April Smartboard and Powerpoint Calendar

 

April Smartboard Calendar (Notebook)

April Powerpoint Calendar 

Here's the April calendar, just a little early.

 

Five Little Froggies Song

 

 Five Little Froggies song chart

Five Little Froggies Song 

I had several emails about the Five Little Froggies video I uploaded yesterday. You asked for the just the song and words, so here they are.

Pond Addition Sort

 Pond Addition Mats

Pond Addition Cards 

Response Sheet

Here's one more Pond Math Workstation to add to your unit. Students will sort the addition facts onto correct mat. They then choose two fact families to record on response sheet. This is a great activity for differentiation in your classroom.  This workstation is aligned with the Common Core Standard:
K.OA.1

Understand addition as putting together and adding to.

Pond Graph the Room

 

Pond Graph the Room

Pond Graph the Room Response Sheet

Here's another Math Workstation.

 Common Core Aligned:

K.MD.3

Classify objects and count the number of objects in each category.  

Five Little Froggies

Five Little Froggies

Here's a little movie about five bad little froggies.

Pond Measurement

Pond Measurement

Pond Measurement Response Sheet

As promised another pond math workstation for you. 

Aligned to Common Core Standards:

K.MD.1

Describe and compare measurable attributes

1.MD.2

Measure lengths of objects

Pond Counting Math Workstation

Pond Counting

Pond Counting Response Sheet

Have your students practice counting, making sets, making graphs and analyzing data all in one math workstation!

Aligned to Common Core Standards

K.MD.3

Classify objects and count the number of objects in each category.

1.MD.4

Represent and interpret data.
K.CC.5
Count to tell the number of objects.

Pond Word Work Station Freebie

Word Cards

Picture Cards

 This is another favorite literacy center of my kindergarteners. I hope your students will enjoy it as well.

Aligned to Common Core Standards

 K.RFS.3

Know and apply grade level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.

 

A Great Day for Discovery!

Below are pictures of the children participating in our pond research. At the end of the morning, every student had explored the bags, visited Pebblego.com (A wonderful website our fabulous principal purchased for our school) and watched the pond videos. They had collected words in each category and  I can't wait to see what they write tomorrow.

Before our Discovery time this morning, we used the group chart about ducks completed yesterday to write a class story. I asked the students to give me a sentence about each category. After completing the class story, I asked them to use their duck fact chart completed yesterday and write at least one or more sentences about each category. I think this exercise gave them insight into what they needed to collect today. (Their independence in writing and reading and taking the initiative to complete projects lets me know that all the frustration I experience at the beginning of the year is paying off!)





Pond Animal Bag Example and Discovery Bag Directions

This is an example of the alligator discovery bag. I have had a lot of questions about the bags. I am also including the directions I put in each of the bags that you can download. Look for pictures tomorrow.

Discovery Bag Directions