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This Penguin Counting Game is the perfect addition to any winter theme, lots of fun for young children and great practice for counting, number sense, and one-to-one correspondence.
If you have never used Insta-Snow in your classroom your students are in for a real treat. Just add water and you will have snow for weeks that never melts.
You will need the following items:
Here’s how to play the Penguin Counting Game:
Follow the directions on the back of the Insta-Snow and mix it in the bowl. Place the bowl of snow in the middle of the table so it can be easily reached by all the students in your small group. Place your penguins in a basket. Students will take turns rolling the die, counting the dots, and placing the corresponding number of penguins in the snow- or as my students said “On the North Pole.”
If you teach your students a penguin chant they can say it each time the die is rolled, here are some cute penguin chants.
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I’m always finding things in the Target Dollar Spot that I think I can use in the classroom but I’m not quite sure how. When I saw these round ice cube trays I knew they would be useful for something. Then, I saw this post from Karen at Prekinders and I had a “light bulb moment.”
Karen uses coin storage tubes in the science center to explore magnetic properties. I had not seen these tubes before but I thought that they might fit in the round ice cube tray so off I went to search for them. It turns out that dime storage tubes fit perfectly in round ice cube trays. I also like how the use of the ice cube tray allows the sound shakers to be neatly displayed in the science center which invites children to interact with them more often.
To make the sound shakers I filled pairs of coin tubes with small objects that made sounds such as rice, nuts and bolts, sand etc. Since the tubes are clear I covered each one with the same color masking tape and placed them in the tray. Students select tubes, shake and listen, and identify the pairs that make the same sound. I created a free printable to go with this activity for you at the bottom of this post.
I use this book that is very appropriate for young children to introduce the concept of sound; the title is Sound: Loud, Soft, High, and Low (Amazing Science) by Natalie M. Rosinsky.
Printable Sound Shaker Recording Sheet
Click on the picture above to download this free printable. Students will place matching pairs of tubes on the happy faces and draw a picture of what they think is inside each pair.
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