Tag: Homeschool

Music Maker Week

I got to teach a “Music Maker Week” at our Summer Camp. I had about 10 kids Kindergarten-5th grade. Each day we did a Body Percussion song, STEM activity, and made an instrument. For younger kids we watched Little Einsteins.

Day 1:  Wind Chimes

Homemade Instrument: Wind Chimes

  1. Paint your stick if you choose and let it dry.
  2. Tie a string or pipe cleaner to a jingle bell and add several pony beads. You will need to make 3-5 of these.
  3. Tie the other end of the beads to your stick.
  4. Twist 1 pipe cleaner around each side of the stick to hand the wind chimes with.

YouTube Body Percussion video: Pink Panther 

STEM Activity: Paint on a Sheet Music

  1. Print out some sheet music. We chose some easier ones, like the ABC’s; and some longer ones about a rose and about sunshine.
  2. The kids used watercolors to paint on the music.

Day 2: Egg Shaker Maraca

Homemade Instrument: Egg Shaker Maracas

  1. Place rice in an Easter egg.
  2. Place the egg inside of 2 plastic spoons.
  3. Tape the spoons and eggs together.
  4. Dance to Spanish music.
  5. Play Freeze Dance

Egg Shaker Songs:

We Don’t Talk About Bruno

Surface Pressure

YouTube Body Percussion video: Happy 

STEM Activity: Dancing Oobleck

Oobleck comes from the Dr. Seuss book called Batholomew and the Oobleck. It is a non-Newtonian liquid; which means that Oobleck has properties of both liquids and solids. You can look at the mixture sitting there as it appears like a liquid, you can even stick your fingers in it and it will feel like a liquid. You can also grab a handful of it and squeeze it into a ball, then it feels and looks like a solid until it relaxes again.

Here is a video of The Big Bang Theory doing the same experiment.

You need about 2 cups of Corn Starch to 1 cup of water, and then add food coloring for fun.

  1. You can search for “subwoofer test MP3” and download different test tones and play to see what works best.  Use 40 Hz, 50 Hz, and 63 Hz, and turn the volume way up.
  2. Place a cookie sheet onto the speaker of a subwoofer, and pour in the Oobleck.
  3. Before you play the MP3 you will need to place your fingers on the edge of the cookie sheet with gentle pressure to hold it flush against the sub.
  4. Turn on the music and watch the Oobleck jump and dance.

Day 3: Jingle Bell Anklet

Homemade Instrument: Jingle Bell Anklet

  1. Place the jingle bells and pony beads on the pipe cleaner.
  2. Dance with music that moves your feet, to hear the jingles.
  3. Play Freeze dance

YouTube Body Percussion video: I Like to Move It 

STEM Activity: Colored Ice Drums

You need about plastic tubs of different sizes (we mostly used large ice cream tubs), Just add water and then add food coloring for fun. Put in the freezer for a day or two.

  1. Freeze water colored with food coloring in different-sized food containers and bowls.
  2. When frozen, remove the ice shapes from their molds and place them in a tub (we used a plastic kiddy pool).
  3. Add drumsticks and objects for beating the ice drums.

Day 4: Spin Drum

Homemade Instrument: Spin Drum 

  1. Cut the tube into 1 or 2 inch pieces (each child gets 1 pieces)
  2. Take the tube and trace its circumference on the cardboard sheet twice, to make two circles.
  3. Cut out the circles from the cardboard. 
  4. Use a sharp object to cut a slot on the side of the cardboard tube ring. The slot should be big enough to insert a straw through it.
  5. Insert a straw through the slot of the tube section. Apply glue to the areas where the straw and the cardboard tube meet to attach them firmly.
  6. Take a long piece of yarn and attach a jingle bell to one end of the strand. Tie a knot to secure the bell.  
  7. Use something sharp to poke a hole on each side of the tube.  The holes should be on either side of the straw.
  8. Place some tape around the end of the yarn to poke it threw the hole, twist around the straw and poke it though the hole on the opposite side. (the bell should be just long enough to wrap around the drum and hit the drum in the middle)
  9. Pull the yarn through the other side of the roll. Add a jingle bell to this second side. Make a knot to secure the bell and cut off any extra yarn. Try to keep a roughly equal amount of yarn on this side as you have on the other side of the roll.
  10. Glue your cardboard circles to both sides of the ring to close it
  11. Use colored craft papers or paint to decorate the plain cardboard parts of the spin drum. Embellish as you’d like.

