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These simple Back to School Noah's Ark Bible activities and crafts are perfect for toddlers, preK, and kindergarten students.

🎵 Rise and Shine and Give God the Glory, Glory...🎵

Anybody else old enough to remember the "Arky Arky" song?!

So...I had this song in my head pretty much the entire time I was writing this post.

Don't know what I'm talking about? Then listen at your own risk! (And use this video with your kids!)

Alright, here's what I've got for ya to help teach your littles about God's Promises and the story of Noah's Ark!

All of the Noah's Ark sheets, games, and crafts that I'm sharing from my Bible curriculum include activities that can be done with cheap craft or household supplies that can be found around your home, classroom, or at your local dollar store.

-Finger Painting Rainbow

All you need is cotton balls, crayons, glue, and paint or stamp pads in the colors of the rainbow! How easy is that?!

If you are doing this activity with toddlers or preschoolers, then I would recommend only doing one color at a time so that you have less of a mess. If you're helping students one-on-one, others can be collecting and counting cotton balls or coloring the birds as they wait.

-Paper Plate & Fruit Loops Ark Activity

You'll need Fruit Loops (Get the generic box - you'll save money!), brown paper plates (or white paper plates and brown crayons, markers, or paint), printouts, and glue.

There are a few different ways you can do this activity. If you are looking to save classroom time, then purchase brown paper plates or paint them yourself prior to class. Otherwise, your kiddos can paint or color the plates themselves. You may also trace out the top of the ark prior to class.

While the plates are drying, have students sort Fruit Loops by color.

Only glue the bottom and side edges of the paper plate onto the paper so that you can put things into the ark! Cut out Noah and pairs of animals to put into the ark. This is a great time to talk about the word "pairs" or to practice counting by twos!

-Noah's Ark Emergent Reader

This emergent reader actually comes in THREE versions! 🤯

The first version tells the story of Noah's Ark with simple, easy to read sentences.

The second version is set up with repetitive "I see..." sentences. (I see Noah. I see the animals. I see the rain...and so on.)

The second version includes a variety of sight-word sentences including, "This is the rain that came down." and "These are the animals that came to the ark."

You can get all three of those versions in one simple download: Noah's Ark Emergent Reader

-Find the Animals Game

For this game, you'll need printouts of the ark and animals cards seen below. They are included in the Noah's Ark Bible Lesson curriculum for Toddlers, PreK, or Kinders.

You'll cut the ark door on the dotted lines so that it becomes a flap that can open.

The directions in the lesson will give you ideas on how to modify the game for various age levels, but essentially, you'll hide one of every animals and then pass out each animal's match to your students. When they find the match, they bring both of them and put them in Noah's ark!

All of these activities can be found in units or individual lesson plans that are divided into three ages: Toddler, PreK, or Kinder.

You can also get the Noah's Ark lesson plans in a larger unit called: God's Promises!

All units and lessons in the curriculum are also divided into three ages: Toddler, PreK, or Kinder.

If you're not sure which to pick, go with PreK...you can simplify it for younger kids and spruce it up for slightly older ones. The difference between the levels can be found at this Sneak Peek.

The unit that contains the Noah's Ark lesson plans is broken down into five lessons that share the big truth of: God Keeps His Promises!

It includes scripted lesson plans, games, songs, crafts, coloring pages, emergent readers, and more!

Thanks for letting me share these activities with you! I hope your littles love and enjoy them. I also hope they make your teacher life & prep just a tad bit easier!

-Til next time

Bek

Not too long ago, I started a Bible emergent readers series. I was wanting a variety of Old and New Testament stories that could be simplified for a Kindergarten student to be able to read and understand.
Much prayer was spent before making each Bible reader. My goal was to retell the Bible stories in a way that helps emerging readers understand God's Word while also meeting them where they're at and building their reading skills. My prayer was that God would help me simplify each story for these younger loves, without taking away from it.
The Lost Coin is one of the parable stories that I created! I'm super excited to share it with you. Here is a pic of the cover of this emergent reader. I asked my 7th grade daughter to color sample pages of the book for me to post. She kept writing and re-writing my name as the 'Reader' trying to make it look like an adult had written it, ha!

