Back to School with Pigeon {20 Print & Go Math and Literacy Activities} is a packet created to go along with one of our favorite characters and the back to school season. This packet includes print & go literacy and math activities, as well as a simple one page Pigeon craftivity.Skills inclu...
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This Feed the Monkey math and literacy game is so fun and a great way for students to practice letters, letter sounds and counting! Perfect for PreK, Kindergarten, and First Grade students! This Jungle/Zoo activity makes a great math or literacy center! Students take turns picking bananas with letters (uppercase and lowercase letters are included) and must say the letter name or the letter sound before they feed the monkey. Students could also roll a die and feed the monkey that number of bananas or they could roll two dice, add, and feed the monkey the sum (blank bananas are included). This games comes in color and in black/white! You may also like: Feed the Lion Game Zoo Emergent Reader Bear Themed Printables For more educational resources and freebies, visit and follow Little Bell Lessons Feedback is greatly appreciated and gives you credit towards your future TPT purchases! Thank you!
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Of all the areas of math, our 10-year-old isn't especially fond of geometry. To give him a little extra protractor practice, I thought up this angles game. Anytime he has the chance to beat me, his attitude is "bring it" so I knew this would pique his interest. What You Need to Play PDF of the Earth game board and angles cards Paper Protractor plastic sheet protectors (optional) Pencil (or if using sheet protectors, fine-tip dry-erase markers) Assembly Download the PDF free from Google Drive here. Print one Earth for each player (or team if you're doing this as a classroom activity). Print two or more copies of the angles cards. Cut out and shuffle. If you anticipate playing over and over, slide the Earth pictures into a plastic sheet protector. This make your game boards dry-erase. How to Play With the cards shuffled and placed faced down, each player takes a card on their turn and then lining up the protractor with the start line, draws in the angle stated on the card. On their next turn, the reference line becomes the line just drawn, instead of the start. The first player to get all around the world (i.e. past the start line) is declared the winner of the race! Read This math activity got us thinking about what life was like in different places across the globe. To further our understanding of cultures and time zones, we read a wonderful book that lead us on a journey that only took a single moment in time.
When you teach simple probability, it seems like you have to strike a balance between showing students how probability works and getting them to understand the math behind it. This topic lends itself to a
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For K-1 students, centers are one of the most developmentally appropriate things that you can do for them. Let me give you the break down on each of my 5 centers, and how I manage them!
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Are you looking for hands on back to school math and literacy centers for preschool and kindergarten? Then you will love our Back to School Unit for Preschool. This unit is great for Preschool anytime throughout the year and kindergarten for the first few months.
tw When it comes to math, geometry seems to be in a whole different league. Some kids fall in love with it instantly, while it seems challenging for other kids. One of the great things about geometry is that there are so many hands-on activities we can provide for our students, which makes it lots of fun! Here are some of my favorite geometry activities: 1. Start With Shapes I like to have students start with shapes they've known since they were tiny, like triangles, squares, and circles. We draw these on whiteboards as a whole class. Next we draw the more advanced shapes like pentagons, hexagons, octagons, trapezoids, and even the rhombus! This brings us to a discussion of polygons and we can classify shapes that way. Besides whiteboards, there are lots of ways for kids to work with shapes, like Popsicle sticks (which are also great to use to illustrate lines like parallel, intersecting, and perpendicular), LEGOS, Geoboards, and even clothespins which can be clipped together. 2. Marshmallow Geometry I like this activity because any time you add food, kids are all in! Using marshmallows and toothpicks, kids can make simple 2-D shapes, and also 3-D shapes. Plus, this activity is the perfect place to emphasize vertices since each time you add a marshmallow, you place it at a corner. If you have food allergies or school regulations which prohibit food, you can substitute the marshmallows for Play-Doh. 3. Use an Anchor Chart Once students have had lots of exploration time with shapes, it's time to discuss their attributes. I like to actually make this anchor chart with the kids' help. I explain how it will be organized, from the smallest number of sides to the greatest. We also notice patterns of sides and vertices as we create it. I do ask kids for examples of shapes, and sometimes they get really creative with this! 4. Go on a Shape Scavenger Hunt This is an activity that is great to do with some parent helpers if you have any. I like to send iPad cameras with each group, clipboards and pencils, and a record sheet. Kids record the shape that was found, the type of object it was, and where it was found. It's really fun to see what shapes they're able to find while walking around the school campus! 5. Incorporate Some Art I am a huge art proponent so I add art wherever it fits in. Geometry is a great time to do either geometric animals, robots, or people. I usually choose one of those categories but really you could make it a wide open project too! I shared another fun geometric art activity on a blog post I wrote called Incorporating Art in the Classroom. This one is from Literacy Loves Company. As a follow up to geometric lessons on lines and angles, I cut polygons from white construction paper for each child. I have kids use rulers and sharpies and follow my step by step directions of drawing lines and then finding obtuse angles, right angles, perpendicular lines, and so on. After the lesson is done, kids add color to these, making it a really fun art piece. 