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Flip Crayon Activities
Crayon Song: Teaching Crayon Grip
Diane uses The Pencil Grip Song to teach tripod grip. This engaging approach holds the students attention while reinforcing the lesson. Hear more sample tracks and purchase the Rock, Rap, Tap & Learn CD from our online store.
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Tripod Grip with Flip Crayons®
Diane teaches finger names and functions. This playful approach helps young children develop grasp. Purchase Flip Crayons® from our online store.
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Using Flip Crayons®
Children flip for Flip Crayons®, the double-sided crayons for little hands that promote proper grip. Flipping the crayons to change colors is a fun and developmentally appropriate way for young learners to develop fine motor skills. Purchase Flip Crayons® from our online store.
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Get Set for School
Get Set for School Overview
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4 Squares More Squares
4 Squares More Squares brings geometry and spatial relationships to life in your Pre-K classroom, focusing on squares, puzzles and problem solving. Colorful, chunky shapes encourage children to design and build. Big and Little Pieces teach children to slide, turn and flip shapes as they fit puzzle pieces onto the double sided boards. The product grows with children as it helps them move from counting and matching to pattern building and graphing. Use 4 Squares More Squares as a whole class or center based activity.
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Line It Up
Line It Up™ and let the learning fun begin. Line It Up uses stories, pictures, conversation starters, and word chants to promote early language and motor skills.
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My Book
My Book is a child's personal storybook and a special way to explore the wonders of books and words. Children learn about the parts of a book, concepts about print, listening, new words, and word and concept connections. My Book encourages children to personalize with drawing and storytelling.
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Sound Around Box
Sound Around Box™ holds many surprises and gives you many easy ways to teach letters, rhyming, syllables, word parts, listening and cooperation skills. Children will delight in rhyming activities, compound word hunts, memory games, and other early literacy activities. Discoveries abound with Sound Around Box:
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Hands-on Materials
Building Capitals with Capital Letter Cards
Children learn consistent terminology as they build letters on capital letter cards. This activity is a great precursor to building on the Mat. Children see the letter formations as the teacher guides them in group or in individual instruction. Purchase the Capital Letter Cards for Wood Pieces from our online store.
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Building Letters with Roll-A-Dough
Here, Ryan has fun building letters with roll-a-dough while improving his finger strength and motor skills. This multisensory activity is also a great prewriting exercise. Purchase Roll-A-Dough Letters™ from our online store.
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Forming Letters with Stamp and See
With Stamp and See, children learn to make capital letters step by step. They form letters by tracing with magnetic chalk or stamping with wood piece shapes. Here, Patty models by stamping the letter step by step and erasing it. The child imitates. Patty is using the cards from the Roll A Dough Letters on the Stamp and See Screen to add an additional activity. Purchase Stamp and See Screen™ from our online store.
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Teaching Names with Roll-A-Dough
Use of consistent language helps young children learn to follow instructions. The roll-a-dough multisensory activity helps them improve finger strength, fine motor skills, and letter recognition skills as they children build letters step by step. Purchase Roll-A-Dough Letters™ from our online store.
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I Know My Numbers
About I Know My Numbers
Children enjoy counting, number formation and additional early math skills with I Know My Numbers, part of the award-winning Get Set for School Pre-K program. The I Know My Numbers individual set contains 10 booklets (one booklet for each number 1-10). The classroom set contains 100 booklets (10 sets).
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Count 9 with I Know My Numbers
I Know My Numbers is a set of activity booklets that helps children learn proper number formation, number sense, meaningful counting, and other critical early math skills. The I Know My Numbers individual set contains 10 booklets (one booklet for each number 1-10). The classroom set contains 100 booklets (10 sets).
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Cups & Caps with I Know My Numbers
I Know My Numbers engages your preschoolers with coloring pages, songs, rhymes, and other multisensory activities. The I Know My Numbers individual set contains 10 booklets (one booklet for each number 1-10). The classroom set contains 100 booklets (10 sets).
