Thursday, September 24, 2015

Fall Sensory Table

 Fall is HERE! 
This is an exciting time of the year as nature has provided us (Teachers) with an abundance of learning opportunities...To stimulate the senses in my activity room, which on any given day contains 15-20 young minds I added this to my sensory table...

What is it ?  It is 25 pounds of CRITTER FOOD (corn and sunflower seeds - MINUS the PEANUTS) plus crystal acorns, pumpkins gourds and fabric leaves....  
Activities using Critter Food can include:
All the senses (except tasting)- visual, smelling, touching, hearing
Math Activities- counting, patterning, measuring & comparing qauantity 
Science Activities- sorting, ordering, seriation (big, bigger, biggest or small, smaller, smallest), simularities and differences
Art Actiivties- collages (gluing), painting, making rainsticks and shakers (using the corn and sunflower seeds
Fine Motor Skills- filling, dumping

For more Fall suggestions keep checking back!


Wednesday, September 16, 2015

Natures Bounty Collection


                          

 Nature’s Bounty Collection 1
 Acorns in the Classroom

It will not be long before we are tripping over, stepping on, cracking, throwing and trying to get rid of all these acorns… Nature has provided us with an abundance of countable, sort-able, collectible, and observable and multiple usage items when it gave us the ACORN…

This packet includes more than 50 pages of tips and uses for the acorn. 
Included are:
Tips for gathering & collecting 
Using Senses for Discovery Pages
Math Activities- Counting 1-25
Steps for drying and storing 
Songs and finger plays about 
Sorting by Attributes (color, size)
Sensory Table ideas
Counting charts
Classroom Graphs/ Individual Graphing Exercises
Classroom Observation book cover and pages
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Lesson Plans for:

Pre-K/ Kindergarten: Language Arts, Science and Math
1st Grade: Language Arts, Science and Math
2nd Grade: Language Arts, Science and Math

All Lesson Plans have a list of Indiana Academic Standards that the activities meet for each lesson plan.

Math for Pre-k/ Kindergarten: Number Sense, Computation and Algebraic Thinking, Geometry, Measurement and Data Analysis.

Math for 1st Grade: Number Sense, Computation and Algebraic Thinking, Measurement and Data Analysis

Math for 2nd Grade: Number Sense, computation and Algebraic Thinking and Measurement

Science for Pre-K/ Kindergarten: Physical and Life Science (K.1.1) (K.3.1) (K.3.3)
Science for 1st Grade: Physical and Life Science (1.1.1) ( 1.1.2) (1.3.1) (1.3.3) 
Science for 2nd Grade: Life Science (2.3.1) (2.3.2)

Language Arts for Pre-K/ Kindergarten: Print Concepts, Phonics, Key Ideas and Textual Support, Handwriting, Discussion and Collaboration

Language Arts for 1st Grade: Print Concepts, Phonics, Key Ideas and Textual Support, Handwriting, Discussion and Collaboration

Language Arts for 2nd Grade: Print Concepts, Phonics, Key Ideas and Textual Support, Handwriting, Discussion and Collaboration
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Lesson Plans also are Common Core Aligned
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All pages are printable- just make copies and distribute. Ideal for math centers, writing centers, sensory play and discovery, science centers!!! Materials (acorns) are free for gathering



Available at: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Acorns-in-the-Classroom-in-Math-Science-and-Language-Arts-2085909