May 25, 2013

Theme Printables K-O

Theme Printables K through O

Other Posts in this Series…

Theme Printables A-E

Theme Printables F-J

Theme Printables P-T {coming soon}

Theme Printables U-Z {coming soon}

I wrote about my views on using themes with young kids, and there are certainly a LOT of early childhood themes to choose from! When you begin planning, Pinterest and Google can be a bit overwhelming! I am creating this series to help you with your planning. I have gathered all FREE theme based printable packs {mainly early childhood focused, tots-1st grade} that I am aware of and sorted them by letter so you can browse through and get ideas all in one place! I did NOT include holiday based packs, simply because there are so many and they are pretty easy to find when holidays roll around.

I have included free printable theme packs from bloggers around the web including; Homeschool Creations, 2 Teaching Mommies, Spell Outloud, 3 Dinosaurs, Confessions of a Homeschooler, Me & Marie Learning, Ooopsey Daisy, All Our Days, Creative Learning Fun, Royal Baloo, 123 Homeschool 4 Me, Lawteedah, Our Little Monkeys, Creative Preschool Resources, Our Country Road, Homeschool Share, Gift of Curiosity, This Reading Mama, and Over the Big Moon. {if any of you ladies notice an error/edit please let me know!}

If the pack was created by another blogger, I listed their {blog name} in the brackets. If there aren’t any brackets, I made it!

Letter KTheme Printables K through O

Letter LTheme Printables K through O

Letter MTheme Printables K through O

Letter NTheme Printables K through O

Letter OTheme Printables K through O

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June 10, 2012

Tot School ~ Letter N

~Ladybug is currently 37.5 months old~

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The items are all available here on the Animal ABCs webpage. {files are released for free when they are posted on the Totally Tots blog for the ABC feature, letter N is not free yet, but it will be once it is posted on Totally Tots!}.

Here are some Letter N and Newt ideas for you…

 

She requested finger paint again, wanting her newt to be blue…IMG_7533

 

We also used finger paint for the dot fun page, I squirted a tiny bit on each circle and she swirled it around as we yelled out the letters! This set is included in the Animal ABC Bundle, or you can purchase the set as a stand alone set for $1.25 on Teacher’s Notebook.IMG_7527

 

We slipped our Play Dough Mat into our Dry Erase Center, she helped me roll snakes to make her letters…IMG_7540

 

She worked with me to make the letter craft, which is basically an open ended project that you can do whatever you want with!  This week I gave her a small sponge and let her choose a color of paint.  She was a bit confused at first but once she got the hang of it, she LOVED sponge painting!IMG_7520

Special Note: Please read my post about Following the Child’s Lead if you have a tot and need info about this.  All tots are different and what Ladybug is doing may not be appropriate for your child, even if s/he is the same age!

We are taking our All About Reading Pre Level 1 lessons slowly.  I am not expecting mastery from Ladybug, just using this program as a way to expose her to the Big Five Skills.

She hasn’t wanted to work on her All About Reading letter sheets the past 2 weeks, which is fine by me-I don’t force her to do anything at this point.  This week she loved the “Nanny Goat” probably because her grandma is called “Nanee.”  She used finger paint to color the nanny goat…IMG_7531

This week we used Ziggy to work on compound words, saying them in 2 parts out loud and then saying the whole word out loud!  She did it with me a few times, but wasn’t too interested.  She loved playing with Ziggy!IMG_7546

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We used our new Letter Construction set to make our letter Nn…IMG_7549

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We played Honey Bee Tree a LOT…IMG_7557

She played with her magnets for hours one day!  Specifically, her pattern block magnets and her abc magnets.  The shot on the right is her whining about me taking her picture.

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We got a new letter peg set from Lakeshore Learning to review, and she is in LOVE!  I am too!IMG_7371

She had to really work hard to get the pegs in and at first wanted to give up, but she persevered and can do it now!  She shows me her strong muscles!IMG_7406

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We got a new swimming pool, and have been outside a lot!  Even amidst the miles of concrete, nature finds us.  She found a tiny black bug in the pool and kept him as her pet for over an hour.  Cuddling him, petting him, talking to him.

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She even kept him alive the entire hour and then put him on a flower and said good bye!IMG_0334

Then, her brother found her a butterfly!  This girl LOVES bugs.IMG_0365

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The iPad comes in VERY handy when she gets up before I am ready.  I give it to her and sleep a bit more.  One morning she was playing ABCs of God and loved it!  She hadn’t played it in awhile, I think she forgot about it!IMG_0235

Watching a bit of Netflix using her new princess floaty as a set…genius!IMG_0039

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    April 12, 2012

    Kindergarten with Krash ~ RRSK/Mm & Nn, Star Wars

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    RRSK: Letter Mm & Nn

    Theme: Star Wars

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    You can download all of the printables for this unit FREE here on the main RRSK page, just scroll down until you see them!  We have backed off from doing all 10 of the provided activities in the RRSK units.  As he progresses, some items aren’t necessary anymore and either we skip them or go through them quickly.  My main goal in using the RRSK lessons is the Bible work and simple review of other K skills.

