Make your own dominos/dominoes

Here is how I make my dominoes:

1. Find a rectangular paper in the size you want your dominoes to be. I found a couple of notepads I got at the Montessori conference last year for free :); they are approx. 7"x5". I used the back side since the front had the company's logo and I didn't want that on the front of my dominoes. You'll need 54 sheets.
   
2. Use a sharpie to draw the dots. Start with one dot on one side and nothing on the other. Go all the way to nine: one-zero; one-one; one-two, one-three; one-four; one-five; one-six; one-seven; one-eight; one-nine. Do the same with every number. Do not repeat two-one since you already have one-two. This way you'll have less number combinations towards the end.
   
3. Here are the finished dominoes:
   
   

Numbers practice: dominos/dominoes

This week I will finish with numbers as the main theme. We will still practice them every class.
An hour ago I decided to play dominoes with the children. I have the normal size dominoes but I wanted something bigger. I looked on line but the ones I found were not that big :). So, I decided to make my own. I will post a tutorial in the next post.
I am also concentrating this week on showing them the Spanish words for each number, so I made some labels on 3"x5" index cards. I am planning on have the kids label the dominoes after they count the dots. I will post pictures after the class. In the meantime this are the labels I made.

Community heroes

This week we talked about community heroes: police office, firefighter, doctor, nurse, dentist and teacher. I printed coloring pages of the following: police id batch, police hat, firefighter hat, fire hydrant, dalmatian, hose, needle, toothbrush, toothpaste, tooth, chalk, white board, fire truck, ambulance, police car. Then the children sort them out. I didn't translate each item, only the ones the children asked for.
After we reviewed actions/verbs. I choose to play dominos and the children loved it! See my website for actions/verbs dominos or you can make your own.

Dominos

I've been working on some dominos, here are some pictures. Enjoy!