Hooray For Fall!

I don't know about you, but I am super excited that fall is here! This is my favorite season of the year. I love the cooler weather, the changing colors of the leaves, football, and pretty much everything else about fall. Unfortunately here in South Carolina, we don't get too much fall weather until late in October or even November, but I soak it up as much as I can.


Usually each October, my mom, Miss M, and I travel to the mountains of North Carolina to see the beautiful fall leaves. This year due to damages from Hurricane Matthew and some sickness within our family we will not be able to make our annual trip.


As a tribute to my favorite season, I thought I would share some of my fall favorites with you. Some these are freebies I have created while others are paid products. All my fall products in my TpT store are on sale for 20% until Wednesday.


Fall Counting Activity Sheet (Up to 20 objects)
This is a free counting sheet that makes a great morning work or homework sheet.


In Fall Emergent Reader
This is a simple emergent reader for your students. It prints 2 books per page so you just copy and stack them on top of each other. Then cut them in half to make the books.

You can also find some other freebies that I created early in my blogging days by going to this blog post.


Please leave me feedback if you decide to use any of these things in your classroom. Your comments and feedback make me so happy!

Friday Freebie: Counting Up To 10 (With Numbers)

During the first quarter of the school year, I always begin teaching my students one-to-one correspondence. I teach this using many different kinds of manipulatives. For some kinders, this seems to be a quick skill to master while for others it can be very difficult so I always give lots of practice. I also teach my kinders to count pictures on paper. I created these 2 counting sheets with DJ Inkers clipart to use with my kinders for homework. I hope you can use them too!

Counting up to 10 objects (with numbers) activity sheet

If you download and can use these activity sheets, please leave me a comment. I love hearing from you!

Oceans of Fun

Since we still have 12 more school days, we are beginning our ocean unit so I wanted to share some of the activities I am planning to use during this unit. Maybe you can use some of them too!

Crab Counting by 5's - Cut & Paste

I am going to use this activity sheet during independent math time. I will have my kinders cut apart the crabs and count by 5's to glue them down in order. The sheet goes up to 50.

Counting up to 20 activity sheet

This activity sheet helps my kinders keep up their counting skills up to 20. It will also give them more practice remembering what a particular number up to 20 looks like and how it is written. This is a difficult skill for some of my kinders. Some still write numbers in reverse (ex. - instead of 12, they will write 21).

Syllable Counting Activity Sheet

This activity sheet will be used during independent small group time. My kinders will look at the picture, say the name, clap the syllables, and the circle the correct number of syllables in each word. This goes along with the Kindergarten Common Core standards.

If you download any of these activities, I would love for you to leave me a comment. They always put a smile on my face!

Going Buggy

When we come back from Spring Break, we will begin our life cycles unit. We are beginning our unit with insects. I absolutely can't stand real insects but love teaching about them...CrAzY right?! Here are some activities that I cooked up so far this week to go along with our insects/life cycles unit.

Bugs Subtraction activity sheet with counters

This activity sheet is similar to the one I created for Easter. It has counters at the bottom that the kids can use to subtract or they can do it without the counters if they are ready. 

Bugs Counting activity sheet (up to 20)

This activity sheet is a simple one that has kids practice counting sets up to 20 and writing the correct number. Recalling a number is a skill that some of my younger kinders are still have trouble with.

Here are some activity sheets I created when I was teaching first grade. I hope some of my first grade friends will be able to use these! 

1 digit addition bugs activity sheet (sums up to 18)

Bugs ABC order activity sheet

Hippity Hoppity Easter's On The Way!

Since Easter will be coming up soon, I wanted to share some activities with you that I will be using before we go out for Spring Break. I know many of you have already had your breaks, but we don't get ours until the week after Easter so next week I plan to do some fun Easter activities with my kinderkids.

Counting up to 20 (Easter)

This is an activity sheet that I created for my kinder kids to practice counting up to 20 objects and remembering the number to write for each amount. This is still a task that many of my kinders need extra practice on.

What's in the Egg? CVC words

This activity sheet is similar to the one I created for my weather unit. I have changed the pictures to new CVC pictures.

I hope you can use these activity sheets too! Please leave me a comment if you download. Thanks!

Only 7 more school days until my Spring Break!

An Oldie but Goodie!

I have been working with my kinderkids all year on counting up to 20 objects in different arrangements. We began by working with counters and manipulatives. Now we are working on the Kindergarten Common Core standard K.CC.3. Here is a generic counting sheet that I used for them to practice counting up to 20 objects. Hope you can use it too!

Counting up to 20 activity sheet 

If you download this sheet, I would love for you to leave me a comment! They always make me smile. Thanks!

St. Patty's Day Fun

St. Patrick's Day is on the way so I wanted to share a freebie with you.  I hope you can use it in your classroom too!

St. Patrick's Day Counting Sheet

Not the best picture...Sorry!

If you download the counting sheet, I would love for you to leave me a comment! They always make me smile. Thanks!

