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Alphabet Road Race & Numerals, Too!

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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!
Letter and Number Tracing Mats

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

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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

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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!  Hands On Activities: Dental Health. Tons of ideas to add to your unit on teeth and dental health. Fun!

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!

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

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!

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

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.


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Math Manipulative Round Up!

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I am a huge believer in hands-on learning.  Students are able to become active participants in their own learning through using manipulatives.  They are able to learn by physically handling and manipulating objects to explore a concept.
I love using manipulatives with math concepts.  It really transforms a concept into a concrete learning experience.  Young children and kinesthetic learners really benefit from showing the concept and bringing it to life.
Math manipulatives do not need to be expensive.  You can look around your own home and classroom to create some simple and effective manipulatives for your math lessons.
Here are some fun posts on DIY math manipulatives from me and some amazing bloggers:
Greater Gator

Addition Machine

New and Improved Addition Machine

Decomposing Monster from Crayons & Cuties in Kindergarten
Composing Monster from Crayons & Cuties in Kindergarten

 Play Dough as a Manipulative

Reindeer Romp: Addition and Subtraction

Hope you found a manipulative that works for you!  I would love to have you leave me a comment with any fun math manipulatives that you use with your students.  I love DIY projects and would love some new ideas to make the math concepts come to life!
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