Wrapping Up The St. Patrick's Day Fun

 These books were perfect for exploring and learning about the color green and shamrocks galore!

Using these great products from Creative Teaching Press, 

here's a quick look at more of our preschool activities for 

St. Patrick's Day!

The March-Poppin'Patterns Seasonal Calendar Days were the perfect accents for these seasonal counting workmats.  

(I glued the calendar number to the center of a Shamrock 10" Designer Cut-Outs ahead of time.)  

The children used gold coins and two-color calendar cut-outs to count sets.

 We turned the shamrocks over and used a die to practice our counting skills too!

 The March- Poppin'Patterns Seasonal Calendar Days were the perfect accents for these seasonal bingo cards.  

 The bingo cards were used with the preschoolers to reinforce number recognition.

  

These same cards could easily be used for addition and subtraction practice with kindergarten and first grade students.

  

We worked on letter recognition using the two-color shamrock calendar cut-outs.  

The child tossed a pom pom onto the card and named the letter.  

Some of the students also practiced individual letter sounds.

We played hopscotch on a field of shamrocks and 

matched the upper and lowercase letters.

 We counted shamrocks and made sets.

We had fun with patterns.

We matched shapes!

We continued our work with colors and patterns and made our own Shamrock Necklaces for a little St. Patrick's Day parade!

 Wow, it was a great week of fun and learning!

Thank you, Creative Teaching Press!

The Shamrock Shake

 

We are reading, writing, and wearing the green this week!

Make sure your students are wearing the green this St. Patrick's Day with

"The Shamrock Shake Headbands".

Here's another way I used some of the fantastic products from 

Creative Teaching Press.

We made headbands with the Shamrocks Boarder.  

Here's What To Do:

Measure each student's head with a shamrock boarder strip and cut the strip to size.  

Staple this boarder strip at the top and the bottom to shape the headband.

Attach the Shamrock 6" Designer Cut-Outs to pieces of pipe cleaners and tape the pipe cleaners to the inside of the headband.

It was that simple. I hope you give it a try!

Everyone will be wearing their very own Shamrock Shake Headband by the time morning work is finished.

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If you don't have these fantastic Creative Teaching products at a store near you, grab some sentence strips and green construction paper.  Trace and cut out shamrocks and assemble the headbands in the same fashion!  

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During your morning meeting time, turn on the St. Patrick's Day music and dance your own version of The Shamrock Shake!

I'll be back tomorrow with a fun, sneaky, leprechaun project!

Happy Shamrock Shaking!

R is for Reindeer (Preschool Learning Fun)

 

Work on Letter Recogntion

and

Develop Number Sense

Find and Stamp Capital R and Lowercase r

Count the Reindeer Noses

Shake, Roll, and "Rainbow" Write

(Candy Plush Jars)

R is for Reindeer

Letter Craft

Read Rudolph Red-Nosed Reindeer

While reading the book, remember to wear your red nose!

Wiggle and Giggle

with the

Reindeer Pokey

 

Wear antlers to wiggle and giggle with the Reindeer Pokey!

Balloon Activity

Check out A Little Learning For Two to find out more about this activity and to grab the instruction cards!

Blow up a red balloon and insert a glow stick or two! 

Have a blast with your very own (red) Rudolph nose!

Download R is for Reindeer Here!

 

Holiday Hopscotch

 

Do you have extra gift boxes from the Dollar Store?   Do your little ones need to burn off excess holiday energy?   

Here’s A Fun Solution!

 

 Make and Play  

Holiday Hopscotch

Design the hopscotch path using the tops and bottoms of the gift boxes.  Secure the edges of the boxes together with clear packing tape.   

(Before playing, secure the board to the floor with tape.  Painters tape works well.)

I added calendar numbers and snowflake cut-outs.   

 If you do not have shapes available, allow the kids to decorate the plain boxes with holiday drawings and use a maker to number the boxes.

Add a holiday-shaped skipping stone.

 We are using a snowman wall hanger from the dollar store.

Remember to play holiday hopscotch several ways. Use two skipping stones and have the kids add, subtract, or multiply the marked numbers.   

For holiday skipping stones, check out your (plastic) decorations for ideas.

Happy December! 

Super Simple Learning

Wiggle and Giggle With Your Learners

Visit the Super Simple Learning website!

Children's Songs that are easy-to-teach and easy-to-learn!

 Here's my recent purchase from Super Simple Songs with several titles perfect for the entire winter season.

Great for Pre-K to Grade 2!

If you enjoy teaching with music, check it out.

 I can't wait to use Super Simple Songs Christmas.

Go Away Big Monster!

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Making Connections

What does this book make you think about?

Make a connection and design a monster.   

Of course, this story lends itself to several 

text-to-self connections!

 Grab a copy of a response sheet here.

Monster Math Fun

 Read Monster Musical Chairs by Stuart Murphy for some monster math subtraction fun.

Grab a copy by clicking on the picture above. 

Use the monsters to write and illustrate math stories for addition and subtraction.  Make sets or review ordinal position.

Move Like A Monster 

 Add a little movement to the day with these cute books by Josie Bissett.

These books are new to my collection!

 

Laugh with Tickle Monster and dance with Boogie Monster.   

 (The tickle monster mitts are too much fun!)

 Keep on Wiggling and Giggling!

Be sure to check out these fun songs “Monster Boogie” by Laurie Berkner and “Monster Boogie” by Kiddle Karoo.