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CSEFEL: Center on the Social and Emotional Foundations for Early Learning

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The National Center for Effective Mental Health Consultation (CEMHC) addresses the needs of Early Head Start/Head Start (E/HS) staff and families for practical guidance on effective ways to promote young childrenís social and emotional development and reduce challenging behaviors.

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IXL's dynamic math practice skills offer comprehensive coverage of California pre-K standards. Find a skill to start practicing!

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Kids love to search for items hidden in pictures in a book or sensory bins. It is like finding hidden treasure! This farm themed sensory bin has a variety of farm animals tucked into birdseed. Your children will have a great time looking for them!

Farm Sensory Bin
Supplies

Farm animals (We used this set.)

4 pounds of birdseed*

I Spy and Barn Printable (see below)

Toy tractor

Plastic tub

* You can use other types of sensory bin fillers if you like. We like to use the birdseed later to make birdseed ornaments.
Putting it Together
Pour the birdseed into the bin. (You will want to add enough seed to cover up the animals placed in the bin.)
Hide the animals under the birdseed.
Add the tractor and barn.
Now you are ready to play!

Some children may not like the feel of the birdseed used to cover the animals. I placed a red tractor in the bin to help the children look for the animals. By using the tractor to move the birdseed away from the animals, they can avoid touching most of it. They can use the tractor during free play too!

The printable barn can be download to decorate your sensory bin. While you don't need to use the barn, it does add a fun farm detail to the bin. Kids can also use it as a dust pan with the tractor. The tractor can sweep the animals onto the barn.

I Spy Games

After finding the animals and playing in the bin, your children may enjoy playing I Spy games with the animals.

Here are some games they can play:

Invite them to find each of the animals displayed on the printable I Spy card one at a time. They can look for them on their own, in pairs or as group.

You can also invite your children to take turns finding each of the animals in the bin and placing them on the card. (If you hide more than one of each animal in the bin, the game will go longer.)

You can have children work in the bin in pairs. One child can hide the animals and the other can search for them.

Hint: You may want to have a part of the animal peeking out of the birdseed if you are using the bin with younger children. It will make it easier for them to see and find the animals.

Download the Farm I Spy and Barn Printables

BIO: Deirdre is the author of JDaniel4's Mom where she shares other learning activities, printables, crafts, and food creations. She loves growing and learning beside her son. You can find her on Pinterest, Facebook, and Instagram.

More Sensory Bin Ideas

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Farm Sensory Bin and I Spy Activity - Pre-K Pages

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Kids love to search for items hidden in pictures in a book or sensory bins. It is like finding hidden treasure! This farm themed sensory bin has a variety of farm animals tucked into birdseed. Your children will have a great time looking for them! Supplies Farm animals (We used this set.)

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Secret Agent

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Splash the Fantastic!

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Counting and number recognition are skills that toddlers will learn through games, activities and play. The more you talk about numbers and point them out in real life, the more inquisitive they will be. Just like exposure to reading and books is so important, the same applies to numbers. We like to play 'number detectives' and look for numbers when we are out and about. Try to count whenever you get the chance (walking up steps, counting crackers for lunch, counting how many shoes etc). They key to counting is learning one to one correspondence (pointing to each item and allocating it a number). These counting activities for toddlers are a great introduction, and I'm sure they'll have lots of fun with them! You may like to try these activities in conjunction with our ABC Activities for Toddlers.

Powerful Mothering - Counting Caterpillar Busy Bag

Toddler Approved - Race to Lose Tooth Counting Game

Stir the Wonder - Count and Smash Play Dough

School Time Snippets - Counting Ice Cream Scoops

Nurture Store Blog - Straw and Pom Poms Counting Game

Glued to My Crafts Blog - Counting Dinosaurs Game

Tutus and Tea Parties - Number Counting Box

School Time Snippets - Counting Raindrops

A Little Pinch of Perfect - Counting Activity with Play Dough

Rainy Day Mum - Frog Counting Game

The Imagination Tree - Count and Sort Posting Box Game

I Heart Crafty Things - Counting Crocodiles

Toddler Approved - Lily Pad Math Hop

Modern Pre-school - Bee Pollen Counting Activity

I Can Teach My Child - Animal Cracker Counting

The Pinterested Parent - If You Give a Mouse a Cookie Counting Game

Where Imagination Grows - Craft Stick Tactile Counting Game

School Time Snippets - Fish Fingerprint Counting Activity

The Elementary Math Maniac - Magnetic Craft Stick Counting Activity

Best Toys 4 Toddlers - Fish Crackers Counting

Kids Activities Blog - Counting Garden

Life Over C's - Sily Monsters Counting to 10

Click Pray Love - Counting with Bowls and Pom Poms

It's Our Long Story - Counting Ducks

If you are looking for some great counting and number resources we have found a few of our favorites from Amazon.