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Mix & Make Shapes
Mix & Make Shapes
Preschoolers explore geometry concepts, measurement, and patterns with Mix & Make Shapes. This set uses brightly colored shapes and friendly hands-on activities that invite children to sort, trace, transform, and move basic shapes.
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Music and Movement
Leaves and Branches, Trunks and Roots
"Leaves and Branches, Trunks and Roots" is part of the new Sing, Sound & Count with Me CD.
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Tap, Tap, Tap Song: Teaching Body Awareness
Children love music. It promotes movement and learning. The Tap Tap Tap song and activity are a fun way for young children to warm up and learn positional concepts as well as body parts as they follow the rhythm and imitate the teachers motions. Hear more sample tracks and purchase the Get Set for School Sing Along CD from our online store.
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Tag Bags
Pre-K Math Lesson: Measuring with Tag Bags
The Measuring activity teaches pre-k children geometry/spacial relations, vocabulary, and of course, measuring.
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Pre-K Math Lesson: Pocket Patterns with Tag Bags
The Pocket Patterns activity teaches pre-k children patterns/algebra, vocabulary, and fine motor skills.
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Pre-K Math Product: Tag Bags
Tag Bags is an engaging math manipulative that is part of the Get Set for School Pre-K program. This versatile teaching tool gives your preschoolers a fun, hands-on introduction to math skills, and helps to build a lifelong enjoyment of math.
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Touch & Flip Cards
About 1-2-3 Touch & Flip Cards
Recognizing numbers and understanding quantities become easy and fun with 1-2-3 Touch & Flip Cards, part of the award-winning Get Set for School program.
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About A-B-C Touch & Flip Cards
Letters come to life with A-B-C Touch & Flip Cards, part of the award-winning Get Set for School program.
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Matching Game with 1-2-3 Touch & Flip Cards
1-2-3 Touch & Flip Cards can be used in a whole class setting, one-on-one, or for independent play. The set includes 10 double-sided animal cards, 10 double-sided counter cards, and an activity booklet. The double-sided animal cards feature illustrations that children love to count. The flipside features tactile numbers on one side, which can be used to reinforce number formation.
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Name, Touch, and Trace with 1-2-3 Touch & Flip Cards
The 10 counter cards have squares for counting on one side, and numbers on the other. The cards encourage self-checking and provide immediate feedback that is beneficial for children of all abilities—especially English Language Learners.
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Name, Touch, and Trace with A-B-C Touch & Flip Cards
Children learn about the world around them by touching and exploring. The tactile nature of the A-B-C Touch & Flip Cards turns letters into more than just a symbol on a page.
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Pictures and Letters with A-B-C Touch & Flip Cards
Children flip the cards to practice capital and lowercase matching. The double sided cards encourage self-checking and provide immediate feedback that is beneficial for children of all abilities—especially English Language Learners.
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Wet Dry Try Activities
Writing Name Using Wet-Dry-Try
Jan shows Ella how to write her name doing wet-dry-try. This motivational activity helps children have fun as they develop fine motor skills with small tools including little chalk bits. Purchase the Blackboard with Double Lines from our online store.
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Word Time
About Word Time
Word Time is a Pre-K language arts program that teaches vocabulary, speaking and thinking skills. Children joyfully participate in its friendly, active lessons. Word Time helps children experience new words, say new words and sentences and connect word meanings to their lives in just 10-15 minutes a day. It helps build vocabulary and oral language skills that are critical to success and literacy and impacts all learning. Word Time is the latest edition to the Handwriting without Tears Get Set for School readiness program. It provides the same developmentally-appropriate, easy- to-teach and fun to learn experience for teachers and students. Purchase the Word Time from our online store.
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Word Time "My Body" Activity
This lesson helps children use words to talk about what their bodies can do. ‘Lungs' and ‘chest' are nouns. Nouns name people, places, or things. We use nouns to ask and answer questions. Purchase the Word Time from our online store.
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