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Circus Theme Math and Language Printables

We’re taking a trip to the circus this week and getting a behind-the-scenes tour. To go along with our trip, I put together a few additional circus theme printables to use with parts of the Circus Printable Pack {be sure to download those as well!}.

Circus Theme Math and Language Printables

This printable mini pack includes both math and language learning activities: even and odd number sorting, greater than/less than comprehension, tally mark skills, making predictions, word family identification, and a fun circus word find.

Don’t Forget the Circus Printable Pack too!

circus collage

In case you missed it earlier, the Circus Printable Pack goes along with these new printables and is full of additional learning activities for preschool and kindergarten children including vocabulary words, counting practice, word building and more. You can find out more about the Circus Printable Pack here.

Fun Books to Go Along

Want to work on your own circus themed unit? Here are some fun books to get you started!

The Mitten Even and Odd Number Sort

We’re having so much fun learning the difference between even and odd numbers, so I pulled together a printable to go along with The Mitten by Jan Brett – The Mitten Even and Odd Number Sort!

 The Mitten by Jan Brett Number Sort Game

 

Use the The Mitten  Even and Odd Number Sort game to have your child work on sequencing numbers from 1 to 30 or have your child sort the numbers by odd or even. If 30 numbers is too many, choose a handful of numbers and record them on the mat {great handwriting practice as well}. 

Print the pages on cardstock and laminate them to make them sturdy {this is how we laminate more inexpensively}. Then let your child sort the numbers by even and odd while spread out on the floor, or pick a handful of the numbers and record them on the last page in the even or odd basket using a Vis-à-vis markers or dry erase markers.

 

 

Other Fun Winter Printables

Looking for a few other winter related printables to use with your kids? Check out the below printable packs based on some of our favorite books that are FREE to download.

The Mitten printables collage

The Mitten Printable Pack include fun activities to tie in with the story ~ vocabulary words, word tracer cards, tracer page, counting activities, number identification, patterning activities and more!

Snowy Day printables 

The Snowy Day printables includes fun activities to tie in with the book The Snowy Day by Ezra Keats  ~ vocabulary words, word tracer cards, a coloring/tracer page, cutting pages, sorting activities, and more!

 

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Christmas Even and Odd Number Sort Game

Christmas Number Sort game from www.homeschoolcreations.net

The next week and a half we’re planning to have a little fun during our school time since we are a bit ahead in some areas – and fun is always welcome! To help Kaleb continue with understanding the difference between even and odd numbers, I put together a little Christmas Even and Odd Number Sort game for us to work on.

Use the Christmas Even and Odd Number Sort game to have your child work on sequencing numbers from 1 to 20 or have your child sort the numbers by odd or even. If 20 numbers is too many, choose a handful of numbers and record them on the mat {great handwriting practice as well}.

Christmas even and odd number sorting mat from www.homeschoolcreations.net

Print the pages on cardstock and laminate them to make them sturdy {this is how we laminate more inexpensively}. Then let your child sort the numbers by even and odd while spread out on the floor, or pick a handful of the numbers and record them on the last page in the even or odd basket using a Vis-à-vis markers or dry erase markers.

Other Fun Christmas Printables

Looking for a few other Christmas related printables to use with your kids? Check out the below printable packs based on some of our favorite books that are FREE to download.

Gingerbread Baby printables for Preschool and Kindergarten

The Gingerbread Baby Printables include fun activities to tie in with the story ~ vocabulary words, word tracer cards, tracer page, counting activities, number identification, patterning activities and more!

Mr Willowby's Christmas Tree printables for preschool and kindergarten

The printables for Mr. Willowby’s Christmas Tree include fun activities to tie in with the book ~ vocabulary words, word tracer cards, puzzles, tree size sequencing cards, a story sight word chart, recycling items, counting activities and more! Be sure to download BOTH sets of the printables since they go together and build on the skills your child will use.

Have fun learning and sorting together!


Calendar Notebook Binder Printables

Calendar Notebook Printables free

 

Call them calendar notebooks. Or calendar binders. The choice is yours. Either way, they are a great way to add a little math learning to your day. While we have a Morning Calendar Board that we all work on together, the notebooks were something that were added this year.

 

The kids are loving them.

I put together two versions of the calendar notebook printables – one for early handwriting and another with cursive directions and tracers. You can choose which one works best for your child {see below}.

How to Use the Calendar Notebook

Here’s a peek at how we’re using ours with the kids, and because some of you may not want to read, here is a video tour our our calendar notebook.

