Montessori Card Word

Living and Non-Living cards

Plants vs Animals

Achnoderms, anthropods, etc.

Types of material

Age Sequencing

Add skeleton (on plastic) on top of outline of animal

Inside each box are beads matching the color of the continent

Famous Places USA

Famous Places in Word Nonclemanture Cards (pictures w/ descriptions on back)

Dinosaur Songs

Tyrannosaurus Rex

Every story seems to have a villain.

Ours will be the reptile they call T. Rex.

Chorus:

Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.

Tyrannosaurus Rex means tyrant king.

He terrorized the countryside

And made the giant reptiles hide.

Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.

Tyrannosaurus Rex was a very mean king.

If it wasn’t for him we’d have a happy ending.

Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.

Mean and cruel was Tyrannosaurus Rex.

Caught his victims by their necks.

Repeat Chorus

Walked on his back feet for they were big and strong.

Used his short front feet like we use our arms.

Repeat Chorus

Triceratops

How many horns do you have? None of course.

How many horns does a bull have? Two, of course.

But me, but me, I have three.

I’m very special you can see.

Chorus:

Triceratops with three long horns, a beak like a parrot, and a frill where his neck is.

Triceratops with four big legs and a tail in back.

How many lips does a bug have? None of course.

How many lips do you have? Two, of course.

But me, but me, I’m unique.

Instead of lips I have a beak.

Repeat Chorus

How many legs does a fish have? None of course.

How many legs do you have? Two, of course.

But me, but me, I have more.

I’m so glad that I have four.

Repeat Chorus

Stegosaurus

Chorus:

My name is Stegosaurus. I’m a funny-looking dinosaur.

For on my back are many bony plates and on my tail there’s more.

My front legs are very short. My back two legs are long.

My body’s big, my head is small. I’m put together wrong.

Repeat chorus

Sometimes another dinosaur comes by and wants to fight.

I don’t use fists, I use my tail.

It has four sharp, sharp spikes.

Repeat chorus, last verse, and chorus again.

Pterodactyl

Chorus:

I’d like to be the biggest dinosaur.

I’m not but I can fly and I like that more.

Pterodactyl, Pterodactyl, where are you? Where are you?

Flying over treetops, flying over treetops,

Why oh why don’t you? Why oh why don’t you?

Repeat Chorus

Pterodactyl, Pterodactyl, what are you? What are you?

I’m a flying reptile, older than a crocodile.

Birds can fly, so can I.

Repeat Chorus

Pterodactyl, Pterodactyl, take me too. Take me too.

High above the mountains, over trees and water,

Take me too. Take me too.

Repeat Chorus

Apatasourus/Brontosaurus

Chorus:

Not very smart, not very quick,

Not nearly as wise as our friend Moby Dick

Brontosaurus means Thunder Lizard,

So big and slow that on land soon grew tired.

Doesn’t eat meat, doesn’t eat fish.

Leaves and plants are her favorite d

Repeat Chorus

Sixty seven feet from head to tail.

Very, very big but not as big as a whale.

Big as a firehouse, safe in the water,

Tyrannosaurus Rex on land could have caught her.

Repeat chorus, verse 1, chorus.

Dinosaur Friends

Now we know our dinosaur friends,

Who were so tall they’d make teachers looks small.

They’re not here so there’s nothing to fear.

So sing their song and be of good cheer.

Chorus:

Terri Pterodactyl, Bertha Brontosaurus

Trini the Triceratops, Stanley Stegosaurus,

Tom Tyrannosaurus, he is carnivorous.

Try it once again and sing another chorus.

Terri Pterodactyl, Bertha Brontosaurus

Trini the Triceratops, Stanley Stegosaurus,

Tom Tyrannosaurus, he is carnivorous.

That was lots of fun

Though these words are big for us.

(One more time – faster!)

Repeat chorus

I did it!

Potato Penguins

Math Bingo

MATH BINGO

SWBAT practice addition, subtraction or multiplication

Materials:

6 small cups (in picture, medicine measuring cups are used)

Container of pennies

Container of counters

2 addition, subtraction or multiplication cards (laminated)

1 basket

2 dice

2 cards of addition, subtraction, or multiplication symbols (laminated)

2 equal signs (laminated)

Instructions:

1.       Lay out materials as shown in picture below.

2.       Roll the dice into the basket (this controls how far the dice can go).

3.       Take the 1^st die and place it above the first cup. Take the 2^nd die and place it above the second cup.

4.       Count out how many pennies the 1^st die says and put that many pennies in the first cup. Do the same for the second cup.

5.       Pick up both cups and pour the pennies into the cup at the right of the = sign.

6.       Put all pennies from the = cup into your hand and count the total.

7.       If your total is one of the numbers on your board, place a counter on top of it (everyone gets to put a counter on the middle square for free). If then number is already covered or not on your board, play goes to the next player.

Note: Players must always pass dice to the next player.

8.       Game ends when one player gets three-in-a-row.

Cards get stored under the green cloth.

In white container are dice and +, -, x, and = cards.

In butterfly container are counters.

Nouns Lesson 2

Regular Plural Nouns

Part 1: Categories

There's a basket of objects and each object has more than 1 of it in the basket. You start by taking out ONE of each object and they go in the singular noun pile. Once you have one of each out, you can start the plural nouns pile. You put however many of each object is left in the plural nouns pile. Teacher says "rock" vs "rocks" and students notice that in plural noun pile there's an "s" at the end showing 1 or more. Then teacher takes out pile or word cards. Teacher helps K read the card and they place it next to the object(s). At the end, you can notice that there's an "s" at the end of all the plural noun piles.

Part 2: Memory Game

Have names of different objects written on cards. Read all cards together. Flip over and play memory game.

*I wonder if this would work matching singular and plural?