Color can make learning a more fun and impactful experience. To help kids easily see the parts that make up three digit numbers, print these free place value cards on bright cardstock, cut apart the pieces and start building numbers. Such an easy prep and also a memorable way to practice place value! This post is sponsored by ASTROBRIGHTS® Papers. Getting ReadyTo prep, I printed the place value cards on my favorite shades of brightly colored ASTROBRIGHTS® Papers cardstock. You could really pick anything but I was in a neon kinda’ mood so I chose-
I placed the cardstock in a stack and slid the sheets into my printer. Being careful to skip the first two pages of the place value download (HERE), I printed the cards and then cut them apart. How to Use the Place Value CardsThere are so many different ways to use the place value cards but here are a few of my favorites- ACTIVITY ONE – Write down or say a number and have students build it with the cards. Then, ask them to spread apart the cards and read the expanded notation. For example, if you said, “932”, students would build it and then say, “900+30+2.” ACTIVITY TWO – Pass out several cards to each student in class. Then, call out a number and have the players with those place value cards come to the front of the room to build the number. For instance, if you said “823”, the students holding 800, 20 and 3 would walk up and work together to slide their cards into the right spot. ACTIVITY THREE – Call out a number for kids to build with their place value cards. Then ask, “What is 10 more?” or “What is 10 less?” You can make it even more challenging by asking questions like, “What is 50 more?” or “What is 100 less?” ACTIVITY FOUR – Call out two numbers and ask, “What number is bigger?” or “What number is smaller?” Find MoreYou can find more inspiration and ideas to COLORIZE your life at COLORIZE.tumblr.com. The post Place Value Cards #Colorize appeared first on Playdough To Plato. via Playdough To Plato https://www.playdoughtoplato.com/place-value-cards-colorize/
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Activities that can easily be implemented anytime of the year are the best! These blend puzzles are the perfect addition to your literacy centers, no matter what season it is. Grab your free blend puzzles below and then hop over and snag our blend clip cards, too. Getting ReadyTo prep, I printed the blend puzzles (below) on card stock and laminated them for extra durability so that they could be used for years to come. When cutting them out, I found it easiest to use a paper trimmer to cut around the outside border of the puzzles first. Then, I went back and cut out the individual pieces of each puzzle with scissors. The set contains 20 different puzzles, covering L blends, R blends, and S blends. Each puzzle contains three pieces: one piece identifies the blend and the other two have a picture on it that contain the given blend. Blend PuzzlesStudents started the activity by placing all of the puzzle pieces on a table. They chose a blend piece first. I always encourage my students to say the blend out loud. This student chose the “cl” blend. Students then sorted through all of the pieces, trying to find the pictures that have a “cl” blend. She found the clown first and placed it next to the first puzzle piece. She continued searching for matches until the puzzle had all three of its pieces. When students were done, they pushed the puzzle to the side and continued until all 20 pieces had been paired. The puzzles could also be completed by laying out all of the blend pieces on the floor and then placing the pictures according to the blend they hear when they say the picture. DifferentiatingOur students always come to us with varying abilities so it is always so nice when we can adapt the activity to meet the needs of all students. If your students would have difficulty sorting through three different blends, choose one at a time or pick only a few examples of the three focus blends. If your students can handle all three kinds of blends, but would be overwhelmed by having so many puzzle pieces, take the middle puzzle piece out of each puzzle. Students will need to only match the blend to one picture puzzle piece. Grab Your SetReady for your free set?! Click the blue download button below to grab your puzzles now and then hop over and snag our blend clip cards, too. The post Blend Puzzles appeared first on Playdough To Plato. via Playdough To Plato https://www.playdoughtoplato.com/blend-puzzles/ Learning to read is so exciting and, once kids build up confidence with their CVC words, they may be ready to tackle those “Magic E” long vowel words. These Shamrock magic e puzzles are great to add to your St. Patrick’s day themed learning activities if your kids are ready for some “Magic E” fun! Snag your free download below and then jump over and grab 45 more Magic E centers kids will beg to repeat! Getting ReadyPrepping