Chinese New Year Lantern for Kids

Chinese New Year 2014 Fun! Let your kiddos create a Chinese New lantern.

This Chinese New Year craft includes two different lantern patterns.

One lantern includes all the signs of the Chinese Zodiac - New Year, so no matter if it is the year of the horse 2014 or another sign, you can use this hat every year.

The second pattern includes Chinese symbols for the Chinese new year including dragons, Chinese coins, a money bag and more. Each lantern requires only printing one page and a strip for a handle.

You can find this Chinese New Year item in my teacherspayteachers store {HERE}

You can view all my Chinese New Year crafts in my teaching resource store if you click on the picture below. Just scroll down once you get to my store.

 

100th Day Activities for the Number 100 with Polar Bears

100th Day of School- This 100 Days of School Activity Pack has many polar bear themed math activities to reinforce learning numbers and counting up to 100.

This unit for the number 100 includes polar bear counting cards up to 100. Here are a few ways to use counting cards.

Use them like flashcards where students call out the number
Let students line them up in order like a train
Use them to practice skip counting where students display how to count by 2's, 3's, 5's, or 10's
Line them up and remove a few numbers and your kiddos guess the missing numbers

The unit also includes a large and small 100's sorting mat and printable counting bears (polar bears, that is) counters for sorting. You can also use this mat to sort different types of snacks or cereal or candy that comes in different colors.

Next, add some more polar bear fun with the color 100 fish activity. You can step things up and ask your students to color each 10 fish in a different color for the 100th day of school.

Finally, I created a 100's chart, a count by 2's chart, a count by 5's chart, and a count by 10's chart. Here is a video that shares how to use the hundreds chart for subtraction and addition. https://www.schooltube.com/video/978f72e94048418cb7a4/Using%20the%20Hundreds%20Chart

To find this item in my teaching resource store, click {HERE}


If you'd like to create a classroom celebration, check our my 100th Day Party Craft Pack that coordinates with these activities and include a 100th day hat, 100th day necklace, and more. Just click {HERE}. 

 

Snow Cycle Craft - - A Frozen Water Cycle for Kids--

Snow Cycle Craft  -- This is a unique way to display and teach your students about the snow water cycle.

 Students will create a snow cycle lantern or wind sock (just add streamers) during your next weather science lesson.

 This presents your typical water cycle using snow as frozen precipitation and displays a melting snowman in the collection area.

There are additional labels you can add that include the terms condensation, evaporation, frozen precipitation (or snow), and collection. Click {HERE} to learn more about this product in my teaching resources store.

St. Patrick's Day Activities: St. Patrick's Day Printables and Crafts

Who's ready for some St. Patrick's Day crafts and fun? If you are, I have all that you need in my St. Patrick's Day Party Craft Pack.

This St. Patrick's Day Craft Party Pack has all you need to celebrate St. Patrick's Day in your classroom or homeschool.

 It includes a  St. Patrick's Day Hat where students will color strips labeled with the colors of the rainbow or you can print them on colored paper like I did here. It includes a Glitter Rainbow Happy St. Patrick's Day pennant banner for your classroom walls or bulletin board.

You also get the Pot O' Bling St. Patrick's Day necklace. Students can color the pieces or you can print them on colored paper..

There are also 2s, 5s, and 10s chains to reinforce counting. Let your students create these chains to decorate your room and practice counting or multiplying by 2s, 5s, and 10s.

 I've also included a set of St. Patrick's Day cupcake toppers too. Enjoy! You can find this St. Patrick's Day Craft set at my teaching resources store {HERE}.

Water Cycle Wind Sock Craft for Weather Science Fun

Water Cycle Craft -- This is a unique way to display and teach your students about the water cycle. Students will create a water cycle wind sock (just add streamers) or a water cycle lantern during your next weather science lesson.

There are additional labels you can add that include the terms condensation, evaporation, precipitation, and collection.

You can find this new product in my teaching resources store {HERE}.

Snow Day Writing Prompt -- Snow Day Printables

Snow day writing pages just in time for winter snow days ... just print and go and your students can write about what they did during their snow day.

Each prompt reads "When I had a snow day..."  There is a snowman writing page, a snowflake writing page, a mitten writing page, a hot chocolate writing page, and a penguin writing page. 

You can find these printables at my TeachersPayTeachers store {HERE} and my Teachers Notebook store {HERE}.

No Error Number Learning for Preschool and Clip It Games for Preschool

It's fun to be the one to teach preschoolers about counting and numbers. A remarkable process takes place when these young children associate a group of three dogs, for example, with the word three and even the number three.

One tool I like to use is no error cards. These cards are created so when young children are learning their numbers and associating objects with words and numbers, they won't make a mistake.

Here's an example of a no error card using cats and dogs.

Each number card has the number at the top. Then it has the same number of pictures as the number on the card.

Children will count as they place a clothespin on each picture on the card.

When they’re finished, a card with a 3 on it and 3 pictures will also have 3 clothespins. As you can see, the students begin to make the association with the numbers, words, and objects and since each picture will have a clothespin on it, there is no way the student will get the wrong "answer."

Another tool I like to use it Clip It Games. This is a follow up to the no error cards. I like these games because they help students learn their numbers and they also work with their fine motor skills.

Each student will take a card and clip a clothespin on the correct answer.

You can find my No Error Cards and Clip It Games in my Cats and Dogs: Math Games and Math Centers Beginning Number Concepts Numbers 1-10 set.