Counting Jar (freebie)

Head over to my blog to grab a free recording sheet for a counting jar activity!

 

Free Dice Fun!

 

Hello Friends,

I just wanted to stop by and share a fabulous freebie with you today. If you hop on over to Freebielicious you will find this download for free all dressed up and ready for Halloween fun for you are your friends! Just click on the Monster mash image above to grab your FOUR freebies!

 



Free Valentine Fun!

Hop on over and grab your Valentine!

New Snowman activities and freebie

My Snowman Math and Literacy Activities are ready and I have a Freebie for you.

Head over to my blog to find out about them.

Free Snow FUN!

Hello Science Friends, 

I wanted to share with you a freebie that I have made for my class to practice patterning. I have uploaded it to my TpT store for you to grab. I am having a sale at both of my stores through the end of the year! I have been working on seasonal sorts to give my class more practice with sorting and classification and I needed a few things on hand for our Science Notebooks. We all have loved notebooking through Science this year. I am looking forward to all things Science and sharing those experiences on this blog. I am running to my mailbox each day waiting on something so scientifically fantastic to share with you in the coming days but I guess for now the freebie will have to do!

Roll the Dice Winter!

Roll the Dice is dressed up and ready for winter. Grab your copy today for free before it gets dressed up for a new season. If you grab your copy please consider following my TpT store or leaving some feedback. This download is for three pages! 

Currently all items in my stores are on sale! 

Shape Hunt (freebie)

I posted a simple shapes sheet.  Click on my button to go grab it!

Number Formation!

How do you teach kids to write numbers?  


Here are the poems I use to correctly form the numbers!

1 - Straight line down, and then we are done. That's the way to make the one!
2 - Round the track and back, two, two, two!
3 - Around a tree, around a tree, that's the way to make a three!
4 - Down and over and down some more, that's the way we make a four!
5 - The bee goes down, around the hive, go back up to make a five!
6 - Make a C then in you go, now you've made a six you know!
7 - Across the sky, then slant the line, makes a seven every time!
8 - Make an S and do not wait, go back up to make an 8!
9 - First a circle, then a line, that's the way to make a 9!
0 - Round and round just like a O.  Look, now you've made a 0!

I also use an interactive independent practice sheet to reinforce this.  Here is a sample where the students glue the tree's into the three and then practice writing the number with the poem!  I have made these pages free for the next two days, so please stop by to get them (and leave comments if you love!)

Enjoy!  Jennifer at

College?! In kindergarten?!

Hey gang!  Today I was making some copies for my college station and wondered...do any of you guys talk about college with your kinders?  Several years ago, my school started taking every single child on a college tour.  They start out visiting the community college in kindergarten and work their way up to the University of Kentucky in fifth grade.  It is so amazing to watch them on a college campus and to hear them tell me, "I'm going to go here!!!"  I hope they do!

 

Last year we decided to take it a step further and do college stations in our classrooms.  Here, our kids learn about the admissions process, campus life, degree requirements, etc.  It's hard to fit it in all the time, but the kids love it when I make time for it!  Here's something I made for kindergarteners to learn about the college admissions process {it's way simplified, of course}.  It had to tie into math, so when we do this we also talk about patterns.

 

You can download it here and read more about college station.  Do any of you guys have resources for talking about college with little ones?  I'm always looking for ideas!
  

Hey Gang!

Hey guys!  So excited to be part of the Kindergarten Gang!  I love all of the great ideas shared on all of your amazing blogs.

Thought I would take a minute to introduce myself--I'm Caitlin from Ms. Preppy's Adventures in Primary and Polka Dots.  I teach primary math (K, 1, and 2), so pretty much everything on my blog is math related.  I love me some numbers...  I just got a marvelous makeover from Mckenna at Project 3 Designs, the Teamies recommended her and she was just as wonderful as they claimed!





The beginning of the year in kindergarten math is filled with numeral writing fun!  I recently created a magnet of sorts to send home for parents to keep so they can help their child sing our numeral song (by Dr. Jean, of course!).  Head on over to my blog to grab them for your kinderfriends.

Hope you guys have an amazing week!