6. Add Some Kinesthetic Learning Kids need movement and it's easy to add some movement with this unit. For this activity, students will be on the floor working with a partner to make different kinds of lines (parallel, intersecting, and perpendicular), shapes, and angles (right, acute, and obtuse) using their bodies. An alternative is to have kids stand up and use their arms to illustrate these geometric concepts. Another kinesthetic activity is to gather Chinese jump ropes or packages of sewing elastic. If you use elastic, one package is enough for one small group of 5 - 6 kids. The idea is to have students use the elastic as a group to make the shapes you call out (types of triangles are especially good) or types of angles. Different kinds of lines can also be made if two groups work together. 7. Add Some Task Cards and Games Task cards are one of my go-to tools! Kids love the game-like format and I know that they're getting really focused learning on whatever math concept we're working on. I have used them as centers/stations, for whole class math time, for one on one, and as exit slips. If you'd like some pre-made math task cards specifically for geometry, click here; 3rd Grade Geometry Bundle 4th Grade Geometry Bundle 5th Grade Geometry Bundle 8. Read Mentor Text I love it when I can tie reading into math too! The books above are some of my favorite mentor texts for geometry. I love all of the visual examples included. 9. Use Music I just found these songs by Numberock on YouTube and they are perfect for this unit! Really great pictures and catchy tunes: Parallel, Perpendicular and Intersecting Lines Angles Types of Triangles 10. Practice Angles Seriously, next to long division, measuring angles is probably the most difficult math skill students will face in the elementary years! It doesn't help too that it is introduced in fourth grade in common core and then not even mentioned in 5th grade standards. Oh well! One activity that helps is to have kids use graph paper and write their first name in all capital block letters. Students can measure any angles created by the intersection of the letter's lines. Another favorite activity for practicing angles is to take tape and make different lines, which create angles on a desk, table, or even on sheets of butcher paper. Kids use protractors to measure angles and then write with expos (or markers on the butcher paper) right on the desks/tables! Great way to add some fun to this difficult concept! Hope you've found at least a few ideas you can use for your geometry unit! I did want to let you know that I have Math Task Card Bundles for every grade from 3rd - 5th. Each bundle has 30 sets of 32 task cards that cover ALL STANDARDS (CCSS) for those grades. I love prepping them at the beginning of the year and then grabbing whatever concept we're working on for some added practice. If you'd like to take a look: 3rd Grade Math Task Cards Bundle 4th Grade Math Task Cards Bundle 5th Grade Math Task Cards Bundle Thanks so much for stopping by! If you like this post, I would love it if you would pin it or share it with a teacher friend! For more ideas and strategies focused on Upper elementary, be sure to sign up for The Teacher Next Door's free email newsletter right HERE. I'd love to connect with you! Facebook Pinterest Instagram TpT Store
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This blog post includes ideas, activities, and free printables for using dice in the classroom. There’s a whole WORLD of possibilities for using dice with literacy!
It's the beginning of the year, and you have a whole new class that is sitting in front of you. You don't know them besides the information you got on the student information card. You know the first few weeks are getting to know them. Both personally and academically. You also know the first few
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This is an amazing art and math lesson that I got from a teacher at a conference who did teach a district over from me, but is now getting her PhD. She always had amazing stuff to present at conference. (You're amazing, Mary Franco!) Anyway, this lesson involves Paul Klee and multiplication. I made a little three page Smart Notebook lesson about Klee's work "Once Emerged From the Gray of Night" (where I used to show a poster of it) and have the students talk about what's more important--the words of the poem or the colors and composition? Then we talk about putting two things (like writing and art, or math and art together). It's SUCH an amazing lesson, here's a sneak peek: So, students get a little background knowledge of Klee, then we talk about tessellations and multiplication (and practice on the Smart Board). Then, students get a page of one-inch graph paper and write out a one digit by one digit multiplication problem with a two digit answer. I tell them to choose one that's hard for them to remember, or their favorite one. They then repeat that problem seven times, dropping down and over one square for 4 times, then down and back a square for three times, making them into interlocking tessellation shapes: After they've drawn it all out in pencil and I've checked it, they choose ONE color of fine-tip marker to trace it with, then use colored pencil or watercolor pencil to color. The coloring is a bit of a challenge for them, because they need to forget that they're numbers and only look at the space. They then color it in patterns/designs to make it visually interesting and play with people's minds ('math? I dont' see any math!') It's an awesome lesson that really challenges their thinking. This one really shows the patterns and designs. Oh, it's also important that their numbers COMPLETELY fill the one inch box of the graph paper. I always try to do this lesson at a time of the year when classroom teachers are complaining about students not remembering their math facts. I usually do it with fifth grade, but I did it with sixth one year at the teachers' request.
