My teaching partner read the book Inside This Book (are three books) by Barney Saltzberg. This great book is about three siblings that write their own books. It’s a great introduction to the different parts of a book: authors, title pages, story and illustration. It inspired the students in our classroom so much that they …
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Addition for Kindergarten: Hands-on Activities
Addition for Kindergarten: Looking for new addition centers for your kindergarten classroom? Find two new hands-on activities to reinforce adding skills. Working on addition in kindergarten requires a lot of hands-on learning. The students need concrete objects when working on this concept so that they truly understand what it means to add things together. Here …
3D Shapes “I Can” Card
As we have moved into learning about 3D shapes, the students have been experimenting with making their own shapes. I put together this invitation to play to get them thinking about the different shapes, and to see if they could build their own. I included: Popsicle sticks Pipe cleaners (cut in half) Tooth picks Modeling …
2 New & Fun Literacy Centers
Find 2 new activities for your literacy centers to keep students interested and engaged.
3D Shapes Search
Here is a quick and fun math center that requires hardly any prep (just some photocopying) and will keep your students busy! Send your students on a 3D shape hunt. Give them the recording sheet and a pencil and they do the rest of the work! The goal is for them to find everyday objects …
Make a Sight Word Sentence Literacy Center
A literacy center that focuses on building sentences with sight words!