The Footsteps Package

The Footsteps Package

Hand Puppet and Backpack

  • Max
  • Backpack to hold objects and pictures to match initial sounds

Teaching Visuals

  • Calendar month cards; birthday train; sequencing cards; clock; handwriting guide; math manipulatives and counting line; theme related charts, such as dinosaurs, clowns, seasons, community helpers, money
  • Die-cut number and dot-pattern cards; counters; family and character stick puppets; fractions; and more!

Phonics Charts

  • New handwriting wall charts
  • Updated Teaching Tree with flaps for teaching numbers, colors, weather, and classroom helpers
  • Song charts—colorful pictures on front and songs on the back

Teacher’s Edition and Toolkit

  • Three-part Teacher’s Edition with 165 lessons
  • Weekly previews and material and preparation lists
  • Making Sounds Make Sense (written by a speech pathologist) phonemic awareness and producing sounds
  • Music with Honey emphasizing music, rhyme, rhythm, play, and movement (two lessons per week)
  • Eager Beavers reading track for advanced students
  • Toolkit with visuals, phonics charts, Teacher’s Edition reproducibles and visuals, four quarterly assessments, classroom schedules, bulletin boards, center signs, nametag patterns, newsletter stationery, coloring and cutting pages

Activity Packet

  • Activity and motivational stickers
  • Lacing, sequencing cards, headbands all printed on heavy paper
  • Eleven simple reading books to reinforce word families

Writing Packet

  • Tracing and tracking lines and letters
  • Letter writing

Phonics Practice Cards

  • Alphabet cards
  • Number cards with counting pictures
  • Color and shape cards
  • Max bookmark