Pre-K

The Pre-K Get Set for School™ program introduces school readiness activities for young children of all ability levels. Through music, movement, building, coloring, and multisensory activities, children have fun as they develop important skills:

  • Language proficiency
  • Color and shape awareness
  • Fine and gross motor control
  • Letter and number recognition
  • Counting abilities
  • Social skills

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Pre-K Materials and Books

  • NEW! PRE-K SET - $99.95 ($130 value)

    Price: $99.95 Code: PSET Grade: K

    Jump start school success with our Get Set for School™ readiness program! This Pre-K Set includes 10 essential items for fun, hands-on learning.

     1. Get Set for School Pre–K workbook
     2. Pre-K Teacher's Guide
     3. Get Set for School Sing Along CD
     4. Roll-A-Dough Letters™
     5. Stamp and See Screen™
     6. Mat for Wood Pieces
     7. Wood Pieces Set for Capital Letters
     8. Capital Letter Cards for Wood Pieces
     9. Slate Chalkboard
    10. Mat Man Poster
    *Limit one per customer. Price includes free shipping for set; standard shipping charges apply for additional items. Offer ends 10/31/10. Online orders only.

  • NEW! TAG BAGS AND WORD TIME SET - $149.95 ($165 value)

    Price: $149.95 Code: SETTBWT Grade: Pre-K

    Enhance your Pre-K curriculum with Tag Bags and Word Time, the newest additions to the Get Set for School curriculum. Engage your preschoolers with hands-on activities that help build a lifelong enjoyment of math and language arts!

    Download Sample Tag Bags Activities and Download Sample Word Time Lessons

    *Limit one per customer. Price includes free shipping for set; standard shipping charges apply for additional items. Offer ends 10/31/10. Online orders only.

  • NEW! Tag Bags

    Price: $69.95 Code: TB Grade: Pre-K

    Tag Bags engage preschoolers with fun, hands-on activities that develop critical early math skills. Children will learn number recognition, counting, measuring, patterns, and sequencing. Tag Bags integrate with your Get Set for School readiness curriculum and other Pre-K programs. The set includes: 30 Tag Bags, 36 Color Tags, and a 16 page Activity Booklet.

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  • Get Set for School

    Price: $7.25 Code: GSS Grade: Pre-K

    Get Set for School™ is a workbook for four-year-olds or older students working at a Pre-K level.
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  • Pre-K Teacher's Guide

    Price: $7.25 Code: TGPK Grade: Pre-K

    Guide for the student workbook, Get Set for School™. Tips for kindergarten teachers, parents and therapists. Lesson plans for easy, effective instruction. Daily plan for post workbook practice.
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  • NEW! Word Time™

    Price: $79.95 Code: WT Grade: Pre-K

    Word Time is an innovative language arts program that boosts preschoolers' vocabulary, thinking, and speaking skills. Active, multisensory lessons make learning fun and accessible for all children.

    Set includes: Teacher's guide with 48 weeks of lessons, organized into 12 instructional themes; 295 laminated word cards; Squawker hand puppet.

    Download Sample Lessons

  • NEW! Mat Man Books Set

    Price: $44.95 Code: MMBS Grade: Pre-K & K

    Bring all four of Mat Man's adventures to your classroom or resource library in this boxed set. The set comes with a free Build Mat Man poster to help you teach children how to bring Mat Man to life themselves!

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  • MAT MAN ON THE GO

    Price: $13.75 Code: MMGO Grade: Pre-K & K

    The beloved Mat Man character returns in the fourth book of the series! This book is great for early readers, who will learn active verbs, adjectives, and vocabulary as they eagerly follow Mat Man on his latest adventures in his neighborhood, and the world! (32 page hardcover storybook)

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  • MAT MAN OPPOSITES

    Price: $13.75 Code: MMOPP Grade: Pre-K & K

    Great for beginning readers, this Mat Man book uses antonyms to help children learn word relationships and develop early reading skills. Children will love learning with opposites and coming up with their own. Rhymes and colorful illustrations encourage them to understand and describe word meanings. (36 page hardcover storybook)

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  • MAT MAN HATS

    Price: $13.75 Code: MHATS Grade: Pre-K & K

    Mat Man™ returns in MAT MAN HATS to take children on a journey from space to land to sea.
    In this second installment of the Mat Man™ book series, Mat Man™ takes on many roles (and hats). (36 page hardcover storybook)
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  • MAT MAN SHAPES

    Price: $13.75 Code: MMSH Grade: Pre-K & K

    Engaging and memorable characters inspire children to learn new things. In MAT MAN SHAPES, the popular Mat Man™ character comes to life in an imaginative tale that takes children to a world of shapes and rhymes. A friendly hero opens students' minds to shapes, rhyming verse, imagination, exploration, and community in the first book of the Mat Man™ reading series. (32 page hardcover storybook)
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  • Wood Pieces Set for Capital Letters

    Price: $29.95 Code: WP Grade: Pre-K and K

    The Wood Pieces Set and activities help children develop fine motor, social, vocabulary and letter formation skills.

