February Math Centers

I know I am getting ahead of myself but I am trying to plan ahead and we are starting to get cabin fever in our house!  We are out of school again tomorrow-can't believe it.  The kids will have lots of stories when we do get back to class.

In the mean time, here are a few math activities to help you prepare for next month.  I am sorry that I don't have it all in one post for one printing and that some documents have a blank page attached-I'm working on the glitches. 

For the Coin Activity, I made a worksheet for the children to work with using coins and an answer page to self-check.

The patterning sheets can be glued together onto pink paper to make one long pattern page.  Laminate the three pages of manipulatives for the patterning.

For the One to One Correspondence page I bought small red heart buttons at Michael's to use as markers to practice counting out the correct number of hearts.  

I plan on creating some more Math Centers for February so keep posted!

Happy Snow Days! 

February Math Manipulatives

February Math Patterning Sheet

Candy Canes, Warm Scarves, Handprint Gifts and Special Friends

I can't say enough about all of the wonderful help that our classroom receives from others.  Not only do we have some fantastic parents but we also have middle school peer mentors, a sweet volunteer from our neighboring church and "alumni" that come over to help.  What a blessing to be thankful for this Christmas.

Kionna, a middle school peer mentor that has been helping in my room since she was a fourth grader!

Kennedy, also a peer mentor, who is my right hand in the afternoon when sanity is quickly draining!

Brittney and a friend from Fourth Grade. 
 Brittney was in my very first Kindergarten Class at Providence! 



My oldest daughter, Shanley, home from college on Christmas Break coming to help with Handprint Santas. 
With her is another alum, Raven, from my class last year.



Christine and Morgan lend a helping hand with last minute projects!

Mrs. Lawson is in her second year coming to read to my students.  They LOVE their time with her and I am so thankful to have her help.  She instills a love of reading in the children.  What a gift.


Alright, for next year, you might want to keep these projects in mind.  Maisha Booker made these fleece scarves for her students as her Christmas gift to them.  I love it!  So clever and she said they were very simple. 

Ms. Booker recommends using about 2 1/2 yards of fleece for app. 20 students.  She just cut them into strips and knotted the ends.

They turned out great and her children were adorable wearing their new scarves the next day at school!

Ms. Booker and her students made these Christmas Tree pot holders as their parent gift.  I love how colorful they are and you can't go wrong with the children's hand prints!

This was a Christmas scrapbook page that I framed as a thank you to my Parent Volunteers. 


Next is a Holiday Counting Book that Ms. Booker made with her class.

I used this Christmas Tree pattern page from Deanna Jump's Santa unit on our last day.  We patterned with Skittles.

We also practiced positional patterning with candy canes.

This idea and the worksheet came from April Larremore's unit
on The Polar Express.

Diligently writing the AB pattern down!

Enjoying that last candy cane!



I thought that I would share with you a Christmas photo from waaaaaay back of some of my sweetest friends.  On the far left you will see my friend, Suzan, from Krazy for Kindergarten!  Good times...

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!  



Pumpkins, Pumpkins, Pumpkins!

We finished our Pumpkin Books and sent them home today so I thought I would share some of our activities.  I was so happy to get them out on time! My team has been using these pumpkin literacy based activities for the past several years.  We all have our own take on them but each page includes an activity that directly relates to a story we have read for the month of October.  My friend, Lana, makes an October science book about bats, spiders and owls.  I will try to post some photos of her book.  They are looking good!  My photos are a little out of order, I just didn't feel up to duking it out with the blogger format and the way the photos upload.  It's Friday...








Michele, Maisha and Susan read Dem Bones and incorporate a lesson on our skeletal structure into the book.  We also read Don't Look at It, Don't Touch It! and the children make predictions about what Sara finds behind the door.  This year I included the Big Green Monster and a cute, surprisingly easy paper plate art project.  I got this idea from Suzan at  http://krazyforkindergarten.blogspot.com.

In our Math Journal, we measured the circumference of our pumpkin. 

Everyone got to estimate how much yarn it would take to reach around our pumpkin.  With the help our Peer Mentors, Kennedy and Kionna, each child measured how many Inchy the Inchworms it took to reach the end of their yarn. 

I made the Inchy rulers using clipart-each Inchy is of course, one inch long.  We will graduate to rulers by the end of the year but I wanted to give this method a try-it seemed more concrete.



We made pumpkin pancakes!





Thank you to Kerstin's mom and Brianna's mom for coming and helping us with our projects!



We stamped an AB pattern in our Math Journals.

We used adjectives to describe our pumpkins.



The apples will come down and we will add turkeys to our scene for November.




Of course, the best part was going to Tate Farms!



We wrote about our trip to Tate Farms and will include this in our Kindergarten Scrapbook for the end of the year with some of our pumpkin artwork.


Now on to turkeys, the Mayflower, Squanto and Thanksgiving!