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Greater Gator: DIY

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Greater Gator DIY: Math Manipulatives

“Greater Gator” is an easy to create math manipulative. Math manipulatives are wonderful for providing kids with concrete opportunities to interact with mathematical concepts. Greater Gator is an adorable character that will help your kids really understand and interact with the concept of greater than and less than. Make Greater Gator with supplies found at the Dollar Store. Follow the easy DIY directions for a cheap and easy way to bring the concept of greater than and less than to life!

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Free 100 Activity

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Whether you are getting ready for 100th day, or just working with numbers, this is a fun activity for you! I blogged over at The Primary Pack today with some ideas for working with tens up to 100. Head over to pick up your free copy of including an original song!

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My kids and I decided to screech sing you our own version of the song. You can hear us here. Hope you enjoy our silly rendition of Rainbow of Fish!
Don’t forget that there is a Giveaway going on over at The Primary Pack! Win a $100 gift certificate from TPT!
 And head over to the link up with tons of February resources!

Snowy Fun…But No Cold!

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Winter weather is here. The little pond in our backyard is frozen over except for a tiny patch near the fountain. Not my favorite weather. My kids are wishing for a blanket of powdery snow. I love the beauty of wintry weather, but not the cold. That’s why we came up with a bunch of “snowy” fun to play inside.

You can check out our wintry fun over on Classroom Tested Resources. I have a snowy twist on “War”. Kids will practice greater and less skills with a “Snowball Fight”. Get the game free here. 
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There are also some other fun activities like shoveling snow with sight words,
plunging into the arctic waters to estimate the number of ice balls,
and more snowy fun!
Use the FREE “Snowball Fight” game to practice ordering numbers,
 finding the missing number,
 and creating a number line.
All these activities, and more, from one little freebie!
If you need more snowy fun, check out my Snowballs! Interactive Play Dough Mats. You can get it here. Use play dough to create numerals.
Create snowballs and squish to demonstrate one-to-one correspondence.
 Use ten frames to count and create.
 Use two different colors to solve addition sentences.
Or, use the snowball manipulatives that are included in the pack.
The interactive play dough pack now includes ten frame mats!
Try out a blank ten frame mat in the “Snowball Fight” freebie! Get your kids learning with hands-on fun!

DIY Sporty Holiday Ornaments + Giveaway

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I blogged over at The Primary Pack today giving some simple ideas for memorable ornaments to make with your children.  I focused specifically on salt dough ornaments.

 I described my favorite salt dough ornament that reminds me of “The Kissing Hand”, by Audrey Penn. Head over to The Primary Pack to check out my post.

Now, I want to share the sporty ornaments that I made with my kids this year. 

Materials:
– Hot glue & glue gun
– Small bouncy balls (I got mine from Oriental Trading)
– Small Christmas hats (I got mine from Oriental Trading)
– Googly eyes
– Small piece of string/ribbon
– Small piece of white felt
This project is so simple!
– Just place a large dollop of hot glue onto the top of your ball and position the small hat on top of the glue.
–  Glue on the google eyes with hot glue.
– Glue the small string in a loop on the back of the ball. Cover the ends of string with the small piece of white felt. This will help anchor the string to the back of the ball.
– You have a sporty ornament!
Now, I want to share the fabulous giveaway that is happening today! Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah Designs has put together a “twelve days of Christmas” giveaway! Every day for 12 days, you can enter to win a ton of fabulous prizes. Enter on the Rafflecopter link below.

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