A New Kindergarten Extension Pack

We’ve gotten quite a bit of rain lately, so I thought it would be a good time to extend another one of our preschool units.   Can you guess which one?  Check it out and download it below. Then let us know what you think!

Rain K Extension Pack

Here’s a closer look inside this Kindergarten Extension Pack: (Future packs will hopefully include more printables, but really at this point I can’t promise anything! )

Raindrop Math	100 Chart Art
Skip Counting Order Puzzles	Graph Predict and Analyze
Tracing Strips

Products We Use with Our Units

Looking for more ideas?

• Preschool and Tot Activities
• Devotional & Memory Verse Helps
• Rain Center Ideas
• Spring Rain Count & Color Books
• Magazine Rainbow Craft
• Family Movie Night

There are also more ideas, units, printables and crafts available on our Pinterest Board!

We hope you enjoy these printables and please let us know if you have any issues with downloading or using the items provided.

 

Please do not sell or host these files anywhere else. You MAY link people here. When leading others to these printables, please link to THIS page, not to the file page.  Thanks! (See TOU)

Rain Unit {Expanded}

It is that time of year, when birds chirp, trees begin to flower and spring rains fall.  As predicted, the rain has come to 2 Teaching Mommies. Well Free Rain Preschool Printables that is! 

All our printables are in one easy download. Just click the image above to download a single zip file of all the printables. (Can’t unzip it. Try Hamster Free Zip Archiver approved by Amber’s husband. Remember to download carefully.)

You will need to be able to view pop-ups to download the unit, as it will appear in a pop up window from our site! Last year’s printables are also included in this download.
Here are some of the printables that MAY BE included in this unit:

• Patterns (ABAB and AABB)
• Roll & Graph
• Letter Sort
• Writing Maze
• Beginning Writing/Cutting Practice
• Size Sort
• Number Order Puzzle (1-10 and 11-20)
• Spelling Page
• Count & Clip
   

Tot Pack
Looking for some ideas for a younger tot? Check out our Rain Tot Pack. (Tot Packs inspired by 1+1+1=1.) Here are the printables included in this pack: 

• Stormy Weather Match
• Rainbow Shapes 
• Count the Raindrops
• Umbrella Colors (mini book)
• Size Sequencing
• Rain Picture Puzzle

Looking for more ideas?

• Kindergarten Extension Pack
• Devotional & Memory Verse Helps
• Rain Center Ideas
• Spring Rain Count & Color Books
• Magazine Rainbow Craft
• Family Movie Night

There are also more ideas, units, printables and crafts available on our Pinterest Board!
We hope you enjoy these printables and please let us know if you have any issues with downloading or using the items provided. 

Please do not sell or host these files anywhere else. You MAY link people here. When leading others to these printables, please link to THIS page, not to the file page.  Thanks! (See TOU)

Rain Center Ideas

This week we are expanding our “Rain” Theme printables. 

Below you will find some activities that your kiddo should be able to do independently.  

Writing

Found more great free resources from Busy Bee Kids Printables! They have several Spring mazes with varying levels of difficulty.  Plus, they have several choices on rainy dot-to-dots. For our writing activities, my son use our Crayola Dry Erase Activity Center, which allows these pages to be used over and over again without having to laminate them. If you don’t have a Crayola Dry Erase Activity Center, then I would suggest laminating them.

Spring Mazes

Spring Dot-to-Dots

Pretend Play

Give your kiddo a white sheet or towel and let them pretend to be a cloud. Provide some music and get the little cloud to dance.

Art

Create a rainbow collage.  Provide your kiddos with scraps of tissue or construction paper in all the colors of the rainbow. Let them glue the pieces to the rainbow template from Making Learning Fun. To make it more exciting, provide you kiddo with Fruit Loops, Skittles or M&Ms.  Of course, Do-a-Dot Paints would also work.  Do whatever you think your kiddos would enjoy best.   I know my son will be all about the food items!  Don’t forget to add some cotton balls or marshmallows for clouds.

To download the template you want, just click it and it will take you to Making Learning Fun.

Hope these activities bring a ray of sunshine to your day.

Spring Rain-Color, Count, and Water Cycle

Here are three new printables you can work on this spring with your kiddo! 

Spring Water Cycle-We made a version of this water cycle for our Snow unit, but I figured you might want to go over it again during the spring, so I made one for rain!

               

Raindrop Count Book: Numbers 1-10

Umbrella Color Book:

Forgive both the brevity and belatedness of today’s post!  E is sick and my day has been crazy!  I am sure that you other mommies completely understand! 

Have a great week!

Spring Rain

I’m not sure what your spring weather has been, but we have been experiencing quite a bit of nasty weather in our parts of the woods.  So, this week’s lesson have been very appropriate.  

 

Here is what we’ve been doing this week. Let us know what you think.  We hope by providing these materials to you free of charge, it will make your life easier! 

Lesson Plan: The lesson plan includes all the lessons for the week, as well as optional ideas. Items following the lesson plan are just the printables or links to websites we used to teach these plans.  (Please note: On top of our lesson plan we are reading books daily that relate to our theme.)

 

{Coming Soon.  Family in town.}

 

 

Memory Verse: This memory card is for daily use during our calendar time.  You can learn more about calendar time at 1+1+1=1 or Homeschool Creations.  Our weekly devotional is an object lesson that will help your child apply the meaning of the verse to them.