    I haven’t posted in awhile, so I am combining letter Mm and Nn in this post!

    Gluing his letter M verse…

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    Tracing Letter N…IMG_3067

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    Here is Krash singing letter M for you, the tune is “Are You Sleeping.”   The printable written out the way you sing it for LETTER M is here!

     

    Here is Krash singing letter N for you, the tune is “If You’re Happy and You Know It.”   The printable written out the way you sing it for LETTER N is here!

    RRSK Letter Mm and Nn Printables Here!

    If you want early access to printables beyond what I have blogged about, you can see info about purchasing here!  Currently I have units Aa-Rr available in the early access section.

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    Krash has completed all 18 units from You Can Read, so we are spending time reviewing the words he knows!  Here’s a bit of what we have done together recently.

    I gave him the final word reading assessment {YCR add-on}, he only missed a few and was really excited!IMG_1924

    He completed the 10 minute writing words assessment and wrote 28 words on his own!IMG_1929

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    We played unit review BINGO…IMG_3385

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    Check out Word Play ideas here, and add yours!

    We began reviewing All About Reading Level 1 awhile ago, and Krash continues to make consistent progress.  You can read more about why we are choosing to review this homeschool reading program here in our “Current Curriculum” post {see FAQ}.

    I wrote a lot about our initial thoughts and experiences with AAR in this Kindergarten with Krash post.

    We are moving along and I am honestly so thrilled with K’s progress, he has mastered th, ch, and sh!IMG_3136

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    He loved the feed the mouse activity!IMG_3147 

    He really enjoys his reading book, I even caught him reading during his free time one day {a RARE thing for this active boy}

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    imageIt was Star Wars week for Krash!  It was his choice and he now knows ALL of the characters and everything else.  Daddy LOVED Star Wars as a kid so had a blast watching the movies with the boys for the first time.

    Matching characters and names…IMG_2482

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    I made the props into magnets on our cookie sheet, he and Ladybug both loved these!

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    We made words using the Read, Build, Write cards.  He doesn’t love these so we only did a few.  He likes them a lot better using the cookie sheet and the matching character!

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    Finding shapes…IMG_2814

    Working on the Starfighter book…IMG_3059

    His big brother was at a used books sale with a friend and found 5 Star Wars books and bought them for Krash!!!  I was thrilled with his kindness and so was Krash!IMG_4238

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    Krash spends most morning playing, he isn’t allowed to “play” with electronics, but is free to choose anything else for the most part.  I loved the day he chose dominoes and built this!IMG_3167

     

    We are still enjoying www.Cookie.com.  It has tons of cute games for young kids and the layout of the site is easy to navigate.  Here he was reading one of the stories.IMG_2754

    I recently upgraded on Starfall to the “More Starfall” section for Ladybug, it is her favorite site and she was THRILLED to have the rest of the games open up!  Thankfully there’s lots on it for Krash too, here he was doing some addition…IMG_3364

     

    iPad learning fun. We have received many free apps lately, I have been sharing them all on my Facebook page as we find them, so be sure to follow me over there if you are interested!  Apps by Auryn gave away a free book a day for the month of March-K’s favorites are definitely the Miko books!  We have also gotten 2 new Toca Boca apps…Toca Store and Toca Kitchen Monsters!  Here they are playing Toca Store-which encourages 2 kids to interact together and take turns, it is wonderful!IMG_4234

    I get asked a lot about our iPad 2 case-it’s the Trident Kraken II and yes we love it! See all of our posts about iPad apps and more here! The stylus we have that he uses sometimes is this one.

    A few items we used…

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    July 31, 2011

    Tot School ~ Letter Nn…part 2

    ~Ladybug is currently 26.5 months old~

    We have had a very low key school week, without any sort of schedule.  Ladybug insists on school daily though so we did do some things!

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    Letter: Nn

    Object: Net

    Vocabulary Development Theme: Bugs

    You can find the printables for this unit here on the Tot School Printables webpage.

     

    Coloring numbers, using her dry erase activity center…IMG_0019

    I was getting the “stop taking my picture” look while she was coloring her vocabulary cards…IMG_0023

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    She insisted on using her Boca Beth puppet to color her bugs and put her markers away,  She loves this thing!

