Elkonin boxes help kids build phonological awareness by helping them divide words into their individual phonemes.

"The Core Knowledge Foundation provides open access to content-rich curriculum materials for preschool through grade 8, including the Core Knowledge Curriculum Series™, with many materials now available and many more in development."

You will need to provide your email address to download these amazing resources. CK has aligned their ELA to the Science of Reading in collaboration with Amplify Reading.
*Full Units
*Books for Students
*Teaching Materials
*Scope & Sequence

Welcome to Doggyland, the home of modern, hip hop inspired takes on kids songs and nursery rhymes presented by Snoop Dogg! This show features a colorful cast of dogs who educate and entertain children through the power of singing, dancing and rapping! The cast is composed of Bow Wizzle (played by Snoop Dogg) and the puppies Wags, Yap Yap, Barks-A-Locks and Chow Wow!

The show features a colorful cast of dogs in a vibrant world where they sing fun and educational songs that teach learning and cognitive fundamentals aimed at preschoolers and toddlers all around the world.

The songs help promote social emotional development as well as age related cognitive development in the preschool set. We cover a wide range of engaging topics such as letters, numbers, colors, animals, good habits, hygiene, accepting others and more, along with modern remixes of classic nursery rhymes. Our music is made by award winning producers and singers resulting in tunes that everyone in the family can enjoy, allowing parents to participate in their child’s learning experience.

The show is centered on a group of puppies led by an adult mentor named Bow Wizzle. Every dog is different in color and shape to help promote diversity and inclusion.

PreK-12 Education, Early Learning and Schools

"Play. Learn. Grow. Together!" is a way to reach out to parents of newborn and Kindergarten-aged children with tips and information on how to help them learn at home.

Play. Learn. Grow. Together! debuts with a new website, interactive social media presence and series of informational videos to get parents thinking about simple and easy ways they can interact with their young child to assist in their development and education. Additional tips and videos from our team of early learning experts will be added over time, allowing Play. Learn. Grow. Together! to evolve into a long term, reliable source of early years educational advice."

This site offers toddler and preschool age ideas .

Preschool Inspirations offers movement aids in self-regulation and supports the brain to be in the optimal zone for learning. Not all families may be comfortable with yoga for their children so consider offering more than one option for movement to promote well-being and learning.

Preschool is the perfect time to make math fun and relevant for kids. These engaging worksheets teach ordering skills, matching, counting, and number lines, which are the basis for future math success. Create dynamic, custom preschool activity books based on your students' level and abilities that will help them believe in this equation: Math = Excitement!

This comprehension resource from edHelper offers loads of preschool math lessons, activities, and worksheets in lots of areas: math review booklets, mazes, matching, shapes, ordering, counting, grids, greater than/less than, shapes, book units, number lines, comparing numbers, and skip counting.

A collection of hands on activities for ELA for preschool to grade 5.

"The Responsive Teaching, Practice & Assessment in Early Learning Programs document has been created in response to a need expressed by educators for supporting and responding to the varying needs of children in early learning programs. This document is intended to:
• unify a variety of early learning documents available in Saskatchewan;
• provide a process to identify and respond to the diverse needs of children ages 3-6 in early learning programs;
• enhance assessment literacy of educators and how assessment evidence can be used to inform practices and programming;
• identify responsive supports and examples of targeted and/or small group supports;
• help educators create an inventory of community-based supports and services for children and heir families; and,
• provide support and clarification for administrators with respect to indicators of quality and how to support educators." (p.2)
From the Government of Saskatchewan at saskatchewan.ca

Preschool Games, Videos, & Coloring Pages to Help Kids Grow Smarter, Stronger & Kinder
With a mission to help kids meet critical early development needs — the program many of us grew up on is still going strong and providing online content and shows every weekday morning. Many parents will attest that “Sesame Street” is still one of the best resources for the pre-K and kindergarten set, as well as kids with special needs. You’ll find video, games and art projects online.

Early-childhood learning can help prepare students for better academic engagement. This Spotlight will help you discover how coding exercises can enhance preschooler’s academic skills; learn how to support young students’ language growth; understand the gaps in preschooler’s language development since the pandemic; examine the impact of early education programs on high school performance; investigate challenges facing school readiness; and evaluate Pre-K programs from multiple lenses.

Download the PDF file.

Are you ready to help your preschooler begin their journey into reading? Visit the StoryPlace website where you can discover stories and activities designed just for them, organized by different themes. This website acts like a virtual library for kids. Besides all the fun stuff for children, parents can also find helpful information about teaching early reading skills.

Once a story is selected you can:
*listen to the story
*complete an online activity
*watch related videos
*find more suggestions on the reading list
*complete an at home activity