Addition. Missing Addends, and 3D shapes

In this game the students put on 6 (which is what we are working on) and then one students takes off a few and the other friend covers their eyes and then tries to guess how many he/she took off.  A great game for missing addens.

5 in a Row for naming and describing 3D Shapes, I will try and find the blackline for this - love the versitality of this game. (found it!)

I ordered these from Scholastic with my points!  They are super great and the students really enjoy building with these.  So much better than play dough!  I think you can also buy them from Learning Reasource as well.

This is great and cute for One More and One Less.  Enjoy the download here.

In out game just keeps on going!  I just change it every 2 weeks to a new number.  This week it was 6!

These games below are some great games for your computers, I really enjoy the 3D shapes becasue they use the vocabulary that the students need to hear over and over again.  Click on the pictures to get to the game link.   And the last one is my Symbaloo, a great way to funnel your students to the right games.

Making 9 and Tens a different way

 This is a great little App from iLearn.  They have several great ones, this one have count, calculate, and order.  I use the Guided access on the iTouch to "lock" the students on so they don't wander off.  Works like a charm!

 This is an activity where I am trying to introduce ten in a different way.  They see the ten frame every day and we work with these on the smart board, but they have never held these in their hands and created numbers with these.  They were to draw a number, create the number, and compare their number with their friends number to see which one is greater or more - we even used the greater than sign today!

 I have a symbaloo I created and you may want to use this as a great math tool.  But this game is just a little addition game that had them adding various items.

 Race to the top - the students simply roll two die with numbers on each one 0 - 5 and they add the numbers and write the addition equation on the square above the correct answer - so 3+1 is 4 so they would find the four on the graph and write 3+1 above it.  They are racing to the top of their paper to see which one has the most.

This is the same ol same ol, but we moved to nine, this week I did not write the numbers in the egg carton, I figure they should know that 9 is one less than 10.  It went just fine today.

And we did this as a review, plus I don't like to introduce too many new ones in the same day.  They are just making a shape using MORE than one shape.

Making 9 - for the Smart Board

Working on facts of 6

 Here is the Smart board lesson I have made for 6, it is just like 5 but I now wrote the number 6 on each screen so they remember we are working on SIX and not 5 anymore.  They move some of one and some of another and make six, writing how many of each they have and then writing the math sentence under it - still working on that part as you can see, but progress has been made! :)

 Same game from last week, but I bumped it up to making 6.  I used an egg carton cut down to 10.  I then wrote the numbers 1-6 in the bottom of each, leaving 7-10 with no numbers.  The students roll the dice and and put that number of red ones in the ten frame.  They then fill up the other numbers with blue so in the end, they just have 6 pieces in the egg carton.  Then they write down how many red ones and how many blue ones. 

We played gamebone again today because they enjoyed it on 100th day and not everyone had a chance to play as long as they would like.  Great game.

 Save the Snowman is a great little bump game I have used before.  The students are adding numbers and covering up the number they get.  They can bump a friend off if they only have one on the number they need, but if they have two locked on then they can't knock off the friend.

 Counting Plus - a great game, hands down a favorite of mine.

 

Teen bingo, I decided to make this an independent station for math, they draw a ten frame card and cover up that number.  It went very well and I hope they will start to count OFF from the known 10 - fingers crossed!

 Here are the students building with TP rolls and paper plates. I have them numbered 11 - 21 and they are to stack the tubes in order.  I put a number 21 so they can see the difference and so I can see who noticed!

 Counting Race is a great app that up to four children can play at a time.  You can add, subtract and just count numbers.

The bowl game is a great game I have shown before, but today we bumped up to 6 and practiced writing our math sentence LONG ways.  This was a new thing for us. :)

 I used an old game I made up and added a little twist to it - taking a 1 1/2 by 1 1/2 piece of paper, I had the children write the teen number instead of just matching it as we have done before.

This is a great teen game.  It uses several different ways to show the teen numbers in a cute little game!

February Fun - teen numbers, addition, great counting apps

 I adapted this game from a game I found here.  The students roll the die and if they roll a three, they place three red ones on the five frame I made.  They then fill in the remaining squares with blue and write the math equation on the board - this board I found on a missing addend game I found on TPT for thanksgiving.  I tell the students if they roll the same number they have already rolled, to roll again so they have different math equations.

Here the students are picking a card ( I also found on tpt) and the students pick a snowman and place the number of buttons on the ten frame that the card ask for.  I then ask the students to show the number with the cards that I made and placed on a ring. (each set has the number 0-9 just on a small index card and laminated and a ring placed to keep one set in order)

 These nice little set cards are nice to have around.  They can just be placed in page protectors and I can check students very quickly.  I is really helping the students to apply their knowledge of ten frames and as a teacher I can see very quickly how far along many students are!

 Oh, now this is a new favorite!!!  We have a SMART table that is about 5 years old.  We have only one that we share between six classes.  So we only see it for about a month.  The students love it so much, but they are very expensive ($7,000)  BUT, I have found this little app called Counting Plus.  It is amazing.  Two students (or four) can play at the same time.  They can play just to play or they can compete against each other.  It flashes the objects quickly so subitizing is addressed and it will speed up or slow down.  AWESOME!

  This is a great packet and in it is this little go fish game that includes an "I can" card that is helpful for a free running station.  My students LOVE this game!

 This is a great little Bump game - they play it great, they are adding and do not know it, and they are working on winning nicely and loosing happily.

Xtra math - our school decided to do this, everyone said that it probably would not be for Kindergarten, but since I love technology, I thought I would at least check it out.  WOW, from what I can tell it is a free program.  You add your children, they get a four digit code that they can use at home also.  Parents can check their progress and each week, Xtra math sends me a report letting me know who has mastered which fact families.  I have added this into my math tubs.  I figure five minutes a day is great.  I feel that my kids are going to really have a jump start for first grade when it comes to learning math facts.  This really helps them move quickly.  They ONLY problem I have with this is that now, when I read a word problem, they are quick to tell me the answer instead of sketching it out! I have to remind them that they have to SHOW me, even if they know.  It's not a terrible problem. :)

A New Year - Hitting the teens and addition

 We are using Marshmallows to show teen numbers - we use this time to talk about germs and how we will all be using the same marshmallows.  So friends that remember NOT to eat the treats, will get a few clean ones before they leave this math tub. :) The link to this activity is gone, but you can use this and just have the students draw a number.  Or this one.

 Making 5 on the SMART Board - the students make five, write the number of each in the blank, and then write a math problem. 3 + 2 = 5

 Pentagrams - just a great thing to keep friends busy as they wait their turn at the SMART Board.

 Xtra Math is a great website for practicing math facts - that is all it is, but it does keep up with your students progress and you can check on how they are doing.  It will surprise you how quickly some children pick this skill up.  It can also be done at home.

A great little addition game on the touches.