Kindergarten Math and Literacy Pack for Summer (No Prep!)

Could your student(s) use a review of kindergarten math and literacy this summer? If so, then take a look! 

This math and literacy pack includes 44 pages of kindergarten materials. It would make a great review of the basics so that your child avoids the "summer slide!" The pack has pages that focus on letter sounds, upper- and lowercase letter matching, CVC and CVCe words, counting, addition, subtraction, sight words, writing sentences, and more! Every page has a fun, engaging summer theme! 

What's Included

Writing in the Sand & Beach Letter Match: On these pages, students will match and write upper- and lowercase letters. 

Summer Sounds & Beginning Sounds: These 2 pages have students match an object with its beginning sound. 

Summer Scramble & Sunny Day Scramble: Students cut out and rearrange letters to make CVCe words. 

Sets of Summer: Here, students count each set of objects (<10) and write the numbers.

We Love to Count & Let's Count Seeds: On these pages, students cut out objects and glue the correct quantity of them to match each number.

Lemonade Stand & Pack a Picnic!: Here, students match each quantity of 10s and 1s with the correct teen number.

Catching Fireflies & Adding Ants: These pages have addition problems showing the objects. 

Summer Subtraction & Subtracting Shells: These pages have subtraction problems showing the objects. 

Add Within 5 & Surf and Subtract: These pages have addition and subtraction problems with sums and minuends of less than 5. 

Share the Surfboards & Share the Ice Cream: With these pages, students will practice matching sets of the same number.

Read, Write, and Draw (#1-#3): These 3 pages each provide students with a sentence to copy and space to illustrate the sentence. 

Summer Sentence Fun, Writing in the Sand, Summer Splash, & Watermelon Fun: For each of these pages, students will cut out a scrambled sentence, arranged the sight words in the correct order, and copy the sentence. 

2 Roll, Read, and Color pages: Here, students roll one die and read the corresponding sight word sentence. The first person to read the same sentence four times (developing fluency) wins! 

Water Balloon Sort, Sandwich Sort, Let's Go to the Beach, Shells by the Seashore & Sunny Sort: For these pages, students read and sort short vowel words according to word families. 

Sight Word Sort & Backyard BBQ: Here, students read and sort sight words according to the number of letters in each word. 

Sight Word Spin: This is a fun sight word game to play with 2 players. 

Sweet Treat Spin & Catching Bugs: These are CVC word games to play with 2 players.

How Many Water Balloons? & Wendy Loves Watermelon: For these games, students will spin and count the number of objects. 

Summer Shape Sort: On this page, students will sort the summer objects according to shape. 

Color and Graph: Students will identify and color shapes, then graph them. 

Campers Like to Count!: Here, students will cut out and glue the numbers in the correct position from 1 to 20. 

Keep on Counting!: For this page, students will cut out and glue the numbers in the correct position from 21 to 50. 

Just click on the picture below to take a look at this math and literacy summer review pack for kindergarten! 

Click on the picture to see it on Teacher's Notebook.

CLICK HERE to find it on Teachers Pay Teachers. 

Happy teaching! 

Summer Review Packs for Kindergarten and First Grade

It's that time of year again! Some schools have less than a month left and everyone is looking forward to some summer fun. It's the perfect time to get SUMMER SKILLS REVIEW PACKS ready to send home with your students! 

These booklets contain BRIEF YET MEANINGFUL math and literacy practice for kindergarten and first grade. Each booklet contains only 33 or 34 pages of material--small enough for you to easily copy. All of them are in blackline. They can be copied back to back to save paper.

A BOARD GAME is included with each set. This gives students a fun way to practice basic math facts and reading over the summer. The kindergarten set has game cards for addition, subtraction, sight words, CVC words, and sight word sentences. The first grade set has cards for addition, subtraction, sight words, blends/digraphs/long vowels, and sight word sentences. Parents can cut out the board and cards. Students can color the game board and play over and over again throughout the summer! 

