M-Fri but I used the activities described above in the place of a whole group lesson. Once I introduced the concept on Monday I’d follow up with small group instruction while the rest of the class visited math stations, that helped me to reach the strugglers instead of going over the same thing with the whole class when not everybody needed it.
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
We started money this week, and here’s a money book we made on Monday. The students keep these inside their work folders. We will refer to them often during our unit. A K teacher friend gave me a copy of the poems…not sure where she got them from. But the first two pages are for the mini book…it’s just copy paper cut in half the long way. The rest of the sheets are coins pictures and poems. I made each into a 8.5 by 11 mini poster. They are hanging on our calendar board.
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 was thinking about printing this game off on the back side of scrapbook paper, then laminating and cutting out the triangles. The students play it just like concentration, they have to match the coin pic with the money amount.
I bought this cute Bunco clip art set at Scrapping Doodles. Usually I have the students roll three dice and write the addition sentence, but this is just some quick practice. They write the totals for each die then write the answer in the blank die. I want my kids to be able to subtize groups of numbers, and I’m thinking about setting a timer to see how many they can get done in 2-3 minutes.
The books below are a few of my math time bibles. I really, really, really want my first graders to understand the math we use on a daily basis, and these two books help me do just that. You should check them out if you get the chance.
Reindeer Fact Families
Reindeer War
I usually make 2-3 sets of these cards. The students love playing War. This game can be played with 2-3 students. Shuffle the card and then deal them out. Players turn over the first card in their deck. The person with the highest number gets all the cards in that round. Play continues until all the cards are gone. The winner is the person with the most cards.
Reindeer Facts
This a simple review game of facts to ten. I’m working really hard to promote automaticity in my students in terms of facts to ten. NO COUNTING FINGERS. So I create opportunities every chance I get to let them practice. Print off as many of the numbers cards as you’d like and place them in a bag (I use a holiday gift bag) The student pulls two cards from the bag and writes the addition sentence. Sometimes I have them write a subtraction sentence using the sum of the two cards pulled.
They were a big hit during math station time.
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
