Enhancing Elementary

Hands on activity to teach students balanced equations. Students will create two number sentences that are equal using different colored squares and explain how they know the equations are equal/balanced.

Craft for students to review/practice identifying 2D shapes

Activity to teach students that shapes can go together to create other shapes/things (a shape is just a shape until...) Pairs perfectly with the book "The Shape of Things" by Dayle Ann Dodds Includes teacher example

10 More 10 Less Word Problems/Story Problems. Includes 7 word problems!

Desk name plates/ name tags with alphabet and number line to 30 in muted rainbow spots theme. Comes with black borders or rainbow borders.

Fun and creative way for students to practice place value! Students use base ten blocks to create any picture that they would like. After creating their picture, students count up their total value. Students write their number in standard form, expanded form, and word form, and identify how many hundreds, tens, and ones are in the number.

Ice cream themed place value matching puzzle. Students match standard form, tens and ones, base ten picture, and standard form. Includes 2 digit numbers.

Fun and meaningful way for students to practice skip counting by 2, 5, and 10. Students will draw a family portrait and skip count to find how many of different body parts that their families have in all.

Ice cream themed time matching puzzles! Students match digital clock to analog clock. Includes time to the hour (o'clock) and half hour (thirty).

Great and easy no-prep extension after learning about word problems. Students create their own word problem individually, in partners, or in groups. Then students fold down answer/number sentence and share their problem with the class. Have other classmates solve each others word problems.

To play 3D Shape Memory, students flip over cards and take turns trying to match the name of the 3D shape to the corresponding picture. Shapes included: Sphere, Pyramid, Cube, Cone, Cylinder, Rectangular Prism, Triangular Prism Black and white and colored versions are included

Fun challenge for the hundredth day of school! Students estimate how many times they can do different things in 100 seconds. Then students actually time themselves and see!