In an effort to assist teachers with fostering emerging literacy and math skills in young children, the T/TAC at VCU has purchased and augmented new early childhood learning kits. The kits are theme-based and contain materials that can be integrated within classroom centers to promote literacy and math skills. Assistive technology devices and adaptive materials have been added to the kits to assist teachers in helping all students access the materials.

Activities developed using Virginia’s Foundation Blocks for Early Learning: Comprehensive Standards for Four-Year-Olds are included in these kits. Teachers can use these activities with existing resources in their classrooms and/or to create their own kits. For a peek at these resources, explore the photograph gallery.

The theme-based kits are:

• Amazing Animals
• Growing Things
• Look What's Cooking
• Marvelous Me
• My Neighborhood
• Vroom-Vroom Machines
• Weather Watcher

In addition to the theme-based kits, we have kits based on various children’s books. These include:

• Brown Bear
• If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
• If You Give a Pig a Pancake
• Old MacDonald’s Farm/Barnyard Hullabaloo (farm theme)
• Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly
• Over in the Meadow
• Rumble in the Jungle
• The Grouchy Ladybug and The Very Lazy Ladybug (ladybug theme)
• The Rainbow Fish and Commotion in the Ocean (ocean theme)
• The Very Hungry Caterpillar
• Trashy Town
• Wheels on the Bus