Pete the Cat is the go-to book for many kindergarten and simple classrooms.

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• Back to school printables
• Math resources and freebies
• Language arts and reading freebies
• Craft activities
• Teacher printables
• Activities past volume
• What are the best Pete books for the classroom?
• Free audio downloads
• Let'southward wrap it upwardly

Dorsum to school printables

Here are the themed resource, printables and lesson plans to get-go off the school year for kindergarten.

Kickoff Day Document, School Tour, Coloring Folio - This schoolhouse tour was featured in my first day of schoolhouse setup snapshots and many asked where it came from. I similar taking my course on a bout to aid keep wiggles nether control and practise hallway procedures on the first day of schoolhouse.

Pete the Cat Classroom Rules - Ahhh, how saying "Yous become what you get and you don't throw a fit" has become a regular office of my pedagogy twenty-four hours. {wink}

Class Tour - Go your students practicing their hallway procedures while learning the layout of their new school edifice with this class tour. Mrs. Lirette will accept your class tracking downwards Pete and post-obit clues to visit the library, function, lunchroom, music, fine art, and gym. [Click here for the direct freebie link equally her website is currently downward - I pulled this from her article using the wayback motorcar]

"It's All Practiced" Posters and Playdough Sight Words - In that location are two freebie Pete the Cat printables in this postal service. Students can make sight words using playdough (remember I'one thousand a huge fan of playdough) or exist reminded that life isn't perfect with these "It's All Adept" posters.

Commencement Solar day of Schoolhouse Gum Practice - Teach students how to keep the glue bottle under control with this gluing exercise worksheet.

Math resources and freebies

Here are the themed resources, printables and lesson plans for math. Yous'll notice materials for: counting and number recognition, subtraction, addition, skip counting, comparing numbers and data.

► Counting and number recognition

Gyre and Cover - This simple coil and color canvas was an absolute favorite of my students in the practice math zone. Nosotros concluded up putting 1 into a skid canvas and fabricated information technology into a crash-land game with linking cubes. So versatile, simple and lovable!

Matching Buttons - Counting one:i Mats - Give students the chance to practice their one-to-i counting skills using these counting cards. Pete has lots of colorful jackets to brand each one different. Your students could also use playdough to make the correct number of buttons!

Counting and Matching Sets - Students can match object sets, numerals or number words with these push cards. Could exist a partner activity, a parent-helper activity or fifty-fifty a quick math eye.

Groovy X Frame Mat - Become groovy with Pete as you are working with numbers. This 10 frame can be used for a variety of things. I dearest using ten frames during our calendar time, in math zones and making my own!

Order ane-x Pete Puzzles - Put the numbers 1-x in order with backgrounds of Pete the Cat to self-correct in these two 10-piece puzzles.

Teen Number Fluency Roll and Read - Go your kinders identifying their teen numbers as a warm-upwards in your guided math groups. These roll and read printables assist make edifice fluency a piddling more fun!

Clip Cards one-20 Pete's Shoes - Count 1:1 to 20 and identify the correct numeral with these clip cards. Students use a clothespin to place the number.

► Subtraction

Ten Frame Cards - Pop off Pete'southward dandy buttons from a ten frame equally students practice Pete the True cat subtraction. These x frame cards can be used for more things likewise!

Subtraction Story Illustration - Take your students create a subtraction story with Pete'southward buttons popping off. These will turn out then cute with your students' illustrations. Information technology's a great way to go them to utilize pictures, words and numbers to prove their piece of work.

Pete the Cat Colour By Pages - These pages would make a keen improver to your sub binder considering they'd exist ready in a pinch! Your students can colour by number word and practice writing colour words.

Subtraction Workmat - Students tin practice their subtraction sentences alongside using a workmat of Pete. Grab a handful of buttons to make this manipulative and hands differentiated.

Math Equation Spinner Game - This Pete the Cat subtraction game is awesome! Students draw cards to move spaces along Pete's Groovy Buttons colored game board. Use unique giant buttons equally playing pieces.

