Two for the Price of One!

Only a few more days until I will no longer be doing double posts. Make sure you've clicked over to Teaching with Grace and become a blogger. The 25th will be the last time that I do a double post.

Today, I have two different posts to share with you. The first is for next week: Washington or Lincoln?
It has great ideas for what you could do next week on Monday (if you don't have the day off) or Tuesday (if you do get the day off :) ). I hope you love them! I'm really excited about the Washington.

The second is to show you the great new things that I just listed on Teachers Pay Teachers! I am so excited about my two new activity units. They each have three different activities in them to help your lovelies practice their Friends of Ten number sense!

Have a blessed day,

Math Every Day: New TWG post!

Check it out below and don't forget to head over to my new blog! In a few weeks, I will be permanently switching to it. You won't want to miss out on anything!

Each month I send home a calendar with math problems on it for my students to complete at home. There are lots of different sites out there where you can get these from for various grade levels. There is a site that my administrators told us about a couple months ago that I just LOVE to use! The Math Corner is an excellent resource for many different math items: resources, math in your world, games, and more! There are a ton of great resources for all elementary levels.




The calendars are an excellent thing to send home with an incentive for turning them back in at the end of the month. My students can earn Super Tickets that they turn in for treats from the treasure box. (It's great for counting, needs and wants, and cause/effect!) I love that my parents totally support this! I have over half my class turn in their calendars this month. It's definitely catching on in my room! It's great to have the parents support their child's learning even with something so simple as one math problem a day!



Have a great day!

Have a blessed day,

How do your kids measure? **FREEBIE ALERT**

My students have been learning about how to use nonstandard measurement this week. They are having so much fun with it so far!

Our first day, we read Leo Lionni's Inch by Inch.
 

It's an adorable book about an inchworm who measures different birds and their parts. On each page, we used unifix cubes and paperclips to measure the different parts of the bird. Our second day was spent with the students collecting 5 objects and measuring them with unifix cubes. To summarize our learning we talked about what was the longest object, the shortest, any the same, etc. They had a ball with it!

Our next step is going to be measuring each other's arms. That's where the FREEBIE comes in! I have a printable chart for you to use. I'm planning on them doing just an arm tomorrow and then next week we will be measuring how tall we are. We'll use that data to create a class graph to compare sizes.

Below is the printable that I'm goiing to use. I will have each partner pair have 1 so it's all on the same page as they work together.

Measuring Partners Arms With Nonstandard

I hope you enjoy!


Have a blessed day,

Math Foldable Monday

Don't you just hate when your pictures that you swear were on your jump drive just... well... aren't there any more?!?! That's what happened to me yesterday. So, that just means you get double the fun today! You get to have two different foldables: Math and Language Arts.

But first, for math I want to show you these awesome ideas that you could use in your classroom. I have definitely found my favorite types of flip books and reused them over and over in multiple ways for each subject.


This first is by far one of my favorites! Simply fold your paper long ways (hot dog style) and then cut ONLY one side up to the fold however many times that you need. This one shows the different number forms. You can also do this for new vocabulary, steps in a sequence, etc.

On the inside you can show whatever information you need. For my third grade class last year, we did a number together all the way across to show them how to do it. Then they had to roll dice to come up with their own number and complete all the way across.

I also have used this kind of flip book as well. It's very similar but you fold it hot dog style. Then fold the two sides in to meet the middle. That way you have way more flaps! I used it below for my kindergarteners to practice counting.

 That way they can count and open up the flap to see the numeral and the word. This way they can self check and see all versions of the numbers: model, numeral, and word.

Make sure to go check out all the other amazing ideas over at Thinking of Teaching for Foldables Week!!


Have a blessed day,