1-2-3 Come Do a Veterans Day Activity With Me
Keeping in mind that teachers have very little time to add extra activities to their already crammed day, I designed this Veteran's Day packet with lots of easy-peasy activities, for math and literacy.
They cover a variety of standards such as shapes, numbers, skip counting, 3D cylider shape, ABAB patterning, upper & lowercase letters, plus LOTS of writing options.
These can be done as independent centers or with a whole group, and are great for table top activities, early finishers, centers, homework, or a sub folder.
There are craftivities, games, graphic organizers, vocabulary-building activities, puzzles, worksheets, & writing prompts, plus interesting information about Veterans Day and poppies.
The creative writing prompts, are made more meaningful if you inform students that you'll be sending their completed projects to real veterans
I've included a link with a complete list of all the retirement homes for every state.
You can imagine the smiles a packet of "paper dog tag thank you notes" will bring to some lonely veterans.
The dog tag writing prompt is my personal favorite.
There are lots of choices that not only work for Veterans Day, but also Memorial Day and other patriotic holidays as well.
Such as the military puzzles, and the shape, number & alphabet games.
The colorful puzzles are perfect for a center, while children can choose one of 12 black & white options, to create their own.
The number cards go all the way up to 120, and I've included a 3-page tip list of all sorts of activities that you can do with them, including lots of games.
Likewise, the patriotic "danglers" can be used at other times too.
As with all of my "craftivities" I try to include writing prompt options.
Making windsocks throughout the year, really helps my kiddos understand that 3D shape, as well as add that word to their vocabulary.
I've included an alphabetical list of 86 patriotic words that students can choose from to write on the stars.
Older students can complete a "Thank you for...." writing prompt on the strips.
Click on the link to zip on over to my TpT shop to have a look see: Veterans Day Activities For Math & Literacy.
In honor of my dad, who drove a tank in the army, and in celebration of veterans, I'm knocking $3 off for a limited time, so this whopping 113-page packet is just $6.95.
Here's hoping your students will really enjoy making a little something special for our courageous veterans.
The featured FREEBIE today, is a set of telling analog & digital time, to the hour & half hour, turkey-themed cards.
I've included a tip-list of how to use the cards, an assessment worksheet, plus a cover and black & white page to make an Itty Bitty Telling Time booklet.
I hope you find this useful.
Well that's it for today. Time to get cracking, as the Polar Seal guys are coming to replace the window in my office tomorrow, so I'll be out of commission!
But woo hoo; no more freezing all day long because of a huge 50-year old window with a breeze! My sill actually gets covered in ice & bits of snow on the inside!
Wishing you a warm & cozy, snuggly kind of day.
"People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within." -Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
1-2-3 Come Do a Thanksgiving-Themed Writing Craftivity With Me
All I ever have to do to get my kiddos highly motivated and excited to write, is put a little bit of craftiness into the project.
With that in mind, I designed these "Thankful Wheels”, which do just the trick in getting them happily, right down to business.
Beforehand, gather children around your whiteboard. Brainstorm a list of the things that they are thankful for.
We discuss synonyms like grateful and appreciative as well.
Write these on the board, so that students can refer to the list for correct spelling, as well as choose which ones are appropriate to them.
As a pre-writing activity, children make their list of 6 things that they are thankful for, when they are content with the final draft, they write this on the Pilgrim-topped paper, trim and assemble their wheels, then illustrate and color them.
In keeping with Thanksgiving, there are 4, wheel-top designs to choose from: A Pilgrim boy or girl, or a Native American boy or girl.
Younger kiddos do the simpler 3-piece wheel, where they only have to think of 3 things that they are thankful for.
For more writing practice, have students label their pictures.
So that my kiddos get practice speaking, I always have them share one thing about any of the projects that we do.
This is also an interesting and fun way for them to continue to get to know their classmates.
As always, I've included my completed, full-color samples, so that you can quickly make an example to share, helping to explain what you want your students to do.
Click on the link to zip on over to my TpT shop to take a look at the “I’m Thankful For . . .” writing prompt wheels & toppers.
