January Math fun with Teens

We came back from Christmas vacation to the open windows of Dibels, TRC, State Math assessments, and county assessments.  Report cards due and a new quarter starting also falls into this month, so my math is pretty simple and monitored by my assistant for most of the time.  The games are fairly easy, but really puts those teen numbers out there for each student to see, write, count and make over and over again.  Don't forget about this you tube video:

Numbers in the Teens

So at the smart board we have been playing these two games.  While one student is up at the smart board, I have the three others working on iTouches that have math games.  It seems to work better than three students rolling around on the carpet! :)

Teen roll a die

Tic Tac Teen - Now this game was meant for two students to play together, they draw a card and cover that teen number, and the one with the most wins.  BUT, my friends wanted to keep going, or cover all of the same number on one roll, etc.  So I made it an individual game where they will draw and cover one at a time.

I found this last year - I am not sure where, but they simply roll two die and trace that number.  I had them do this in pairs and it took a couple days.  Great practice writing numbers which we ALL need.

One more game - I don't have these in front of me, but the link is a free one you can use.  Same concept - the students roll and add one more to the die.  Great for subtilizing and understanding the 1 fact family.  It takes a little help to get them started, but in the end, they just love it!

These were found from a neighbor teacher - they are simply cute for spatial relations.  I think this skill is something they should work on all year - it is in the same family as puzzles and thinking skills.  The students have a bag of tangrams and they try to make these animals and they continue to try to make a square, rectangle, or triangle.   

Roll a teen number - this is the earlier one, but you can change the numbers to what you need.  They just roll and record the number from the bottom up and make a graph of the numbers.  They love seeing which one they roll the most.

 Valen-teen!  Great little game I found last year and the kids just love it, I decided to start it a little earlier this year.  It has several different forms of the teen numbers and little hearts and birds to cover the number with.

I made these so I could use pattern blocks instead of tangrams - just a different thing to work with and they are building shapes they should recognize.

 Domino Math - addition - students just write the number for the dots on each side and then add the numbers together so the total goes on the line underneath.

 This game is very cute and we just had a parent donate the bingo dabbers so the kids will be excited to play this soon.  I will look for the link.

Teen number match up 

Just the old fashion tic tac toe with teens.

This has been a game on the computers - the students add the creatures together and pick the correct number.

This one is nice because it shows a number quickly and then it hide the number (subitizing!) and then it shows more bubbles and they add it together.

And don't forget to check the back log of this blog, this page has a lot of games I will be playing soon!

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!

November madness :)

So November and December come in like a whirlwind and I will just post pictures of what we are doing.  This is November and most things you can find in earlier post on this blog.  Enjoy!

Roll a turkey

Teen matching

Tic Tac Toe using teen numbers

Writing numbers, one side has all of the number and the other side has just one number they may need to work on.

Rub a number - students rub a number that is just poster board cut numbers on a piece of poster board, naked crayons (crayons without paper so they can rub it on the side), long strip of paper.

Shape roll, read and show game.

Turkey dot the number.

Turkey Grid game.

Pumpkin roll and cover.

Monkey Math - putting numbers in order.

Teen Bingo

Candy Land subitizing with dice.