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Rainbow Number Word Matching Activity for Kids

April 8, 2020 by Selena Robinson Leave a Comment

Our smallest learner has been recognizing numbers for years.

She can count all the way to 100 and she is so proud to tell you about it.

Every. Single. Chance. She. Gets.

But I noticed that she needed a little more help recognizing number words, so I wanted to make learning that as fun as possible.

Which is how we ended up with this rainbow number word matching activity! I thought this would be a wonderful early math lesson and so I’m sharing it with all of you too!

Printable Rainbow Number Word Puzzles for Early Learners

Read on to see how to get this number word recognition activity for your little ones!

Need to use it as a digital activity that your students can complete online? Keep reading to see how to grab it as a digital lesson!

And, for more math learning, don’t miss our list of 10 math activities for kids with ADHD.

They’re all hands-on and easy to set up, so your active learners won’t have to sit around waiting.

This printable rainbow number word puzzles set is so fun for helping early learners recognize numerals and number words!

Rainbow Number Word Matching Activity for Kids

Rainbow Number Word Matching Activity

For this activity, you’ll need the following: (This post contains affiliate links. For details, see our Disclosure Policy.)

  • Printer (with ink)
  • Printer Paper
  • Laminator
  • Scissors
  • Hook and loop sticky dots
  • Colored pencils (optional)

Rainbow Numeral and Number Word Matching

Once you print out the product, use scissors to cut out the rainbows and the cloud number words.

Rainbow Number Word Matching Printable

Time to break out the sticky dots!

Rainbow Number Word Matching Activity for Kids

Just place one on each side of the rainbow and one on the back of each cloud.

Matching Rainbow Number Words

Then let the kids practice matching up the number word clouds with the correct number rainbows!

Matching Numerals and Number Words

One cloud goes on each side of each rainbow.

Printable Rainbow Number Word Matching Game

Like so!

Printable Rainbow Themed Number Word Puzzles

There are rainbows and clouds for the numerals and number words all the way to ten!

Rainbow Number Word Puzzle Activity for Kids

These would make a great busy bag activity for little ones too! Just assemble them and store them in a bag for later.

Rainbow Number Word Matching

Need to save on ink? Use the lineart version!

Printable Rainbow Number Word Activity

Let the kids color the rainbows themselves, then laminate them and assemble like usual.

Rainbow Themed Number Word Matching Activity

Scroll down to pick up these Rainbow Number Word Matching Puzzles!

Check out these other fun ideas!

Sidewalk Chalk Outdoor Math Game

This fun ice cream themed shape sorting activity for kids is so cool for practicing shape recognition!

Kids will love making their own colorful rainbows with these rainbow playdough mats!

See more fun ways to teach math on my Math Mania Pinterest board!

Work on math skills with this fun rainbow number word matching activity for kids!

To get your copy of our Rainbow Number Word Puzzles, click the image or the link below to visit our Store!

Rainbow Number Word Puzzles

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Want to use this activity as a digital lesson for distance learning?

Click the image or the link below to pick up the digital version of this product from my Teachers Pay Teachers store!

Practice number word recognition with this fun digital Rainbow Number Word Matching Activity! Fun for learning at home online!

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Filed Under: Digital Resources, Homeschooling Printables, Math Tagged With: kindergarten, math

Uppercase and Lowercase Cupcake Letter Matching Activity

March 30, 2020 by Selena Robinson 3 Comments

Working with a kindergartner is kind of like walking on a tightrope.

They don’t want to do anything too “baby-ish”, but they’re not quite ready for “real school” either.

Except for my four-year-old.

She wants to do EVERYTHING her older siblings are doing, including learning subjects and predicates, as well as order of operations.

Fun Hands-On Cupcake Letter Matching Activity

Naturally, I’m trying to put the brakes on a little, especially since she’s our last child we’ll ever homeschool.

But she’s ready to go on to more advanced concepts and there’s no stopping her!

So I thought she’d love this fun cupcake-themed letter matching activity for learning about lowercase and uppercase letters!

Cupcake Letter Matching Puzzles for Letter Recognition

And she did.

She thought it was one of the most awesome activities we’ve done yet!

Read on to see how to get a copy of this printable alphabet activity for your little ones and score a digital drag and drop version too!

And check out our cupcake playdough mats for even more fun PreK learning!

These cupcake letter puzzles are such a cute way to practice recognizing uppercase and lowercase letters!

Cupcake Uppercase and Lowercase Letter Matching Activity

To make this cupcake uppercase and lowercase letter matching activity, you’ll need the following: (This post contains affiliate links. For details, see our Disclosure Policy.)

  • Printer (with ink)
  • Printer paper
  • Laminator (for durability)
  • Scissors

To get started, just print out the cupcake pages. Then cut out each cupcake.