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Some posts you may enjoy are our Indoor Activities for Toddlers

and The Very Hungry Caterpillar Activities for Toddlers

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Counting Activities for Toddlers Counting and number recognition are skills that toddlers will learn through games, activities and play. The more you talk about numbers and point them out in real life, the more inquisitive they will be. Just like exposure to reading and books is so important, the same applies to numbers.

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Math & More Centers

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What do you do in the morning when the kids first come in?

I have tried worksheets.

More copies to waste and papers to grade.

But, I need a little time in the morning to take attendance, check binders, and whatnot.

The kids NEED something ready to go when they walk in the door while you take care of the little things.

Thus, I created Morning Buckets.

I am seriously in LOVE with Morning Work Buckets. I started out with 5 buckets. I put EVERYTHING the students need in the bucket and then place one bucket on each table. Kids come in and stay engaged with hands on activities.

I have 4 students at each table so each bucket has 5 large zip-lock bags. Each child takes a bag and gets to work. The extra bag is for the student who finishes before everyone else and needs a new activity.

Of course, you want to make sure the students CAN independently complete the Work Bucket or assign them a buddy. I use activities that I have already taught during Guided Reading or Math Centers.

I like to use year round centers rather than seasonal so I do not have to change them as often. Do you own my Year Round Domino Centers? The Number Bond Activity is a NEW ADDITION. My kids were really struggling with number bonds this year. If you already own it, but sure you re-download it to get this game. If you have grabbed, check it out HERE. It includes 5 centers and 26 printables.

Sometimes, it is NOT practical to print out 4 copies of a center. This one bucket has 4 different activities in it. All of the activities are from my Snap Cube Math Centers. It is ESSENTIAL that you teach students HOW to put everything away. Even though they each have their own bag, they never seem to put everything away. Once every week or two, we have organizing parties and make sure everything is put away.

Of course, I have a few FREE ideas for you to get started. I shared the Roll and Sight Word FREEBIE a few months ago. If you missed it, you can find it HERE.

I told you we have been working hard on our number bonds. I LOVE this Pom-Pom number bond. You can get it FREE from my Friend Lindsay at Keeping it Cool at School. If you go to her blog, you can see step by step how this game works. EVERYTHING in this unit would be perfect for a Morning Work Bucket. You can find the entire unit in her store HERE.

I just wanted to sum up everything. It does take some time to organize the buckets, but it is worth it. I have 10 bags now, which means students will only do each bucket once every two weeks. I will try to create a few more over the next few weeks. Once the bags are created, they are ready for the year.

Morning buckets are fabulous because your students are doing meaningful, hands on activities.

I do have a Morning Work Packet from an amazing Teacher Pay Teachers seller. I send it home for weekly homework.

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Integrate Art & Math

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Center

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Math Brain

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https://www.youcubed.org/

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Play-doh ABC center

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TK-5

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Look, Lean, Listen, Lower Voice

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TK & K

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Math Centers

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Play-doh number mats

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TK Eureka Mod 1 Lesson 29

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TK Eureka Mod 1 Lesson 29

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The ants go marching two by two, the little one stops to tie her shoe. And they all go marching down to the ground. Toddler ant craft.

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TK Eureka Mod 1 Lesson 29

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The ants go marching one by one song | Ants at war

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counting to 10

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Enrichment Activity for Lesson 26

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Oracy in the Classroom: Strategies for Effective Talk

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Jo Boaler

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One More One Less

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Discussion and Supporting Materials

Thought starters

1. How do open-ended questions empower students, especially English Language Learners?

2. What advice does Ms. Gelormino have for using open-ended questions?

3. How do you use questions in your own classroom?

School Details

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Oakland CA 94601

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Open-ended Questions to Encourage Conversation

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Kid Snippets: "Math Class" (Imagined by Kids)

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Topic H one to one correspondence

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Kids love to search for items hidden in pictures in a book or sensory bins. It is like finding hidden treasure! This farm themed sensory bin has a variety of farm animals tucked into birdseed. Your children will have a great time looking for them!

