The Third Day After Christmas

Three in a Row

 

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.

                    

 

 

                      

Money Honey

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Here are a few money games  I made over the break. I’m hoping these will help my students become proficient  in terms of counting a collection of coins and identifying them.

Bank on It

In the game below, the students roll a regular dot die. They cover up the coin on their mat which corresponds to the number they rolled. The first person to fill their bank wins. Your more advanced students could count all the money in their bank at the end of the game. You could use counters or plastic coins to cover the coins on the banking mat.

Click here to download Bank on It

 

Count Your Money Honey

In this game the teacher can decide which coin you would like students to work with (pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters, or a combination). You will have to assemble the dice and they are provided in the download. I forgot to take a picture of them. You will also need to make the regular number die (included also)

First the student rolls the number die, then they roll the coin die and take that many coins. (Ex. if they roll a five and a nickel, they have to take five nickels.)

The coins are placed on the counting tray. Make enough counting trays for the number of students playing.  After the student counts their money, they fill in the amount for their first roll (I’m laminating the counting trays and the students will use a dry erase marker). They keep rolling and counting for nine more times. This games could be played with a small group of three to four students or alone. There is no winner or looser, just the satisfaction of counting money.

Click here to download Count Your Money Honey

 

 

Nickel Piggy Bank

This game is played with a regular dot or number die. The student rolls and takes that many pennies( they must start with pennies first, even if they roll a six). Each time they collect five pennies they can trade them for a nickel. Students keep rolling and trading until they fill up the Nickel Gameboard. The winner is the person who fills up their board first. At the end they can count all of their nickels. I will use plastic pennies and nickels.

Click here to download Nickel Piggy Bank

 

I have also created Dime and Quarter Piggy Bank. I will up load those later in the week. If you use these, I would love to hear feedback.

For all of these games you can use  counters, beans or plastic coins.

Skip Counting: Math Activities

These are quick and easy activities for math time. Sometimes we use them whole group or sometimes I'll assign a small group to complete the activity during math stations.


Beach Bum Count by Fives

For some reason on the last three documents you can't see the numbers on the screen...but when you download the activity all the numbers do show up. CRAZY!!!


Count to Twenty Mini Crab



Dinosaur Skip Count


Ladybug Skip Counting