Make Shapes with Roads: Learning Through Play
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Make Shapes with Roads: Learning Through Play

In the realm of imaginative play, there’s something captivating about the endless possibilities of constructing roads and cities. Children and adults alike can embark on thrilling adventures while designing their miniature worlds.  To add an exciting twist to this experience, we present a delightful printable resource—a collection of shape templates using road pieces. Let your…

Train Sight Word Game – Great Reading Practice
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Train Sight Word Game – Great Reading Practice

Sight words have not been a focus of ours and I can tell that some of my kids struggle with the rule breaker words. So we needed a fun way to practice reading the sight words! And what better way than a train themed sight word game! Train Sight Word Game With sight words, it’s…

Fun Addition Fact Practice – Train Doubles Plus 1
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Fun Addition Fact Practice – Train Doubles Plus 1

Sometimes I feel so stuck with learning math facts – or the boys learning math facts that is.  They’re not highly motivated so the idea just falls flat on them.  So I’m continually trying to find new, fun, and novel ways to get them to practice!  I knew I wanted a train doubles plus 1…

Transportation Skip Counting Puzzles for Hands On Math
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Transportation Skip Counting Puzzles for Hands On Math

I love puzzles and I was always one of those people who loved having a puzzle on the table to work on little by little.  Somehow over the years, we’ve gotten out of the habit of puzzle solving.  We don’t even really do many puzzles with the kids, which makes me sad.  I think there…

Transportation Counting Mats with Addition and Subtraction
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Transportation Counting Mats with Addition and Subtraction

What do you do when you want to get your young kids excited about math?  You find a theme that resonates with them and find a way to incorporate math into that theme!  Last week we did dinosaurs, which was wildly popular at my house.  Transportation themes come in a close second.  And I just…

Duck & Truck ck Easy Reader Book For Beginning Readers
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Duck & Truck ck Easy Reader Book For Beginning Readers

Getting kids excited about reading by themselves can be tricky.  We spend years and years reading to them and they don’t want that to stop (and rightfully so) but sometimes that also means they resist reading by themselves.  My kids are not really motivated readers.  They take some prodding.  But with easy reader books that…

Transportation Multiplication for Beginning Math
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Transportation Multiplication for Beginning Math

Multiplication is the first big fish in the math pond, or that’s how my kids see it at least.  When learning concepts like addition and subtraction, they kind of don’t even know that’s what they’re learning.  It’s presented from preschool age and then suddenly we tell them “Oh by the way, that’s called addition”.  But…

Practice Averaging and Ordering Numbers with Trains!
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Practice Averaging and Ordering Numbers with Trains!

I have the harder time finding fun work for my older kids (especially Baloo, at 10). Sometimes he just wants something fun like his brothers! But if I make something just for him, I have two younger kids begging to join in. So when I can put something together that they can all use, it’s…

Transportation CVC Sliders for Learning to Read Fun
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Transportation CVC Sliders for Learning to Read Fun

It’s time for a new theme and one of my favorites – transportation!  All week long we will have a great assortment of transportation printables!  Don’t miss any by either signing up for the newsletter: Or by keeping an eye on the 31 Days of Printables page!   This is another printable I made just…

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Community Helper SuDoKu

My kids have always loved community helpers of all kinds (especially garbage men). It only makes sense that we incorporate some community helper themes into our school days. And if you’re looking here are even more great community helper activities! I love the community helper theme.  There are so many people in our lives that…

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Transportation Rhyming Cards

Trucks were one of the first obsessions my kids had. Trucks and trains and anything else mechanical that moved. It’s only natural that they needed some transportation-themed rhyming materials. Truck Themed Rhyming Mats Combining a transportation theme with a lesson on rhymes was a hit with my kids. Teaching them to rhyme was a challenge each…