Tens and Ones Sorting Mats

      Today we started building numbers with Unifix cubes and then sorting them into tens and ones. We used the cute cupcake cards that the kids love from Rebecca Sutton at Teachingfirst-abc.blogspot.com . I made the sorting mats and they are available on my TpT store for just $2! Go check it out!

Tricky Paper Clip Challenge

We continued learning about magnets this week and we experimented with a cup of water that had a paper clip at the bottom. The kids had to figure out how to get the paper clip out of the cup without putting their hands in the cup and (first time I've had a student stick the magnet wand into the cup of water) too easy! They finally figured it out that they had to run the magnet wand along the side of the cup to attract the paper clip and then drag the magnet up and the paper clip will come right out and stick to the magnetic wand! It was like magic! I loved seeing their faces when they were finally able to get the paper clip out!

Cupcakes Place Value with Tens and Ones

I got this cute center from Rebecca Sutton at Teachingfirst-abc.blogspot.com The kids really loved this center. They chose a card and wrote down the number on the card and then they had to record how many tens and ones are in that number.

Dr. Seuss Day!

 

 



















     

       We had a blast on Dr. Seuss Day! We started of the celebration by having green pancakes in honor of the book "Green Eggs & Ham" The kids LOVED them! A generous mom gave us those cute Dr. Seuss hats to wear too. I found a cute "Thing One and Thing Two" craft off of Pinterest, we painted one hand, the palm, white to be the "Things" face and the fingers blue to be his hair. On the other hand we painted it all red, only 4 of the fingers (2 for his arms and 2 for his legs). After they dried we drew on the face and painted a white circle on the stomach and the kids could choose to write either "Thing One" or "Thing Two". During our "5th Grade Buddy" time at the end of the day we did another fun craft about a Dr. Seuss book, "Ten Apples Up On Top". The kids had to draw a picture of themselves then they could choose how many apples they wanted to put up on top of their heads and we used apples stamped in red paint to put up on top of our self portraits.

Magnet Bottles

I made these magnet discovery bottles for our magnets unit that we just started. They are just old tennis ball containers. I have 5 different bottles all filled with random things and one object that is magnetic. There is one bottle with bingo markers that have a metal rim, another with screws, paper clips, clothespins and the last bottle has keys in it. I use beads and cereal to fill up the bottle and disguise the magnetic object. The kids then used a magnetic wand to run up the side of the bottles and pull up the object that was magnetic. We then recorded what we found on the sheet. The kids loved using these discovery bottles!

Tens and Ones Sorting Mats

I just made these cute Tens and Ones sorting mats! We have been learning about Tens and Ones for a couple of weeks now and these mats will be a great tool for my Kinders to use when sorting their tens and ones cubes. I was thinking that we could use them with number cards and the kids could pick a card and build that number or you could use them without number cards and have the kids think of their own numbers to build. These are also Common Core aligned!! Head over to my TpT store and grab yourself a copy!

March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb...

We made these cute masks today that the kids could pick either a lion or a lamb.

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