$1 Letter Books ~ With Alphabet Recognition & Fine Motor Skill Practice

Hello Friends~
HAPPY FALL!!! It's Dianna here today with you from Sassy, Savvy, Simple Teaching! I'll be here each month on the 25th! Click below to follow me over on my blog.

I have a $1.00 deal for you that will last the next 3 days!!! This deal will be $1.00 from Friday, September 25th - Sunday, September 27th!!!

My $1.00 deal is...

Letter Books ~ 

With Alphabet Recognition & Fine Motor Skill Practice

About this pack:
This entire pack is all about young students learning their letters with a variety of fine motor skill opportunities. Everything in this pack is in black and white to save $ on ink. It is set up as a print and go pack. Students will have opportunities to practice each letter. This pack will allow students to color, write and read about each letter. Students will end up with a letter recognition book for each letter. 

What’s Included:
Fine Motor Skills Practice with Letter Recognition

Fine Motor Skills Practice includes:
Coloring ~ Tracing ~ Folding

Alphabet Books:
Each letter of the alphabet comes with a 2 page book.
Great beginning reading practice!

Everything is in black and white for easy printing and prepping.

Click on any of the photos above for a direct link or HERE!

Happy Shopping & enjoy!!!

Some Multi-Sensory Alphabet Fun!

Hey all - it's Amy from Teaching in Blue Jeans.  Today I am really excited to share a new resource that I recently created.  I had so many requests for this over the years and I finally got it done.   Introducing - Multi-Sensory Alphabet Practice Pages!

These pages are designed in a similar format as my Multi-Sensory Sight Word Practice pages which as a best seller in my TpT store.  Each alphabet page includes a section for read it, trace it, write it, rainbow write it, circle it, and find it.   Why do I love these pages so much?  By practicing writing and recognizing the letters using multiple senses, you are opening multiple pathways of learning to the brain! Multi-sensory activities are research based and recommended for helping all learners!  Want more - how about all the fine motor practice you get on one page - pencil, crayon, scissors and glue!  Additionally, all that is one one single page!  Can you say great for the copy count!  

I love his focus and engagement!  Working so hard on that letter D!

Trying to find those G's!  I intentionally use letters that are similar in appearance in the Circle It and Find It sections.   This helps students develop a true mastery of letter identification.

I introduce these pages to whole group so that I can model my expectations and correct any misunderstandings.  After a few pages together these go into an independent work station for the rest of the year.  No - I don't use the alphabet all year.  Once we go through the alphabet we start on our sight words.  This is an easy transition into the center because the pages are set-up in a very similar manner!  You can find all those resources by clicking on the picture below.

Not only do I hope that these pages help your students master their alphabet, but I hope they make your life a little easier by providing you with an easy to prep, consistent word work/phonics activity!

The Multi-Sensory Alphabet Pages will be $1 from today through Friday, September 25.  Grab at the discounted price while you can!

Learning the ABCs with Print and Go Activities!

Hi there! It's Elyse from A is for Apples and I'm ready to show you some awesome, no prep, alphabet printables for you to use during this busy back to school time! I hope I'm not alone when it comes to doing lots of assessments with my students at the beginning of the school year... I needed activities that my Kinders could do on their own! (HA!!!) I created a couple alphabet printable packs last year so that my students could practice identifying the letters while I worked with other students.

These alphabet search and color pages are one of my favorite activities. It really helps the students differentiate between the letters of the alphabet as they hunt for the letter of focus. It also helps with their color word recognition.

There's never enough time for handwriting anymore! These print and go pages from my Print and Go Activities for Letters and Sounds pack are the perfect solution for some quick handwriting practice. I let my kiddos use markers to make it a bit more exciting. Then, I have them draw and label pictures on the back that start with that letter.

Also included in my Print and Go for Letters and Sounds are printables focusing on digraphs, blending, beginning-middle-ending sounds, and CVC/CVCe words. These pages are good practice for any of your higher Kinder kiddos, later on in the year, or as a review for first graders!

Click on the cover images below to see these packs in my store and grab them for

ONE DOLLAR each!! They'll be on sale all weekend (including our day off on Monday!)

Down, Set, Hut!

Are you ready for some football?  Growing up and still living in Texas I love me some football!  Football in Texas is like basketball in Indiana or soccer (the other football) in Mexico and Europe.  Friday nights are meant for high school football, Saturdays for cheering on your favorite college team and Sunday afternoons is reserved for the NFL!  Oh yeah - who could forget the coveted game of the week on Monday Night Football!

Over the years I noticed that my students love football too!  They come in Mondays talking about their favorite teams and Friday chatter is all about the Unicorns!  Go Blue!  (Yes, we are the only school district with the Mighty Unicorn as our mascot!)  So I decided to tap into something they love and put together this . . .

If you know me, you know I am really into hands-on, multi-sensory learning activities.  Why?  Because research shows that this is how kids learn best - and that is the ultimate goal.

I am loving the versatility of this activity pack.  Here's some of the many ways you could use this set in your classroom.

This activity is just perfect for your Pre-K classroom as students are introduced to letters.  Matching multiples of the same letter helps your students learn the letter and be able to identify itfrom other letters.  Make this a multi-sensory activity by having them say the letter nameand sound as they move the cards.

