
With this craft from the Pond Coloring Club, they will:
- trace a big circle, a horizontal and vertical line along with 6 small circles
- draw a ladybug face
- paint or color
- use a glue stick to apply the glitter
As an alternative to glitter you can teach your students to freehand cut a circle. First show them how to chip a paper strip (see video below) then cut a circle from one of the squares.
The bug can also be used in a math warm up - perhaps before the glitter gets glued! Use the 1-2-3 Happy Dice (also in the club) to roll and make 6 with counters!
While I'm here I will share with you another warm up idea - this one for addition. You can create happy face counters by printing our number display posters 9-to-a-page or I've created a set that can be printed for your small group Math Kit.
To play Make a Happy Face:
- students all sit around a scattered arrangement of 1-5 counters
- take turns to roll the dice
- students gather any dice combination that makes the total
- e.g. if 11 is rolled, a student may gather 5, 4 and 2
- students can check one another's counters for the correct total

3 Happy Faces
Another warm up with these counters is to have students simply take 3 from a dish or pile and find the total. The group all compares the totals and the player with the largest total keeps their counters - the others are returned to the dish.

I hope your students have fin with number today!

I hope your students have fin with number today!