Farm Sensory Bin
Supplies

Farm animals (We used this set.)

4 pounds of birdseed*

I Spy and Barn Printable (see below)

Toy tractor

Plastic tub

* You can use other types of sensory bin fillers if you like. We like to use the birdseed later to make birdseed ornaments.
Putting it Together
Pour the birdseed into the bin. (You will want to add enough seed to cover up the animals placed in the bin.)
Hide the animals under the birdseed.
Add the tractor and barn.
Now you are ready to play!

Some children may not like the feel of the birdseed used to cover the animals. I placed a red tractor in the bin to help the children look for the animals. By using the tractor to move the birdseed away from the animals, they can avoid touching most of it. They can use the tractor during free play too!

The printable barn can be download to decorate your sensory bin. While you don't need to use the barn, it does add a fun farm detail to the bin. Kids can also use it as a dust pan with the tractor. The tractor can sweep the animals onto the barn.

I Spy Games

After finding the animals and playing in the bin, your children may enjoy playing I Spy games with the animals.

Here are some games they can play:

Invite them to find each of the animals displayed on the printable I Spy card one at a time. They can look for them on their own, in pairs or as group.

You can also invite your children to take turns finding each of the animals in the bin and placing them on the card. (If you hide more than one of each animal in the bin, the game will go longer.)

You can have children work in the bin in pairs. One child can hide the animals and the other can search for them.

Hint: You may want to have a part of the animal peeking out of the birdseed if you are using the bin with younger children. It will make it easier for them to see and find the animals.

Download the Farm I Spy and Barn Printables

BIO: Deirdre is the author of JDaniel4's Mom where she shares other learning activities, printables, crafts, and food creations. She loves growing and learning beside her son. You can find her on Pinterest, Facebook, and Instagram.

More Sensory Bin Ideas

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Kids love to search for items hidden in pictures in a book or sensory bins. It is like finding hidden treasure! This farm themed sensory bin has a variety of farm animals tucked into birdseed. Your children will have a great time looking for them! Supplies Farm animals (We used this set.)

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This blog post is all about providing self-checking interactive math games for your math block! It's not always easy finding the right apps or games to support your math instruction. I wanted to provide a solution to this problem by creating interactive math games that you can run on any interactive whiteboard, computer, or handheld device!

Use these games as a whole group math warm-up, independent student math station, or fun end of day wrap-up! These games are versatile and meant to help you teach and reinforce important math skills in a highly engaging format!

You don't need any special software to use these games in your classroom. These games run on Microsoft PowerPoint! You can play them on any device that has PowerPoint. To test the games, I quickly added PowerPoint to my daughter's tablet and then just downloaded the game and began to play! These games are classroom tested and teacher approved!
Baking Up Teen Numbers
About the Games

We know that young math learners need repetition to build automatically and fluency with their math thinking. The 5 games in each skill set are different from each other and keep interest high. For the place value unit pictured in this post, there are 5 different place value games. Each game focuses on a different range of numbers.

The games were created by a teacher for a teacher. They have the needs of the students in mind while also keeping dear teacher sane. The games are self-checking. Students click answers and instantly hear sound effects and see visuals that tell them if this is correct or incorrect. There is a replay feature which allows the game to reset automatically. Students can play as many times as needed until they master the skill! No need to exit or restart. It's very user friendly. Another feature that I really wanted to have is a fail-safe for teacher. Students can not "mess it up" on accident by getting....ahem...click happy. Oh come on, there's always at least 1 click happy little one in the bunch.

Students click the mailbox that matches the tens and ones. If correct, the letter will fly into the mailbox!

If students click the correct light they get a green check, but if they click the incorrect light, the light goes OUT with a high voltage sound! Students try to keep the lights on throughout the game!

In the game below, students are clicking two ducks that equal the sum of ten together.

Students click the two popcorn kernels that make ten!
Sums to Ten Interactive Math Games Place Value to 120 Interactive Math Games
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Interactive Math Games (Tunstall's Teaching Tidbits)

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This blog post is all about providing self-checking interactive math games for your math block! It's not always easy finding the right apps or games to support your math instruction. I wanted to provide a solution to this problem by creating interactive math games that you can run on any interactive whiteboard, computer, or handheld device!