Hi-Ho Cherryo! Sorting

Hi-Ho Cherryo! is a favourite in our house, even M (at 18 months) joins in. I set up a simple sorting activity using the fruit and buckets. R had to sort the fruit by colour, using tongs to move them into the buckets.

He loved this, and repeated it several times. 

Puzzle Extension

R loves puzzles. When they are on offer, without a doubt, he will choose puzzles. I like to try and find different ways to extend puzzles so he does not lose interest. On this day, he put together the alphabet puzzle for the third time, when I got out the letters for our Fridge Phonics set. He immediately started matching the letters to the puzzle. He did this so fast, even saying most of the letter sounds.

Second Grade Common Core

Check out the next edition of the Common Core Workbooks. This one is the Second Grade Common Core Workbook. I have been lucky enough to get the First Grade and the Kindergarten books and they are great resources.

This book is 575 pages of ELA and Math activities, posters and worksheets all designed to meet the common core. Check it out and download the preview pages.

I highly recommend these books!

Number Block Towers

R is counting everything at the moment. Every opportunity he gets, he counts. He is getting to really know the numbers to 10 and exploring teen  numbers. I made him a simple block counting sheet. He had to identify the number and then build a tower with the right amount of blocks.

This was a simple way to incorporate some number skills into something that R loves. 

Thanks for reading.

Fall Fun

I have blogged about Musings Of Me's great units before. Well, she has done it again!! Check this out. It looks fantastic.It has over 180 pages of differentiated maths and literacy activities including emergent readers. R is just beginning to read, so he loves emergent readers, especially ones that he can colour orange (his favourite colour...and he colours entire pictures orange!) :) The unit is available here.

The only problem is that we are just entering Spring here, so I will have to hold onto it for 6 months! :)

First Grade Common Core

You might remember that I posted about the Kindergarten Common Core Workbook a couple of weeks ago. Well, this book did not disappoint. It contained so many great and usable activities, posters and ideas. I have already used the rhyming words activities, with great success. It will be a resource that I will use many times over. I was excited to see this...

 

The same author has created a similar resource, but geared towards Grade One. The sample pages, available here, show what an invaluable resource this will be. Again, each activity is linked to the First Grade Common Core. It includes both Math and English activities. For just $39.99, you can get 550 pages of fun and learning which are great for students, and reduces teacher workload.

If you are a blogger, and would like to see how you can get this fabulous resource for free, click here.