Ohhhhh, did I get to order some exciting new teaching and learning tools! Below are some of my favorites! (Click the link Amazon Associate Links for more info!)

I found these versatile Magnetic Lowercase Alphabet Chips that can be use for letter recognition, word building, phoneme isolation and more! What makes the alphabet chips so fun is that they are MAGNETIC! That means they can be magically swiped with a Magnetic Wand! Quick and easy cleanup!

Another activity that kindergarteners love is working with Perler Beads. Perler beads help strengthen fine motor skills. But, disaster can strike quite easily when using perler beads…creations can break easily if they have not been fused (or ironed!). Containers of beads can spill, creating a giant mess! Fortunately, there is a Perler Bead Sweeper Vacuum. This makes cleaning up fun! (warning: the sweeper is SO fun, that sometimes I notice perler beads spilling more frequently!)

Look at these bright Faber-Castell Neon Gel Crayon Set – 6 Twistable Gel Crayons. The colors are incredible! I can’t wait to see the artwork the students create!

These Translucent Letters will work perfectly with Lakeshore Light Up Activity. My plan is to use the Lakeshore portable light up center with the translucent letters during our Word Work Center. Students will love identifying beginning sounds or spelling CVC words using these learning tools!

Wikki Stix are a fun sensory activity that can be used in many ways to support learning.

• “Wikki Stix are excellent for learning letters and numbers. And they can be pressed together for 3-D creativity too! With Wikki Stix, there is no right or wrong way to play!
• Wikki Stix are a calming fidget toy, soft and pliable, easy for young fingers to manipulate for early learning and quiet times between activities.”

Hand2Mind Reading Rods are cubes with letters on them…red cubes represent vowels and blue cubes represent consonants. Students can spell words using these hands-on cubes.

I replenished my Mad Mattr supply. This kinesthetic sand is GREAT for strengthening fine motor muscles! And it cleans up easily.

These Shrinky Dinks bring me back to my childhood. I LOVED shrinky dinks! This is a package of plain shrinky dink paper….so the students can design ANYTHING they want….and then I can shrink it! I plan to have them design and color a dinosaur during our Dinosaur Unit….imagine an enormous, ferocious dinosaur shrinking down to 20% of its original size!

Soooo much good stuff!! I can’t wait for the year to begin! Keep an eye out for the new books I will be reading aloud this year!