Great Button Subtraction - You'll beloved having these worksheets at the prepare to practice subtraction or but use the stories whole grouping to practice problem solving. Pete makes everything more palatable. {wink}

► Add-on

Doubles Improver Bump Game - What a fun way to practice what 2+2 or 3+three makes with this crash-land game.

Decomposing the Number 4 - Students can employ buttons to practice making 4 in different ways. A fiddling cutting and gluing can go a long style at the first of the school yr in kindergarten.

Add-on to 12 Puzzle - Cut and reassemble this Pete the Cat puzzle with addition sums to 12. Perfect for kickoff class!

► Skip counting

Pete the Cat Counting past Fives – A simple worksheet that can exist turned into "dots" of fun if yous using bingo daubers to have students practice counting by fives. Great for first grade or afterward on in kindergarten (or with more avant-garde students). Another option is to brand blue thumbprints to brand it fast!

Count by 2's Cutting and Paste Worksheet - Count from two-20 by twos with this cutting and paste number worksheet.

Comparison numbers and information

Greater Than Less Than Math Eye - Students tin compare numbers ane-100 with these cards and equality signs with a little Pete flavoring. This could be a partner activeness, a parent-helper activity, or fifty-fifty a quick math center.

Question of the Day Graph - Ask the question of the day to generate information for discussion and to analyze every bit a form. An like shooting fish in a barrel fashion to build in Pete the cat lesson plans!

Linguistic communication arts and reading freebies

Here are the themed resource, printables and lesson plans to teach reading and linguistic communication arts skills. There are emergent readers, resources for education color words, sight words and names, phonics and give-and-take work, retelling and sequencing.

► Emergent readers

Pete's Shoes: Easy Reader Freebie - Kindergarten students will feel empowered reading this patterned book using the phrase, "Oh no! I see {color}! I like my {color} shoes." Have students highlight the sight word "see" to help them improve their tracking skills.

Emergent Reader - Your immature readers will exude confidence with their own Pete book. Simply fold to make this 1 page booklet a hit with your class.

Pete Loves Shoes Emergent Reader - This became one of my class' first favorite emergent reader books. They loved the opportunity to try out their coloring skills since nosotros don't really do too much coloring in kindergarten {yeah, I know *gasp*} and were excited to have their own Pete book to take home.

Four Slap-up Buttons Emergent Reader - Fill in the equations to bear witness how Pete'south buttons cruel off from Pete the True cat'due south Groovy Buttons in this mini booklet.

► Sight words, color words and names

Colour Give-and-take Building Cards - Use these color discussion cards in a diverseness of ways. Students tin can place letter of the alphabet tiles on top to build or copy the color words. Y'all could also laminate a flap over pinnacle to make it a "checking" card, or have students encompass the letter tiles with scrabble tiles instead!

Playdough Sight Word Mats - Apply playdough snakes rolled out to class sight words. These can last a long time every bit a middle action.

Pete BINGO Vocal - Accept a familiar vocal similar BINGO and teach kindergarten students how to spell Pete using this song as a shared reading poem. Create your own for free with judgement strips.

Cool Cat Name Writing - Recognize messages in pupil names and practise handwriting names with this editable worksheet.

► Phonics and word work

Nonsense and Real Give-and-take Sort - Get your young readers to bring back Pete into the classroom one time they are working on their beginning reader skills. Students can colour the existent words i color and the nonsense words another... making Pete's buttons very colorful.

Letter, Word, Sentence Sort - Give students the take chances to show that they understand the departure between a alphabetic character, word and sentence with this sort.

Letter or Sound Fluency Game - Your students will take turns "racing" to the top past naming letters or producing letter sounds when they draw a card. They can move up the ladder each time they are correct. Help Pete get his push button!

Beginning Sound Button Bingo - Snag some buttons from your math manipulatives and use them equally bingo fries in this small group reading game.