these magic e puzzles was a piece of cake. I quickly printed out the two pages of 12 puzzles, laminated them, and then cut them in half to make 24 pieces. Note: You may find it helpful to print two sets if you are using the activity in a classroom setting- one for you to use in small groups and another to have available in a literacy center or for an independent work station. Shamrock Magic E PuzzlesDepending on the needs of your kids, you may decide to use all 12 of the puzzles at once or start with just a few. In my group, we had already been working with CVCe words, so we were ready to tackle all 5 long vowels at once. We first separated the pictures from the words to stay organized, and then we spread the pictures out in a line so that we could see them better. We each took a turn picking a word card and reading the CVCe word, or “Magic E” word as we like to call it (the e magically turns a short vowel long), and hunting for its matching picture to complete the shamrock. We also practiced hiding the letter e with our finger and reading the word with a short vowel sound, and then revealing the e to make the sound long. For example, we would cover the e in gate to read it as “gat” and then reveal the e to stress that now it is making the vowel say its name, so the word is “gate.” We kept reading words and matching them with their pictures until all of our festive green shamrocks were complete! Grab Your DownloadReady to have fun with these shamrock magic e puzzles on your own? Grab your copy of the printable by clicking the button below and then hop over and snag our jam packed bundle of Magic E centers! The post Magic E Shamrock Puzzles appeared first on Playdough To Plato. via Playdough To Plato https://www.playdoughtoplato.com/magic-e-shamrock-puzzles/ These free pumpkin number puzzles are perfect for fall! They’re a fun way to practice counting, number recognition, matching and fine motor skills. Grab your free printable pumpkin puzzles below. I’m so excited that fall is on its way! It’s my favorite time of year and I love sharing it with my kids. I created this set of four free pumpkin number puzzles to work on number order for the numbers 1-40. Each puzzle has a different set of numbers to give kids practice both reading the numbers and putting them in order. The puzzles are great for kids who are just starting to learn to count to 100 because the pictures will help correct them if they get a number out of order. There is one puzzle for each of the following sets of numbers: 1-10, 11-20, 21-30 and 31-40. By using the same format, kids can concentrate on putting the numbers in order rather than ‘how’ to put the puzzle together. In addition, the puzzles are self-checking because if a number is out of order, it will make the picture incorrect. You can also have your child put the number puzzle together and then while they cover their eyes, remove one or two pieces and have her figure out what numbers are missing. Getting ReadyTo prepare the puzzles, print them on paper and laminate or print on cardstock. Laminating will make them more durable, but if you only plan on using them a couple times, card stock will work. Cut out the puzzles and then cut on the solid lines in-between each set of numbers to create the strips of the puzzle. Pumpkin Number PuzzlesTo start, give your child one puzzle at a time. Once he is confident with putting a couple puzzles together, you can mix them together for an extra challenge, requiring him to sort them and then put the puzzles together. I hope that you will enjoy these pumpkin puzzles as much as we have! They will be great for having some fun on a chilly fall day! Grab Your Copy NowDownload the Free Pumpkin Puzzles and then hop over and grab a set of our free apple tree counting mats and playdough mats. The post Free Pumpkin Puzzles Numbers 1-40 appeared first on Playdough To Plato. via Playdough To Plato https://www.playdoughtoplato.com/free-pumpkin-puzzles-numbers-1-40/ Are you looking for a fun way for kids to practice reading and spelling CVC words?! These free CVC word puzzles are easy to prep and your students will love the fun and bright pictures. Grab your copy below and then hop over and snag our mega pack of print-and-play word work activities in our shop or on Teachers Pay Teachers! Getting ReadyPrepping this CVC puzzle activity was a snap! I printed the puzzles on white cardstock and then ran all of the cards through the laminator to ensure durability. Next, I cut along the dotted lines to separate the pieces. I placed the pieces in a 4 x 6 photo box for easy storage. Finally, I printed out a record sheet for each child so students would be able to write the CVC words after they put the puzzles together. CVC Word PuzzlesThe activity was great to use with a small group of students! To start, we reviewed the short vowel sounds together and I asked the children to give me a few examples of CVC words for each