March Learning

This month I am focusing on weather, Spring, St. Patrick's Day, potatoes and towards the end of March I will do some rabbit/egg things. I have more St. Patrick's and potato stuff to post the end of this week!

Tracing weather words.

Spelling cvc words

This goes with the picture cards below.

Popcorn word scramble

Nonsense / Real words

Challenging for some!

My student teacher led this center. 

I got this pattern from www.makinglearningfun.com but I came up with the sentence mix/fix.

color word scramble

Kids roll 2 dot dice and write the two digit number. 

One of our centers this week was quiet reading with a friend. I also put out a basket of stuffed animals. The kids loved having something to cuddle with while they read.

4 letter spelling.

This response sheet came from www.growingkinders.com
I think I got it last year!

Leprechaun write the room.

Word scramble with popcorn words written on potatoes!!

Roll 2 dice. Put one dice in each potato, add them together, write the answer. Once I modeled this about 3 times the kids were fine to do it independently!

Lion/Lamb/Dr.Seuss

We brainstormed lion/lamb weather. Each day of the month we are graphing if it is a lion or lamb day.

Roll 2 dice, write the double digit number on the lamb.

From makinglearningfun.com and I added the writing part where we brainstormed rhyming words.

Got this clip art from Mrs. Lee. Each bear dentist had a specific number of teeth and the kids had to x out boxes for each bear sheet.

Roll 3 dice and put them in order, smallest, middle, largest numeral

Rhyming pairs

After reading the ABC book by Dr. Seuss we did our own page for a class book. We used picture dictionaries to help with words.

I used all green Easter eggs and put a cut up high frequency word in each. The kids had to 'crack' the egg, fix the word then write.

Illustrating/labeling March words.

The kids found their favorite Dr. Seuss character and made a model out of play doh then drew a picture of what they  sculpted. Several of the kids wrote, too.

One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish math with colored goldfish crackers.

The kids had a choice with this center. They could find crazy Dr. Seuss characters and illustrate OR find nonsense words and write them.

My version of Green Eggs and Ham. NOT HEALTHY. Two pink wafer cookies for ham, a vanilla wafer covered in white frosting and a green skittle for the yolk.

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!