Each summer review workbook has ONE MATH OR LITERACY activity every weekday for 10 weeks. They contain brief reviews of several CCSS for each grade. For example, in the picture above, my son finished a few subtraction problems. Then, he colored a summer-themed picture filled with kindergarten sight words. 

Click on the pictures below to see each pack in my Teacher's Notebook shop.

CLICK HERE to see it in my TpT store.

CLICK HERE to see it in my TpT store.

Thanks for reading! Don't miss all of the FREEBIES in my shops, too. I have over 50! 

10 End-of-the-Year FREEBIES for Kindergarten

1. Roll, Count and Add! from KookyKinders

This freebie is an easy math center to put together. Just print, laminate, and add dice and shells! 

2. Sight Word Pocket Locket from KFUNdamentals

Kindergarteners LOVE something they can wear! This set allows them to make and wear something fun AND also practice important sight words. Your littles will enjoy wearing these home to read the words to friends and family.

3. Non-Fiction Emergent Reader: Clown Fish from Jennifer Drake

This foldable emergent reader would be perfect to use with an end-of-the-year beach theme!

4. Summer Data Collection: Graphing and Tallying from Primary Inspiration

This is a set of 7 data collecting and recording activities just right for kindergarten, first, and second. They can be done as a whole group or small group activity. The summer theme makes this set perfect for use at the end of the year! 

5. End-of-the-Year Word Search from Adventures in Teaching

My son will love this one! Your littles will enjoy it, too! A few of the summer-themed words are tough, but a nice challenge for students heading into first grade!

6. Summer Reading Response from Kim's Creations

This set has 3 reading response pages. All three have a few lines for writing and some space for drawings. 

7. Summer Math and Literacy from Teacher Tam

In this set, you'll find 10 pages of summer-themed math and literacy activities. There's an emergent reader, a writing page, a bump game, and more! 

8. Spring/Summer No Prep Printables for Kinder Kids from Teaching Treks

This set has some cute summer words for your word wall. It also has 4 pages of math and literacy printables.

9. Summer Printables from Mrs. Jones' Creation Station

You'll get 4 pages of language arts activities with a fun, summer theme! 

10. May Morning Work for Kindergarten from Sherry Clements

Need a little review? Look no further! This set has 4 pages of math and language arts review pages prepared especially for your kinders! 

Thank you so much for taking a look at this wonderful set of year-end kindergarten resources! I hope you found one or more that you can use in your classroom. As you download the resources, please take a few moments to leave feedback for the teachers. Your feedback is always appreciated! 

11 FREE Kindergarten Literacy Centers for Winter!

One of my past posts listed 11 free kindergarten math centers for winter (CLICK HERE to visit that post). This is the companion post to the winter math centers post, an attempt to help make your teacher life easier! This way, you don't have to weed through all the freebies, just click on the link, download, print and prepare! Take a look at the 11 literacy centers I chose to include:

1) Winter Sight Word Phrases from Primary Inspiration

This set has 19 phrase cards to help students develop their reading fluency. It also includes 2 follow-up activities. What a great way to practice reading! 

2) Winter Word Recognition from Learning With Mrs. Leeby

This free literacy activity has both winter- and Christmas-themed words for students to match and write. The pictures make this an appealing center!

3) Fry Phrases Melted Snowman Game from An Adventure in Literacy

Here's a sight word fluency game played like "Bang!" It has 60 phrase cards using the first 100 Fry words. This game is sure to become a quick center favorite! 

4) Snowman Families Freebie for Kindergarten from Kindergarten Rocks

This is a great hands-on center that focuses on word families. A cute recording sheet is included. Your students will love the adorable graphics! 

5) Blizzard of Words CVC Game from One Sharp Bunch

I love using games with my students! They are fun, engaging, AND educational! This CVC game is sure to become another student favorite. 

