Gingerbread and Winter Fun!

Winter is on the way and even if it isn't officially yet as the first day of winter is December 21st.  I do know that many of you are already seeing snow on the ground and cold temperatures.  It's even getting chilly here in Florida!

I have FUN teaching products for Grades K-4 that your students will really enjoy.  Today, I will spotlight my Kindergarten through 1st grade products.  They are on sale 20% off Cyber Monday and Tuesday and TPT will take 10% off that total making it 28% off if you use the code TPTCYBER at checkout!  Click any picture to check out the products!

First up Kindergarten Gingerbread Reading and Math Centers includes: Capital and Lowercase Alphabet Match, Sight Word Match, Antonym Match, CVC Dash board game, Count The Room, Cover The Number, and War Comparing Numbers.  Check out some of the pictures below. 

The next two pictures are my brand new Gingerbread Sight Word Fry List Words 26-75!  I have a similar sight word center in my Kindergarten packet, but it uses some of the words from Kindergarten Treasures.  Click the picture to get this one!

My 1st grade Christmas centers are still a big hit.  I have updated the cover and the skills include: Adding Sums of 9 (True or False), Missing Numbers - Addition and Subtraction, Ten Frame Match, Digraphs, CVCe, and Graphic Organizers for Author's Purpose, Main Idea, Character/Problem/Setting/Solution.  Click on the pictures to get it now!

Thanks for hoppin' by Hopkins' Hoppin' Happenings!  Keep on smiling!

Hands On - Letter Recognition!

Today I thought I would share a hands-on letter recognition activity that I used to do when I taught Kindergarten and I actually tried this with pretzels in a Kindergarten class when subbing a few months ago. 1. Give each child card stock (looks even better if it is colored) or cheaper for your pocketbook colored construction paper. 2. Next write the letter they are working on using a Sharpie really big on the paper. 3. Either you or the child trace the letter with glue. My students for the most part could do this themselves so I was able to have it be a center after awhile! 4. Give them something that starts with that letter. The child puts it right on the glue to trace the letter. Example - C - Cheerios, D - Dots (the ones that are stickers), P - Pretzels or popcorn or pom poms, Y - Yarn and I'm sure you can come up with a bunch more! See the picture for a finished product for the letter P - Pretzels

This is a perfect lesson for Pre-K, Kindergarten, or 1st graders who have not mastered their alphabet or really any child no matter the grade that hasn't.  I have had 2nd graders who don't know all their letters.  The children have fun with it and I have seen them master the alphabet so much quicker this way!!!

 Brian :-)