This activity is targeted at your Pre-K and Kindergarten students.  It would even be greatfor older students who are struggling with letter identification.  Perfect word work center that can be done independently or in a small group.  You could even turn this into an  I have, Who Has game!

Another great activity for your Pre-K and Kinder kiddos!  Practice building names using thefootball players and footballs.  I absolutely love how the bonus visual effect you get for capital letters versus lowercase letters.

This activity is perfect for any age!!!  A great hands-on way to practice spelling words.My son is a kinesthetic learner and an activity like this helps him learn his words better than any written activity does.  This is a great way to differentiate for different learning styles.  This activity could be used to practice word wall words, word family words, spelling lists and so much more!  

I know that your students will love using these activities in your classroom too!  Grab it while you can for only $1!  On Tuesday, this activity pack goes back to its regular price of $3.

Eric Carle Inspired Classroom Decor

Hi, it's Amy from Teaching in Blue Jeans, and I am excited to share today's dollar steal with you!  If you are anything like me, you spend a lot of time, thought, and effort into deciding what I want your classroom to look and feel like.  For years, I spent countless hours researching, brainstorming, scouring the web for the "perfect" classroom theme.  Once I made a decision, I would spend countless more hours getting everything ready.  In the summer I'd have great ideas and plans for how to weave my theme in and out of everyday life in my classroom.  Some of it would happen and some wouldn't as the day to day requirements of school life took over.  By the end of the year I was usually disappointed in myself for not doing everything I wanted with the theme.  So the next summer I'd start the cycle again looking for a new theme.  Crazy - I know!  Hopefully, I'm not alone in that crazy cycle!

When I moved from 3rd grade down to kindergarten I decided that I wanted my "theme" to be less interactive and more decorative (freeing me of the some of the previous pressures I put on myself).  However, I still wanted it to be educational in nature.  I decided on decorating my classroom with all things Eric Carle.  I love Eric Carle's books and illustrations and thought they would be perfect for kindergarten.  So I spent my summer scouring the internet looking for ideas.  I found lots and lots of decorative ideas, but very few when it came to classroom needs. So instead of changing my theme, I went off in search for Eric Carle inspired clip art and decided to just make it myself!  I used a combination of the things I could find with the things I created.  The result for me was a colorful, happy, classroom that the students (and parents) loved!  Best part, I loved it too and have kept the theme for 3 years!!!  Think of all those summer hours I saved!

Today I'd like to give you a glimpse into my Eric Carle Inspired classroom.  Make sure to read all the way to the end because I have a special $1 deal for you!

Here's a glimpse from the door of my classroom. 

The back cabinet used to display Star Quality Work! 

Classroom library/reading area 

Front of the room where we do carpet time and calendar 

One of the side walls.  Library on the left, word wall in the middle, math shelf
with manipulatives, puzzles and centers on the right.

If you'd like to add a touch of Eric Carle to your classroom, this is the perfect time to get started.  For the next 3 days, my Eric Carle Inspired Alphabet Posters (what classroom doesn't need an alphabet) will be on sale for $1!!!  You can find this set in both English (regular print and D'Nealean) and Spanish and all will be on sale.  Just click on the picture below to grab yours today!  Make sure and check out all the other Eric Carle Inspired items that are there too!

I hope you enjoy today's deal as much as I have!

Letter recognition

Hey friends! It’s Keri from Enchanted Kinder Garden. I’m back with another three days of dollar deals! This month, it’s all about the alphabet!

I just finished up a really cool bundle ALL about letters. I am so excited to get this all laminated and printed out for the beginning of the year.

Choose Me may be my favorite of my newest set. This game includes 52 mats for identifying lowercase and uppercase letters. A dry erase marker can be used to circle the correct answers. You could also use counters to cover up the correct letters.

Two optional recording sheets are included. Uppercase letters can be colored, circled or daubed blue. All lowercase letters should be marked with red. An optional QR code is included for students to check their answers.

Just a side note: I’ve decided to begin making sets that are not themed. I’ve noticed, in the past two years, that I’ve been wanting activities to use with some of my strugglers or my kids that are just getting it and need more, but everything that I own is SEASONAL!

If you'd like to check out the entire bundle, here it is! It includes over 190 pages of resources simply about the letters.

Alphabet Strip

Hey hey all! It's Ashley here from Schroeder Shenanigans in 2nd!

I'm coming at you today with one of my most favorite new products in my store.... that you can snag for just ONE DOLLAR!!!

Ok, so NO JOKE, with about ONE HOUR left of my final teacher work day last Friday - the FINAL hour of teacher work days before SUMMER - I decided that instead of covering up my old alphabet to have it ready to go for the new school year, that I was going to create a new one!  I was there late on a Friday night....the FIRST FRIDAY NIGHT OF SUMMER creating a new alphabet!! 

. . . And MY OH MY do I ever LOVE how it turned out!! . . . 

I am a BIG fan of Melonheadz clipart, so my entire alphabet includes melonheadz images to coordinate!!   

Here's me all excited to hang UP my new alphabet!!! . . . .

And before I could hang it up, I had to decide on borders!! :)

 These borders are from Carson Dellosa, Creative Teaching Press, and Teacher Created Resources!!

I've also already been asked... and I've agreed! ... to work on an alphabet in cursive, too!!

You can grab THIS alphabet HERE... or by clicking the image below!

You can snag it for just ONE DOLLAR through Saturday! :) :)