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Students will use paper clips and cubes to measure a variety of monsters. This is great practice for non-standard measurement.

The instructions for the game are as follows: Place 7 red/yellow chips in a cup. Shake the cup and spill them gently on the table. Count the number of red chips and yellow chips. Color in your paper to reflect these numbers. Write the number of chips next to the R for red or Y for yellow. All you need are red/yellow double sided chips, this recording sheet, crayons,and a cup! My kids love to play this game during math centers when we are learning about part, part, total/addition.

Students roll two dice together and add up the dots. They will get a sum and cover it up on the castle. This is great practice for addition and would make an awesome center. This is great practice for addition with 2 numbers.

Students roll 3 dice and add the numbers together. Students locate the sum on the game board and cover it. The student who covers their numbers first is the winner. This is a great math center to practice 3 addend addition.

Grab a box of cereal or two! Students can use these sheet to measure with non-standard units. This is also a great activity to leave with a sub while you are studying measurement. Students use the cereal to measure and then record the number of pieces they used next to the line.

These pages will help your students with the brainstorming or prewriting stage of their writing. These can be used to teach the writing process and make an excellent addition for informational writing on pumpkins. Students can use these to gather their ideas and organize their research.

Students will use number cards to create fact families. This is activity would be a great review or center for fact families.

This is a sample kindergarten weekly planner. I use this as an overview to guide my lesson planning. This can be altered to meet the needs of your classroom.

Copy star cards (on cardstock), laminate, and cut out. Students begin the activity with all of the star cards face down. One student will select two cards and flip them over. They will count the stars on each star card. The object of the game is to add the stars on the two cards together to get a total. The students can use the recording sheet on the top to record their answers. Copy the recording sheet front and back to make a possible math center last longer. Star cards and recording sheet

This a fact family snowman. Students can pick three numbers to write in his hat, draw a face, and then write matching facts on the other parts of his body.

This set includes number cards and matching sets. Students will match numerals with the coresponding set of whales.

Students roll two dice together and cover the sum. Students will practice their basic addition skills in this center.

This is a writing checklist or rubric that can be used with kindergarten or first grade students. The teacher or students can use this to assess writing. This can be adapted to your needs.

This is a guided reading response sheet that can be used with any group and with any book. It is quick and very basic. This can also be used as an assessment piece to document new words learned and main idea. There is a section to draw a picture to show what happened in the book as well as a place where students can write about their picture.

Students use a dice to generate 3 addends. They add those numbers together and find the sum. They will cover the sum on the game board.