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These zoo themed letter and number flashcards and puzzles are a great animal activity for preschool and kindergarten students. Students can practice letter and number recognition by matching capital and lowercase letters, matching numbers and number words up to 20.

What is Included:

• Alphabet cards for capital and lowercase letters
• Number cards for numbers 1-20 and number words.
• 2 piece alphabet puzzles that match capital and lowercase letters
• 3 piece pizza number puzzles for 1-20

Students will love the hands on activities in this resource. There are a variety of different games and activities that students can complete independently or with a partner.

Students will have fun practicing letter recognition and identifying beginning sounds with these flower craftivities for the letter Z. Students can express their creativity while decorating their alphabet craft.

This product includes three letter crafts: 2 options for words that start with Z and one for letter recognition or matching.

What is Included:

• 2 craft templates with pictures for each letter
• 1 craft template for letter matching for each letter

Each flower craft is a single page craft template for easy craft set up. The shapes are easy for little hands to be successful in cutting each piece on their own. In addition to using these flowers for crafts, they can also make a great sorting center.

Students will have fun practicing letter recognition and identifying beginning sounds with these flower craftivities for the letter Y. Students can express their creativity while decorating their alphabet craft.

This product includes three letter crafts: 2 options for words that start with Y and one for letter recognition or matching.

What is Included:

• 2 craft templates with pictures for each letter
• 1 craft template for letter matching for each letter

Each flower craft is a single page craft template for easy craft set up. The shapes are easy for little hands to be successful in cutting each piece on their own. In addition to using these flowers for crafts, they can also make a great sorting center.

Students will have fun practicing letter recognition and identifying beginning sounds with these flower craftivities for the letter V. Students can express their creativity while decorating their alphabet craft.

This product includes three letter crafts: 2 options for words that start with V and one for letter recognition or matching.

What is Included:

• 2 craft templates with pictures for each letter
• 1 craft template for letter matching for each letter

Each flower craft is a single page craft template for easy craft set up. The shapes are easy for little hands to be successful in cutting each piece on their own. In addition to using these flowers for crafts, they can also make a great sorting center.

Students will have fun practicing letter recognition and identifying beginning sounds with these flower craftivities for the letter W. Students can express their creativity while decorating their alphabet craft.

This product includes three letter crafts: 2 options for words that start with W and one for letter recognition or matching.

What is Included:

• 2 craft templates with pictures for each letter
• 1 craft template for letter matching for each letter

Each flower craft is a single page craft template for easy craft set up. The shapes are easy for little hands to be successful in cutting each piece on their own. In addition to using these flowers for crafts, they can also make a great sorting center.

Help your students master** CVC words** with these 20 engaging worksheets focusing on short vowel sounds (a, e, i, o, u). Perfect for Kindergarten and 1st Grade phonics centers, morning work, or homework, these activities will help build decoding and spelling skills in a fun, hands-on way.

⭐ What’s Included:

✅ 20 printable worksheets

✅ Word searches for CVC words

✅ Cut & paste activities

✅ Short vowel (a, e, i, o, u) practice

✅ Picture and word matching

✅ Writing missing sounds

✅ CVC word scramble activities

⭐ How to Use:

✨ Use in small group phonics instruction

✨ Place in your literacy centers

✨ Send home for independent practice

✨ Use as morning work or early finisher activities

⭐ Why You’ll Love It:

✅ Easy prep – just print and use!

✅ Builds foundational phonics and spelling skills

✅ Engaging for young learners

✅ Clear, kid-friendly designs

CVC words

short vowels

Kindergarten phonics

first grade phonics

literacy center

phonics worksheets

cut and paste

word search

spelling practice

reading practice

Practice fine motor skills while creating fun Christmas dot art with these dot painting pages. This Christmas themed art activity is perfect for preschoolers and early elementary students to practice hand eye coordination while making a holiday craft.

Dot Art Pages Available

• bells
• candy cane
• Christmas tree
• fireplace
• hat
• lights
• ornament (2)
• reindeer
• sack
• Santa
• sleigh
• stocking
• wreath

These pizza themed letter and number flashcards and puzzles are a great summer activity for preschool and kindergarten students. Students can practice letter and number recognition by matching capital and lowercase letters, matching numbers and number words up to 20.

