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Free preschool thematic unit plans
Curriculum Map for Preschool, Pre-K, and Kindergarten
UPDATED WITH 2023-2024 Curriculum Maps! Planning for the year can be overwhelming. This year-long clickable curriculum map broken down by week will help you plan your year using themes.Planned for each theme are: • math and literacy centers• dramatic play sets• character (aka social skills) topic & lessons• science • STEM challenges• a sensory table idea• a booklist What's included:2023-2024 EDITABLE Curriculum Pacing Map (you must open and edit it in PowerPoint)!2023-2024 Curriculum Pacing
Grades:
PreK - K
Also included in: Preschool, Pre-K, and Kindergarten Complete Curriculum BUNDLE
Pumpkin Mini-Unit FREEBIE!
This mini-unit includes lots of fun and educational activities related to pumpkins! Templates, printables, instructions, and book suggestions are provided for each activity.
Activities Included:
-Inside & Outside Pumpkin Lesson & Craft
-Pumpkin Investigations Activity
-Pumpkin Life Cycle
-Planting Pumpkins
-Pumpkin Jack Experiment
-Pumpkin Seed Estimation
-Pumpkin Craft
Enjoy! Please leave feedback if you use this product in your classroom! Thank you!
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Grades:
PreK - 1st
The Rainbow Fish -Story Sequencing- Re-telling Visuals-FREEBIE
This 50+ page file contains story telling and sequencing tools to promote literacy and oral comprehension. I major in English and my personal philosophy is to use a "Webbed" curriculum, which is similar to a thematic approach where all elements tie together to reinforce learning.
Story telling is a key aspect in developing language acquisition, critical thinking skills and oral comprehension and I create many visuals for my kindergarten students to facilitate engaging them in the wonderful w
Grades:
PreK - 1st
Thanksgiving Activity Pack -FREE-31 Pages!
15 Thanksgiving printable activities for prek-Kindergarten focusing on visual discrimination, literacy, and math. Laminate and create centers with these fun hands-on activities or use as cut and paste activities.
What is Included:
- Lower case and Upper case vowel practice
-Beginning Sound practice
-number recognition activity
-number quantity activity
-counting practice
-Shape recognition
-Sorting foods and people
-Sorting different thanksgiving pictures
-visual discrimination- which one is di
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PreK - K
The Water Cycle Kindergarten Chart and Activity
This is a water cycle smartboard document to share whole group as well as two different worksheets to complete. Students can label the diagram with words OR cut and paste the pictures into the diagram.
Mrs. Kimbrell's Kindergarten
Meaghan Kimbrell
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PreK - 2nd
Zoo Animals Word Search Seek and Find
***This activity is a part of my > ZOO ACTIVITY PACK
Use this cute Zoo word search during your ZOO/Animals unit! It would be perfect for students to do before, during or after a ZOO field trip!
Clip art from: Educlips
Font from: Cara Caroll
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PreK - 2nd
Tangram Puzzles ~ Ocean
Tangram puzzles can help your students develop problem solving skills and teach them about spatial relationships. You can use these tangram puzzles as a center during an ocean unit, or as a choice for early finishers.
Included are 5 line and silhouette puzzles for:
• Fish
• Sailboat
• Whale
• Crab
• Seahorse
The document also includes the tangram puzzle pieces. I always print a few of them on colored paper and laminate them for durability.
Click the links for more ocean themed packets:
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Grades:
PreK - 2nd
All About Me and Me By the Numbers Posters • First Day of School
First Day of School All About Me Activity. A set of FREE posters for Back to School. Give these out at the beginning of the school year and request them to be returned ASAP. Then put them in a file and pull one out as needed for Student of The Week! Now you won't find yourself scrambling during the year.
This would also make a great Back to School "Get to Know You" activity.
2 Poster styles: All About Me & Me By the Numbers
2 variations of each
2 sizes of each: 8.5x11, 11x17, 18x24
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PreK - 6th
Weather FREEBIES
This FREEBIE includes a few different weather themed activities that are perfect to supplement any K-1 weather unit!