► Retelling and sequencing

First, Adjacent, Then Sequencing - If yous similar to do a sequencing activity and desire a follow-upwardly canvass, or a sheet that students can utilize to follow forth so this first, adjacent, last worksheet may just be the ticket!

Rockin' Buttons Retelling - Each of your students can wearable a ribbon with velcro to have their own buttons while retelling the story. They'll beloved it!

► Reading skills

Describing Anchor Chart - Work on adjectives by describing the famous bluish cat equally a course making your Pete the Cat lesson plans complete.

Venn Diagram - Students can compare and dissimilarity using the words "aforementioned" and "different" in this elementary venn diagram. They could depict or use words to compare themselves with Pete the True cat.

Pete the Cat Action Bundle - Students can write about their favorite part of the story,  do a give-and-take search (first/second grade), and exercise using adjectives.

I Love My Shoes Book - Designed for first graders, students tin can get sentence writing exercise in. Allow them create a patterned book or create their own text for more avant-garde writers and color the shoes to lucifer their sentences.

Predictable Cut and Paste - Get a little practice or send this home as homework. Pupil cutting and paste the predictable text, employ a color give-and-take cue and illustrate. This would be perfect to introduce later on pedagogy the guided drawing how to! Another idea is to utilize this for remediation of students in late autumn who need 1:1 practice and reading left to right (or exercise having words the right way upward).

Label Pete the Cat - Cut and paste the true cat parts to characterization Pete the true cat with nose, ears, whiskers, paw and tail.

Making Mental Images - Here's a quick lesson you can do before reading whatsoever book! Have students create their own mental epitome of the character and compare it after reading.

Craft activities

Create crafts and cartoon activities to extend your favorite Pete the Cat book. Here are the favorites I've found.

Pete Mask - Create DIY Pete the Cat masks. Depict a true cat face shape freehand and add to popsicle sticks with the eyes cut out.

Pete the Cat Large Book for Kindergarten - Add your own course' photos to brand a big book that your students will want to read again and again.

Guided Drawing Art Project - You'll find this easier than you thought and the results are so cute.

Construction Paper Headband - Elementary shapes on royal bluish construction paper makes the cutest Pete the cat headbands.

Rockin in My School Shoes Craftivity - You lot don't demand a template for this one! Grab some construction paper and model how to make a Pete the Cat with shapes. Add together writing newspaper below to make information technology a craftivity display with writing.

Cool Cat Class Book - Oh, how I love making books with my entire class - especially at the beginning of the school year! This clever and cute class book will have your whole class involved writing what else Pete could accept stepped into and reading information technology over and over. Wouldn't it be and then cute to tape your class singing this and put information technology into your listening center? Complete with a forepart cover prepare to print. (Inspired by original from madefor1stgrade)

Pin the Shoe - Need a quick activity or something fun to round out the day? Turn this simple "pin the shoe on Peter" activity into a sight word game. Write six sight words on the shoe templates and print off enough copies for each child in your class to get one shoe. "Teams" are formed by students with the same sight give-and-take and they can cheer each other on - the first squad to get their sight word in the right place wins.

Pete the Cat Craft - With some simple shapes and some lawn tennis shoes, your students can create their own blue cat. The template for cut and pasting is included in this freebie.

Pete the Cat Design - If your form is into Pete's buttons, then this blueprint may be a good fit for your students. It would expect great accompanying a hallway display of writing.

How to Draw Pete the True cat - Here are the steps to drawing this famous true cat.

Cut and Paste Pete - This is an ideal preschool cut and paste activity. This cat is a cracking 3D version which ends upwardly just beingness ultra cute. Could also be a dandy placard for a student'southward desk on a dorsum to school nighttime.

Teacher printables

Hither are classroom printables to post in the classroom or circular out your instructor stash of all-things-Pete.