6) Winter Writing Center from Kindergarten Princess

This center activity comes with a very nice page of winter words and 3 different recording sheets. It will be easy to set up and a great way to practice writing!

7) Winter Beginning, Middle, and Ending Sounds Center Cards by Jennifer Drake

With this center, students will practice clipping beginning, middle, or ending sounds. What a cute way to practice! 

8) Winter Syllable Center Cards, also from Jennifer Drake

Are you working on syllables? If so, here's an adorable, winter-themed way to practice! 

9) How to Build a Snowman from Kooky Kinders

This writing page is sure to be popular with your Olaf fans! You can use it in centers or as a whole group activity. 

10) Penguin Write the Room by Kelly and Kim's Kreations 

What literacy center would be complete without a "write the room" activity? Just print and laminate these sheets for a quick and easy writing center. 

11) Snowman Stuff Math & Literacy Freebie from ME! 

Here's one of my winter-themed freebies, too. This one has literacy & math. One of the games combines addition and reading sentences. This set also has an emergent reader. 

I hope this list helps you add some new, engaging literacy centers to your room. I hope your students enjoy them! 

Thanks for stopping by! 

Happy New Year Blog Hop--and a Winter FREEBIE!

Happy New Year! 

First of all, I want to wish you a prosperous, happy, and healthy New Year. Then, I would like to invite you to "hop" through our blogs, grabbing some FREEBIES and taking a look at our winter and New Year themed items. 

My featured item is one of my all-time favorites, the Kindergarten Math Cut-and-Glue Workbook for Winter. 

I LOVE these sets for 3 reasons:

1) This workbook (and similar sets for each season/holiday) covers ALL of the Common Core Standards for kindergarten math. So, using all of the pages lets you know that your students have practiced every CC concept! 

2) These sets help students practice their math AND fine motor skills! Plus, my littles always enjoy cutting and pasting! 

3) These are prefect for reluctant writers. Some of the pages require no writing at all! That's huge for students who struggle with writing. While writing should not be overlooked, I think it's nice to have a resource every now and again where students are not required to write in order to demonstrate their knowledge.  

Click on the picture above to find this resource on Teacher's Notebook.

CLICK HERE to see it on Teachers Pay Teachers. 

Plus, ALL OF MY RESOURCES ARE 15% OFF from January 1-4, 2015!

Here's my featured winter FREEBIE! 

This one has been in my stores for a while, but it's a good one! It has worksheets, games, and even a game board for winter-themed addition Bump! Click on the picture below to grab a copy for your classroom!

Thank you "snow" much for stopping by!

Click on the blog button below to hop on to the next New Year post and FREEBIE! 

Gingerbread Cut-and-Glue Math and Literacy for Kindergarten and a FREEBIE!

Guess what?  I just added 10 new pages to my kindergarten gingerbread set!  It now has 47 pages: 24 pages of literacy activities and 23 pages of math, as well as 3 pages that are EDITABLE!  

Here are a few pictures of the set "in action."  My kindergartener finished 3 pages (even though he was only asked to finish one!).  My first grader thought that the gingerbread house activity was just too cute not to color!  Even my preschooler wanted to do a page, so he did the letter sound sort. 

For this page, students cut out objects to decorate a gingerbread man. Then they write a few sentences about their creation.

My daughter enjoyed making the gingerbread house. Similar pages will be added to the first grade set, too. 

For this page, students cut out cookies with objects (the picture shows the page before revisions). They sort them according to beginning sounds. 

This set includes the following pages:

*Cookie Sheet Sort--Students read and sort CVC words from the an and at word families.

