Easy spring math ideas

There are so many things you can do with a spring theme! Using a little bit of scrapbook paper, some ric rac and colored bow tie pasta, here's what I came up with: Patterning with Kite colors.

Patterning with colored bow tie pasta. This is the first time I have attempted to color pasta. I used the same method that I used to color my rainbow rice here. I dabble in cake decorating so I have some gel colors - I found that the gel stayed a little sticky so next time I will use the regular liquid kind!

Ordering the kite by the length of it's tail.

Measuring how many bow ties tall each tail is.

AB pattern using colored petals.

AAB pattern using colored petals.

ABC pattern using colored petals.

Have fun coming up with some other spring math ideas - feel free to leave a link to some of your own in the comment box.

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Spring/rain art projects

If you're looking for a cute rainy art idea, try this out. You can download my pattern here. All you need is some colored paper (I used some scrapbook paper that I had), buttons (rain) and glue.........Unless your kids are great at cutting, you'll need to do the cutting for them but putting it all together is fairly easy. I think it turned out so cute :-) Here is another art project. You'll find the little "rhyme" in my spring pack. The idea for the cute little rain guy came from my "Weather Wonders" book by Kim Jordano. This book is part of a series written by Kim which is now out of print but you can get most of them second hand through Amazon ("Stepping into standards" series if you are interested). I'm going to link this to:

Spring has sprung (a new unit)

Spring kind of snuck up on me this year.........the day after my surgery, I got hit with a horrible stomach flu which has been making its round around our house.....I am hoping that we have seen the last of it! Anyway, I am definitely READY for spring so here is a unit to unleash the spring festivities :-) This unit has a bit of everything in it and could be used for Pre-K to 1st grade. I tried to gear it more for school age kids this time since there are so many WONDERFUL spring units out there already (see links that the bottom of the page). Hopefully everyone can find something that you'll be able to use in this pack.!

Here's what you'll find inside:

See, Trace and Make cards

3 part cards

Scissor skills

Color me

Counting cards

Find the missing number

Spring jumble

Acrostic poem writing

How does your garden grow?

Size sort

Coutning mat

Come fly with me

Graph it

Pre-writing

Umbrella numbers

Alphabet letter match

Get your (ordinal) ducks in a row

Flutterby Butterfly

It's raining on the roses (comparison)

Home at last (birdhouse addition)

Raindrop romp (-at,-ap and -an word families)

Rainboots

Roses grid game

Stamp a vowel

Tales of time

Rain facts

The very adventerous kite

Thanks so much to DJ inkers for all the WONDERFUL clip art. It is designed by Dianne J. Hook and is of course copyright.

This pack will soon be available in my TPT store.

I will be posting the photo (and a pattern) for the rain facts tomorrow. Make sure you check back for lots more spring activities this week :-) I'll also (finally) be getting back to our "Trekking across the States" adventure and posting about it on Sunday. Agh - I feel like I've been away forever!!

Here are some other great Spring packs to check out:

Jolanthe @ Homeschool Creations has a Gardening unit

Dawn @ Our little Monkeys has an April Showers tot pack

Daphne @ Moo Moo's and Tutus has a Kite unit

Erica @ Confessions of a Homeschooler has a K is for Kite unit

Ana from Ingles360 has a spring pack.

Alison from Itsy Bitsy Learners has a gardening pack.

Make sure you check them out too :-)

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All is well

Hi everyone,

Thank you so much for your prayers over the last week......the surgery went well and I am feeling great today! I feel totally blessed to have so many people praying for our family.....you guys are wonderful! I'll be taking it easy over the next few days but I have been making progress on a few new units (and reading an AWESOME book that I can't put down!).
I thought I'd leave you with one of my favorite songs. Sara Graves sings it and while this is not her actual video clip, I feel like these are the words my soul sings.