YouTube Body Percussion video: We will Rock You 

STEM Activity: Musical Chairs

  1. Make a circle with chairs. Have one less chair than there are students.
  2. Play the music for about 20-30 seconds and then stop it.
  3. As the music plays the children walk in a like around the circle of chairs, and when the music stops the children need to find a chair.
  4. The person without a chair is eliminated.
  5. Remove one chair and repeat until there is only one student left.

Day 5: Paper Plate Tambourine

Homemade Instrument: Paper Plate Tambourine

  1. Decorate 2 paper plates with crayons.
  2. Use a hole punch to punch holes around the paper plates.
  3. String yarn through the holes adding a jingle bell every once in a while.
  4. Add a few dry beans in the middle if you want.
  5. Play with Tambourine music.

YouTube Body Percussion video: Try Everything 

STEM Activity: Water Xylophone

You can use the water xylophone to teach kids about pitch.

  1. Fill 6 mason jars or glasses with different levels of water. Each should have slightly more water than the previous one. We added food coloring for fun.
  2. Have your children to use their drumsticks or a spoon to gently tap on the jar.
  3. You should hear different pitch for each jar that is tapped.
  4. This tap creates a vibration sound wave that travel through the water. The sound waves change with different amounts of water in the jar. Higher sounds have less water because the sound waves travel closer together. Lower sounds are in the jars with more water producing a lower sound.

Butterflies Day 4 -Butterfly vs. Moth

For the last day of our butterfly unit study we focused on the differences between butterflies and moths.  We made a Venn diagram, wrote and acrostic poem, studied a dead moth, and talked about how butterflies find their host plants.  This unit was fun with our live butterflies and we all learned a lot.

Butterfly vs. Moth

1. Discuss: Show the children a picture of a butterfly and a moth. Do you see any differences between the two?  There are four major differences between moths and butterflies.

  • Butterflies are often more colorful than moths because butterflies are active during the day. Moths are active at night and have earthy colors to camouflage them while they sleep during the day.
  • Most butterflies have club-shaped antennae or antennae with knobs on the end while a moth’s antennae are feather-like or taper to a point.
  • Moths have a thicker coating of scales than butterflies, giving them a furry appearance. These heavy scales help keep them from losing heat during the night when they are most active.
  • Butterflies grow a chrysalis and moths spin a cocoon.

Butterflies and moths have some similarities too.  They are both insects which mean that they both have 3 body parts, six legs, and hatch from eggs.

2. Read: What’s the Difference Between a Butterfly and a Moth by Robin Koontz

3. Comprehension questions:

What are the 4 differences between butterflies and moths?

  • Butterflies are often more colorful than moths because butterflies are active during the day. Moths are active at night and have earthy colors to camouflage them while they sleep during the day.
  • Most butterflies have club-shaped antennae or antennae with knobs on the end while a moth’s antennae are feather-like or taper to a point.
  • Moths have a thicker coating of scales than butterflies, giving them a furry appearance.
  • Butterflies grow a chrysalis and moths spin a cocoon.

What are some similarities between butterflies and moths?

  • Both are insects.
  • Both have six legs.
  • Both have 2 pair of wings.
  • Both hatch from eggs.

Butterfly Suckers

I found these butterfly suckers in the Easter clearance at the store so I got them for a fun treat.

Butterfly Adjectives

Discuss:

An adjective is a describing word. Ask the children what words describe a butterfly? Use adjectives to create an acrostic poem about butterflies.

Create an acrostic poem using the beginning letters of the word “butterfly”.

       B

_________________________________________________________________________

       U

_________________________________________________________________________

       T

_________________________________________________________________________

       T

_________________________________________________________________________

       E

_________________________________________________________________________

       R

_________________________________________________________________________

       F

_________________________________________________________________________

       L

_________________________________________________________________________

       Y

_________________________________________________________________________

Butterfly vs. Moth Venn Diagram

Materials:

  • 2 hoola hoops
  • note cards
  • markers

Directions:

  1. Write one trait on each note card.
  2. Write “butterfly” one one note card and “moth” on one.
  3. Place the hoola hoops on the floor overlapping each other to form a Venn Diagram.
  4. Place the “butterfly” note card in one hoola hoop and the “moth” note card in the other.
  5. Have the child place each of the trait cards in the appropriate hoops.

