Frog Freebies!

My class is learning about life cycles!  We started with the life cycle of a plant and are watching our little sprouts grow!  Hopefully they will stay alive and the kiddos can take them home for their moms for Mother's Day next week!  We are now learning about frogs!  Here are two freebies for you that I am using in my class this week!

The first activity is a Fr and Fl Blends Sort Worksheet.  Students will sort the eight pictures by the beginning blend sound.

To get this freebie click here!

The next freebie is for math!  My students need some extra practice on addition so I created these simple addition cards for them to practice with! 

The set includes 20 equations!

Click here to get this freebie!

I actually have some foam lily pads for the students to lay out like a number line on the floor.  That way they can physically act out the addition equations to find the sum!  It's May and their energy level is HIGH!  I've got to get that energy out!

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If you are looking for more frog activities please check out my Fun With Frogs Pack by clicking on the picture below!



St. Patrick's Day Is Coming!

St. Patrick's Day was never that big of a deal to me until 2009!  March 17th, 2009 I gave birth to my 10  lb 6 oz baby boy!    Now each year I look forward to this special day!  I have made a fun unit to help my kinders learn and try to maintain their fading attention span as spring break approaches...and I have even included a freebie!  Here are some of the activities included in the unit:

Rainbow Rhyming: Working on rhyming words!  This activity also includes a recording sheet that has students sounding out the CVC words!

Follow the Rainbow Addition: Works on basic addition with sums 0 to 5.  Students match the pot of gold to the rainbow.  This activity also includes a cut and paste worksheet.

Solid Gold Syllables: Students sort 1, 2 and 3 syllable words

Click on the picture above to get the pack that includes 8 activities! 

Now for the freebie!

 

The freebie includes black and white coins to copy on yellow paper or colored coins ready to use!  It also has three recording sheets to help differentiate the activity!  This is one of the recording sheets!

 

To find more St. Patrick's Day Activities head over to Sharing Kindergarten for the St. Patrick's Day Linky Party!

Five For Friday

I am linking up with Doodle Bugs for Five For Friday!

Here are five random things from my week:

We ended up with a total of four snow days!!  (Two the end of last week and two the beginning of this week!  A surprise SIX day weekend!)  This is my three year old trying to walk in the snow!

I made this yummo cake on one of my days off!  The sad part is that having that extra time off I also had more time to eat it!

Today we celebrated Read Across America! My kinders made their own striped hats and had their pictures taken with this fun guy!  Of course he was the talk of the day!  You can also see my rocking chair that I talked about in a previous post.

My oldest son worked on addition with the new addition cards I made him.  He used little hockey pucks (Smarties) as his manipulative.  I guess we should have talked about subtraction as he ate them all gone!  You can get the addition cards here!

My school had a door decorating contest for Read Across America!  All of the doors in the building turned out so cute!  My class did the book I Can Read With My Eyes Shut.  Each student made themselves with their eyes shut and holding a book.  Here is a close up of a couple of them!

 I hope you had a wonderful week!  

Hockey Anyone?

My husband is a huge hockey fan...and the love of hockey has been passed down to my oldest son!  He spends most of his awake time practicing in his bedroom or the driveway.  I spend portions of my day sitting on his bed being the "cheerleader" for him.  His stuffed animals are the other team and of course his "team" (which consists of only him!) always wins!  I decided to create some fun activities that he can use and I can also use with my kinders!  The first is a pack that will help him practice his addition facts.  His Kindergarten teacher indicated that this is an area he could use some extra practice in.  Click the pic to get it!

I also want him to have a solid reading foundation.  So I made a fun sight word game to help him practice all of his words.  He goes to school in a different district than where I teach so his sight words are different than the ones I teach my kinders.  I made a set for both of the curriculums! 

Click here to get the set that goes with Scott Foresman Reading!

Click here to get the set that goes with Houghton Mifflin Reading!

I hope these activities can score a goal with your kiddos too!

Toy Store Math Activities!

I am so excited about these activities I just created!  The graphics are so fun!  Kids all love toys and visiting the toy store, so I am sure they will love learning with these activities!  I plan to use these activities next week (yep, another snow day tomorrow!) to help reinforce the penny that we talked about earlier this week.  My students are still working on subtraction so the "How Much Did It Cost?" activity will be a great help!
Take a look at the activities included:

Such cute graphics! 

 Activity1:Counting the room using ten frames!  Students also get practice writing the cent sign. 

Activity 2: A fun Roll and Cover game using two dice! (Practicing addition!) 

Activity 3: Matching cards by using subtraction!  One card shows how many pennies were spent, another card shows much the toy cost, and the last card had the subtraction sentence.  I can also see using these cards to have my kiddos practice their subtraction stories!

Activity 4: Two worksheets that practice matching number to quanity. 

 Click here to get your activities!



Piggy Bank Freebie!

This week I started a unit on coin recognition and Presidents.  These two just go hand in hand so well.  We discuss a president and learn about the coin that he is on and then spend some time talking about the value of the coin.  My students are still needing some practice with addition and subtraction so I wanted a way to tie in money and using the plus/minus signs.  I made this cute piggy bank to solve the problem!
                                         
Students rolled a cube that was labeled with either plus or minus amounts.  They then added or subtracted pennies from their piggy.  The first students to get 20 pennies on their bank was the winner!  The students had a great time and hearing them use the words "plus", "minus" and "cents" was so wonderful!  Here is a pic of one of the groups playing!

You can grab the freebie by clicking on the link below!

Tomorrow we have a snow day! Yippee!  I am hoping to spend some time working on many of the projects I have started for TeachersPayTeachers but just need to put the finishing touches on.  Of course, I will also spend some time cuddling with my boys and drinking hot cocoa! 



I Get Paid To Do This?

The past couple of days have been so enjoyable!  The kind of days that when I leave the building, I find myself asking "I get paid to do this?" Yep, being a Kindergarten teacher is fun!  We have finished up our dental health unit and I was so excited to see them learning!  Today students made words out of big and little toothbrushes and smile cutouts.  It was neat to see the way they formed the letters!  Here are a few pictures I was able to get:

 "Hot"

 I knew "mom" would be a popular word...so sweet! 

"Toy" and "Tom"

They did a great job!  If you would like to pick up my dental health unit that includes this activity click here.

Students also worked on sorting attribute blocks.  Yesterday they helped me think of the ways we could sort the blocks and then today they sorted them in small groups.  Here are a few pics!

 Sorting by Shape

 Sorting by Thickness

My attribute block sorting mats are available here.  

Next week is packed full of Valentine activities!  I can't even fit in all of the things I want to do.  Trying to decide which ones really target the skills I want my students to work on and having to set the others aside is so hard!  There just isn't enough hours in my half-day kindergarten!