Included is:
--Weather Bar Graph
--Types of Weather Worksheet (2 versions for differentiation)
--Weather Poem
--Scrambled Weather Poem (Students cut and glue the lines of the poem in order.)
--Writing Page (goes along with Cloudy with A Chance of Meatballs
I hope you enjoy this freebie!
For more freebies, check out my blog K-3 Connection!
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PreK - 1st
Community Helpers Sorting
I set this activity up as file folder games. Use the labels to label your file folders. Cut out all of the images. Place the larger ones, firefighter, mail carrier, etc on the sides of the file folders towards the top so there is space below for velcro.
Laminate file folders and cut out and laminate the sorting pieces.
Attach velcro below the pictures on the file folders for sorting.
Students sort through the images to find the ones that belong to the correct community helper.
When children
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Grades:
PreK - K
The Mitten by Jan Brett FREEBIE!
Be sure to check out my other resources you can use with The Mitten by Jan Brett!Click HERE for Close Reading Lessons using The MittenClick HERE for January themed Close Reading Super PackClick HERE for Guided Reading Lessons using The MittenHope you and your student have fun with this freebie!Sally Landers
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PreK - 3rd
Build a Turkey: A Pattern Block Math Center
Practice number sense and geometry skills!Are you looking for a fun low prep Thanksgiving math center? This Build A Turkey Pattern Block Center is great for practicing symmetry, shape id and counting and is really easy to make! Print the turkeys and have students use pattern blocks to create the “feathers.”This pack includes: •Activity Directions •Turkey Body Cut Outs •Student Response Sheet*************************************************************************** Find More Reso
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PreK - 1st
Free Christmas Tree Name Craft
My Free Christmas Tree Name Craft has 4 pages of build-a-christmas-tree templates: Simply copy template pages onto paper, construction paper, or cardstock...this is such a fun FREEBIE!!!Christmas Tree Template Pages:1) blank tree triangle2) happy tree triangle 3) star4) tree trunk***You can use the blank christmas tree triangle and have your students draw faces on their trees OR you can use the happy christmas tree triangle and they can color the face. Then they will write one letter on each tri
Grades:
PreK - 2nd
Pop Up Speech and Language Craft: Shark CVC (short vowels)
"Pop Up" Speech and Language Crafts are easy and kids love them! Create a 3D pop-up animal while targeting speech therapy goals! This is a great craft to use with your ocean themes or to pair with your favorite shark books!This pop-up craft includes a color and black/white shark template and 5 different CVC pages that you can use to target several goals (one page for each short vowel: a, e, i, o, u)!Target fine motor skills by having the child cut the circles out, fold in half, and glue. Suggest
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PreK - 2nd
Also included in: Speech and Language Pop Up Craft Activity Units Bundle
Farm Animal Interactive Visual Book
Adapted books and interactive visual books are so valuable! For our littlest learners or students who have difficulty maintaining attention when the teacher is reading, adapted books can help. By giving busy little hands something to hold on to (the picture), and a predictable and visual way to interact (matching the picture to the book), you have a recipe for increased engagement! Your students will love this free farm animal interactive visual book! Who doesn't love animals?! Instructions fo
Grades:
PreK - 1st
Also included in: Farm Theme Speech Therapy Bundle
Grocery Store Dramatic Play - FREE
Set up a fun Grocery Store in your Dramatic Play Center! Includes signs, price tags and shopping lists, your Preschool and Kindergarten kids will love learning through play as they set up their supermarket!This set is a great preview of my popular Dramatic Play range:Dramatic Play Bundle 1Dramatic Play Bundle 2Dramatic Play Bundle 3>> See the full Dramatic Play range here <<What's Included?'Welcome to our Grocery Store' sign'Welcome to our Supermarket' sign'We are OPEN' sign'Farm fre
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PreK - 1st
Also included in: Dramatic Play Bundle - Prep and Foundation Imaginative Play Resources
Easter Bunny | Bunny Craft | Easter Writing Activity | Easter Bulletin Board
