Are you on the hunt for some easy lego builds?

These Fall Printable Lego Builds are great for homeschool or traditional classrooms.

This pack includes nine pages of easy Lego build ideas.

You get:

• mushroom
• leaf
• rake
• pumpkin
• apple
• acorn
• corn on the cob
• sunflower

Just print these off and put them in your centers or morning basket and make learning fun and exciting.

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Each page also has handwriting practice and math tallying.

These are perfect for your September lesson plan!

Are you ready to celebrate Fall in your classroom? These Fall Pattern Block Printables are perfect for morning work, working independently, your Mother’s Day Out classroom, math centers and in your homeschool. This pack is perfect for preschool, kindergarten or first grade.

Pattern blocks make great preschool learning manipulates. They are perfect for teaching early math concepts. Let me show you just how easy it is to work these into your classroom.

There are many skills that are utilized and built upon using these fall pattern block mats.

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Let me show you what this set includes.

Pattern Block Templates:

• corn
• pumpkin
• pear
• apple
• acorn
• mushroom
• sunflower
• leaf
• oak leaf
• owl

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Why Are Pattern Blocks Good for Preschoolers and Kindergarteners?

Pattern blocks are a great intro to math, but also they foster so many early childhood development skills such as counting and sorting, problem solving, fine motor skills development, color and shape recognition and more.

What Can Kids Make with Pattern Blocks?

Pattern blocks allow you to take the seven basic tangram shapes and expand them to create something else with them and extend patterns.

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What Are the Names of the Pattern Blocks?

The shapes are hexagon, trapezoid, rhombus, triangle, square, and a thin rhombus.

Each page in the pack includes a place to count the total for each shape used in the design and the total number of shapes used overall. This is great for growing their math skills.

Each page also has handwriting practice which is great for fine motor work as well as vocabulary development.

Why Are Pattern Designs Good For Math?

Pattern blocks help children build their problem solving skills, introduce them to shapes, spatial awareness and concepts.

They help young learners begin to understand symmetry, patterns and measurement.

What Are Some Fun Math Activities for Kids?

Math is a vital life skill that we all need. Here are some ways to make it fun:

• counting the things they see like find one butterfly, find two trees, etc.
• guess the weight or size of something
• math bingo or math scavenger hunt
• find patterns in your every day surroundings
• play number I Spy

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More Pattern Block Activities:

• 4th of July Theme
• Ocean Animal Theme
• Cinco De Mayo Theme
• Easter Theme
• St. Patricks Day Theme

We are huge fans of Pete the Cat books and they are such fun stories to read. I kids have enjoyed every single book. It’s one of our favorite early childhood books. Such a classic.

I love when I can read to my little ones a story and give them book companion worksheets to go along with our reading. Let me show you how awesome these Pete the Cat and His Four Groovy Buttons printables are.

Grab your copy of this beloved story and give the kiddos these pages to do along with you as you read aloud. They are perfect for your lesson plan.

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These free printable pages are used to help bring to life different story elements and make it even a more interactive book.

Let me show the three pages you will get in this pack.

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The first page is this super cool and fun color by number page.

Color Pete and his groovy buttons according to the numbers and colors assigned on the legend.

My little Jack Jack and I had a lot of fun coloring this together. I love watching my kiddos hand control improve with coloring over the years.

Next we have a button coloring page.

You can use crayons, map pencils, markers or whatever you have.

Jack Jack wanted to use the do a dot markers to color the buttons, so that is what we did.

Not only does this activity foster color identification but it also encourages counting.

Also, if you don’t have crayons or the like, you can use things like buttons, small erasers, pom poms, etc.

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The last page is a fun graphing activity which is a great for fostering math skills.

Count the buttons and graph the number of buttons for each color.

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Pete the Cat and His Four Groovy Buttons Read A Loud

If you’ve never read this amazing story or you do not have access to it but you want to enjoy it with your kiddos, here is a video version of it.

It is a story written by Eric Litwin and the artwork is by James Dean.

Why is Reading A Loud to Children Important?

No matter if your child is in a traditional classroom or being homeschooled, reading aloud is incredibly beneficial. It builes speech and language, increases attention span, is a safe way to explore strong emotions and builds connections between written and spoken words. Try hard to make reading a loud part of your daily activities that you do together with your young learner.

More Activities:

• Pete the Cat Printable Math Game
• Pete the Cat Printables
• Pete the Cat Snack Activities

More Book Companion Worksheets

• Blueberries for Sal
• The Very Hungry Caterpillar
• Eating the Alphabet

You will love this W is for Waffle Printable pack for preschoolers that celebrates Waffle Week which is in September each year. This pack includes five printable pages that are educational and focus on different skills. Your kindergartener could likely use this pack as well.

We love printables for preschoolers just like these.

These worksheets for preschoolers makes learning fun.

This pack includes math worksheets, encourages your young learner to practice counting, letter tracing, coloring pages and more.

Let me show you these awesome printables.

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This pack is one that you and your young learners will love.

Mazes are an excellent way to develop and foster observation skills and motor skills for young children.

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The first page is a maple syrup maze.

Mazes are an excellent way to develop and foster observation skills and motor skills for young children.

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Look at how fun this page is.

Count the toppings on each waffle.

This allows your child to not only practice counting but also writing out the numbers.

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Handwriting practice is very important for young learners.

This page encourages fine motor work with tracing the waffle topping option that kid might love.

Count the number of objects and match it to the correct image.

