September 2023 Collection
September is always an exciting time of year. Summer has officially come to an end and most everyone is ready to welcome fall with open arms. We’re ready for all things football, apples, and cozy days at home! These ideas inspired the creativity for this month’s collection. You’ll find resources to enrich and review skills from homophones to beginning writing and more! I can’t wait to share all I created for the Learn + PLAY Club this month!
One of my favorite parts of the Learn + PLAY Club is that when you join you get immediate access to not just new releases but every single resource I’ve ever written (and there are a lot) at no extra cost! Here’s a look at what I’m releasing for September 2023!
Here's a look at what September holds:
Retelling Apple
This cute reading activity is perfect for all those fun Fall books you’re pulling out this month. The file includes two different types of retelling apples. The first has prompts for Title, Characters, Beginning, Middle, and End. The second has prompts for Title, Characters, Setting, Problem, and Solution. It’s a fun way to engage your learner in making meaning from their reading!
Noun Verb Bump
Back in February I created a similar BUMP activity reviewing homophones. This take has your learner deciphering between nouns and verbs in a competitive race to get three in a row! Just add dice and any manipulative (m&ms, cereal, math cubes, etc) and you’re ready to play!
Apple Word Mapping
Some words are rule breakers making them difficult to sound out and recognize. This word mapping activity intends to tackle them by mapping out the sound you hear, don’t hear, or don’t recognize. After mapping, writing, and practicing the ideas it that these difficult words would be come “heart” words. That means they know and understand the words by heart. The resource comes with a collection of tricky and rule breaking words. It also comes with blank apples to fill in with your own words if you have others not included or if you’d like to use it for spelling words too!
Homophone Football Fun
I couldn’t let September begin without including some kind of football fun in our learning fun! This month my little fella is excited to watch his favorite team play and I thought it would be a great way to engage him in a little language arts too! This is a cute game that could be played like “Go Fish” or “The Matching Game.” I included a key to all the homophones in case some aren’t as obvious as others.
Ten Friends Cookies + Milk
Ok this one is so super cute! We needed work on our understanding 10 bonds so I made this adorable activity! The idea is that your learner will pair a cookie with its corresponding glass of milk to make the sum of 10. Having a firm understanding of this concept with make problem solving more fluent. I’m planning to continue creating materials like these for other addition concepts. We recently mastered the +9 facts in our home and WOW it’s incredibly helpful! Do you know the +9 trick? Keep an eye out in October for a fun game strengthening that concept!
Eating the Alphabet Placemat Coloring Page
This one was created with our littlest learners in mind but the truth is my crew LOVES a good coloring page and this will be a hit for them too! It’s a fun way to learn different foods and their names. Make it placemat by adding a sheet of construction paper beneath and using contact paper to make it reusable and wipe-off able. …Or just use it as a recyclable placemat when you have friends with their kids over for dinner!
Pizza Party Fraction Game
This set is perfect for introducing, reviewing, or practicing fractions. The set comes with term cards, game boards, game cards, and toppings. (Although, I think play dough toppings could be super fun too) Learners newer to the concept can use the pre-divided pizzas while learners more familiar with fractions could use the whole pizza and divide it up to play the game. Pizza makes everything more fun, right?
State Fact Cards
These were inspired by mamas requesting a simplified version of my Learn + PLAY: USA resources for their younger children wanting learn beside their older siblings. I thought it was a GREAT idea and couldn’t wait to get started on making something special for you! These cards are too cute and available in both a coloring page style and a full color style. They only prompt 4 simple ideas for each state: year of statehood, capital city, state bird, and any interesting fact. The idea is that you’d glue the flag side and fact side of back to back to create the card.
b + d BirthDay Party
Lowercase b and d can be really confusing for most children. Don’t be discouraged if this is the case for your crew. This adorable birthday party themed game will be fun way to review and practice letter recognition and formation! I think building the letters with play dough will help strengthen the idea best. This is because your learner will tie the physical act of forming the letter with the visual recognition of it as well!
Learn + Explore: French Colors
This is my newest series and I’m thrilled to be sharing it with Learn + PLAY Club friends throughout the 2023-2024 school year. I was fluent in French in college and even minored in French for 2 years before switching to History (so I could graduate earlier.) I’m thrilled to finally get to put that work to use creating resources for families to fall in love with the French language too! To begin I’m starting the series with an overview of colors in French! This VERY gentle mini unit is perfect for families wanting to add a little foreign language exposure to their homes without long complicated lessons or activities. These activities are engaging and fun that are sure to make the language stick! I can not wait to share more with you this year!
September Writing Prompts
These tiny writing prompts have been a big favorite of families all over! They’re perfect for writers in 2nd – 5th grade! Just glue a little slip to the top of your journal page and write to your heart’s content!
Apple Bookmark Reading Logs
We LOVE a good bookmark around here! This month I wanted to make one that could double as a reading log or at least a reading tracker. These foldable bookmarks just require a little glue and you’re ready to go! The file includes two different designs that you can fold over to create a double sided book mark. I even left room at the top to add a hole punch for a tassel to make it even more adorable.
The idea is that your learner will color in an apple for each book or chapter they read or for an increment of time you decide on. Really, they can be for whatever your family decides. No matter what it’s fun way to track your reading through the month!
Daily Language Arts - Growing Resource
This resource has been so great to bring together. I started on it last Spring and slowly but surely it’s coming together. At this point the file has 20 weeks worth of Language Arts skills. I created this set because we use All About Reading for our reading instruction and needed a little more in the Language Arts department. It’s just enough to be a gentle introduction/review of concepts without adding a big load to our days. I plan on adding 4 more installments of 4 weeks each to create a full year’s (36 weeks) worth of Language Arts Skill Reviews.
September Writing Project
We homeschool but that doesn’t mean we don’t love a CUTE writing project. It was one of my FAVORITE things to do when I was in the classroom. These are the little things I’ll tuck away at the end of the year as sweet keepsakes and artifacts from our learning. If you have a beginning writer you’re going to love this set! This month’s writing project focuses on apples – I mean, it’s September, how could I not!?
In addition to all these, I plan to share the newest Elements of Art mini unit in the coming week or two. We’re working hard State Fair art projects at the moment and there simply wasn’t time to finish the mini unit by the first. Fear not though, we’ll be exploring shading with value soon! I can’t wait to share it with you!
Have questions about the resources or the Learn + PLAY Club? I’m always happy to help. Send me an email at hello@everydaylearnandplay.com
Did you miss August's Collection? It was a really good one! Check it out here:
Carla is a teacher turned SAHM adventuring into homeschool preschool and beyond. Seeing evidence of God's grace each day and inspiring mamas with learn + PLAY fun at home.