December Morning Exploring

We are four rotations into our December Morning Exploring activities, and the individual storage boxes have been a very successful way to keep the activities organized during COVID. A focus this month is for students to use the instructions insert to help remind them how the activity works, therefore building independence with their learning. Students are loving these fine motor building activities and look forward to them each morning.

Addition Practice: Students sort the erasers in the container and record how many of each they have. Then they add the two numbers together.

Students roll two dice and add that number of water beads to the cookie cutters.

An added surprise is that the water beads held their shapes, creating a festive shape!

Students choose a card that has a picture of a CVC (consonant-vowel-consonant) word. They find the letters that spell the word, link them together, and then write the word.

Polka dot painting with a cotton swab helps strengthen fine motor skills in a super engaging way!

Students choose a number and then link the cards that show the value of the number.

This missing addend activity has students choosing a number card and building that number using a ten frame and bells. Then, the students must solve the missing addend equation.

The sight word chains activity is a real winner as it has students reading and stamping high-frequency words and folding and taping rings to make a chain.

Students choose a card that has a picture of a CVC (consonant-vowel-consonant) word. They find the letters that spell the word, link them together, and then write the word.

I love the students’ engagement in these activities and appreciate how their independence is growing, making it possible for me to read with each student individually daily.