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Wednesday, December 29, 2021

ALL the Math Facts Worksheets You'll EVER Need!

Are you tired of hunting for math fact worksheets? I was too so I made some. OK, I made A LOT! I won't ever have to go searching for them again! Whether you're looking for addition or subtraction or BOTH, I've got you covered! Whether you're looking for just a few problems or 100, I've got you covered! Whether you're looking for vertical or horizontal or a mix, again, I've got you covered! I even have SEASONAL SETS!

I broke them down by SUMS.

That way you can differentiate for your different levels of students. The pages with only 24/25/27 problems have a number line at the top to help.


Common Core Standards state that by the end of Kindergarten, students should be fluent in facts up to 5. By the end of 1st Grade, they should be fluent up to 10. And finally, by the end of 2nd Grade, they should be fluent up to 20. I generally consider that to be to 18 and then most all of them know 10+10=20 pretty early. 


Fluency is not just memorization. Of course, that is the eventual goal. But PLEASE do not discourage your young students from using their fingers. Did you know that our base 10 math system came from the fact that we have 10 fingers? Using other manipulatives is VERY important also so keep them handy when they are using these pages.

I don't teach multiplication at my grade level but I got a request for multiplication fact sheets! 


Here are all the sets for purchase in my store. Just click to see!






and the best DEAL!


What about some cute and FUN holiday and seasonal math facts? Check those out by clicking the picture below!


 and what about a FREE SAMPLE?!






Tuesday, December 14, 2021

Writing Centers with Picture Vocabulary Cards, Sentence Starters, Writing Paper, and a FREEBIE!


Need to spice up your writing center? These NO PREP writing centers are packed with printables to make changing out your thematic writing center a snap! Great preschool, kindergarten, first grade, or second grade writing centers and activities. See all 24 options below PLUS get a FREE sample!


animal pocket chart cards                          


            

The insects cards were printed 1/2 size for a smaller space.

Each set comes with pocket chart size picture cards. These are shown in a schedule-size pocket chart similar to this one.

Click to see it on Amazon. 
I also made the same picture cards in a poster that can be cut apart. 

Use the for write the room. Hide the cards around your classroom and kids can search for them and record the words on the included recording sheet. 


Print two of each card and make a memory game.


Put the cards on a loose leaf ring or use a zip tie to put them together.



When I taught preschool, I kept a basket of them and kids would "read" them with we had to wait during bathroom breaks or at pick up time. Great for vocabulary development. 


Some young writers, especially reluctant ones, need some inspiration to get going. These sentence starters will do just that! 

Along with the vocabulary words, students will be able to develop their writing further than with a blank page in front of them. 

Students can take the cards to their desks or tables to copy. 


Also included is fun, themed writing paper. 

Fun for fire safety week. Several different borders to choose from.

Great for learning about transportation or travel. Two line choices help you differentiate for different levels of writers. 


Handwriting lines help students write neatly. Choose from pages with a place to draw a picture or a full page of lines. 


Here we are using the bird posters and paper after a reading a book about birds. 

There are 27 different themed writing centers available! Click any of the pictures above or the links below to see them in my store. 

Get your FREE sample Insects Writing Center by clicking below!





Saturday, September 25, 2021

Math Interventions

My new job as a Math Interventionist has been an amazing and challenging endeavor! I'm at a new district so there has been a lot of learning going on! I attended a workshop on Math Interventions and I learned so much about the RtI process and how it should be done and what not to do, too. Here are some of the activities I've been trying out. 


In Kindergarten, the kids have needed a lot of counting and number recognition activities.

I started out with 0-5 and now we've moved on to 6-9. For this activity, I used number cards, UNO cards, mini-erasers, and bingo chips. I laid out the number cards and gave the kids UNO cards with those numbers to sort. Then we counted out circles to match the numbers. They are also working on 1-to-1 correspondence so we pretended that the circles were chairs and put a bunny on each chair and counted them again.

My kindergarten students are also working on writing numbers.

They needed a lot of support so I made these number tracing cards to practice. 

I added the arrows by hand. There is a lot of hand-over-hand with this activity so that they start at the top and form the numbers correctly.

Using the dry erase markers makes this activity more fun and we can quickly erase and do it over and over. Click the picture to get a download of the numbers.



First graders have been working on number sense and addition skills. 

I have noticed they need a lot of practice with teen numbers and telling the difference between teens and 21, 31, 41, etc. This game was a fun and easy way to practice. Click the picture to see it. 


Dominoes are a great way to practice addition skills. First we worked on subitizing the numbers. Subitizing is when you can recognize an amount without counting each dot. 


Later we connected the dominoes to the number bond, helping students understand that numbers can be broken into parts. 

Both these mats can be found in my Headfirst First Grade Math Curriculum. Click the picture to see it in my store.

In second grade we also have been working on number sense. We started with the tens. 


They did pretty well with it. We've also been counting by 10s and 5s.




We are using AIMS web plus to benchmark and for progress monitoring. Students really struggled with the triads. They are given 3 numbers and they are to tell which number the middle number is closer to. I made a blank number line that we could write on to visualize how far apart the numbers are. 

This was helpful. 


I then made some cards and number lines to go with them. Adding the erasers made it more engaging. These are included in my Math Interventions Pack.



 
Click to see where I ordered the erasers.





We just had our first Data Day to discuss who needs interventions and which Tier to put them on so now I have a lot more planning to do. Look for more math intervention activities in future blog posts!