Study Jams! Science and Math

This post is geared more toward the upper elementary teachers (3-6 ish)...

Scholastic has an awesome website called Study Jams.  It has science and math based learning activities for upper elementary.

When you go to the main screen you will see a bunch of billboards with topics on them. When you click on it a list will show up of skills that are related to the main topic. All you have to do is click on the topic and skill. I have used it in the past to introduce a skill.

Each section/lesson has a video and real life problem to help the kids understand the topic. There is a list of vocabulary words that will also be listed at the bottom of each lesson to review. I do not use it in my kindergarten class but I used it a lot with my third graders. They absolutely loved it!

Visit the website by clicking on the picture below: 

2D Shape book!

http://www.fontspace.com/category/dashed
I may be a little behind on the whole "download your own fonts" gig but.... Go to this website and download PRNT DASHED FONT. It only takes about 2 minutes and you can have the option of creating and printing dashed text straight from a word document!

I was so excited when I discovered this so of course, I had to put it to use!
This week we are going to learn about 2D shapes. My kids will identify them, describe how many sides and corners they have and give examples of them. 

In my shape book I have a page for circles, squares, triangles and rectangles. On each page they will write the word, trace the shape, color pictures of real life objects in that shape, trace the numbers of the sides and corners of the shapes and write a sentences about the shape. 

If you would like a copy of the shape book click HERE.

**When you open this file in google docs the words are NOT dashed, however, once you download it in Microsoft word they will be! 

Here is a sample of something I typed for a shape book I made.

I see a circle. 

Number of the day practice

We are entering week 5 of school and just finished up numbers up to 9. I created number mats for my kids to practice writing, tracing, building, and making their numbers. I used this same template and printed it out nine times. I will dot out the number in the upper left corner for my kids to trace then put the sheets in a sleeve and then a notebook. This will go into a math center for my kids to practice writing and making these numbers.



Click here for your FREE copy. Just dot out the number you want for them to trace.

Subtraction is SMASHING fun!

I definitely stole this idea from Mr. Greg over at Kindergarten Smorgasboard. My kids are working in subtraction this week and to practice we used marshmallows. I gave them the problem on a heart cut out. They counted out the marshmallows and then "Linus the minus" came along and took some away. He loves smashing the marshmallows and they loved smashing the marshmallows too!
For example: if given he problem 4-2 they counted out four marshmallows. Then they would smash two. Then count the ones left over.
It was a lot of fun. I think I may do it again later at Easter with Peeps marshmallows to review! 

Patterning with Popsicle sticks!

I put those cubes to good use this afternoon in our math centers. I colored Popsicle sticks with different patterns and my kids copied them to make patterns with the stacking cubes. They loved it! I will definitely be using this during our math center times more often. It was really easy too. I just colored the Popsicle sticks in AB or ABB patterns. I will add some ABC patterns next week probably. 

I am so stinkin excited about the 100th day of school coming up!! We will be dressing up like 100 year olds and a fellow teacher of mine found a letter that is super cute to send home to parents so that our kids can dress up like old people too! We are going to have a ball. I have lots of ideas and things planned. If you are getting ready for the 100th day and would like to do this here is a letter you can send home to your parents, just fill in the date at the top and sign it at the bottom!

100th day letter to parents

Who's Who and Who's New has lots of really good ideas for the 100th day of school. Go to her TpT store and download these items for the 100th day of school. I think the best thing is an app called oldster.  It is awesome. You take a picture and it makes you look OLD!  If you're planning on celebrating the 100th day you should try this app! You can download a template for your students' pictures here

100th day freebie

Here is a book I made for us to make the day after our 100th day of school. We will draw pictures to retell about our day.

100 day book

I am planning to make a hat like this one that I found on Pinterest! Here is a picture of the one on pinterest...

I opened a Word Document and made 5 columns with one row for their hats. It was really simple to do! I will print them on colored paper to make their hats!

I will definitely be uploading pictures and other things for the 100th day as they come! Leave a comment letting me know what you like to do in your class to celebrate 100 days!!!!

My banner for my door is complete!! 

Shaving cream- number practice, clean desks

Kindergarten babies get real excited really quick but they also get really bored really quick too... Writing numbers to fun songs and poems but hey like it even more when they get to write it in shaving cream! I may do this again with sight words!!