*Sort Some Yummy Treats--On this page, students sort et, en, and eg words.
*Run Home, Gingerbread Man!--Students read and sort words from the it, in, ig, and ip word families.
*Eating Cookies!--On this page, students sort op and ot words.
*Hot from the Oven!--Students sort cookies with words from the ug and ut families.
*Sight Word Sorting, Sight Word Candies, and Sight Word Cookies--On these 3 pages, students sort sight words according to the number of letters each word has. EDITABLE versions of these pages are also included! 
*Making Words and Making More Words--Students add an onset to each rime, making real words.
*Scrambled Words and More Scrambled Words--On these pages, students cut out individual letters to make CVC words from 2 word families.  
*Cookie Mix Up, Gingerbread Mix Up, and Candy Cane Mix Up--Students cut out mixed up sight word sentences, glue them in order to make a sentence, and write the sentence.

*Cookies and Candies--Here, students match rhyming words.

*Fluency Fun & More Fluency Fun--On these 2 pages, students add candies to gingerbread cookies while reading each sight word sentence twice.

*Sweet Syllable Sort & Cookies, Cakes, and Pies! Oh my!--Students sort words by the number of syllables they have.

*Baking Beginning Sounds & Baking More Beginning Sounds--Students sort cookies with pictures according to their beginning letter sounds.

*My Gingerbread Cookie & My Gingerbread House--Students decorate objects and write about them. 

*Sorting Shapes--Here, students sort 2D and 3D shapes.

*Counting Candies and Counting Gingerbread Cookies--Here, students will cut out a number of objects and use them to represent numbers less than 10.

*Adding Gingerbread Men, Adding More Gingerbread Cookies, and Adding Candies--On these pages, students cut out objects and use them to solve addition problems.
*Making 10 and Ten Candies--Students figure out how many more they need to make 10.
*Count On With Cookies! and Counting Lots of Candies!--Students practice addition using the “counting on” strategy.  
*"Ten and Ones" and "Tens and Ones: Candies"--Students use groups of tens and ones to construct teens.
*Subtracting Cookies and Subtracting Candies--Here, students glue numbers in the correct position to construct subtraction problems.
*Addition Word Problems, Adding Candies: Word Problems, Subtraction Word Problems, and Subtracting Candies: Word Problems--On these pages, students solve word problems using objects.  

Click here to find it on Teacher's Notebook.

Click here to find it on Teachers Pay Teachers.

While you're there, don't miss my Gingerbread Bump FOREVER FREEBIE!  

Click on the picture to find it on Teacher's Notebook.

Click here to see it on Teachers Pay Teachers.

As always, thanks for reading!

Technical Problems with Teacher Files and How to Solve Them

I frequently get technical questions regarding downloading/opening/printing my teacher-created materials.  Although I am no technology whiz, here are some ideas about how to solve a few common problems.

PROBLEM 1:  HELP!  THE FILE LOOKS OR PRINTS WRONG!

I once had a file that looked great on the screen, but printed with all of these black boxes instead of text!  Help!  Printing wrong AND using up more ink than I ever imagined is a teacher nightmare!  

     SOLUTION 1:  Download the latest version of Adobe Reader.  Just click HERE.  All of my files and probably 90% of the files on teacher sites are PDFs.  They are meant to be opened with Adobe Reader.  Now, my Mac with open them with Preview usually, but I have to remember that this program makes the margins, etc. just a bit different.  Opening with file with the latest version of Adobe Reader usually solves a myriad of problems.  

     If the file STILL looks wrong (such as you see it on the screen correctly, but the dotted lines won't print), then open the file with Adobe. Go to "print." Then, click on "advanced settings" and choose "print as image." 

PROBLEM 2:  HELP!  I CAN'T OPEN THE ZIP FILE!  

As a teacher-author, when you have several files to bundle, this is the most efficient way to bundle them.  No one wants to receive one huge file with 300 or 400 pages to scroll through, right?  Instead, we place separate files into a ZIP file.  

     SOLUTION 2: If you have a Mac, just save the zip file to your desktop and double click it to extract the folder within.  It will magically appear on your desktop!   If you have a PC, it might be that simple . . . or not!  When I had a PC, I purchased a program called WinZip.  It looks like there is now a free trial WinZip available on their official site.  Click HERE to take a look.  