vowel. Our short A list included cat, man, lap and rat… Short E’s list had bed, men, pet and red… I spread out the puzzle pieces on the table – making sure to place the three pieces in each puzzle in a pile so children could find a set quickly. Then, I asked a volunteer to pick one of the puzzles, solve it and read the word out loud. She chose the puzzle for the word “sit.” As she spelled the word she used her finger to point to each letter. “s…i….t….sit!” We worked through one more example as a group before I sent students off to solve the remaining CVC puzzles with a partner. When all of the puzzles had been put together, I gave each student a record sheet. The children wrote each CVC word next to the correct picture by writing one letter in each box. If a student had trouble spelling a word, I had them go back to the puzzle and sound out the word again. It was an awesome way to check for understanding! Grab Your DownloadReady to practice some CVC words? Scroll below and click on the blue download button to snag your freebie. Then, hop over and grab 14 more board games for your collection in our shop or on Teachers Pay Teachers! The post CVC Word Puzzles appeared first on Playdough To Plato. via Playdough To Plato https://www.playdoughtoplato.com/cvc-word-puzzles/ Kids will love practicing sight words with this simple sight words activity. Grab a white crayon and some markers and get ready for a little magic! Snag your copy below and then hop over and get 26 more word work centers kids will beg to repeat in our shop or on Teachers Pay Teachers! Magic Sight Words ActivityAfter printing out the sheet (below), students wrote their sight word list with a white crayon. This step felt especially silly because it looked like they hadn’t done any work at all. But then came the magic trick! Children colored over the crayon with a marker and the words instantly appeared. One word after the next, the excitement built over this sight words activity as they uncovered them! Students were so happy that they didn’t even realize they were learning, too. Sneaky learning is my favorite. Yours, too? Snag Your CopyClick the blue “download” below to grab the freebie and then hop over to snag our mega pack of motivating word work activities in our shop or on Teachers Pay Teachers! The post Magic Sight Words appeared first on Playdough To Plato. via Playdough To Plato https://www.playdoughtoplato.com/magic-sight-words/ Looking for a quick and fun name game for kids? Names are one of the first words many children learn to read and write and this low-prep name game is an exciting way to practice them. In Magic Letters, kids learn how to spell their name by making the letters magically appear. Fun, right?!
To prep the Magic Letters sheet, I used an ordinary black Sharpie and spelled my son’s name at the top of a blank piece of paper. I drew a solid line underneath each letter to make them clearly stand out. In the next line, I wrote his name again but this time I skipped his first letter – writing a blank line in its place. I wrote his name twice more, leaving out different letters each time. Now comes the sneaky part of the name game! I grabbed a white crayon and wrote the missing letters on the blank lines. If you look very closely, you can actually see them in the photo above. My behind-the-scenes Houdini magic was complete, so I called my son over to join me. Magic LettersTo help my three year-old remember how to spell his name, we practiced the silly song several times that I made up for him. As we sang, I pointed to the letters written at the top of the sheet – moving my finger each time we said a new one. Then came the fun! I moved my finger to the next line on the paper and asked my son what he noticed. “Something’s missing!” he said with excitement. I explained that one of his letters had disappeared and before we could make it come back, we needed to figure out what it was. Singing his song once more, he immediately figured out that it was the elusive G. I handed him a paint brush and invited him to dip it in our watercolor paints to see if he was correct. Just a few minutes later, he’d made all of the missing letters magically reappear and was begging to play again. More Name GamesFor more fun, turn kids’ names into rainbows, going on a first letter scavenger hunt and build it with blocks. The post Magic Letters Name Game appeared first on Playdough To Plato. via Playdough To Plato https://www.playdoughtoplato.com/magic-letters-name-game/ Rhyming is an important skill for new readers to master and these playful back to school rhyming puzzles make it so fun to practice. Grab your free set below and then hop over and check out 25 more back to school ideas we love! Getting ReadyTo prep, I printed the Back to School Rhyming Puzzles (below) on card stock and laminated them so that I could easily reuse the center again. When cutting them out, I found it easiest to use a paper