Kindergarten Creations

First Week of School Literacy and Math Activities for Kindergarten

The beginning of the school year started for us on August 13th. We just completed our first full week of school, and I am EXHAUSTED! I am also very excited to be with my group this year... They are very sweet. I snapped a few pics of activities that we completed during our first week of school. I didn't capture everything, but here are a few ideas that you may be able to use in your classroom.

We sorted numbers and letters. I wanted to see if they knew the difference. They did great!

I introduced the letters A-E. We created an anchor chart to go with those letters.

We highlighted the letters that we were practicing. All kindergarten students LOVE HIGHLIGHTERS.

We also sorted the letters that we were learning. This was a good indication of our cutting skills and awesome letter recognition practice. I always provide a paper plate for my kids to put their cut pieces on. This is a sanity saver!

I introduced the numbers 1-5 this week. I cut apart the numbers and placed them in an envelope. The students practiced ordering them. I will add to their envelope as we learn more numbers.

After we had our numbers in order, we practiced making number towers. We talked about more and less as we were making them.

My students played a game with a partner. One student took a number away while the other student closed his or her eyes. The partner then opened their eyes and tried to figure out what number was missing. They loved this!

We practiced counting with stickers. We had stickers all over our faces by the time that we were through, but the kids had fun.

I always make these name crowns the first week of school. These help my students learn the first letter of their name. We sort ourselves by our first letter and the number of letters in our name.

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I always take a name sample on the first week of school. These are placed neatly in their portfolio. It is amazing how much growth is shown by these.

We love play-doh! Play-doh letters are perfect for fine motor work and letter recognition.

We practiced our name by ordering the letters. I had the letters of their name tucked inside an envelope with their name on it. They practiced putting the letters in order and naming the letters to a partner. We will continue to do these everyday, until we can all do it quickly.

We didn't forget our first day of kindergarten pictures!

Crystal McGinnis

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9 Easy Hands-On Number Sense Math Centers (Numbers 1-10)

By Crystal McGinnis 5:01 AM

9 Easy Hands-On Number Sense Math Centers

(Numbers 1-10)

My kids love hands-on math activities! With them in mind, I created these "math mats" to place in my math center. Each math mat provides a hands-on activity that reinforces number recognition, formation, or counting and cardinality. Take a look to get some ideas for your classroom.

Clip It-Students count the dots on ten frames and clip it with a clothespin. Simple!

Race to the Finish-Students roll a dice and move their game piece that many spaces. The first person to the stop sign is the winner!

Domino Match-Students match dominoes to given numbers. This is great practice with number recognition and one to one counting.

Counters-Students use various counters on this math mat. They match the number in each circle.

Play-Doh number formation- Students build numbers using play-doh.

Play-Doh counting-Students build play-doh "balls" and place them on a ten frame.

Roll & Cover It-Students roll two dice, count the dots, and cover the number.

Unifix Cubes-Students build unifix cube towers to match the given numbers.

Popsicle Stick Tallies-Students create tallies using popsicle sticks and then count tallies and match them to the numbers 2-10.

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Crystal McGinnis

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Colors and Color Words

By Crystal McGinnis 12:15 PM

Colors

I just completed creating the color unit that I will use this year in my kindergarten classroom and I am very excited about it! My kinders are expected to read and write their colors words... (wow Kindergarten has changed). I have created this set to help them do just that. This set comes with an emergent reader for each color word. (I will use these during my guided reading). It also comes with a scavenger hunt, a "Brown Bear, Brown Bear" craft, a rainbow hat, flip books, color searches, and more.