Today's featured FREEBIE is a set of Thanksgiving-themed 10 Frames. I hope you find them useful.
Well that’s it for today. Thanks for stopping by. I got up early to post this, so now it’s time to get ready for church.
I’m extremely thankful to God for all of my many blessings. Wishing you a peaceful day.
"Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings." - William Arthur Ward
1-2-3 Come Practice Place Value With Me
Today I'm featuring two quick, easy and interesting ways to practice math skills and standards.
The first is a super-fun way for your students to practice place value.
It's perfect for November, as I use a Pilgrim hat for the place value mat.
The game is also a quick & easy way to whole-group assess.
Make a few Pilgrim hats for an independent math center, or make a class set, so that you can practice together.
If you're short on time, send the hats home with a parent volunteer to assemble, then laminate & trim, so that you can use every year.
Here's how to play:
* Students take turns calling out a number.
* Children count out the appropriate amount of number tiles and place them in the corresponding place value columns on the Pilgrim hat, raising their hand when they are done.
* You can see at a glance who is having difficulty.
* Jot yourself a note, so that you can work with struggling kiddos later.
Click on the link to zip on over to my TpT shop to have a look: Place Value Pilgrim Hat packet.
The other math activity is "Turkey Battle". I designed it after the ever-popular game of Battleship.
It's played in a similar way, and practices strategy, skip counting by 2s, 5s and 10s, as well as addition, ordered pairs, data collection & analysis.
However, the game can be simplified for PK kiddos as well, so they can practice all those life skills involved in playing a game.
The packet includes everything you need to play the game, with large, as well as small "battle boards" & pieces.
Make several games for a partnered math center, or a class set, so that everyone can play.
There are several ways to win the game. Children decide which rules they want to follow, then the teacher sets a timer for 5-10 minutes.
Click on the link to zip on over to my TpT shop to take a look: Turkey Battle.
Today's FREEBIE is a sweet, turkey craftivity made from a family's hand prints. I
t's sure to become a cherished keepsake. Click on the link to grab your copy: Turkey Prints
Well that's it for today. I hope you and your little turkeys enjoy these activities.
It's chilly this morning, so time to toss another log on the fire.
Hopefully the colder weather has set the sandhill cranes in motion.
We're going to the bird sanctuary to see literally 1,000s make a stop over, as they migrate south. Wishing you a memory-making day.
"Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark." - Rabindranath Tagore
- math games for PK
- math games for K
- math games for 1st
- math games for 2nd
- math games for 3rd
- math activities,
- math centers
- Thanksgiving games
- Thanksgiving activities
- Thanksgiving math activities
- pilgrim activities
- place value activities,
- ordered pairs
- skip counting activities
- skip counting by 2s
- skip counting by 5s
- skip counting by 10s
- tally mark activities,
1-2-3 Come Do Some Fall-Themed Math Activities With Me
Oh my goodness this packet took a lot of time to put together! I hope you find it super-helpful and time saving, as it's chock full of quick, easy and fun math activities, that cover a variety of Common Core standards.
They are very versatile, so you can differentiate, making the lesson easier or more difficult, to fit your needs and grade level. (PK-1st).
Use them throughout the month for early finishers, extra help for strugglers, brain breaks, centers, review, table top lessons, assessments, homework, ESL help, or "just for fun” plug-ins when you have a few spare minutes. Tuck a few in your sub folder too.
Pick and choose what's appropriate and put together a Happy Thanksgiving packet to send home over break.
There are worksheets, several craftivities, puzzles, as well as dice, spinner & paper-pencil games, for the following:
* Counting
* Sequencing
* Ordinal numbers
* Telling digital & analog time to the hour & half hour
* Counting to 100 and 120
* 100 chart activities and games
* Skip counting by 2's, 3's, 5's, and 10's
* Sorting odd and even numbers
* "What's Missing?" worksheets
* "I Spy a Number" worksheet-games, for numbers 0-10 and 10-20, with a blank worksheet to program with higher numbers.