On this page they can trace the letter W in uppercase and lower case but also color the Ws for more fine motor building.

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These printables for young learners are perfect for homeschools or traditional classrooms.

Many teachers use these pages for their centers or morning time.

We have homeschoolers, traditional public school teachers, Mother’s Day Out teachers, librarians, OTs and grandparents who use our educational resources.

Are you on the hunt for printable geoboard patterns? A geoboard is a flat surface that can be used to show the patterns of symmetry and asymmetry and they are a great way to teach kids.

These Back to School Geoboard Printables are sure to be a bit in your classroom or in your homeschool.

Geoboards are used in the classroom to teach geometry and algebra. Students can use them to create mathematical problems and answers. They also make great visual aid while helping your young learner grasp how specific shapes are made and how to create other shapes.

This pack includes nine pages of geoboard patterns your young learner can make. This is an excellent STEM challenge.

These printable easy lego builds are a great way to foster creativity in your kiddos. I love that Lego mats are a great jumping off point for creating your own masterpieces.

These back to school printable Lego builds are perfect for welcoming a new school season. Many teachers and homeschool families will use them in their morning time or centers.

Back to School LEGO Themed Learning

We know that children learn by playing. Legos are a toy that offer the right mix of creativity and learning at the same time.

Legos teach children to be creative, how to use their hands to create, and a feeling of accomplishment. LEGOS are STEM focused and offer simple engineering skills as kids work to connect LEGO blocks together.

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Free LEGO Activities for Kids

These printable LEGO mats have some math and handwriting activities on them as well.

Each page has a vocabulary word for them to trace and a place for them to count or tally the total number of LEGO blocks used in each simple build.

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LEGO Building Ideas for Back to School

This pack includes seven easy LEGO mat builds. Here is the list:

• scissors
• glue bottles
• pencils
• school bell
• school house
• book
• chalkboard

These are all perfect for young builders and the kids will love creating them.

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Benefits of LEGO Play

Legos are a toy that people of all ages can enjoy. As you likely already know, they come in difference shapes and colors and allow you to build things.

The benefits of LEGO play is endless, but we know they help with motor skills, they foster teamwork, and encourage imagination play which is great for young kids brains.

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These builds use LEGO classic bricks. Nothing super fancy. You can use pieces from LEGO sets or by just the classic LEGO bricks.

LEGO Builds:

The Rainbow Fish is a classic children’s story about the importance of being kind to one another. We love reading this book in the summer.

These book companion worksheets go perfectly with the story. They allow your student to work on specific skill sets. These Rainbow Fish Printables for Preschoolers are the perfect addition to your lesson plan.

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Preschool book companion worksheets are a great way to help teach your students both in the classroom and in the home.

This three page pack can be used in various way. Use them to do the following:

• teaching the child about a book they have read
• encourage conversation
• stimulating creativity and imagination

Why Reading is Important for Preschoolers

Reading is one of the most important skills and is valuable at all ages.

I love doing read alouds with my kids and encouraging them to do their own reading as well. Both building vocabulary and practice language skills.

Young learners have many opportunities to learn how to read in school, or in homeschooling.

These worksheets are a way to engage with what your child but to also entice a new routine of reading with your kiddos.

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Pencil Skills with Preschoolers

Children can learn to write by trying different methods depending on their personality.

As soon as my kiddos reach preschool age I let them use a pencil. I want them to get comfortable holding a pencil.

Pages like this Rainbow Fish tracing page allows them to practice their pencil skills while having fun.

Did you know pencils can help children with their reading skills, because it helps them understand letter formation and shapes of the letters? It’s true.

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Counting Activities for Preschoolers

Counting activities are a great way to reinforce number skills. It is important for preschoolers to grasp numbers and how they work. Giving them different counting activities can help them practice counting and working with their numbers.

This counting page is super fun and goes along with The Rainbow Fish story. Have them follow directions by counting, coloring and writing.

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Pattern Printables for Preschoolers

Patterns are very important for a preschooler’s brain development. They help kids improve their visual understanding. Understanding patterns is a basic early math skill.

This page of fish patterns encourages color recognition and fine motor development.

Have your preschooler use their favorite crayons, map pencils or markers to color each fish according to the patterns.

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The Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister

Marcus Pfister is a children’s book author and is the person who wrote the book The Rainbow Fish.

Did you know this book as been translated into over 40 languages? It really is a childhood classic.

If you’ve never read the book or do not have a copy handy, here is a video of the story so you can share it with your young learner.

Preschool Story Companion Printables

We have printables to go along with many of the classic childhood storybooks.

• Eating the Alphabet Printables
• Give a Mouse a Cookie Printables
• Blueberries for Sal Printables
• The Very Hungry Caterpillar Printables

Believe it or not, coloring pages for kids are very beneficial for development. Did you know that?

Add the coloring by code or number to the pages and it increases the educational benefits of these activities even more. This shark color by number printable is perfect for your young learner.

Let me share with you some of the educational benefits of color by by number pages.

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Benefits of Color by Number Worksheets

Doing coloring and color by number of code activities, this helps your young learners better develop their critical fine motor skills which longterm will help with reading and writing. It also helps build dexterity and hand and eye coordination and also helps foster focusing skills.

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For this shark coloring sheet we ended up using metallic crayons and the page turned out really pretty.

These activities for kids make great boredom busters and this piratical page is great to add into your shark unit study. We hope you have fun coloring!

Ocean Color by Number

Want more color by number sheets? These Ocean Color by Number printables are a lot of fun, too.