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Recs from a Kindergarten teacher
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items I made a list of helpful things to prepare your child for school and also things your child can continue to use throughout elementary school.
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Let your child learn through play! Magnetic picture matching helps with visual perception, hand eye coordination, colors, and so much more.
National Parks Picture Matching Magnetic Game
I especially love this map because it shows animals from all the regions of the USA! This definitely makes it more interesting and exciting for your child as they are learning about each state. Bigger pieces for smaller hands.
National Parks U.S.A. Map Floor Puzzle – 45 Pieces
Create, create, create! Give your child the tools to be creative with this double sided easel. I love this because it has a chalkboard and dry erase board. You can also hang painting paper for a 3rd option. Trays are large and hold all your child’s s...
Deluxe Wooden Standing Art Easel
I love this word puzzle in my class of early learners. This is a great start to letter identification, sounds, fine motor skills, and colors!
See & Spell Learning Toy
My Kindergartners love this ice cream play set! They love creating a newly flavored treat for me everyday during their playtime and serving it up to me on a tray. Play is so important in Kindergarten and playing with food is always a highlight each d...
Scoops & Sandwiches Ice Cream Play Set
This is the play kitchen I have in my classroom. It has held up for 5 years so far and it is played with everyday. My students love turning the knobs, hanging the pots and pretending to cook with play food. I even got them aprons since they all love ...
Wooden Chef's Kitchen - Charcoal
These are the aprons I got for my classroom. The kids love them and makes them feel so official when they are playing in the kitchen.
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I love using this fun, interactive game at the beginning of the school year as I am teaching letters and sounds. We all sit in a circle and take turns reaching into the mystery box to pick out an item. After saying what the item is, you have to match the beginning sound with the corresponding letter on the game board. My students love this game and ask to play it all the time!
Mystery Box learning
Don't know where to start at home? Teaching your child the correct way to hold scissors and practicing with them is one of the best things you can do to get them ready for school! Builds hand strength, hand eye coordination, and works on fine motor s... I see so many kids that have no clue how to hold scissors properly or know how to use them.
Toddler Scissor Skills Activity Book
Help your child learn their colors before they start school with this cute puzzle game featuring animals and food. Magnetizes easily to your refrigerator or even a baking sheet. This helps them with spatial awareness and hand eye coordination, as well as visual perception.
Wooden Magnetic Color Sorting Set – Toddler Fridge Magnets for Color & Animal Recognition
Start teaching your child correct letter formation and pencil grip early! This travel alphabet board is easy to keep in your car, bring to restaurants, or keep on your counter for practice anytime. One of the hardest things for kindergarteners to learn if they have not been to preschool, is how to hold a pencil and gain strength enough to write. This is the perfect solution and it's fun for your child!
2-in-1 Magnetic Letter Tracing Board – Double-Sided ABC Magnets & Pop-Up Bead Sensory Toy
If your child is giving you a hard time about wanting to be on technology all the time, here is the perfect solution that will keep them busy for hours! Bonus: they are learning their letters at the same time! This cute Ice Cream cone playset comes with Uppercase and lowercase letters to match on the ice cream cone. This also reinforces colors!
Ice Cream Alphabet Learning Toys – 52 Pcs Color Sorting & Upper/Lowercase Matching Set for Toddlers
Carry and go, numbers and letters writing practice. Help your child learn their numbers and letters before they start school. This book is dry erase so they can practice over and over again as they prepare to go to school.
48 Page Reusable Handwriting Practice Book – Dry-Erase Letters, Numbers & Maze Learning Activity Set
The best way to help your toddler learn how to hold a pencil correctly! These jumbo crayons are perfect to build strength and confidence in your toddler as they are preparing for school. Let them unleash their creativity with either, 8,16, or 30 colors to choose from. These are durable and unbreakable!
Jumbo Triangular Crayons for Toddlers – Unbreakable, Washable, & Non-Toxic Art Supplies
Work on numbers, colors and counting with your child as they prepare for school. Everything is all in one place, super easy for travel! Counting and one to one correspondence is a hard skill to master at a young age, this is great to help practice th...
Wooden Magnetic Color & Number Maze Board – Gumball Machine Counting Toy (55 Beads) for Toddlers
Who doesn't love a fidget toy? Set your child up for success with this math fact pop it. This builds mastery and confidence in addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. Keep this for all of elementary school as your child scales up grade le...
Math Flash Cards with Pop Fidget Chart – Interactive Manipulatives for Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication & Division
I use this every morning in my Kindergarten classroom to reinforce blending skills. This is an easy, fun way to practice all of the beginning reading skills with your child. Letter ID, letter sounds, blending, vowels, and consonants. This is a very versatile learning tool to prepare your child for their early school years.
Kindergarten Phonics Blending Kit – Foldable Tabletop Pocket Chart for CVC, CCVC & Silent-e Words
This is the cutest little craft for kids! Winner of multiple awards, your child's creativity will have no limits with this fun foil craft! They will be working on hand eye coordination, pincer grasp, and bilateral hand coordination. Many other Foil Fun kits available! Use my referral code fo...
Foil Fun: Unicorn & Princess | No Mess Art Kit (ages 4-9)
Finally, a reusable search and find! This kit comes with 6 double sided mats and 2 pens. Let your child practice their problem solving, focus and attention, and writing skills all while having fun with search and find! Many other search and find styl...
Search & Find | Reusable Activity Mats (ages 3-6)
These flashcards are so durable and BPA free! They are tear free and a great early learning tool. The flashcards include: Identifying Upper and Lower Case Letters, Identifying Numbers, Shapes and Colors, Phonics and Letter Sounds, Classifying, and Sorting Counting. Use my discount code today for...
Flash Cards for toddlers: Letters, Numbers, Shapes & Colors (ages 1-4)
Scratch art fun for your child. Works on spatial reasoning, fine motor skills, and creative thinking. This kit comes with 10 scratch art pictures, 2 styluses, and more than 30 stickers to add to your creation. Many other themes available. Use my referral code for 20% off today: CHRISTINA12511
Magical Scratch Art | Amazing Animals (ages 3-8)
Does your child love to tell stories? This storybook art kit gives them all of the tools they need to become their very own author! This comes with 2 hardbound books, tons of stickers, markers, writing prompts, vocabulary lists, and an instruction manual to get started. There is a boy ve...
My Storybook Art Kit - Unicorns & Princesses (ages 5-10)
This foam tangram sticker kit comes with 5 Picture Boards (featuring 20+ Animals), 5 Foam Sticker Sheets (150+ Tangram Stickers), An Instruction Manual. Great for spatial reasoning and fine motor skills. Different themes available. Use my discount co...
Tangram Twist: Amazing Animals | No mess sticker art (ages 4-7)
I love this sentence building kit! All of the tiles are color coded by parts of speech. So easy to use in the classroom or at home practicing reading and making sentences that make sense. Works on critical thinking skills, reading and comprehension, and communication skills. Use my di...
Sentence Search | Sentence Building Activity (ages 5-8)