  • Mat for Wood Pieces

    Price: $3.75 Code: MAT Grade: Pre-K and K

    The Mat is made of foam, similar to a mousepad. It is blue and measures 8½" by 11". In the top left corner is a bright yellow smiley face. By following the teacher's demonstration, children place the Wood Pieces on the Mat to make capital letters. They learn to make all capital letters correctly—right side up, in the correct sequence of pieces, and facing the right way.

  • Mat Man™ Hands

    Price: $3.95 Code: MMH Grade: Pre-K & K

    Building Mat Man helps to develop a child's body awareness, drawing and counting skills. The hands are made of foam, similar to a mousepad. Each hand measures 4.25" x 5".
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    Capital Letter Cards for Wood Pieces

    Price: See Options Code: Cards Grade: Pre-K and K

    The Capital Letter Cards are ideal for children who are just learning capital letters. The front teaches stroke, sequence, and placement for letters using Wood Pieces Set. The back introduces language arts letter awareness activities. Set includes 26 double-sided 8½" × 11" cards.

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    Mat Man™ Shirt (Adult Sizes)

    Price: See Options Code: SH-A Grade: N/A

    Bring our most loved character to life in your classroom or home with a Mat Man T-Shirt. In adult and child sizes.
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    Mat Man™ T-Shirt (Youth Sizes)

    Price: See Options Code: SH-Y Grade: N/A

    Bring our most loved character to life in your classroom or home with a Mat Man T-Shirt. In adult and child sizes (Youth sizes run large).

  • Roll–A–Dough Letters™

    Price: $17.25 Code: RAD Grade: Pre-K

    Form capital letters and numbers rolling dough snakes with Roll–A–Dough Letters™. Use the tray with sand, shaving cream, or rice for additional practice.

  • Stamp and See Screen™

    Price: $12.95 Code: SAS Grade: Pre-K

    Stamp capital letters on the Stamp and See Screen™ using the magnetic stamps. Use the chalk-like tool to trace letters or form them on your own.

     

     

  • Get Set for School Sing Along CD

    Price: $12.95 Code: SING Grade: Pre-K

    We wanted music – great music. We chose the best: Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer, winners of back-to-back Grammy® awards for best Children's Musical Album. When they bring their musical talent to our program, the curriculum sings, taps, dances, rocks, and raps!
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  • Slate Chalkboard

    Price: $4.50 Code: SLT Grade: Pre-K-Gr. 1

    Forming capital letters and numbers on the Slate Chalkboard is the next step in writing readiness. The chalkboard is made of real slate, measuring 4" x 6", in a sturdy wood frame. The smiley face at the top left corner orients children and reinforces top-to-bottom, left-to-right directionality. The fun and tactile slate lessons prepare children for pencil and paper.

  • FLIP Crayons™

    Price: $17.50 Code: FC Grade: Pre-K & K

    FLIP Crayons™ are fantastic! This unique crayon makes coloring fun. Children develop hand coordination and fine motor skills by flipping the crayon. (Patent pending)

  • FLIP Crayons™ Gift Set

    Price: $12.50 Code: FGS20 Grade: Pre-K & K

    Love FLIP Crayons™? Wish you had mini packs for individual students? They're here! Each gift set contains 20 mini packs of 5 FLIP Crayons™ in a fun and appealing travel-ready matchbox.

  • Little Chalk Bits

    Price: $4.25 Code: LCB Grade: Pre-K-Gr. 4+

    Little Chalk Bits are great for little hands. They make writing on the Slate and Blackboard fun while helping children develop hand coordination and fine motor skills.

    • 200 – 1" chalk bits

  • Little Sponge Cubes

    Price: $2.50 Code: SC Grade: Pre-K-Gr. 4+

    These sponges are just the right size for doing Wet–Dry–Try on the Slate Chalkboard and Blackboard with Double Lines.

    • 100 – ½" cubes per bag

  • Pre-K Wall Cards

    Price: $8.75 Code: PKWC Grade: Pre-K

    Use these cards above the chalkboard, on bulletin boards, or in circle time as a letter or number of the week activity. Set includes 36 card stock 8½" x 8½" letter and number cards that can be colored.
    Download Sample Pre-K Wall Cards

  • Capital and Number Practice Strips

    Price: $4.25 Code: CNPS Grade: Pre-K

    Use these strips to help Pre-K students write their capitals and numbers the right size with correct placement and proportion. The 2.5" x 17" strips come in packs of 100 and include a smiley face icon to orient the child.

  • Magic C Bunny Puppet

    Price: $16.50 Code: BUN Grade: Pre-K - 3

    The Magic C Bunny helps children remember how to use the c stroke to begin certain letters. The capital letters C O G Q and lowercase letters a d g o q begin with Magic C.

  • NEW! Color Name Plates

    Price: $7.25 Code: COLNP Grade: Gr. K - 2

    These colorful name plates (3½" x 11") give kindergarten, first, and second grade children a correct model for writing their names. Use them on desks, lockers and cubbies as a terrific visual aid to promote letter recognition and formation of capitals and lowercase letters! Images correspond to the 2008 student workbooks, and Color Print & Number Wall Cards. Each set contains 30 card stock plates.