Math Fun With Erasers

We are learning about ladybugs this month. I bought these cute mini bug erasers from Oriental Trading and we did four math activities with them today.

First, we made bug patterns.

Then, we did bug subtraction. We started with 10 and took away 8...

We ended up with 2 bugs.

Then, we practiced addition. Four plus six equals ten. 4 + 6 = 10

2 + 8 =10 

Finally, we made a graph out of our bugs and we talked about what we had the most of and the least of.

Brown Bear, Brown Bear Unit

I have been working on incorporating more literature into my curriculum this year as part of my school's new LAMP (literature, art, music, and poetry) initiative. This month we have been studying Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? The kids and I have had a lot of fun doing activities that correlate to the standards.

We made these brown bears using a fork, wiggle eyes, black markers and pink adhesive foam.

The students made AB patterns using fingerprint animals. This pattern is purple cat, green frog, purple cat, green frog.

This pattern is goldfish, green frog, goldfish, green frog. The pattern below it is yellow duck, green frog, yellow duck, green frog.

We learned about frogs and did this frog research report.

This student is sequencing the animals from Brown Bear according to where they were in the book.

These students are retelling the Brown Bear story with our flannel board set.

This is a pocket chart story that the kids can manipulate on their own.

The students made patterns with goldfish and teddy grams.

We made brown bear treats for cooking on Friday.

Apple Labeling and Apple Graphing

This month our theme is apples. We are doing many fun activities using apples. We did an apple labeling activity to learn about the anatomy of an apple.

 The students had to draw seeds on the apple's flesh.

 The students' apples came out so cute!

This is a graph of our favorite apples. First, the students tried a slice of a green, red, and yellow apple and decided which one was their favorite. Next, they  put an apple cutout on the graph that was the same color as the apple that they liked the best. Last, we analyzed the graph and figured out which apple most of the students liked the best.

First Week of School

During the first week of school we did many fun activities. We did a lot of writing, counting, and reciting practice. We looked at our eyes and made a graph of the color eyes we have. So many of the students had brown eyes that we ran out of room on our graph!

I also got a chance to add some more decorations to my classroom. I reused the name labels on my welcome sign and added each student's name and picture to the word wall. It turned out really cute! Now the students can learn how to spell their friends' names.