Math Stations BUILD

 I have 10 tubs for BUILD and one extra place on the computer because I have 22 kiddos!  Tub One is books about math.  I try to put a collection of new books in this tub when I change it out each 2 weeks.

 Using manipulatives in tub 2 is a game where the kids roll 3 dice and add all the dots together.  They cover the candy with that number on it.

 Independent work in tub 3 is a worksheet where the children count how many items there are in each ten frame and match the numeral.  It is a cut and glue activity.

 Learning and using numbers is fun.  I found a 20 sided die!  The kids roll the die and put a frog eraser on that number until all the numbers are covered.

 Doing math is a tub where the kids match the links by color and then create a line with 10 links.

This tub goes along with the unit of valentines and all the books we read.  They roll the die count out that many valentine people.  They take turns and when all the people are gone they count to see who has the most people.

 This is just a tic tac toe game using bugs and frogs.

 This is a roll the dice and create a tulip or a chick.  It is like cootie bugs.

 This is a game from Kim Adsit where a die is rolled and each child moves one way and then the other way until one child gets all the way to the end.

The child picks a domino and writes the number of dots on each side.  They add the dots together and write the number on the ladybug.

This is the computer station for that extra group!!

Letter E and literacy tubs

 We read every Elmer the Elephant book our library had.  We made an elephant with our handprint and added the details today.  They did a great job on the background of coloring top to bottom and side-to-side.

 Literacy tubs this week included a game called melt the snowman.  One child called a sight word and the other children had to slap their hand on the snowman first.  The card was then turned over because the snowman was melted.

 This tub had small white boards and markers which they love to use.  I had picture cards that had the word on the back.  The child was supposed to try to write the word using the strategies we learned and then turn the card over to check the answer.  This is mud just in case you can't tell!

 This tub had two sets of puzzles.  One set was wooden pieces and each word had 3 parts.  The picture below is the other set in the tub and it was 3 cards.

This set is a game from teacherspayteachers.  The card says AAlbanese.  It might have been one of the free downloads.  Sorry I don't remember!  There are 4 letters and 16 cards.  The kids had to sort the cards by the beginning sound and then write the CVC words on a tree map.  It was very easy for some and not so easy for others.  It depended on if the child knew the letter sounds!

Community Helpers

 We read lots of books about firemen.  This one was really cute and it had a CD that read it!  I got it from Scholastic.  There is also a short clip on United Streaming about firefighters.

 We made a tree map together about what we learned about firefighters.

We used those facts to create a paragraph about firemen!  There are 4 sentences.  We voted on which facts to include then I wrote the sentences.  The kids copied me on their papers.  I am excited about how well they turned out.  It is my hope that by the end of the year, this will be an independent activity!

 We finished the presidents with our current president, Mr. OBama.

 I think the children have caught on that I LOVE chocolate!!!  I will be happy for several weeks!!

This is a syllable count that Mrs. Voss created.  First, we clap the syllables.  Then we sound out the word a syllable at a time and write the sounds we hear.  I tell the kids that this is kid writing and I can read it.  We hope to give them confidence in writing themselves without worrying about if it is the right way!

These are some great books about voting for a president.

We discussed two very important presidents.  We compared what we learned about them and drew a picture.

We made an American bald eagle by tracing our hands and one foot.

We made an American flag with 13 stripes.

We made the liberty bell with a crack in it.

We measured ourselves next to a picture of Abraham Lincoln.  He was very tall!!

Literacy tubs and the letter J

 We read and sang the nursery rhyme about Jack and Jill.  We listed some opposites of our own and then illustrated them.

Boy and girl, sunny and cloudy, sad and happy, and up and down.  They did a good job.

My favorite is hot and cold.  Most of the kids are trying to write using their kid writing skills of sounding out the words.

 These are the new tubs we are doing this week.  This is a stamp a word.  We have 3 sets of stamps sorted in ice trays so the letters are easy to find.  What a great idea, Mrs. Voss!!

 This is using play doh to form the letters.  It uses lots of muscles in the hands to form the "snake" to make the letter.  Then the kids are supposed to make a splat of play doh and use a letter stamp to press out the letter.  Kids just seem to love play doh!

This is the first time these pattern cores have been in a station for independent work.  We usually do these whole class.  It seemed to go ok today but no one at this table finished the page.

This is another paper where the kids look at the picture and stretch out the sounds to spell the word.  I created this template!

Literacy tubs last week and the USA

 This tub had cards in it.  The children had to match the picture and the words to finish a puzzle.  It was great for finger manipulation and visual discrimination. 

The children picked a card and then wrote the CVC words on a snowman.  The cards all had pictures that could be spelled with 3 letters.  If they finished quickly, they turned the paper over and wrote more words on the back.

 This tub had a paper from pinterest that had out of order sentences.  The kids cut the words apart and recreated the sentence in the correct order.  Once the capital letter was first and the punctuation was last, the rest of the sentence went together easily!

This seems to be math most of the time!  We have one basket that goes along with a theme and the theme is winter books this time.  The kids roll the dice and add the dots together.  They place a snowball on the snowflake until all the snowflakes are covered up.

 We are studying all about Amercia this week and last week.  We are making another nonfiction book and I will show it when we complete it.  This is the schema chart we created about the flag which in one of our American symbols.

The kids made a page like this for each symbol to include in their book.

 This is the information about the bald eagle.

The statue of Liberty.  I am so excited about how well they can copy information now.  Their handwriting has improved so much!