Perfect for whole-group assessing.
* Fact families
* Number words
* Strategy
* Coin counting
* 2D Shapes
* 10 frame activities
* Place Value
* Groups/sets
* Fill in the missing ad ends
* Addition worksheets and games
* Subtraction worksheets and games
* Tally marks
* Greater than, less than, and equal to
* +1 more worksheets
* +10 more worksheets
* "Dots and Boxes" game
* Graphing
* Listening & Following Directions
Wow! That's just about a little bit of most everything!
Click on the link to zip on over to my TpT shop to have a look see at this whopping 177-page, November Math Packet for PK-1st.
The featured FREEBIE today, also has a Thanksgiving theme.
It's an educational placemat that you can use for your Thanksgiving feast, or if you don't do one at school, use it on that last crazy day before break.
Well that's it for today. Thanks for stopping by.
I'm anxious to get some smaller Thanksgiving packets completed, before I run out of November! Wishing you a relaxing day.
"If months were marked by colors, November in New England, would be colored gray." - Madeleine M. Kunin
- math activities,
- PK math activities
- K math activities
- 1st grade math activities
- graphing activities
- Math Games
- math centers
- skip counting activities
- skip counting by 2s, 3s, 5s, 10s
- addition activities
- subtraction activities
- shape activities
- fact family crafts
- fact family activities
- ordinal number activities
- telling time to the hour and half hour
- counting to 100
- counting to 120 activities
- math assessments
- tally mark activities,
1-2-3 Come Do Some Vowel Activities With Me
The letter Yy is quite a unique letter, in that it can be both a consonant and vowel.
To complicate matters, the Y has several different phonemes (sounds). It can have a long e sound, as in worry, as well as a long i sound, as in fly.
With that in mind, I designed this Ys Guys & Spies packet, as recognizing special spellings for vowel sounds is part of successful decoding & word recognition.
Just like my best-selling ”Vowels & Villains” packet, instead of students being frustrated and tripped up with “exceptions to the rules”, they are prepared and get excited when they find a “spy” that they can “jail”.
The packet includes:
* A letter Y craftivity, where students create 3 different “Ys Guys“ writing the various Y words on their letters.
I've named them "Regular Y Guy" for words beginning with the letter Yy and having the "ya" sound, "Sky the Sly Spy Y Guy" for words ending with the letter Yy & having the long i sound, and then there's "Shifty the Shady Lady", for words ending with a Yy and having the long e sound.
* There are 3, Y Guys posters to introduce the lesson, with a matching word poster filled with lots of examples.
* A variety of worksheets that build vocabulary, including “Jail the Spies” fun.
* A “Letter Yy Word Booklet”.
* A short, 2-page “Ys Guys” emergent reader, with 36 Dolch sight words.
* A graphing extension of the last page in the emergent reader.
* 2 “Disguise” definition posters.
* 2 “Wanted” posters.
* 4 sorting mats, to sort the 160, mini word cards. Quick, easy & fun way to build vocabulary. Includes matching worksheets for more practice.
* A “Ys Guys” spinner game.
* Practice literacy & math at the same time, with 4, number-strip puzzles.
Students color, write on words associated with that "Y Spy Guy", cut & then glue the strips together to make a mosaic picture puzzle.
The number puzzles reinforce skip counting by 2s & 10s.
Click on the link to zip on over to my TpT shop to check out the latest Villians in this 58-page Ys Guys & Spies packet.
Since "bunny" is one of the Y Spy long e words, I thought my "I'm All Ears" bunny matching game, would be an appropriate featured FREEBIE for today.
Use the large & small pattern to make this quick, easy & fun center activity. My Popsicle sticks include matching games for upper & lowercase letters, numbers, shapes, colors, equations, and contractions!
Well that's it for today. We are having absolutely gorgeous fall weather for November!
The sunshine is calling me through my open window, so it's time to take a break and go play. Wishing you a stress-free day.
"Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine." -Anthony J. D'Angelo