Cupcake Uppercase and Lowercase Letter Matching

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Cupcake Letter Matching Activity for Kids

Finally, cut the “frosting” with the lowercase letter away from the “cake” bottom with the uppercase letter.

Printable Cupcake Letter Matching Activity for Preschool

How to Use the Cupcake Letter Matching Activity

Once you cut apart the uppercase cupcakes and the lowercase frosting pieces, just mix them up and hand them to your eager early learner!

Matching Uppercase and Lowercase Letters

Piglet wasted no time in getting started matching up each frosting and cake combination.

Cupcake Letter Match

As she found each matching letter set, she’d reassemble the completed cupcake.

Cupcake Letter Matching for Kids

It didn’t take long for her to start working her way through the entire alphabet.

Fun Letter Matching Activity for Kids

And making quite a lovely batch of cupcakes!

Uppercase and Lowercase Letter Matching Activity for Kids

This was such a fun and cute letter matching activity!

And, as you can see, she absolutely loved it!

Cupcake Letter Matching Activity for Kids

Ready to try this with your kids?

Early learners will have a ball with this fun cupcake letter matching activity featuring uppercase and lowercase letters!

Scroll down to pick up this cupcake-themed alphabet matching activity!

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Grab these fun busy bee scissor skills printables to help little ones practice using scissors!

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Overwhelmed by planning your kindergartner's homeschool lessons Try this simple homeschool kindergarten program instead!

To get your copy of our Cupcake Letter Matching Activity, click the image or the link below to visit our Store!

Hands On Cupcake Letter Matching Activity

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Want to score the printable activity and a digital version you can use on your computer or tablet?

Stop by my Teachers Pay Teachers store to get the printable + digital bundle of this cupcake letter activity for preschoolers!

Get a printable cupcake letter matching activity for little ones and a digital version you can use online! Great for early ages who are distance learning!

>>> Printable + Digital Cupcake Letter Matching – Teachers Pay Teachers <<<

Filed Under: Homeschooling Printables, Teaching Printables Tagged With: alphabet, kindergarten, learning alphabet, letter matching activity, prek homeschool

Simple Minimalist Kindergarten Homeschool Curriculum

September 4, 2017 by Selena Robinson 1 Comment

My last little one is learning at kindergarten level this year. She’s working at first grade in some concepts, but there are a few important kindergarten objectives that I want her to grasp before we move on.

So we’ll be focusing there and then moving forward as she becomes comfortable.

In keeping with my desire to make homeschooling a lot less stressful than it has been previously, I’m practicing minimalist homeschooling this year.

Basically, that means using as few resources as possible to make lesson planning, teaching, and guiding as easy as possible.

And so…here’s a look at my minimalist kindergarten homeschool curriculum!

Simple Minimalist Homeschool Kindergarten Curriculum

This is a great list if you’re trying to keep your homeschool plans simple this year.

By the way, if you’re teaching older kids, take a look at our minimalist fourth grade curriculum plans too!

Get your little one off to a gentle start with this minimalist homeschool curriculum for kindergarten!

A Simple Minimalist Homeschool Curriculum for Kindergarten

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Note: This is a very minimalist homeschool curriculum for kindergarten. So this truly focuses on the basics: reading, writing, and arithmetic.

I also include science, because I believe it is essential to introduce science to kids as early as possible. Thinking scientifically comes so naturally to young ones and it’s wonderful to encourage that way of exploration from the start.

All-in-One Program: ABC Mouse will be our primary homeschool program for kindergarten. We got to try it earlier this year and my little one has absolutely loved it. After working with it over the summer, her reading ability has skyrocketed. So, we’re sticking with it for this entire school year.

Reading: While ABC Mouse is a great core program, I want our kindergartner to get some structured practice in reading and responding, so we’re using 180 Days of Reading for Kindergarten to give her some regular reading practice daily. It’s also a good way to make sure we hit all the sight words for this grade level.

Handwriting: Since she already knows the alphabet and how to write each letter, we’ll be focusing on improving her overall handwriting. To do this, we’ll be using a standard Roselle Paper Primary Pad to do some basic copywork each day. We’ll try to complete one sentence each morning to warm up and see how her handwriting progresses through the year.

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Math: Our supplemental math practice will be the Early Math section from Khan Academy. When this grade level was first introduced, I leapt for joy. We love Khan Academy, but I was looking for something to help my younger kids with basic math skills and this is it. Our kindergartner loves it.

Science: Finally, for science, we’ll be working through the Usborne First Encyclopedia of Science together. I used this book with my boys when they were younger and it was a big hit. In fact, our Floating Egg Experiment came out of this book!

In addition to these core subjects, we’ll be sharing plenty of crafts and stories together this year. Look out for list of reading choices for kindergarten – coming soon!

What are you using to homeschool your kindergartners this year? Share your curriculum picks in the comments!

