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| Fall themed Color by Number- Addition to 10 |
Trying to run a small group, or check in with a student who needs extra help is virtually impossible if your class can't work independently. This can be incredibly frustrating, especially for those of us that teach the younger grades. Some teachers just don't think that 5-6 year olds can be independent so they don't even try. I am here to tell you that they CAN be and SHOULD be independent! This is how we get them to believe in themselves, build a growth mindset, and achieve their goals.
One of the ways I do this is with familiar and KNOWN activities. These are the activities that show up in my classroom every week, every month, all year long! And one of our favorite activities is the color by number coloring pages!
All kids love to color, even the big ones, so give them some purposeful coloring that reviews what you've been learning in math all month. I like to use mine to help boost fact fluency. Repeated exposure to these equations is going to pay off now in first grade and create automaticity in 2nd grade. At the beginning of the year, and after any major break, we review our classroom and activity expectations and routines. One of the activities we spend time explicitly teaching and reviewing is always our color by number pages. Once we have gone over the skill reviewed in the color by number printable the kids are ready and set to go!
I make sure to have them be fresh images that get the kids excited about what the mystery picture might be. We have Fall color by number worksheets, space themed, Halloween, Christmas, Spring, and any other them or character you can imagine. And my students LOVE it. They never get tired of using the color by number coloring pages, and bonus they are reviewing their number sense, addition and Subtraction skills at the same time.
Try out this FREE color by number for kindergarten that focuses on number identification, click image to grab your copy!
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