Just chugging along.....

Yoooohoooo!  I am joining Little Miss Kindergarten for my first linky party!  Her linky party is all about dice and how you use them in the classroom.... I wish I had a picture to show you all my dice...  I have an obsession and  I probably  need an intervention.  I have numeral dice in all forms, alphabet, picture, shapes....large, medium, small ... I think I could start my own casino. :)   I believe dice or in teacher terms "random number generators" are a valuable learning tool for children.  This past Easter I found frog egg holders.  My kinder kids had a blast shaking their dice in them for whatever game they were playing at the time.  Right now my dice are stored at school in a large ziplock bag, but I love the storage idea that Empowering Little Learners uses to store her dice.   Here is a dice game that I would love to share with you.   You can get the game and directions here  and here. I cut the second page, taped it together and then laminated it.   I hope you enjoy it all my blogging friends!  If you download,  please think about joining Little Miss Kindergarten here:  It's Getting Dicey Linky Party!

Measuring With Fido

   Hi my blogging buddies!  This is Fido!  Isn't he adorable?  This year he is going to help my kinders with measuring.   Usually I don't start measuring until the end of the year, but this year I want to start earlier.  I am going to make this into a 6 page book... laminate, then bind on the side.  I like for my kinders to keep all their stuff together, so making it into a book may help to keep them more organized.  However, you can use it for what works best for you and your students.   The last page is a recording sheet.... sorry it's in color, but just set your printer to print in gray scale.  I will modify the recording sheet later for differentiation. I think you can use many different objects to measure .... I think I'm going to use pennies.  
Please let me know if you find any mistakes.  I cut my finger today and have a butterfly bandage on it.... makes it hard to type. Don't you hate finger cuts?  If you download to use, please leave me a comment and think about following me if you haven't already!  I heart comments!  Click on Fido to download!  Happy measuring!