Traits:

  • six legs
  • body is thick and looks hairy
  • body is thin and doesn’t look hairy
  • compound eyes
  • head, thorax, abdomen
  • two pairs of wings
  • makes a cocoon
  • makes a chrysalis
  • hatches from an egg
  • two antennae
  • mouth is a proboscis
  • usually active at night
  • usually active during the day
  • is an insect
  • usually brightly colored
  • usually colored in earth-tones
  • antennae are often thick and feathery
  • antennae are club-shaped at the end
  • undergoes complete metamorphosis

Identifying a Butterfly

We found a dead butterfly and tried to look at the traits with a magnifying glass and microscope.  We decided that because of the bright colors and knobs on the antennae that it was a butterfly and not a moth.

Do You See the Difference?

We used pages 18 and 19 of Do You See the Difference to review some of the differences between butterflies and moths.

Locating a Host Plant

Materials:

  • 4 jams of the same color- These 4 can have different textures as long as they are all close to the same color. Some can even be the same flavor as long as the texture is different.
  • 2 small paper plates
  • 1 toothpick
  • Lots of paper towels

Preparation:

1. Set out two small paper plates and a tooth pick for every child.

2. Assign a number to each of the four jams.

3. Write the numbers for each of the four jams on one of the child’s plates.

4. Place a small amount of each jam next to its number on the plate.

5. Write the name of one of the jams on the second plate and place a small amount of that jam on it.  This will be the host jam.

In Class:

6. Explain that once a butterfly has mated the female will carefully search for the correct food plant for her eggs and caterpillars. Butterflies are very picky about where they lay their eggs because each species of butterfly caterpillar only eats specific kinds of plants. These plants are called “host plants.” The female butterfly instinctively recognizes the leaf shape, color, odor, taste, texture, and appearance of her species’ host plant.

7. Write the ways a butterfly recognizes a host plant on the board. color, odor, taste, texture, and apperance

8. Tell the children that the labeled jam on their plate is their “host” jam. Tell them to pretend that they are butterflies and that their baby caterpillars will only be able to eat the right host jam. Students should find their “host” jam on the second paper plate.

9. Tell them to first observe their “host” jam and to list the observations on their index card.

10. Encourage students to use their senses to determine which mystery jam is their “host” jam.

11. When they think they have figured out which of the 4 mystery jams is their “host” jam they should write down the number of that jam on their index card.
12.  When the children are done reveal what the host jam number is.

13. For each of the 4 “host” jams go around the room and ask what senses the kids used to determine their host jam and what their observations were about their jam.

14. Explain that this is what a butterfly must go through when trying to find its host plant.

Fun Fact: The criterion for selecting a mate is different from one species to another. Some species of butterflies and moths will perform ritual dances in the air or on leaves. A female may judge a male’s strength and vigor by how well he follows her complicatedaerial dance.

Butterfly Math Coloring

We finished off our study with a Butterfly Mach Coloring page to review some addition facts.

Here are the other days of out Butterfly Unit Study:

Butterfly Unit Study

Day 1 Butterfly Life Cycle

Day 2  Caterpillar Anatomy

Day 3 Butterfly Anatomy 

Day 4 Butterfly vs Moth

Butterflies Day 2 -Caterpillar Anatomy

Since butterflies start out as caterpillars we learned about the caterpillars anatomy for our second day of our butterfly unit study.  We had fun with some math, literature, crafts, spelling, and of course science.  We also made a caterpillar lunch today.

Caterpillar Anatomy

1. Discuss: Butterflies do all of their growing during the larva stage (caterpillar).  Like all insects they have three distinct body parts (head, thorax, and abdomen).  The head has a pair of short antennae, mouth parts (upper lip, mandibles, and lower lip), and six pairs of simple eyes, called ocelli, that can detect light and dark. Even with all of these eyes, the caterpillar’s vision is poor. Each body section has a pair of jointed, called true legs, while some of the abdominal segments have false legs, called prolegs. The body has tiny holes that the caterpillar uses to breath called spiracles. The caterpillar also has tiny hairs along his body that sense touch called setae

2. Read: Creepy, Crawly Caterpillars by Margery Facklam

3. Comprehension questions:

  • What are the 3 body parts of a caterpillar (and all insects)? Head, Thorax, Abdomen
  • What are the stumpy false legs called? Prolegs
  • What is the jaw located on the head called? Mandibles
  • What are the tiny hairs along his body that sense touch? Setae
  • What are the simple eye organs that can detect light and dark? Ocelli
  • What are tiny holes that the caterpillar uses to breath? Spircles

Caterpillar Math Game

I found a elementary Caterpillar Math Game that J liked to play.  You just need to get a file folder and tape in copies of the number caterpillar.  I colored mine to make it look more fun.  

