Hello All,
I found these super cute ice cube trays in the Target $1 section. I bought 4 of them to create a center with. I am going to place letters/numbers in the bottom of each space and have the children bounce a small bouncy ball into the tray. Whichever space it lands in the children identify the letter/number and write it on a recording sheet. This can be done with animal pictures, rhyming pictures, vocabulary words and spelling words.
For the beginning of the year I will have tweezers with pompoms in a center and have the children fll the ice cube trays with them. I will move this activity up to patterns when my 4's are ready. What would you do with these cute trays?
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Till next time,
Christine
Hello All, Today we had so much fun with our sight word from my freebie Snowflake Slap . First I laid out all of the snowflakes on the carpet. If the child could read me the word they could keep the card and crumple it into a snowball. Once all of the words were read and squished I told the class we could have a snowball fight! It was such great fun that we took our "snowballs" into another kinder classroom and attacked them. As the kids threw the sight word snowballs we made more snowballs and threw them into the crowd from leftover paper. It was great fun! Once we settled back into our classroom we placed all of the snowballs into a bucket and each child pulled a word. If they could read it they recorded it on the left side of the worksheet below, if they couldn't read the word they recorded it on the right. The ones most did not know were pretty consistent so I know which ones we need the most work on. So hop on over the TpT to grab your free copy of Snowflake Slap an
I love this idea1! I teach pre-k also and love doing activities like this with my students! I would use these ice trays for patterns, sorting, alphabet, numbers...pretty much everything I teach I could use these switch these out. I plan on writing numbers on the tray and have students count that many of 'rocks' and put them in each tray. kristinavoelker@gmail.com
ReplyDeleteBack in June, Target had cute ice cube trays that made star ice cubes. And the best part...there are ten stars in each tray! It's so hard to find ice cube trays that only make ten cubes! I bought a few. I plan on doing the pom pom transfer with them, but also teaching number sense and counting up to ten. If I could find some star shaped buttons, I would use the trays for the kids to sort the buttons by color. I really like your bouncing ball idea!
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