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Target Tuesday Container Center
Looking for cute activities with hardly any teacher prep? Here you go! Everything you need is at Bulleye’s Playground! You’ll want to pick up several of these plastic storage containers for this project. They’re available in a variety of colors and, of course, priced at only $1. I didn’t really need these for storage purposes so I started thinking how I could use them in the classroom. For a quick counting activity, you simply write numerals on small post it notes and place them in each section of the container. Have your students use the Target erasers to count out how many. I lucked up…
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Valentine Math Centers
Super excited it’s Valentine’s week so I’m sharing a few Valentine Math Centers with sweet Tara at her Monday Made It ! Be sure to check out what everyone’s been making! In addition to our regular math centers…Unifix cubes, dice, linking chains, magnet numbers, ten frames, and more…I provided my class with several fun and easy to make Valentine centers! My Young 5’s are learning to read number words so I created a simple Valentine game to give them more practice. I took a stack of cheap, white paper dessert plates and wrote the number words on them…tossed some Dollar Store heart shaped erasers into a holiday bowl…and let the reading and matching begin! So easy! Here’s…
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Monday Made It – Tigers, Zebras, Foxes – Oh My!
I missed last week’s Monday Made It since my family was enjoying one last HURRAH of summer! We had a wonderful week along the South Carolina coast at my in-laws beach house…delightful sunshine, yummy local shrimp, and plenty of competitive card games since we don’t have cable TV! I actually packed a big stack of laminating and got it all cut one night. Now I’m super excited to join 4th Grade Frolics today and share what I made when we got back! Before our trip, I stopped in Walmart for a few last minute beach items and, of course, I took a stroll around the school supply aisles. I was disappointed they didn’t have those whimsical file folders & seasonal borders like last…