Check out our Easter Fun Pack! This delightful resource features an adorable Easter topper that students can color, cut, and attach to any of their work for a charming classroom display. This activity is also part of a huge money-saving bundle! So, CLICK HERE TO SEE!The pack includes Easter writing lines with both plain and dotted thirds, offering two Easter-themed templates. Engage students in creative expression while adding a touch of Easter cheer to your classroom setting. Get ready for a fe
Grades:
PreK - 4th
Also included in: Easter Activity Bundle | Easter Basket | Easter Worksheets
Halloween Speech Therapy Pop Up Craft: Articulation and Language
"Pop Up" Speech and Language Crafts are easy crafts that the kids love! Create a 3D pop up while targeting your speech and language goals! This is a great craft to use with your Halloween theme or to pair with your favorite bat unit lesson plans! Book Suggestions: There was an old lady who swallowed a bat; in Room on the Broom, There was an old lady who was not afraid of anythingThis pop up craft includes a color and black/white bat, witch, ghost, and zombie. In this resource, there are pages wi
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PreK - 1st
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FARM ANIMALS Riddles- POEMS FREEBIE-Great for Language activities
This freebie includes a set of 7 riddles-poems which I wrote when I was teaching my MEGA FARM ANIMAL THEME PACK. These poems are my original work and I used them with very younger Kindergarten students as a part of an oral comprehension-listening activity.
They are fairly simple but the rhyming words and tune helps children develop language and they are a fun free addition to any teacher's farm animal unit.
When I create new story telling/element units or various language tools I often post t
Grades:
PreK - 1st
Farm Preposition Interactive Visual Book
These Interactive Visual Books have been like gold in my early childhood special education classroom this school year! My students have become more engaged during group time and they have been a great connection to home when sent home for parents and students to read and interact with together. After our theme unit is finished, I send these books home with students for a couple of days. The feedback from families has been phenomenal!This book is at the 3 word phrase level to keep it simple for v
Grades:
PreK - 2nd
Dear Zoo -Story Sequencing- Re-telling Visuals-FREEBIE
This zoo themed literacy pack includes a lesson plan, center work mats and story telling-sequencing visuals to help you teach using the book by Rod Campbell titled “Dear Zoo”. PLEASE BE ADVISED THAT THIS LESSON PLAN IS A SAMPLE EXTRACT ( 1 out of 20 lesson plans) INCLUDED IN MY ZOO MEGA PACK Dear zoo lesson plan Lesson plan Learning Objectives (Common Core) • CCSS.ELA.SL.K.2– Confirm understanding of text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media by asking and answerin
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PreK - 1st
Speech Therapy For Preschoolers
This freebie is packed full of speech therapy activities for toddlers and for preschoolers. This is a great way to try out some of my resources, on a smaller scale to see how they work with your students and children! This resource is perfect for speech therapists, special education teachers at the preschool and early elementary level, as well as parents. These speech therapy activities work well with children with autism and other communication disorders.This speech therapy sampler includes
Grades:
PreK - K
Also included in: Autism Little Learners Curriculum Bundle
Happy Leap Year Day 2024-Free No Prep Crown Craft Coloring Activity & Fact Sheet
Celebrate the uniqueness of Leap Year Day 2024 with the Free 2024 Leap Year Crown Craft and Fact Sheet – a engaging and educational resource designed to make February 29th unforgettable. This free downloadable resource is perfect for teachers and therapists looking to add a touch of celebration to their educational activities. Enhance the learning experience with this craft or writing page topper and fact sheet that not only engages students but also builds essential skills.When is a good time
Grades:
PreK - 1st
Hanukkah Freebie
Enjoy this 24 page freebie with read aloud suggestions, low-prep literacy, math, and craft activities all geared to teach students about and celebrate Hanukkah! This product comes directly from my Winter Holidays Around the World Pack!Want to learn more or see it in action? Check out this blog post!Hanukkah Activities Included:· Hanukkah emergent reader· Dreidel activity· Latkes Recipe· Coloring sheets (2 sheets)· Build a Menorah· Roll and Cover (1 die and 2 dice versions)· Roll and Write (2 dic
Grades:
PreK - 2nd
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