b and d Reversals Posters Visual Cues

Sometimes lowercase b and d can be confusing for children and some adults, knowing the direction of each letter, especially when doing reading and writing activities! I have created an activity to help give a memory trigger for the letters.

 

This cute new product is a set of visual cue posters to help with letters

b and d Reversals Posters Visual Cues.

Visual cues can be helpful with remembering the correct ways the letters are formed.

Lowercase b has a baby patting his belly. This is to help remind students that lowercase b has a belly. The circle for the letter is on the right side of the stick and belly starts with the letter b. 

Lowercase d has a baby with a diaper. This is to help remind students that lowercase d has a diaper. The circle for the letter is on the left side of the stick and diaper starts with the letter d.

 

Enjoy these two freebie posters in color or black and white!

 

To find other parts of this product or to purchase the smaller student sizes for individual reference, click on the link above!

 Click on the Preview to see the complete activity!

Mother's Day Is Coming!

Mother's Day in the United States is annually held on the second Sunday of May. It celebrates motherhood and it is a time to appreciate mothers and mother figures.

 

For this special day, I have an activity called

 Mother's Day Song And Posters M-O-M-M-Y Was Her Name-O.

Hopefully you are a Follower on my blog, because many times 

I will have an activity for sale in my

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and I will post it here for free! This one of those times!

 

 There is a song poster, the HUGS poster and the letter posters that spell MOMMY. Included is a cover sheet and directions. Each poster is 8 1/2 by 11 inches.

Sing to the tune "Bingo."

Introduce the song using the song poster.

Pass the letter cards out and have the students participate with the singing.

It also fun to discuss where the Mother is located in each card!

What a fun activity for giving Mothers special attention for Mother's Day!

It is a great way to learn some letters of the alphabet!

To make the activity harder, sing the song with flipping a letter to HUGS for each verse and do a motion or sound instead. For example, sing M O M M Y for the first verse. Then turn the letter M over to HUGS for the second verse and have the children hug their arms around themselves and sing HUGS for the letter M. They would hug, then sing HUGS O M M Y. The third verse would be HUGS, HUGS, and sing M M Y. Do this until all the letters are turned over and the last verse is sung HUGS, HUGS, HUGS, HUGS, HUGS.

Enjoy!

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Thanksgiving is Coming!

When teaching children,

you always need to be planning and staying prepared one step ahead!

Many of you are already thinking about Thanksgiving!

 

I have a variety of Thanksgiving activities in my TpT Store

Christine Maxwell Hand to Heart

simply click on the

CUSTOM CATEGORIES

on the left side of my store and look under Thanksgiving!

 

I just added a super simple product called 

 

Thanksgiving Hand Turkey Handful of Thankful.

I am posting it here as a blog freebie!

This is an easy peasy, no prep way, to create a turkey about being thankful using

a child's hand!

Print this Handful of Thankful template out on the front side only.

It uses very little ink, print and create!

 

Have the children work in pairs to trace around the hand of each other or an adult can trace around little people hands. They add their details to make a turkey and color.

 

They write four things that they are thankful to have in their life, inside the tail feathers. Little learners can use their own spellings to create their turkeys and older children can write small sentences. The tiny learners can tell an adult their answers and they write them.

 This can be a wonderful display for Thanksgiving or a great class book to share!

It also makes a cute keepsake for parents.

Enjoy!



Fifty Nifty Days of Learning

50 nifty days of learning or 50 nifty days of school is cause for a celebration!

It happens about this time of year depending upon when you started.

I have two new products for this special occasion!

The first is a bookmark!

 

50th Day of School for 50 Days of Learning Bookmarks! Color & Blackline

While it is a paid product in my store for all four versions,

I am posting two on here free just for my blog followers!

Enjoy! 

I have also added a song for the 50 days too! 

50th Day of School Song for the 50 Days of Learning

What a fun activity for the 50th Day of Learning or 50 Days of School!

There is a song poster, the number 10 poster and the letter posters that spell FIFTY. Also included is a cover sheet and directions. Each poster is 8 1/2 by 11 inches.

It is a great way to learn some letters of the alphabet and practice memory skills!

Assembly: Print the song poster, the 10 poster five times (if using) and the letter posters on heavy paper and laminate. The 10 poster can be printed out five times and placed back to back with the letter posters. Then they can be flipped during the song from the letter to the number 10.

Activity: Show the song poster and teach the song. Introduce the letter cards to go with the song. Pass the cards out to 5 students and as the letter is sung, the card is held up. Repeat until every student has had a chance to participate.

To make the activity harder, sing the song with flipping a letter to 10 for each verse and do a motion and/or sound instead.

For example, they sing F I F T Y for the first verse. Then turn the letter F over for the second verse and have the children sing and show ten fingers for 10 for the letter F. They would sing 10, I F T Y. The third verse would be 10, 10, F T Y. Do this until all the letters are turned over and the last verse is 10, 10, 10, 10, 10! The 5 number 10 posters add up to 50 and 5 sets of ten fingers add up to 50 fingers!

Download Preview in my store (link above) to see the complete activity.

 

Happy 50 Days!

Tiny Book of Colors

Learning the colors is one of the first skill sets achieved by little people.

Colors are everywhere which makes them so easy to teach. 

 

Freebie Alert Here Only! 

