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Flip Crayon Activities

Get Set for School

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. Related Products: Numbers & Math Pre-K Teacher's Guide 1-2-3 Touch & Flip^® Cards Tag Bags^® Get Set for School Numbers & Math Kit Get Set for School Kit and Kaboodle Kit (Kits 1+2+3)	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. Line It Up Bar helps teacher demonstrate Story Cards and Letter Cards to the whole class. Story Cards introduce colorful fiction and non-fiction stories for rich conversation that sparks participation and learning. Letter Cards invite personalization and creativity with familiar black and white drawings and gray traceable letters to support proper letter formation. Related Products: Sound Around Box™ Language & Literacy Pre-K Teacher's Guide Numbers & Math Pre-K Teacher's Guide Color Pre-K Wall Cards	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. Related Products: Color Pre-K Wall Cards 1-2-3 Touch & Flip® Cards I Know My Numbers Mat Man Books Set	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. Related Products: Sound Around Box™ Word Time™ A-B-C Touch & Flip® Cards Language & Literacy Pre-K Teacher's Guide
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: Multifaceted Sound Around Box is perfect for whole class and center based instruction. Picture and Color Tiles promote memory, rhyming, and syllable segmentation. Magnetic Pieces promote proper capital letter formation. Activity Plates help organize activities. Related Products: Color Pre-K Wall Cards Language & Literacy Pre-K Teacher's Guide Numbers & Math Pre-K Teacher's Guide Get Set for School Language & Literacy Kit Get Set for School Kit and Kaboodle Kit (Kits 1+2+3)

Hands-on Materials

Building Capital Letters on Mat This interactive letter building activity with the Mat and Wood Pieces keeps children focused as they respond to spoken instruction. Consistent terminology and taking turns reinforce learning and provide hands-on feedback. Purchase the Wood Pieces from our online store. Related Products: Mat for Wood Pieces Mat Man® Hands Capital Letter Cards for Wood Pieces Letters and Numbers for Me	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. Related Products: Wood Pieces Set for Capital Letters Mat for Wood Pieces Letters and Numbers for Me	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. Related Products: Additional Tray for the Roll-A-Dough Letters™ Additional Tray Cards for the Roll-A-Dough Letters™ Stamp and See Screen™	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. Related Products: Roll-A-Dough Letters™ Additional Tray for the Roll-A-Dough Letters™ Additional Tray Cards for the Roll-A-Dough Letters™
Show Me Magnetic Pieces Show Me Magnetic Pieces is a demonstration tool that features a magnetic blue mat, magnetic lines and magnetic curves that allows teachers to model letter formations on a vertical surface for whole kindergarten class instruction. Students follow along with their Blue Mats and wood pieces. Purchase the Show Me Magnetic Pieces from our online store. Related Products: Wood Pieces Set for Capital Letters Mat for Wood Pieces Letters and Numbers for Me	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. Related Products: Additional Tray for the Roll-A-Dough Letters™ Additional Tray Cards for the Roll-A-Dough Letters™ Stamp and See Screen™

