The Task is Complete!

Are you aware that the "dollar" isle at Target is now the "under $3.00" isle?! I should have taken a picture of the big sign that was above my favorite corner, but I'm a little upset if you want to know the truth! Nevertheless, I found some really cute practice ideas there today while I was in the "big city."

I found these 4 wood cookies that came on a wood cookie sheet - they were adorable.  

They also had cupcakes that came in a pack of 6, but for the idea I had, I would need to get 2 packs and I didn't want to spend $6.00 in the DOLLAR ISLE for 2 items!!! For those of you feeling less frugal than I am, I'll tell you what I was thinking... I was thinking that you could get 2 packs and then fill up a muffin sheet from your kitchen! How fun would that be?!!! 

Since I tend to spend the most money from the DOLLAR ISLE and there were some other items I really wanted to get today, I narrowed it down to this cute $3.00 item so I could have the best of both worlds. 

This little cake is perfect for repetitions for so many reasons! 

My husband was actually the one that helped me narrow it down to the cake. 

These are his reasons... 

• It's just so stinkin' cute! 
• Imagine me saying that, now imagine my husband imitating me saying that - of course he does it to make me laugh and to assure me that it is as cute as I think it is ;)
• It's unique - it's totally different than any other repetition counter I have
• The students would be able to complete something.

I really liked all of these reasons, but he sold me on "the student gets to complete something." It's true that they get to get complete many things - like putting all of the pennies in the jar. The differnce

 for this game is that they can see a complete circle - they can see that all of the pieces need to fit together to make a whole.  They can see that the task is complete. I can't wait to give this new game a try in lessons on Monday!