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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!

To grab your FREE download, just click the image below!

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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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Addition is such an important skill for my kindergarten students. I want my students to understand that adding is putting things together. I always teach my students addition using a variety of strategies. This Penguin Addition Problem will give your students the chance to add using pictures of penguins. It's the perfect winter activity!

To prepare this activity I first printed enough copies of the ice habitat picture for my students on white copy paper. I also printed the addition problem for my class. I made sure that my students had 10 penguins for the problem. You could give students more or less depending on what best meets the needs of your students. I wanted my students to glue the ice habitat picture and the problem on a picture of 11x17 construction paper so I also grabbed some construction paper. In addition to the recording papers, construction paper, and glue, my students also needed scissors, crayons, and a pencil to complete this activity.

For this activity students get to choose how many penguins they want to put on the ice and how many penguins they want to put in the water. They do not have to use all ten of the penguins.

Next, they glue the penguins in the spot that they want them. I always let my students take the extras home or they can recycle them. So many of my students love taking the extras home!

Students record how many penguins are on the ice and how many are in the water. The last thing students do is record the total number of penguins they have. I like to have my students share their work so that we can see all the different ways that students completed the problem.

Ready for some Penguin Addition fun?! Just click the image below to download your FREE Penguin Addition Problem!

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-kLuB6C2Fdha19DWHNiVHFkSm8/view?usp=sharing

Looking for more penguin fun?! Check out the links to posts from these amazing bloggers for some more penguin activities!

FROM LEFT TO RIGHT:

Penguin Felt Busy Box // Teach Me Mommy

Penguin Sight Word Game - Editable // Playdough to Plato

How Penguins Stay Warm // Science Kiddo

Penguin Counting Mats // Mom Inspired Life

Penguin Letter Identification Freebie // The Simplified Classroom

Penguin Patterning Mats // Fairy Poppins

Penguin Labeling Printable // Letters of Literacy

Penguin Number Words // My Creative Inclusion

Feeding the Sight Word Penguin // Play & Learn Every Day

Penguin Pre-Writing Tracing Cards // Modern Preschool

Baby Penguin Alphabet Letter Matching // Fun with Mama

Penguin Shapes Roll and Graph // The Kindergarten Connection

Penguin Ice Races // Still Playing School

Penguin Rhyming Game // Sara J Creations

How Do I Feel Emotions Chart // Liz's Early Learning Spot

Penguin Syllable Sort Printable // A Dab of Glue Will Do

Penguin Addition Problem // Recipe for Teaching

Penguin 10 Frame Worksheet // Schooling a Monkey

Penguin Number Puzzles // The STEM Laboratory

Penguin Dice Addition Game // Adventures of Adam

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Does it feel like winter where you are?? We haven't seen any real snow accumulations just yet, but it has been cold! These snowman teen number and ten frame cards will have your students thinking winter! Plus, they are great for working with those tricky teen numbers!

To prepare this activity, I just printed the cards on white cardstock. I laminated them because I knew that little hands would be using them. Then I just used my paper cutter to cut out the cards along the solid black line.

This set of cards includes cards for numbers 11-19. These numbers are always tricky for my students (I mean why isn't 15 "five-teen"?!?!). I wanted something fun for them to use when practicing these numbers.

The great part about these cards is that they can be used in different ways:

*Give students cards and have them match the number with the ten frame.

*Shuffle cards and lay them out to play a memory game with them.

*Have students match cards and then use a manipulative of choice to count out that same number. Cotton balls would be a cute idea since they look like snowballs!

These cards are great to use with your students as a math warm-up, as partner work, at a math station, or with a small math group.

Ready to grab your FREE Snowman Teen Number and Ten Frame Match Cards?! Just click the image below to grab your FREE set of cards!

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-kLuB6C2FdhS3ZHRmxMZ0RPcXM/view?usp=sharing

Looking for more snowman themed activities?! Check out these ideas from some amazing bloggers!

FROM LEFT TO RIGHT:

Exploding Snowman Baggie: Winter Snow Science for Kids // Science Kiddo

Snowman Number Match Printable // A Dab of Glue Will Do

Preschool Snowman Activity Pack // Schooling a Monkey

Snowball Shooter // The STEM Laboratory

Snowman Teen Number and Ten Frame Match // Recipe for Teaching

Snowman Subtraction Mats // The Kindergarten Connection

Snowman Alphabet Activity // Mom Inspired Life

Snowman Writing Paper with Prompts // Liz's Early Learning Spot

Snowman Printable Fact Family Activity // DIY Farm Wife

Snowman Pattern Block Mats // Playdough to Plato

Snowman Sequencing Fun // Sara J Creations

Snowman Sight Word Search // Adventures of Adam

Winter Snowman Ten Frame Printable // Fun with Mama

Snowman Rhyming Puzzles // Fairy Poppins

Snowman CVC Word Match // Letters of Literacy

Two Digit Number Snowmen // Play & Learn Everyday

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Math games are a great way to teach students math concepts in a fun and engaging way. Coverall games are one of my favorite math games to use with my students. My students always love them and there are so many ways that you can play them, so it is easy to differentiate the games.

I made a "Snowflake Coverall" game for my students. After my students learn this game, we will put it out at one of our math station baskets. This way they can independently review the game.

Here are the directions for the "Snowflake Coverall" game: Students could work in partners or also play this game independently. Materials: Snowflake Coverall board, Chips/Counters, 2 Dot Cubes 1. Roll the two dot cubes. Combine the dots. Students should say to their partner, "__ and __ is __." 2. After combining the dots, find the snowflake with that number and cover it with a chip. 3. Students continue taking turns rolling the dot cubes, combining the dots, and covering the snowflake with that number. Play until all numbers are covered.
Ways to differentiate this game: *Have students use cubes to represent the numbers they roll to have a hands on representation. For example, if they roll a 4 and a 2, they would lay out 4 cubes and 2 cubes, combine them, and see that there are 6. *Give students a number cube and a dot cube to roll. When they combine what they roll, students could start from the number cube and then count on using the dot cube. For example, if they roll a 4 on the number cube and a 2 on the dot cube they would count on 2 more numbers from 4 to get 6. *Have students record the equation for the numbers they roll. For example, if they roll a 4 and a 2, they would record 4+2=6.

If you would like to use this game with your students, just click the image below to grab your FREE download! There is a color and a black & white version included.