Then you just cut out different addition and subtraction facts for your child to match up with the correct numbers on the caterpillar board.  I also laminated the folder and all the pieces.

Edible Caterpillar Cocoons

Ingredients:

1- 8 oz. tube refrigerated crescent rolls
4 hotdogs
1 ketchup

Directions:

Preheat oven according to directions on the crescent-roll package. Separate the crescent-roll dough into its pre-cut triangle pieces, and lay them flat. 

Cut the hot dogs in half and place one half hotdog on each crescent-roll. Roll and bake on a cookie sheet according to package instructions. Dip in ketchup and enjoy.

What a fun lunch for the kids, and for dessert I had made caterpillar cupcakes for them.

Label the Caterpillar Parts

We did the Label the Caterpillar Parts diagram to review what we had learned today.  I used the diagram in the front of Creepy, Crawly Caterpillars by Margery Facklam and the Caterpillar Anatomy page to help with the review.

Egg Carton Spelling

Materials:

  • Egg cartons
  • Green, purple, yellow, white paint
  • Paintbrush
  • Google eyes
  • Pipe Cleaners

Directions:

  1. Cut the bottoms off of a couple of empty egg cartons.
  2. Paint them green, purple, and yellow. 
  3. After they dry, turn the green ones into heads, with goggle eyes and pipe cleaner antennae.
  4. Paint letter on top of the yellows (two sets of vowels), and purples (only one set of consonants.)   
  5. After those dry, you can practice your alphabet, and simple spelling skills.
  6. We used them to review our spelling words for the week.

Caterpillar Poem

 Caterpillar

Fuzzy, wuzzy, creepy crawly

Caterpillar funny 

You will be a butterfly

When the days are sunny.

Wiggling, flinging, dancing, springing 

Butterfly so yellow, 

You were once a caterpillar,

Wriggly, wiggly, fellow.

by Lillian Vabada

Read the poem and write down all rhyming words from the poem below.

       1.___________________________________________________

       2.___________________________________________________

       3.___________________________________________________

       4.____________________________________________________

       5.____________________________________________________

       6._____________________________________________________

Here are the other days of out Butterfly Unit Study:

Butterfly Unit Study

Day 1 Butterfly Life Cycle

Day 2  Caterpillar Anatomy

Day 3 Butterfly Anatomy 

Day 4 Butterfly vs Moth

Butterflies Day 1 -Life Cycle

For the first day of our butterfly unit study we learned about the butterfly life cycle.  We learned that the butterfly and the moth life cycles are very similar. We made some life cycle crafts and did some writing and reading as well.

1. Discuss: Ask the children “How do butterflies and moths grow? Do they start out as little babies like us or from eggs like snakes, frogs, turtles, and birds?” Because butterflies and moths are insects they start as an egg. When the egg hatches the butterfly or moth is called a caterpillar or larva. Caterpillars spend most of their time feeding on plants and grow very quickly. A caterpillar grows into a pupa. A butterfly pupa is called a chrysalis and a moth pupa is a cocoon. What do you think happens to the pupa inside a chrysalis or cocoon? The pupa is turning into a butterfly or a moth. This process of change from caterpillar to butterfly or moth is called metamorphosis. Have the children repeat the word “metamorphosis.” During the pupa stage the transformation from larva to adult is completed. Butterflies make a chrysalis to protect them as pupae. Many butterfly pupae are well-camouflaged, since they can’t escape from predators by flying away. Just before the butterfly emerges, you can see their wing patterns through the pupa covering. The pupa stage usually last ten to fourteen days.

2. Read: Caterpillar to Butterfly by Camilla de la Bedoyere

3. Review: Review the butterfly life cycle with hand motions. What is the first stage in a butterfly’s metamorphosis? An egg (hand clutched tight in a fist). What is the second stage of a butterfly’s metamorphosis? A caterpillar (index finger extended, scrunched, extended, scrunched). What is the third stage of a butterfly’s metamorphosis? A chrysalis (index finger wrapped by other hand-like a hotdog). What is the last stage of a butterfly’s metamorphosis? A butterfly (thumbs interlocked, fingers wiggling and making a flying motion).

