A Week In Review
October 07, 2016
This week...
We finished up setting and learned about characters this week.
Even Gleeven and Odd Blodd
October 02, 2016
It's October Y'all! Is it just me or does this little ghosty crack you up? I adore him!
Last week in math we began learning about Even and Odd numbers. It was a very busy week though so we did not quite get to everything and will be finishing up this week - which is perfect because it is October and I love making our "Even Gleevens and Odd Blodds!"
In prepping for the rest of our Even & Odd unit, I thought I would share what we did last year since we are doing some of those activities again.
Back when we first learned about digits, we did learn about which were even and odd. First I had my first graders find a partner and then I told them I had different food items. If the items were even and they could share them fairly then they could eat them. This brought a great concrete idea to the concept of even & odd.
Now onto learning about how to know if a number more than 10 is even or odd.
First we played a game called prove it. The students created a game board and then passed their board to a partner and had to prove whether the numbers on the board were even or odd.
Then I let the cats out of the bag, gave each student a cat, and we sorted them between even and odd.
Once everyone finished, we all came to the carpet to look at the patterns we saw in the sorts. We made the conclusion that you have to look at the ones place to tell if a number is even or odd.
I save this next activity for October because I love the craftivity that goes with it!
After reading the story, we made an "Even Gleeven and Odd Blodd." Monsters that either like everything about and around them to be even or odd.
Another activity was this this quick sunflower cut & sort activity. Then I had students play an even & odd game.
Our check point for this week was this quick little sheet of paper.
Applicious Place Value
September 23, 2016
Whew, what a busy week! I cannot believe that we have already been in school for about 4 weeks - the school year has just been flying by.
This week we began learning all about place value. We talked about the different ways to make the same number - expanded notation, base 10 blocks, writing the number, tally marks, tens and ones, etc. To end the week, my first graders did this fun apple based activity - no matter what way you cut it, it is still an apple and no matter what way you write a certain number, it is still the same amount!
My first graders really enjoyed this activity, it allowed for differentiation because the students were able to pick their own number, and they enjoyed the challenge of putting the apple back together after they cut it into 5 pieces.
Falling in Love With Place Value
September 21, 2016
Finally - I have been itching to put some fall decor into our classroom but have contained myself until this week.
Place value is so challenging so we dive into learning about place value very slowly.
We started the week by learning about representing numbers with 10s and 1s. The big goal is things are grouped by 10s or 1s.
I wanted to make some fall decor and these scarecrows were PERFECT!
on the back...
#allthehearteyes
Hey, Can I have your digits?
September 16, 2016
This week, we've been learning all about digits.
We started by learning about digits vs numbers. We filled out a venn diagram and connected this to how letters form words & some letters are words (a, I) - digits are numbers too!
We then spent each day working on forming two of the digits correctly. We really worked on starting from the TOP and not making backwards digits.
We did a couple of quick practice sheets to practice recognizing digits and different digit numbers (2 digit, 3 digit, etc).
In the end, we each got to pick a digit and added our personal touch to help us remember the digits.
Click on any of the above pictures to get the craftivities and printables!
