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Ring In The New Year With ABC's and 1-2-3's

FREE common core lessons for kindergarten and 1st grade, snowman activities, skip counting by 2's, skip counting by 3's, skip counting by 5's, skip counting by 10's, skip counting activities, sliders, snowman slider, penguin slider, upper and lowercase letter activities, winter games, letter games, snowman activities, penguin activities, penguin lessons, snowman lessons, snowmen, penguins,number games, math games, Daily 5 activities, Sliders are a fun way for your students to review upper and lowercase letters, counting by 1's to 30, skip counting by 2's, 3's, 5's and 10's, plus counting backwards from 10-0 and 20-0.

Students trace the letters and numbers and make a snowman or penguin slider to insert their strips into.

I've included a colorful snowman and penguin as well as ones that are plain, so students can color their own.

FREE common core lessons for kindergarten and 1st grade, snowman activities, skip counting by 2's, skip counting by 3's, skip counting by 5's, skip counting by 10's, skip counting activities, sliders, snowman slider, penguin slider, upper and lowercase letter activities, winter games, letter games, snowman activities, penguin activities, penguin lessons, snowman lessons, snowmen, penguins,number games, math games, Daily 5 activities, You can jazz them up even more by mounting them on construction paper, as I did the snowman. 

Give students a glue bottle or for little ones, put a dollop of glue on a small paper plate and have them use a Q-tip to make X number of dots as they count, then sprinkle with silver glitter after you have finished working with the sliders and have reviewed whatever lessons you wanted to.

Students set their sliders some place safe 'til they are dry and can take them home.

How do you make a slider?

Simply run off the templates, (I use white construction paper so they are more durable) and rough cut them, so that students can practice their own cutting skills, which will exercise and strengthen hand muscles.

You may want to slit the lines in the slider's body before hand.  This is difficult for little ones to manage with safety scissors.  I use an X-acto knife.

Students trim, color and trace their slider and then insert whatever strips you want them to review.

FREE common core lessons for kindergarten and 1st grade, snowman activities, skip counting by 2's, skip counting by 3's, skip counting by 5's, skip counting by 10's, skip counting activities, sliders, snowman slider, penguin slider, upper and lowercase letter activities, winter games, letter games, snowman activities, penguin activities, penguin lessons, snowman lessons, snowmen, penguins,number games, math games, Daily 5 activities, Have students fold down their long ABC strip to manage it better and for ease of taking them home.

Encourage parents, via a newsletter to reinforce these lessons at home.

You can sing the Alphabet Song while pulling letters through the window.

You can play "I Spy" and have a student call out a letter or number.  Everyone pulls their strip through til they find it and then raise their slider, so that you see at a glance who has what so that you can whole group assess and help those who are struggling.

Laminate a set for yourself and use as a fun way to assess individuals as well.

Click on the link to view/down load the Snowman Alphabet and Number Slider or The Penguin Slider.

 FREE common core lessons for kindergarten and 1st grade, snowman activities, skip counting by 2's, skip counting by 3's, skip counting by 5's, skip counting by 10's, skip counting activities, sliders, snowman slider, penguin slider, upper and lowercase letter activities, winter games, letter games, snowman activities, penguin activities, penguin lessons, snowman lessons, snowmen, penguins,number games, math games, Daily 5 activities, Thank you for visiting today.  Feel free to PIN anything you think others may find helpful.

"Tomorrow [January 1st] is the first blank page of a 365-page book.  Write a good one!" -Brad Paisley