Hi friends! It has been a while! Angel baby has been so sick the past week and is just now getting better. He is cuddled up with the hubby at the moment, so I was able to sneak away for a bit to share a few measurement activities with you all. Last week we started our nonstandard measurement unit. It is one of my favorites every year! We started off by discussing what estimating is, as well as nonstandard versus standard forms of … [Read more...]
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Math Journal Tidbits….
I've had a few ask about our math journals, so I thought I would do a quick post to show you how we use them and tie them into our math word wall. Our math curriculum coach shared these with us and seriously y'all, I don't know why I never did this before!?! I stalk Target ever summer waiting for their composition notebooks to be on sale. When they are, I snatch up a class set. I am not picky about them all matching, so I usually just grab … [Read more...]
Sticky note Fractions
Math standards here in Texas have changed quite a bit this year. We no longer teach fractions of a set anymore - just wholes now. I wanted to share a few things we did during our fraction unit. The kiddos started off understanding equal and unequal parts with Pop-Tarts. Afterwards we moved on to fourths and halves. That is something else that changed with our TEKS this year. We only teach halves and fourths. I gave each kiddo a handful … [Read more...]
Phonics made fun!
I am all about making phonics engaging and relatable. I mean, how many different sounds are in the English language? Too many for my adult brain to even get sometimes. I can't imagine how overwhelming it is for my kiddos. I like to start each phonics skill with something catchy for the kids to apply the sound to. Sometimes its a visitor, dressing up, play on words, or anything fun. Last week we had so much fun exploring … [Read more...]
Shapes!
In math we have worked non-stop on 2D shapes this week. We started the week off getting to know our shapes and learning all about their attributes. After reading The Greedy Triangle, we went over our shape posters and created shape cards for our math word wall (more on those tomorrow). We made Flip Its in our math journals to label and write the names and attributes for each shape. We also read When a Line … [Read more...]
All about those graphs!
Hi friends! We are packing for a 3 day trip to Houston for checkups on Angel Baby, so I gotta be quick! We have been all about graphs in math the past 2 weeks! Today, we worked in our interactive journals! The kiddos always love to use these! In small groups, we played Spill and Graph! I placed all the cards in a little tub and picked one kiddo to spill them. We flipped over any that landed on white. This was a great … [Read more...]
Vowel Teams
I wanted to drop in real quick before I pick little man up from daycare and take Priss to Gymnastics! This week is our second week learning about vowel teams. Geez these things can be so tricky!! I have these posters hanging up in the room to remind the kids that the letters work as a team to make 1 sound! This week our focus is on ai/ay. I made these cheerleaders to (hopefully) anchor down our learning that these letters … [Read more...]
Inspired!
Something that sets teaching apart from any other profession is being inspired by others. Y'all, there are some amazing teachers out there! Last night I was wide awake! Bright-eyed-and-bushy-tailed! I checked my Facebook and saw this post from Kickin' it in Kinder. I knew tomorrow was going to be a busy day with wrapping up punctuation, working on letter writing parts, and comparing numbers.....so I racked my brain on what supplies I … [Read more...]
A little bit of everything!
If you read my post early this week then you know we have been all about numbers for a while now. Today, we wrapped up place value with creating these Christmas/Holiday pictures by using the place value pieces from my Know Your Numbers Pack. The kids also had to identify the value of their picture and write the expanded form. I only had 2 rules! 1. The value cannot be greater than 99. 2. It has to be a holiday picture. Because we are always … [Read more...]
All about them blends!
We have been all about them blends, bout them blends, bout them blends! And the kids are having "no trouble" with them...{see what I did there?!?!} We have worked non-stop finding the blends in words, matching them to pictures, writing blends, and just about anything that deals with blends....we have done it! We sorted words that have final blends - and words that do not. We also created a Feast of Blends with … [Read more...]
Balancing Numbers
Hi friends! It's been forever! Life is crazy busy 'round here! Today we worked with balancing numbers! Oh boy! Such a tricky little concept. We started off thinking about different ways to make numbers and created a list for numbers 0 - 10. I had students choose an equation from the board. We put the number on our mini math balance and then looked at another equation that would equal out our balance. The kids LOVED … [Read more...]
Time!
Math was all about time this week. Our district follows TRS (old C-Scope) for math so we only worked with time to the hour this week. We will work with time to the half hour later on in the year. We started off very basic – relating a clock to a number line. I used index cards and string to create a very simple number line to 12. We talked about how a clock is indeed a number line – just in a circle. We hung it up on the board, I would … [Read more...]
