Sensory Bin Freebie

I posted this activity during Teacher Appreciation Week, but wanted to share it here.
I created a fun summer themed sensory bin activity that you can use these last few days of school or this summer with your little ones at home!

This activity focuses on the 4 basic shapes!  Your kiddos pick a card and record what shape they find!  There are two recording sheets included.  One sheet your kiddos color the shape they find and the other one they trace the shape. 
This sensory bin center comes in BW and color!  Grab it HERE!

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Teacher Appreciation Freebies

Happy Teacher Appreciation Week!
I wanted to celebrate YOU all week long with a NEW freebie every day this week!
I'm kicking off day 1 with a summer themed subtraction center.

Your kiddos can play two ways!

They can sort the cards by the answers to the equations or they can pick an equation and record on their recording sheet.

All these freebies will be posted in my store, so make sure you are following so you don't miss out on any this week!

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Flower Bead Counters

Spring is here and I have a fun spring themed math center for you!

This center has your kiddos identifying numbers, one to one correspondence, and counting!

I took pipe cleaners and beads, then added a cute flower number on the top!

Your kiddos will identify the number that add that many beads to the "stem"!

This activity includes numbers 1-20.

Grab it HERE!

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Skip Counting Basketballs FREEBIE

It is that time of year when some of us watch the madness of March!

I have a fun basketball themed math center for you!

Students will put the basketballs in order by counting by 10's!

When they are finished, they can complete the skip counting cut and glue worksheet.

Click HERE, if you want to grab this for you class!

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Color Sorting

Sorting is a fun activity to do and a great skill to have when in preschool and kindergarten.  A good place to start when beginning to sort is with colors.  Colors are everywhere and most likely you have colored objects around your class or house.

A fun activity that I found all over Pinterest was a object color sort using objects around your house/classroom!  We used our big lego blocks to sort by color.

I laid out colored construction paper and we put the blocks on each paper to match the color.

We are totally into hiding things and finding them, so you could also "hide" the blocks and have your kiddos find the blocks.

I also have created a fun color sorting center that you can use.  It is laid out the same way, but I have included colored object cards to sort. 

Plus, there is a color match worksheet included.  Your kiddos will color each picture the correct color.

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Math Center Freebie

If you're looking for a simple math center, look no further!

I've made a FREE counting math center for you!

Students pick a card, count, and record the numbers.  This center focuses on numbers 1-10. 

For more of a challenge, you could have your kiddos pick two cards, add the numbers together, and write an equation each time.
Grab this freebie HERE!

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Number Match Hearts

I have an EASY math center for you today!  Yes, it is perfect for the whole month of February or really any time of year!

I found these foam hearts from Target a few years back, but I am sure you could find them anywhere this time of year.
I wrote a number and the matching number of hearts.
Your kiddos can count and put different objects on each hear to match that number.
For more of a challenge, you can have your kiddos pick two hearts and add them together!

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Heart Box Math Center

I'm back for another FREE Valentine's Day activity!
I got these heart shape boxes from Walmart!

I created a fun addition center you can add to your centers the month of February!

Cut out the addition problems and put one problem in each box. 

Your kiddos will pick a box and write the equation on their recording sheet.

Grab it HERE!

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FREE Heart Letter and Number Cards

Valentine's day is coming up quick! 

I wanted to share the February cards with you.

These cards are great for a sensory bin or reading/math center.

I paired the number cards with heart table scatter to create and easy math center!  Your kiddos identify the number and count out the matching number of heart scatter pieces.
Grab them HERE!

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Dinosaur Color Sort

Any of your kiddos OBSESSED with dinosaurs!? 
We are dino obsessed over here!

A fun activity that we have been doing is sorting our pom poms by color! 

I created these fun dinosaur color mats that your little ones can use to sort their colors on.

Grab them HERE!
Need some more dinosaur activities!?
Check out these other fun dinosaur themed color activities!

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Toddler Tuesday {Preschool Ideas} Week12

I wanted to share a fun winter themed math activity with you!
I printed out these number mittens and add the to a bin with white pom poms and a tweezers.
Your kiddos pull out a mitten and use their tweezers to match the snowballs to the number on the mitten.

To challenge students, pull out two mittens and have your kiddos add the numbers together!
Grab the number mittens HERE!

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Winter Shape Sort

I wanted to share with you a fun winter themed shape sort! 

This is a fun way to review the four basic shapes while getting up and moving around the room.
Hide or hang up the small shape pieces then, have your kiddos go around the room collecting the ones they find.  Have them bring their pieces to your meeting area and go around calling on kiddos to tell you what they found while putting it on the snowball sorting mat. 

You could also put this in a center and have students sort the shapes using the sorting mat!
Grab it HERE if you would like to use this in your classroom! :)

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Ornament Number Match

Looking for a quick activity to keep your kiddos busy during this last week?
I have made a fun ornament number match game.

Your kiddos can flip over the numbers and pick a number to match or just match on their own.
To make it a challenge, flip over all the ornaments and have kiddos take turns, one needs to find the even numbers and one needs to find the odd numbers.
I love how it can be adjusted to meet anyone 's level :)
Click HERE to grab it!

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Gingerbread Buttons

We started some gingerbread activities this week!  I wanted to share a fun number activity that we did!

We took these gingerbread number cards I made and used buttons to decorate our gingerbread!

We also used chocolate chips one day because in one of the stories we read, he had chocolate chips
for buttons! 

Anything with food is always way more fun!

We also put the cards in number order as we were putting his buttons on!
Grab these cards for free HERE!

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Community Helpers Garbage Truck Shapes

I found a cute pin on Pinterest for my community helpers unit.  I thought it would be a great activity for MATH.  Yes, MATH!

I created a FREEBIE that can be used during your community helper unit for your math block.

You can cut out the shapes yourself out of construction paper or you can print the templates on various colors have have your kiddos cut them out.

The wheels can be printed on white and then colored black or you can cut out the wheels yourself.

How cute!?  

If you wanted to add more to it, you could have your kiddos write simple about garbage trucks do on the back.

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The First Few Days of School

Those first few days of school are always a blur in kindergarten.  Did everyone eat and make it home?
I wanted to show you some EASY activities your kiddos can do while you get beginning of the day things together or a great way to practice your routines and rituals.  You could put these in a "center" and practice what a center looks like.  These would be great to use while you are practicing of cleaning up.  Play for a few or 10 minutes and then practice picking up quickly and quietly.

This is a simple bird sorting activity.  Any color sorting activity should be easy for all students and if it is not, pair up students to work together on it!

These number matching cows are great because any academic level can do them.  They can be matched by color OR they can be matched by number/number of spots.

My son got these books for Christmas one year, but of course they would be perfect in the classroom!  Each book can be read to your kiddos by pushing the buttons on the Me Reader.  Each page is color coded with a shape, so they will know what button to push!

 Finally, a good old box of blocks!  This is open ended and lets your kiddos explore.  You could give them a certain number of blocks and tell them to create something or just let them run wild!

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