Blog Hoppin' Freebie Friday Linkups

I don't think I can pick only one thing that I love teaching in kinder!  The teaching themes are super fun and math utilizes an abundance of manipulatives. When the children start to decode, read and write, I am always thrilled and excited! One really fun activity was my "d or b song" and manipulatives! You can try them too, if you'd like. 

It is a very difficult task teaching students the difference between lower case b and d.  I had tried many of the great ideas others have shared, but I still have children that are confused.  This was a bit frustrating for me.   I watched them make mistakes in their reading only because they confused those two letters.  So I tried something a bit off the wall.

This was the concept that "b" can only walk one way on his street.  Likewise, "d" can only walk one way (the other way) on his street. 

A ridiculous song was included!

The b and d pages come with various fonts.  This is great to use in the beginning of the year when you want students to be able to recognize the different looks of the letter.

Click (here) to get the Bb Street page.
Click (here)to get the Dd Street page.
Click (here) to get the various b and d fonts.

Enjoy the show! Hee, hee!

You can also use these manipulatives. These are really fun!

Click (here) to get these for your students.

Kindergarten is the best!!!

Back to link up!

Five for Friday: Fabulous Freebie and Fun!

Yeah, I'm a day early!

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If you plan to teach money value and coin recognition to your students, you may find this freebie useful. Click away!
Part 1 Money book
Part 2 Money book
Format for book
Fold on the broken lines and cut on the solid lines.

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Enjoy Mr. R's coin song to reinforce your money lessons!

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Try some back to school fun with this "clean house" activity!  Find an area that is divided into two sides or areas.  Divide students evenly into each of the two areas.  You will need a good amount of bean bags and evenly divide those among the two teams.  When you give the signal, students "clean house" by tossing the bean bags into the other team's side.  When you give the signal to stop, you count up the bean bags to see who has the cleanest "house." This game is great for practicing counting skills. 

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The sound effects are very enjoyable. The thing I like most is that it has potential applications for every grade level.  You can create a review wheel for your grade level standards, a reward wheel, a PE activity wheel, etc.  Again, the app is Decide Now and it is $.99.

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Here is my classroom jungle area!

The vines are made from green crumbled up streamers. I cut each leaf in either light or dark green.  The palm tree was purchased at a party store and the grass was purchased at a teacher store.

Soon I'll be adding the monkeys...the class is still in progress with those.

  

Subitizing Dots Tree Map Freebie

If you are unfamiliar with the term subitizing, I will explain a little bit about it here.  Subitizing is when a child instantly knows a number of objects without needing to stop and count them.  This skill helps children develop strong number sense.  You can develop this in your students by creating dot plates.  This entails making several arrangements of the same number on several different plates.  
As children become proficient, they may practice conceptual subitizing.  This is when a child uses 2 smaller number patterns to arrive at a larger number. I always found this interesting. I would get a variety of responses when asking my students to explain how they figured out the larger number.

To start you off I have created a slide share for practicing the numbers 3-6.

Subitizing Numbers 3-6 by KinderBlossoms from stinablossom

Click the here for Subitizing Dots Tree Map Freebie. I hope you will find it useful.
The second part of subitizing (numbers 7-9) is found here.

Before I sign off, I would like to share this site with useful free apps!!!

This app is called "Number Rack."

You can slide the beads and cover them with the shade (like the picture above) so students can find the missing amount.

But there are many more!!!

Number Frames, Math Vocabulary, Geoboard, Number Pieces, Number Line-all for free!

Click here now!!!

Number Bonds in kindergarten

 When I first saw number bonds floating around the internet, I did not give them much thought or even a second glance. Firstly, they weren't much to look at. Secondly, I did not understand the value of using them.  It was only after I attended the Conference on Common Core Standards, did I learn that these can be an important tool for student learning.

When using number bonds, it is recommended that you use these three forms of instruction to increase students conceptual knowledge of the concept. These are shown below:

I used number bonds in my classroom to show students the relationship of a part and a part making a whole as in addition. When students are ready, you can vary your activities so that students have a whole and one part requiring them to find a missing part.

