May Morning Work Materials

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May Morning Work

Materials Used In Activities

I always encourage teachers to use what they have or use what’s cheap. However, there are always teachers who would like to locate specific items that I may have used in activities. So I created a list below to help. Just click on any highlighted text to see where I secured various items.

1.Buggy Sight Word Links

  • Editable Sight Word Cards
  • Editable Bug Letter Cards
  • Plastic Clips or Clothespins

2.Buggy CVC Self-Correcting

  • Plastic links or clothespins
  • Bug letter cards, foam bugs with letters written on them or letter beads
  • Self-correcting bug box card

3.Bee-utiful Links Numbers and Quantities

  • Plastic links
  • Clothespins
  • Twine or string
  • Bee Themed Number Cards and Quantity Cards printed on cardstock and laminated for durability (Included in this set)
  • Sensory bin with thematic items (optional)

4.Flower Fun Sand Tray Sight Words Trays

  • Flower Fun Sight Word Cards (available in this set)
  • Small cake pan or cookie sheet available at the Dollar Tree
  • Thematic Flower Pencil, small pinwheel or other items to write in the sand
  • Green colored sand or salt
  • Flower confetti or flower sprinkles

5.Buggy Playdoh Counting Math Mats

  • Laminated number mats printed on cardstock for durability
  • Dough for making number and raindrops.

6.Buggy Playdoh Ten Frame

  • Laminated number mats
  • Dough for making a number (and representing the quantity in a ten frame)
  • Optional: manipulatives for showing the quantity instead of playdoh

7. Buggy Playdoh How Many More To Make Ten

  • Dough Laminated number mats on cardstock for durability
  • Dough Dry erase markers
  • Mr. Clean Magic Erasers for erasing (optional)
  • Manipulatives (Optional if you wish to use something other than dough: pompoms, buttons or seasonal manipulatives.)

8. Playdoh Build a Flower Pot and Fill The Bug Box

9.Garden Fun Playdoh Items

  • Various colors of dough
  • Garden item cards laminated for durability

10.Garden Fun  Q-tip Painting (Flowers, Butterfly, and Ladybug)

  • Q-tip picture sheets printed on white paper.
  • Q-tips
  • Washable tempera paint

11.Colorful Butterfly Sort and Count Items

  • Therapy putty
  • Small butterfly beads or buttons
  • Sorting Mat (included in this set)

12. Colorful Butterfly Color Find and Sort

13.Colorful Butterfly Color Sort, Graph, and Count

14.Four Frogs In a Row (CVC, Blends, and Digraphs)

  • 2 Four Frogs in a Row mats
    • Cvc mats
    • Blend mats
    • digraph mats
  • Rubber frogs or plastic mini frogs with CVC, digraph or blend words that match the pictures on the mat written on the bottoms.
  • Tongs
  • Basket or thematic buckets

15.Count Your Bugs

  • Count Your Bugs self-correcting cards printed on cardstock, laminated, and secured with a clothespin.
  • Count Your Bugs playing mat printed on cardstock and laminated for durability. (One for each student. You could also use a small bug box or jar.)
  • Tongs (optional)
  • Bug erasers, small miniature plastic bugs, or whatever small bugs you can find for counting.

16.One More Bug

  • Self-correcting cards printed on cardstock, laminated and secured with a clothespin.
  • Playing mat printed on cardstock and laminated for durability. (One for each student or you could use a mini, plastic pot.)
  • Tongs (optional)
  • Bugs erasers, small miniature toy bugs or whatever bugs you can use for counting.
  • Dry erase marker

17.One Less Bug

  • Self-correcting cards printed on cardstock, laminated and secured with a clothespin.
  • Playing mat printed on cardstock and laminated for durability. (One for each student or you could use a bug box or bug jar).
  • Tongs  (optional)
  • Small toy bugs, bug erasers or whatever you have that is buggy and can be used to count.
  • Dry erase marker

18.Bug Collector Spin To Win

  • Mini toy bugs with numbers written in permanent marker on the bottom.
  • Tongs
  • Spinner card
  • Optional: small plastic bug box, jar or container to hold your β€˜bugs.’  (I found mine at the Dollar Tree)
  • (cd case and transparent spinner – optional)

19.Counting On Bees

  • Self-correcting cards printed on cardstock, laminated and secured with a clothespin.
  • Playing mat printed on cardstock and laminated for durability. (One for each student.)
  • Tongs
  • Plastic mini bees or bee erasers (or you could use yellow pompoms, buttons or beads)
  • Dry erase marker

20.Counting Back Bees

  • Self-correcting cards printed on cardstock, laminated and secured with a clothespin.
  • Playing mat printed on cardstock and laminated for durability. (One for each student.)
  • Tongs
  • Miniature bees, bee erasers, or you could yellow pompoms, erasers, buttons or beads.
  • Dry erase marker

21.Ladybug Missing Addend Self-Correcting Fun

  • Self-correcting missing addend cards
  • Ladybug missing addend playing mats (one for each player)
  • Tongs
  • Dots (use flat black marbles or black buttons.

