counting to 10 Super-Bundle for the year

7/12/2017

11 NUMBER SENSE CENTERS FOR SEPTEMBER THROUGH JUNE ...

(All the packs in this bundle are FREE to KidSparkz members in the Member Area!)

Counting to 10 SUPER BUNDLE for the Year - hands on centers

SAVE BIG with this bundle of eleven "Counting to 10" activity centers - one for each school month and 2 for January. Preschool, pre-K and Kindergarten students can discover that numbers can be shown by seven different ways - by a numeral, a set of objects, finger counting, 10-frames, number words, dice and tally marks.

Easy to differentiate for various learning levels - use only 1 or 2 sorting mats, and more or fewer number representations. The cards can also be used as flashcards for group teaching, in pocket charts, for wall displays, they can be placed in numerical sequence, and memory and matching games can be made by printing 2 or more copies.

Here are the packs in this bundle. Click on the title to read more, or purchase separately.

FREE Counting to 10 preschool and kindergarten center, with an APPLES theme

September - This pack is FREE, so you can try it out and see how it works for your students. Apples in Barrels Count to 10 - 7 ways to Show Numbers

Counting to 10 hands-on center to make with a fall or autumn theme

October - Leaves on Trees Count to 10 - 7 ways to Show Numbers

Thanksgiving dinner counting to 10 hands-on center for preschool and kindergarten

November - Thanksgiving Dinner Count to 10 - 7 ways to Show Numbers

Cookies celebration counting to 10 hands-on center for preschool and kindergarten

December - Cookie Celebration Count to 10 - 7 ways to Show Numbers

Winter snowflakes counting to 10 hands-on center for preschool and kindergarten

January - Winter Snowflakes Count to 10 - 7 ways to Show Numbers

Rainy day weather counting to 10 hands-on center for preschool and kindergarten

Another pack for January! Rainy Weather Count to 10 - 7 ways to Show Numbers

Valentine's Day gifts counting to 10 hands-on center for preschool and kindergarten

February - Valentine Gifts Count to 10 - 7 ways to Show Numbers

Green frogs counting to 10 hands-on center for preschool and kindergarten

March -Green Frogs Count to 10 - 7 ways to Show Numbers

Spring flower garden counting to 10 hands-on center for preschool and kindergarten

April - Flower Garden Count to 10 - 7 ways to Show Numbers

Strawberries theme counting to 10 hands-on center for preschool and kindergarten

May - Strawberry Shortcake Count to 10 - 7 ways to Show Numbers

Shells on the beach counting to 10 hands-on center for preschool and kindergarten

June - Shells on the Beach Count to 10 - 7 ways to Show Numbers

All the packs in this bundle are FREE to KidSparkz members in the Member Area!

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4 counting rhymes for circle time

1/6/2017

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Four counting rhymes for circle time plus puppets

Download these resources to make some fun activities for flannel boards, magnetic boards, and other group teaching props. I have also included b/w versions so the children can make the characters themselves. The words to the rhymes are well-known, but I have added them anyway.

General directions:

Print on cardstock and laminate for group use
Back with felt or Velcro piece for flannel board
Magnetic tape on back for magnetic board
Tape on small craft stick to make stick puppets

Click on the title of each rhyme to download the file.

five little ducks

5 little ducks went out one day,
Over the hills and far away.
Mother duck said, "Quack, quack, quack quack",
But only 4 little ducks came back.

Continue until 0 little ducks come back, and then have them all come back. Have Mother Duck become progressively sadder, and then delightfully happy!

Download 5 Little Ducks

Five little penguins

5 little penguins rhyme and characters for preschool

5 little penguins standing in a row.
5 little penguins standing in the snow.
Brrrr, it’s cold! I cannot stay! (Hug self and shiver.)
And one little penguin waddled away. (Waddle in place.)

Download 5 Little Penguins

Five little monkeys

5 little monkeys rhyme and characters for preschool

5 little monkeys jumping on the bed,
One fell off and bumped his head.
Mother called the doctor and the doctor said:
"No more monkeys jumping on the bed!"

Download 5 Little Monkeys

Five little speckled frogs

5 little frogs rhyme and characters for preschool

5 little speckled frogs, sat on a speckled log,
Eating some most delicious bugs (yum, yum),
One jumped into the pool, where it was nice and cool,
Then there were 4 green speckled frogs.

Download 5 Little Speckled Frogs

Lots more rhymes for Circle Time ...
More activities featuring ducks, penguins, monkeys and frogs.

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winter dress-up paper dolls

1/2/2017

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Well, not really paper dolls, as such, but just as fun. (I must admit I do have a collection of paper dolls). Here's a free set of a boy and a girl ready to dress up for winter. Preschoolers will need help with the cutting, but they will do fine with a glue stick.

If you would like to take the winter clothes concept a step further, I just finished a resource that includes dress-ups, but much more. Here's what's in it:

Dress for winter center – Print characters and clothes (several pages) on cardstock. Teacher cuts out the clothes, and the children practice “dressing” the characters, mixing and matching the clothes as they please, or following teacher directions.
Individual cut and paste – Let each child choose one or more characters to dress, and offer choices of clothes to cut out and paste.
Categorize clothes by color center – Offer the color sorting mats, and a selection of clothes to sort by color.
Categorize clothes by type center - Offer the clothes type sorting mats, and a selection of clothes to sort by type.
Word/picture strips for vocabulary, and word recognition
Labeled large manipulatives for making recognition and memory and matching games.

You can take a look at a copy of this resource here, and here.

On a totally unrelated note, here are some BIG counting dinosaurs, 0-20.

More DINOSAURS activities and printables
DINOSAUR songs and rhymes
More WINTER-themed printables

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2 new winter number centers

12/24/2016

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The two latest activity pack additions to the KidSparkz site are both winter-themed and numbers-related.

Make your own number sense anchor charts winter theme 1-10.

In the first one, the children can make their own WINTER Number Sense Anchor Charts 1-10 for preschool, pre-K and Kindergarten. Both of these packs are appropriate for children who are cutting already, if offered as an individual activity. However, they can both be pre-cut and set up as a center, or used as a small group teaching prop.

Includes:
• 10 numbered background mats in b/w
• Set of graphics to cut and paste onto each mat (color) – 10-frame, number word, counting fingers, dice, and set of items (children dressed in winter clothes).). All the graphics pieces are the same size (except the set of children) and can fit into any of the mat spaces. The sets of children always go along the bottom of the mat.

This activity can be used as:
• Directed individual activity – each child creates own number anchor charts to post in the room or take home.
• Center – print all pieces on cardstock and laminate.
• Daily math journal – make a page a day and bind into a booklet to keep.

This resource is FREE to KidSparkz site members!

winter number sense activities for kindergarten

In the second pack, the children create numbers 1-10 web graphic organizers by cutting and pasting 6 ways that numbers can be represented onto a number mat background.

The 6 ways that numbers can be resented used here are: 10-frames, tally marks, dice, finger counting, objects in a set, and the number word.

Each number activity includes 3 pages – a web graphic organizer; a page with 6 ways numbers can be represented, to cut and paste, in color; and a page with 6 ways that numbers can be represented, to cut and paste, in b/w. Choose either the page in color, or the page in b/w, for the activity.

Concepts and skills: categorizing, vocabulary, cutting, gluing, picture placement, concept of a web graphic organizer, overview of some ways numbers can be represented, making choices, and having fun while learning number concepts.

Here are some FREE hot chocolate flashcards 0-20 to use for number recognition and sequencing. print 2 copies for matching games.