Calendar Cards - Desire to change up your agenda i month to add a piffling Pete flavor? These are ABC patterned cards fabricated only for your preschool or kindergarten calendar.

Pete the True cat Full Day Sub Plans - What a life saver! Impress and stash this away for the day when you tin can.not meet directly to write lesson plans or make it to your classroom to prep ahead of time. With a footling of math, reading, writing and science - your day is covered.

Sentence Editing Chart - Encourage good sentence writing and checking their work with this partially visual editing sentences chart. Pete's got writing nether control... at present let's make writing groovy for your course.

Month Labels, Folder Labels - This is loaded with 3 free printables that bring Pete into the classroom all twelvemonth long. Go months of the year for your calendar, daily folder labels (you know I like being organized), and color words also.

"Official" Shoe Tying Club - Want to encourage your students to be contained show tiers? Create an official shoe-tying lodge with Pete as the mascot cheering them on and leaving an official certificate when they reach their goal. This tin can likewise go your go-to reference of pointing those who need help or do in the correct direction so you tin can go on on teaching instead of spending your solar day tying.

Shoe Tying Certificates - Grab your official shoe tying certificates and highlight the students who are expert shoe tiers! Make a few moments in your room go smoother by setting upward shoe-tying helpers.

Badges and Worksheets - This collection of badges and free printable worksheets volition come up in handy. You can create necklaces from the badges or even puppets!

Packed Out Pack - I called this the packed out pack, because it is. There are over 70 pages of printables for early learning skills. Most items volition lend themselves to a preschool classroom, only kindergarten might but love the write the room pages.

Grade Level Squad Wearing apparel Up - Have a special reading night or school issue? Peradventure a Halloween party at school? Your whole grade level (or just you) can dress Pete inspired with the most fantasticly wild shoes... information technology only completes the look.

Activities by volume

Some Pete books are more widely used in the classroom than others. Hither are resources created for specific Pete books.

Pete saves Christmas activities

Here are activities and printables to go along with Pete the True cat Saves Christmas.

Pete Saves Christmas Worksheets - If your class likes to read the Christmas version, so these worksheets may be right up their aisle. These are subsequently beginning grade or second course fabric - perhaps a great item to leave for a substitute teacher.

Pete Saves Christmas Graphic Organizer - Fill in the boxes to break down the characters, setting, trouble and solution.

Pete Saves Christmas Emergent Reader - Retell the story with an easy reader version of Pete the True cat Saves Christmas.

Pete Saves Christmas Coloring Page - Color in Pete as he pops out of a chimney belongings presents.

Paper Plate Santa Petes - Paint or color a paper plate to make your own Christmas version of Santa Pete. Add ears, eyes, a nose and a Santa hat!

Counting Cookies with Santa Pete Mini Volume - Fill in this mini printable book and count Christmas items in ten frame configurations.

Gingerbread Pete Alternate Version - I'm a sucker for different versions of the Gingerbread Man, so this one just made me smiling. I can see my kinders getting a kick out of it and wanting to create their own version too.

Pete the Cat Saves Christmas Craft Template - A Pete the True cat cut out template to show off Pete in a Santa costume.

Give information technology My All Writing Page - Take the bulletin "give it my all" from Pete Saves Christmas and accept students draw and write virtually their own example.

Pete Saves Christmas Craftivity - Don't you lot just beloved the whiskers on these Christmas cats? What a peachy way to keep learning through December... bring dorsum in a trivial Pete to save the solar day.

Rocking in My School Shoes activities

Hither are activities and printables to continue with Rocking in My Schoolhouse Shoes.

Listening Eye Response Sail - Your students can answer to the story Rocking in My School Shoes past illustrating the master grapheme and setting. If you tin QR codes - your students can listen to it!

Shoes Template - For second graders or those looking to extend My Schoolhouse Shoes, this simple prepare of lawn tennis shoes works as a skilful newspaper topper for a hallway display.

