Creating a Calendar Scroll My genius teaching partner came up with this idea and I simply made the papers to go with it. We are teaching our students about time and calendars right now and many are struggling with the idea … Continue reading
FREE Magnetic Place Value “Blocks” I am quite sure I have mentioned this before and will say it again. One of my favorite things to teach my first graders is place value. There are so many games, songs and activities … Continue reading
Place Value Pocket I saw something similar to this years ago at a math conference and have been wanting to recreate it for some time. It is somewhat similar to our Place Value Flip Book, but a bit more interactive. … Continue reading
Time Bingo Games It is that time of year again- time to teach my students about telling time. We started by creating our own clocks as shown in our post, A Homemade Teaching Clock, played several O’Clock Card Games in partners … Continue reading
Teaching Fractions with Pizza This month during our student-led conferences, my students set 2 goals- a behavior goal and a learning goal. One of my student’s goals was to learn about fractions. In past years, I always made “fraction pizzas” … Continue reading
What’s the Number? A Place Value Guessing Game This is a fantastic game to help children with place value. Here’s how…. Materials templates (click here for more details or to purchase templates) scissors glue contact paper or lamination dry erase … Continue reading
Place Value Counting Strips Place Value Counting Strips were new to me until just the other day when a colleague introduced them to me. What a wonderful teaching tool! The minute I saw the idea, I knew I had to … Continue reading
Skills Practice Tube Don’t know about you, but I have about 12 empty salt containers sitting in my craft closet. I have a few ideas for them, but thought of this one in the middle of the night last night. … Continue reading
Egg Carton Games for Developing Number Sense I am still on my developing number sense kick. These games have not only been fun to create, but have really helped my own son in developing his number sense. Here is a … Continue reading
Great Ideas for 100th Day of School I have never done anything in my classroom for the 100th day of school, but there are so many cute ideas out there this year, I decided that a round-up of my favorites … Continue reading
Football Game Glyph for Kids Materials Colored Construction Paper Glue Scissors Instructions Directions Give each student a piece of brown construction paper and have them cut out the shape of a football. Next give students the paper the colors of … Continue reading
Clown Glyph and FREE Word Search I was going to begin this post by saying something like, “Who doesn’t love the circus? Or who doesn’t love clowns!” But I happen to be one of those people who really do not … Continue reading
