easter
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Easter Leftovers
I hope you had a wonderful Easter! I had a great time relaxing with my family, the highlight of my weekend was our amazing weather, I spent much of Sunday soaking up some sunshine on my parents back porch and it was perfect! I don’t know about you, but I have a ton of leftovers, and i’m not talking about ham, mostly, I mean jelly beans. Thank goodness I love them, but that usually means I end up eating the entire bag by myself. My solution to this is to take them to school. My kiddos did a lot of jellybean math last week – patterning, counting, tallying, graphing, but…
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Friday Freebies
Today is an extra special Friday because I am enjoying a VERY RARE day off! I have vowed to do nothing work or school related today, and am instead spending my day working on crafts projects and getting my house ready for spring (and sleeping in)! Today’s Friday Freebie is one that my students absolutely loved this past week. This one comes from Klever Kiddos, it is a snap cube activity (who doesn’t have snap cubes?!) that encourages children to follow directions and problem solve, and then throws in some math facts too. Students have to build Easter-related items out of snap cubes, following the included picture plans, and then…
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Friday Freebies
It’s Friday, Yay! Today’s freebie is one that I found while working on my lesson plan for next week, I can’t wait to use it with my class. This is a cute Easter themed game from Yay for PreK that encourages children to practice their number recognition skills. It’s called Find the Bunny, and the pieces are designed to fit in a pocket chart. You “hide” the bunny behind one of the numbers, and as the children identify the numbers they get to check behind each egg to see if they have found the bunny. When I use this game I’m going to print two sets, so my kiddos have…
