Today was most definitely the Monday before Halloween. 🙂 The kiddos are on the countdown for endless amounts of sugar and dress up!! Honestly,.. so am I. Any excuse to devour piles of sugar makes me THIS HAPPY!! Today, we reviewed place value. During the middle of our little review lesson…I totally had one of those moments were you switch gears and revamp the lesson plans! Ever had one of those??? Love ‘um. Rather than building numbers the usual way, the kiddos had to build a number by creating a pumpkin! 
They had to write how many tens and ones their pumpkin had, along with a sentence of what their pumpkins place value was. I just love how these turned out. 
We have been working on timelines in Social Studies, so as a little extension activity, the kiddos created these *adorable* pumpkin timeline hats. We didn’t quite get finished with them today, so they will finish these up tomorrow. 
And as a little Halloween gift to you all….I am leaving you with this pumpkin filled freebie! Hope you can find some activities in it to use this week. Hopefully I’m not too late. {Click on the picture to download} 
Happy Monday friends!
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While I’m sitting at OT for little P, I thought I’d share a fine motor activity with y’all! 😬 I’ll be doing preschool with him at home next year (his daycare got torn up by a storm🌪) and fine motor + alphabet are two things we’ll be hitting all year. So, I wanted to incorporate as much of both into one activity as I could. 💪 These lacing cards are going to work his little fingers all while learning the alphabet and letter sounds. 🍎 These (+ several other fine motor mats) are available in my store! // Link below 💜💜 www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Alphabet-Activities-Lacing-Letter-Mats-Fine-Motor-Lacing-Card...
A few years ago I used this Friend-Diagram activity with my students to teach compare and contrast! I always love how they turn out! It’s FREE on the blog and I re-shared it in my Weekly Recap (several weeks ago) on the blog, too! Hope you can use it! Link here 👉 // smittenwithfirstblog.com/weekly-recap-3/
Sticky Tables was a class favorite years ago! It gets kiddos up and moving!! 🤩 It works with multiple subject areas/standards and can also be used for informal assessments! 👍 My last post showed how to use it with skip counting and here I show it used with subitizing/number sense, ABC order, and handwriting practice. See previous post for directions on how to play 💜💜
Re-sharing this skip counting number lines activity from years ago! 👉 Skip counting from any given number is such an important skill for our little ones - not just reciting 2,4,6,8,etc! Here's how we did it! Put sticky notes on the table, each student chooses one sticky note to start off with and then they just fill in the boxes using an expo marker on their desk! You could even use washi tape to create the number lines!