~Joni

Loving Valentine's Day!

First let me say a great big THANK YOU! I had a final donation to my Donors Choose project - "Books Within Our Reach" to complete it. I am so excited and can't wait to get our new bookshelf in our reading center!

Valentine's Day is one of my favorite holidays so I decided to share some more activities with you.

Valentine's Day Counting Sheet

I created this counting sheet to use with my kiddos. I still have quite a few kids that can not count up to 20 objects and some that can count up to 20 but don't know how to write the correct numeral to correspond with the amount counted.

Valentine's Day Syllable Sort

I created this game to have my kinderkids practice sorting words by syllables. They are still having some difficulty with this standard and playing a game always interests them. I printed the game on cardstock and cut apart before laminating the pieces.

If you choose to use any of these activities, please leave me a comment! Thanks!!

Wonderful Winter!

Since I am on Christmas break, I am working on some activities for my winter theme which we will start when we return to school. I hope you will be able to use them too!

Snowman Sight Word Concentration Game

I created this game to give my kinderkids more practice with the sight words they are expected to know at this point in the year. I printed 2 sets on blue paper and the students will find the match. If they can't read the word they have to put it back down.

Winter Number Match

I created this game to have my kids practice matching numerals to sets of objects and the number words during our small group math time. We are just beginning to learn number words so I may pull my hair out to begin with, but I think it will be a fun way for my kinderkids to practice this skill. I printed this on cardstock and laminated for durability.

Winter Counting Activity Sheet

This sheet has the kids practice counting sets of winter objects up to 20 and practice writing the numbers.

If you choose to use any of these activities, please leave me a comment! Thanks!!

More Christmas Fun

I had so much fun creating things to use in my classroom for Christmas that I thought I would share a few more with you. I hope you can use them in your classroom as well!

Christmas Beginning Sounds Match

This is a game I created to use with intervention group as a way to practice beginning letter sounds which many of them are still struggling with. They will have to look at the picture on the ornament cards and put it under the correct beginning letter. I printed this on cardstock and laminated for durability.

Reindeer Uppercase/Lowercase Letter Match

I created this game to use with my intervention group to help them practice naming and matching uppercase and lowercase letters. I printed this on cardstock and laminated for durability.

(Sorry it is sideways...it would not rotate!)

Christmas Counting Activity Sheet

I created this counting sheet to have my kids practice counting sets of objects up to 20 and writing the matching numeral.

If you choose to use any of these games, please leave me a comment! Thanks!!

Happy Thanksgiving!

I am looking forward to teaching about Thanksgiving over the next couple of weeks. Here are some of the games I am using in my classroom. I hope you can use them too!

Matching numerals and sets

I created this math game to help my kinderkids practice matching numerals and quantities. I printed it on cardstock and laminated to make it last.

Uppercase & lowercase letter match

This is a game for my intervention group to practice matching uppercase and lowercase letters. I printed it on cardstock and laminated to make it last.

Thanksgiving rhyming match game

This game is a matching game using rhyming pictures. I plan to use it as a memory/concentration style game within my small groups. I printed it on cardstock and laminated to make it last.

 If you choose to use any of these games, please leave me a comment! Thanks!!

Farming Fun

I love teaching about the farm. This year I am using this activity with my kinderkids to practice counting sets of objects up to 15 and identifying the numerals. I printed them on cardstock and laminated for durability.

Matching numerals to quantities (farm)

I created this activity to do during my small group time. My kids need practice with syllables. This activity gives them hands-on practice. I printed it on cardstock and laminated.

Farm Syllable Sort

 If you choose to use any of these games, please leave me a comment! Thanks!!

Happy Fall Y'all!



I love the fall season as you can tell from the decorations at my house! So of course I love teaching fall, pumpkins and Halloween to my kinderkids every year. Here is an activity sheet that I made for my kids to do one day this month for homework.

Halloween Counting Sheet (less than 10 objects)

I created these pumpkins to have my kinderkids practice ordering numbers. I am only giving my kids the first 20 numbers, but I made it go to 24 because I had that many boxes.

Pumpkins (ordering numbers)

I created these pumpkins to have my students practice sorting by size. I have them run on different colors of paper so they can do this during small group math instruction.

Pumpkins (sorting by size)

 If you choose to use any of these games, please leave me a comment! Thanks!!

Pumpkins

I love our pumpkins unit that I do each year. The kids love learning about the life cycle of pumpkins, doing pumpkin investigations, and finally visiting the pumpkin patch to pick their own pumpkin. Here is a math actvity that I created for my students to practice counting out the specific number of erasers. I purchased the jack-o-lantern erasers from the Dollar Spot at Target last week. The counting mats go from 1 to 20 which is the common core standard for kindergarten. The second set of counting mats has tens frames for those who use Everyday Math.

Pumpkin Counting Mats

Pumpkin Counting Mats with Tens Frames

This sentence building activity from Maggie's Kinder Corner Blog is a perfect addition to this unit. I hope you can use it too!