I was going to do another Look in My Plan Book for you, but this week and the last week I have been using games mainly from Investigations. (That is one of the resources we pull from for our math curriculum.) I didn’t think it would be too helpful
This week, I introduced a new game called Coop 10 Chickens. It’s a game that gets kids thinking about adding numbers together and combinations to 10. Here is a picture of the game in action: I just posted the game in my TPT store. Click here to check it out!
With my recent switch to Kindergarten I am finally feeling like I have a handle on things… only took a couple of weeks!!! One of the activities I just finished with my students was creating a student-generated ABC chart. For the first 2 weeks of school, I felt kind of
I am so excited to fully launch the LINK Math Workshop in my Kindergarten classroom this year. So far, I have pictures and freebies to share from launching the L- Learning with Manipulatives. At this point in the year, it is mainly exploration, but with I Can Lists, I am
Remember this? I love to use this in my classroom because it is so much less distracting (and less time consuming) than students using a pencil sharpener. Besides… I teach K now, and I don’t think teaching them to use a pencil sharpener would be the best use of our
My room isn’t complete, but here are my newest photos. First of all, this is what I walked into on Monday morning: Here is my bulletin board that I showed you last week. I plan to use it to display student work. I decided that it is not really a
Whew! Y’all, I have been working almost non-stop on these launch plans for the past week or so. I had no idea what I was getting into, but in hindsight I am SO VERY glad that I did! I now have thought through exactly what my Math Workshop will look
Remember how I went to CAMT a few weeks ago? I told y’all that I attended as many classes as possible that relate to math workshop. Well, I got lots of ideas and compiled them into my own math workshop plan. You can use all of the things from Debbie
As summer is winding down, I’ve decided it’s about time to complete so many of those projects I have started throughout the summer. Today, I finished my vocabulary cards for beginning number concepts. Inspired by Debbie Diller’s Math Work Stations, I created cards for numbers 1-100 and 14 other cards
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