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    We have a mission team here serving and they brought their kids.  They are all old friends of ours from our hometown and enjoyed having them over one day,  Ladybug loved the school time attention from these 2 ladies…

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    Letter Nn printables here!

    Fun Books & Toys for this unit here!

     

     

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    The set-up for her shelves this week is the same as last week, I just left the info in case you missed it…

    • top shelf: ladybug Easter basket {filled with some small bugs}, bug hats {Target}, bug flashcards {Target}
    • top left shelf: bug library books
    • top middle shelf: bug board books
    • top right shelf: mini containers with bug flashcards and bug printables from Montessori Print Shop
    • bottom left: sorting colored bugs into cups
    • bottom middle: plastic chopsticks and mini ladybug & Butterfly erasers {Oriental Trading I think}
    • bottom right: Bee Hive game
    • far right: buggy fleece {to use with sensory bin and for play-she LOVES blankees!}

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    This week I set up both sides with the bug theme, I won’t always do this-especially for smaller themes.  Bugs was the theme for Krash and PacMan too, so it took over homeschool {and still is!}

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    She found our Do U Know? cards and we played for a really long time together.  We named the Bible characters and then she matched them all up…IMG_9996

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    We had fun counting them too…

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    I fed her love of magazines, getting out a few of Pac Man’s old Big Backyard magazines, she loved it!!!

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    We have a mission team here serving with us this week and it is made up of some really awesome friends from our hometown.  They brought their kids to serve also and it is wonderful.  We went out on Friday night to tour our city and while out a big rainstorm hit!  It was  such fun to watch the kids enjoy the cool rain on such a hot summer evening! Ladybug was loving it, eyeing the big kids… IMG_0194

    Then finally heading out herself and dancing until it stopped, entertaining us all!

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    Sometimes I just want to put her cuteness in a bottle and drink it all up. I will miss this adorable stage of her life when it is done.  I am soaking up every cute 2 year old moment now!!!IMG_0162

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    July 17, 2011

    Tot School ~ Letter Nn / Bugs {part 1}

    ~Ladybug is currently 26.5 months old~

    Because we have SO much buggy stuff, we are extending this theme for at least 2 weeks, possibly 3. We are also currently on vacation {I set this to auto publish}, so we will take a week off in the middle of it all!

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    Letter: Nn

    Object: Net

    Vocabulary Development Theme: Bugs

    You can find the printables for this unit here on the Tot School Printables webpage.

    I set many of her Nn activities up in our pocket chart so she could easily see the options and show me what she would like to do. Everything you see can be downloaded from the Tot School Printables Letter Nn section, except for the ABC cards on the left-those are from the Very Hungry Caterpillar Tot Pack.

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    Tracing lines…IMG_8451

    Coloring things that start with Nn…IMG_8743

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    Letter Nn printables here!

    Fun Books & Toys for this unit here!

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    The set-up for her shelves this week…

    • top shelf: ladybug Easter basket {filled with some small bugs}, bug hats {Target}, bug flashcards {Target}
    • top left shelf: bug library books
    • top middle shelf: bug board books
    • top right shelf: mini containers with bug flashcards and bug printables from Montessori Print Shop
    • bottom left: sorting colored bugs into cups
    • bottom middle: plastic chopsticks and mini ladybug & Butterfly erasers {Oriental Trading I think}
    • bottom right: Bee Hive game
    • far right: buggy fleece {to use with sensory bin and for play-she LOVES blankees!}

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    This week I set up both sides with the bug theme, I won’t always do this-especially for smaller themes. Bugs was the theme for Krash and PacMan too, so it took over homeschool {and still is!}

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    She went straight for the bee hat and has put it on each day! Here she was sorting the bugs by color..IMG_8399

    She didn’t like the chop sticks I had for this so she used her fingers which is totally fine!IMG_8412

    She loved the net I put out and we had fun catching bugs with it…IMG_8416

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    She still loves this bug puzzle even though it is way too easy for her now…

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    Ordering caterpillars by size…IMG_8759

    To say she likes the bug books would be a total understatement. I don’t know what it is about kids and bugs but it is a true love relationship. She looks through her bug books daily.IMG_8762

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    The Bugs Sensory Bin was enjoyed all week long, MANY times! This is definitely a favorite bin. Both little kids have asked for it daily.

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    We made sound eggs together…IMG_8463

    She was able to tell me what each one was several times and really enjoyed this!IMG_8469

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    We went to the zoo with some great friends! Ladybug loved it all but the sheep freaked her out a tad.

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    At the zoo, she was all smiles-all day long.

    Until it was time for a group photo and she pulled out the DRAMA.

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