2nd Grade Montessori (by date, latest first)

Introduce your students to the tropical world of iguanas with this vibrant, interactive worksheet. Designed for PreK–3 learners, this printable resource guides students through each life stage—from mama iguana laying eggs to juveniles becoming adults—using bright visuals and hands‑on learning. Perfect for units on reptiles, habitats, and life cycles.

What’s Included in the Iguana Life Cycle Worksheet?

1. Informative Overview – Child‑friendly explanation of each stage: egg, hatchling, juvenile, and adult
2. Life Cycle Diagram – Clear visuals showing growth and development over time
3. Cut & Paste Sequencing Activity – Tactile exercise where students arrange life stages in order
4. Fun Facts – Highlights some fun facts about this unique creature!
5. Matching Activity – Reinforces vocabulary and concept understanding through image‑term connections
6. Flashcards – Vibrant cards ideal for games, centers, or vocabulary review
7. Coloring Page – Creative coloring sheet featuring an iguana in its natural habitat

This Worksheet Is Perfect For:

• PreK–3 science units focused on reptiles, life cycles, or tropical ecosystems
• Homeschooling lessons on animal development and habitats
• Interactive notebooks, lapbooks, or morning tubs
• Enrichment centers and early-finishers' activity corners

Key Learning Objectives:

Students will:

• Identify and sequence each stage in an iguana's life cycle
• Learn essential terms: egg, hatchling, juvenile, adult
• Understand basic reptile behaviors—how hatchlings emerge and are independent

The Life Cycle of an Iguana Worksheet brings the journey of this captivating reptile to life through engaging visuals, sequencing tasks, and fun facts. It's a memorable, hands-on way for young learners to explore growth, adaptation, and the wonders of animal life cycles.

Jumper: A Day in the life of a Backyard Jumping Spider is a gorgeously illustrated picture book that offers a detailed look at the life of a jumping spider. This activity pack includes ideas for STEM projects and printables for

*vocabulary development

*compare and contrast

*labeling diagrams

*research project

Perfect for libraries, classrooms or homeschooling. 

This title is part of the Texas 2x2 list for 2024-2025 and the NC Children's Book Award for 2024-2025.

What's Included In This Bundle:

Set Of #26 Alphabet Books:

These books are a great resource for letter and sound recognition. You can have your students color or trace each word and color the picture on each page.

These mini-books are short and simple to create and help your early readers as they begin to learn the sounds each letter makes. Each sentence starts the same way making it easy and predictable for your young readers. They are perfect for the beginning of the year or spread throughout!

Fun Jellyfish Themed Sentence Starters:

These jellyfish are fun sentence starters for you to not only get to know your students better. But for them to also practice their fine motor skills of cutting things out and writing words. They are also fun to use as decorations in your classroom. Your students can also decorate their jellyfish however they would like. I created #5 different colors of jellyfish as well as a black and white one that you can print on different colors of paper or have your students decorate and color themselves.

What’s Included In This Package:

#5 different sentence starters in #5 different colors as well as black & white.

Sentence Starters:

My #3 Favorite Things Are:

My #3 Favorite Foods Are:

My #3 Favorite Sweets Are:

My #3 Favorite Animals Are:

My #3 Favorite Fruits Are

What's Included In This Bundle:

Back To School Themed Tracing Cards - Letters & Numbers:

(Uppercase & lowercase alphabet tracing cards - Number Tracing cards 1-10).

This is a great activity to help your students practice holding a pencil and writing their numbers and letters. As well as another way to get more letter and number recognition practice in.

I recommend printing and laminating these in order to be able to reuse them. Expo markers are great to use for easy clean-up!

School Bus Back To School-Themed Play-doh Mats

This is a fun unique way of practicing letter recognition as well as how to form each letter of the alphabet. You can have your students tell you what each letter is and then form the letter using play-doh, pom poms, buttons, beads, or anything else you would like them to use. It is also great fine motor practice!

I would recommend printing these and laminating them for better durability.

There are capital and lowercase letter play-doh mats A-Z as well as 1-10 play-doh mats.

There are #2 different Halloween Products in this bundle. One is the Halloween Letter, Number, and Shape Matching activity and the other one is the Halloween Patterns. Below is more info on each product!!

Halloween Themed Letters, Shapes, & Numbers Matching Game - Fall Themed Activities:

This is such a fun fall themed learning activity that can be use in so many ways throughout the fall months.

