December Madness (oops Fun I meant!)

Welcome to the Madness Fun!

I always start the month off with all of the ornaments we will make for our parents, so here is the first one - skill: patterns.  I just use a pipe cleaner and the tri colored beads, cut a little holly leave to put their initials on and tie a ribbon.

Here they are building a tree out of three different size craft sticks.  We paint them and then place them in order by size. (skill: order by size)  Then we decorate them with sequence from Michaels.

Snowman - Skill: following directions. :)  Using a tongue depressor, sticky back felt, wiggly eyes, and a felt nose.  Then I let the students make the mouth and dots on the front.

Reindeer ornament - Skill:  again following directions and counting out pieces.  Just using regular craft sticks.

 Christmas tree count:  Just roll the die and place that many pom poms on the tree.

Stackum game - students roll the teen dice and place that a stacker on that number.  At the end of the game see which number had the most.

Counting on game:  Draw a card, count off from that number until the teacher ask you to stop and move a space.  This is just a blank board and blank cards that I just wrote numbers on - pretty simple to make. :)

Christmas stamps - students roll the die and stamp that number of stamps on their paper.

This station is making 5, the students are given 10 pieces, 5 of each color and they show different ways to make 5 and write the equation.

Ordinal - here is a game I made for ordinals, you can see what you do and it needs to be a teacher led station.

 Grid game - just like last month.

 Heidi Songs counting sheets.

Trim the tree with teens, filling in missing numbers.

War!  Highest number takes the cards.

Tangrams for my snack friends that finish early.

Teen number match.  Here is a different one.

Counting on math game for Christmas.

Roll and cover.  Students roll the number and cover that number on the number line.

Christmas fun game. And here is the tree game board.

Christmas stickers to make a pattern with.

A write the room that I plan on just leaving at the table and they can go through the cards and fill in the recording sheet.

 And my final one for today is just a picture frame!  Enjoy!

March math - ending one quarter and starting the last

Wow, the end of the year is fast approaching and this is when I realize I still have so much more to teach - so here we go . . . ADDITION is here, I start with the bowl game. The children have a stick of 5 unifix cubes, they break it in their lap and hide some under the bowl and then place the rest on top. We go around the table and show the top and say "Two AND ?" and the children guess how many is under the bowl. At first, this is truly a guess, and then after they play a few times, they get the hang of it. I write the equation on the board and then we fill in the bowl number after the child shows his number. I will play with five for a couple weeks and then we will do six, 7, 8, etc. Ordinal game on the internet.

Addition game, I have started it as an independent center for now, the children roll a number, place that many pom poms in the ear, roll again, place that number in the other ear, pull all of them down and see how many you have.

Placing numbers in order.

Domino Math, I have a better sheet attached, I am just using this one up, they write the number of dots on one side, they write the number of dots on the other, and then pull the domino down and count all of the dots together.

Missing number - the children need to WORK together to complete this task, not easy this year for mine!

Here is a great bump game

And that is this week - enjoy!