Winter Fun

Quick art/writing activity with "The Snowy Day"

Center Work. Kids roll a number die, draw the correct number of stripes.

Same with "Snowballs and Sleds"

I made letter dice, had the kids roll the dice and write the letter in the ice blocks.

Kids roll a dot dice, search for the number and cross off.

Cute sentence ordering activity that goes with the story "Seasons of  a Red Fox"

Day 100 headbands!

The kids LOVED this. I read the story "The Wolf's Chicken Stew" and planned some "chicky" activities. They had to write popcorn words to fill up the boxes.

Chicky Color word work

Valentine's Day Part 1 / Day 100

Whew it has been crazy here! I have more Valentine activities to post next week. I didn't take many pictures this week..last week I was out for an appointment and a meeting and when you only teach 3 out of 5 days it is really hard to get into the groove! Next week won't be much better, I'm out for another appointment, we have an Inservice Day on Friday so no school  and a couple of other things are going on in our district which might make this a really 'off' week. Sad news. One of my daughter's classmates died unexpectedly. My daughter attends school in the same district in which I teach except she is at the Middle School. She had a few classes with this young man and the whole school is just in shock. Because it was so sudden a "Grief Team" has been assembled. My school is the Primary Building and the student did not have any siblings at our school so I don't anticipate any issues in our school but you never know. My daughter wants to attend the funeral, not sure when that will be, so I may need to miss another day of work this week. THEN I got an email tonight that there was a threatening note found in the boy's bathroom of our High School and classes there might be cancelled on Monday or at the very least heavy police presence will be around. Oy!

Tracing cookie cutters. They loved this.

I did this center with numbers and letters. Using numbers 0-20 was super easy so I'm making a similar center with shamrocks and using much higher numbers.

I put our high frequency words in a box, had the kids randomly take a card from the box then write the word in the bubble until they got to the end.

Three dice roll and write.

Compound word work. They LOVED this.

I had dice with pictures taped to the sides...the same pictures you see on the top of the paper. I wrote the word under the picture then made copies of the paper. When they rolled the dice they wrote the word under the picture they rolled. I did a similar game with this at Christmas.

Stamp a picture and write the beginning/ending sound. One of my little ones came up to me tearfully and said, "Mrs. Huff I did it wrong, I wrote more than the beginning and ending sound." LOL!

Sounding out words.

I got the cookies from Julie Lee's Day 100 pack. I used several of her activities I purchased from her pack. It was good to have some new, fresh ideas for Day 100! The cookie monster is from makinglearningfun.com. The kids were supposed to glue the cookies in 10 groups of 10 but some of us were a little tired by the end of the day.

YAY! Day 100

Ok, I have to explain. We read a Day 100 story last week about building  with 100 blocks and another story had  a classroom building with 100 straws or something like that. One of my students has a brother who does speed cup stacking and he said they like to build pyramids at home with cups.So I found 100 cups at Kroger and one of our centers for Day 100 was build a structure with 100 cups...cooperatively. THEY.LOVED.THIS. Then one of my kids broke out into song "Red Solo Cups" which I totally didn't think about this when I bought the cups. My student teacher made fun of me saying how I'm teaching the children to party at a young age....LOL. We lost 2 cups as casualties (stepped on) but they BEGGED me to get this out as a center again this week.

After reading "The Wolf's Chicken Stew" I made 100 little chicks and wrote numbers 1-100 on them. The kids had to pull a chick out of the box and find the corresponding number on the 100's chart and color it. This was an EXCELLENT center for those higher level math kids. 

Day 100 and other stuff

This is a game I found online, it is not mine. It is called Unlucky 7. The kids roll 2 dice and  put an X on the number they rolled. If they roll a 7 they sing out "I'm unlucky!"

I had my student observer worth with the children on writing weather reports. The kids observed the weather for the day,   what they think the weather could be for tomorrow and their favorite weather. When they were finished they did a sorting game of nice weather/not nice weather. To make this game I used simple clip art pictures of various weathers and outdoor activities.

This math activity came from Deanna Jump's Snowman packet. We write out story problems, listen for the problem and draw how to solve the problem.

This came from www.makinglearningfun.com The kids painted 10 gumballs in all 10 gumball machines to equal 100.

I had the kids use tongs if they wish (for fine motor work) or they could use their fingers and put 10 of each item in 10 circles to equal 100.

Play Doh numbers with cookie cutters.

A different activity from the Read/Draw/Solve series of math journaling. I do this whole group this year.

During our Day 100 centers, when I had a group with me we practiced phonetic writing and completed each 100 themed sentence.

Displaying Day 100 collections.

Making Day 100 hats. I wanted to have something printed out or some kind of groovy counting by 10's thing to go with the hats but I ran out of time so we just decorated them and glued a "Happy Day 100" sign on them.

We also made a necklace.

This was another center. The kids rolled 1 dice and recorded the number in each box. The object was to roll and record 100 times!

This came from www.makinglearningfun.com gluing 100 Cheerios in a bowl.

Also from www.makinglearningfun.com painting 100 apples on the apple tree.

Stamping 100 times.

Our ice cream party. Each child got a cup of ice cream and could choose toppings: whipped cream, sprinkles, chocolate chips!