Here's a page that offers more ideas for opening these files:  How to Open a .Zip File Without Winzip.    

Another easy solution to this problem is to download the file on another computer.  Some operating systems will open the .ZIP file automatically.  

PROBLEM 3:  HELP!  THE PAGE ISN'T PRINTING CORRECTLY!

Let me just say that I have come to regard printing and laminating as an art form--or perhaps it should be an Olympic sport!  I am constantly looking for ways to use less colored ink, print with different margins, print posters, etc.  

     SOLUTION 3:  There is really no one answer here, I'm afraid.  Your answer to this will depend on the program AND take some searching, as well as trial and error printing.   For example, I like to open my files with Preview on the Mac.  I click "Print," then I look for options.  

If you are missing some of your page (such as missing borders or titles, or the margins are wrong), then click on "Print Entire Image" or change the scale.  

Click on the bar that says "Preview" to find more options . . .

In the picture above, I clicked on the bar with "Preview," then I clicked on "Print Options."  This is where I usually end up.  If you like to print things in grayscale to save ink, click that box.  Printing one page as a poster is great for group lessons or for things that decorate the room.  

If you are having major problems with margins, make sure that you have selected the correct paper size and that the scale is 100% or what you need.    

IF YOU ARE TRYING TO PRINT A POSTER, PLEASE VISIT ONE OF MY PREVIOUS POSTS FOR DIRECTIONS.  CLICK HERE.  

PROBLEM 4:  HELP!  IT SAYS THE FILE IS DAMAGED!

Most of the time, teachers assume that something is wrong with the file.  While this can happen, it is usually not the case.  This just happens.  It is just a glitch in how the file was downloaded. As you know, technology is great, but it never works 100% of the time.  This is one of those times that something failed to come from some server on the other side of the country through your wifi, arriving on your desktop in pristine condition.  If you think about it, I don't know why we don't have more damaged files.  

     SOLUTION 4:  The solution is to just download it again.  Now, if you download it 3 times and there is STILL something wrong, then please contact customer service.  

GENERAL SOLUTIONS:   

1.  Here's my secret "go to" solution for almost everything:  Google it!   It works almost every time.  You might have to search once or twice to find exactly what you need, but there is a lot of helpful info out there, especially when it comes to computer problems.  Keep in mind, though, that programs sometimes change with new versions, so you might find info that no longer applies.   

2.  Shut down the computer (or printer, or iPad, etc.).  Count to 10 slowly, then turn it back on.  I have absolutely NO idea why this works, but it often does!  

3.  Open the file on another computer.  The other computer might have a program that will open your file automatically.  It also works sometimes if you can print the file using a different computer and/or printer.  

Well, I hope you have found something here to help.  If I think of more problems/solutions, I will add them here.  

As always, thank you for reading!  

Word Work Pack for Kindergarten and First Grade--And a FREEBIE!

Click on the picture above to see this set on Teacher's Notebook.

CLICK HERE to see it on Teachers Pay Teachers. 

The cover of one of my favorite resources recently got a makeover!  The materials in this set are very useful, but the look was a little outdated.  Of course, I have been using this set for quite a while, so I suppose it was just time for a small change.  

This Word Work set is perfect for:

* Making, reading, and writing word families

* Practicing 18 blends and digraphs

* Filling in simple sight word sentences

* Beginning word searches focusing on sight words

The best part is that most of the pages can be completed AND cut apart to make books!  These are great for reading and rereading word families!  Students can read at school and then take the books home to read again.  Several more word family pages and word searches come with colorful graphics.  These can be laminated for use in literacy centers.  

The picture above was taken from a similar, FREE set I made to accompany the Word Work Pack.  It has 10 pages of similar activities, also focusing on sight words and word families.  Click on the picture below to download a set!  

Click on the picture above to download this FREEBIE from Teacher's Notebook.

CLICK HERE to download it from Teachers Pay Teachers.  

I hope your students enjoy the FREEBIE!