Wednesday, December 17, 2014

Mental subtraction!

My maternity leave is over. I have jumped back into school feet first right in the middle of the Christmas season!  I really missed teaching and I am glad to be back even if it does mean giving less kisses to my little girl during the day.

The last couple weeks we have focused on mental subtraction! The kids have done really well and they have surprised me with their understanding of the concepts. It's our second year using Envisions and I already see a difference.


Introducing mental subtraction with iPads...
Practicing with I have who has.
Making 100 with mental subtraction.
Spin to make 100!
Subtract tens.

I always throw in a few review centers to keep concepts fresh...

Number riddles 
Number order
Addition strategies (part/part/whole)
Place value!

Next concept is subtraction with regrouping... More to come!

Tuesday, July 1, 2014

One month and a baby later....

Excuse my absence everyone! (If anyone does read my blog).  I was confident I would make it to the last day of school (June 6) since my due date was June 8, but Sunday, June 1st I found myself in the hospital in labor.  Monday, June 2, my husband and I witnessed the birth of our sweet baby girl Leia Rose.  We are filled with joy and the last month has been an adventure.


Due to this blessing, I missed the last week of school where I was going to finally get to do some crafty activities.  I found myself emotional that I couldn't say good bye to my class and encourage them to READ READ READ over the summer!

I did one activity that I was thrilled turned out so great. My students made self-portraits of themselves graduating and then wrote what they were proud of learning! They turned out super cute if I do say so myself!





 






 
Today our Summer Dayschool program starts at our church.  I have been in charge of it the last couple years, but had to forfeit because I'm taking care of my little girl.  However, I am going over for a couple hours this afternoon to help with the instruction portion of the day.  We are going to go to the public library and pick out books.  Then we are going to play an assortment of math games.  I will try to get some pictures and post them.  I will be working on some other centers this summer to add to my repertoire.  If you haven't, please check out my TPT site!
 
Sip some iced tea and enjoy your summer day! SLURRRRRRRP.

Friday, May 16, 2014

Fraction Fun!

There is so much to do with fractions that I couldn't help but make it a week unit! I introduced fractions with a fun craft found on Pinterest!


I don't know who had more fun making these fraction pizzas...me or the kids!

I precut everything so we could focus on the concept of fractions! 1/4 pepperoni etc.!

The next day I wanted to show them how to use fractions as part of a group.

This was found on Pinterest too. I would have cut out the gumballs but I am completely out of construction paper.

The kids got to do a little coloring which is rare, so it was fun!

Our hallway display!

We played a bunch of games I made or found on tpt!

Fraction dominos
Fraction puzzle

Fraction match

We made our own fraction flash cards to practice!

Using dice to roll fractions!
Domino fractions (this was a teachable
Moment- about typically the big number is on the bottom of a fraction)


Parts of a group! I made this one and it's on tpt!



This was a lot easier for them than I thought.

Next up, capacity!


Thursday, May 8, 2014

Geometry


What does the shape say?

We had so much fun with shapes this week! I almost ended my unit until I saw Linda Kamp's 'what did the shape say?' packet on tpt!

It was a great way to review and we had so much more fun!

We started with plane shapes!
Anchor chart
We each made posters!

Then we summarized with little booklets!

Our hallway display model...

We also practiced solid shapes!
Anchor chart 
Individual posters

Our shape posters!
Books to practice....

Hallway display...

Some of the games I made for the unit...
Solid shapes.
Plane shapes.


I also made shape war!

We used geoboards to practice as well!

We also practice on the iPad...


Shapes say, have fun!