Monthly Hundreds Chart Activities for a Kindergarten Classroom

Hundreds charts are so common in most kindergarten classroom but I felt I wasn't getting enough use out of mine and students weren't interacting it with it nearly enough.  It is such a great resource and since and I wanted to make better use of it.   I decided to change it and now I love having the Hundred’s Chart as a math center in the classroom.  I found so many fun and engaging activities to do with it.  To keep it exciting and new for my students, I have created Monthly Hundreds Chart Numbers for my students to use in the center (these are snowman numbers are a freebie at the end of the post)

These numbers fit perfectly into a hundreds chart (affiliate link).  I started doing a variety of hundreds charts center activities in my classroom.

Hundreds Charts Math Center Activities

Ordering Numbers: One fun center activity is simply ordering numbers.  My students always love this activity and it really helps students ordering numbers and counting to 100.  For this activity, I just have all of the numbers available to students to put in a hundreds chart.  While this may be an easy center activity for most students, for students who are struggling, you may wish to have the support of a hundreds chart print out available.  This provides some students with the support that they need.  
Once students have finishing putting the numbers in order,  I then have students practice counting to 100 while pointing to each number.

Guess the Missing Numbers: Another fun whole group activity is guess the missing number.   This works great at a whole group math warm up.  For this activity, I take a few numbers out of the hundreds chart and students then identify what numbers are missing. Once students become more capable, this also works as a great center activity that students can do with each other in small groups.  

Show How Many: Finally, a fun activity with these hundreds chart numbers that students can do independently or with partners is for students to put the numbers in order (without the hundred’s chart).  Based on students abilities, you may wish to have them order numbers to 10, 20, or even higher (making it easy to differentiate).  I then have students match the correct number or manipulatives (I usually use Target erasers) to number.

Your students may enjoy interacting with these year long Monthly Hundreds Chart Numbers that you can change out every month.  This can easily be changed out every month and contains numbers to 120 and make a fun seasonal themed activity in your classroom and helps to get your students very familiar with the hundreds chart. 

If think your students will enjoy these snowman number cards. You can grab them for free in my TPT store here. 

The Gingerbread Man and Gingerbread Man and Gingerbread Girl Compare and Contrast Freebie

One of my favorite units to teach in December is the Gingerbread Man.  I love that there are so many version of this story and so many great activities to do, including story sequencing and comparing different versions of the story.  I recently discovered the story Gingerbread Girl and felt it was a great story for compare and contrast.

I always begin with the original version of the story and have so much fun with this story.   The students have so much fun independently reading their own little emergent readers.  

We create these sequencing graphic organizers to tell the beginning, middle and ending of the story.  You can either have students cut and paste the pictures in the correct order or they can be more open ended and students can draw events that happened in the beginning, middle and end of the story (and if you do this, you can use it for any version of the story!)

Or students can complete story sequencing based on several different version of the story. I can included pictures for the version by the version by Jim Aylesworth, Catherine McCafferty, Gail Yerrill, and Eric Kimmel.

I also love having student sort pictures from the story and those that do not belong.  This gets students thinking more about the story and story elements. 

We have a blast using our phonics skills to label the Gingerbread man and a phonics activity where we are listening for the middle sounds in a word.

And a writing activity where we write our own name and draw a picture of ourselves chasing after the Gingerbread man.  

I love saving this sheet for all of my students and creating a class book out of it.  Students love re-reading it in our classroom library. 

Students can also complete a gingerbread man directed drawing which is always a fun activity and write about it. 

We also love doing some Gingerbread man themed math.  

Included is a simpler version with numbers to 10 as well as additional practice with teen numbers. 

Finally, I tie in other versions of the story.  One of my favorites is The Gingerbread Girl.  We compared The Gingerbread Man and The Gingerbread Girl using a Venn diagram.   There are two version included (which are included as a freebie at the end of this post).

You can use the selected cut and paste pictures or students can draw or write their own pictures or words to compare and contrast the two stories. (note- the version of The Gingerbread Man that includes a snake and wolf can be found here The Gingerbread Man- retold by Catherine McCafferty affiliate link)

Included is also a more open ended version where students can write or draw their own pictures 

You can find the Gingerbread Man story sequencing and other Gingerbread Man activities in my Gingerbread Man Sub Packet.  This includes all of the activities above and more that can be used as a full day worth of activities including writing, math, sequencing, an emergent reader.  These activities can also be used as a story extension.  

And the free Gingerbread Man and Gingerbread Girl Venn Diagram here:

I hope that you and your students enjoy these activities!  

Hands on Math with Winter Pattern Blocks and Task Cards Freebie

I love using pattern blocks in the classroom.  They can be used to teach so many skills including visual discrimination, identifying shapes and counting and are great for fine motor skills.  They are such an engaging, hands on resource for students to use, helping to make their learning come to life.  

Recently, we have an a lot of fun with pattern block shape pictures.  This is a fun print and laminate center activity that can be used year after year.  We began using large pictures, where we were just matching the picture.  After we built a picture, we then counted each of the shapes are in this picture.  This is a great hands on activity to practice shapes and counting.  Who doesn't love incorporating math and fine motor skills?

