These Donut Cut Outs quickly give you templates that can be easily cut and applied for classroom decoration or student activities
These birthday flash cards help preschool to 4th grade students learn 24 party words like cake, candles and presents. Fold-over picture cards, a practice page and an answer key are included.
This barn cut out activity lets PreK to 3rd grade children color, cut, fold and glue a 3-D paper barn, roof and silo, then stand six farm animals beside it.
These Thanksgiving flash cards give preschool through 2nd grade children 18 self-checking picture and word cards for building holiday vocabulary. A card list answer key is included.
This four seasons activity has children sort 12 picture cards and play a spinner game. Made for Kindergarten to 2nd Grade, with a practice page and answer key included.
These Cloud Cut Outs quickly give you templates that can be easily cut and applied for classroom decoration or student activities
Using this Size Activity, students play Categories to practice identifying the sizes tall, short, big and small.
This go green recycle activity helps preschool to 3rd grade students sort everyday items into paper, plastic, metal, and glass, with a practice page and answer key included.
In this solar system sequencing planets activity, kindergarten to 5th grade students put the eight planets in order from the Sun and match their names. Answer key included.
This 4th of July Clip Art set is a perfect addition to any 4th of July bulletin board, flyer, or other printable that you create to celebrate the holiday!
These Easter flash cards help Preschool to 2nd Grade learners read and say 24 spring and holiday words, with an answer key included for quick checking.
Using this Short Vowel Pumpkin Patch Activity, students sort the picture cards onto the correct short vowel sorting mat.
Using this Bar Graph Activity, students practice using data to create and analyze a bar graph.
This magnet activity has kindergarten to 3rd grade students sort picture cards into things a magnet will pull and things it will not, with a sorting mat, practice page and answer key.
This summer graphing activity has children spin, tally and color a bar graph. Made for Kindergarten to 2nd Grade, with a practice page and answer key included.
These Tree Cut Outs quickly give you templates that can be easily cut and applied for classroom decoration or student activities about nature or trees.
Five senses flash cards for Preschool through 1st Grade: 15 fold-over picture cards pair each sense with its body part, plus a practice page and answer key included to make learning the senses hands-on.
This living and nonliving activity gives kindergarten to 2nd grade students 12 picture cards and a sorting mat to classify things that are alive. A practice page and answer key are included.
Using this Animal Riddles Activity, students read riddles about different animals to try to figure out which animal is being described.
Push it, sort it, watch it grow
Kindergarten science is about noticing and asking. Kids watch the weather and seasons change, learn what plants and animals need to live, and test pushes and pulls by rolling balls and pulling wagons. They sort objects by color, size and material, name body parts, and learn ways to care for Earth like recycling. Most of all, they practice being scientists: observe, predict, test and tell. The click moment is a child predicting "the big ball will roll farther" and racing to find out.
Kindergarten scientists learn by doing. These moves get their hands busy and their questions flowing.
Set out a few toys: a wagon, a door, a ball, a drawer. Kids try moving each and decide: push or pull? Then they sort pictures the same way. Testing with their own hands makes the idea stick.
Why it works: the U.S. Department of Education's guide for teaching elementary math recommends moving from hands-on objects to drawings to numbers.
Try it withPush or Pull Force WorksheetWorksheetsOpen it →Each morning, a weather helper looks outside and picks the matching weather word and picture. By the end of the month the class has a weather graph and a whole new set of vocabulary.
Why it works: children learn more from words and pictures together than from words alone (Mayer, 2009).
Try it withWeather Names WorksheetWorksheetsOpen it →Play the Parts of the Body Song and kids touch each part as it's named. Then speed it up! Movement plus music is how body part names stick for little learners.
Why it works: a catchy, repeating tune gives the brain a hook to hang words on, so sung text is remembered better (Wallace, 1994).
Try it withParts of the Body Song (Animated Music Video)SongsOpen it →Kindergarten science should feel like discovery time.
WorksheetsKids sort a pile of objects any way they choose, then the class guesses their sorting rule.
Open Sorting Objects Worksheet →
WorksheetsTeams race to sort clean trash into recycle, compost and garbage bins.
Open Recycle Worksheet →
WorksheetsMatch animal pictures to their names, then act out each animal for the class.
Open Animal Words Matching Worksheet →Teacher favorites right now: Donut Cut Outs, Birthday Flash Cards and Barn Cut Out.
Weather and seasons, pushes and pulls, what plants and animals need, the five senses and body parts, sorting objects and caring for Earth. The focus is on observing and asking questions.
Keep it hands-on. Let kids touch, test and talk about what they notice. Ask "What do you think will happen?" before every experiment.
A push moves something away from you, and a pull moves it toward you. Kids learn that pushes and pulls make things start, stop and change direction.
Plant a seed, roll toy cars down ramps, watch the weather and sort laundry by color. Ask lots of questions and let your child predict.
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