Rocket Addition Worksheet!

We're teaching addition this week and talking about rockets so I made a quick little worksheet that combines the two! Enjoy!

Valentine Math Worksheet

Here's a quick Valentine Math Worksheet, just click here.

This Year's First Freebies!!!

Well, despite the craziness of this week I have actually managed to create two units for next week. Yay, me!:) Or, "Yay Bri!" as my 2-year-old nephew would say! Both of them are FREEBIES on TpT. Both of them are pirate units as I just purchased some adorable pirate clipart from KPM. I knew I wanted to use them for the non-living unit I was working on and then I just started thinking about all of the other things I could do with them as well and before I knew it the other unit sort of just popped out! My kids already know we're going to be talking about and using pirate stuff next week and they are super excited! I've never done a pirate unit before but I have a feeling it's really going to be fun:)

For the Pirate Non-Living Unit please click here.

For the Pirate Pattern, Ordinal Number, and Measurement Unit please click here.

I hope that you enjoy both of these units!

-Bri

The Witch Stocking Patterns

This was so much fun to do today! Each of my kids made a pattern on a witch's stocking (they could make any kind of pattern they wanted) and then we put them all around a giant witch. I saw this idea on pinterest but they were having the kids make their own witches; we just didn't have the time for that, but I actually think this turned out better. In order for it to make sense, I had to come up with my own poem/saying to go on the inside but I think that it turned out alright. It goes like this:

There once was a crafty old witch who had so many bare legs she didn't know what to do! Then one day that crafty old witch had a witchity thought, and decided that maybe, just maybe she could make those legs up!

"Patterns! Yes, patterns! That's what I'll do!" She cried,

and then she added the patterns to her legs by her sides!

Look What We Made Yesterday- ZERO THE HERO!

I absolutely love these!! Probably the best activity of the year so far! The kids loved it too, I even had one child come back today and ask when we were going to put our capes back on. He was really disappointed to learn we weren't going to put them on. The kids colored their Zero The Hero character and then glued them onto their crepe paper capes. After everything was glued on I pined them onto their shirts to wear home. We also used Jack Hartmann's Zero The Hero Exercise song and again they LOVED it! If you haven't taught 0 yet you need to teach it this way!

Parts of An Apple

During our apple week I made this apple to help teach my students about different parts of an apple. I also put this in their centers and had them label their own apples.

10 Apples Up On Top

This was a great activity! We read Dr. Seuss' "10 Apples Up On Top!" and then make our own project with 10 apples up on top of our heads.

Sorting on Our Johnny Appleseed Hats

So last week we spent quite a bit of time learning about Johnny Appleseed and I knew my kids were dying to make their own Johnny Appleseed pan hats to wear home. However, instead of just making the hats, I turned it into a sorting activity. I gave each child a handful of colored shapes and they had to decide how to sort them. As you can see in this picture, this little boy sorted by color. This way they weren't just doing a fun activity but were also re-enforcing their sorting skills.

Sorting

We have been working on sorting for the last three weeks. I start our sorting unit out with shapes. It's the easiest thing for my students to sort. These pictures show how two of my students sorted their shapes: by color and by shape. Other things I do for sorting include buttons. Who has read "My Button Box"? It's a great book. You read it to the kids and then give them a handful of buttons to sort. This is much more difficult for them but so great!

Growing Patterns.

Growing Patterns! We are also focusing on growing patterns this month. Since we studied money last month I am using it for our growing patterns. Each day we make a new line for our pattern. The kids are really picking it up! I just put Velcro on the back of the plastic coins and paper money.