It is
Spring Break- the next day of Kindergarten will be in April & that means
the dreaded calendar change. I changed my concept board before I left Friday
but I wanted some fresh calendar numbers. And once I started, I created multiple options to choose from for my April and May
calendars. Click on the image above or here to get them from TPT. Very cute Spring and Earth Day clipart from Creative Clips. What’s the plus mean,
you ask. Games, of course!
Some
possible activities: 1. Match the numerals. Play memory or go fish. Practice
writing the numerals on whiteboards.
2.
Draw a card and count on from that number. Practice printing the numerals that
come after.
3.
Put a set of numerals in order. You can differentiate by giving a set of numerals that start at any
number or ones that do not increase by 1 (ie all
the flowers but not the birds). You can have the students sort in a pocket
chart or use velcro on a
long strip of tagboard or
sentence strip. I have some of these made for visual schedules for students
with special needs and they work great for sequencing numbers and stories.
4.Put
the numeral cards in a bag or clean juice bottle. Shake. Pull a card and make
that number using base ten blocks. My son had the delightful idea to
use two paper plates to shake. He came up with it as a way not to lose the die
in board games but it works here as well. You turn one paper plate upside down
on the other and put the item to shake in the middle. Seasonal containers work
as well. Spring baskets with butterflies on them from Walmart’s Easter section, perhaps?
5.
Put a selection of cards in a pocket chart and play guess my number.
Differentiate by giving clues using Math vocabulary (greater than, between, 2
more than) or having students lead. Turn cards over to help students who have
difficulty keeping track and to show that greater than means all the numbers
greater than. Hide a picture behind the mystery number to find the secret
flower or sleeping bee.
See I told you...once I get started. : ) What other ideas can you think of for using numeral cards?
Jenn
A very simple post about changing how you print in PowerPoint. Linking it up with Queen of the First Grade Jungle. (And yes, I know it is already Wednesday but Spring Break is running me a little behind :) ). Enjoy, Jenn
Spring Things Clip It!
Spring Things Math Write the Room
It is about a boy who plants sunflower seeds in a circle. As the sunflowers grow, they create a clubhouse for the boy and his friends. Until one day, when they start bend and the petals start falling off. The children in the story decide to harvest the seeds and grow a new "sunflower house" the next Spring. Then we used a Mailbox Magazine activity where the steps in the sunflower life cycle are on the petals and when put in order form a sunflower. When we wrote steps for how to grow a sunflower, the class was sure to add "take seeds from the dead flower to grow more sunfowers".
AEIOU, You can name them, too! I love word families - they rhyme, they chunk, and they help you read and spell more words. I have been creating a ton of activities with short e and u recently. There are so many ways for our kinders to play with them and so many skills they develop. We segment the sounds and compare how two words are alike. We substitute sounds to make new words. We learn new vocabulary. We practice listening and speaking skills. Slowly, I'm adding some to my TPT store for you. I created Short Vowel Races. For these games, the students spin a word family and move to the next space (picture or word) that is in that family. They either segment the word from the picture or decode the word. Then, they try to use it in a sentence. My rule is that if they don't know the word or picture, they can ask another player for help but then they must use it in a sentence. I like to play with my students before moving it to a center to introduce any new vocabulary to them and practice our speaking skills. You can have the students complete a follow-up activity like the ones I've included or write and illustrate 1 sentence they came up with during the game. The pictures and words included are mainly cvc words. How is this beneficial to those kinders who are already reading the cvc words? They can still play with the other students but they work on the complexity of their sentences.