Minimalist Homeschool Curriculum for Kindergarten

Want to see more of our minimalist homeschool curriculum choices? Check out these posts for suggestions!

Need to streamline your homeschool lessons? Take a look at this minimalist homeschool curriculum for fourth grade!

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See more tips for getting your homeschool year started on my Homeschool Planning Pinterest board!

This post is part of the Back to Homeschool Blog Hop hosted by iHomeschool Network! Click over to read more curriculum choices from our fellow bloggers!

Back to Homeschool Blog Hop 2017

Filed Under: Homeschool Curriculum Tagged With: homeschool curriculum, kindergarten, minimalist homeschooling

The Simple Homeschool Kindergarten Method We’re Using This Year

May 23, 2017 by Selena Robinson Leave a Comment

Piglet is my very last child to homeschool. *sniff* And I probably have enough homeschooling books, workbooks, toys, games, and printables to teach twelve more children after her. (I wish I was kidding.)

But last year, we decided to streamline our homeschooling materials and practice minimalist homeschooling. Which is using the least amount of materials necessary to teach our kids. Instead of feeling tied to using up everything for each grade level, we focused on what they needed to learn and let them explore the rest on their own. It was life-changing.

Homeschool Kindergarten with ABC Mouse

So when it was time to plan to move on to planning our homeschool kindergarten program for her, I decided to stick with the least amount of materials necessary to do it.

Which is why I was thrilled to have an opportunity to try ABCmouse – an online early learning academy for kids ages 2-8! With this program, we’ll be using a simple homeschool kindergarten curriculum that requires almost no prep at all from me. And I’ll need all the extra time I can find, since my oldest is starting seventh grade this year. *scream*

Read on to see how we’re using this program to get our kindergartner off to the right homeschooling start!

Overwhelmed by planning your kindergartner's homeschool lessons Try this simple homeschool kindergarten program instead!

Disclosure: I received access to this program in exchange for this post. All opinions are my own and I was not required to write a positive review. This post contains affiliate links. For details, see our Disclosure Policy.

Simple Homeschool Kindergarten with ABC Mouse

ABCmouse is the most comprehensive digital early learning resource for kids in grades PreK through 2. The program covers over 8,500 different educational standards, so you can easily find out which ones your child knows and which ones he or she needs to master.

To get started, just go to ABCmouse.com and sign up for the 30-day trial. You can set up your parent profile and then enroll up to three children. From there, your child can create an avatar (Piglet loved this) and then take an assessment to find out what lessons they should start with.

Easy Homeschool Kindergarten Program

The assessment takes about 45 minutes from start to finish, but that’s 45 minutes straight, which my four-year-old couldn’t handle. We ended up breaking it into three separate sessions of about 15 minutes. That way, she didn’t get irritable from sitting too long.

Since she’s already been doing preschool work for the past nine months, we gave Piglet the Kindergarten Readiness Assessment, which tested her on 13 different skills, including shape recognition, picture recognition, early phonics, counting, and more.

Want to see the assessment in action? Take a look at this quick video!

So, while you’re not supposed to offer assistance with the questions, you should be nearby to help with navigating the menu. At least at the kindergarten level.

Simple Homeschool Kindergarten Program

The third time we had Piglet sit down to work on her assessment, we wised up and used the ABCmouse app on our tablet, which is super easy to navigate and follow. She could just select the answers with her little fingers and move along at her own pace.

Simple Homeschool Kindergarten with ABC Mouse

By the way, when you sign up for ABCmouse, there are several apps you get access to that you can use without Wi-Fi, including ABCmouse Zoo, ABCmouse Music Videos, and ABCmouse Mastering Math. These apps are available in the Apple AppStore and in the Google Play Store. In fact, we used it with our Amazon Kindle Fire just fine.

Simple Homeschool Kindergarten

And that’s just the tip of the iceberg with ABCmouse.com! There are so many lessons, games, and activities that make learning fun! In fact, we had to tell Piglet “That’s enough school for today. You can do more tomorrow.” Which is a pair of sentences I didn’t think I’d ever utter in my life.

Ready to get your early learner off to the races? Visit ABCmouse.com and sign up for a free 30-day trial to see how much fun your child can have learning!

Check out these other early learning resources!

These cute busy bee scissor skills worksheets are fun spring-themed scissor practice for preschoolers!

These spring preschool story prompts are an easy way to help preschoolers start writing creatively!

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Want more tips for homeschooling early grades? Follow my Learning for Little Ones board on Pinterest!

Filed Under: Curriculum Reviews, Homeschooling Tagged With: homeschool kindergarten, homeschool kindergarten curriculum, homeschool kindergarten program, kindergarten, simple homeschool kindergarten, simple way to homeschool kindergarten

Hi! I'm Selena, an A.D.D. mom married to an A.D.D. husband. We're parenting two kids with A.D.D., one with A.D.H.D., and an energetic elementary learner.
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