Christmas Tree Counting Printable

I can’t wait to share my activity ideas and schedule that I am setting up for my little one, as well as another great giveaway on the way!

In the meantime, here is a freebie that I made for your little one to practice drawing sets of objects.  Don’t just hand your little one a set of crayons/markers and say “get busy.”

First, lay the Christmas Tree Counting Printable on the table with something small and colorful (like skittles) that you and your little one can use to practice counting sets together.

Then, point to one of the trees and show your little one how you might “decorate the tree.”  “Ooh, this tree has the number nine on the star, I’m going to decorate the tree with nine colorful skittles! One, two, three, four, …..etc.”

This is a great way to model the directions by showing your little one how to recognize the number and count out that given quantity, AND by modeling one-to-one correspondence (counting one object per given number).

After you have your little one  complete the hands-on round of the printable, on their own (assisting and prompting where necessary), then explain that instead of skittles, this time they will draw the number of ornaments (circles, candy canes, snowflakes, or whatever shape he/she wants).  Before they begin, model an example of how to do this on a separate sheet of paper.  And that’s it; now you have purposefully used a printable 🙂

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Snowman Picture

When I was teaching in the classroom, I had literacy, math, and open-ended stations that would each accomplish different objectives.  My literacy stations were: 1) reading comprehension, 2) listening comprehension, 3) fluency, 4) phonics, 5) phonemic awareness, and 6) computer skills.

I am going to start planning weekly learning station activities that I hope to post as often as I accomplish this.  I really want to bring back the structure of having activities planned and provided for; that way my little one can start working on skills in an even more fun and meaningful way.

Just like you, I want to make time at home purposeful when my little one isn’t purposefully playing outside, with toys inside, or going about our daily routine.

So, in the meantime, until I post lots of Christmas activities next week, I wanted to share my “winter wonderland” template with ya’ll.

It is SIMPLE.  It is a simple template that I handmade- which you can undoubtedly tell by looking at it.  But, it allows your little one to cut out the images (use fine motor skills), identify shapes (shape recognition), and assemble the images to make a picture (practice spatial skills).  You can help your little one come up with a sentence about it (oral vocabulary), and help them write it (to practice his/her writing skills).

First, he or she will assemble the template however they think it might make a picture, and before gluing it, help them brainstorm where the items might go or what other features they might add (nose, arms, etc.)

Here is my template…..click HERE – Snowman.

And here is one option of how the picture MIGHT look:

 

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Hide and Seek with the AbC’s

Alright, I am back online and ready to share some more GREAT activity ideas with you all 🙂  Oh, mckayla just gave me an early Christmas present; I’ll be back in 5.  Oh, the joys of writing posts with a newborn again!

Have you ever met a little one that doesn’t like hide and seek?  I haven’t.  My little one likes for me to cheat and point out where someone is hiding, but another spin on hide and seek that I love to play with little ones is ABC hide and seek.

First, I like to set the tone by reading a book that sets up the activity.  This is a great one:

The Letters Are Lost!

Next, I hide the letters of the alphabet all around ONE room. Then I have little ones go on a letter hunt to find 26 letters. We count them out and put them in order to make sure that we have them all. This is a simple but great activity you can do in your house using any set of letters that you have, but I have to share some cute amazon finds:

To Accommodate: If your kids know their upper and lower case letters like the back of their hand – hide sight words
If your kids don’t know any letters yet, hide only the letters in their name and have him/her walk around with a paper with their name spelled out in large letters so that when they find it they can look on the paper and mark it off the sheet when they find a letter in their name.

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Baby Sister

This is the longest I have gone without writing a post, and I have a great excuse 🙂
We had a baby girl!!! Mckayla is a tiny and precious little angel who we have been so ready to meet and are now SO glad she is here.
I have been preparing my little one for meeting his baby sister using videos like this one for the last 6 months…

I was surprised he wasn’t bummed when his sister was a human and not a horse because he LOVES horses…

but he loves babies too so it has been a quick adjustment 🙂 My little man welcomed his little sis into this world with so much love and affection.
He loves his baby sister. Always singing “Happy Birthday” to her and kissing her. If a non-family member holds Mckayla he will say “Her down! No hold her! My baby” – which is sweet haha, but we are working on teaching him that it is okay.

Our only dilemna is his everyday attempts to take her noonie.
Sean Patrick would tell me “I miss you” when I was in the hospital so I am glad to be home now and enjoying our growing family.

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Turkey Day Eve – 2010 Repeat

One of my favorite Thanksgiving memories is when my cousins and I would gather together to make crafts that my Aunt had prepared in advance.  So, I couldn’t miss out on the opportunity to make a Thanksgiving-themed activity.

As I talked about in my post “Number Sense,” children need to learn that a number is a symbol that represents a quantity.  Counting slowly, touching one object at a time, is one way to start.  Drawing ojects one object at a time is the next step to practice representing a number.  After your child is exposed to counting through hands-on activities over a period of time, they will start to be able to recognize a group of 3 objects as 3 objects without even needing to count.  So, today’s activity is:

1) Print the turkeys Numbered Turkeys

2) Cut out the turkeys; let your child assist you, teaching him/her how to hold the scissors and take small “bites” carefully.

3) Encourage your child to identify the number on the turkey and draw that many tailfeathers on the tukey’s bottom, making it as colorful or simple as they like using crayons, markers, or even paint (with fingers or brush) if you want to make it more of a craft.

4) As always, have fun!

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