What is Included:

• Alphabet cards for capital and lowercase letters
• Number cards for numbers 1-20 and number words.
• 2 piece alphabet puzzles that match capital and lowercase letters
• 3 piece pizza number puzzles for 1-10

Students will love the hands on activities in this resource. There are a variety of different games and activities that students can complete independently or with a partner.

Ways to Use the Cards:

• Matching Game: Match capital and lowercase letters or numbers to the number words.
• Fishing Game: Attach a paper clip to the card and use a magnetic fishing pole to "catch" the letters or numbers.
• Salt/Sand Tray: Use these cards as a model to show students what to write in the sand.
• Letter or Number Hunts: Have students find the letters or numbers that you have hidden around the room.
• ABC Order or Number Order: Have students place letters or numbers in the correct order.
• Pocket Chart Game: Place the cards into a pocket chart and hide a picture behind one of the cards. Have students guess which card the hidden picture is behind.

With a wide variety of uses, these cards will allow students to be engaged with learning their letters and numbers, as well as learning number words and practice counting.

How to Use the Puzzles

• Task Box Activities
• Math Centers
• Morning Baskets or Tubs

All of the cards and puzzles in this resource can be stored in task boxes. This allows teachers to have an easy to set up activity that students can easily clean and put away themselves.

Skills Assessed:

• Number Recognition
• Number Words to 20
• Number Order
• Letter Recognition
• Matching Capital and Lowercase Letters
• Letter Order

Each part of this resource is low prep. They all just need to be printed out and cut apart before use. The teacher may choose to laminate the pieces for durability.

These pirate themed letter and number flashcards and puzzles are a great summer activity for preschool and kindergarten students. Students can practice letter and number recognition by matching capital and lowercase letters, matching numbers and number words up to 20.

What is Included:

• Alphabet cards for capital and lowercase letters
• Number cards for numbers 1-20 and number words.
• 2 piece alphabet puzzles that match capital and lowercase letters

Students will love the hands on activities in this resource. There are a variety of different games and activities that students can complete independently or with a partner.

Ways to Use the Cards:

• Matching Game: Match capital and lowercase letters or numbers to the number words.
• Fishing Game: Attach a paper clip to the card and use a magnetic fishing pole to "catch" the letters or numbers.
• Salt/Sand Tray: Use these cards as a model to show students what to write in the sand.
• Letter or Number Hunts: Have students find the letters or numbers that you have hidden around the room.
• ABC Order or Number Order: Have students place letters or numbers in the correct order.
• Pocket Chart Game: Place the cards into a pocket chart and hide a picture behind one of the cards. Have students guess which card the hidden picture is behind.

This zoo themed alphabet color by code packet is sure to excite your preschoolers and kindergartners with this fun way to practice learning the letters of the alphabet. These letter recognition alphabet worksheets are differentiated and versatile!

What is Included:

• 11 color by letter for capital letters
• 11 color by letters for lowercase letters.
• Answer Keys

The color by letter pages are differentiated in that they included a variety of easy to color pictures with fewer spaces and letters to those with many more spaces and letters. The easiest color by letter worksheets include 5 letters and the more difficult sheets include 8 letters.

Students will have fun practicing letter recognition and identifying beginning sounds with these flower craftivities for the letter U. Students can express their creativity while decorating their alphabet craft.

This product includes three letter crafts: 2 options for words that start with U and one for letter recognition or matching.

What is Included:

• 2 craft templates with pictures for each letter
• 1 craft template for letter matching for each letter

Each flower craft is a single page craft template for easy craft set up. The shapes are easy for little hands to be successful in cutting each piece on their own. In addition to using these flowers for crafts, they can also make a great sorting center.

There are two ways to use this product:

• Simple print this paper, allow the students to color, cut out and glue into a flower on colored construction paper.
• Print the flower pattern onto colored card stock, cut and laminate. These flowers can be used in center activities.

Practice fine motor skills while creating fun breakfast dot art with these dot painting pages. This food themed art activity is perfect for preschoolers and early elementary students to practice hand eye coordination while making a food craft.

