Kissing Hand Literacy and Math Stations

Here are some of the Literacy and Math Stations that the kindergarten students participated in this week.  All of the centers are based off of Audrey Penn's book The Kissing Hand and feature the beloved character Chester Raccoon.  

These centers are available from Kissing Hand Literacy and Math Centers and are designed by Jayme Pierce.  Here's a link to her Kinderbabies website:  http://kinderbabies.blogspot.com .  Here are some images of the stations that can be downloaded for free from Teacher's Notebook.  She just added a new activity for the Kissing Hand  using Ten Frames.  I'll be adding that one to our center's rotation soon!

Here are some of the samples I built for making patterns, how many?, The missing letter, and the pieces and class book used to build Chester Loves School  pocket chart book.  The students had a great time with the pocket chart and really enjoyed building a story they could "read."

Here there is an ABC game, Chester color matching and color book, missing letter cards with Velcro, and matching lower and uppercase letter center.  I modified the center with the letters by punching a hole in each of the cards and attaching a plastic link to help the students hold the matches together.  This is not shown in the picture.

Here are the cards for the dice game.  In this game, students roll a die and move that number of spaces.  If they land on a Chester they get an extra turn, if they land on a tree stump, they have to go back 2 spaces.  The students really enjoyed this game!

Jayme designed these cards as a matching activity.  I modified the activity by punching a hole in each of the cards and using plastic links to help keep the matches together as students made them.  Fine motor work and math all in one!