Katie Killen

This page is created to go along with the book "Pete The Cat And His 4 Groovy Buttons". My students love this story because it's silly - Pete keeps losing his buttons! It's a great story to use when teaching subtraction because Pete loses 1 button at a time. We read the story and then the kids get to make up their own Pete the cat and a number sentence about his buttons popping off! This page makes a great class book page, too.

This is a versatile game that children can play to practice adding and subtracting! -Print and laminate Dinosaur Domino Dash game board & game pieces (the baby dinosaurs on this page) - To play: Children can play this game in groups of 2-4. Each child picks a baby dino to be his/her game piece. Children take turns pulling one domino at a time out of a bag, and adding or subtracting (according to the teacher’s instructions) the two numbers of dots on the domino. Whatever the sum or difference is

This is a printable pocket chart activity where children must put numbers 1-20 in order, and then match the number words to the number symbols. Simply print, laminate, and cut!