But we are pretending it feels like fall in my classroom. These poor kids hear stories about leaves changing colors, pumpkins growing and a chilly breeze....yet there are palm trees, people in bathing suits and all things summer all around. It must be a tad confusing for them.
Anyway, I want to tell you about my NEW Fall Pattern Block set AND do a giveaway.
I love to use pattern blocks in my classroom. You can also check out my Ocean Animal Pattern Block set and my Zoo Animal set.
I think they are the perfect independent math center.
And as you can probably tell from the preview above, the cards are differentiated. There are 10 different fall items included:
*apple
*bat
*cat
*hat
*leaves
*owl
*pumpkin
*rake
*scarecrow
*spider
If you are thinking....hat? That is random....well, the idea was a witch's hat, but not everyone can talk about Halloween....so we just kept it at hat.
Each of those 10 designs are offered in four levels of difficulty:
*The orange border provides all the lines of each block.
*The brown has the outline only, but there are directions telling you which blocks to use with pictures
*The yellow set is similar to brown, but instead of pictures it uses color words {just in case your focus is learning to read those}
*The red set is the most difficult with no clues or help at all. Just the outline of the object.
I use these in different ways - for example sometimes I will put the "easy orange" set on one side and glue one of the other sets on the other side. That way the kids can choose how much of a challenge they are ready for.
The set also includes recording sheet as well as a poster with all the pattern block shapes on there.
I believe strongly that variety and change keeps your students engaged. So rather than using all of these at once, I will probably only debut five cards at first, then after a week or so {depending on how much time they have had to use them} I will change it out {or add} to the other five cards.
I am doing a giveaway for this set...... here is the fun part. The winner will get the file emailed to them AND they will get a hard copy in the mail too!
{Hard copy will be 21 pages: orange and brown sets plus the pattern block poster page. All 4 sets will be included in the e-copy}
Who doesn't like getting fun mail?
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Feeling Lucky? Wanna enter more? Check out this huge, fun fall giveaway that I am part of with some of my bloggy friends Jaime and Aimee:
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