Showing posts with label Halloween. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Halloween. Show all posts

Sunday, October 5, 2014

Pumpkins Galore!

It is that time of the year when we have fun with pumpkins, use pumpkins to enhance children's learning and take advantage of many hands-on activities!

Here are just some of the many pumpkin related activities that we do in my class!

We use real pumpkins to investigate, measure, weigh, make predictions, float vs. sink, etc.
I was lucky enough to have enough pumpkins donated for each table/team.
We count seeds and place them in groups of ten. So, we practice counting by ones and tens.
We make these cute pumpkins using tissue paper and crepe paper. Children rip small pieces and glue them all to create a textured pumpkin. So cute!


We also use strips of orange construction paper and make 3D pumpkins. These always turn out GREAT!
Kids love them and the activity sure helps them with the eye-hand coordination and small motor skills.

We measure our height with pumpkins. We do this every year with apples but it is fun to add pumpkins, every once in a while.
Children use foam Halloween pieces to create various patterns.

Of course, all these activities make for some excellent journal entries and writing!

Interested in a great hands-on, interactive product focused on writing, reading and patterning?
Check this out:
Halloween - Writing and Patterning Fun. CCS Aligned



Interested in a Halloween Interactive Math and Literacy notebook?
Check this one out:
Halloween - Math and Literacy Interactive Activities. CCS Aligned

Sunday, September 28, 2014

Halloween - Math and literacy Interactive Activities!

Halloween is just around the corner!
Let's keep learning fun and engaging while teaching important academic skills. All the activities seen here are part of ONE product!

Halloween - Math and Literacy Interactive Activities. CCS Aligned

Mathematical Skills
Addition, ten frame numbers, ten base numbers, graphing, tally marks, missing numbers.
Literacy Skills
Reading, writing, segmenting and blending CVC words, rhyming, beginning/medial and ending letter sounds.
MATH
Here are some fun, engaging and interactive learning activities, all CCS aligned.
Students work on addition and addition with missing addend. They practice small motor skills by cutting and gluing the pieces and by coloring. The notebook paper (background paper) looks brown at times (it is not, it is perfectly white :-), depending on how the sunlight hits it. It is a very sunny day today!

Students also work on correctly identifying ten frame numbers and ten base numbers!











Students have fun graphing different types of candy, using graphs to answer questions, counting and sorting by size.



ELA - Literacy
Students work on rhyming. They can either write or draw a rhyming word/picture.

Students work on beginning letter sounds. They name the picture and come up with at least two more words/pictures that starts with the same beginning letter sound.


Another important skill students work on is segmenting and blending CVC words. They segment and blend the CVC word given and draw a matching picture.


Students use a vowel cube and roll a vowel. They fill in the missing medial letter and write down both real and nonsense words.



Students name the picture, focus on the ending letter/letter sound, write it and come up with at least two more words ending in the same letter/letter sound.

All these can be assembled as an interactive notebook. What a fun way for children to share learning with their families!