Patterns Display: Mosaics

 

This is another great fine motor activity for primary students: mosaics.

Students paste coloured squares on top of a black and white template. This can be a great craft activity integrated into Maths lessons when working on patterns.

I laminated these ones as they were displayed on an outdoor wall.

Money Spelling

 

Easily integrate maths and literacy with this fun money spelling activity. For either an in-class, extension or homework activity, students calculate how much a word is worth.

Each child is given the same template (see below) from which to base their calculations.

 

To introduce the activity, have the students practice calculating how much their name is worth. Here's a sample template to record the sums:

 

 

For a spelling practice activity, students can then calculate how much each word is worth.

Maths Posters

Some Addition and Subtraction posters for classroom display!

 

Letter and Number Identification

The following are some ideas/samples of letter and number identification artwork my Kindergarteners completed a couple of years ago (we used Spalding font):

 

The first uses coloured matchsticks to create the neck of a giraffe for the Number One.

 

 For the Number Two, students smeared glitter and glue around the number in this swan template.

 

The Number Three bird was patterned with stars.

 

We used mosaic tiles to create the letter 'C':

 

For the letter 'O', we pasted stickers onto the template.

Frosty the Snowman.........

Christmas theme, or unit on Seasons and Weather? How about this Snowman treat for a procedure writing task? It's super easy, it's super cute and it's super delicious. All you need it some icing sugar, marshmallows, choc chips biscuits and icing pens.

  

Boggle

You might have seen this concept floating around on the educational Pinterest boards of some, and hasn't it taken off?! Here is my version of the interactive classroom Boggle board, used for Literacy Groups as well as a fast finishers spelling activity.

 

My Student of the Week recipient has the grand honour of changing the letters each week, which are affixed using sticky-back velcro. 

Students can use the following template, or the mini whiteboards, to save paper:

 

There is also a Boggle App for the iPad that has been quite popular in my classroom.

Lifecycles: Tadpoles

Oooooh look out our little classroom tadpoles and froglets! The Science Stage 1 topic of Lifecycles calls for the observation of animals in the different stages of their growth. We considered having silk worms but thought tadpoles would be more interesting - and they were very popular!

The kids were so excited to watch the tadpoles transform; grow legs and lose their tails, and were almost sad when we had to release them back into a pond in the local park.

Place Value

This is a basic resource I made for teaching Place Value during mathematics. I whip it out when using MAB blocks to teach concepts. It can be modified to include hundred and thousands quite easily.

In action during whole group instruction:

 

 

Kabuki Masks

Here are some Kabuki masks my clever little year 1 students made. I provided the template and after discussing colours associated with emotions, the children designed their own masks. 

We actually performed a kabuki dance for our assembly item and we mounted these masks on paddlepop sticks as part of our costume.

Maths: Gumballs

Chance Gumballs

Here is a chance worksheet using gumballs. I have provided a black and white template for modification, or so that students may stick coloured dots on instead.

Japanese Artwork: Celebrating Cultures

 

This was our Young in Art entry with the focus on 'Celebrating Cultures'.

We had been studying Japan, its culture and geography and watched some Japanese festivals on the IWB. Students used watercolour paints to paint the images, then cut, pasted and arranged on black paper along with string.

(google images: kimono kids)

The finished product: