Description
Help toddlers meet the number 8 through a week of painting, tracing, counting, and pretend play.
Made for 2 and 3 year olds at home, in daycare, and in toddler classrooms. Every page is flexible, so you choose the order, the pace, and the materials. Easy prep: print the black and white pages and start the same day.
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Want all 10 weeks? This week is part of the Toddler Number of the Week Bundle, Numbers 1 to 10, with the My First Number Book portfolio kit included. Get the bundle and save big: CLICK HERE
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WHAT'S INCLUDED
39 pages in total: activity sheets, a 2 page lesson guide, family and record pages, plus the cover, welcome, terms, and closing pages.
The activity sheets are: ⤵
→ Meet 8 posters: a black and white poster to color, plus two color posters (counting hands in two skin tones) for the wall
→ Trace 8 with a Finger, Fill the Big 8 with crepe paper, Dot the 8, and Eight Little Bunnies
→ Three Paint the 8 pages: fingers, brush, and cotton swab
→ Three road tracing pages with tiny glue dots: Trace Around the Globe, Follow the Wavy Roads, Trace the Pencil Path
→ Cover and Count, How Many Fingers?, Build 8, Match 8, Which Has More?
→ Find the 8, Find the Shadow, Big and Small with pieces to cut
→ Feed the Bear: a page to color and glue, plus a color bear with fish cards for pretend play
→ Snip 8, My Number Cards, a color Build 8 playdough mat
→ I Know the Number 8 handprint keepsake (black and white and color)
► A Week with 8: a flexible five day plan, plus A Note Home for families and a This Week I Saw record
► 2 page lesson guide: skills, prep, and goals for ages 2 to 3
Pages in US Letter size (8.5 x 11 inches). For A4 paper, choose Fit to Page when printing.
WHY TEACHERS LOVE IT
A suggested day by day plan, with a reminder that you are in charge.
Hands-on pages for fingers, brushes, cotton swabs, crepe paper, stickers, and playdough.
Black and white pages first for print and go, color pages at the end for the wall and the Feed the Bear game.
✥ PERFECT FOR
◆ Homeschool and tot school
◆ Toddler classrooms and Mother's Day Out programs
◆ Daycare and childcare
◆ Morning tubs and busy mornings
◆ Small groups
◆ One on one time with a grown up
◆ Early intervention and Special Education support
◆ Early finishers and siblings of preschoolers
★ SKILLS PRACTICED
◆ Number recognition: spotting the numeral 8 and hearing the word "eight"
◆ Early counting: counting with a grown up, one touch for each object
◆ Showing 8 with fingers, with or without help
◆ Comparing more and fewer, big and small
◆ Visual discrimination: finding the 8 among other numbers, matching shapes to shadows
◆ Pre-writing: tracing a big 8 from a starting dot, plus road tracing lines
◆ Fine motor strength: painting, dabbing, crumpling crepe paper, tiny glue dots, first snips
◆ Language and pretend play: number words while feeding the bear
✥ SAVE BIG WITH THE NUMBER OF THE WEEK BUNDLE
Get all 10 weeks, numbers 1 to 10, plus the bonus portfolio kit in one bundle: CLICK HERE
TERMS
© Teacher Natalie - iLovePreK. For personal use only: classroom, childcare/daycare, and homeschool use with your own children or students. One purchase covers one home or one single classroom; please do not post the files online.
