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Ready for School Toolkit

Have a young child who is heading off to school next year? We’ve got resources and activities that can help you help your young learner prepare for their next educational adventure.

From social-emotional games and activities that build confidence and help them to navigate their feelings of the unknown to skills-based activities and games that explore early reading and math skills in a fun and engaging way, we’ve got you covered.

With this engaging collection, students can watch short videos and play online games that incorporate problem solving!

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STEM

Young learners can practice letters and early geometry skills with Alphabet Patterns from our Ready for School toolkit.

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Language Arts

An educator's guide to social, emotional and character development curriculum.

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Social Emotional

Get ready for the start of school with some of our favorite back-to-school resources!

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STEM

Practice early geometry, counting and pattern recognition.

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STEM

Practice counting skills.

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Help young children learn to manage emotions with Daniel Tiger’s Life Lessons from our Ready for School toolkit.

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Social Emotional

Practice counting and math skills.

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STEM

Inspire the love of learning with these great resources from PNC Grow Up Great!

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Social Emotional

Explore these literacy-based activities with your young learner inspired by your child's favorite PBS KIDS programs!

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Language Arts

Help young children practice their social emotional skills with this fun memory game.

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Social Emotional

Solve odd cases and create useful gadgets.

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STEM

Use this guide to help your child develop the skills they need to enter Kindergarten.

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Social Emotional

Five-day thematic, multimedia activity math activity plans designed for afterschool programs.

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STEM

Come play and learn in the PBS KIDS Lab, the lab where every new technology is an opportunity for learning!

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Social Emotional

Use this PEEP curriculum to help preschools explore different colors and investigate different shades of the same color.

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STEM

Use this PEEP curriculum to help preschools explore how plants grow.

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STEM

Use this PEEP curriculum to help preschools explore the way things roll and slide down ramps and hills.

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STEM

Use this PEEP curriculum to help preschools explore how a shadow’s shape, size, position, and appearance can change.

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STEM

Use this PEEP curriculum to help preschools explore and identify the sounds around them.

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STEM

Use this PEEP curriculum to help preschools explore how containers and tools make water move and flow in different ways.

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STEM

Engage your preschoolers in fun learning experiences in math and problem-solving with these activities from Peg + Cat.

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STEM

Use these flexible resources to support learning anywhere: videos, interactive lessons, printable activities and more.

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Language Arts

Ready Jet Go! helps your PreK-3 students to develop a love of learning for all things related to the planet Earth.

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STEM

Learn ways to advance early learning skills for children ages 2-8 with this Ready to Learn library of resources.

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Social Emotional

Everything you need to help children grow smarter, stronger and kinder!

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Social Studies

Explore these social emotional activities with your young learner inspired by your child's favorite PBS KIDS programs!

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Social Emotional

Packed full of fun puzzles to solve, this book has mazes to navigate, things to find, artwork to color and differences to spot.

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STEM

Play this game using the tile letters.

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Language Arts

Use these title letters to play our word game.

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Language Arts

Learn to creative ways to think, solve problems and complete tasks in more organized ways with Work It Out Wombats!

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Social Emotional

Help your young learner practice letters and numbers with the writing mat from our Ready for School toolkit.

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Language Arts