The ghosts with numbers have a pumpkin basket with the corresponding number of candy to match. This helps students practice one-to-one correspondence and number recognition.

There are ghosts with Uppercase Letters on them as well as pumpkin baskets with lowercase letters on them. This helps students start learning and matching the correct letters together.

There are #2 sets of each shape flashcard. This helps students start recognizing and matching shapes together.

I would print and laminate these for better durability.

• Numbers 1-10

(with flashcards that have the correct number of candy to match each number. This helps students practice counting and one-to-one correspondence)

• Capital Letters A-Z
• Lowercase Letters a-z
• Shapes:

(two of each for matching purposes)

Square

Triangle

Rectangle

Circle

Star

Heart

Hexagon

Pentagon

Diamond

Oval

Octagon

Finish The Pattern (Halloween Patterns - Math Center):

This Halloween-themed math activity focuses on continuing and completing different patterns. It teaches students how to identify a pattern and continue it using different halloween themed items. There are a total of #30 different patterns for your students to complete. This is a great independent math activity for your students during small groups or whenever you want to use it!

I would print and laminate this activity for better durability and then store the remaining halloween pieces in a container of some sort so they don’t get lost after you cut them out.

I hope you and your students enjoy this product!

These are some great fun hands-on learning activities for your students as we enter the new school year! There are tracing activities, matching activities, play-doh mats and so much more!

What's Included In This Package:

- School Bus Matching Activities

(Uppercase & lowercase letters A-Z, Numbers 1-10, and many different Shapes)

- Crayon Tracing Cards - Rainbow-Themed

(Uppercase & lowercase letters A-z & Numbers 1-10)

- Pencil-Themed Matching Activities

(Uppercase & lowercase letters A-Z, Numbers 1-10, and many different Shapes)

- School Bus-Themed Tracing Cards

(Uppercase letters A-Z, lowercase letters a-z, Uppercase & lowercase letters Aa-Zz, & Number Cards 1-10)

School Bus-Themed Play-doh Mats

(Uppercase letters A-Z, lowercase letters a-z, Uppercase & lowercase letters Aa-Zz, & Number Cards 1-10)

Fall is such a fun time of the year and the Apple Theme is one of my favorites during this season! There are SO many fun activities you can do with young learners to go with the this theme. This bundle has a few different activities that are both hands on and fun. Below is a list of what math activities are included in this bundle.

Complete The Pattern Activity:

There are #113 different apple patterns ranging from simple to more complex for your students to identify and create. There are #6 different apple colors that are included in these patterns. This activity is perfect to include during rotations and center times. I would laminate the pattern pages as well as the apple pieces for better durability.

Play-doh Mats & Ten Frames:

Who doesn't love play-doh?? And what better way is there than incorporating early math concepts and counting into some play-doh fun. These play-doh mats have both numbers that your students can practice identifying and forming with play-doh as well as ten frames for them to practice one-to-one correspondence and counting. I promise this activity will not disappoint! The play-doh mats include numbers 1-10.

Count & Match File Folder Game:

File folder games are so convenient and easy to put together for your student's independent activities. This file folder game has #2 pages of apple baskets with numbers 1-10 on them that you will attach to a file folder. There are also counting cards with different numbers of apples on them for your students to count the amount of apples and match it to the corresponding number.

Apple Counting Book | Mini Readers:

There is #2 pages of colorful apples as well as black and white apples. You can have your student’s practice holding scissors and cut the apples out or if they are not ready for that step you can cut them out yourself as well. Once the apples are cut out they will read the sentence and then glue the correct amount of apples to each tree. There is a black and white apple tree book (that you can have your student’s color) as well as a colorful one as well depending on which one you would like to use.

At the end of either book the last page also has an area where they read how many apples should be on each line and then draw the correct amount of apples according to what the number says.This bundle of activities will be a great addition to your math center during this season! Please let me know if you have any comments and/or questions!

What's Included In This Package:

- Alphabet Dot Marker Art (Uppercase & lowercase Letters Aa-Zz)

- Alphabet Tracing Cards (Uppercase & lowercase letters Aa-Zz as well as numbers 1-10)

- Alphabet Matching Cards (Practice matching each Uppercase & lowercase letter together)

- Trace, Then Write (Uppercase & lowercase Writing Activity Practice)

- Letter Matching File Folder Game (Uppercase & lowercase Letter Matching Practice)

- Number Matching File Folder Game (With Counting & One-to-One Correspondence Practice)

- Shape & Color Matching File Folder Game (this game includes shape matching practice and each shape they match is the same color so it also helps them match the right colors together as well.

