Sandcastle Craft

Free Summer Sandcastle Craft

Today we want to share with you a fun creative project perfect for summer! The template for this Sandcastle One Page Craft is available over in our Coloring Club library for free! Our Coloring Club has free and premium level options and provides a lovely spacious way for use to showcase some of our creative and coloring pages for you!

Once you've signed up with your email, just navigate to the 'craft' category page to find this project! Then print it on yellow paper. If you use white paper, your little learner can color or paint it yellow!

• get scissors and glue
• cut the pieces (they're all on one page)
• arrange them on a piece of blue paper to see how they fit together first

• glue them to your background paper, starting with the small tier of the sandcastle

• you will have tons of space left for making it creatively unique

• using paper scraps add clouds in the sky and flags on the castle
• shade the windows with black crayon
• add more details to your summer sandcastle scene

Thanks so much for stopping by our blog to take a peek at this fun easy-prep craft! We do hope you become a Coloring Club member - we know you'll love it!

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Making 10, 20 or 30 in Addition

Making a 10 (and by extension, 20 and 30) is a powerful strategy for our learners to have in math. It can help them solve calculations faster and with more confidence. A student should be able to quickly combine 6 and 4 to make 10 when solving a problem.

 

Help make these combinations fun by playing matching games. The basic game is matching to make 10, but once mastered you can move on to making 20 and 30. A student who knows 6 and 4 makes 10 can extend their learning to see 16 and 4 makes 20. Perfect as a math center, number game rotation or math workshop! You could also place the cards out for students to play as a 'fast finisher'. 

We recommend you print, laminate and snip on the fast-cut lines to prepare it in just minutes.

How to play

• decide on 10, 20 or 30 totals
• put cards face down
• students flip two and see if they match

Alternatives to play

• leave cards face up for a more relaxed, free-exploration experience
• play in pairs - each student has either pencil tops or bottoms - take turns to reveal a number and then the partner determines the match - place cards together 
• advanced play - place any 2 cards together and make an addition problem to represent it - write the answer down with a record of the addition sentence 

This file features:

• a teaching tips page
• a detailed instruction sheet
• 63 puzzle cards (8 to a page)
• a worksheet and
• cover page.

The cover page can be printed and used to help organize your game/activity tubs/pouches/packets or folders.

Have fun teaching essential early math skills in your math rotations, groups and workshops with our print and play games!

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Math Center

Division Math Center - Turtle Tip

Division is one of the most challenging math topics to teach in the early years. Our little learners need a firm understanding of numbers as well as equality, fair shares and repeated subtraction. Our printable math center will help you provide an engaging activity for students to explore division in a hands-on way and make the leap over to recording it formally.

Your students will 'tip' some counters from a little container onto their turtle and divide them equally! With their hands, they will divide the counters out onto the spaces on their turtle.

We have provided turtles for 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 equal groups on the turtle shell. Students will record their division action on the number sentence with a dry erase marker - or the worksheet provided.

Other ways to use our turtle division cards:

• place an un-laminated page into a plastic sleeve and use with a dry-erase marker to draw dots
• project a card up onto your electronic board and complete the task as a whole class as a math warm-up
• use with play dough and ask students to make little balls to distribute on the shell - incorporating fine motor skills too

This packet includes:

• activity mats (print and laminate)
• recording worksheet
• game instructions
• cover page ( to organize your resources and equipment)

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Making Patterns

Your students will love recognizing, copying and continuing repeating-patterns with our engaging apple pattern cards! Simply print, laminate and snip on the fast-cut lines to prep this activity in minutes! It is perfect for back-to-school with a fun apple theme.

Your little learners will love reviewing patterns in an interactive but structured format. After making these patterns you can encourage them to create their own patterns. 

AB, AAB, ABB, ABC, AABBAA patterns are covered.

Students take a pattern card, identify how to make and continue it and use the single apple cards to continue the pattern.

To assist students struggling to identify the pattern, ask them to verbalize the pattern - e.g. gree,. re. yellow, green, red, yellow... Ask them to identify the part that repeats. 

To further assist, students make like to place apple cards directly under the source card to scaffold an identification of the pattern.

Pattern making with equipment

• ask your learners to copy and make the patterns with equipment too - try buttons, counters or sticks

Record the patterns

• ask students to draw a representation of the pattern they made on the recording worksheet
• tell them to ask a friend to 'read' the pattern back to check its accuracy

This printable math center for patterns, includes:

• a teaching tips page
• a detailed instruction sheet
• 16 pattern cards
• 36 apple cards (3 colors)
• a worksheet and
• cover page.

Have fun teaching essential early math skills in your math rotations, groups and workshops with our print and play games!

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Missing Numbers to 30

It is important for our little learners to be able to count from any number. This means, you say to them 'count from 12' and they can say the number 12 and keep counting forward or backward.

