Where is the penguin? This winter 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. The cards are available in two formats, 6 to a page and 4 to a page to accommodate different sized pocket charts.

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

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Place the winter 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

• Snowflake
• Snowstorm
• Winter Hat
• Hot Chocolate
• Snowball

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.

Practice handwriting skills with these winter 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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Help each snowman find its hat by tracing the path from the snowman to the hat on these tracing cards with a winter 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
• 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 (tracing skills)
• Moving from left to write when writing
• Pencil 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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These winter 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 snowball 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 winter 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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These preschool activities for winter 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

• Letter and Number Mazes
• Emergent Reader
• Roll and Cover Page
• Build It Up! Page
• Cut and Paste Counting Page
• Color the 5 Frame
• Color the 10 Frame
• Picture Addition
• Graphing Page
• Missing Number and Letter Pages
• Greater Than and Less Than
• Letter Matching Cut and Paste
• Put Numbers 1-10 in Order
• Capital and Lowercase Letter Sorting
• Line, Shape, Letter and Number Tracing
• Syllable Sorting
• Counting Coloring Pages
• Roll and Color Dice Center Game
• Cut and Paste Counting Page

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Practice matching colors by putting the right color hat on each snowman. Use the snowman themed color mats to sort objects of different colors.

Colors Included:

red

orange

yellow

green

blue

purple

black

brown

pink

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These winter 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.

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 that 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.

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These alphabet playdough mats are a hands on activity for each letter. Practice letter recognition and letter tracing with this winter themed preschool or kindergarten activity which features pictures of general winter themes, polar animals and winter clothing. Each mat features a large letter for students to build out of playdough and at the bottom of each page are tracing lines for students to practice writing the letter and the word represented by the picture. There is a color set and a black and white set.

What is included:

A - Antarctica

B - Boot

C - Cabin

D - Den

E - Excited

F - Fire

G - Gloves

H - Hat, Hot Chocolate

I - Igloo

J - Joyful

K - Kind

L - Leopard Seal

M - Mittens, Moose

N - Night

O - Overcoat

P - Penguin, Polar Bear

Q - Quilt

R - Red Gloves

S - Snow

T - Tree

U - Umbrella

V - Vest

W - Walrus, Winter

X - Fox

Y - Yellow Scarf

Z - Zoo

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Have students practice saying their letter sounds with this cute penguin game. Students will say a cute rhyme and then "catch" a penguin and say what sound the letter on the penguin's belly says. You can play this game for any length of time in a large or small group setting where students can take turns catching a penguin. Penguin cards are available in capital and lowercase letters. Penguin cards that represent digraphs are also available in this packet.

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These winter 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:

• 27 Vocabulary Cards
• 27 Word Tracing Cards
• 27 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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These differentiated winter counting cards 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