I Know My Numbers

Magic C Bunny Helps Teach Handwriting

Mat Man

Mix & Make Shapes

Music and Movement

Frog Jump Letters Song: Fun intro to big lines Here, the class learns that F E D P B R N and M are all Frog Jump Capitals. They stand up and finger trace the Frog Jump Capitals in the air in time with the song. This multisensory activity is a great way to incorporate music and movement to make letters memorable. Hear more sample tracks and purchase the Rock, Rap, Tap & Learn CD from our online store. Related Products: Sing Along CD — Get Set for School Mat for Wood Pieces Wood Pieces Set for Capital Letters Roll-A-Dough Letters®	Leaves and Branches, Trunks and Roots "Leaves and Branches, Trunks and Roots" is part of the new Sing, Sound & Count with Me CD. Hear more sample tracks and purchase the Sing, Sound & Count with Me CD from our online store. Related Products: Rock, Rap, Tap & Learn CD Sing Along CD — Get Set for School 1-2-3 Touch & Flip^® Cards Tag Bags^® 4 Squares More Squares^®	My Teacher Draws Song: Imitate teacher, draw shapes Children love to have grown ups draw for them. My Teacher Draws song and activity teach imitation skills and shapes. Here, watching Patty draw prepares the class to draw a circle, a square, and a triangle. Hear more sample tracks and purchase the Get Set for School Sing Along CD from our online store. Related Products: Rock, Rap, Tap & Learn CD Mat for Wood Pieces Wood Pieces Set for Capital Letters Roll–A–Dough Letters®	Sliding Down to the End of the Alphabet Song: Start with V, slide all the way to Z Sliding Down to the End of the Alphabet is an upbeat rock and roll song that teaches the more difficult diagonals and the end of the alphabet. Children start with V and slide all the way down to Z. This rollicking tune ensures that children always remember the end of the alphabet. Since the teacher is facing the students, she must demonstrate the letters backwards so that the students model them correctly. Hear more sample tracks and purchase the Rock, Rap, Tap & Learn CD from our online store. Related Products: Sing Along CD — Get Set for School Sing, Sound & Count With Me CD Mat for Wood Pieces Wood Pieces Set for Capital Letters
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. Related Products: Rock, Rap, Tap & Learn CD Mat for Wood Pieces Wood Pieces Set for Capital Letters MAT MAN SHAPES MAT MAN HATS Roll–A–Dough Letters™ Print Wall Cards My Printing Book Letters and Numbers for Me	The Ant, The Bug and The Bee Song: Finger Plays The Ant, the Bug & the Bee song uses music and movement to teach children about the number 6. Children love to fly around like bees as they sing along with the lyrics. Hear more sample tracks and purchase the Sing Along CD — Get Set for School from our online store. Related Products: Rock, Rap, Tap & Learn CD Mat for Wood Pieces Wood Pieces Set for Capital Letters

Sentence School

Learning to Write with Sentence School – Pre-Writing Lesson In this first of four lessons, Tania introduces the children to basic sentence skills in a fun way through active participation. The children develop vocabulary, and learn by hearing and trying out new words. Purchase Sentence School from our online store. Related Products: Double Line Notebook Paper Pencils for Little Hands Letters and Numbers for Me Wood Pieces Set for Capital Letters	Learning to Write with Sentence School – Weekly Lesson #1 In this second of four lessons, Tania demonstrates word association and meaning by demonstrating each sentence as the children learn it. Direct association with something familiar has been shown to help children create a mental map for word learning. Purchase Sentence School from our online store. Related Products: Double Line Notebook Paper Pencils for Little Hands Letters and Numbers for Me Wood Pieces Set for Capital Letters	Learning to Write with Sentence School – Weekly Lesson #2 In this third of four lessons, Tania helps the children practice saying grammatically correct sentences. Saying complete sentences out loud gives children speaking practice, and develops their speaking and writing skills. Purchase Sentence School from our online store. Related Products: Double Line Notebook Paper Pencils for Little Hands Letters and Numbers for Me Wood Pieces Set for Capital Letters	Learning to Write with Sentence School – Weekly Lesson #3 In this last of four videos, Tania models sentence writing on the blackboard for the class. Seeing how you write helps make it easier for children to learn to write. Purchase Sentence School from our online store. Related Products: Double Line Notebook Paper Pencils for Little Hands Letters and Numbers for Me Wood Pieces Set for Capital Letters
Sentence School Testimonial Janis, a Kindergarten teacher at a Blue Ribbon school, talks about her experience with Sentence School, and its use of quick active lessons to build sentence skills, including: grammar, vocabulary, concepts and writing. Related Products: Double Line Notebook Paper Pencils for Little Hands Letters and Numbers for Me Wood Pieces Set for Capital Letters Capital Letter Cards for Wood Pieces

Tag Bags

Teaching Tips for Educators

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. Related Products: A-B-C Touch & Flip Cards I Know My Numbers Get Set for School Word Time™ Mat Man Books Set	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. Related Products: 1-2-3 Touch & Flip Cards I Know My Numbers Get Set for School Word Time™ Mat Man Books Set	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. Related Products: A-B-C Touch & Flip Cards I Know My Numbers Get Set for School Word Time™ Mat Man Books Set	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. Related Products: A-B-C Touch & Flip Cards I Know My Numbers Get Set for School Word Time™ Mat Man Books Set
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. Related Products: 1-2-3 Touch & Flip Cards I Know My Numbers Get Set for School Word Time™ Mat Man Books Set	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. Related Products: 1-2-3 Touch & Flip Cards I Know My Numbers Get Set for School Word Time™ Mat Man Books Set

Wet Dry Try Activities

Word Time

Workbook Writing