Valentine's Day Shelf Work

I wanted to post a few pictures of some of the shelf work that the kids did during the month of February.  This is work that they do independently or in a small group while I am either working one-on-one with a student or with a small group.

For this activity the students had to draw three "love monsters" and then add those three numbers together.  This also helped the students practice writing out addition sentences.

This work was called "Roll and Draw a Love Bug".  I did this with my students last year and they loved it.  You and a partner each get a sheet of paper and take turns rolling the die.  For each number on the die you are told to draw a particular part of your "love bug".  The first person to complete their "love bug" wins!

This wasn't exactly a "Valentine" shelf work activity, but it was something my kids needed practice with in math and since it was pink I just went with it.  The kids had to make pink gum drops out of Play-Doh to complete the ten frames.

This was another shelf work activity that was a game for two people.  Each person would roll the die and then add ten to whatever number they rolled.  Then the person would find that number and cover it with one of their colored tiles.  The first person to get all of their colored tiles on the board wins!

This shelf work activity required the students to use red and pink colored pencils to color a heart picture.  The heart had numbers written around it and every section that had an even number you colored pink and every odd section you colored it red.

This shelf work had students fill in the missing numbers out of this 100s chart.  Since there were hearts on the chart instead of simple squares the kids were much more excited about doing it!

This is a game that I have several different versions of (depending on what time of year it is).  It is a two player game.  Each student rolls three dice and adds the three numbers.  Then they cover the corresponding heart with their color tile piece.  The part about this game that the kids love is that you can "bump" your opponent off if you roll the same number.

Since Valentine's Day is on the 14th we practiced tracing, writing, and spelling the number 14.

This shelf work was a simple color by number.  My girls really liked this one.

For this shelf work activity the students had to color certain numbers different colors to make a heart.

Since I have students for two years my goal is to get 2 rotations of shelf work for each Holiday so each student will get to do new shelf work each year.

Shelf Work

Surprise, surprise I'm behind on my blogging!  What can I say.....life happens.  And truth be told the only reason I have the time to write a blog now is because my grandmother was in a bad car wreck and I'm out at the hospital with her.....so while she's napping.....I'm blogging!

I wanted to show some pictures of a few of our shelf work activities from the beginning of the school year.

The work is put on trays that are on the shelves around the room.  The children select a tray and take it to a seat in the room.  After the children have completed the work they put the tray back on the shelf and select other work.  This is similar to how the Montessori system that is used in our preschool.

Here are a few close up pictures of some of the shelf work activities we had at the beginning of the school year.  Sorry some of the pictures are sideways....for some reason I couldn't get them to rotate!

Fill in the missing number

making patterns with legos 

counting with legos

greater than/less than