These differentiated back to school counting cards for numbers 1-20 allow preschool and kindergarten students to practice counting up to 20 with tens frames and manipulatives. Students also gain practice with number recognition and reading number words. By placing manipulatives on the mats, students practice one to one correspondence.

There are two sets of counting mats:

• Counting mats for students to place manipulatives without guiding marks
• Counting mats for students to place manipulatives with guiding marks

Two Sizes for mats:

• Half page sized mats for math centers
• Smaller cards for tasks boxes

When to Use

• Morning tubs
• Morning baskets
• Tasks box activity
• Math center
• Individual counting practice
• Small group math activity
• Table top activity

This back to school letter and number seek and find activity makes a great hands on literacy or math center for the preschool or kindergarten classroom. Students will have fun tracing letters and finding numbers with these school but themed letter recognition and number recognition matching mats. These mats also work great with a transportation theme! Each letter and number mat is available in color and in black and white.

What Is Included

• 1 Capital Letter Mat
• 1 Lowercase Letter Mat
• 1 Capital and Lowercase Letter Mat
• 1 Number 0-5 Mat
• 1 Number 0-10 Mat
• 1 Number 0-20 Mat
• Capital and Lowercase Letter Cards
• Number Cards 0-20

Types of Activities

• Create a hands on literacy or math center by placing the mats and cards in a center.
• Create a write and wipe activity by laminating the mats or placing them in page protectors and providing a dry erase marker.
• Create a sensory bin by adding the letter or number cards inside a sensory bin for students to find.
• Write the Room activity where the teacher hides the cards around the room and students find them to write or trace on their mats.
• Find and Cover activity where students draw a card then use various magnets, mini erasers, or bingo chips to cover the correct letter or number.
• Find and Dot activity where students draw a card then use a bingo marker to dot the correct letter or number.

By having a variety of ways to complete, students will stay engaged as they look for and find each letter or number on the letter mats.

Skills Assessed with these learning mats:

• Letter Recognition with capital and lowercase letters
• Number Recognition from 0-20
• Handwriting Practice for letters and numbers

The mats to this activity are no prep. You simply print and hand out or place in the desired center. The mats can be laminated or placed in page protectors for a reusable activity. The cards are low prep, as they just need to be printed and cut apart. The cards can also be laminated for durability.

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This back to school themed letter and number seek and find activity makes a great hands on literacy or math center for the preschool or kindergarten classroom. Students will have fun tracing letters and finding numbers with these crayon themed letter recognition and number recognition matching mats. Each letter and number mat is available in color and in black and white.

What Is Included

• 1 Capital Letter Mat
• 1 Lowercase Letter Mat
• 1 Capital and Lowercase Letter Mat
• 1 Number 0-5 Mat
• 1 Number 0-10 Mat
• 1 Number 0-20 Mat
• Capital and Lowercase Letter Cards
• Number Cards 0-20

Types of Activities

• Create a hands on literacy or math center by placing the mats and cards in a center.
• Create a write and wipe activity by laminating the mats or placing them in page protectors and providing a dry erase marker.
• Create a sensory bin by adding the letter or number cards inside a sensory bin for students to find.
• Write the Room activity where the teacher hides the cards around the room and students find them to write or trace on their mats.
• Find and Cover activity where students draw a card then use various magnets, mini erasers, or bingo chips to cover the correct letter or number.
• Find and Dot activity where students draw a card then use a bingo marker to dot the correct letter or number.

By having a variety of ways to complete, students will stay engaged as they look for and find each letter or number on the letter mats.

Skills Assessed with these learning mats:

• Letter Recognition with capital and lowercase letters
• Number Recognition from 0-20
• Handwriting Practice for letters and numbers

The mats to this activity are no prep. You simply print and hand out or place in the desired center. The mats can be laminated or placed in page protectors for a reusable activity. The cards are low prep, as they just need to be printed and cut apart. The cards can also be laminated for durability.

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These preschool activities for back to school time include math and ELA activities for preschoolers. Activities include counting, fine motor activities, letter recognition, tracing and much more!

What is included:

Pages 2-7: Word Wall Cards

Page 8: Matching or Concentration Game cards: Print the page out twice to create the game.

Pages 9-10: Letter Mazes

Pages 11-12: Number Mazes (1-10 and 1-20)

Pages 13-16: Emergent Reader

Page 17: Roll and Cover Counting Game

Page 18: Build it Up Counting Game

Page 19: Cut and Paste Counting page.