What is included in this package:

- Daily Schedule Pocket Chart

- Birthday Board

- Rotation Center Signs

- Bathroom Reminders & Hand Washing Posters

- Shape Posters

- Number Posters

- Alphabet Posters

- Classroom Decor - Welcome Sign - Bulletin Board

What is included in this package:

- Daily Schedule Pocket Chart

- Birthday Board

- Name Plates - Cubbie Signs

- Rotation Center Signs

- Bathroom Reminders & Hand Washing Posters

- Shape Posters

- Number Posters

- Alphabet Posters

- Classroom Decor - Welcome Sign - Bulletin Board

What's Included In This Bundle:

- Alphabet Play-doh Mats (Uppercase & lowercase Letters Aa-Zz)

- Number Play-doh Mats With Ten Frames

- Trace It, Color It, Write It Alphabet Book - Writing Center

- Alphabet Letter & Number Tracing Cards - Writing Center

- Matching Game ( Shapes - Letters - Numbers)

- Clothes Pin Clip Task Cards | Letter & Number Matching

More Information On Each Item:

The Alphabet Play-doh Mats have both Uppercase and lowercase Letters. This activity is great for not only hands on learning through play but also to help your students practice forming each letter of the alphabet. Each play-doh mat also has a picture of an item that starts with that letter.

The Number Play-doh mats also have ten frames on them. This helps your students practice counting and one-to-one correspondence.

The Alphabet book is great for your literacy center and writing practice. Each page has both the Uppercase and lowercase letter on it. The students color, trace, and then practice writing each Uppercase and lowercase letter of the alphabet.

The Matching Game has Uppercase and lowercase letter matching practice as well as number and shape cards. The number cards have a matching card with the corresponding number of apple seeds on each one. This helps students practice counting and one-to-one correspondence.

The letter tracing cards are also another great way for your students to practice writing each Uppercase and lowercase letter as well as numbers 1-10.

The Clothes Pin Clip task cards are a great fall-themed learning activity. There are both pumpkin-themed letter cards as well as number cards.

Each letter task card has an Uppercase letter on the pumpkin as well as #3 different lowercase letters on the right side of the card to choose from. Your students will then clip a clothespin on the correct lowercase letter that matches the letter on the pumpkin. This is a great fine motor activity as well as a great way to practice matching Uppercase and lowercase letters together. Each number task card has a different amount of pumpkins from 1-10 on it. The students will count how many pumpkins are on each card and then attach a clothespin to the matching number on the right.

I hope you and your students love these products as much as I loved creating them!

Fall is one of my favorite times of the year! I love all the changing colors as the leaves begin to change and the changing weather as well. My goal during this time of the year is to bring some of that fall change into my classroom as well. One theme that I am able to do that with is the apple theme. There are SO many fun hands on learning activities that you can do with young learners that go with this theme. One of my student's favorite activities is always the apple tasting and graphing one!

In this bundle I have created multiple different apple themed learning activities to go with different centers including writing center, math center, literacy center and more. Below is a list of what's included in this bundle.

- Complete The Pattern (#113 different colorful apple patterns ranging from simple to more complex)

- Count & Match File Folder Game (Numbers 1-10)

- Alphabet Play-doh Mats (Uppercase & lowercase Letters Aa-Zz)

- Number Play-doh Mats With Ten Frames

- Trace It, Color It, Write It Alphabet Book - Writing Center

- Alphabet Letter & Number Tracing Cards - Writing Center

- Matching Game ( Shapes - Letters - Numbers)

More Information On Each Item:

The Alphabet Play-doh Mats have both Uppercase and lowercase Letters. This activity is great for not only hands on learning through play but also to help your students practice forming each letter of the alphabet. Each play-doh mat also has a picture of an item that starts with that letter.

The Number Play-doh mats also have ten frames on them. This helps your students practice counting and on-to-one correspondence.

The file folder game has #2 pages of apple baskets with numbers 1-10 on them that you will attach to a file folder. There are also counting cards with different numbers of apples on them for your students to count the amount of apples and match it to the corresponding number.

There are #113 different apple patterns ranging from simple to more complex for your students to identify and create. There are #6 different apple colors that are included in these patterns. This activity is perfect to include during rotations and center times. I would laminate the pattern pages as well as the apple pieces for better durability.