Dot Art Pages Available

• cereal
• donut
• egg
• juice
• milk
• muffin
• omelet
• pancake
• sausage
• toast
• waffle

When to Use

• Art Center
• Fine Motor Center
• Craft Activity
• Early Finishers
• Quiet Time Activity

Empower students with these 25 engaging Social Emotional Learning (SEL) and motivational coloring pages! Each sheet features bold, easy-to-color illustrations paired with encouraging messages like "You Matter," "Dream Big," and "Progress Not Perfection."

These pages are perfect for: ✅ Morning work ✅ Mindfulness centers ✅ Counseling sessions ✅ Early finishers ✅ Classroom décor ✅ Brain breaks or calm-down corners

Help your students build confidence, resilience, empathy, and gratitude while enjoying a relaxing and creative activity. Ideal for elementary classrooms, homeschool, and counseling offices.

Why you'll love it:

• Promotes growth mindset & emotional intelligence
• Clear, kid-friendly designs for all ages
• Print-and-go—no prep required
• Great for whole class or individual use

Total Pages: 25

✨ These coloring pages are no-prep, print-and-go, and designed to bring calm, creativity, and learning to your day. Great addition to the beginning of the school year, your classroom SEL lessons, or anytime!

Need a fun hands on way to practice reading and recognizing AN words? These sorting activities provide a great way to practice these word family in an engaging literacy center.

There are three different sorting activities to practice learning to read and recognize AN family words.

Sorts Include

• Sort words that are part of the AN family from words that are not part of the AN family.
• Sort pictures that are part of the AN family from pictures that are not part of the AN family.
• Sort between real and nonsense AN words.

These low prep sorting activities are easy to create. Simply print the pages, cut out the sorting cards and laminate if desired. By laminating this literacy activity can be used over and over if laminated.

Make reading fun and engaging with this How to Catch a Class Pet Reader’s Theater & Literacy Activities Pack! This companion resource is designed to support comprehension, fluency, vocabulary, and writing—perfect for small groups, literacy centers, or whole-class lessons.

This Reader’s Theater for How to Catch a Class Pet includes two scripts—designed for 2 or 3 student roles—making it easy to adapt for different group sizes. Build fluency, expression, and confidence as students take on character parts and retell the Easter story in their own voices.

What’s Included:

Reader’s Theater Scripts

• Two versions: one for 2 students and one for 3 students
• Supports fluency, expression, and collaboration

Vocabulary Activity

• Students match key vocabulary words from the story to their definitions
• Includes an answer key

Rhyming Words Match

• Fun and engaging rhyming word activity based on the story
• Includes an answer key

Writing Prompt

• “What class pet should we get and why?”
• Encourages opinion writing and text-to-self connections

Word Search

• Features key words from the story
• Includes an answer key

This low-prep resource is perfect for extending your How to Catch a Class Pet read-aloud and helping students build critical literacy skills through meaningful, story-based activities.

About the Book

A group of clever kids sets out on a mission to catch their classroom's runaway pet using creative traps and teamwork. As the students put their plans into action, chaos and laughter follow with each unexpected twist. This fun, rhyming story celebrates problem-solving, persistence, and the joy of working together.

I hope you enjoy using this reader’s theater with your students.

AR Test No. 517605 Grade Level 2.7

Students will have fun practicing letter recognition and identifying beginning sounds with these flower craftivities for the letter S. Students can express their creativity while decorating their alphabet craft.

This product includes three letter crafts: 2 options for words that start with S and one for letter recognition or matching.

What is Included:

• 2 craft templates with pictures for each letter
• 1 craft template for letter matching for each letter

Each flower craft is a single page craft template for easy craft set up. The shapes are easy for little hands to be successful in cutting each piece on their own. In addition to using these flowers for crafts, they can also make a great sorting center.

These monster themed letter and number flashcards and puzzles are a great activity for preschool and kindergarten students. Students can practice letter and number recognition by matching capital and lowercase letters, matching numbers and number words up to 20.

What is Included:

• Alphabet cards for capital and lowercase letters
• Number cards for numbers 1-20 and number words.
• 2 piece alphabet puzzles that match capital and lowercase letters

Students will love the hands on activities in this resource. There are a variety of different games and activities that students can complete independently or with a partner.

