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The Tooth, The Whole Tooth, And Nothing But The Tooth

February 16, 2016 by lauraschachter@gmail.com Leave a Comment

Tons of hands on activities to explore Dental Health.

Cross-Curricular Activities to Explore Dental Health

The tooth, the whole tooth, and nothing but the tooth! Check out this collection of fun and GROSS activities to engage young children in the exploration of teeth! Practice flossing with play dough, count, add, and subtract with ‘plaque’, and explore ways to keep your teeth clean.

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Filed Under: dental health, DIY, free, freebies, hands-on learning, hands-on math, Learning Ideas, manipulatives, math, play dough, play dough mats, sensory, subtraction, teeth

Quick & Easy Valentine Math

February 10, 2016 by lauraschachter@gmail.com Leave a Comment

Quick & Easy Valentine Math

Looking for a quick activity for a Valentine’s Day party? I loved this fun and EASY idea for a Valentine toss game from Little Family Fun.  Easy to prep and tons of fun. Since I am always searching for ways to create educational game, I created a math component to add to the game.  Make a quick and easy Valentine math game with a free subtraction recording sheet! [Read more…]

Filed Under: free, freebies, subtraction, Valentines

Penguin Palooza!

January 14, 2016 by lauraschachter@gmail.com 4 Comments

It’s time for penguins, penguins, PENGUINS!!! Penguins are one of my favorite animals. Whenever I look at them, I can’t help smiling 🙂

A bunch of  The Primary Pack has gotten together for a Penguin Palooza! Join our penguin hop for freebies, ideas, and a giveaway with All Things Penguin! All this penguin cuteness may send me over the edge.

I’ll start out with some penguin freebies!

My daughter is a little bit obsessed with “Go Fish”. She loves playing it over and over and over. This can get quite tedious, except that this means she is practicing her sight words (or high frequency words) over and over and over! Knowing that she is getting so much exposure and practice with her words, washes the tedium away!

She does a great job with her sight words, so I wanted to move into some CVC practice. I wanted her to really focus on sounding out the words, so I wrote the word on each card with a different fish. She gets no picture help on the card, so she really needs to focus her energy on sounding out the word. What does this have to do with penguins? Well penguins eat fish!

My daughter brought Penny Penguin into the game, too. Penny is a penguin that I made a few years ago out of a Cascade container. You can see more about her here.

This penguin has had so many uses. We feed her letters, words, and numbers. She loves counting and has eaten many goldfish. I created a fishing game with a magnetic fishing pole to use with Penny Penguin. You can get see the game and get a  free copy here.

When playing “Go Fish”, Penny Penguin gets to eat all the matches. To be able to win “Go Fish”, each player has to read the word on each set of matches before Penny will eat them. This gives another opportunity for your kids to reread the words. Plus, they just love feeding the penguin.

Get your own free copy of “Short Vowel Go Fish” here.

I have one more freebie for you! This is an Arctic Animal Even & Odd Pack.

Kids can identify numerals 1-40 and sort them by even and odd numbers. It is another way to disguise rote practice in a game format. Kids love the adorable clip art and have fun putting the animals into the arctic environment. I just updated this freebie. If you already own it, go back and re-download.

There really is so much fun to have with penguins! Who can resist these adorable penguin shapes?? Imagine a whole class with penguin headbands. That will definitely get them practicing their shapes! You can find the penguin shapes pack here.

My kids love “Roll, Say, Keep”!  I have a few penguin themed “Roll. Say, Keep” games to practice alphabet letters & sounds, and sight words. You can check them out here! We are playing with letter sounds below.

I like to get kids up and moving whenever possible. Scavenger hunts or “Write The Room” activities are a great way to get their blood flowing. Add penguin wands and you have an engaging activity! You can see my alphabet scavenger hunt here and get a FREE copy of the penguin wands here. 
Get creative with your letter cards! I used the letter cards from the alphabet scavenger hunt to go on a penguin march. Use it in alphabetical order or mix it up. Kids can march around the alphabet to some “penguin themed” songs (I like to use the soundtrack from Winged Migration). Stop the music and everyone picks up the letter card in front of them. Turn to your partner, give a penguin waddle, and say your sound!

