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.
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 snowman cut outs worksheet gives kindergarten students four bold snowman shapes to color and cut out, building fine motor skills while making a cheerful winter craft for cards or bulletin boards.
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.
This 4th of July clip art activity gives Preschool to 1st Grade children 15 fold-over picture cards, a card hunt game and a practice page, with an answer key included, to build holiday vocabulary.
This short vowel pumpkin patch activity helps K-1st grade children hear short a, e, i, o and u sounds with a fall picture sort and recording page. Answer key included.
This months of the year activity is a picture card game for 1st and 2nd grade: put the months in order and sort them by season, with a practice page. Answer key included.
Using Plurals Activity, students add the proper word ending to make a plural noun for correct usage in writing.
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.
This common and proper nouns activity has 1st to 3rd grade students sort snowflake word cards on a winter mat, with a practice page and answer key included for easy checking.
This raking leaves verbs activity has 1st to 3rd grade children match fall action pictures to verbs in a memory game, then complete sentences. Answer key included.
Kids build short-vowel words with pumpkin tiles in this Fall CVC Mat Activity for preschool to 1st grade. Answer key included, so checking each word mat is fast.
In this snowy addition activity, K-1st grade children add facts with sums of 7 to 10 and sort each snowflake under the right snowman. Answer key included for quick checking.
This apple cvc mat activity lets PreK-1st grade students build short-vowel words with apple letter tiles on 12 picture mats. Practice worksheet and answer key included.
These Mother's Day flash cards teach 15 holiday words with a picture on the front and the word inside. Made for Preschool to 4th Grade, with a practice page and answer key included.
This Sweet Summer Treats money addition activity has 1st and 2nd grade students count coins and match them to treat prices, then add two prices. A practice page and answer key are included.
Using Same or Different Activity, students usethe picture cards to practice visually discriminating things that are the same and/or different.
This counting leaves number sequence activity lets kindergarten and 1st grade kids find missing numbers to 100 with fall leaf cards. Answer key included.
This St. Patrick's Day writing activity gives 1st to 3rd grade children prompt cards, shamrock step cards, a story map and themed writing paper so every child can plan and write. Answer key included.
Winter, spring, summer, fall, and why
Young kids learn the four seasons in order and what each one brings: snow, new buds, hot days and falling leaves. They match clothing, weather and activities to each season and connect the seasons to the months of the year. Older kids learn the reason behind them. The Earth is tilted, so as it travels around the sun, each half takes a turn leaning toward the sun and getting more direct light and longer days. It's a common surprise that seasons are not caused by Earth getting closer to the sun. The click is when kids realize it's summer in Australia while we're building snowmen.
Seasons are something kids live through every year. These moves help them notice and explain it.
A seasons song makes the order stick: winter, spring, summer, fall, and around again. Sing it every morning during the unit and have kids point to a seasons wheel as they sing. Even your youngest learners will have it in a week.
Why it works: words set to a repeating melody are easier to recall than the same words spoken (Wallace, 1994).
Try it withSeasons Song (Animated Music Video)SongsOpen it →Darken the room, shine a flashlight on a globe, and walk it around the "sun" keeping the tilt the same. Kids watch which half gets the direct light. Then they label the tilt on a diagram. Seeing it first makes the explanation make sense.
Why it works: going from real objects to pictures to symbols is a core recommendation of the U.S. Department of Education's elementary math guide.
Try it withSeasonal Tilt WorksheetWorksheetsOpen it →Fold paper into four boxes and have kids draw the same tree in every season. Then they label what changes: leaves, weather, clothes. One tree, four pictures, and the whole cycle is in their hands.
Why it works: children learn more from words and pictures together than from words alone (Mayer, 2009).
Try it withSeasons Drawing WorksheetWorksheetsOpen it →Seasons are full of color and fun. Here are a few class favorites.
ActivitiesKids sort pictures of mittens, swimsuits, pumpkins and rain boots into the right season.
Open Four Seasons Activity →
WorksheetsMatch each season to its weather and activities. Then kids add their own favorite thing about each one.
Open Seasons of the Year Matching Worksheet →
ActivitiesKids vote on favorite summer activities and build a class graph together.
Open Summer Graphing Activity →Teacher favorites right now: Thanksgiving Flash Cards, Birthday Flash Cards and Snowman Cut Outs.
The tilt of the Earth's axis. As the Earth orbits the sun, the half tilted toward the sun gets more direct sunlight and longer days, which makes summer. The half tilted away has winter.
Winter, spring, summer and fall (also called autumn), then back to winter. In the Northern Hemisphere, winter starts in December and summer starts in June.
No. The Southern Hemisphere has opposite seasons, so when it's winter in the United States, it's summer in Australia. Places near the equator have warm weather all year and often have rainy and dry seasons instead.
Preschool and kindergarten kids name the seasons and describe their weather. In the upper elementary grades, kids learn that the Earth's tilt and orbit cause the seasons.
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