This has been a day.
I’ve been DIBELS testing ALL DAY (can you say yawn).
My little ADHD darling decided they couldn’t function with me being out of the classroom then proceeded to have a meltdown.
I had to set a new password last week on my school computer for Windows 7 then promptly forgot it today. :9 Which means I can’t get into my Promethean board software.
Left school and still forgot to transfer my final Lit Pack to my jump drive so that I could post it for my wonderful blogging friends.
Finally…I picked my nephew up from daycare after school..went to crank the car….nothing….zero….zilch…nada!
I’m not complaining…because it could be much much worse. My car will crank again. I’ll either remember my password or call my system’ s administrator and get a new one…and DIBELS will be over soon.
SO…..
Here’s is a fun and easy to implement Math Station I just uploaded to TpT. This week I’m DIBELS Testing…but when I return to the classroom I anticipate this being a big hit during math stations.
And I promise to have the Lit Pack for Ben Franklin posted tomorrow. Have a great evening!
Math and Literacy Pack
It’s not to late to purchase some of my Valentine’s Day themed items from TpT. Here is some of what’s included in my Valentines Day Math and Literacy Game Pack.
Cover My Heart Math Game Bouquet of Words and Sentences
Hearts In Order ABC Order Activity
You get four literacy and four math activities. I also have Hearts A Plenty Read the Room Kit and Cupid Cupid Fact Families.
Thank You
As an appreciation to all my followers, teachers who are kind enough to link my blog on their lists, the teachers who e-mail kind words or even leave kind comments and to those of you who have purchased my TpT products, I’m throwing a sale at my TpT Storefront. All of my products are %15 off starting today through Tuesday. Just my way of saying thanks.
Hoo Loves Ya
Here’s a quick addition to ten review game for Valentine’s Day. I tried this out on my first graders and they loved it!
Fun Friday
We jump started the holiday Friday with this Fun Friday math activity. The students estimated how many Conversation Hearts were in their boxes. Then they sorted, graphed and counted the candy hearts.
Other Ideas
I went to The Dollar Tree yesterday to find gift bags for my games and found two items I plan to use this week.
Valentines Picks
These will make great Read the Room pointers. I bought one for each student. They will go great with my Hearts A Plenty Read the Room Kit.
Foam Hearts
I plan on giving my students a hand full of these and a recording sheet. They can write addition or subtraction story problems using their hearts.
Have a Great Week!
Ms. A
Here is a quick and easy game I’m planning for math stations this week. This game isn’t new, I’ve seen it everywhere. This is just my version.
I want to keep addition and subtraction facts in front of my kids all the time. This is the addition version. I got a little punch drunk towards the end…so if you see errors…I’ll apologize up front. Enjoy!
I have just uploaded my Valentine Math and Word work Game Kit to Teachers Pay Teachers. This kit comes with four math and four word work stations. That’s enough to take you through the entire month of February. Click on the link to check it out. I’ve also uploaded a preview. Remember to leave feedback.
Seeing how other teachers structured their math time inspired me to post this blog about math in my classroom. When the students first walk into the classroom they have to answer the question of the day. I got the kit from Lakeshore. The students place their pictures up, then we discuss the results during calendar.
After they answer the question of the day the students then complete the story problem of the day. I use address labels. I like them because they are easy. I can usually get three days on each sheet of labels.
After the students get started with the problem of the day, the survey person (a weekly job) goes around and asks the survey question of the day. I like this because it gives the students time each week to think mathematically about the results of our daily survey. I got the idea from Kim Adsit. Her e-book had questions monthly but I needed daily questions, and decided to make up some of my own. Thanks for the inspiration Ms. Adsit!
Each Monday the students answer the graph question of the week. We do lots of activities with the weekly graph. All the work we do with the graphs are placed in the students Weekly Graph Journal. On Monday they answer the graph question. On Tuesday they reproduce the results of the graph in their Graph Journals. On Wednesday they write a few sentences about what they observe about the results. Then they have to write two addition sentences (later we will add subtraction sentences). On Thursday they have to write a story problem using the graph. Ex. Ten people like red apples. Two people like green apples. How many in all?
After the students complete the problem of the day, they look on the math game board to find out which game they will play. Sometimes it’s free choice, sometimes it’s flashcards. This provides good practice for addition and subtraction facts. At the beginning of the year I asked all students to bring in a set of addition or subtraction flash cards. They do triple duty as both partner practice, whole class math games (boys against the girls) and math games.
This is a picture of our Math Buzz book. I like doing math in the morning, because the students are alert and ready to work. We work with the buzz book during our morning meeting. I usually read some type of math trade book that goes along with whatever we are working on during our math unit.
This morning we wrote subtraction story problems. After writing them the students had to illustrate a picture to go along with their story.
Sometimes we complete math projects. This past Friday the students completed a count by tens chart.
Have a great week!
Ms. Arnold
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