To differentiate, students can build this picture with a template but not given the shapes they should use.  This is a little more challenging but a great visual discrimination activity. This activity also allows students to use different shapes to create a shape so they may be able to build the same picture in different ways.   I love this template because students can find so many different ways to create the picture and then can compare.  Students can build each of the pictures in so many different ways.

We also had fun building these pictures using small cards (these picture cards are included for free at the bottom of this post).  We had so much fun creating these pictures and identifying how many blocks in all are used.  This activity also tied in literacy, requiring students to label the pictures on a recording sheet.

Also included is a printable roll, color and count activity that students can complete with a partner.   This would work well for a partner math center activity or is great activity to leave for a sub. 

All of these pattern blocks activities with 10 different pictures for students to build and create with both the full scale mats for students to build on as well as the small task cards are included in my Winter Pattern block mats on TPT.  

If you have enjoyed these activities, you can find the seasonal bundle and the yearlong bundle focusing on each holiday here.  They make an easy seasonal math center that you can just swap out the theme each month.  

You can holiday themed math activities discounted 25% in the Holiday Pattern Block Bundle

or this full resources discounted 25% off in the Seasons Pattern Blocks Bundle

You can get the grab the Free Winter Pattern Block Task Cards

if you are in need of pattern blocks, you can find them here (affiliate link)

Pattern Blocks 

I hope that you and your student love this activity!

There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Frog Printable Sub Plan Activities and A Sequencing Freebie

Planning for a sub day in kindergarten can feel like a lot. Whether you wake up sick or have an appointment you can’t move, the last thing you want is to be scrambling to pull together a full day of plans—especially in the middle of spring when students are extra wiggly!

That’s why I created this easy-prep sub plan pack based on the book There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Frog(Affiliate link)  It includes everything your sub needs for a full day of kindergarten learning, all aligned to standards and themed perfectly for spring.

This resource is part of my Yearlong "Old Lady" Sub Plans, which is designed to make planning for a day off as simple and stress-free as possible. Just grab the book and print what you need! 

Why Use a Book-Based Sub Plan?

I love building sub plans around a familiar read-aloud, and There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Frog is perfect for April or May. Many students already know the “Old Lady” books, and the silly story holds their attention. This will help make the day run smoothly for both your sub and your students.  

What’s Included?

These spring sub plans include activities that cover all subject areas for the entire day, and each page comes with a cover sheet and simple directions to make it as easy as possible for a sub (or you!) to follow.  I usually prepare these in advance and keep them in a binder in my classroom so everything is ready incase I am absent.  

Here’s a peek at what’s inside: 

Literacy: 

Emergent Reader

Students love having their own mini version of the story to color and read. These books support fluency, vocabulary, and fine motor skills—and they’re great to send home for extra practice, too.

Sequencing

After finishing the student readers, there are whole group sequencing cards that go along with the story.  This is a fun pocket chart activity for a whole class retell of the story.  

After sequencing the story whole group, students then sequence the events on their own.  This sequencing activity is included as a freebie at the end of the blog post.  

Vocabulary

Your students can also create  little flip books to practice sight words and vocabulary.  Student cut and staple their mini flip books and I usually have my students copy the sentences and then practice reading them. 

Also included is a labeling activities that is great to reinforce phonics skills.  Student should pay attention to beginning sounds of the words to label the picture.  There is also a version included where students simply match the word.  

Phonics and Phonemic Awareness 

Also included is a phonemic awareness rhyming practice and a color by code focusing on the sight words they, this, with , from and look.  

Math

You will also find a review of kindergarten common core themed math concepts with various levels and choices available. This resource makes it easy to differentiate for math based on the needs of your students and plenty of options to chose from for your classroom! 

There are simple practice problems such as identifying numbers to 10 in a ten frame, rainbow writing numbers to ten and a cut and paste ordering numbers to 5. 

As well as a more advanced kindergarten options like addition within 10, one more one less, missing numbers to 20 and number writing to 100.  

 

Fun Extras

Also included are writing activities, extras such as word sort, as well as a variety of other activities in case you want to substitute an activity or add in extra.  

This packet is packed with resources that could probably last you 2 days if you wanted!

Why Teachers Love These Plans

• ✅ No prep stress — Just print and leave out with your book.

• ✅ Covers all subject areas — Reading, writing, phonics, grammar, and more.

• ✅ Fun and familiar theme — Students stay engaged all day long.

• ✅ Editable sub forms included — Customize to fit your classroom routines.

Whether you need emergency sub plans or just want a no-prep spring activity day, this pack checks all the boxes.

You can find There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Frog Sub Plans here: 

Want More Old Lady Sub Plans

You can save over 35% by grabbing the Yearlong "Old Lady" Sub Plans—perfect for covering the year with engaging, monthly Old Lady themes your students will love.  They all follow the same format making it easy for your sub and your students if you are out. 

Or you can find the Free There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed a Frog Sequencing

I hope that your students enjoy this story as much as me and my class and these sub plans make a stress free day out!