Izzie, Mac and Me: If You Give A Cat A Cupcake

Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Cupcake Crafts!

Decorating cupcakes...

Cupcake Template

I found this cupcake activity at Michael's. It was a lot of work (great fine motor skill activity) peeling off all those stickers, but she did it! It only took her about an hour to finish!

Math Activities...If You Give A Cat A Cupcake

Here are a few math activities that Izzie completed, while reading the book "If You Give A Cat A Cupcake".

Simple addition cupcakes!

Extending the patterns, while helping Mac blow out the candle...multitasking!

Roll and Graph Cupcakes...she cannot get enough of these graphs! It's always a race to see which color will finish first. Afterward, we always discuss which color had the most, least, and if any were equal.

And plenty of math worksheets!

Click here to see phonics activities for If You Give A Cat A Cupcake!

Monday, October 31, 2011

If You Give A Cat A Cupcake

My little girl turned 5, so this week we are celebrating!

We read "If You Give A Cat and Cupcake".

And played this great reading comprehension game about the book!

She matched capital and lowercase letter cupcakes...

This day, she insisted that she would start with letter "z" and work backward! Which was hard; therefore, she got very frustrated...

So, the next day, she thought of a new technique. She would start with letter "A', and then go backward...umm, interesting. When asked why she just didn't do it the "correct" way...she answered, "Mom, that's too easy!"

Practicing writing the alphabet in lower case letters. Handout can be found here.

Reviewing the letter "C" sound by playing this fun cupcake game, even Mac had fun playing! The cupcakes in the middle have picture cards on the inside, if the picture began with the letter "C" sound, then they could place it on their plate. However, if they chose a cupcake that was completely black inside without a picture, they had to place all their cupcakes back in the middle. The girls had a blast playing this game!

I found this adorable cupcake sight word game! Izzie reviewed the sight words, "I, see, a" and was introduced to the sight words "is, this".

Completing the cut and paste activity for her newest sight words "is" and "this". She is so proud of herself, when she is able to read the simple sentences...priceless!