These Christmas vocabulary cards are great for placing in a writing center for students to practice spelling the words in their own writing, or for tracing the words on the cards to practice their handwriting.

What is Included:

• 24 Vocabulary Cards
• 24 Word Tracing Cards
• 24 Write the Word Cards

How to Use:

• The vocabulary cards can be used as a themed wall display or simply placed in the writing center for students to use to reference while they write or draw.
• The tracing cards are great for a writing center for students to practice their handwriting skills.
• The writing cards can be used for students to copy the words from the wall display or to practice spelling words on their own.

These vocabulary cards are a low prep writing center activity for teachers to prepare for students. The cards just need to be printed and cut apart. The tracing and writing cards can be laminated to create a write and wipe activity for students to use over and over.

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This Christmas 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 Santa 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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Where is the present? This Christmas 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 Present? is a game for centers or whole group instruction where a present is hidden behind a Christmas tree. A poem is chanted where the student(s) must say the letter they think the present is behind. Once guessed, the letter is removed. If the present is behind the tree, then the present must be hidden again to play further. If the present is not behind the tree, then the poem is chanted again with a new letter. This game has letters in both capital and lowercase forms.

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Students will sort the ornaments into the correct tree according to how many syllables are in the word. Students will work with words that have 1, 2, 3, or 4 syllables. This makes a great hands on center for students needed phonological awareness practice in counting syllables.

What is Included:

• Christmas Tree Sorting Mats for 1-4 syllables
• Ornament feather picture cards
• Christmas Tree Layer Sorting Cards

These syllable sorting mats and cards make a great hands on literacy center for students to practice counting syllables in words. The bold, easy to recognize pictures allow students to count the syllables of each word independently.

How to Use:

• Activity 1 - Students will lay out the 4 syllable mats and then sort the feather cards into the correct turkey according to how many syllables are in the word.
• Activity 2 - Students will build Christmas Trees according to the number of syllables in each word.

Get practice creating, copying and continuing patterns with this Christmas themed patterning worksheet and center packet. This packet contains practice with AB, ABB, AAB, AABB, and ABC patterns.

What is Included

• 4 I can statement posters
• 2 cut and paste worksheets
• 1 create your own pattern worksheet
• 12 continuing the pattern cards with pieces
• 10 copy the pattern cards

Students will get a ton of practice making and finishing patterns with these worksheets and activities. The activities are differentiated for students who need more practice with simple patterns and those who are ready for more complex patterns.

When to Use:

• Math Centers
• Morning Work
• Small Group Activities
• Homework
• Sub Plans

The low prep nature of the activities make these perfect activities for subs to use with students. The worksheets make a great take home activity or morning work activity for students to complete independently.

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Practice number recognition skills with this fun Christmas themed sorting activity. Students will sort numbered ornaments onto the tree that has the same teen number.

The Christmas Tree mats and ornaments are available in color and black and white.

These Christmas themed letter and number cards 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, as well as matching numbers and pictures up to 10.

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
• 2 piece number and counting object match
• 3 piece number, word and object match

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
• Counting to 10
• 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.

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This set includes number sorting mats for numbers 1-10 with a Christmas theme. Students will practice number recognition, counting and subitizing with these number mats.

What Is Included:

• 1 number mat for each number 1-10

How to Use

Students will cover the pictures that match the number on the number mat. Students can use bingo chips, mini erasers, counting cubes or pouch tops to cover the correct pictures.

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Help put each ornament on its Christmas tree by tracing the path from the ornament to the tree on these tracing cards with a Christmas 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!

Ways to Use

• Writing Center
• Fine Motor Center
• Write and Wipe Activity
• Morning Tub or Basket

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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Help students with letter recognition with these fun Christmas tree themed sorting mats. Give students the mat with the desired letter and an assortment of ornaments. Have the student place the ornaments with the correct letters onto the Christmas Tree mat. Ornaments are available with lowercase and capital letters. Christmas Tree mats and ornaments are available in color and in black and white.

Place the Christmas objects in order by size, from biggest to smallest or smallest to biggest. Students will have fun and stay engaged working with nonstandard measurements as they complete this size ordering math center.

Themes Included

• Christmas Tree
• Stocking
• Ornament
• Wreath
• Candy Cane

Activities for Each Theme:

• One worksheet for ordering from biggest to smallest.
• One worksheet for ordering from smallest to biggest.
• One set of ordering by size cards

This set also contains one "I can order by size" statement poster to display with the center to display the students' goal for this math center. Students will gain practice with non-standard measurements by ordering the size of each object.

When to Use:

• Math Centers
• Small Group Activities
• Morning Work, Baskets, or Tubs
• Homework
• Sub Plans

Skills Assessed:

These worksheets and cards assess a student's ability to successfully order objects according to size.

