Hello School! We meet again! I did the first day activity previously mentioned, and I will blog about it, but I'm more excited about how w...
Welcome to the first day of MommyMaestra's Math Monday Marathon! This summer I'm sharing fun books, activities, and other resources to keep your kids happily learning math during the summer vacation. Help your children avoid Summer Brain Drain by letting them practice some of the skills they've learned in school, so they don't have to re-learn them again in the fall. We are going to be relying heavily on The Secret Life of Math book, but today I'm starting off with the frighteningly fun book, Perimeter, Area, and Volume: A Monster Book of Dimensions. In this hilarious book, monsters of all shapes and sizes are starring in - and going to see - a monster movie. Along the way, they're helping your child learn about the three dimensions (sometimes called height, width, and depth), as well as perimeter, circumference, area, and volume. My children thoroughly enjoyed this informative picture book. David A. Adler may just be my favorite math book author. The learning is story-based (Learn about area: How big is the movie screen? Volume: How much popcorn does a jumbo bag hold? Perimeter: How much fencing do the monsters need to buy to go around their yard?), and teaches the concepts simply and in such a way that my kids can easily understand. Take a peek at these examples: THE ACTIVITY: After reading the book, we were inspired to create our own Monster Theater. Out came the shoeboxes, construction paper, glue, tape, scissors, and other craft supplies. Within an hour or more, my kids had created their own movie theater diorama. During the process we talked about what 3D means, and what measurements make up the three dimensions. Then we explored the other concepts mentioned in the book: • To practice finding the area of an object we measured our movie screens. • We measured around the opening of the theater to find the perimeter. • We wanted to know how many monsters would fit inside the theater, so we measured the volume of the shoebox. • We also practiced measuring the various dimensions by creating our own monsters and measuring their height, width, and depth. My kids absolutely loved this activity. It kept them busy and entertained for an hour or two in the afternoon. The book is in English, however, the activity could stand alone for Spanish- (or English-)speaking families, as long as mami or papi are around to explain how to measure and calculate. And if you'd like to see this book translated into Spanish, leave a comment below and if we have enough, I'll forward them to the publisher. (For other monster math books in Spanish, take a look at Monstruos Matematicos in my online shop.) To calculate PERIMETER: Just add up the lengths of all the sides. To calculate AREA of a RECTANGLE: Multiply the length by the width. To calculate VOLUME: Multiply the height by the width by the depth. This activity is best suited for children in 2nd grade and up, but it was a great way to introduce the concepts and terminology to my kindergartner who helped measure and enjoyed creating the theater. Here's how it turned out: My daughter is just now learning multiplication, so we used lima beans to figure out the volume. Con mucho cariño... Disclosure: I was sent a copy of Perimeter, Area, and Volume by the publisher for review. The opinions and activity above are my own. All book links lead to my own online bookshop.
17 minutes ago - Read & Download Here : https://mbenox.blogspot.com/?book=1524763845 PDF The Great Ice Race (Blaze and the Monster Machines) (Step into Reading) Paperback “ Sticker Book, September 5, 2017 kindle An all-new winter-themed Step 2 deluxe Step into Reading leveled reader featuring Nickelodeon™s Blaze and the Monster Machines! Blaze and his Monster Machine friends transform into race cars for a chance to win a wintry race! But troublesome Crusher will do anything to win”even cheat! Can Nickelodeon™s Blaze and the Monster Machines stay cool under pressure as Crusher tries to knock the friends off course? Boys and girls ages 4 to 6 will thrill to this Step 2 Step into Reading leveled reader. Step 2 Readers use basic vocabulary and short sentences to tell simple stories. For children who recognize familiar words and can sound out new words with help. Race into action with Blaze and the Monster Machines! Preschoolers will learn about STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) as they help Axle City™s greatest hero overcome Crusher™s cheating ways and save the day with Blazing Speed, spectacular stunts, and awesome transformations!
I love math. It's my favorite time of day and my favorite to teach. Mostly because it seems like every year, my kids come to me and hate math. I'm not sure why, really. But when they leave me, Math is all they ever talk about! This was a fun activity we did in October when teaching arrays. There are many variations you can do with it and it will still be just as cute. After learning about arrays from our math program, students then decided what kind of monster they wanted to create. {beforehand, I copied a variety of monster shapes-all are in my packet-on a variety of colored cardstock, along with a variety of color cardstock copies of the body parts for the monsters} Then, each kid chose a card at random that told them their array line up (5 rows of 3, etc). They needed to figure out how many eyes to get {I bought a container at Michael's with my coupon for them to use. I could not find a big set of ones to peel and stick.... so we had a lot of practice using Elmers runny glue! Totally set apart those who have great fine motor control, and those who still need a LOT of practice! Before the gluing, however, they had to show me how their eyes will line up. Once they got the "go ahead" from me, the glueing commenced. After their monster was done, they had to write information about their Monster on their cards. {I gave them a "scrap copy" that they got checked by me first to make sure things were spelled well enough, etc.... then they got their good, cardstock copy to write on afterwards} The bulletin board was just AMAZING! More practice we did with our arrays is that we painted with q-tips on paper (again, we copied onto cardstock to help keeping the paint from soaking through the paper). Kids chose cards again and had to dot the array in their choice of colors. After dotting their arrays, they had to write the addition sentence. I made clean up a breeze by having bulletin board paper down at each group. They left the q-tips and I just folded it all up and put it in the trash. If you like these activities and would want to try it out in your classroom, check out my packet in my TPT store!
Math spiral review for second grade
A menu of items, tips, ideas, activities, and support where Teacher's "Take-Out" educational materials to use in their classrooms. Serving classrooms K-5th Grade.
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Halloween Monster Math Domino Add the Room (Sums of 0 to 10) Halloween Monster Math Domino Add the Room provides fun and exciting math centers for little learners to practice addition facts to 10. This resource takes the popular Add the Room activity to another level. Learners use a domino graphi...
These fun and free monster math addition clip cards are great for working on beginning addition and fine motor skills in Kindergarten!
Monster Math Games are printables rather than colored copies laminated. Depending on where they are on their math fact memorization... all they need to do is grab a partner, dice and crayon for a bit of fun and practice.+1 to +12 with sums to 24...
These monster play dough math mats will fit right in with your Halloween activities. I like this fuzzy, non-scary, kid-friendly monster -- so cute!
Download this free worksheet today to witness your child enjoy their math practice! Adorned with monsters and doodles, this free math worksheet
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