Ways to Use the Cards:

• Matching Game: Match capital and lowercase letters or numbers to the number words.
• Fishing Game: Attach a paper clip to the card and use a magnetic fishing pole to "catch" the letters or numbers.
• Salt/Sand Tray: Use these cards as a model to show students what to write in the sand.
• Letter or Number Hunts: Have students find the letters or numbers that you have hidden around the room.
• ABC Order or Number Order: Have students place letters or numbers in the correct order.
• Pocket Chart Game: Place the cards into a pocket chart and hide a picture behind one of the cards. Have students guess which card the hidden picture is behind.

With a wide variety of uses, these cards will allow students to be engaged with learning their letters and numbers, as well as learning number words and practice counting.

Practice fine motor skills while creating fun back to school dot art with these dot painting pages. This fall themed art activity is perfect for preschoolers and early elementary students to practice hand eye coordination while making an autumn craft.

Dot Art Pages Available

• book
• bookshelf
• computer
• crayons
• globe
• glue
• paint
• paper
• paperclip
• pencil
• scissors
• school
• school bus
• whiteboard

When to Use

• Art Center
• Fine Motor Center
• Craft Activity
• Early Finishers
• Quiet Time Activity

Make Mother's Day literacy time engaging and educational with this Mother's Day Reader’s Theater Companion for The Night Before Mother's Day by Natasha Wing! Perfect for primary classrooms, small groups, or intervention settings, this resource brings the story to life with interactive scripts, comprehension practice, and fun bonus activities.

This Reader’s Theater for "The Night Before Mother's Day" includes three scripts—designed for 2, 3, and 4 student roles—making it easy to adapt for any group size. Build fluency, expression, and confidence as students take on character parts and retell the Easter story in their own voices.

What’s Included:

• Reader’s Theater Scripts for 2, 3, and 4 students

• Comprehension Questions featuring:

  • Multiple Choice
  • Short Answer

• Rhyming Words from the book

• Mother's Day Word Search featuring vocabulary from the book

• Answer Keys for both comprehension and word search

• **6 Different coloring page **and Mother's Day cards for your students

This Mother's Day Reader’s Theater activity is perfect for:

• Small group reading instruction
• Fluency practice
• Literacy centers
• Substitute plans
• Spring reading celebrations

Whether you’re looking for a low-prep Mother's Day reading activity or a fun way to build reading skills around a seasonal book, this pack has everything you need!

About the Book

It's the night before Mother's Day, and Dad and the kids are determined to show Mom just how much they love her. They whip up a cake from scratch, and offer a special coupon for a day at the spa, right in their own kitchen! Kids and moms will love reading this sweet story aloud together for a fun way to celebrate Mother's Day.

I hope you enjoy using this reader’s theater with your students.

AR Test No. 136256 Grade Level 2.7

These insect themed letter and number flashcards and puzzles are a great activity for preschool and kindergarten students. Students can practice letter and number recognition by matching capital and lowercase letters, matching numbers and number words up to 20.

What is Included:

• Alphabet cards for capital and lowercase letters
• Number cards for numbers 1-20 and number words.
• 2 piece alphabet puzzles that match capital and lowercase letters
• 3 piece number puzzles to match numbers, number words, and objects

Students will love the hands on activities in this resource. There are a variety of different games and activities that students can complete independently or with a partner.

Ways to Use the Cards:

• Matching Game: Match capital and lowercase letters or numbers to the number words.
• Fishing Game: Attach a paper clip to the card and use a magnetic fishing pole to "catch" the letters or numbers.
• Salt/Sand Tray: Use these cards as a model to show students what to write in the sand.
• Letter or Number Hunts: Have students find the letters or numbers that you have hidden around the room.
• ABC Order or Number Order: Have students place letters or numbers in the correct order.
• Pocket Chart Game: Place the cards into a pocket chart and hide a picture behind one of the cards. Have students guess which card the hidden picture is behind.

With a wide variety of uses, these cards will allow students to be engaged with learning their letters and numbers, as well as learning number words and practice counting.

How to Use the Puzzles

• Task Box Activities
• Math Centers
• Morning Baskets or Tubs

All of the cards and puzzles in this resource can be stored in task boxes. This allows teachers to have an easy to set up activity that students can easily clean and put away themselves.

Skills Assessed:

• Number Recognition
• Number Words to 20
• Number Order
• Letter Recognition
• Matching Capital and Lowercase Letters
• Letter Order

Each part of this resource is low prep. They all just need to be printed out and cut apart before use. The teacher may choose to laminate the pieces for durability.