The Alphabet book is great for your literacy center and writing practice. Each page has both the Uppercase and lowercase letter on it. The students color, trace and then practice writing each Uppercase and lowercase letter of the alphabet.

The Matching Game has Uppercase and lowercase letter matching practice as well as number and shape cards. The number cards have a matching card with the corresponding number of apple seeds on each one. This helps students practice counting and one-to-one correspondence.

The letter tracing cards are also another great way for your students to practice writing each Uppercase and lowercase letter as well as numbers 1-10.

I hope you and your students love these products as much as I loved creating them!

Included In This Package:

Alphabet Classroom Decorations

Uppercase Letters A-Z

lowercase letters a-z

Uppercase & lowercase letters Aa-Zz

Classroom Rotation Center Signs:

I would print these center signs out and then laminate them. You can then place velcro dots on each sign. For example, if you only want #4 students in the library at a time. I would place #4 velcro dots on that center sign. Then during rotations, they can use their name or a picture of them to move to the center they want to be in. Once each velcro dot is full they will know they have to go to a different center until another student moves to a different activity. This helps you know where each student was when it’s time to clean up and helps students practice taking turns as well as helps keep centers from getting too overcrowded.

Center Signs Included In This Package:

• LIBRARY CENTER
• READING CENTER
• ART CENTER
• BUILDING CENTER
• BLOCK CENTER
• HOUSEKEEPING
• DRAMATIC CENTER
• MANIPULATIVE CENTER
• SCIENCE CENTER
• SENSORY CENTER
• WRITING CENTER
• LITERACY CENTER
• MATH CENTER
• PLAY-DOH CENTER
• MUSIC CENTER
• CIRCLE TIME AREA

Spaceship Themed Trace, Then Write Activity:

This handwriting activity is perfect for independent work or morning work activity for your students. I would print and staple all of the Uppercase pages together as well as all the lowercase letter pages together.

I hope you and your students enjoy this fun spaceship writing practice activity!

Finish The Pattern:

This Halloween-themed math activity focuses on continuing and completing different patterns. It teaches students how to identify a pattern and continue it using different halloween themed items. There are a total of #30 different patterns for your students to complete. This is a great independent math activity for your students during small groups or whenever you want to use it!

I would print and laminate this activity for better durability and then store the remaining halloween pieces in a container of some sort so they don’t get lost after you cut them out.

I hope you and your students enjoy this product!

Space-Themed Bathroom & Handwashing Posters

Included In This Package:

#3 Bathroom Reminder Posters:

• Use The Bathroom
• Flush The Toilet
• Wash Your Hands

#9 Handwashing Steps

• Turn Water On
• Get Your Hands Wet With Warm Water
• Put Some Soap On Your Hands
• Rub Your Hands Together With Soap
• Wash Your Hands For #20 Seconds
• Rinse Your Hands With Warm Water
• Dry Your Hands With A Clean Paper Towel
• Use The Paper Towel To Turn Off The Water
• Dispose Of The Paper Towel In The Trash Can

Halloween Themed Number Play-doh Mats & Ten Frames

(Fall Activities)

This is a great fun fall-themed counting activity that helps introduce one-to-one correspondence to your students. I recommend laminating these for better durability and to be able to reuse them.

Your students can use play-doh, candy, (or any other item you would like to use) to form each number and then count the correct amount of items to show the number they formed.

Space-Themed Uppercase

& lowercase Letter

Matching Game:

I recommend printing these space-themed letter cards out and lamination them. Cut through the middle line of each card separating the Uppercase & lowercase letter out and then let your students have fun matching them all!

There are space-themed cards Aa-Zz in color as well as in black and white. Giving you the option to print whichever one you prefer.

Fun Sentence Starters:

These jellyfish are fun sentence starters for you to not only get to know your students better. But for them to also practice their fine motor skills of cutting things out and writing words. They are also fun to use as decorations in your classroom. Your students can also decorate their jellyfish however they would like. I created #5 different colors of jellyfish as well as a black and white one that you can print on different colors of paper or have your students decorate and color themselves.

What’s Included In This Package:

#5 different sentence starters in #5 different colors as well as black & white.

Sentence Starters:

My #3 Favorite Things Are:

My #3 Favorite Foods Are:

My #3 Favorite Sweets Are:

My #3 Favorite Animals Are:

My #3 Favorite Fruits Are