Ten Apples Up On Top

From Tot School:

Learning Links

From Child Care Land: 

I found some of these in my classroom the other day and almost threw them away.  When played with independently, my students make chains and then swing them around like lassos.  However, I'm now glad I didn't.  I'm going to use them to make these:

Learning Links number matching:  Cards with numbers on them (can make them themed) or number
  words or dots etc.  Punch a small hole near the bottom middle of the card.  Students place the
  appropriate amount of links to the card.

Learning Links patterning: Take pictures of pre-chained pattern links.  Ask students to recreate.

Learning Links color sorting: Create link chains of each color.

Matching upper- and lowercase letters.

Alphabet and Number order: Alphabet or number cards with holes on each side.  Students link them
  together using the links.

Christmas Tree Number Assessment

From Making Learning Fun

The Mitten

  This week, I started lesson planning using The Mitten by Jan Brett.  I love lesson planning around books.  The kids enjoy listening to the same story several times and then "reading" the story on their own later.  There are lots and lots of resources online, but I also made a packet for Teacher's Notebook that you can get here.  A few freebies are below:

Skills

Speech and Language

·        Increase vocabulary

·        Retell a familiar story

·        Story map

·        Rhyming words

·        Positional/location terms

·        Answer “who,” “what,” and “where,” and “why” questions

Math

·        Shape naming/matching

·        Big/little sorting

·        Size sequencing

·        Patterning

·        Numeral/sets matching

·        Order numerals/sets in order

·        Matching sets to numerals

Motor

·        Throw balls of yarn into a basket

·        Shaving cream play

·        Crystal painting

·        Mitten lacing

Cooking

·        Mitten Toast

·        Hot Chocolate Mix

Science

·        Touch and tell mittens

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Placemats

From: The Mailbox

Here's a simple way to reinforce skills during snacktime and lunch. Every month have each student make a placemat. Laminate the placemats and then use a permanent marker to program each placemat with letters, numbers, or personal information such as the child's address and phone number. Throughout mealtime, ask youngsters questions about the information on their placemats.

Make several placemats.  On each one, include a different skill: letter, numeral, color, or shape naming, patterning, student's name, sight words, objects of different sizes or lengths etc.  Before giving a student a placemat, instruct him/her to name the letter/numeral/color/shape, what comes next in the pattern, read the sight word, name the biggest/smallest or shortest/longest object etc.

Sandpaper and Yarn

From: I Can Teach My Child




Use this to make shapes, numbers, or letters.  You can also sort by length or color!

From: Homeschool Creations

The weather is getting cooler, a few leaves are changing color and giving the hint of crisp days to come. Fall is one of my favorite seasons because of so many different things: apple picking, the pumpkin patch, colorful leaves and cool weather. Definitely something we’re looking forward to around here!

 

The Fall Fun Learning Printables includes two separate downloads, one geared toward younger Preschoolers and another for Kindergarten. You’ll find word and letter tracer sheets, early writing strips, find the different object, and beginning sound cards along with a few other fun pieces ~ the Clip & Learn Wheel, fill in the missing number, shadow matching and more.
You can download the Fall Fun Learning Printables here.  Be sure to download both parts of the pack!

Brown Bear, Brown Bear

From 1+1+1=1


One mini book is for coloring…

The other is for reading and identifying shapes…I made a fold out alphabet (there’s also one with lowercase in the download)… A pocket with counting cards…Size sequencing bears…

And, my favorite…the Heads and Tails pocket…

You can find the Brown Bear files to download here!

Number Ideas

Number play-doh stampers.

Counting, Colors, Weighing

From: Mrs. Kelly's Kindergarten



 

Oink Game

From: Pre-K Pages


Setting: Small Group, Math Centers

Objectives: Number recognition

Materials: Blank cards- one per number and one extra, Sharpie marker, one pig clipart picture or sticker. (can add animals if desired)

Instructions: Write one number on each card with the Sharpie. Leave one card blank and glue a clipart picture of a pig or place a pig sticker on the card, write the words “Oink! Oink!” on that one card. Seat a small group of students around a table. Place the cards in a basket, tub, or container that can be easily held by the children. The students will take turns passing the container around the table and drawing one card with eyes closed. The student draws a card, identifies the number on the card, and passes the container to the next person, leaving his card on the table in front of him. When a student selects the card with the picture of the pig all the students at the table make pig noises. The student who drew the “Oink!” card then returns all his cards to the container.

Feed the Turkey

From: Pre-K Pages

Setting: Small Group, Math Centers

Objective: Number Sense

Materials: empty Pringles cans, tape, brown construction paper, Sharpie marker, X-acto knife, colored construction paper for feathers, scissors, glue stick, unpopped popcorn kernels.

Directions: Cover each Pringles can with brown paper and secure with tape. Cut turkey bodies from the brown paper and attach to the front of each Pringles can with tape. Cut feathers from the colored construction paper and attach to the back of each turkey with glue stick or tape. Cut through the turkey’s mouth and can using the X-acto knife. Write one number on each turkey with a Sharpie. Place the un-popped popcorn in a pie pan or bowl. Place the Pringles can turkeys and the pan of popcorn at a table and have students count the correct number of kernels into each turkey’s mouth.

Number Knowledge

From: Kindergarten Crayons

Number Books

From: Kindergarten Crayons

Here's the easy book.

Here's the intermediate one:

Here's the advanced one:

Math Pocketchart Activity

From The Virtual Vine:

  For my students who are working on number concepts to 10, I like to keep up a pocket-chart activity for them to use. Usually the activity coordinates with whatever theme /unit that we're working on . Cut (6) 3x5 index cards in half and program with the numbers 0 - 10. Using the Ellison machine die-cuts, cut out 55 dies.

  Line the numbers up in random order at the left edge of the pocket chart, vertically. Have the students count out the correct number of dies and place them in the row beside the number. An alternate activity would be to place the die-cuts in the rows and have the students count them and place the correct numbers in the pocket chart.