I hope you found some fun ideas to use with your little penguins!

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Before you go, don’t forget there’s a Penguin Palooza sale! Head over to TeachersPayTeachers and type ‘penguinpalooza’ in the search engine, or click here. You will find bunches of penguin resources marked down just for Penguin Palooza!

 You can find all of my penguin fun on sale from January 14-19.

It wouldn’t be Penguin Palooza without a giveaway! You can enter on the link below.
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Do the penguin waddle to head over to all the stops on this Penguin Hop. You will be fully stocked with penguin goodies for the cold winter days ahead of us!

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Filed Under: CVC, even & odd, free, freebies, penguin, short vowels, sight words

DIY Turkey From A Plastic Bucket

November 8, 2015 by lauraschachter@gmail.com 3 Comments

turkey learning activities

Learning Fun With Turkey: Turkey Learning Activities

Tons of learning activities revolving around a turkey. Great ideas to incorporate around Thanksgiving. DIY turkey container (he really eats!), rhyming activities, letter identification, initial and ending sound fun, and more!

You can see the directions to make a turkey out of a Cascade container here.
Get the directions to make the Print & Cut turkey here.

Ways to Use Your Turkey

 Pass out cards to help kids practice basic skills: letter identification, beginning & ending sounds, rhymes, numeral identification, counting, addition, subtraction, or any skill you choose. We used cards from my Turkey Time: Literacy Pack. You can pass out cards to the whole group, or use the turkey in a center. Kids will feed the turkey!

thanksgiving initial sounds initial sounds ending sounds alphabet

Use the “Turkey Time” rhyme to spark excitement with the kids. Change the key words in the rhyme to help students’ focus on the specific skills.

 

Get your free copy of the turkey rhyme here.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bzdf4OqBvDfcbWFOTFhkWFRXZFE/view?usp=sharing

Materials Needed for Bucket Turkey

  • Plastic bucket (I got mine from the Dollar Store)
  • Foam or card stock
  • Felt to cover the turkey’s body
  •  Hot glue
  • Magnet
  • Tape

 DIY Bucket Turkey

Step 1: Cut out the shapes for the turkey. Use foam or card stock for the turkey shapes. I use foam for a more durable turkey.
Step 2:  Fold the beak in half.

Step 3: Tape the feathers together and glue the black pupils into the middle of the eyes.

Step 4: Tape a magnet or rock to the tip of the beak. This is just to give the beak some weight. It will help keep the turkey’s mouth closed.

Step 5: Tape the beak to the back of the bucket.
Step 6: Tape or glue the eyes to the top of the beak.
Step 7: Tape the feathers to the back of the bucket.
Step 8: Hot glue felt around the base of the bucket.

 Step 9: Your turkey is ready for learning fun!

Thanks for stopping by! Don’t forget to head over to The Primary Pack to see more ideas on how to use the turkey!
Head over to my TPT store to get my “Turkey Time” pack. It will be 50% off for the rest of this week for Kelly and Kim’s Markdown Monday. Check out their blog for this week’s deals!
http://kellyandkimskindergarten.blogspot.com/2015/11/markdown-monday-linky-party-november_8.html

Filed Under: alphabet, Container Creations, counting, DIY, free, freebies, hands-on learning, holiday, initial sounds, Learning Ideas, letters, pizza, turkey

Super Silent E!

October 21, 2015 by lauraschachter@gmail.com Leave a Comment

Get Your Free Silent e Poster Featuring Super Silent e!

Introduce silent e with this fun character and free silent e poster. The “Super Silent e” character is engaging and so much fun. This rhyme introduces “Super Silent e” and explores the characteristics of the silent e spelling pattern. Check out this fun and memorable rhyme! Scoop up this fun and free Silent e poster here!

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Filed Under: anchor charts, free, freebies, Learning Ideas, long vowels Tagged With: free, long vowels, posters, silent e

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