Day 1: Raindrops  
Beginning Rain Writing- (Can also be used for cutting practice.)You can use this document over and over again if you laminate it and then have you child write with dry erase markers. (Black dry erase wipes off easier than color ones.)

Count the Raindrops- This activity will help your child begin to read, count and model whole numbers 1-10.

Cotton Ball Clouds- This is a fun science activity that we found at Naturally Educational. It has your kiddo exploring what happens to a cloud when it becomes full of moisture.  We created this experiment sheet to go with it.

Day 2: Storms 
Storm Letter Match- Have your child match the capital letter to the lowercase letter to reinforce letter recognition.

Storm Size Sequencing- Work on recognizing different sizes and vocabulary such as bigger and smaller with this sequencing activity.  We’ve also included a Size Sort.

 

Storm Science- Here a few experiments about different storms that you could do with your kiddo.

• For Lightning from Weather Wiz Kids.
• For Tornadoes/Storms from PBS Kids.

 

 

Day 3: Rainbows 
Rainbow Spelling Puzzle- This activity will help your child begin to recognize that when letters are combined they form words.

Rainbow Shape Match- Review shapes by matching each side of the rainbow.

 

Make a Rainbow- Here a few experiments about making rainbows that you could do with your kiddo.

• How to Make a Rainbow from eHow.

• Catch a Rainbow from Kid Zone.

 

 

We hope you enjoy these lesson plans and please let us know if you have any issues with downloading or using the items provided.  

Please do not sell or host these files anywhere else. You MAY link people here. When leading others to these printables, please link to THIS page, not the 4shared file page.  Thanks! (See TOU)

Magazine Rainbow

Our house is wrapping up our Resurrection Eggs series, so we haven’t made our craft for this week just yet.  We are going to be making a Rainbow collage with old magazines.  We made this last year and it turned out wonderfully.  Here is the post from that craft night.  Hope it inspires you to make some of your own!

This week we read All Aboard with Noah and What Makes a Rainbow? 

     

After reading about rainbows some, we made this collage rainbow that my friend, Sarah, told me about.  Here is what you’ll need:

• Blue Construction Paper
• Magazine ads that are predominantly red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple
• Cotton Balls
• White Glue

We went through old magazines and looked for colored pictures and E got to tear them up in little pieces.  You could tear the pieces ahead of time if you’d like.  Depending on your kiddos attention span, that might be a good idea.  E then got to glue them, which I think was her favorite part. 

 

We worked from bottom to top (so we started with purple) and then glued cotton balls on as clouds last thing.  This was a fun activity, and I know E liked it.  We had some guests for dinner and she really wanted them to see her “ainbow”.  Let me know if any of you try it and how it goes!
 

He Gives Us Peace

This week our theme is Spring Weather!  Our verse comes from Luke 8:24.

“He got up and ordered the huge waves and the wind to stop.  The storm quieted down.”

Materials:

• Storm Craft Printable

Directions:

• Say the verse above with your tot.  We suggest that you print the verse off and use it every morning with your calendar time.  If you don’t do calendar time still say the verse each morning with your tot before you begin tot school.
• Read or paraphrase the Bible Story about Jesus calming the storm 
• Follow the cues given in this devotional. 

Talk with your child about the following:
We’re talking some this week about weather.  We’ve talked about storms a little bit this week, and our memory verse comes from a story where Jesus was in a storm.  We read in our story about Jesus’ friends who were out on a boat when a big storm came up.

Do you remember what Jesus was doing when the storm came up?  He was sleeping.  Jesus knew that the storm wasn’t bigger than God, and that He could trust His Father to take care of Him.  Jesus friends on the boat didn’t trust that God would take care of them, so they went and they woke Jesus up.  Jesus got up, raised His hands, and calmed the storm.  He made the waves and the wind just stop. 

We can always trust that God will take care of us, no matter what happens.  There is never a storm that is bigger than He is, and whatever happens, God will take care of us.  He brings us peace in the middle of a storm, all because He loves us.  Let’s pray. 

Dear Father, we know that sometimes we get scared when storms come up.  We know though that no matter what happens, you are control.  Thank you for keeping us safe through every storm.  Amen.

Questions to ask:

• Who can calm any storm? Jesus
• What does Jesus give us when he calms our storms?  Peace!

Movie Night- Rain to Bows

We are learning all about spring weather this week.  And I must say we have been living all of it in our area!! Since, we have been doing our resurrection eggs in the evening, we aren’t having a spring weather family night.  However, I have searched the web and have found quite a few ideas if you’d like to have one. 

Fun Rainbow Dessert Options:

 

(Click on the images to take you to the recipes.)

M&M Cookies From Sweetest Kitchen	Rainbow Cupcakes From Family Fun
Rainbow Jell-O From Zakka Life	Rainbow Sherbet Ice Cream Photo Credit

Movie Ideas:

Of course, it isn’t a movie night without a movie.  Here are a few that I found while browsing Amazon…

• Use your discretion on what is appropriate for your child.  These movies are merely a suggestion and you should read and consider reviews of these movies before watching them.
• Be sure and check Netflix if you have an instant streaming option.

Unfortunately, the selections aren’t the best.   If you have any other movie suggestions for our theme PLEASE share in the comments. 

I hope you all are staying dry and safe this spring season.  Also, praying for all those facing and who have faced destructive weather recently.