Learning To Count By 5’s And Counting Up To 100-Day

Via a Fun And Interactive Bulletin Board for a Great First Day of School Activity!

I only had to skip count by 10’s to 100 with my Y5’s as a report card standard, but I know this is a standard for K’s and first grade. 

A fun way to do this everyday as well as to count up to 100 for that special day, is to make this quick and easy bulletin board.

Here’s How:

• Choose a background color that you will be happy with all year long, yellow and white look nice, but I’ve also used wallpaper that’s neutral in color and has a textured look and feel.


• This is not that expensive if you only buy one roll and you can usually find discounted rolls that have been discontinued at most paint and hardware stores.
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• This display works great next to your calendar center.
• You can put it up on the wall if you don’t have another bulletin board.

• Choose a plain-colored scalloped border.
• Black will help it pop and looks great all year.


• The caption for this board could be: High Five’s For ______________________’s kindergartners/first graders!
• Cut the letters out with a die-cut machine, or print them out on your computer.

• On the first day of school have a room helper trace and cut out your students’ hands, or send a note home and the paper in your Open House packets to have this already done for you by the parents.


• Make a sample of your own hand and explain to children that they can decorate their hand with fingernails, and rings.
• If you want to give the hands a bit more pizzazz and a 3-D affect you can give them rhinestones for their rings.

• Boys may enjoy wiggle eyes, but don’t be surprised if they want a rhinestone too.

• You could make the rhinestone their birthstone, or simply give them a choice of colors.
• Use glue dots so there’s no dry time involved.


• For the girls’ nails they can color them as if they have nail polish on.
• If you want to add more pizzazz you can go over them with real glitter nail polish or glitter glue.

• If you want to use the board to show a specific pattern, use the construction paper that they are tracing their hand on in two or 3 different colors.
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• Left handed children should have their left hand traced for more opportunities to compare and contrast, count, or graph this board.
• Write the child’s name in small print along the bottom border of the hand.
• Print off a copy of the two posters and mount them on construction paper.

• These can be your school colors or something that you can live with for the entire year, or have the class vote on what colors they want.
• If you have 20 children in your class you have the perfect set of hands.
• If you have less, you will have to make extra hands,; if you have more, sprinkle them on the corners of the posters, heading and bulletin board.

• Put the rest of the hands, 5 in a row, across your bulletin board.
• Do NOT number them.


• On the FIRST day of school, when you are doing the calendar, choose a child to put the number 1 on the thumb of the first hand.
• When all 5 fingers of that hand have been counted (5 days of school) the child whose handprint that is, gets to choose a marker and write the big number 5 on that hand.
• Even tho’ the numbers are not written on the hand, you can still count by 5’s everyday that you are doing this calendar.


• You may want to post an already numbered poster to help them “see” and visualize this.
• I’ve made posters you can print off.
• You can also count by 1’s.

• If you want to make V-arrows connecting 2 of the hands when you get a group of 10 done, you can also use the board to count by 10’s!
• At the end of the year, everyone can take their hand print home.

• Click on the link to view/print the masters for this article. Skip Counting by 5's Bulletin Board.
• For a FREE 85-page 100-Day packet click on the link!

• I have lots of other 100 Day ideas at this link.  Simply click and scroll down to download as many as you want. 100 Day Stuff
  
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