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Hello everyone My kiddos and I have been learning about counting coins and making change. The center games and activities were fun, however one day I had a few of my students come up to me and ask if we could do something more hands on. I was so proud of them for coming to me with this question! So my wheels immediatly began turning and I came up with this product. here, the students will be shopping in the room at different stores. Some students will be cashiers and other will be customer

Hello everyone! I teach second grade and I find myself still learning new things about my teaching and what 2nd graders do and do not already know when they come to me... I recently realized (and I am not sure how I didnt before)... that my 2nd graders do not know how to use a calendar. They do not understand the basic concepts of using a calendar before they come to me. Soooo... I decided to make this pack in order to give them practice each month. there are 12 calendars (1 for each m

Hello Everyone! This is a quick and simple PDF presentation that you can use as a review game for time and money. We combine our time unit and money unit into one test at our school which is why it is combine here. I put each slide up on the board one at a time. I have the students in small groups of about 3-4. Each group has a whiteboard. They must work together to come up with the answer to each question. The team who gets the most points by the end wins the game. This is very str

Hello everyone! I am very excited to introduce a new series of homework packets I am working on! This is the first installment of the series. I've needed some new motivating homework ideas for my 2nd graders so I finally came up with this one! Let me explain how they work,, I have made end of the unit math packets for students to take home for homework in order to get some extra practice before the test. The gist of the packet is for your kiddos to help their friend (the character will chan

Hello everyone! This pack includes 7 different probability carnival centers for your kiddos to work on. Here is what they are: 1. Spin a Color 2. Brown bag surprise 3.Ducks in a Pond 4. Pick a Card 5.Silly Shapes 6. Candy Bags 7. Cupcake Boxes I provide cards to be printed in color and laminated that go with each station. They will just need to be put into brown paper bags for each. I also provide 1-2 activity pages for each station.

Hello everyone! This pack includes 11 task cards that give the students a topic & two numbers to help them plan out a word problem. They take the information on the task card and then use the planning pages to create a word problem. There is also an answer sheet so they can switch with partners and solve the problems their classmates made. This is the first installment in many to come. This pack is animal themed.

Hello everyone! Here is a pack of subtraction with regrouping math centers. The theme around these centers is obviously February and valentines day. There are 4 centers in this pack... *When to regroup *Subtraction Rules *Subtract and compare *Subtract and match

This set of task cards will help your kiddos practice their rounding skills. There are 15 task cards with a recording sheet included The students must look at each number on the task card and follow the directions on where to round to (nearest 10 or nearest 100).

I use this journal with my math workshop outline in my math classroom. We stop rotations with 7-8 minutes to spare in class. My students go back to their seats and choose a prompt from this packet to answer that day. They can choose any prompt they want. If time permits I call on a few students to share. It has the students reflect on their learning! I used blooms taxonomy to create my types of questions.

This pack was made to use during your morning meeting. It has quite a few pages for students to practice a variety of math skills, weather skills, and calendar skills. There is a calendar for each month as well. You can choose to use all of the pages or just some of them. My kiddos LOVE this time of the day. It also helps with routine in the morning which helps the day get started off right!

Hello everyone!! I am very excited to be posting my first edition of my new line of exit tickets! I am a lover of exit tickets and have been using them often in my classroom. However I didn't feel that I was using them to the best of my ability before. i knew there was more information i could collect from them as well as better questions to ask the students before they left. So I came up with this outline which will be seen throughout all of my exit tickets (however the skill will change)

Hello everyone! This pack was made to help your kiddos practice their money skills. I created 3 different center games and activities along with some interactive notebook flip books for this pack. Here is what is included: 1. Abracadabra creating coins task cards 2. Hocus Pocus comparing coins War Game 3. Alakazam matching game 4. Magic Money Maker flip books

Hello everyone! Over the past two years I have really been focusing on Math Workshop. I moved to a new school in a new state last year and they had completely changed over to the Math Workshop model. So, because of this, I made it a very big priority to research it, attend professional developments on it, and work on developing it in my own classroom. So over the last two years I have tried many different ideas, thrown many ideas out, and refined many ideas. This product is one of those ideas

Hello everyone! This pack includes 11 task cards that give the students a topic & two numbers to help them plan out a word problem. They take the information on the task card and then use the planning pages to create a word problem. There is also an answer sheet so they can switch with partners and solve the problems their classmates made. This is the first installment in many to come. This pack is jungle animal themed

Hello everyone! This is a pack of 10 fraction word problem task cards. I place these in a center and have the students work together on white boards to solve each. I have also used them as a whole group mini lesson or a quick assessment. There is an answer sheet included in this where students are asked to show their work, give their answer, and then further explain their thinking on how they solved it.

This pack includes 15 task cards that help your kiddos practice telling time on an analog clock. There is a recording sheet included as well. The kiddos just have to flip through each task card, read the time on the clock and record it on the recording sheet in the corresponding boc

This is the 3rd installment of countin coins. This presentation has students practice how to group coins in order to make their counting easier. For example grouping a quarter with a nickel in order to make 30 cents. I use these presentations for my 10-15 minute Math Workshop warm up

Hello everyone! In 2nd grade we always begin learning about money after spring break. With the topic of money I have learned that hands on center learning works much better for my students then whole group lessons. Because of this, I created this pack to help students practice. In this pack you will find 5 different centers to practice money. The centers are the following: 1. Draw the coins 2. Adding it all up 3. Dollar deals 4. Shopping Around 5. What can you buy Each center has the s

Hello everyone! This is a pack of 10 subtraction word problem task cards. I place these in a center and have the students work together on white boards to solve each. I have also used them as a whole group mini lesson or a quick assessment. There is an answer sheet included in this where students are asked to show their work, give their answer, and then further explain their thinking on how they solved it.

This is the second installment of my gold star homework packets. There is another packet called Addition with Andy. This is Money with Maci This packet is a review packet for money.