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A warm cup of hot chocolate with marshmallows is always a fun winter treat! This Hot Chocolate Match activity will be a fun math warm-up, math center, or small group activity to use with your students or your own kids at home.

I have included cards to work on numbers 1-20. There are hot chocolate mug cards with ten frames and marshmallows with the matching number. I have also included two recording sheets in your FREE download (found below). One recording sheet works with the numbers 1-10 and one works with the numbers 1-20. This is an easy way to differentiate depending on the needs of the kids you are working with.

Students simply match the hot chocolate mug ten frame card to the marshmallow number card. When they find the match, they trace that on their recording sheet.

This would be fun for a math center activity or to use in small groups. You could also put these cards in a winter themed sensory bin and have your students find the matching cards within the sensory bin. There are lots of ways to use these cards in your classroom!

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Are your kids and students obsessed with poppers?! They are so fun and even I like to pop them so I can see why kids love them! I came up with a tag that you can use with these popper bracelets (or any popper toy).

I found the popper bracelets on Amazon. If you search Amazon for them, you will find a variety. I've also heard that Dollar Tree has an assortment of popper toys. I included the tag in color as well as a black and white option. The black and white option looks really nice printed on a pink cardstock.

I found those clear heart bags at Target in the seasonal section. The bracelets fit well in them and then I just folded the bag. The tag can be attached with tape or a staple. You could also use a ribbon to tie the bag closed.

Click the image below to grab your FREE tags! These would be great gifts for your students or for you to use for your own kid's valentines. Please tag me on Instagram if you use these!

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We love Valentine's Day in Kindergarten! I'm always looking for a fun way to have my students decorate their Valentine's Day bags, but also I also like integrating an academic piece into the decorating. This year I put together something for my students to glue on their bags, count, and write about. They LOVED it and their bags turned out so cute!

To begin, students first were able to label their bag with their name. I found the bags at Michaels.

Then they cut out how many of each picture they wanted on their bag. They glued the pictures on their bag and colored them.

Students then used a chart with the images to help them write about how many of each picture they had on their bag.

They were able to use sight words to help them write how many of each picture they had on their bag. I love integrating a math and writing activity together.

My students really enjoyed this and it was an academic way to decorate Valentine bags! You could also have students compare their pictures. For example, they could say, "I have a greater number of hearts than cupcakes." or "I have less roses than bears." They could also compare their pictures with a friend's bag. Lots of fun math ideas for these bags!

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Happy Winter! Aren't penguins just the cutest?! This Penguin Spin and Write will have your students working with numbers 11-20. They will be counting dots, subitizing, and writing the number. It's perfect for independent work, partner work, or a math station.

This activity is super easy to prepare. I first printed the Penguin Spin and Write mat on white cardstock (free download found below). I printed the color version, but there is also a black and white version that could be printed on colored cardstock. I recommend laminating the mat so students can use a dry erase marker with it. Then I grabbed a pencil and paper clip for the spinner. I also grabbed a dry erase marker for writing the number and an eraser. Then we were ready for some Penguin Spin and Write.

To start, students first spun the 11-20 spinner. Then they counted the dots on the ten frame. Students could also subitize (instantly recognize) the ten frame arrangement. Then students wrote that matching number on a penguin belly. In the picture below, the student spun a ten frame with 17 dots. They recognized that ten dots and seven more dots was 17.

The student wrote 17 in a penguin belly.

Students continued spinning, counting, and writing until they had filled in all of the penguin bellies with numbers.

Students could erase the numbers and begin the activity again if there was still time left to work. My blogging friends and I have teamed up to bring you some FREE penguin themed resources! Check out all of these amazing resources below!

FROM LEFT TO RIGHT

Penguin Alphabet Clip Cards // Kindergarten Connection

Penguin Short Vowel Sorting Center // Mrs. Jones Creation Station

Penguin Research // The Primary Post

Free Penguin Number Bonds // The Simplified Classroom

Penguin Writing Craftivity // Literacy with the Littles

Penguin Color Clip Cards // Fairy Poppins

Penguin Cut and Paste Sentence Writing // The Letters of Literacy

Penguin Addition Games // Sara J. Creations

Penguin Spin and Write // Recipe for Teaching

Penguin Playdough Mat // Teach Me Mommy

Editable Penguin Board Game // Fun Learning for Kids

Penguin Emergent Reader // A Dab of Glue Will Do

Ready for some Penguin Spin and Write fun?! Just click the image below to grab your FREE download!

