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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

This is another subtraction with regrouping PPT presentation to use with your kiddos. These are great for teachers that must use the LEARN model for their math lesson plans which requires them to have a 10-15 minute mini lesson introduction.

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

This is a quick and easy activity to set up in your room, and it gets the kiddos up and moving. All you need to do is print out the cards, laminate, cut, and then hang them in various spots around the room. Pass out the recording sheet to each student and them allow them to walk around the room and solve each card. This set focuses on fractions.

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 just started teaching math this year using the Math Daily 3 workshop outline. With this, teachers are asked to create 10-15 minute mini lessons for each day before the allow the students to go off on their own into their center activities. These mini lessons can be anything from showing a new strategy and doing a few example problems, to creating word problems with the class. Believe it or not, I was finding it very difficult to find things to do in this small amount of tim

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! I just started teaching math this year using the Math Daily 3 workshop outline. With this, teachers are asked to create 10-15 minute mini lessons for each day before the allow the students to go off on their own into their center activities. These mini lessons can be anything from showing a new strategy and doing a few example problems, to creating word problems with the class. Believe it or not, I was finding it very difficult to find things to do in this small amount of time

Hello everyone! As I have mentioned before my kiddos and I love number talks in our classroom! This is a FREE product consisting of different dot patterns. You flash one of the patterns on the board for 10 seconds then take it away. Then you have an open discussion of how many dots were there and how students came up with that number in their head. Kids have a lot of fun with this!!

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.

Write the rooms are such a fun and simple way to have your students practice a skill you are working on. All you need to do is print, laminate and hang the cards around the room and you have a fun interactive activity that gets your students up and moving! This write the room has 16 cards for students to practice identifying eve and odd numbers. They will walk around the room looking for each card. Once they find a card they must write they will write even or odd on their answer sheet to match e

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

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

Hello everyone! This pack is a full resource to use for your math workshop rotations. I was feeling very frazzeled with my old rotation procedures and I felt that my kids were not getting the learning they should. With this program students have choices and are able to work with all other students in the class, not just the same group of 5 or 6 students. The pack includes the following resources: 1. Introduction pages for each mathematician crew member 2. math center choice mats for each

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 includes 5 different place value centers for students to practice their place value skills. Each center is a different type of game that keeps the kiddos engaged and having fun. There is a recording sheet with each center for you to collect and check if you wish.

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!

This pack was made to help students who are struggling with subtraction with and without regrouping. The following items are included: 2 digit by 1 digit subtraction task cards Students simply walk around the room looking for each of the 32 task cards. They find them and solve each on their recording sheet. The Same As Game For this, students will solve the playing cards and decide which category the cards go under. Once they solve them they will decide if they are the same as any numbers b