trimmer to cut around the outside border of the puzzles first. Then, I went back and cut out the individual pieces of each puzzle with scissors. The set contains 15 different puzzles. Each vowel has three different rhyming puzzles to give children plenty of practice. Rhyming PuzzlesStudents started the activity by placing all of the puzzle pieces on a table. They chose a glue puzzle piece first. I always encourage my students to say the name of the picture out loud. This student chose the puzzle piece with a box on it so she said, “Box.” She then sorted through all of the glue dot puzzle pieces, trying to find the one that had a picture of something rhyming with “box.” My student found the fox puzzle piece and placed it next to the box. She pushed the completed puzzle to the side and continued pairing up the remaining glue bottles and glue dots until all 15 puzzle pieces had been matched. Differentiating the Rhyming PuzzlesOur students always come to us with varying abilities so it is so nice when we can adapt the activity to meet the needs of all students. If your students would have difficulty sorting through all fifteen puzzles, provide them with only one or two examples of each vowel so that they don’t get overwhelmed. As they master those, you can add in the remaining puzzle pieces. Grab Your SetReady for your free set?! Click the blue download button below to grab your puzzles now and then hop over and check out 25 more back to school ideas you’ll love! The post Back to School Rhyming Puzzles appeared first on Playdough To Plato. via Playdough To Plato https://www.playdoughtoplato.com/back-school-rhyming-puzzles/ Playing an ABC game is one of the best ways to introduce the alphabet to your little ones. Our brains learn best when we use several senses at once, so this ABC sort helps pre-readers use a variety of senses to help their brains remember the differences between letters. To play the letter sort, children reach into a cup and pull out a letter. Then, they put that letter in one of three categories: curvy, straight or both. Being able to look at the letter (sense #1) and then feel the shape of the letter’s sides (sense #2) is a helpful and entertaining way for children to learn about the alphabet. Getting ReadyTo play the game, you’ll need:
Letter SortFill the cup with a pile of lowercase letters and then place the cup inside a sock. Pull the sock completely over the cup and invite your child to reach into the sock and pull out a letter. (This is my son’s favorite part!) Then, have your child sort it into the correct category: curvy, straight or both. If your child is learning the name of the letters, say the name for him. If he already knows the letter names, ask him to name each letter as he goes along. Continue sorting until all of the letters are in their just-right spot. That’s it! Pretty easy, huh?! Grab Your DownloadClick the blue button below to snag your freebie, then make sure to check out our uber fun ABC game pack including 20 easy prep, motivating alphabet activities in our shop or on Teachers Pay Teachers. The post ABC Sort: Curvy or Straight? appeared first on Playdough To Plato. via Playdough To Plato https://www.playdoughtoplato.com/letter-sort-curvy-or-straight/ If you’re looking for a fun way to teach digraphs like SH, CH and TH, you’ll love these free gumball puzzles. The digraph puzzles are so easy to make and fun to play. They’re great to use as literacy centers or guided reading activities! Getting ReadyTo prep, I simply printed the gumball digraph puzzles (below) on cardstock to give them extra durability and cut along the dotted lines to separate the pieces. If you’ll be using them in the classroom, you could laminate them to make the cards even sturdier. I placed all of the gumball machine bottoms in a stack face down on the table and then spread out the gumball tops face up around it. Gumball Digraph PuzzlesWhen the digraph puzzlers were ready, I divided the kids in groups and had the first player pick up the first card in the gumball bottom deck. She read the digraph sound and thought of a word that included it. “SH is for ship!” she said proudly. Then, she turned her attention to the next step: finding a picture that started with that SH sound. “Shark!” she exclaimed just few moments later. She placed the top of her gumball machine above the SH on bottom. I recommend starting with the beginning digraphs first and then moving on to the ending digraphs when kids are ready for some extra challenge. You can even use the full set later as a review activity! Ready to Play?Click the blue button below to grab your free gumball digraph puzzles and then hop over and snag more addictively fun games in our Digraph Activity Pack! The post Digraph Gumball Puzzles appeared first on Playdough To Plato. via Playdough To Plato https://www.playdoughtoplato.com/digraphs-gumball-puzzles/ |
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