Alphabet Road Race & Numerals, Too!

July 29, 2016 by lauraschachter@gmail.com

There is nothing better than watching a child learn through play. When I create learning games for kids, I keep this thought in mind. Through the years I’ve found that any game with toy cars is sure to be a hit. Add them to letter and number tracing mats and kids can use the toy cars to trace letters and numbers. They will race their way to letter and numeral formation success. I love using the transportation themed tracing mats for lots of learning and tons of FUN!

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

February 16, 2016 by lauraschachter@gmail.com

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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Pulling Teeth: Subtraction

February 7, 2015 by lauraschachter@gmail.com

Hands-On Dental Health Activities

Check out these hands-on dental health activities. Use fun manipulatives to explore concepts of subtraction and addition. Kids can “pull out teeth” for subtraction, count teeth with tools from the dentist, and so much more!

Dental Health is such an intriguing thing for young children. Explore subtraction with young children through the concept of losing teeth. They are already fascinated with the idea of losing their own teeth, so it is the perfect way to explore subtraction!

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Interactive Play Dough Mats: Bubbles!

January 16, 2015 by lauraschachter@gmail.com

http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Interactive-Play-Dough-Mats-Counting-Centers-Games-Printables-Bubbles-1652752

Kids love working with play dough! It makes practice with any skill turn into a game! I have a bunch of different themed play dough packs, but my daughter requested a set of bubble play dough mats. I decided on a bubble bath pack! You pick it up here.

There are two components to each set of centers:
Interactive Play Dough Mats
Students will draw cards with numerals, ten frames, or addition sentences. Students will create play dough on their mat to represent the numeral, numbers on the ten frame or addition sentence. Students will complete an extension worksheet after using this center. Extension worksheets include: counting and writing the numeral, drawing the correct number of themed objects when give a number, drawing the correct number of themed objects when given a ten frame.

Use manipulatives, dry erase markers, or play dough to represent the numerals, ten frames, or addition sentences.

Ten Frames and Numerals

Addition Skills

There are bunches of prinatbles that can be used in a center, or as an extension activity. The printables will reinforce the skills that students practice with the play dough mats.

Interactive Play Dough Mats with Numerals
Students will identify numerals and add the correct number of themed manipulatives, or use play dough. Complete extension activities in representing a number of objects with a written numeral, use one-to-one correspondence to count out a specific number of objects and draw a pictorial representation of those objects, and trace and write numerals 1-10.

Use manipulatives to trace the numerals. Students will count out the same number of ducks.

Students can use a dry erase marker to trace the numeral.

Students can count out the duck manipulatives to represent the number.

Students can use play dough to create the numeral. This is great for tactile and kinesthetic learners. They can build the numeral and trace the numeral.

Students can also use play dough to create the same number of ducks or bubbles.

There are tons of printables to extend their learning!

Tons of fun!

Have the students color in the ducks, as they count each one. This will help with one-to-one correspondence.

A bunch of choices for tracing and writing numerals 1-10.

Hope you enjoy this pack! I am giving one away tomorrow morning. You can leave a comment here for a chance to win! Have a great weekend! You can pick up the pack, here, for 50% off for the next 48 hours.

A Few Of My Favorite Things

December 7, 2014 by lauraschachter@gmail.com

The holiday season is a great time to reflect on all of the wonderful things you have in your life. Many of us are so fortunate to have a roof over our heads and food on our tables. I feel so blessed to be able to have these things for my family. I got together with a bunch of other bloggers to bring a huge giveaway with a ton of our favorite things.

Before I get to the amazing giveaway, I wanted to share some things that I am so thankful for this season! Some are silly and some are more serious, but I am thankful for all of them!!

#1- Dr. Pepper. I am not a coffee drinker, but seriously need some caffeine in the morning. My brain will NOT function until I have that first sip of bubbly, sweet, and almost painful burn of the carbonation. It wakes me up in so many ways. I love it!

#2- Every holiday season since my kids were born, we create ornaments together. When they were little, they would get down to their diapers and get covered in tons of paint. We’ve done cinnamon dough, ceramic ornaments, and foam ornaments. It doesn’t matter what type, we just love to create together. We put on Christmas tunes and sing along, as we get messy and laugh. It is a priceless experience that I treasure. You can see the fun salt dough ornaments that we made here.

#3- I do love shopping, especially for teaching gems. One of my favorite teaching idea stores is The Dollar Tree. You cannot beat this store for wacky and wonderful teaching supplies AND the price is right!! Here are a few of the amazing finds that I’ve found at the Dollar Tree: lip gloss boots (you need to check these out), fun tongs for centers, foam to create my own two sided magnets that created my subitizing freebie! This is just a tiny fraction of the amazing deals that I find there.

#4- One of my most treasured teaching supplies is my personal laminator. Since I started teaching, I have tried out MANY different laminators. I have gotten really expensive types, and cheaper ones. About 8 years ago, I decided on my favorite laminator. It is a cheap, but wonderful power house. I put my laminator through a lot of work and it is up to the job. I chose to giveaway a Scotch Laminator for “A Few of Our Favorite Things Giveaway”. You can see the laminator that I will be giving away here.

I also have some of my favorite products on sale for the week of this blog hop. They will all be 50% off! Search my store for #myfavoritethings2014 to get all of the amazing deals. I can’t wait to share these exciting surprises!!

You can scoop up:

http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Romp-and-Stomping-Letters-Hands-On-Activities-Sort-Letters-By-Attribute-1283772

Romp and Stompin’ Letters usually $12 for ONLY $6!!

http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Super-Hero-Roll-Say-Keep-Pre-Primer-Dolch-Sight-Word-Center-Extra-1504008

Super Hero: “Roll, Say, Keep!” Pre-Primer Dolch Sight Word Center + Extra usually $3 for ONLY $1.50!!

Delicious Donuts: Addition to 20, Number Lines, Missing Addends, & Printables usually $7 for ONLY $3.50!!

http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Bundle-Interactive-Play-Dough-Mats-Hands-On-Math-Centers-Games-Printables-1316496

My ABSOLUTE favorite!! Bundle of 8 Interactive Play Dough Mat Sets!! Full Price $32, get it for $16!!

Because we value our followers and wanted to treat you to our favorite things Oprah style, we have put together the best giveaway of the season! My bloggy friends and I welcome you to the best, biggest, most cheerful event of the season: