What’s on the Tray Wednesday?
This week is Read across America week and Today is
Dr. Seuss’s birthday. I realize that it
is not Wednesday but I wanted to display what Montessori works we did this week
to celebrate Dr. Seuss. We read Cat in
the Hat, Cat in the Hat comes back, Barthalomew and the Oobleck, One fish two
fish, red fish blue fish, The ABC book, Wacky Wednesday and the foot book.
Here are
some math works we did with One fish two fish.
I was inspired by this book to make fish math
works.
We practiced skip counting with Evan Moore’s Take
it to your seat math centers. Each fish
has a number on them and you have to put them in order and then write down the
numbers you counted.
We sorted colored goldfish crackers. After they were sorted the kids filled out a
color graph.
I found these Dr. Seuss erasers in the dollar bins
at Target and I LOVE them!! We use them
all the time. This is a pattern
work. He is making ABC patterns.
Here are my lovely little counters as a number
line! Dr. Seuss counters and the sandpaper numbers again.
I also got the cute little Dr. Seuss boxes in the
dollar section of Target.
These are
pictures of our Practical life work trays this week.
This is a magnet work. I made magnetic pom poms by hot gluing
magnets to them. Put the card stock
printable on a metal cookie sheet. The
kids match the pom poms to the dots on the picture. Great for fine motor skills
Here is a Spoon transfer tray with ABC noodles. Transfer
from left to right. This work tray was
inspired by the ABC book by Dr. Seuss. (sorry about the orientation of the picture, blogger is playing tricks on me today)
We made blue jello with Swedish red fish and had
goldfish for snack.
Here
is our Seuss inspired language works.
Our class theme this year is Dr. Seuss. This is our
Seuss word wall. The sight word cards
are from here. For this game, the kids
all line up on one side of the room and I call out a sight word. The kids each have a swat stick and they race
to swap the word first. They keep track
of their points by making tally marks on an index card.
At family hats for the cat in the hat!
My team teacher made these for the kids and they
were on trays for the kids to add beginning sounds to the at words. I think they are adorable!
The tray on the top is a Dr. Seuss Rhyming work from Donna Glynn's Dr. Seuss pack.
We
practiced our word families. I had just
consonants in a basket with these cards on a tray and the kids had to use
thinking skills to make new words. With Lakeshore learning letter tiles
The tray in the middle is full of fish cutouts with beginning sounds and pictures. I attached magnets to the back of them and the kids fished for beginning sounds with a magnet fishing rod. I got these from www.kidssoup.com
In
my next post I will talk about our science works and Wacky Wednesday!! I am linking up with What's on the tray Wednesday and living Montessori now and Homeschool Creations, Preschool corner and 5K too!
