees and attach velcro dots to the back of them as well as to the shapes on the flowers.
If using as a cut & paste activity, give your child scissors and glue and they can cut the bees and glue them over the flower shapes.

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Weather Emotions Clip Cards

These fun clip cards will get your toddlers and preschoolers learning about emotions and the weather while also building fine motor skills!

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This set of FREE printable clip cards feature 6 cute weather emojis with 8 different facial expressions to represent feelings. Toddlers and preschoolers will have a blast matching the emotions on the weather faces!

Materials Needed:

Instructions:
Print out the cards on regular paper if you are laminating, or on cardstock paper if you aren't laminating, in order for the cards to be more durable. Cut out the cards. Give your students or children clothespins to clip the matching emotion at the bottom of each card.

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Earth Day CVC Recycling Activity

These fun CVC letter segmenting activity will have kids engaged and working on their short vowel words in no time! Practice CVC word building, reading and writing with this fun earth day or recycling themed activity. Perfect for kindergarten or intervention kids in first grade.

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To prepare:

Print as many sets as you need for the number of students in your class. If you are using these in a center, it’s a great idea if you have an extra set just in case you want another group to get started on the cards. There are 12 CVC puzzle cards (2 or 3 sets for each of the vowels). There are also optional B&W cards.

Earth Day CVC Word Building

This free printable earth day activity comes with colourful CVC recycling bin cards. Students will practice CVC building skills, word reading, and letter sounds as they identify each letter needed for the picture found on the ‘recycling bin’ and to form the word. I would begin by pointing to the CVC picture and letting the students have a go at identifying it before beginning to look for the letter sounds.

After you’ve printed, laminated and cut the cards as well at the letter pieces. Have the students work on one card at a time and have the letter pieces shown clearly on the table as they choose the letters to build their CVC words. Kids love and usually respond really well to themed literacy activities and this one has a great earth day recycling theme. If kids have just started to learn about earth day and recycling, this is a great activity to incorporate in your literacy centers. I use these cards with my ESL students too. To help simplify this activity further with my ELLs, I usually write the CVC words on a whiteboard to give them a guide as they look for the letter sounds to build their words.

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Happy Earth vs. Sad Earth Sorting Activity

Use this Earth Day sorting activity to teach kids about the environment, pollution, conservation and the different ways we can take care of our planet.

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Materials Needed:

Earth Day Sorting Activity

This FREE printable activity is a great way for kids to learn and talk about some of the things that make the Earth "happy" and "sad". You can use it as a sorting activity or even display it on a bulletin board and have a discussion about it.

There are 6 cards that show children how to take care of our planet through conservation, recycling, cleaning, reusing and planting. There is another set of 6 cards that introduces children to air, water and land pollution.

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Koala Alphabet & Shape Matching

This fun Koala themed preschool matching activity set is great to add to your "around the world" theme, animal theme or Australia theme. Kids will love matching "eucalyptus leaf" letter and shape cards to each koala found on the mat.

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To prepare:

Print as many sets as you need for the number of students in your class. If you are using these in a center, it’s a great idea if you have an extra set just in case you want another group to get started on the cards. There are 32 ‘koala cards’ and 36 matching ‘eucalyptus leaf’ cards.

Preschool Shapes & Alphabet Matching Activity Set

This free printable koala themed activity comes with colorful ‘eucalyptus’ letter and shape cards to encourage kids to ‘feed the koalas’ by matching their upper and lowercase letters and shapes. Preschool students will practice alphabet upper and lowercase matching skills, identifying letters, identifying shapes, and reading shape words. I would guide the kids by showing them a guide on identifying the letter or word shown on the koala and then find the matching letter or shape picture.

After you’ve printed, laminated and cut the cards. The kids can either work on each ‘koala card’ at a time (I find ELLs love this simplicity) or you could print 6 on 1 page and use it as a mat. This also saves you prep time. Kids love and usually respond really well to themed literacy activities and this one has a great Australian theme. I use these cards with my ESL students too. To help simplify this activity further with my ELLs, I usually write the shape word and draw the corresponding shape next to it on the whiteboard.

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CVC Missing Vowel Cards

Kids love using dry erase markers! Have them practice listening to short vowel sounds with these fun and simple dry erase CVC Missing Vowel Cards. Beginning and ending sounds are usually identified before the middle vowel sounds so make sure that your kiddos are ready to start identifying middle vowel sounds.

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To prepare:

Print as many cards as you will need for your group of students. You can print one set and then split the cards so that each group in class can work on a set of CVC vowel sounds such as ‘a’ and ‘o’. Laminate the cards and then cut them up. Prepare a basket to place them in along with some dry erase markers and pegs.

CVC Missing Vowel Cards – Dry Erase Cards

To begin, learners will take an activity CVC strip and name the picture on the card. They will then decide what the missing vowel sound is. You can also provide some hands-on manipulatives like letter tiles or letter magnets. They will make this resource a great hands-on activity! Have the learners write the missing vowel on each strip and then either use a peg to clip the missing vowel sound or color in the box.

There are three versions of this activity, one with missing vowels and clip boxes, one with missing vowels but with tracing letters and clip boxes, and one with no clip boxes. There are also black and white versions to save on color printing (you can also print two pages on one sheet and make it a worksheet activity.

My ESL / ELL students love working on these cards (I give them the version of the cards with the guided tracing letters). I hope your learners LOVE these cards!

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