Snowman Fine Motor Activity

Hi Blog Hoppers! This is Mel, From the Pond. I hope you are having a fantastic week. If you are anything like me, you are counting down the days until Christmas break! 

I have a fun little freebie for you today - get your students busy (and quiet) with 'pinning'! 

They will L-O-V-E it, and I know you will too. 

These projects look fantastic attached to the window when finished.

Simply copy the project onto white paper.

Staple it to a sheet of black card. 

And students can 'poke' their way around the design using a pin. Be sure to talk about safety and appropriate use of pins before you let your students touch the equipment!

You can download the free snowman sample page from our Pond Coloring Club!

If you would like more of these fun fine motor projects, head over to my TpT store to find lots of packets to keep you pinning through the year!

Thanks so much for stopping by our blog - have a wonderful day!

- Mel x

Digital Downloads from Debbie Clement

I am so excited!!! I have followed so many edu-bloggers into the future and have joined the gold-rush to Teacher's Pay Teachers. Here's my NEW store! Earlier today I uploaded my first "digital" product -- which includes an Mp3 of one of my original plus two dozen pages of support materials. It's a whole new era for me!!! 

Fine Motor Development for "Pollywog" Metamorphosis Unit

People have been asking me for years and years to go digital and now the day has arrived! One ready-to-go and that only leaves another hundred-and-how many? 

My favorite part of this first adventure are the 5 'illustrations' that I made from fabric to 'match-up' to the verses in the song. I even went the extra mile and made a quilt-picture for the "punch-line' of the song. 

 

Of course chances are good you've never heard the song before -- so here's a YouTube version from my nationally award winning DVD, "Kweezletown." What a great way to mix some science into your back-to-school routine! 

Want to see some of the other 'goodies' in the packet? Just visit this article on my blog, RainbowsWithinReach. 

-- Debbie -- 

Meaningful Math: Activities, Bulletin Boards + More!

Math, Math + More Math! Super Sunday to You!

I've gathered another 'round-up' of amazing ideas that I've observed making my rounds of Author-Illustrator school visits. This time I've focused on all things 'math' related. There are ideas from bulletin boards, class goals, team building projects, classroom collaborations, fine motor development the whole nine yards!! 


It's a bloghop so if you're a blogger I'd invite you to get your blog articles into visibility -- as this promises to be a big visibility post due to the power of Pinterest! 


P.S. I've got a give-away going for a personalized set of my picture books and you have until Thurs the 19th to get entered at this link. All you have to do to win is to pin something from my blog: easy-peasy!! Combine these two concepts! Pin an image from the math article and let me know in the Fine Motor contest. Happy summer everyone!

-- Debbie --

Fine motor skills

Does your report card include a grade for fine motor skills? There is so much to do in our classrooms and sometimes teachers forget to incorporate activities to strengthen those little fingers and hands. We do plenty of paper tearing, cutting and pasting, but do any of you have a center specifically for this objective? There are so many activities that promote this skill. Hop on over to see a few ideas that you can use in your center and give those fingers some strength.