BONUS DOWNLOAD!! Also included in this Penguin Spin and Write resource is a Comparing Numbers penguin themed mat! For this activity students spin the 1-20 spinner. They write the number in the first penguin belly. They spin the spinner again and write that number in the second penguin belly. Students compare the numbers to determine which number is greater and which number is less. There is a number line for students to use to help compare the numbers.

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I am always looking for fun ways to practice syllables with my students. It is important for early readers to be able to hear the parts in words. Your students will love practicing sorting picture cards by the number of syllables with this Heart Syllable Sort activity.

This activity was super easy to prepare. I just printed the heart picture cards on white cardstock. Then I used my paper cutter to cut out each card. There are cards for words with 1-4 syllables and there are 6 pictures cards that can be sorted in each group.

I would recommend laminating the cards since little hands will be working with them. I like to put the cards in a basket, but you could just as easily put all of the cards in a plastic baggie. Then you are ready for some Heart Syllable sorting!

For this activity we started with the numbers 1-4 at the top. I mixed up the pile of cards and students took turns picking a card.

When students picked a card, they turned the card over and said what the picture was on the card. We then clapped the number of syllables in the word. In this example, when we turned over the card with "sock" on it, we did one clap since that word has one syllable.

We put the sock picture card under the number 1.

Students continued picking picture cards and sorting by the number of syllables until all pictures had been sorted.

This activity is perfect for a small reading group activity or to put out at a literacy center for your students. It would be a great addition to a pocket chart literacy center. If students are independently manipulating the cards, a tip would be to put the number of syllables on the back of the card so students could self check their work.

Also, be sure to check out these fabulous heart themed activities from my blogging friends:

FROM LEFT TO RIGHT:

Heart Letter Puzzles // Pocket of Preschool

Valentine Hearts Ten Frame Clip Cards // Mrs. Jones Creation Station

Heart Digraph Puzzles // The Kindergarten Connection Printable Valentine's Math Activities // Stay at Home Educator Alphabet Hearts // Playdough to Plato Valentine's Day Emergent Reader // Sweet Sounds of Kindergarten Heart Syllable Sort // Recipe for Teaching Candy Hearts Count and Clip Cards // Modern Preschool Heartbreakers Sensory Activity // Sugar Spice and Glitter CVC Hearts // The Primary Post Valentine's Day Number Recognition Bingo Game // Schooling a Monkey Valentine's Day Activities (Heart Craft & Cutting Practice) // Fairy Poppins Heart Counting Cards // Powerful Mothering Sorting Hearts Fine Motor Tray // Teach Me Mommy Candy Heart Estimation Station // The STEM Laboratory Contraction Conversation Hearts // The Simplified Classroom Chocolate Heart Play Dough Mats // Fantastic Fun and Learning Jar of Hearts: Editable Sight Words to Read and Write // Liz's Early Learning Spot Hearts Make Ten Game // Sara J Creations Heart Roll, Cover and Write Mats // Fun Learning for Kids Heart Ice and Oil Density Experiment // Science Kiddo Candy Heart Sentences // Pages of Grace Heart Sight Word Match // The Letters of Literacy Heart Name Crafts // Fun-A-Day

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We have been focusing a lot on learning digraphs in kindergarten. They can be tricky for young learners, but they are an important foundational skill to learn for reading. This Pirate Digraph Spin and Cover game will have your students excited about digraph sounds. My students loved it!

To prepare this activity I first printed the games on white cardstock. There are two versions of the game included in the download (found below). I printed 6 copies of each game board because I knew I would be using this game with my guided reading groups. I recommend laminating the game for durability. I also grabbed some gold coins to use to cover the pictures on the game board. This game has a spinner so I got a paper clip and pencil for my students to use as a spinner. I used this game with my students in a small reading group. I like to start my guided reading groups with a word work activity so I used this at the beginning of the lesson. I first went over the pictures on the game board with my students and then we reviewed the sounds that ch sh, th, and wh make.

There are two pictures that represent each digraph on the game boards. The following pictures are included on the game boards: *Pirate Boy Game Board Pictures: whale, three, thumb, sheep, shark, whistle, chair, cheese

*Pirate Girl Game Board Pictures: chick, shovel, whisk, thermometer, wheat, cherry, shell, think

After reviewing the pictures and digraphs with my students, we were ready to play the game! To play, students first spun the digraph spinner. They looked to see what digraph the spinner landed on and then covered a picture on the game board that had that digraph at the beginning. Students repeated this until all pictures were covered on the game board.

My students were SO excited about this game and they were super engaged in the activity! I let them choose which game board they wanted to start with and then as they finished they were able to trade for the other game board.

"ARRRRRRRR" you ready to check out some other fun pirate themed activities?! Be sure to check out these fun pirate themed activities from my blogging friends!