Page 20: Counting with 5 frames.

Page 21: Counting with 10 frames.

Page 22: Simple addition page

Page 23: Graphing Page

Page 24: Pattern Page

Page 25: Fill in the missing number

Page 26: Fill in the missing letter

Page 27: Greater than, less than and equal too practice with pictures.

Pages 28-32 – Tens Frames 1-10 Matching Center

Pages 33-34: Patterns center

Page 35: Clip the egg that does not belong

Page 36: Counting to10 puzzles

Page 37: Sort suns from big to small

Page 38: Letter Matching

Page 39: Number Order

Page 40: Letter Sorting – Capital and Lowercase Letters

Page 41-50: Tracing Practice

Page 51: Syllable Cut and Paste

Pages 52-53: Order by size worksheets

Page 54: Roll and Color game

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These back to school themed letter and number cards and puzzles are a great beginning of the year activity for preschool and kindergarten students. Students can practice letter and number recognition by matching capital and lowercase letters and 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.

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.

Where's the School Supplies? This back to school alphabet game is great for students who are practicing letter sounds or letter recognition. This game can be used in a pocket chart or on a table top for a Preschool, Pre-k or Kindergarten classroom.

Ways to Use

• small group game
• whole class game
• circle time game
• student led literacy center
• one on one instruction to target specific letters for struggling students

How to Play

Where's the School Supplies? is a game for centers or whole group instruction where school supplies is hidden behind a backpack. A poem is chanted where the student(s) must say the letter they think the school supplies is behind. Once guessed, the letter is removed. If the school supplies is behind the backpack, then it must be hidden again to play further. If the school supplies is not behind the backpack, then the poem is chanted again and a new letter is guessed.

This set includes the following game cards

• Where's the Pencil?
• Where's the Crayon?
• Where's the Marker?
• Where's the Notebook?

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These back to school alphabet clip cards are the perfect way for preschoolers and kindergartners to practice letter recognition and matching capital and lowercase letters. Students can also practice building fine motor skills by using clips to mark each letter.

What is Included:

There are 4 clip cards for each letter of the alphabet. Activities include matching the capital letter to a matching capital letter, matching a lowercase letter to the matching lowercase letter and matching capital letters with the correct lowercase letters.

How to Use:

Students will take one clip card, look at the letter on the book card and then clip the letter that matches. The teach may choose to use small manipulatives, like mini erasers, bingo chips or counters to mark each correct response. The cards can also be laminated for students to use dry erase markers to mark correct answers.

Where to Use:

• Literacy Center
• Morning Tubs or Baskets

Skills Assessed

• Recognizing and identifying capital and lowercase letters
• Matching a capital or lowercase letter to their letter counterpart

These back to school letter clip cards are a low prep option for teachers to give to students to complete. The cards simply need to be printed and cut apart before being placed inside a learning station.

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Trace the path between the school themed objects with these tracing cards with a back to school theme. There are two sets of tracing line with 52 cards each (for a total of 104 cards) with a variety of tracing lines including curves, loops, zig zags and more!

These tracing cards give students practice with handwriting by having them trace a variety of lines. They help guide students to follow the line from left to right to mimic how students will eventually learn to write words and sentences and these lines allow students to practice pen control.

There are two sets of cards in this product:

• The first set has a decorative boarder where you can print on white paper.
• The second set has no border so you can print on colored paper and save on ink!

In this packet, students will help the bus make it to school, help the teacher find her marker, put the notebook in the backpack, and help the pencil find the paper.

Ways to Use

• Writing Center
• Fine Motor Center
• Write and Wipe Activity
• Morning Tub or Basket
• Independent Center
• Small Group Activity
• Table Top Center

These fine motor cards and perfect for a writing center. By laminating each card or placing the full pages in page protectors you can create a write and wipe activity and use them over and over.

You can turn these cards into a fine motor center by adding mini erasers or other small objects for students to place along the line. Add tongs for more fine motor fun! You can also use cotton swabs and paint to dot the lines.

Skills Targeted:

• Following a line by tracing
• Moving from left to write when writing
• Pen control
• Hand eye coordination
• Building fine motor skills

These tracing cards and the markers or manipulatives used to complete them can be stored in a pencil box for easy set up, clean up and storage.

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