1:1 Counting Game

Rain Drop Counting Game

 

 

 

 

This can be played at a station of four students.  Each student gets their own umbrella and picks a number to put in the square, then the student places the correct amount of rain drops below their umbrella.  Have the students self check or check their peers and then move on to the next number.  This could be done with 2's, 5's, and 10's.  Just have the raindrops represent a 2, 5, or 10 for the older students.

Fine Motor and counting game

 

Sunflower Game

All pieces for this can be found at the link below

http://makinglearningfun.com/themepages/SunflowerKetchupMathGame.htm

 

 

 

 

To play the game each student gets a small cup of 15 sunflower seeds, a flower card, and a small tweezers.  The cup is to be placed in the middle of the flower, the student picks a card and depending on what is drawn, picks up the seeds with the tweezers one at a time and places them into the crow's mouth.  The first person to get rid of all their seeds wins.  The skills practiced for this game are taking turns, counting 1:1, and using fine motor skills to strengthen fingers for writing skills.  Great Fall game because the sunflowers are all out.

Food Pyramid Game for kids

The wonderful food pyramid.  Here is a great way to help your students learn the food pyramid.  The food is cut out from magazines and gles to construction paper with the coordinating color to the group they belong to, laminate the pieces and the board, place sticky tac to the back of the food cards, and have the students place the card in the correct spot.  They may not realize that they are color coded and can check their answers.  I also have taken and used the pyramid each day for the week and graphed were the lunch foods we ate go on the pyramid.  You can pre-make these, but that is a lot of prep.  I just wrote on the chart with a wipe-off marker.  The kids love to use this chart and the sticky cards.

How to Encourage Reading in Preschool

 

How to Ecourage Preschoolers to Read!

 

 

 

 

 

Here is a great example of how to lure a child into reading.  In the tent is soft pillows, stuffies to read to and cuddle, and tons of books.  Making this space cozy helps the children to feel safe and secure.  It promotes quiet voices, relaxing, and sharing.

 

 

Other Library area ideas are:

 

Making a fridge box into a bat cave or castle or cottage, use the theme you have to pull in what you could make the library into.  Such as if you are Reading the 3 little bears have the box become the cottage that the bears live in.

 

Put several large bean bags in the area with book shelves and baskets of books.

 

Use pillows and blankets, an old pea pod chair.

 

Leave clothes pins and light blankets in the library and have a few clothes lines running through where they could make a fort to read in.

 

The ideas are endless.  It is just important to make them comfortable and excited about reading.

Turkey Math by 5's

 

Turkey Math Activity

 

 

 

This is a great way to get kids to learn their numbers by fives.

 

This could be done at a station with four turkeys at the station.  This template used to be at making learning fun, but I could not find it.  There is a template for the turkey with shapes on the feathers that u could replace with numbers.

1:1 Counting and Number Recognition Activity

What child doesn't love the song "5 little monkeys jumping on the bed".  Well if your Kindergarten class loves the song and stories and they are working on counting to 20 and number recognition here is a great station activity to share with them!

The student counts how many monkeys are on the bed and then places the clothes pin over the correct number.  Not only does this help with 1:1 counting and number recognition, but it also works fine motor skills for writing.  This activity can also be used in preschool classrooms.  I have posted the link to get the printables to make this activity.  Yet again it is from my favorite web site Making Learning Fun! 

http://makinglearningfun.com/images/Activities/MonkMonkeysOnBedCount.pdf

Lap books

This is what a lap book
looks like.

    A  Lap book is two file folders glued together to make a large book that children can place in their laps.  The book can be any theme or concept the teacher chooses.  Then you just find some fun vibrant games to put into the book.  Envelops can be used for pockets to store the game pieces.  I would recommend laminating the pieces and the book to make it last longer.  For the lap book example I chose the author Eric Carle.  I love the vibrancy of his illustrations and the great way he uses words to teach numbers, animals, body parts, and much more.  Each story not only tells a story, but it is easy to teach a concept along with it.  I decided to choose a book of his and show how easily a teacher could expand on his stories.  I created a lap book that has many concepts all in one.  It folds up and has pockets and compartments. I aquired most of the games from the website Making Learning Fun - makinglearningfun.com   

 

Everything a young child would love.  It is a great way to expand on learning.  This can be done with many different themes or books.