The Crazy Pre-K Classroom

Numbers-in-the-Ocean-1-10-booklet We started our Numbers in the Ocean booklet today with great success. I was a little worried that there would be too many instructions to follow but my kiddos did great! Here you can see that my children were able to follow 10 directions with a sample hanging on the board that they could see from their seats. 1. Trace the number. 2. Trace the number word 3. Read the sentencs and circle the number word. 4. Write the number word 5. Write the number 5 times 6. Color the correct amount of boxes to represent the number. 7. Color the correct box on the number line 8. Tally the number. 9. Color the objects. 10. Using small movements, color the bubble border!    This was so amazing to watch! They were so intent on doing each task and doing it neatly, I was so proud! My-Sea-Life-Sentence-Building-Booklet-Ocean-animals We also started our ocean themed sentence building booklet today. I used this as a literacy center d...

Today was the 100th day of school and my class counted 100 legos, which got me thinking of all the great learning activites we could do with them: 1. Count: today we counted to 100, I passed out 10 sticks of 10 leggos, then we counted by ones to 100 and by 10's to 100. 2. Stack while counting: We stacked our legos while counting by 10's, once our tower was build we compared ourselves and common classroom objects to the height of the tower. Had I thought this out earlier I would have had a recording sheet with the items we compared. 3. Patterns: We then took our legos apart and created a few types of patterns by color and by size of legos. 4. Addition: you can add the legos themselves in groups or you can add the dots on different sizes of legos. 5. Non-Standard Measurement: Tomorrow I am going to give each child 10 legos stacks and a recording sheet. I will instruct them to measure and record how many rows of leggos long each object is. We will then also count them by 10...