You’re going to
love these ideas that the teachers shared in Oklahoma City last week!
Punctuation
Song (Allison Stout)
(Tune: “The Old Gray Mare”)
Every sentence
starts with a capitol,
Starts with a
capitol,
Starts with a
capitol.
Every sentence
starts with a capitol
And ends with a
period!
Have a Cup (Mona Hickerson)
You won’t
believe all of the activities that Mona has come up with using plastic cups. She showed me a video of her
students playing one of the games and it was amazing how engaged they were! I had to go right out, buy some cups, and make the game myself. Cheap and simple! Adapt for pre-K, K, and 1st. Now that's what I'm talking about!
Use plain colored
cups and write letters on the tops and sides with a permanent marker or puff
paints. Children can put in ABC
order, race with a neighbor to put them in a stack, make words, etc.
Use small bathroom
cups with numerals on the sides and tops for math activities. Make a mat with numerals 1-20. Children match the cups to the
numerals. Mix up the cups. How quickly can they stack them from
1-20? Make a cup with a star to go
on top. Small cups can also be
used for skip counting and stored in a Pringle’s can.
Give children
different colored cups and paper plates to build a pyramid. Can they make a colored pattern with
their pyramid?
Rime Cups (Amy McKelvey)
Stack two
Styrofoam cups together. Write the
onsets on the rim of the top cup and the rime on the bottom cup. Twist the cups to make words.
Glue Song (Amy McDelvey)
(Tune: “Barney”)
Use your glue.
Use your glue.
Just a little dot
will do.
Use a little dot
And spread it all
around.
It will hold your
paper down.
Line Up Chant (Ainslee Davis)
Stomp, stomp. (Stomp
twice.)
Clap, clap. (Clap
twice.)
Hand on your hip. (One
hand on hip.)
Zip your lip! (Pretend
to zip lip with other hand with an attitude!)
Call Back (Lauren Jenks)
Focus children’s
attention with this chant from “Finding Nemo.”
Teacher says: Shark
Bait
Children respond: Oooo
ha ha
Animal Count (Anna White)
Do the “Macarena
Count to 100” using animal sounds.
For a dog you would count, “Arf, arf, arf, arf, arf, arf, arf, arf, art,
arf…that is one ten.” For cows you
could “moo,” sheep “baa,” and so forth.
Math Lids (Kendra Dorrough)
Number 1-20 on
white bottle lids. Write
operations (+, -, =) on green lids.
Make doubles of numerals 1-5 as you learn more facts.
ARITHMETIC (Bridget Weaver)
This mnemonic
device will help you remember how to spell arithmetic.
A
Rat
In
The
House
Might
Eat
The
Ice
Cream
My Great Idea (Heater Wilkinson)
Use funky duct
tape each week to make a letter on the floor in front of the classroom
door. When you line up, go to PE,
lunch, etc. each child says the letter and makes the sound.
Cool Cheer (Amanda Kissling)
Woo woo! (Arms
in the air.)
I’m so hot, (Wipe
brow.)
But, you’re (Point
with index fingers.)
So cool! (Fan
self with palm.)