Sentence Matching

Building off of CVC matches, we are having our children reading simple sentences and showing their comprehension by matching the picture cards.  These are great for language workstations.  Let us know if you like them and we'll work on more! (Graphics by DJ Inkers Animal Antics)

Animal Sentence Match

Domino Addition Book

I made this to go along with our Every Day Calendar Counts program.  The students follow the teacher to color in their book.  For example, I have the students get two crayons.  I tell them to choose 1 color and color zero circles. We write 0 on the first blanks.  They put down that crayon and pick up the other color and color the center circle.  Then we write the rest of the number sentence.  Last we tell number stories that match the story.  We had 0 cats.  Then we went to the store and got one cat.  How many cats do we have now?  We continue up to 8 and 1.

Domino Addition Book

Snowball Containers

Working off the mystery containers idea from a few months ago, we decided to make a snowball container activity for our math stations.  The class has been working on estimations, and we thought we could continue in January with snowballs.   We'll fill our containers with varying amounts of white pom-poms (snowballs).  The children will work on filling in estimates on their worksheet, then opening the containers and actually counting the snowballs.  ( We'll also encourage the math language of my estimate was more, less, or equal to the actual amount. )

Snowball Container Worksheet

Happy Holidays!

Hoping everyone had a terrific holiday!  Things have been so crazy in December.  Hoping to be back with more ideas and freebies, soon!

Thanksgiving at Plymouth Plantation

Just wanted to share a couple great videos from Scholastic about life on Plymouth Plantation, in case you haven't seen them offered.
Wampanoag site video
Scholastic Plymouth Plantation video

A Peek into Daily Calendar Counting

Here's a peek into my daily calendar time.  My children use offices which are pages we combine to follow along with the calendar routine. This allows them to be more active followers during that time. We work on adding: the date, yesterday, today, and tomorrow, the digital date, a weather graph, domino numbers, and a daily ten frame.  For the ten frame, the children use bingo chips to show the date on their ten frame, while the daily helper shows the class with my magnetic version.

                                     Magnetic Ten frame
          (Cookie sheet with dot magnets from Walmart with colored dot stickers on top)

After the children show the number of the day (date), I then have them show me and say aloud what one more looks like and one less.
       We then show how many days we've been in school on the adding machine tape with 10 different colored post it notes.  Each day is a different color which adds up to make a great walled number line.  I also add little icons made with the Cricut to the number line that goes around the room every 5th day (high five hand), every 10th day (pair of feet) , and every 25th day ( a star).  This coincides with our daily bank.  Every single day we add a penny to the bank and sing the penny song.  Every fifth day we add a nickel and sing the nickel song, a dime on 10th day and dime song, and a quarter every 25th day and the quarter song.  That way by the end of the year,  the students know their coins and values without a lot of extra effort.  We work on adding coins, sorting, etc. during math station time.

Number line with icons

Daily bank containers - The helper has to identify the daily coin needed and add it to the bank.

Double Ten Frames

I haven't decided exactly how I am going to use these yet, but I thought I would share anyway!

Double Ten Frames