I have created many Bible emergent readers that tell the story of various parables Jesus told. The ones that tell a parables all start out with "Jesus told some people a story."

Each page crams as many sight words as possible into the sentences, while also trying to keep them as short and simple as possible. Students are also introduced to quotation marks. Since it's Jesus telling the story, the kids only have to focus on one character voice when reading them!

This next page throws a little sneaky counting and number practice in! Shhh...don't tell!

Large, simple pictures help keep a little reader's focus on the text as they read.

This particular emergent reader has 11 pages to it. You can shorten it by easily omitting 3-4 of the pages if you feel it is too long for your specific child's needs.

You could even go as far as turning this book into a mini play activity by having students pair up and take turns being the Narrater while the other acts out the story as it's read.

It's not always easy to choose what sentence go into my Bible readers. Bible stories, and even just the words/names alone, can sometimes be difficult to put into a book for new readers. As you read, and use these books with your students, if you come across wording or parts of the story that you feel might need a little more attention, please know that I would love for you to reach out and let me know your thoughts!

Have students keep these books in their book boxes at school or send them home and encourage students to read the story to their parents!

I hope your students love this emergent reader as they learn and grow in God's word!

Get The Lost Coin Parable Emergent Reader HERE!

The Lost Coin is also available in a bundle with my other Bible based readers in this: Bible Emergent Readers Bundle

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Learn about the parable of The Lost Coin with this Bible faith based emergent reader. Created with preschool, Kindergarten, and First grade in mind, it is packed with sight words and simple sentences so kids can learn about the Bible on their own level! This reader is a perfect addition to go with the other activities and crafts you have planned for your lesson on Jesus.

Thanks for letting me share these activities with you! I hope your littles love and enjoy them. I also hope they make your teacher life & prep just a tad bit easier!

-Til next time

Bek

Doodle-It gives your phonics lessons an interactive, creative twist and encourages your Preschool, Kindergarten, or even First Grade kids to explore phonics through art and drawing. The Phonics Poetry book with original poems is explores a variety of concepts including alphabet, blends, digraphs, & more. These interactive activities for kids are great for any time of the year. Start Back to School off right, using Doodle-It as an introduction or review. Also great as End of the Year activities too. Bind them together to create a Doodle Phonics Book!

We're all about doodling lately. Are your kiddos into it, too? Doodling with regular pencils. Doodling with scented pencils. Doodling with scented crayons, and those Mr. Sketch gel crayons and markers of all kinds... Basically any type of writing utensil they can get their hands on, they're using it to doodle!

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So I thought I'd meet them where they're at with their interest in doodling, and find a way to sneak some fun phonics practice into their doodle time. Which leads me to introduce Doodle-It Phonics! A doodling notebook that draws (haha, bad mom joke!) a kid's focus and attention to phonics while letting them exercise and explore their creative side at the same time.

Doodle-It can be used as individual worksheets, or it can also be glued into a composition or regular notebook to create an interactive book that students can flip through time and time again. It covers a wide range of phonics. It includes Alphabet, CVC & Rhyming, Digraphs, Blends, & Long Vowel practice.

There are two ways you can have your learners doodle... they can use guided doodling version, or they can jump right into it and try it on their own. The guided version helps them write words and shows a picture so that they can see a visual of the word and either doodle their own version of the object or doodle one like the picture. They can doodle the word as well! Instructions and examples are included in the download.

You decide how you want to use this resource. You can use the 180 pages here and there as you need them, or you can pick and choose what sounds you're currently working on and create a spiral or stapled notebook for students to hang on to. If you use a 3 prong folder, you can continue to add to it all throughout the year!

You'll notice that on the guided doodling version, students have the option to repeat the picture already shown, or they could also draw their own. At this age, some students don't know where to start when it comes to drawing, so I wanted to make sure that even reluctant drawers had a starting place...even if it meant just attempting to doodle the picture already shown.

Get Doodle-It HERE.

Another interactive Phonics notebook that I use with my kids is this Phonics Poetry Notebook that includes original poetry from my good friend from Let's Learn S'more.

