Kindergarten and first grade students can strengthen their patterning skills with this Earth Day patterning activity. Perfect for use in a math station and a great way to combine science, ecology and math. Both color and grayscale versions are included.
by Exceptional Kinders Pre-Kindergarten - 1st Grade
This is a 2 player game. Each player takes a game board (a pot of gold). 1, 2, or 3 dice are needed for this game. For younger students, roll one die and place the correct number of coins on their pot of gold. Older students can roll 2 or 3 die and add the numbers together to get the number of coins they should take. When all of the coins are gone, the students count the coins on their game board. The player with the most coins wins.
*1/12/14: This game has been updated to include instructions for counting, addition, and subtraction games. Also now included is special coins to count by 2s, 5s, and10s.*
Common Core Standards: K.CC.1 Count to 100 by ones and tens. K.CC.4 Understand the relationship between numbers and quantities; connect counting to cardinality. K.CC.5 Count to answer “how many?” questions about as many as 20 things arranged in a line, a rectangular array, or a circle, or as many as 10 things in a scattered configuration; given a number from 1-20, count out that many objects. K.CC.6 Identify whether the number of objects in one group is greater than, less than, or equal to the number of objects in another group, e.g./ by using matching and counting strategies. (Include groups with up to 10 objects.) 1.OA.3 Apply properties of operations as strategies to add and subtract. 1.OA.5 Relate counting to addition and subtraction 1.OA.6 Add and subtract within 20, demonstrating fluency for addition and subtraction within 10.
Thank you for viewing my St. Patrick’s Day Pot ‘O Gold Game Freebie! I hope you enjoy it! If you have any questions or comments, please let me know.
Carolyn – Exceptional Kinders
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Your Kindergarten students will enjoy practicing syllables and sight words with these winter activities! This freebie is a sample of our Kindergarten Syllables, Sight Words and Snow! resource.
The activities include:
* 1 identifying 3 syllable words * 1 cut and paste 2 syllable words * 1 sight word sentence scramble * 1 sight word strip puzzle
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Valentine Day, President's Day, Black History Month, Kindness Week and so many teacher tried and true ideas are here for you this February. So pull up a chair sip some hot chocolate and savor some Valentine goodies will reading our englightening blog posts.
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Sometimes I find exactly what I need in the most unlikely place. My literature anthology recently proved to be the perfect vehicle for teaching historical context, and the lesson went better than I could have imagined! ************************************************** Be sure to read the posts from the rest of the teachers in this month's post link up.
Deann Marin of Socrates Lantern Did you know that there is a Random Acts of Kindness Week? It runs from February 12 through the 18th. Actually, this is the first I’ve heard of it, but what an groovy way for all of us to unite by being kind to each other. It begins with one simple act - one hello to a stranger, a simple smile, a pat on the back, a cup of coffee for someone you don’t know. This is a chance for participating individuals to make our world a better one and inspire others to follow suit.
Random Acts of Kindness (RAC) is an international non profit foundation that believes a little kindness is the key to helping people make the world a better place to live. Their goal is to remind people that kindness is a choice. In light of this, they have free tools to help make kindness a part of our everyday lives.
Learning about kindness in the classroom is one of the most essential things for children to understand. Scientific studies have shown that it improves our self-worth and helps us feel that we belong to a group. It improves our health by lowering blood pressure, while decreasing depression and anxiety. This not only helps the receiver, but it REALLY helps the giver. It’s such a wonderful feeling when you know you’ve done something to make another person feel happier.
When a child is happier and more content, grades will improve, attention span will increase, students will be better able to remain calm during stressful situations, there will be less bullying, drug use, violence and school drop outs.
Wouldn’t it be awesome if your classroom and school participated in kindness week. Here’s a video with a link for you to sign up.
Here are a few ideas that you can use to get your charges thinking about kindness.
1. Introduce the concept that kindness begins with ONE person.
If every ONE person does ONE kind thingfor someone else, it
would make the world a better place.
2. Set up a kindness bulletin board and whenever a child does something kind for someone, add their name and what they did. You can cut out large hearts to use for your valentine bulletin board.
3. Have students participate in a game where they say kind things to each other. You can then discuss howthey felt about receiving a compliment, and how it felt to give one. Later they can write a paper about this.
4. Write this phrase on the board..."Walk a mile in my shoes." Ask what it means and discuss it. Introduce the subjectof bullying and pose this question...Have you ever been bullied, or do you know anyone who was bullied.When someone answers, Have a different child view the situation and share what they might have done todefend the person being bullied. Also ask how the bullymay have felt. They can then write about this experience.
5. Role play different situations that show random acts ofkindness. The children can work in groups to write short skits about this.
You may be interested in this resource entitled Caught in the Act of Being Kind.
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Hi everyone, I realize this has nothing to do with teaching. A friend of mine created the Tikr and I am sure there are many dog lovers who would love to buy this toy which stimulates your dog's mind and body as it releases treats...
Tikr is a rewarding activity toy for dogs. An active dog is a happy dog, and Tikr brings a challenging new way to play that stimulates both body and mind, supporting health and natural curiosity.
The first of its kind, Tikr creates an engaging experience with a release of treats that's cleverly driven by a built-in analog timer with no electronics or batteries. Dogs can sense treats held inside Tikr, but can only access them at discrete points throughout playtime, the length of which can be set with the twist of Tikr's timer dial.
As the timer unwinds, it rotates an inner chamber containing treats. This chamber has a single hole that aligns one-by-one with progressively larger holes in the outer shell. When two holes are aligned, treats of a given size are able to fall out as your dog actively plays.
The timer can be set to upwards of 45 minutes, and the specially sized holes ensure the largest treats are saved until the very end. This unique reward system captivates dogs like no other, creating an enthralling enigma that they're determined to solve, time and time again. Share the fun together by experimenting with different sizes, amounts, and flavors of treats, in addition to a full range of timer settings.
Has the office ever called your classroom for a student's absent work? This freebie is for you! Use this when a student is absent and you need to compile a list of "make-up" work fast. The "Gone Fishin' Folder makes organizing absent work easy. The checklist helps keep the communication open between parents and teacher. I have included 4 cover versions (choices). I like to use the clear 2-pocket folders to insert the cover page.
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