4. Comprehension questions: What are the 4 stages of butterfly or moth metamorphosis? Egg, larva (caterpillar), pupa (chrysalis or cocoon), adult (butterfly or moth)

Butterfly Life Cycle Craft

Materials:

  • Clothespin
  • Small pom-poms
  • Google eyes
  • Pipe cleaner
  • Glue
  • Toilet paper tube
  • Green tissue paper
  • Another color tissue paper
  • Tape

Directions:

1. Glue pompoms to clothespins with google eyes, and a piece of bent pipe cleaner for the antennae. 

2. Make the chrysalis by gluing green tissue paper squares onto toilet paper rolls. When they are completely covered and dry, staple one end closed. 

3. Make wings for the butterflies by pinching rectangles of tissue paper, and taping them in the middle, to fit in the center of the clothes pins. 

4. With the addition of a tiny pompom “egg”, you can discuss the butterfly life cycle.

5. Fold the wings up, and stuff them into the toilet paper rolls with the tape end up.

You can act out how the butterfly wraps itself in the chrysalis shell, and then emerges, after a few weeks, with it’s wings crumpled, and wet. To sun itself, and gradually dry, and straighten out it’s wings, ready to fly. 

Life Cycle Metamorphosis Activity

Materials:

-Drawing Paper

-Scissors

-Crayons

Directions:

1.  Fold a piece of paper in half.

2.  Draw a kidney bean shaped figure along the folded half.

3.  Cut out the figure.

4. Unfold the figure, draw, and color a butterfly on one side of the paper.

5.  Fold the paper in half again with the blank sides facing out.  Draw and color a caterpillar on one side.

6.  Flip the folded paper over to the other blank side.  Draw and color a chrysalis on this side.

Label a Life Cycle

I used the Label a Life Cycle form to review the stages of metamorphosis.  We also used page 33 of Butterflies and Moths to help with the review.

adult – the winged adult will lay the eggs. Adults do not eat, they only sip liquids through a straw-like proboscis.
larva – also called the caterpillar hatches from the egg. The larva spends its time eating, growing and molting (shedding its outgrown exoskeleton).
pupa – the stage in a butterfly’s life when it is encased in a chrysalis and undergoes metamorphosis into the adult.
egg – the tiny orb laid by a female butterfly. Eggs are usually laid on the underside of leaves – they hatch into larvae.

Butterfly Life Cycle Picture Wheel

Materials:

  • Bowl with about 8 inch diameter
  • 2 pieces of cardstock
  • Pencil
  • Scissors
  • Crayons or markers
  • Glue stick
  • Copy of butterfly life cycle pictures
  • Paper fastener

Directions:

1 Place the bowl upside on the cardstock and trace a circle around it. Do this to both pieces of the cardstock. Add a little handle to the wheel. Cut out both pieces.

2 Cut a triangle out of one wheel with the tip of the triangle almost to the center of the wheel as pictured.

3 Color the life cycle pictures and then cut them out.

4 Have the children sequence the pictures in the correct order to help with the next step.

5 Glue the pictures in order around the whole wheel.

6 Punch a whole in the center of the 2 wheels and place the one with the triangle cut out on the top.

7 Connect the wheels with a paper fastener.

Butterfly Story

I found this Butterfly Story page to color and practice some writing.

Here are the other days of out Butterfly Unit Study:

Butterfly Unit Study

Day 1 Butterfly Life Cycle

Day 2  Caterpillar Anatomy

Day 3 Butterfly Anatomy 

Day 4 Butterfly vs Moth

Preschool “Love, Joy, Peace” Canvas Painting

I placed letter stickers in the bottom corner of the canvas to spell a word. Then I had the kids choose their colors of paint and make long strokes of paint all the way across the canvas.

After they were happy with their canvas, I gently peeled off the letter stickers.

Their finished canvas’s turned out beautifully…

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Preschool 100 Day

We celebrated 100 Day with cousins, from tots to first grade but I would recommend it for around Kindergarten age.  We had fun counting to 100 over and over by counting candy, jumping jacks, seconds, inches, and lots more.  We read lots of books, had a snack, completed a writing activity, and covered a ton of math concepts.

Book List…

One Hundred Hungry Ants by Elinor J. Priczes

I’ll Teach My Dog 100 Words by Michael K. Frith

One Hundred Days of  School by Trudy Harris

Henry’s 100 Days of Kindergarten by Nancy L. Carlson

Emily’s First 100 Days of School by Rosemary Wells

Miss Bindergarten Celebrates 100 Days of Kindergarten by Joseph Slate and Ashley Wolff

Graph 100 Jelly Beans

Materials:

  • 100 Jelly Beans
  • Simple Graph

Directions:

  1. Count out 100 jelly beans.
  2. Graph the jelly beans by color on a simple graph.
  3. Ask the children which color has the most?  Which color has the least?  How many red jelly beans are there?

