End of the Year Gifts for Firsties

Summer Dice Games for

Fact Fluency Practice

I love giving my firsties an end of the year gift that I hope will help them practice their math fact fluency over the summer in a fun way!  Dice seems like a good choice for my kiddos this year as they are loving all the games we’re playing in stations AND they LOVE to roll dice…anytime….anywhere….anyhow….

Tape the poem to a quart sized ziplock baggie.  

Laminate and cut out the playing boards and game direction

add a wipe away marker to the baggie. 

 

Then just for fun, through in…a pom pom to erase the marker from the playing boards.

Easy Peasy! J

Have a GREAT End of the Year!

Download the files HERE

I've linked up with TBA Freebie Fridays....Be sure to hop over and see what other Friday Freebies you can scoop up!

I've linked up with Manic Monday at Classroom Freebies!...tons of free things here too... Hop over and take a look!

Graphing in a Galaxy Far Far Away

I LOVE Star Wars which is the GREATEST movie of all time!

I plan to print out and laminate the character page above so the kids can use expo markers to help count the characters before they graph each one below.

They can use the tally page to practice making and counting tally marks....then use the symbols to create and solve

number equations.

I've included several different versions of the number equations...

addition

subtract from 10

more than

less than

The Graphics are from 

Scrappin' Doodles

Hope you'll hop over to my Teacher's Notebook Store or my TpT Store and take a lookey look :)

Enjoy,

Math Task Journals

Prepping for things to do differently next year?

One of my big changes (well PLANS to change up) is Math Task Journals.

We have math journals this year, but I was not as good about keeping up with the journal as I was with doing the math problems in a whole group or partner style format.

So.....

Here's a little peek into what I'm thinking....planning...wondering about...

We do the DEW school wide which helps the kids meet all the task requirements by

Drawing a model of a tool they can use to help them solve the problem.

Equation writing with labels and ? where needed.

Write how what they did and how they know their answer is the correct answer.

Adding a reminder page to the inside cover cuts down on me having to repeat what to do each time...the goal would be to get the kiddos to "know how to do the DEW".

Adding a math tool chart to the back page gives the kids a reminder of what tools we've talked about and can help them think through which tool will help the finish the task the best.

Working on matching our math tasks for next year to our Reading Street stories so that the tasks use some of the words from the stories...(not my ideas...but a wonderful friend who is an awesome teacher and is letting me "borrow" her thoughts for this endeavor)...

Also looking at our Math Pacing Guide and trying to match tasks that would go along with the CCSSM standards that we're teaching each quarter....

Check back to see how things are coming together...

I'd LOVE to hear about some of  your successful ways for helping your firsties prepare for the CRAs (Constructed Response Assessments) to come in the upper grades?

It's an InstaGram Teacher Talk Party

If you like the "techie" version of the New In....Join me at the 

Teacher Talk Tuesday 

InstaGram Party....

I'm linking up with What the Teacher Wants and Apples and ABCs to see what the "fuss" is all about for this new "techie sharing experience"...

Hop over and link up or just join in the fun this Tuesday!

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Dreambox Looks Like a Dream!

 While "tooling around" on the internet today, I found this little resource that seems like just what the doctor ordered for some of my friends that need to practice subitizing and number recognition skills...

Even though it "toots the horn" for using these resources with "smart boards", it looks like you can use them with your computer just as well.  The first grade skills are wonderful....but...

....I think I'll be using some of the K skills as review and to help us get our addition and subtraction to 10 going more fluently!

Hop over and give it a try...and if you're an iPad user...

Have you seen the new Teacher Tipster app for subitizing??????

He is soooooo creative!  Check out this little YouTube preview...

You can upload your app at the iTunes store for only $.99.....Love the rhymes and the music!

Hop over and check these cool techno resources out for yourself!

Enjoy!

In Honor of Earth Day...Don't Let the Chips Get you Down!

I recycled a bag of Lays Original and a bag Doritos to put this problem solving addition game to review addition together for the kiddos...
You can download a copy for your class HERE....

K...now I need to go do my part in recycling and eat some more chips!  YUM!

Enjoy,

Fluency Book is a Fave....

My newest and most favoritest book....

Check out more information about it at the 

Math Coach's Corner!

Working on fluency to 10 with my kiddos...

Need some flashcards for practice?

I think I've got all the problems I could possibly want them to solve in this freebie...

Click HERE for your own copy!

enjoy the day!