September Math and Literacy Pack - FREEBIES
SEPTEMBER NO PREP MATH AND LITERACY ACTIVITIES
Happy back to school season!
Many of us start back in August (or even July!) but where I grew up in Oregon, we always started in September.
I love the start of a new school year and all the possibilities it brings.
I also love to be organized and always have easy, no prep ready to teach activities that I can pull out when I need.
I love having these packs on hand each month, because they teach the standards with fun, engaging activities.
I print each pack and place all the black lines in page protectors.
This way I can quickly flip through and find the resources I need to copy for each week.
The activities progressively get harder throughout the school year and are perfect for small groups, whole group, homework, sub tubs, math and literacy centers and more!
I added some FREEBIES to this blog post so you can try them with your kiddos!
Update 2024: New activities have been added to this resource!
I just added so many new activities to this September resource!
It now comes with over 100 pages of printable worksheets and hands-on activities that make the first month of school so easy to plan, and zero prep work for you!
The slides above show the updated graphics and activities.
At this point in the year, most of my students haven't mastered the alphabet.
In fact, most of my kinders start school not being able to recognize the first letter in their name.
We do a lot of letter recognition, capital and lowercase matching and first sounds in August and September.
We also work on CAP skills, syllables and labeling.
This month is all about apples!
For scaffolding, I made two versions of the labeling.
Most of my kiddos need the activity that has the words already written in each box.
Then they can look at the letters and match the words.
A few of my higher kiddos can use the version that doesn't already have the words.
Each month, I give my students a goal setting sheet and writing sample.
I keep these in individual folders for my students, and at the end of the year we have a fun portfolio for parents.
Included in this pack are tons of fun activities to practice the alphabet!
These activities are wonderful if your kiddos can't quite write their letters yet.
They are practicing tracing lines, hand-eye coordinating and capital/lowercase matching.
Note: I try to stay away from tracing letters until I teach them the correct directionality for each letter with my comprehensive handwriting unit.
I teach handwriting and phonemic awareness in my small groups for the first half of the school year.
This pack also works on other literacy skills such as sequencing, comprehension (at this point in the year, we do both of these whole group) sorting, and cut/paste matching.
I teach 1-2 sight words a week, or six per month.
I use these three tools: trace, color and build worksheets, fluency passages and sight word sentences.
My kiddos love the routine of these worksheets, and I have them trained after about a month.
By the end of the year, they have mastered at least 50 sight words.
Here is a sight word FREEBIE for this month CLICK HERE
Making connections is an important first skill to teach in kindergarten.
I added these adorable community helper pages in 2024 to help students with this skill.
We talk about which tool or setting would match each community helper, and then they choose their favorite to complete the sentence on our writing activity page.
Idea: write the community helper they choose in highlighter, and they can trace the word.
Do this in small groups so you can sit with them to ensure correct directionality.
Or model Concepts About Print (CAP) skills and simply write the word for them!
September NO PREP Math
Most of my students come to the first day of kindergarten with very little to no number sense.
I spend the first month on number recognition (mostly 1-10, but some 1-20) and 1:1 correspondence.
I introduce my kiddos to number lines and ten frames.
I love this activity because they have to trace the numbers and cut/paste to order them.
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We do a lot this time of year with recognizing and counting numbers 1-10.
I love the sunflowers in August and September!
I also introduce the concept of 2D vs 3D shapes, and we revisit this every single month.
We also cover counting on, skip counting, adding, subtracting (most of my kiddos aren’t there yet) ordering by size, and counting to 20.
I absolutely love teaching kindergarten in September!
“Great bundle to use to practice all of the necessary skills all year!”
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“So well laid out! Easy to use!!! Love your materials!!!”
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PRESCHOOL + KINDERGARTEN BACK TO SCHOOL RESOURCES
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“Great resource to use for kinders and I love your products!”
“I’m so excited that I stumbled on your blog when browsing Pinterest! I’m so excited to use this resource in September when I do my Apple Unit!”
“Love this unit!!! I already ordered the October unit! I can not wait for the other units to become available thank you so much for all your hard work!!”
“Amazing resource. I love the slideshow with real pictures. I can't wait to use this with my kids. I will be replacing several items in my apple unit with activities from this packet. Thanks!”
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