Contents

Top 10 Materials to Have Handy for Learning Activities

The Five Key Learning Areas

Phonemic Awareness

Sounding Off to the Beat Game

Letter-Sound Laundry Games

Paper Plate Slide Phonics

Sound Scavenger Hunt

Sorting the Mail: A Picture-Sound Matching Game

Word Family Puzzles

Sixty-Second Word Family Naming

Word Family Flipbook Games

Pizza Pan Word Magic

The Top 100 Sight Words

Environmental Print Books

Sight Word Twister

Label the House

Sight Word Wall Wallball

Sink the Sight Word Ship

Vocabulary Memory Game

Antonym or Synonym

The Portmanteau Game

Vocabulary Parade

Reading Comprehension

Make a Book Mobile

Comprehension Cube Dice Game

What’s My Story?

Venn Versions: Comparing and Contrasting Stories

Grocery Store Scavenger Hunts

Sentence Building

Sentence Stacks

The Incredible Expanding Sentence

Senseless Sentences Game

Transition, Comment, or Question

Quick, Change This Sentence!

Word Cootie Catchers

All about Me Glyph

Comic Strip Sequencing

Story Stone Soup

Round Robin Storytelling

Creative Writing

Fortunately/Unfortunately

Character Building: What’s His Story?

The Missing Person

Different Types of Writing

Painting Word Pictures

Teach Me How To …

Hamburger and Condiment Writing

What’s Your Perspective?

Creative Ways to Use Flash Cards

Create Your Own Mad Libs

What Letter Is Missing?

Add-a-Letter Game

Reconstruct the Words

Spelling Word Hangman

Spelling Word Songs

Sandpaper Word Rubbings

Glitter Glue Spelling Words

Build Words with Blocks or Scrabble Tiles

Build with Your Body

Draw in Shaving Cream/Sand

Spelling Word Charades

Spelling Word Scavenger Hunt

Math in Everyday Life

Budgets and Wish Lists

One for Me, One for You

Housecleaning Math

Grocery Store Math

Counting, Sorting, and Patterns

Lollipop Patterns

Playing with Your Food

Junk Drawer Sorting

Muffin Tin Toy Sort

Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, and Division

Build Fact Family Houses

Multiplication Magic: Tricks to Make Multiplication Easy

Multiplication Card Games

Division Card Games

Operation Words Brainstorm

Toothpick Subtraction

Lemonade Stand Math

Muffin Tin Coin Sort

Measuring and Fractions

How Many Paper Clips?

How Does the Family Measure Up?

Cookie Fractions

Investigating and Interacting with the World

Scratch and Sniff Painting

Sour, Sweet, Salty, or Bitter?

Activities to Improve Fine Motor Skills

Make a Coat Hanger Scale

Learning at the Zoo

Animal Habitats and Adaptations

Backyard Nature Journal

Balloon Terrarium

Make Your Own Stethoscope

Electricity and Magnets

Make a Lemon Clock

Magnet Magic Scavenger Hunt

Magical Magnetic Race Car Track

Toilet Paper Tube Flashlight

Make Your Own Metal Detector

Help the Earth Mobile

Wanted for Harming the Earth

Evaporation, Condensation, and Precipitation: A Water Cycle Experiment

Baking Soda Stalactites and Stalagmites

Experiments Around the House

Coloring Carnations

Bottle Balloon Blow-Up

Film Canister Rockets

Incredible Exploding Sandwich Bag

Activities to Increase Emotional Vocabulary

Emotional Treasure Hunt

Social Narratives

Feelings Journals

Goal-Setting Activities

Cause and Effect Game

History and Geography

3-D Family Tree

My Life Timeline

Sugar Cube Pyramids

Mapping Your Neighborhood

Where Am I?: Follow My Map

Grapefruit Globes