{"id":1588,"date":"2012-10-21T04:43:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-21T09:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/funwithfirsties.com\/2012\/10\/pumpkin-party\/"},"modified":"2012-10-21T04:43:00","modified_gmt":"2012-10-21T09:43:00","slug":"pumpkin-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lsdesignssites5.techsurgeons.com\/index.php\/2012\/10\/21\/pumpkin-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Pumpkin Theme Day! Counting By 10s, Math Centers, & MORE!"},"content":{"rendered":"
\nMore pumpkins! All week we have been learning about these things and yet I still have this strange obsession with pumpkins…and so I’m going to keep up the pumpkin theme next week, too! After all, we haven’t even tried pumpkin seeds yet! So here’s some of the things we’ve been up to all week:<\/div>\n
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\nDuring our shared reading, we were learning about the pumpkin life cycle. The kiddies really enjoyed talking about how a pumpkin seed becomes a big, round pumpkin so I jumped at the opportunity to complete a sequencing activity that reiterates writing our numerals and also requires some good ol’ fine motor:\u00a0<\/div>\n
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\n\u00a0During math, I cut a hole in the top of our class pumpkin so the kids could first estimate and then count how many seeds were in the pumpkin. In Number Sense and Numeration we are working on counting by 10s so this was a perfect activity for that:<\/div>\n
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\n\u00a0Some kidlets estimated 6 seeds and some estimated 10000! In the end, our pumpkin had 258 seeds.<\/div>\n
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\nNext came math centres. Our first math centre was pumpkin number order. The kids had to write the missing numbers. Anytime they get to use whiteboard markers they are ALL.ABOUT IT.<\/div>\n
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\nClick\u00a0HERE<\/a>\u00a0for your FREE copy <\/b>of this activity (I coloured the pumpkins in and laminated them)<\/i><\/div>\n
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\nNext centre was number matching. First they just match up the numeral and dot puzzles and then they could play it as a memory game:<\/div>\n
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\nGrab a FREE copy<\/b> of this activity\u00a0HERE<\/a>. \u00a0<\/i><\/div>\n
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\nAt calendar time we have been working on saying the date using ordinal numbers (i.e. first, second, third, fourth, fifth, etc.) so this next centre focused on practice identifying and matching ordinal numbers with their corresponding numeral. I even took it one more level for my smarty-pants and had them write the number word as extra practice.\u00a0<\/div>\n
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\nYou can download the FREE pumpkin cards<\/b>\u00a0HERE<\/a>\u00a0(<\/b>if you go to atozteacherstuff.com you can grab the pumpkin cards from 11 to 20<\/i>)<\/b><\/span>\u00a0<\/b>and my FREE WORKSHEET\u00a0<\/b>HERE<\/a>.<\/div>\n
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\n\u00a0Last but not least was a Halloween-y dice game. I LOVE dice games for one-to-one correspondence practice. All the kids had to do here was take turns rolling the die and moving their piece along the monsters. First one to get to the candy wins. SO SIMPLE but they loved it, which means I loved it, too!\u00a0(I can’t remember where I got this one from. Let me know if it was you so I can give you credit!)<\/i><\/div>\n
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\n\u00a0If it isn’t already obvious I am *all about* centres!!! Whether it’s math, literacy, science, whatever, I think centres are SO important for practicing key skills taught in whole and small group. Grade one is SUCH a developmental year and centres are a great way to consistently practice those keys skills along with accountability, independence, problem solving, social interactions, and about a zillion other things.<\/div>\n
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\nOkay, I will stop blabbering on now. Have a fantastic week everyone!!!<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

More pumpkins! All week we have been learning about these things and yet I still have this strange obsession with pumpkins…and so I’m going to keep up the pumpkin theme next week, too! After all, we haven’t even tried pumpkin seeds yet! So here’s some of the things we’ve been up to all week: During […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3077,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,38,50],"tags":[21,31,27,39,66,67],"class_list":["post-1588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-holidays-seasonal","category-math","category-science","tag-craftivity","tag-freebie","tag-math-centres","tag-math-tubs","tag-ordinal-numbers","tag-pumpkins"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lsdesignssites5.techsurgeons.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lsdesignssites5.techsurgeons.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lsdesignssites5.techsurgeons.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lsdesignssites5.techsurgeons.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lsdesignssites5.techsurgeons.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lsdesignssites5.techsurgeons.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lsdesignssites5.techsurgeons.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lsdesignssites5.techsurgeons.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lsdesignssites5.techsurgeons.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lsdesignssites5.techsurgeons.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}