100 Jumping Jacks

The children jumped and counted 100 jumping jacks.

100 Piece Puzzle

The children worked a 100 piece puzzle together.

100 Quiet Seconds

The children all laid down and tried to be quiet for 100 seconds.

Name 100 Animals

We started out with the children naming as many animals as they could as I wrote them down.  I tried to write down exactly what each child said so that they would feel that their ideas are just as important as others.  For example if a child suggests dog and another child suggests Dalmatian I wrote them both down even though a Dalmatian is a dog.  When the children started running out of ideas we used the animal books for some help.

100 Days of School Poem

We read this 100 Days of School poem to the children.

I’ve never seen a hundred,

It’s pretty big, I guess.

I keep asking everyone.

And they just say, “Oh yes”…

“A hundred is an awful lot”…

“A great big huge amount”…

But I am really worried,

‘Cause I’m just learning how to count.

I’m learning all my numbers,

And I’m trying by myself,

To understand a hundred.

But I might need some help.

I can’t believe we’ve been in school

For a hundred days!

A hundred is a lot, I know,

So I am just amazed!

I like to come to school each day

And I love my school a lot.

Mom says I go to school to learn

But it’s fun so I forgot!

So we counted to one hundred

And now I think I know,

That one hundred days we’ve been in school…

And there are lots more days to go!

Lots more days for having fun,

In our very own classroom.

And if I learn to count some more

I’ll be at a million soon!

Estimating 100 Inches

Materials:

  • Yard Stick
  • Masking Tape
  • Pen

Directions

  1. Line up the children against the wall.
  2. Show the children on the yard stick what an inch looks like.
  3. Write each child’s name on a piece of masking tape and give it to him.
  4. Tell the children to put the tape on the floor where they think 100 inches would be from where they are standing.
  5. Measure out 100 inches to see how the children did.

Counting Money

Materials:

  • 100 Pennies
  • 10 Dimes
  • 1 Dollar Bill

Directions:

  1. Have the children count out 100 pennies by putting them into piles of 10.
  2. Count the piles of 10 by tens to get to 100.
  3. Trade out each pile of 10 for a dime and then count how many dimes it takes to get to 1 dollar.
  4. Show a 1 dollar bill.
  5. You can also count quarters with older children.

Fruit Loop Necklace

Materials:

  • Yarn
  • Fruit Loops

Directions:

  1. Each child counts out 100 fruit loops.
  2. Children string the fruit loops onto the yarn.
  3. Tie the ends of the yarn together to form the necklace.

Make 100 Day Hash

Materials:

  • Miss Bindergarten Celebrates 100 Days of Kindergarten by Joseph Slate and Ashley Wolff
  • 10 small cup or bowls plus one for each child
  • Pretzels
  • Popcorn
  • Mini Marshmallows
  • Cherrios
  • Chocolate Chips
  • Peanuts
  • Oyster Crackers
  • Almonds
  • Raisins
  • Chex Cereal

Directions:

  1. You can use the ingredients that I used, the ones in the book, or make up your own.
  2. Put each ingredient in a different bowl (10 bowls).
  3. Each child takes 10 pieces from each ingredient bowl and places them into his own bowl to make 100 pieces.

Sorting Number Cards

Have the children put number cards in order from 1 to 100.  You can use any cards you have to make your own with index cards.  I used the A Beka Numbers Flashcards.

I Wish I had 100…

I made a simple writing page for the children that said…

I wish I had 100 ______________ because _____________.

On the first day of school I couldn’t _____________, on the 100th day I can.

100 Fingers and Toes

Materials:

  • Poster Board
  • Paint
  • Paper Plates
  • Bath Tub of Garden Hose for cleaning
  • Children (we used 5 children)

Directions:

  1. 5 children times 10 fingers each and 10 toes each makes 100.
  2. Set the children around the table and set a paper plate in front of each child.  Pour a little paint onto each plate.
  3. Set the poster board on the table  in the middle of all the children.Each child makes a right hand print on the poster by dipping their hand in the paint on the plate and then sticking in on the poster.  Then each child does it again with their left hand.

Then have the children wash their hands in the tub or with the hose. Put the poster board on the bathroom floor or outside if it’s nice out. Have the children one at a time place their right foot in the paint and then on the poster and then their left foot. Rinse their feet in the tub or with a hose immediately to avoid unwanted paint in the house.

After the paint dries, count the fingers and toes by 5’s (there should be 100).

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