The Connett Connection

This post is all about alphabet crafts and activities that you can do with letter outlines.  I will be adding new crafts and activities as we do them, so check back often to see the new activities!   The letter outlines we use for these activities are found here: ---> Capital and Lowercase Letter Outlines The capital and lowercase letter outlines make wonderful playdough mats.  Simply give students playdough and let them fill in the letters! My kids loved using these mats as letter sorting mats.  I give them a magazine and they look through it for examples of the letter and then sort them by capital and lowercase letters! OTHER USES FOR THESE LETTER OUTLINES Craft mats Manipulative mats College mats FIND THE OUTLINES HERE Capital and Lowercase Letter Outlines MORE WAYS TO CONNECT Teachers Pay Teachers Store Boom Store Facebook Page Hands on Activities and Crafts for Kids Facebook Group Instagram ...

We are going on a leaf hunt!  We're going to find some colorful ones!  That is what we did today.  We went on a walk and found a bag full of colorful leaves.  This post will feature some great, free activities to do with leaves you find outside! The first thing we did is sort our leaves by color.  I simply took a large sheet of paper and drew the different color circles on it and let my kinder sort the leaves into the appropriate spots.  You can also graph the different colors to see which one you have the most or least of.  You can also have students choose a favorite color leaf and make a classroom graph. Next, we chose a few nicely textured leaves that laid flat and made leaf rubbings! I have never done rubbings with my kids before and my daughter was amazed that she just rubbed a crayon on the paper and the leaf came through.  She had to pick and try out several different leaves! Another art project we did was leaf prints....

Color by beginning sounds packet contains nine sheets with four sounds each where students must color the pictures according to their beginning sounds. To get your copy of the color by beginning sounds sheets, click HERE !

This packet contains a variety of activities for students learning about the -at family. The following activities are found in this packet: Page 3: Cut and paste the letters to create the correct word for the picture in the box. Page 4: Which words from the word bank best complete the sentence and a word search. Page 5: At family flower. Color. Cut and Paste together. Pages 6-7: At family word cards and activity suggestions. Pages 8-9: At family words. Cut out letters and make at words. Write the words on the recording sheet. Pages 10-13: At family dice games.  Game 1: Single player, roll die to form an at word. Write the at word in the appropriate column until one column is completed.  Game 2: Two player, roll die to form an at word. Color in one square with that word. Player at the end with the most boxes colored wins. Page 14: Color the -at pictures. Cut an glue them on top of the appropriate word. Page 15: Print on card stock cut out and...

Another activity in my -AT family series is complete!  The -AT family sentences are here! With this new center idea, you simply cut out and laminate each picture and sentence.  The student will read the sentences and match the correct picture to that sentence!  They get practice reading the -AT words they have been studying as well as sight words, number words and color words. There are 14 sentences and pictures to match. To get your copy of this sentence match center, click HERE !

This packet contains subtraction cards for all subtraction facts from 0-10.  The cards are smaller than the standard cards found so that they take up less paper and ink.  Two recording sheets are available for this packet. Suggested Activities: Sort the subtraction problems to match their difference. Select two problems, determine whether the difference is greater than, less than or equal to the second difference. Give students a group of subtraction cards and have them put the cards in order from least to greatest. Play concentration/memory where students must match the differences to get a pair. To get a copy of my Subtraction Sort click HERE .

This set currently includes the numbers 1-99. Each number is represented by the number itself, the number name, the expanded form and the tens and ones for that number. This set was created to help further my daughter's understanding of numbers 1-100. The cards in this set were created smaller so that it did not take up so much paper to print out. Print each page on card stock and laminate if desired for durability. Ideas for this set: Sort the different cards for Standard Form, Expanded Form and Word Form. Match the different sets together. Recreate a large 100s chart using each of the different forms. Place a set of cards in order from least to greatest. You can use all of one type or mix the types for an extra challenge. Sort cards for even and odd numbers. Use two cards to determine greater than, less than or equal to. As time permits, I plan to add cards with tally marks and base 10 blocks as well. To get your own copy of the number cards  click ---...

I love products that have multiple purposes.  These addition cards can be used for a variety of activities to help students learn addition fact fluency.  In this packet, you will find mini flash cards for all addition problems from 0+0 up to 9+9, number cards from 0-18 and a set of greater than, less than and equal to cards.  A set of work mats are included for sorting and greater than, less than and equal to activities. Uses for the addition cards: 1.  Use the number cards to sort the facts by their sum. 2.  Create a greater than, less than and equal to activity. 3.  Give students a group of addition cards and have them put the cards in order from least to greatest. 4.  Play concentration/memory where students must match the sums to get a pair. To get my Addition Sorting and Activity Packet, click HERE .

I've been planning some science activities to do with my daughter for Kindergarten.  One of the first lessons in the science book I have talks about living and nonliving things.  I have created my own living and nonliving sorting activity that uses real photographs for her to sort into the appropriate category. I have also made an activity where she must determine if something is living or not based on answering questions.  This activity is called, "Am I living?"  It poses five questions to the student.  Do I grow and change?  Do I eat food?  Do I breathe?  Do I reproduce? and finally, Am I living.  If the answer to all of the first four questions is yes, then your picture is living.  If any of the answers are no, then the picture is not living.  Below is an example one question in the file. Both of these products are available for purchase in my store! To purchase the sorting activity, click HERE . To purchase "Am I ...