 

 

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Kaleb {kindergarten} is using the manuscript version of the notebook and our 3rd and 5th grader are using the cursive version to sneak in a little extra practice {shhhh}. The first few pages of the printables are laminated and we use a vis’-a-vis marker {it wipes off easily with a damp cloth each day} to work in the notebooks. You can otherwise slide the pages into page protectors and use dry erase markers.

 

100 daysWe start off by adding the number for the day we are in school on our 100 Days of School chart. I am determined to do something special this year for our 100th day {and having three kids reminding me about it should help immensely}.

At the bottom of this page we use a vis’-a-vis marker to make an addition problem using the number from the chart and we find the missing number that will add up to 100. The older kids are able to do this fairly easily, but with Kaleb I’m using unifex cubes to help him visualize and group by 10’s until he has a better grasp of the concept.

 

number words

We then move to the next page where we talk about what day of the week it is and underline it. We also review what yesterday was and what tomorrow will be. The date is written on the next line {in either 8-17-12 form or August 15, 2012}.

The center box below is filled with the current date number {i.e. 15} and then we find the number before and after. We write the daily number and the number word, draw the hands on the clock and put a line on the thermometer for the inside or outside temperature.

 

days in school tally

Depending on how many days we’ve been in school, we break the number up by 1’s, 10’s and 100’s and show how it is added together. At the bottom of the page we show how it would look if the number were in dollars and cents.

We add a tally mark in the correct monthly box each day we are in school and at the end of the month we add up the days. During the year we can compare from month to month and see how many days we were in school during each month {which is more/less, etc…}.

There are also pages to help us track the weather from month to month and practice writing names {i.e. watching our handwriting improve…hopefully}.

Calendar Binder month glance

Each month of the year there is a blank calendar for the kids to fill in the calendar. They trace the month name at the top and as they fill in the numbers on the calendar, they find the star at the bottom with the same number and color it in.

Kaleb has been working on a pattern with his stars and really loves this part of it. On the facing page, we fill in the graph to show the weather and at the end of the month answer a few questions based on the graph results.

The calendar notebook printables include the following:

  • 12 undated monthly calendars {you can use them year after year}
  • monthly weather tracking graphs
  • Today is, number word identification, telling time and temperature
  • Breaking down numbers by 1’s, 10’s, and 100’s
  • Practicing tally marks
  • Yearly weather tracking
  • Handwriting practice
  • Pattern practice {part of the monthly calendar pages}
  • Identification of seasons
  • 100 Days of School chart

Download the Free Calendar Notebook!!

Ready to download the files? Choose one or both of the files below! They are FREE to download {and feel free to pin, tweet or share this post with others!}.

Download the Calendar Notebook Printables – manuscript version

Download the Calendar Notebook Printables – cursive version

Download the Southern Hemisphere Calendar Notebook Printables

 

Check out these other Calendar Notebook Printables

These ladies also have some great printables to use during calendar time and each offer something a little different – so there may be something you can use as well or something you like even better than mine!

Mama Jenn

Carisa from 1+1+1=1

Motherhood on a Dime

Our Aussie Homeschool

Confessions of a Homeschooler

 

Get a peek at our Morning Calendar Board and grab even more free printables here.

Calendar Board Printables from Homeschool Creations

 

Skip Counting Charts ~ updated!

Recently a reader asked me to add a few pages to the Skip Counting Charts that I put together awhile back….which reminded me that we need to get back into the groove of using them more.

The skip counting charts cover the numbers from 2 up to 15. The number pages up to 12 each have a little ‘rhyme’ at the top, show how skip counting with that number works and then skip counts up to whatever 12 x that particular number would be. The few above that number don’t have a rhyme, but still will help you out.

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Enjoy them!!

 

 

 

 

Number Playdough Mats ~ Free Printables!!

Number playdough mats from 0 through 10 - Homeschool Creations

 

You may have already downloaded the ABC Playdough Mats, so here’s a fun add-on for you to use with your kids ~ Number Playdough Mats! These were put together per a reader request {thanks so much!}.

Playdough mats are a great tool to use with your children to work on various learning skills as well as help develop their fine motor skills ~ besides, playdough is fun to play with for both kids and adults. These are a fun way to have a little downtime {and stress relief} with your kids!

Print off the number mats included in both sets, laminate them or slide them into a sheet protector, then let your child roll out playdough to form each number. Your child can also form mini balls to place on each of the dots to count along with 1:1 correspondence.

Download the Playdough Mats

Playdough Recipe

This is our FAVORITE playdough recipe – it smells SO GOOD!

FREE ABC Playdough Mats