22.Garden Fun Sticker Count

  • Sticker recording sheet printed on paper. One for each child. (There are two to choose from.)
    • One sheet allows students to trace and total up all the stickers used.
    • One sheet allows you to place a specific sticker next to a box. Students use those three types to outline the template and then count up the individual stickers of each type and record the number next to the sticker in the box.
  • Small thematic stickers or any small stickers you can find.

23.Buggy Addition Printable Book

24.Garden Fun Gel Bead Sort

25.Garden Fun Gel Bead Roll and Win

26.Garden  Lego Challenge:  Ladybug, Butterfly, Flower

27.Garden Fun Constructing Letters and Words

28.Bee-utiful Container Count

29.Buggy Container Add

30.Blooming Lowercase/Capital Matching Puzzles

  • Small sensory bin with fun thematic filler and polypropylene beads
  • Capital/Lowercase Letter puzzles printed on one color of cardstock, laminated and cut apart.

31. Blooming Letter Sounds Matching Puzzles

  • Small sensory bin with fun thematic filler and polypropylene beads
  • Lowercase/Beginning Letter Sounds puzzles printed on one color of cardstock, laminated and cut apart.

32.Blooming CVC Words Matching Puzzles

  • Small sensory bin with thematic filler and polypropylene beads
  • CVC/Picture puzzle pieces printed on cardstock and laminated for durability.

33.Blooming Blending Word Match Puzzles

  • Small sensory bin with thematic filler and polypropylene beads
  • Blend/Picture puzzles pieces printed on cardstock and laminated for durability.

34.Butterfly Patterns Self-correcting

  • Colorful plastic butterfly beads or buttons
  • Playing mat printed on cardstock and laminated
  • Self-correcting cards printed on cardstock, laminated and folded to hide an answer.
  • Clothespins (fun thematic foamy or item hot glued to clothespin optional)
  • Tongs or tweezers for moving items

35.Froggy Fun Letter Match Up

  • Rubber frogs or small plastic toy frogs programmed with letters of your choice using paint pens or permanent marker.
  • One editable playing mat per student at a station with your selected letters (Included in this set.)
  • Tongs
  • Sensory bin with seasonal items (optional)

36.Froggy Fun Word Match Up

  • Rubber frogs or small toy frogs that are programmed with sight words of your choice.
  • One editable playing mat per student at the station with your selected sight words. (Included in this set.)
  • Tongs
  • Sensory bin with seasonal items (optional)

37.Unlock Garden Fun Math

  • Small sensory box
  • Thematic items including poly beads, garden confetti or other garden or bug thematic items.
  • Fun thematic tongs or chopsticks
  • Several differently keyed lock and key sets. I buy mine individually from discount and dollar stores. Do not buy a β€˜lot’ of keys as they will be keyed all the same way.  You can also ask parents to donate any old, unused locks and keys.  It’s a great way to assure they aren’t all keyed the same way.
  • Key fobs/tags with labeling capability.

38.Feed Your Frog Math

  • Math equation flies (included in this set)
  • Sensory bin with thematic items.
  • Frog heads with numbers 0-10 on them. Cut these out and place them on bucket or box so students can feed the frog thru the mouth.)

39.Froggy Addition Self-correcting Cards

40.Froggy Subtraction Self-correcting Cards

41.Buggy I-spy Editable Sight Words and Record

  • I-Spy Mats and recording sheets laminated for durability
  • Magnifying glasses
  • Dry erase markers
  • If you prefer you can also use small toy bugs with words written on the belly and small bug boxes. You will need a permanent marker to write the words on your bugs.

42.Bugs and the Bees Addition to 10 Self-Correcting Cards and Mat

  • Small ladybug and bee erasers, beads or wooden ladybug and bumble bee stickers. (You could also use red and yellow buttons or pompoms to represent ladybugs and beads.)
  • Self-correcting cards
  • Bugs and Bees Addition Mats
  • Clothes Pins

43.Missing Addend Ladybug Printable Book