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Summer 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.Fun at the Beach Sight Word Links
- Editable Sight Word Cards
- Seashell Letter Cards
- Plastic Clips or Clothespins
2.Fun at the Beach CVC Self-Correcting
- Plastic links or clothespins
- Shell letter cards or real shells with letters written on them or beads with letters
- Self-correcting beach bucket cards
- Response sheet (Included in this set and optional)
3. Fun at the Beach Links Numbers and Quantities
- Plastic links
- Fun At The Beach Themed Number Cards and Quantity Cards printed on cardstock and laminated for durability (Included in this set)
- Sensory bin with thematic items
4.Fishy Fishy Sand Tray Sight Words Trays
- Fishy Fishy Sight Word Cards (available in this set)
- Small cake pan or cookie sheet
- Thematic fishy pencil
- Blue colored sand or salt
- Fun Fish Sprinkles or confetti (optional)
5.Melon Playdoh Counting Math Mats
- Laminated number mats printed on cardstock for durability
- Dough for making number and melon seeds.
6.Melon Playdoh Ten Frame
- Laminated number mats
- Dough for making the number (and representing the quantity in a ten frame)
- Optional: manipulatives for showing the quantity instead of playdoh
7. Melon 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 Fill the Fish Tank, Set the Table, Build a Cone
- Playdoh or homemade dough in various colors
- Plastic dough extruders
- Child size scissors
- Laminated playdoh mats.
9.Summer Fun Playdoh Items (Ice cream, watermelon, sun, sunglasses, sand castle, lemonade)
- Various colors of dough
- Summer item cards laminated for durability
10.Summer Fun Q-tip Painting (beach ball, sun, bucket/shovel, flip flop, sunglasses)
- Q-tip picture sheets printed on white paper.
- Q-tips
- Washable tempura paint
11.Star-Spangled Sort and Count Items
- Therapy putty
- Small plastic red white and blue beads or buttons
- Sorting Mat (included in this set)
12. Star-Spangled Color Find and Sort
- Therapy putty
- Small plastic red white and blue beads
- Sort and Graph Mat (included in this set)
13.Star-Spangled Color Sort, Graph and Count
- Therapy putty
- Small plastic red, white and blue stars or buttons
- Sort graph and count mat option, printed on cardstock and laminated
14.Count Your Ice Cubes
- Count Your Ice Cubes self-correcting cards printed on cardstock, laminated, and secured with a clothespin.
- Count Your Ice Cubes playing mat printed on cardstock and laminated for durability. (One for each student. )
- Tongs (optional)
- Plastic ice cubes, white buttons, pompoms or marshmallows to represent ice cubes.
15.One More Ice Cube
- Self-correcting cards printed on cardstock, laminated and secured with a clothespin.
- Playing mat printed on cardstock and laminated for durability. Tongs (optional)
- Plastic ice cubes, white buttons, pompoms or marshmallows to represent ice cubes.
- Dry erase marker
16.One Less Ice Cube
- Self-correcting cards printed on cardstock, laminated and secured with a clothespin.
- Playing mat printed on cardstock and laminated for durability.
- Plastic ice cubes, white buttons, pompoms or marshmallows to represent ice cubes.
- Dry erase marker
17.Under The Sea for Numbers Spin To Win
- Mini toy sea creatures with numbers written in permanent marker on the bottom.
- Tongs
- Spinner card
- Optional: a small sand bucket or container
- Optional: cd case and transparent spinner
18.Counting On Ants
- 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 ants or little ants painted on flat white marbles (or you could use black pompoms, buttons or beads)
- Dry erase marker
19.Counting Back Ants
- 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 ants or little ants painted on flat white marbles (or you could use black pompoms, buttons or beads)
- Dry erase marker
20.She Sells Sea Shells Missing Addend Self-Correcting Fun
- Self-correcting missing addend cards
- Bucket missing addend playing mats (one for each player)
- Tongs
- Shells
21.Summer Fun Sticker Count (ice cream cone, fish, sand bucket, star)
- 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.
22. Fishy Addition Printable Book
- Watercolor stamps
- Black pen
- Fish Bowl Addition booklet (included in this packet)
23.Summer Yummy Gel Bead Sort
24.Summer Yummy Gel Bead Roll and Win
- Thematic cookie cutters
- Gel beads in thematic colors
- Dice (It’s easy to differentiate this activity just by changing the number or type of dice you use.)
- Light Table (optional)
25.Garden Lego Challenge: ice cream, fish, sun
- Small Lego bases
- Lego Creation Cards
- Ice cream
- fish
- sun
- Legos in various colors
26.Star-Spangled Constructing Letters and Words
- Transparent red, white and blue stars (Hobby Lobby) or transparent flat marbles
- Star-Spangled Letter or Word Cards
- Light Table (optional)
28.Fishy Container Count
- Small Dollar mini white Surerite containers or another small container with fish painted on top.
- Small mini fish, erasers, buttons, beads, or yellow pompoms
- Recording mat printed on cardstock and laminated
29. Fishy Container Addition
- Small Dollar mini white Surerite containers (Dollar Tree) or another small container with fish painted on top.
- Small mini orange and bluefish, erasers, buttons, beads, or yellow pompoms
- Recording mat printed on cardstock and laminated
30.Seashell 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. Seashell 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.Seashell 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.Seashell Digraph Word Match Puzzles
- Small sensory bin with thematic filler and polypropylene beads
- Digraph/Picture puzzles pieces printed on cardstock and laminated for durability.
34.Fishy Patterns Self-correcting
- Colorful plastic fish, fish beads or buttons
- Playing mat printed on cardstock and laminated
- Self-correcting cards printed on cardstock, laminated and folded to hide the answer.
- Clothespins (fun thematic foamy or item hot glued to clothespin optional)
- Tongs or tweezers for moving items
35.Under The Sea Letter Match Up
- Rubber fish (You can get these at Dollar Tree or there are some available thru Amazon.) or small toy fish that are programmed with sight words of your choice.
- 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.Under The Sea Word Match Up
- Rubber fish (You can get these at Dollar Tree or there are some available thru Amazon.) or small toy fish that are programmed with sight words of your choice.
- One editable playing mat per student at a station with your selected sight words. (Included in this set.)
- Tongs
- Sensory bin with seasonal items (optional)
37.Feed Your Fish 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.)
38.Sea Shell Addition Self-correcting Cards
- Small seashells
- Self-correcting addition cards
- Seashell Addition mats
- Clothing pins
39.Sea Shell Subtraction Self-correcting Cards
- Small seashells
- Self-correcting subtraction cards
- Seashell Subtraction mats
- Clothing pins
40.Ice cream and Popsicle Addition to 10 Self-Correcting Cards and Mat
- Small popsicle and ice cream erasers, beads or small flat marbles with ice cream cones and popsicles painted on the top. Self-correcting cards
- Scooping up Addition Mats
- Clothes Pins
41. Fish Bowl I Spy Editable Sight Words and Record
- I-Spy Mats and recording sheets laminated for durability
- Magnifying glasses
- Dry erase markers
42. Star-Spangled Straw Cut Up and Necklaces
- Red, white and blue straws
- I purchased plastic ones at a local department store in Michigan (Meijers) and the star ones from Hobby Lobby
- Ribbon
- Scissors
43. Star-Spangled Addition
- Star hole punches
- Red and blue paper from Astrobrights
- Glue
- Star-Spangled Addition Books
