Hello y'all! I know I've been MIA for some time. I am just enjoying being a stay at home mom while I can. We've been busy playing outside, working on house projects {which are never-ending}, finishing our first soccer season, and other fun things. I just had to link up this week to show y'all some of our Easter fun!
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I picked up these cute, little, glittery eggs at The Dollar Tree. I wasn't sure what we would do with them, but I knew we could use them at home and that I could hopefully use them in the classroom when I go back.
We sorted by color and used them as manipulatives for another activity.
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Number-Dot Activity - I wrote numbers on one half of the egg and made that number of dots on the other half. We mixed them all up, sorted them into eggs with dots and eggs with numbers. E had fun matching them.
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Easter Egg Addition - On another set of Easter eggs, I wrote simple addition sentences on half of the egg and the answers on the other side. This is where those cute, glittery eggs came in handy as manipulatives. E did so well with this activity!
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Easter Egg Jump - This activity involved lots of movement, which is always good! I did this activity too and wore my Polar FT4 watch to see how many calories I burned, which was 47 calories {although it felt like it should've been a lot more}. I wrote numbers on pieces of foam {you could use paper or any material you can write on}. When E picked an egg, he read the number aloud and we jumped that many times. I did numbers 1-12. So, we jumped 78 times. Then, we started all over and did the same activity, but with jumping jacks. It was a really FUN activity and E really enjoyed it!
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Sadly, I don't have a picture for this but I wanted to share how I used Easter eggs in my fourth grade classroom. I love using seasonal manipultives and you can use them no matter what age you teach. In my fourth grade class, my partner teacher and I wrote down Math problems and put one in each egg. When the student got an egg, they solved the problem and then got a piece of candy if their answer was right. If it wasn't, we'd talk about where they went wrong and they were encouraged to try again and if they needed assistance, they could ask a classmate for help. It was a fun way to have some Easter fun while using standards!
Happy Easter, friends!
Our music teacher used eggs to match up the symbols the kiddos had been using! She didn't write matching answers on matching colors though - which was nice for the older kids because it offered a challenge! I found you on the linkup -- cute blog!
ReplyDeleteIt looks like you are having a ball! :) Happy Easter!
ReplyDelete~Brandee
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Those Easter Eggs are seriously the best manipilatives! There is so much to do with them!
ReplyDeleteErin
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Happy Easter! Looks like you are having lots of fun and keeping those teaching skills fresh. :)
ReplyDeleteJennifer
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Fun post! I need to do the egg activity with jumping jacks! Too many Cadbury eggs!
ReplyDeleteI got those same glittery eggs! And a still figuring out what to do with them. ;)
ReplyDeleteI love this post! I used Easter eggs this year and put math question inside them!
ReplyDeleteI absolutely love love love these ideas with the Easter egg ideas. I have learned about some of these ideas in school but i never thought about using it as an exercise activity. I think this is a great idea to get the students morning jitters out or if you just feel that they need to get out some energy. I also like this idea to just do it for myself. I want to work out but I need to do it in a way that is fun and exciting and i think this is a great idea and way to do that. thank you for sharing this!
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