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Get creative and color your heart out with these fun school-themed coloring sheets from our friends at RoseArt.
Charades is a classic party game that even young children can enjoy. This version of the game prompts children to act out emotional states and think about what events might prompt such feelings.
Play Friend Bingo as a way to get to know people better. This makes a great ice-breaker activity at a party or at the beginning of the school year.
Kids ask a lot of questions. Turn their tough questions into a Book of Why. It's a great way to start building your child's research skills at an early age and to show him or her that Why is a great question!
Print a template for your budding comic book writer and artist.
Caring for pets—in real life and in play scenarios—helps children develop qualities of responsibility and empathy. Developing these important social skills will help your child thrive in school and in life.
This printable activity encourages your child to think about appropriate emotional responses to varied scenarios. Identifying the proper emotional response to a scenario is an important social development skill.
This printable activity encourages your child to think about the needs of others, an important part of developing socially and emotionally.
Practice drawing curvy lines while helping Curly Q's sheep with their lost fleece. Tracing lines and letters helps children develop the dexterity they need to learn how to write and draw.
Create something that Tara found as she was exploring. Doodling and drawing helps children develop the dexterity they need for writing letters.
Playing Memory is a great way to reinforce turn taking and develop memory skills and concentration.
Step right up for learning and fun! Based on the popular Leapster Kindergarten game, this practice book introduces matching, counting, writing and phonics skills.
Step right up for learning and fun! Based on the popular Leapster Kindergarten game, this practice book introduces logic, rhyming, writing and addition skills.
Step right up for learning and fun! Based on the popular Leapster Kindergarten game, this practice book introduces reading, rhyming, writing and addition skills.
In this printable, your child is asked to help LeapFrog's Geo Team to prepare for four adventures. Planning activities encourages your child to visualize different scenarios and to think about what he or she may need in various settings.
These 5 matching and pattern recognition printable activities are a great way for young children to practice basic logic skills.
Children who understand word families have an easier time learning to spell and sound out words. This printable activity gives your child practice with short-A words.
Children who understand word families have an easier time learning to spell and sound out words. This printable activity gives your child practice with short-E words.
Children who understand word families have an easier time learning to spell and sound out words. This printable activity gives your child practice with short-I words.
Children who understand word families have an easier time learning to spell and sound out words. This printable activity gives your child practice with short-O words.
Children who understand word families have an easier time learning to spell and sound out words. This printable activity gives your child practice with short-U words.
The ability to describe events and tell stories is an important prereading skill. Children with good narrative skills understand story structure and that stories have a beginning, middle and end.
Sounding out, or decoding, words with the consonant-vowel-consonant pattern (such as dog) is a great place for an emergent reader to start. In this printable, sorting words based on their sounds helps children pay attention to the individual sounds within words.
This printable activity asks children to choose between adjectives and to draw an image to match the descriptive words that they have selected.
As they become readers, children need to understand that different texts have different purposes. In this printable, children distinguish between different types of texts, such as lists, newspapers, and signs.
Enjoy Rip's alphabet jokes as you practice correct letter formation.
A word family is a group of words that rhyme and have the same spelling pattern. For instance dog, hog and log are in the _og word family. Children who understand word families have an easier time learning to spell and decode words.Young children find the _at family the easiest, so begin there if the other word families seem difficult. If your child needs help coming up with a song, start with a song or rhyme you already know, like Hickory Dickory Dock, and substitute your rhyming words.
Distinguishing between individual sounds in a word develops your child's phonemic awareness, the ability to hear individual sounds within words and manipulate them. Identifying the letter that makes that sound develops your child's understanding of phonics, or how sounds and symbols are related. Forming letters by hand helps your child develop automatic letter recognition. These skills are cornerstones of learning to read.
Print this coloring page to help your child understand word families. Children who understand word families have an easier time learning to spell and decode words.
Kids like puzzles. Successfully decoding a secret message gives kids a great feeling of accomplishment. While having fun your child will also be working on identifying and writing the initial letter in a word, important skills for reading and spelling.
Kids like puzzles. Successfully decoding a secret message gives kids a great feeling of accomplishment. While having fun your child will also be working on identifying and writing the initial letter in a word, important skills for reading and spelling.
Knowing alphabetical order will help your child use a dictionary or index.
Providing blanks to fill in to complete a message helps your child to become an independent writer.
Practice place value with this printable, which prompts your child to recognize the number ten as a basis for higher values.
This printable prompts your child to identify parts of a whole and demonstrates that different fractions can be used to represent the same amount.
Putting events in order by the time needed to complete them is an early math skill.
This printable matching activity can help your child recognize that objects can be added or counted in any order and the total amount will remain the same. This is called the commutative property.
This printable activity introduces the idea that fifty percent is the same as one half.
Completing this printable will help your child make connections between daily activities and times on an analog clock.
During the day, your child sees the time represented in both digital and analog formats. Completing this printable activity will help your child to make connections between analog and digital representations of the same time.
Children can learn to differentiate between coins by playing this fun variation on Bingo.
This activity can help children learn to identify coins and understand that they have different values.
Completing this printable activity will get your child thinking about the mathematical concept of relative weight.
This printable activity helps your child practice an important early geometry skill: differentiating between and identifying different 2D polygons.
Your child will use geometry skills to determine which flowerbed is bigger.
Learning to differentiate between and identify 2D polygons is an important early geometry skill. This printable activity reinforces that skill. To extend the learning, ask your child to name all the shapes he or she sees.
In addition to counting out loud, your child should be able to recognize larger numbers and put them in order. This is a fun way to practice sequencing numbers.
Enjoy Rip's number jokes as you practice writing numbers.
Matching baby animals to their mothers in this printable requires your child to use logic and reasoning skills that will also uncover one of the secrets of math.
This printable introduces the concept of the five food groups and prompts your child to make selections from each of these groups.
This two- or three-player game will help your child learn to identify objects that can be recycled or composted, and e-waste, which needs special handling.
Play this card game with your child and introduce an important, basic Life Science concept. Game play will help your child recognize and remember what green plants need in order to survive and reproduce.
This printable activity encourages your child to think about and identify various natural sources of water, an early Earth Science skill. Read the water words aloud to your pre-reader and see if he can tell you which word goes where.
This maze presents a fun way for kids to learn the baby names of elephants, sharks, chimps and more.
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