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15 super cute and fun ideas to help teach your kids about money and financial literacy. Learning about money, value and needs vs wants can be a blast with these fun activities.
Your kiddos will LOVE this hands-on Math, Literacy, and Science unit! Packed with over 120 pages of engaging lessons, activities, and Math and Literacy centers, this unit is full of dinosaur fun for the Kindergarten or 1st grade classroom! Response sheets are included for each of the centers, and the Common Core Standards are printed on each cover sheet to save you time. Materials Included: Recommended Literature 2 Leveled Dinosaur Student Readers Anchor Chart Pieces 5 Dinosaur Have, Can, Are Printables Dinosaur Student Journals Customizable Dinosaur Venn Diagrams Dinosaur Measurement Partner Activity Which Dinosaur Is Your Favorite? Class Graphing Activity Carnivores and Herbivores Printable Triceratops Labeling Word Wall and Writing Center Cards and Printables Math Centers: Dino-Mite Ten Frame Addition Dino Egg Number Bonds Diggin' Up Bones Subtraction Sort Cave Man Base Ten Memory Match Prehistoric Number Comparisons Literacy Centers: Triceratops and Brontosaurus Blends Dino-Sized Real and Nonsense Word Spin Stegosaurus CVC Scramble Volcanic Ending Sounds Dinosaur Digraphs **Please download the free preview to see examples of what's included!
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My students are obsessed with Mat Man! I am always looking for a way to include more learning opportunities in our busy day! Creating a resource that combines Math and Literacy is my favorite way to sneak everything in before dismissal! This game is so much fun and my students ask to do this activity over and over again! This download is 2 games in 1: Roll & Build Mat Man AND Roll & Draw Mat Man! What's included? Directions Mat Man Roll & Build Key with Numerals Mat Man Roll & Build Key with Dots Mat Man Template (In color & Black and white options) Mat Man Roll & Draw Key with Numerals Mat Man Roll & Draw Key with Dots Mat Man Roll & Draw Drawing Sheet with Key (Numerals) Mat Man Roll & Draw Drawing Sheet with Key (Dots) How to Play: Mat Man Roll & Build- Students will roll a die and say the number! Using the key they will match the numeral to the body part and add it to their work. Students will continue rolling the die and adding pieces until Mat Man is complete! This is a great way to reinforce number recognition and dice pattern recognition! Students can use the Mat Man template provided in the resource OR use the official Mat Man pieces from Learning Without Tears! You can print on Card stock and laminate the pieces to play this game over and over again or have students glue the pieces to a 12x18 piece of construction paper and hang on the wall! Mat Man Roll & Draw- Students can use a blank piece of paper or the Mat Man Roll & Draw Drawing sheet. They will roll a Die and say the number! Using the key they will match the numeral to the body part and draw it on their paper. Students will continue rolling the Die and drawing body parts until their Mat Man is complete! This is a great way to reinforce number recognition and dice pattern recognition! *My students are always looking for an opportunity to use our giant Foam Dice! They make math more fun! Giant Foam Dice **Please understand that I DO NOT own the rights to Mat Man. He was created by Learning without Tears. This product is simply a supplement. Check out Learning without Tears for more information and materials related to Mat Man. Like this product? Follow me for more! Check out my other Mat Man Resources: Mat Man Tracing and Assessment Sheets Enjoy, Sarah K.
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Hi Friends…. The past two weeks we have been working on Prefixes and Suffixes in our second-grade classroom! My kiddos were having such a good time brainstorming words with prefixes and then figuring out the meaning. They really had a strong grasp of the concept… I was pretty impressed. After our whole … Prefixes, Suffixes and a FREEBIE Just for YOU! Read More »
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