Happy Fall Y'all!!! Spin and Subtract fun!!

How's y'alls Fall coming around?? Ours is quite slow if I do say so myself. High temperatures are still keeping in check but the pumpkin flavored everything is everywhere!!

I just wanted to share with you a quick little math game we played this week - Fall themed of course!!

Spin and Subtract!!

The kids loved it!! We used our giant tens frame board (made from a Dollar Tree shower curtain and some duct tape) and some large construction paper leaves to make some subtraction problems. 

First, we spin a spinner two times to get two numbers. 

Then we model the greatest number on the board

We subtract the smaller number and write a number sentence. Take away the eaves and we have our answer!! Everyone kept track of their number sentences on our white boards. 

I also found some fake leaves at the Dollar Tree and placed them in a center with a spinner and a smaller tens frame board. Made a little recording page as well for accountability.

I love seeing the kiddos up and moving and having fun with math! They love the hands on activities and I've got many more to come! 

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Thanks and happy teaching!!

A Blizzard of Winter Themed Center Games!!!

Here are some fun little center games. Check it out!!!

ABC Order Train

In this activity I have included some Winter Themed words, primarily from the book The Polar Express. 
However, I have also included some blank train cards for you to use with your own words. 
One way I use this is in my Spelling Center. I write the weekly words on the trains and the children put them in ABC order 
Simply print out on card stock or back with construction paper, laminate for durability, and place in a center. 

This ABC Center is Polar Bear themed!!

This activity is designed to reinforce the skill of alphabetical order. There are words on Polar Bear cards that children sort into ABC order. There is a recording page for accountability. 

This center includes 
17 ABC bear cards
Recording page
Center name card
Center directions card

A Snowstorm of Grammar

This activity packet contains activities for use in any ELA classroom. There is a game for nouns, verbs, and adjectives. 

This packet includes:
12 adjective matching cards and 12 adjective flakes
24 verb cards
2 verb sorting mats
24 noun sorts
3 noun sorting mats
Recording sheets for each game
Title cards and instructions for each game

Odd and Even Polar Bears

This is a math center/activity practicing the skill of sorting odd and even numbers through 100. 

Included: 
100 odd and even polar bear cards
Odd and Even icebergs
Odd and Even Bears recording page
Directions and Center name card

Print out on card stock, laminate, and place in an envelope or bag for a center. 

Penguin Place Value

This cute little penguin activity is designed to give students extra practice with identifying place value. Students lay out penguin and place value cards like in the game of memory and take turns matching standard form with place value blocks. 

There is a recording page for accountability that offers an extra column for practice writing numbers in expanded form as well. 

Snowflake Subtraction

This little math center activity has students subtract 8 or 9 from the teen numbers. 

**This center Is based on Engage NY A Story of Units Module 2 for first grade. It is designed to reinforce the skills taught in Module 2 lessons, but offers a viable strategy for solving subtraction problems. This center would be helpful to any students who are learning to subtract from teen numbers. 

Included: 
25 subtraction cards and answers
54 snowflake counters
2 cover cards (for use with workmat—use to cover up the unused snowflakes)
Snowflake Subtraction Workmat
(workmat is designed to be slipped into a page protector so students can use a dry erase marker to cross off snowflakes as a subtraction strategy)

Print out on card stock, laminate, and place in an envelope or bag for a center. 

Minty Math!!

Hello! Hope y'all had a great week back after the Thanksgiving holidays. My week FLEW by. Insanely fast!! But I did manage to squeeze in time to create a new center. We have been working so hard on Module 2 A Story of Units, and what did they go and do???? Threw in some more equivalent expressions! But this time they were subtraction expressions. So we needed a fun way to practice. Here it is!

In Minty Math, children can use fun peppermint manipulatives and tens frames to balance equivalent expressions. I also created a huge candy cane workmat for our use on the meeting rug. 

Here are some more pics: 

There's a recording sheet and mini workmat for each student to slip into their personal white board (learn about that here) and use a dry erase marker to balance equations. The little box underneath each expression side is for the answer to each equation. It helps to see that both answers equal the same. 

This activity also includes tens frames, peppermint manipulatives, student expression page, and larger expressions for group work. 

Click here for your Minty Math activity!

Loving this time of year!!! Can't wait til Christmas :)

Jessica