Today I’m joining a new linky where we choose 3 of our favourite pins to share. The criteria is that they should be helpful and relevant to teachers (and others) planning for December with little ones. So here goes… Obviously, this is more than 1 pin, but it’s 1 theme and I couldn’t resist these […]
9 Easy and Crafty Math Activities
For this Brownbag Back-to-School Blog Hop I’m focusing on crafty math activities for Kinders. Check out the links below for more first day ideas from my blogging buddies! Are you going back to school soon? Are your walls and ceilings looking bare waiting for student work? Engaging your kids in a crafty math activity can […]
Make an Interactive Picture Book: Virtual Book Club for Kids
Eric Carle’s books are famous for inspiring art projects for children. His book, The Very Lonely Firefly, is set at night and lends itself beautifully to oil pastels on black. My students LOVED this book and related well to feelings of loneliness and the need to find friends. The Very Lonely Firefly is born at sunset […]
Play Dough and Tin Foil Number Mobiles
During the first week of school with Kinders I like to focus on the numbers 1 to 5. Most children are familiar with these, at least in the sense of being able to count to 5 (although perhaps not using English). So while I am formally and informally assessing their general mathematical understandings our lessons […]
Skip Counting to 10 Flower Craftivity
Children LOVE skip counting. When they are so used to counting one number at a time skip counting feels a bit like cheating and mastering it fills them with pride. Of course, it’s one thing to be able to parrot the numbers by rote and another to understand the concept behind it. This Flower Power craftivity […]