Here is an introductory video I used in my class before we practiced as a class.

 

Notice that the teacher uses kid friendly language in the introduction, "3 and 5 make 8."  Later, you can teach students this as a number sentence, "3+5=8." This is so you are moving gradually to the abstract increasing student understanding.

When using number bond work mats, the orientation does not matter.  Most importantly, students need to understand the part, part to whole relationship. Therefore you should vary the orientation of your work mats so students understand that this does not change the relationship.  See examples below.

Heart Number Bond Work Mat 1
I made these prettier number bond work mats.
Feel free to use any of these you would like!

Heart Number Bond Work Mat 2

Heart Number Bond Work Mat 3

Heart Number Bond Work Mat 4

Flower Number Bond Work Mat
Can be used in any orientation!

or use

Can be used in any orientation!
Plain Circle Number Bond
To create a work mat like the example, print two copies of the number bonds on two different colored pieces of card stock.  Glue to a 12 x 18 sheet of construction paper and laminate.

You can duplicate these number bond cards and place them in a center.  Student will the use manipulatives to match the card and draw a picture to match the card.  You can differentiate the activity by adding a step.   Students who are ready, can write number sentences using the number bonds.

Free Number Bond Cards

(Free) Worksheet + Workin' on It Wednesday

A double link up today!  I am joining the Teaching Tribune's "Worksheet Wednesday" as well as the 

Kindergal's "Workin' on it Wednesday!"

Your free worksheet this Wednesday is an envelope sort inspired by my newly finished product. 

Product is available for $1.68.  If you click on the image above, it will take you to the product on TPT.

Now on with the freebie!

Link is below.

However, since I have been "workin' on it" all week!
Here are some examples. 

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Printable Version of these Directions
(If  you need them.)

Worksheet Wednesday Freebie  


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Monday Meet Up With The Teaching Tribune

Just for fun, I am linking up with the teaching tribune for "Meet me Monday." This week the focus is to talk about things that you are thankful for! 

You probably did not know that I am half Puerto Rican and the entire half is in my hair!!! I am thankful for my flat iron because it has saved me from having to always wear my hair extra frizzy curly!!!!

I have admired this lady ever since I was 11 years old. That was the time I discovered her! Unfortunately, I missed all of her early career.  Happily, I have been able to get caught up through YouTube.  

This video makes me laugh!

  I realize that even mega-superstars have an awkward phase!!! 

   

Thank you to all the people who have posted Olivia videos. I could go on about my favorite singer, but covering a career that spans decades would take a lot of time.  Gratefully, Olivia has always inspired me and that takes me to number 3...

I love to karaoke livvy's old country and folk songs.  The ones that I missed in my childhood or missed because I did not exist!  I have had a karaoke machine in my life since I was 18.  I find singing is fun, stress relieving, and makes me feel like the superstar of the living room!  Thankfully, I never get flack for my hours of karaoke! My husband just retreats to the man cave.  He tells me I have a great singing voice, but does not enjoy my choice of songs.  He would surely never lie to me about my singing.

Return to the "Teaching Tribune" to read more great posts!

Ten Red Apples by Pat Hutchins (K.CC.B.4)

I'm linking up with Deanna Jump's "Lets Talk About Books" linky!

This book was found at a used book store down in Long Beach.  It is great for reinforcing numbers 0-10, for introducing the concept of subtraction or one less.  It can also be used to teach animal sounds.  It would be perfect if you are doing an apple themed or farm unit!

The book begins with 10 apples on a tree. The tree progressively loses one apple as different animals eat one.  The farmer wants to have some apples saved for him.

 The pattern of the book continues down to zero...

...until they find another apple tree.

Here are some fall themed number flip books that I never got around to posting last year and would go well with this book... 

numbers 6-9 apple themed

numbers 2-5 fall themed

You get these free by clicking the link below.

Fall Number Review Flip Books