This Phonics Poetry Notebook gives kids a hands-on approach to learning and practicing their reading skills. There are four versions included for each focus. One version has students writing in the various vowels, diphthongs, blends, or digraphs. The other doesn't. And both of these come in either a less-ink, color-me option or a full color option.

Students cut these out on the solid line and glue them in a composition or spiral notebook, which allows them to continually review prior ones completed! Woohoo!

Labels are an option that are also included to put on the cover.

Here's what's covered in this book. Pick and choose what you need:

The Phonics Poetry Book is also available in a Poetry Books Big Bundle:

The bundle includes five different types of poetry books that you can mix and match or do separately.

Get the Poetry Books Big Bundle HERE.

Well, that's a phonics overload for today. Thanks for letting me share these with you. I hope your littles love and enjoy them. I also hope they make your teaching life just a tad bit easier!

-Til next time

Bek

Are you ready for some football??!!

To be honest, I'm really not a football fan (Ah! Did I really just admit that out loud?!), but I know a lot of littles that are.

Let me show you some of the things that are in my Football Activities pack and then I'll give you a link for a Football Freebie!

First I want to show you this Subtracting Footballs Emergent Reader.

Each page asks students to figure out how many footballs are left after a specific number of them are 'kicked' away. You can have your students cross out the kicked-away number of footballs, or you can have them use the included football manipulative pieces to figure out each book page's answer.

Besides the reader, the Activity Pack also includes practice in beginning and end sounds, short vowels, color word recognition, measurement (shortest, tallest), syllables, number recognition, & rhyming words.

Here are some more of the included printouts...

This Football Color-By-Number FREEBIE is also included in the pack.

Your littles are going to absolutely love this activity!

You can download this Football Color-By-Number absolutely FREE!

Have fun!!!

-Til next time

Bek

It's January...which means it's Polar Habitat time!

Today I'm going to show you what's included in my winter top-seller Polar Habitat Pack. You'll find everything you need...and more...to supplement your Polar Animals theme. This non-fiction pack includes more than 200 pages of activities. It was made with PreK-2nd in mind. Most of the activities can be as easy or as hard as you want them to be.

Set of 3 Differentiated Emergent Readers

(With Corresponding Class Books)

Each book is 15 pages long. There are 3 different levels to choose from.

Easy - "The penguin lives in the polar habitat."

Medium -"The penguin spends most of its time in the water hunting for food."

Hard - "The penguin spends most of its time in the water hunting for food. It is not able to fly, even though it has wings."

There are also colorful, matching class books for each level. You can laminate and bind them or even just hang them around the classroom to use as 'facts posters'.

Vocabulary Posters & Pocket Chart Pieces

Here is a list of the Polar animals/objects that are included in these posters and pocket chart pieces:

...ice floe, (blue) whale, seal, penguin, walrus, puffin, snow goose, moose, Arctic fox, Arctic hare, snowy owl, polar bear, igloo, Eskimo & Inuit (You can choose which term is used in your location. I recognize that in some areas, "Eskimo" is considered derogatory and yet in others it is the acceptable term, so I've included both.)

Write the Room {Polar Hunt} Activity

This Write-the-Room comes with colorful animal/object pieces that you can hide around the room! Send your kids hunting for Polar themed animals/objects and then have them write the ones they find.

Polar Flip Book

Color, cut, & glue various Polar themed animals/objects to create a Flip Book. A great activity to practice fluency!

Polar Organizers & Fact Sheets

These organizers and fact sheets are perfect for individual research projects. All of the animals/objects listed above are included. Once they are completed, you can laminated and bind them to make a class book!

Labeling (Writing or Cut/Paste) Sheets

You can choose if you want your littles to cute and paste the words into the blanks...or have them write the words. There's plenty of room to do either way.

Polar Head Bands

Simply color, cut out, and glue onto a sentence strip to make the perfect Polar Animal Head Band. A perfect 'costume' pieces for students to wear after completing their individual animal report. You can have them wear it while they stand in front of the class and tell facts about the animal they researched!

FREE Polar Color-by-Number Activity