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One Duck Stuck: Story Recall with Manipulatives

Recalling events from a story is an important skill for children to learn.  It helps them build the cognitive skills they need to sequence events, tell their own stories, and later become great writers.  There are several ways you can have children recall events: question and answer games, writing/drawing, acting out stories, and using manipulatives.

One Duck Stuck: Helping Others Social Skills Activities

One Duck Stuck by Phyllis Root is a fun book to add to your duck theme lessons.  It is repetitive which captures the children’s attention.  In addition, it offers several opportunities to incorporate parts of the story into your daily curriculum. This entry focuses on 3 activities you can use to practice the social skill of helping someone in need.

Ice Skating Rink and Activities

Make a corner of your room into an ice rink and let children practice skating movements. Read the awesome teacher tips for ideas that will keep everyone busy while they wait for their turns. 

Focus Skill: Gross motor and movement

Celebrate Valentine's Day With Friendship Bracelets!

A perfect activity for Valentine's Day: Children trade and share beads, representing each individual in the classroom, to construct friendship bracelets.

Grade, Age Range, or Specialized Learner: Multi-age, Preschool/Pre-K, 3-5 year old

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Brush Those Teeth! Painting Activity

Children paint and sing while building tooth-brushing muscles!

Grade, Age Range or Specialized Learner: Multi-age, Preschool/Pre-K, 3-5 year old

Target Learning Skills:

  • Fine Motor Skills
  • Dental Health

Tooth Brushing Sensory Activity

Create a fun sensory activity for your children with white egg cartons, plastic string, and old toothbrushes!

Grade, Age Range or Specialized Learner: Multi-age, Preschool/Pre-K, 3-5 year old

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Story Sequencing Activities for The Mitten

A preschool teacher shares three ways to incorporate story sequencing into your students' daily routine. Here, she uses the KidsSoup sequencing cards for the children's classic story The Mitten. 

Grade, Age Range or Specialized Learner: Multi-age, Preschool/Pre-K, 3-5 year old

Target Learning Skill(s): Sequencing Story Events

Gingerbread Man Letter Matching

One KidsSoup member tells how she uses the Gingerbread Man Alphabet letters to do an end-of-the-year assessment and play a fun matching game perfect for the holiday season. 

Grade, Age Range or Specialized Learner: Multi-age, Preschool/Pre-K, 3-5 year old

Turkey Feather Fun

Enjoy some fun, easy-to-implement activities this Thanksgiving and be thankful! Children develop fine motor skills, build vocabulary, express gratitude, and internalize print concepts as they cut, color, glue, and talk turkey! 

Jingle Bells Song, Crafts, and Activities

Who doesn't love Jingle Bells? This collection of jingle bell crafts, rhymes, and songs will have children ringing and jingling in no time. All that's needed are a few simple materials to get the merriment started! 

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