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These Christmas 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 Christmas tree 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 Christmas 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.

Help Santa sort his gifts and treats into the correct sacks! Use picture cards to sort by beginning sounds, shape or color. On the number mats, add the correct number of gifts into each bag.

Mats Included:

• Letter Sorting Mats for Beginning Sounds
• Number Mats 1-20
• Shape Mats (5 shapes)
• Color Mats (11 colors)
• Blank Mat

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These preschool activities for Christmas time include math and ELA activities for preschoolers. Activities include counting, fine motor activities, letter recognition, tracing and much more! These preschool worksheets are mostly no-prep, print and go activities.

Activities Included In this Packet

Page 2 – Capital Letter Maze

Page 3 – Lowercase Letter Maze

Page 4 – Counting to 10 Maze

Page 5 – Counting to 20 Maze

Pages 6-8 – Emergent Reader

Page 9 – Roll and Cover Page

Page 10 – Build It Up! Page

Page 11 – Cut and Paste Counting Page

Page 12 – Color the 5 Frame

Page 13 – Color the 10 Frame

Page 14 – Picture Addition

Page 15 – Graphing Page

Page 16 – Missing Number Page

Page 17 – Missing Letter Page

Page 18 – Greater Than and Less Than

Page 19 – Letter Matching Cut and Paste

Page 20 – Put Numbers 1-10 in Order

Page 21 – Capital and Lowercase Letter Sorting

Page 22-23 – Line Tracing Pages

Page 24 – Shape Tracing

Pages 25-30 – Letter Tracing

Page 31 – Number Tracing

Page 32 – Syllable Sorting

Page 33-36 – Counting Coloring Pages

Page 37 – Roll and Color Dice Center Game

Page 38 – Cut and Paste Counting Page

Pages 39-42 – Craft Templates and Ideas

Are you looking for a Christmas themed science experiment? This candy cane science activity is an easy and fun experiment for students to practice making predictions, observing, and recording their observations and results. An easy to follow instructional page, child friendly recording sheets and a journal page are including with this packet.

What is included:

Instruction sheet for the candy cane experiment

3 recording sheet options for making observations, predictions and conclusions.

1 journal page to draw a picture and write about what they did and learned.

These letter and number magnet matching mats make a great hands on literacy or math center for the preschool classroom. Students will have fun with these Christmas themed letter recognition and number recognition mats. Simply add magnets, mini erasers, or other letter and number manipulatives to fill in the charts.

What Is Included

• 4 Capital Letter Mats
• 4 Lowercase Letter Mats
• 4 Number Mats

You can even create a sensory bin with these mats. Just place the letter or number manipulatives in the bin and as the students finds the letter or number, they can fill in the chart.

Ways to Use:

• Literacy Center
• Sensory Bin Activity
• Morning Basket or Morning Work
• Small Group Activity

These alphabet and number mats are no-prep. They just need to be printed off and placed in the desired location. The mats can be laminated for durability to create a reusable activity.

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Let your students practice counting to ten with this fun and versatile Christmas tree counting center. Use a variety of manipulatives as counters or simply print the counters that come with the product!

These counting mat pages are available in color and black and white!

Types of counters: Christmas erasers, pouch tops, blocks, round counters/chips, pom poms and so much more!

These Christmas tree counting cards for numbers 1-20 are perfect for practicing counting up to 20. They can also be used for a Christmas theme. Students practice counting within tens frames and can practice number word recognition for numbers 1-10.

There are two sets of cards that provide two levels of differentiated practice. One set of cards have the number and the tens frames are blank so students must correctly count to the number by placing manipulatives in the tens frames. The other set has the tens frames already marked with pumpkin seeds so students who need a little extra guidance can simply over lay their counters to complete the card.

Sort Christmas images with this set of number sense subitizing mats. Students will get a ton of practice counting and recognizing numbers 1-10. Students will practice counting objects, dice, dominoes, tally marks and more!

What Is Included:

• 1 number sorting mat for each number 1-10
• 6 picture cards for each number

How to Use:

Students will count the number of objects in each picture. They will place the picture on the correct number mat. Add velco for the pieces to stick on the mats! You can also attach magnets to the back of the number cards and use a baking tray to sort by number.

Where to Use:

These number sense and subitizing mats are a great addition to your morning bins or math center. They are also a great addition to any small group activity for students who need practice with subitizing.

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Practice handwriting skills with these Christmas themed writing cards. Trace capital letters, lowercase letters and numbers 1-20. Laminate these cards to make a write and wipe activity. Students will use dry erase markers to trace the letters and numbers

Cards Included:

• Capital Letter Tracing Cards
• Lowercase Letter Tracing Cards
• Capital and Lowercase Letter Tracing Cards
• Numbers 1-20 Tracing Cards

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!

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