Calendar Puzzle Freebie!! Another way to #colorizeyourclassroom!!

Whew! The first weeks of school are SOOOOOOO BUSY!!! But would we have it any other way??? Of course not!

I just wanted to show you a quick little part of my morning math routine. Morning Math is starting off with a bang! Now it does take the kiddos quite a little while to get it going reeeeaaaaal good, but for the most part they are doing great! I will be posting more on that real soon - the truth is I'm waiting for some stuff I ordered from Really Good Stuff to help us out. Then I'll go on a picture takin' frenzy with my littles and their soon-to-be super charged math brains!!!

Our teacher mentor at University High (aka University Lab School) uses Morning Math to teach her entire math program and those kids are geniuses by the end of the year. We modeled our mornings directly after hers and here are some examples of my firsties work from last year.

139th Day of School

162nd Day of School

We run out of room sometimes!! And look at that multiplication!!! Yes!!! From first graders!!!!

Here's the 10th day from last week of this year. Pulling in those number bonds, making 10 every way possible. Breaking down numbers even more. using number trees, and introducing parentheses.

Anyway, I'm hoping to have my Morning Math blog post up by the end of this week. Please follow my blog to keep up to date on all my postings!!

Here is a little calendar freebie that we use to show the kids how the months fit together.

I LOVE how bright it is!!! They are so amazed at how each month runs into the next. I don't think they really realize or even think about it until we bring it up. We use this calendar to talk about days in a month, weeks in a month, days in a year, weeks in a year, etc.

I also use ASTROBRIGHTS paper to make it really POP!!! Each month is printed on a different color and then I cut and tape together. Easy peasy :)

{HERE} is your FREE copy of the calendar!!

I've also attached some Ways to Make ___ signs for numbers 6-10.

I post these above my morning math board.

Have you checked out Astrobrights contest?

Astrobrights is a big supporter of using color to help brighten up your students' brains (and your classroom) for learning!!

Go to www.colorizeyourclassroom.com and get some ideas to, well, #colorizeyourclassroom!! Enter to win some fancy paper to help you out!

And finishing up the third week of school going into a long weekend, we have our very first TIGERS football game!!!!!!! It is abundantly clear here in Baton Rouge that the LSU football season is upon us.