A Whole Lot of Bunny Fun!

I’m throwing back to a post from a couple of years ago tonight! It’s been another crazy weekend of dance for me, so all of my center drawers are not set for the week yet, but I’ll be using most of the same activities from my Hoppin’ Into Spring Math and Literacy Center Pack. I’ll also be throwing in some of the activities from my April Word Work pack to round out my word work drawers.

Here are the pics from my center drawers from a few years ago: (there are a few freebies thrown in there too!)

{Literacy}

Counting Syllables

Using our sight words to write super sentences!

Practicing the tricky tr and dr blends:

Matching ending sounds to the picture and stamping the CVC word:

Cracking an egg to write the digraph:

{Math}

Adding with 3 numbers: 

Still working on naming and saying the value of coins.

Which number is bigger?

Working with number words.  The children crack an egg and build the number word with the letter tiles that are inside of each egg. (download this one below!)

Who doesn’t love Peeps?

I think I forgot to snap a pic of the recording sheet for these 2 centers. The top one is for count the room, and the bottom is for an egg vowel hunt.

Here are some centers that we did last year too…I would love a comment if you download! 

For this center, you can use picture cards or miniatures (like the ones from Lakeshore)

I can’t remember where the original idea for this sheet came from.  If you know or if it’s you, please let me know so I can give credit where it is due!  For this activity, I put an assortment of jelly beans in a plastic egg – each child gets an egg to sort and graph. Fun!

We follow Scott Foresman Reading Street, and I usually save the book Bunny Time for this time of year.  We use this sheet to record things that we do in the morning, afternoon, and night.

If you’re interested in the activities from my Hoppin’ Into Spring pack, click {here}.  It is on sale for the next few days!

Here is the link for my April Word Work pack too!

I will be starting to work on my May Word Work pack in the coming days, so if you have any suggestions for skills to include, please leave a comment!

Have a great week!

Hoppy Spring…a little late, but…

We made these sweet bunnies just before Easter, but I’m only now posting them! :P  You could still certainly throw this cutie patootie bulletin board up in no time!

I needed something SUPER fast, and I knew this would fit the bill. I let the kiddos choose which color rabbit they would like to have and also let them choose the scrapbook paper.  I think they turned out just darling and I see their personalities in each one!  This board was inspired by this uber cute board! It’s so much cuter than mine, but I love mine so much!

PS – Do you think they need feet?  I feel like there is something missing! (I just didn’t want to cut out all of the little feet!!)

Now, if only spring would cooperate and get here already!! Sheesh – you would think I live in Siberia!

Easter Week Centers

We have a 3 day week this week and next, so I switched things up a bit and went for 6 math and 6 literacy centers for the next 2 weeks.  So far so good!

Here is what the kiddos are working on:

{Literacy}

Counting Syllables

Using our sight words to write super sentences!

Practicing the tricky tr and dr blends:

 

Matching ending sounds to the picture and stamping the CVC word:

 

Cracking an egg to write the digraph:

 

{Math}

Adding with 3 numbers: 

 

Still working on naming and saying the value of coins.

Which number is bigger?

 

Working with number words.  The children crack an egg and build the number word with the letter tiles that are inside of each egg. (download this one below!)

Who doesn’t love Peeps?

I think I forgot to snap a pic of the recording sheet for these 2 centers. The top one is for count the room, and the bottom is for an egg vowel hunt.

Here are some centers that we did last year too…I would love a comment if you download!  I’m making cookies/dessert for Easter – what’s your favorite thing to make for your kids (or with your kids) for Easter?

For this center, you can use picture cards or miniatures (like the ones from Lakeshore)

I can’t remember where the original idea for this sheet came from.  If you know or if it’s you, please let me know so I can give credit where it is due!  For this activity (doing it on Wednesday!), I put an assortment of jelly beans in a plastic egg – each child gets an egg to sort and graph. Fun!

We follow Scott Foresman Reading Street, and I usually save the book Bunny Time for this time of year.  We use this sheet to record things that we do in the morning, afternoon, and night.

Let me know what goodies you like to bake for Easter! Leave a link if you can!

Easter Math & Literacy

We had a short week this past week at school and it was even shorter for me!  On Tuesday, I had curriculum meetings and was not in the classroom, and on Thursday, I was home again with my little one.  She just can’t kick what she has.  She has been fever free for a few days now, hopefully she’ll be healthy now!!

Because it was a short week, I combined our math and literacy centers so that there were a total of 5. 

Here is a quick glimpse of what we did:

We had lots of fun on our IWB – my friend created this flipchart – we were practicing symmetry here.

Some jellybean graphing fun!  Each child got their own plastic egg filled with jelly beans and sorted, counted, made a pattern, and graphed their jellybeans.  I believe the original idea for this came from Mrs. Gagne’s Kindergarten.

This center came from Mailbox Magazine.  The children choose a carrot, clap the number of syllables, and write the word (and write the number of syllables).  This was a great review for my kiddos since we hadn’t really worked on syllables for a while.

I got this center from a friend – the kids choose 2 different colored eggs from a basket and fill in the number on the number grid.  Great practice for quickly finding numbers on the 100s grid!

I used the adorable chicks from Dollar Tree for this center! Last year, I just used an egg, but this one is too cute!

The eggs for this center also came from Mailbox Magazine.  The children match the picture to its ending sound and stamp the word.

At this center, the kids cracked the egg, and put the number word (zero-ten) in the write order.  They also wrote the number and made tallies for each number.