Manic Monday Freebie!

I am excited to be participating in my first Manic Monday!  To celebrate I am giving away my Numbers, 10 Frames, and Tally Marks from 1-20 Freebie.  Little ones match the number, number word, ten frame and tally marks that correspond.  Choose a few numbers and play like 'memory' or simply have students match into sets.  There is also a recording sheet to use, if desired.  If you download, I would love you to leave a comment.  Follow my blog to find out about more freebies.  :)

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Mama Mia Pizzeria and a Freebie!

Our class just finished up a week of pizza activities.  We had such fun.  Check out the previous post about Pete's a Pizza and the amazing language activity to go along with the book. As a thank you for finding my blog, I would like to give away my Pizza Mini Math Pack.  It contains sorting pizzas by size, offered in both color and black and white.  I have several sizes to choose from, so you can differentiate for the needs of your learner.  The Pizza Pack also contains a 10 frame matching game from 1-9.  You could also use the numbers to add and/or subtract toppings to pizza. 

 Here are my little learners working on the size sort.  Each sweetie had a different set to sort, depending on their skill level. 

You can pick up this freebie here!

Pete's a Pizza...

....And so were my little ones!  Oh.my.goodness, what fun they had! I am so, so lucky to work with the BEST SLP.  She has such great language activities and the kids absolutely adore her.  She came to class Tuesday, and after reading Pete's a Pizza, she made everyone into a pizza  These were the items used:

First, you knead the dough.

Then, you have to stretch it.

Spray some oil (it's really water) to keep it from sticking.

Dust it with flour (it's really powder).

Add tomatoes (poker chips) and cheese (shredded paper)...

Last, add the pepperoni, put it in the oven to bake, and when it's done......

You have to slice it!

My sweet ones are still talking about it.  :)  

Cinco de Mayo!

Last year was our first year to do a Cinco de Mayo theme.  It was so much fun.  I kept thinking, "why hadn't we done this before?"  I did find it a bit difficult to find a lot of materials already made for the level of my students so I created some to use during circle, learning, and art times.  We ended our new learning with a Cinco de Mayo Celebration, complete with a piñata.  Our class has some ELL students with a Mexican heritage. The parents were kind enough to send in some items from Mexico to share with the class.  We introduced our little learners to colors in Spanish, as well as shapes and counting, but we mainly focused on reinforcing skills with a Mexican flair. We read both fiction and non-fiction books about Mexico and Cinco de Mayo, in particular.  I think one of my favorite things about the whole experience was that our ELL sweeties took the lead role with teaching the others about their language and heritage.  Here are a few pictures of our fiesta fun!

If you are interested in the Cinco de Mayo Celebration Pack, it is available at my Tpt and Teacher's Notebooks stores.  Here is what is included:  A Ninos Con Sarape Glyph, Colors of Cinco de Mayo emergent readers, color sorting activity of sombreros and pom poms, I have/Who has shapes game, blank I have/Who has game to play however you choose, Where Is the Sombrero preposition emergent reader, 10 frames activity-matching numbers and 10 frames from 1-20, two 10 frames I have/Who has games (one from 1-10 and one from 1-20), patterning pages, sombrero sort by size activities, Spanish colors emergent reader, ordinal numbers, and non-standard maraca measuring. Activities are offered both in color and black and white so you can choose what works best for your needs.

Here is a patterning freebie from my Cinco de Mayo Early Learning Fiesta Fun Pack.  

Pick up your Pepper Patterns freebie HERE 

Thanks for reading!

Teaching Blog Addict Freebie!

I am very excited to be participating in TBA's birthday celebration!  My freebie is a sample from my upcoming Cinco de Mayo Celebration Learning Pack.  I am still in the process of getting in together, so be sure to check back to see the final product. Feedback and comments are welcome!  I would love you to be a follower of my blog, as well.  :)  Enjoy!

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Celebrating the Alphabet!

This week we celebrated learning our last letter of the alphabet with a Chicka Chicka Boom Boom Bash! We taste tested coconut in various forms (candy, shredded, and juice) and then voted and graphed whether we liked it or not.  In both the morning and afternoon classes more people liked coconut than did not.  This allowed us to compare numbers and talk about greater than and less than.  We cracked open a real coconut then touched, smelled, and a few brave souls even tasted it.  After that we went outside and had a fabulous time racing to the coconut tree to place letters of the alphabet.  You know we grow tropical trees in Missouri, right?  (Oh how I wish our climate was that warm) :)

 Here our little learners are practicing our abc's by playing a game of "I have/Who has?"  They also did a great job of practicing 10 frames with Tropical 10 Frames, available on TpT and Teacher's Notebook.  Pick up your own copy for $1.00.

Diggin' Dinosaur Day Pictures!

Last week we finished up our dinosaur theme with a "Diggin" Dinosaur Day".  Our sweet littles ones had a great time.  I even had one sweetie tell me I was the best teacher ever.  :)  How precious is that?  I am pretty sure I have been his only teacher so far, but hey, I will take that compliment!  I have also posted my Dinosaur Early Learning Activities on my TpT and Teacher's Notebook stores, if you want to take a look.  This pack has colors, shapes, nonstandard measuring, ten frames, and rhyming activities.

We pretended to be paleontologists and excavated dinosaur bones (chocolate chips) from the earth (cookie).  Some little paleontologists took their job very seriously!  Check out the focus.  :)

These sweet ones really got into painting their dinosaurs.  We added black handprints for spikes on the dinosaurs.  So cute!