by Carol Goodrow

The Worksheet Blank

Worksheet 1 | Worksheet 2 | Worksheet 3
Here are 3 worksheets that are designed to go with the Run the Seasons charts. You can use them along with my (Carol's chart) to get the kids used to the exercises, however they are best used with a child's chart so the the child begins to relate his/her running days to math, science, and writing skills.

Some tips: When it says 'use leaves as a symbol', the idea is to show the place value of the numbers using leaves to symbolize the tens and ones. My kids draw bags of leaves (with 10 leaves in them) for the tens and single leaves for the ones. I'll print a graphic soon. Ex: for 18 days of running, they would draw one bag with ten leaves in it and 8 separate leaves, not in a bag.

To show the sum of the rows for 18, the number sentence would be 10 + 8 = 18.

We used turkeys and feathers in November to show place value. The tens were a turkey with ten feathers, and the ones were shown by single feathers.

These worksheets can be adapted to meet your needs.

Again, it is good to keep the whole class together the first time you use these. Later they can take their chart and use the worksheets to work on their own.

Run the Seasons with KidsRunning.Com and earn a KidsRunning.Com green ribbon. Here's all you have to do. Print our Run the Seasons charts. Glue them into a file folder and go out for a run. Each time you go running, fill in a square on your chart. Distance does not matter with this program. Just go out for a run and record it on your chart.

Fill in the squares anyway you wish. You may want to color them in, check them off, number them, or use stickers.

My class will be drawing a picture of something that represents the season after they run. In fact for the first 10 days, they are going to 'gather' something on their run and draw it on their Run the Seasons chart. We will save our collections of tens in plastic bags and use them for counting by tens. Here's a helpful link for identifying leaves.

Please be creative with this program. There will be infinite curriculum tie-ins.

We will be adding more and more ideas as the days go by.

Check back for our Run the Seasons Writing Journals and have fun with this.

Doing the Log-a-Mile program already? Do this one too! You can do both and get credit for your runs.

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