It is also essential for addition and subtraction to be very familiar with the numbers which are close by a given number - one or two more or less than a given number. 

Our Missing Pencils printable math center can help students use and develop these skills in an engaging way! They will find missing numbers in small 3 number sequences between 1 and 30. 

Included in our printable file is:

• a teaching tips page
• a detailed instruction sheet
• 29 game boards
• 29 number cards
• a worksheet and
• cover page

Just print, laminate and snip on the fast-cut lines to prep this activity that is perfect for back to school.

Here today,  I will share with you a few ways to use the cards.

Missing numbers

• students place a yellow pencil into the gap on each card to show the missing number
• ask students to say the number sequence - forward and backward

Line Up

• once completed, students can line up all the pencil cards to show a numbers line from 11 to 30

Single count

• students can line up the single digit cards to show counting skills
• ask students to line the cards up in forward and backward sequence

Count

• play in pairs
• students take a single digit card to give them a starting point
• from this number they count forward or backward until their partner says 'stop'

Writing numbers

• students write missing numbers to practice numeral formation

We've included a worksheet in the pack as well which is a perfect follow-up learning activity to consolidate understanding.

Have fun teaching essential early number skills in your math rotations, groups and workshops with our print and play games! Find the printable pack over in our TpT store:

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Catching Cats - Addition to 20

Helping students learn early-addition needs to be hands on and engaging. Our little learners need lots of practice and repetition. They need opportunities to process all the information you've given them and explore the process for themselves. They need to do this often and with time and space to be active in their learning. To talk, make mistakes and learn from their peers too. 

Our printable card game Catching Cats can help students explore addition to 20. They will model different addition sums with the cat cards. 

This is perfect for students who:

• need the support of counting-out groups of objects
• will benefit from modeling the combining of 2 groups to find a total
• are just starting the journey to a more abstract understanding of addition
• are becoming aware of the + symbol 

Children will have so much fun helping to make groups of colorful cats to model the addition problems.

You will simply:

• print the pages
• laminate if desired
• quickly snip down the easy-cut lines
• store it in a file or pouch with the cover page for fast access

Model Addition to 20

• students can play this as an individual - take a card, make the addition, record on their worksheet
• play as pairs - each flip a card and race to solve
• as a group game - one student builds, the others watch for accuracy - then take turns

Make it more advanced

• students model addition of 4 numbers - using 2 cards instead of 1

Use with other equipment

• use the addition cards with alternative counters - or equipment - a day or week later
• help children understand that we genralize in math 

Patterns

• students can make color patterns with the cat cards
• ask students to record their pattern in their math journal

This resource file contains everything you need to get your math lesson underway:

• a detailed instruction sheet
• addition cards
• cat cards
• a recording worksheet and
• cover page

This game is perfect to play in small groups, math centers, independent exploration time or as a fast-finisher.

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Ice Cream Tens - Making 10 in Math

Learning different ways to make ten can contribute enormous power and strength to your learners confidence and fluency in math. These combinations are an essential foundation for many areas in math moving forward. Play loads of games so your students understand the combinations, they do not just rote memorize them too early!

The combinations are:

• 0 and 10
• 1 and 9
• 2 and 8
• 3 and 7
• 4 and 6 
• 5 and 5

Play our math activity - Ice Cream Tens in your groups, rotation, math workshop or free exploration time. Your students will love discovering ways to make 10 by adding the dots on their ice cream scoop to the cone cards to add to 10.

• fast prep - just print, laminate and cut the clear bold shapes
• bright and engaging for students
• easy to differentiate 

Students take two cards and see if the numbers add to 10. This can be done independently or in a small group format.

Our printable packet includes:

• game cards (cones and scoops)
• 2 blank cones (use to make variations of game)
• game play instructions,
• cover page
• optional worksheet for students to complete after the game

Here are some easy ways to differentiate the activity and cater for more learners in your class:

Number Match

• match numerals with dots for early counting and number sense

Use math manipulatives

• count and cover with counters, buttons or poms to develop 1:1 correspondence

Addition

• use the blank cone cards to create an addition game
• students place multiple scoops on the cone, find the total and write the answer!

Find this versatile, engaging and skills-focused activity for kindergarten math, over in our TpT store today!

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Math Center

Adding and Subtracting at the Teddy Bears Picnic

We have a new set of Play on the Page math worksheet activities. The Teddy Bears' Picnic themed fast-prep, engaging interactive games will help your learners with fast addition facts to 10. Students will add or subtract 1, 2 or 3 from single digits.

• just print 1 page for 2 players
• 20 worksheet games
• learn +/- 1, 2 and 3 facts

Your students will love spinning a number, adding or subtracting and then finding the answer on their worksheet-gameboard.

Help your students have fun while learning fluency in addition and subtraction with these skill-focused games.

Find them in our TpT store today!

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