Rockin' Feet Template - Get students working on cartoon a person with all of their parts (no stick people allowed hither) to help create a class volume that it is truly rockin'. Includes pages for both boys and girls.

Love My School Shoes Course Book - This class book does my eye good. Information technology's a fantastic book for the beginning of kindergarten since kinders are working on writing their names so much. I can even meet using this one to teach kinders how to apply the classroom camera - allowing them to have a photograph of the adjacent educatee. Information technology will add pregnant to at least 1 other person'due south page in the volume - in addition to their own!

Tennis Shoe Printable - Need an like shooting fish in a barrel lawn tennis shoecut out template to make your own activity? Here is a printable tennis shoe that is Pete the True cat inspired.

Other Pete-books

Here are activities and printables to go along with other Pete the Cat books.

Cavecat Pete Dinosaur Pages - These printable dinosaur worksheet pages are awesome to go with this lesser-known Cavecat Pete book.

Pete the Cat and His Magic Sunglasses Retell Activity - Grab a pair of Dollar Tree sunglasses and make your own character masks or grapheme signs to retell Pete's Magic Sunglasses as a grade. No templates needed!

Positional Words Activities, Reader and Worksheet for The Wheels on The Bus - This is a cracking landing place if your form is working on positional words (similar in a higher place, between, below, behind). This teacher has you covered with an anchor chart idea in addition to an emergent reader, playmat set and worksheet.

Bedtime Blues Stickers - Call it a pajama mean solar day and read a full day of Pete the Cat books complete with comfortable slippers and a reading of Pete the Cat and Bedtime Blues. Ship home these fun stickers afterward a solar day full of reading!

Pete'southward Magic Sunglasses Coloring Page - Color Pete riding on a skateboard wearing his magic sunglasses.

Pete the True cat Pilgrim Craft - Brand a cut and paste pilgrim Pete at Thanksgiving fourth dimension when you lot read Pete the Cat: The First Thanksgiving.

Pete the True cat Valentine'due south Day Craft - Add a cute pink border to Pete holding a Valentine heart to make a cute Valentine'due south Twenty-four hours is Cool craft.

What are the best Pete books for the classroom?

Not certain if you have all of the best Pete the Cat read-aloud versions for the kindergarten?

Hither is a list of the current titles bachelor that I think are a practiced classroom fit. (And merely a heads up that these are chapter links)

• Pete the Cat: I Love My White Shoes
• Pete the Cat: Rocking in My School Shoes
• Pete the Cat and His Four Groovy Buttons
• Pete the Cat: The First Thanksgiving
• Pete the Cat Saves Christmas
• Pete the Cat and the New Guy
• Pete the Cat and His Magic Sunglasses
• Pete the Cat: Too Cool for School (My Beginning I Can Read)
• Pete the Cat: Pete'southward Large Lunch (My Commencement I Tin can Read)
• Pete the Cat: Valentine's Solar day Is Absurd
• Pete the Cat: A Pet for Pete (My First I Tin Read)
• Pete the Cat: Big Easter Adventure
• Pete the Cat: Pete at the Beach (My First I Can Read)
• Pete the Cat: Play Ball! (My Kickoff I Can Read)
• Pete the Cat: Construction Destruction
• Pete the True cat and the Bad Banana (My First I Can Read)
• Pete the Cat: Stone On, Mom and Dad!
• Pete the True cat: Cavecat Pete

This is also the same order I'd introduce these books to my kinders - if I wanted to read this many - but I'd probably simply pick 4-5 if I'm being honest. I'd proceed the rest on hand to sprinkle throughout the rest of the school year.

Free audio downloads

Use these audio downloads to brand your own listening center CD's or to play for your class while you hold upwardly the book as a read-aloud.

• "Pete the True cat and His Four Cracking Buttons" Song
• "Rocking in My School Shoes" Vocal
• "I Love My White Shoes" Song
• "Pete the Cat Saves Christmas" Song
• "Pete the True cat Saves Christmas – with Kids!" Song

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