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  Jelly beans are associated with Easter but can actually be used as manipulatives all year long. Use them in your learning and sensory activities before throwing them away. Grab a bag of jelly beans and a die for some fun but educational NO PREP packet. Kids LOVE candy activities! Even the most reluctant student cannot resist. {Click here} Head on over to score this free Jelly Bean printable! It’s a great way to use some hands-on manipulatives (jelly beans) to practice math skills! The Jelly Bean packet is suited for Preschool/ Kindergarten is packed with over 10 pages of fun. Some of the activities (graphing, patterns, counting game, and gross motor game) can be used for an older toddler. Laminate for multiple use and set us for individual use in your small group, learning centers or create as a weekly idea in your busy bin. The Jelly Bean Preschool/Kindergarten Packet includes: -Gross motor cards -Create your own Jelly Bean AB patterns -Matching Jelly Bean Pattern -Exten...

  Looking for a fun way to reinforce your current learning topics? The Feed the Cow Game is perfect for all ages because it can be used to practice almost anything! Toddlers and even second grade students love the idea of feeding the cow letters, numbers or even colors. I used this activity during my farm unit to teach colors to my toddlers. I love this activity because you can use it to reinforce any topic you are currently teaching. Games such as these are a great evaluator for your child's progress without the pressure of a test or traditional way of recalling. Feed the cow pompoms to work on colors or counting. Use letter cards to work on letter sounds or letter names. Practice spelling or sight words by feeding the cow letter tiles. Don't have letter tiles? Use index cards to write down the letters. I made 2 of these Feed the Cow activities. One for my class and one for at home. I traced the template to allow the option to color it. Honestly, I needed them busy so that...

  Environmental print is all around us. Environmental print includes traffic signs, restaurant logos, grocery store labels, Restaurant billboards and more! Believe it or not your child is learning to read simply by become aware of the print around them. Mcdonalds is a treat that we have once or twice a month. Our toddler now points to the Mcdonald's sign and say "eat, eat" as we pass it. Our oldest son now recognizes the word Youtube and can find it on the remote without my help. Environmental print is one of the first introductions to reading your child will have. Help your child feel confident by "reading" labels he/she is already familiar with. Believe it or not but your child is already a reader in the making!!! Children learn when they create meaningful connections to abstract subjects around us. Symbols, letters, and pictures are being read every time your child encounters them. Words and photos are meaningless until we attribute some kind of meaning to th...