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I love fall.  It makes me feel good all over.  It inspires me, so come on over to my store.  I'm having a sale and you might find something you could use.

Fall Math

I've been to Target again.

They had these great table scatters in the $$ spot.  Leaves, acorns and pumpkins, I think I see ten frames coming out of this computer pretty soon.  I only wish I had found them sooner.  Have you found anything great lately?

It's been awhile

I always start the year working on our names.  These are the first, simplest activities I use and the kids love them both.  When they can complete their name puzzle, like above, they can take it home.  The play-doh is more of a challenge since making the "snake" is hard as they usually don't have a lot of experience with forming the doh.

Do you have any standby activities that you use every year?

I'm ready to hit the bottle

This is a great activity I saw on Pinterest.  Now I've put out an all points bulletin for plastic Mrs. Butterworth bottles.  I hope this turns out as cute as the pin.  Have you been "pinning" like crazy this summer?

Spring is in the Air

We've been talking about all things Spring.  I made this Ladybug addition activity for my tpt store.  Go check it out by clicking on the icon on the sidebar. 

We started out discussing Living and Non-Living things so I made the sorting activity below.

This is an abc matching activity a friend made for tpt store, but let me try it out.  She's just getting started, too, but has some cute stuff.

http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Spring-Time-Letter-Identification-Sounds-and-Matching

What have we been doing lately?

 Geometry for starters.

 We used marshmallows and pretzel sticks to try to make 3-d shapes.  It was harder than it looks on Pinterest, but lots of fun. 

Of course, everybody did something for Dr. Seuss' burthday.  This is a couple of activities I made for TPT.  The "One fish, Two fish, Yellow fish, Green fish" was a real challenge to finish because it had the entire alphabet and took quite awhile to finish. 

 Springtime is almost here.

The activity above is a syllabication game using springtime pictures.  Below is a beginning sound activity.  This was made pre- computer era.  Can you tell? 

Making Tens

My littles love this activity when I get it out.  We've been working on ten frames for months and this is just an extention.  I have numbers between 20-99 on cards for them to choose and lots of egg cartons that I have cutinot ten frames.  they choose a number, use manipulatives and fill the ten frames to create that number.  I put this in a center and it gives me a chance to work with them on this skill.  I use my center time for my tutor and I to work independently with them on skills they are having trouble with.  This is one they all want to get to.  I leave it out for the rest of year.  How do you work with your class on this skill?