I have a variety of color activities in my store, but have decided to post one here as a

freebie for blog readers only!

Tiny Book of Colors
Here it is in my store, but the free pages are posted below!

This is a quick and easy way to introduce or review colors and color words. Plus each child will have a great take home read and review booklet to keep!

Included in this activity are the colors; red, yellow, blue, green, orange, purple, brown,

black, white, and pink.

Here are some example pages shown!



Run the three booklet pages, printing on the front side only. The ten little color examples can be run colored or grayscale. There are two sets to each sheet, but each child only gets one set of ten pictures for their booklet.

 

Pass the three pages out to each student. They are to fold each sheet in half on the short dotted line and again in half on the long dotted line. Place the three folded pages together with the title on the front and The End page last. The booklet then gets stapled or glued together on the left side.

 

The booklet color words maybe traced or colored during introduction or review.

 

 

 

 

Pass out the set of ten little pictures to each student.

They cut the ten pictures apart and glue them in the box on the correct color page. 

The little color boxes can be in color or black and white.There are links in the product description linked above to many other color activities and products!

Enjoy this free activity!

 



Thanksgiving Ideas!

The turkeys are coming! The turkeys are coming!

Do you have leftover mini pumpkins from Halloween?

A project I like to do with little people is to make them into Thanksgiving turkeys!

You can use ice cream sticks, popsicle sticks or tongue depressors cut in half for the head and tail feathers. The sticks can be colored with crayons or makers.

 

The littlest learners will need help getting the sticks into the pumpkins after coloring. A knife maybe needed to cut slits into the pumpkin to make it easier to push in the sticks.

They look cute sitting on the Thanksgiving dinner table!

I also have a variety of Thanksgiving ideas and activities on my
Pinterest Thanksgiving Board.

This paid product in my store has a variety of different colors and fonts.

Thanksgiving Turkey Handprint Poem and Keepsake

I am posting a free page version of this activity here!
Enjoy!



Teaching With A Theme Jungle or Zoo Ideas

Many excited children are gearing up to go back to school!

Teachers; classroom, homeschool, preschool, daycare, afterschool, roadschool or worldschool have been busy getting ready. Many use themes to greet, meet and teach in their educational environment.

 

The Jungle or Zoo theme is a fun one to use and I have a few ideas to share! 

This first day activity makes a wonderful keepsake!

Jungle Picture Frame Attachments For First Day, 100th Day, & Last Day Of School

Be sure and click the Preview to see the activity.

There are pieces for the First Day of School (shown), 100th Day of School, and Last Day of School. The quickest way to use this activity to put Velcro on the empty picture frame corners and on the back of the picture attachments. Then just add or change them as needed.

Print the activity out on one side only. The heavier the paper, the more durable it will be. Laminate and cut the pieces out. Decide what size empty picture frame you are going to use. The 8” by 10”, 11” by 14” or 16” by 20” are great sizes for these attachments.

Have the student hold the empty frame with the pictures attached, centered in front of their face and smile! You take their picture!

 

I do have many other

Picture Frame Attachment Themes!

 

I have a

Back To School Jungle Welcome Banner!

This colorful Welcome Banner can be used for a variety of ways,

Back To School is just one!

It is 8 1/2 by 11 inches, with the top being 11 inches.

There are 8 posters: W, e, l, c, o, m, e, ! and the cover page.

 

The daily

Jungle and Wild Animals Calendar Pieces Make Monthly Patterns

This is a gorgeous set of calendar pieces with a jungle or wild animal theme. These date cards can be mixed and matched to make a different pattern for

each month of the school year!

 Again, these can be used to make a colorful, fun, and repeating pattern for each month! For example, start the year with a simple pattern like monkey, elephant, monkey, elephant, repeat. As the year progresses make the pattern more difficult like, turtle, turtle, zebra, giraffe, giraffe, repeat. The difficulty depends on the ability of your students.

Please note there is not a background chart to place these pieces on. They work in pocket charts, on bulletin boards, walls, or create your own chart out of jungle scrapbook or wrapping paper.

 

As a math bulletin board or center I have

10 Little Jungle Friends Songs, Number Flashcards and 10 Puppets

There are self-checking puzzle pieces 0-10. Match the number of jungle animals to the correct number or number word. Several puzzle pieces say Jungle Friends for extra fun.

The songs are sung to the tune of "One Little, Two Little, Three Little Indians." A song cards are included. One cards goes from 1 to 10 and the other card from 10-1.

The 10 animal characters can be made into puppets with popsicle or paint sticks attached. Magnets can also be stuck to the back to allow them to be attached to a magnetic surface. Add and subtract the animals while singing the song verses.

Print, laminate, cut apart, and use year after year!

 

This shared activity is

Math Jungle or Wild Animal Theme Skip Counting Color or Blackline

The child will cut the pieces apart on the dotted vertical lines. They must then count or skip count to place the pieces down in the correct order. If the counting is correct the animal pictures will be correct. The pictures can be colored.

 Here are pages  of the activity you can download!

Great for practicing cutting skills!
 

My last product is a set of posters!
 Jungle Position Word Posters Left, Right, Front and Back

Front, Back, Left and Right are the 4 words written and demonstrated by the

position of the giraffe.

Whatever your theme is.......enjoy and make each day special!