Items filtered by date: February 2012
Kk is for kite poster
3D Kite Booklet
5 pages. A wonderful way to review 3D shapes during March. Students trace and write the 3D shape word as well as the color word + cut and glue the matching 3D kite to the appropriate picture page.
123 Count Shamrocks With Me
Shamrock Coin & Counting Games
I have quite a few shamrock themed activities for reading and writing, so I wanted to make sure that you had some for math as well.
Shake Your Shamrocks is a simple game to help your students review skip counting by 2’s 3’s and 5’s.
I’ve also made a game board for counting by 1’s for younger students. These games would be perfect any time, but a great addition to your St. Patrick’s Day activities.
The object of the game is to help the leprechaun get to his pot of gold by rolling a pair of dice and taking the face value of the number needed or adding and subtracting to get there.
For example, in order to move one space ahead, if you are skip counting by 3’s, you need to roll a 3, or a 2 and a 1 (add) or a 4 and a 1 (subtract) etc.
Encourage students to count out loud as they move their marker around the board. Plastic gold coins, shamrock erasers, and small rocks (Blarney Stones) make great markers.
If you are counting by 1’s, you play with only 1 dice. This game has a different set of rules, where students lose a turn, switch places with their partner and move backwards one space, depending on the roll of the die.
Click on the link to view/download Shake Your Shamrocks skip counting game.
Another game I think that your students will enjoy playing is Spin To Win-Dollar Holler where strategy counts or does it?
Children choose 1 of 3 columns, that they try and fill, in their quest to reach the amount of $1.00.
Includes a graphing extension. All games include a certificate of praise for participants as well as winners.
Click on the link to view/downoad Dollar Holler a fun game for St. Patrick's Day!
Coin Shamrocks makes a nice math center activity for March/St. Patrick’s Day. The object here is to identify the coins and figure out the total value that is displayed on each shamrock.
I’ve included an identification shamrock sample for each coin that will help students who still struggle with this concept.
Students can play independently or with a partner to see who can fill in their shamrock cards first. Students can use coin manipulatives as well as the little matching value cards to cover the shamrocks.
Includes a blank shamrock template to program your own coin cards + a certificate of praise. Click on the link to view/download Shamrock Coins
A wonderful little easy-reader booklet that involves both counting and coins is How Much Is This Shamrock?
It’s a terrific transition into a reading-writing block after students have completed the above math stations and is a nice Daily 5 activity for St. Patrick’s Day.
Students help the leprechaun purchase a variety of rainbow-colored shamrocks as they cut and glue the appropriate coins to the matching pages. Click on the link to view/download the shamrock coin booklet.
Finally, there are a variety of other shamrock counting booklets available as well. Simply click on the link to zoom to the Shamrock section and scroll down to download whatever fits your needs.
Thanks for visiting today. Feel free to PIN away. I hope all your Irish eyes, are smiling during your St. Patty's Day activities.
"A child educated only at school, is an uneducated child." -George Santayana
How Much Is This Shamrock Booklet
Coin Shamrocks
A Fun Way To Learn & Reinforce CVC Words
CVC Word Craftivities
Your students will LOVE Wisicigi (wa-sa-sig-ee) Time + it really helps get CVC and word wall words into their heads!
This is a great activity to plug in for a writing center or for your Daily 5 too.
Wisicigi comes from wi(write it) si(stamp it) ci(cut it out) and gi(glue it).
Make a copy of my WOW (Wonderful Outstanding Word) poster and hang it up so that you can post what the WOW’s are for the day.
Depending on the level of your students, choose from 1-3 words for them to work on.
The one pictured has a spring theme to it.
Make copies of the WOW wisicigi sheet.
Run off the alphabet sheets on a variety of colored copy paper.
Students cut out the letters and glue them on their papers to spell the words like a ransom note.
Keep recycling the sheets ‘til all of the letters are used up. I keep mine in a file folder.
I made the cute alphabet sheet with a free font from Kevin and Amanda’s free scrapbook fonts site. Check them out for other cool fonts.
Students write their words in colored pencils, markers or crayons.
Children stamp the words with alphabet stamps and different colored stamp pads.
I got my alphabet sticks from Discount School Supply.
I really like that they are a “stick”, as it’s easy for the children to hold.
Unfortunately, they no longer sell the lowercase letters, only the uppercase ones. They are $26.99.
Click on the link if you'd like to take a look.
I’ve seen mini upper and lowercase alphabet sets at Michael’s Crafts for only $1 and nice letter sets in the scrapbooking department, in a variety of price ranges, at Hobby Lobby and JoAnn Fabrics.
When students have completed their WOW sheet they use the words in a sentence and write it on the bottom.
I use a different color marker to write the WOW words, than the other ones in my sentence so they “pop”.
Challenge students to see who can write the shortest sentence using the least amount of words.
These sheets make a great home-school connection so parents know what words to work on with their child.
When you make WOW’s a part of your daily routine, students are empowered, as they know what to do and get down to business.
They are having fun and will be learning CVC and word wall words in no time.
Teachers are freed up to help ESL and struggling students one-on-one. Such a nice win-win!
Click on the link to view/download Wow Charts to help with CVC and word wall word comprehension.
Scroll down if you're looking for more Shamrock-themed ideas, and be sure to pop back tomorrow when they'll be about coins and counting!
Do you have a successful CVC tip you'd like to share? I'd enjoy hearing from you! diane@teachwithme.com OR...feel free to leave a comment here, especially if you use one of my ideas. Thanks in advance!
Shamrock Reading Games
Get Shakin' With Shamrock Games And Spice Up Reading Routines!
Blend To Get To The End involves the Sh for shamrock blend, as well as 23 others!
Students pretend to be leprechauns whose goal it is to get to their pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, by skipping along a shamrock trail.
In order to do that they need to identify shamrock cards with either a blend on them or one with a blend and an example of a word with that blend in it.
This game includes a game board, 42 word - blend shamrocks, 24 shamrocks with just a blend on them, a blank sheet of shamrocks to make your own templates, + 2 certificates of praise.
Review another standard; by having students trace their trails in an ABAB pattern. Click on the link to view/download Blend To Get To The End Shamrock Game
Shhh it’s a Shamrock is a slider that specifically works on the sh blend at the beginning and end of 56 words. Choose which strips you want to work on.
Students enjoy this hands-on manipulative, as they trace the words with markers or crayons. Again, this can be done in an ABAB pattern.
Includes 56 traceable word cards, a cover to turn them into an Itty Bitty booklet, tips of what else to do with the cards, a student log and a certificate of praise.
Click on the link to view/download Shhh It’s A Shamrock Packet
Finally, your students will enjoy putting shamrocks together to make CVC words beginning with the letter L for leprechaun in CVC Shamrock Word Fun
This packet includes a skill sheet for students to make a letter L CVC word list on, + an answer key.
21-traceable word cards with a cover so students can make an Itty Bitty booklet; vowel and consonant shamrocks and a blank set of shamrocks so you can make your own templates + a certificate of praise.
Click on the link to view/download the CVC Shamrock Word Game
Scroll down for an awesome reading-writing activity with a spring theme. I know you're going to really like this one!
Classroom Ready Poster
CVC Daily Word Activity
