Spring Cleaning

Hope you are all having a great week! We've been so busy with our families, but its been so nice to have the week off and actually RELAX!

Our first graders just LOVE math and literacy games and storage and organization have been an ongoing issue for us, until recently. Its taken a few months, but after some spring cleaning and organizing, we FINALLY feel that we are organized and have a system that works for our game storage.

We store all of our games in labels storage boxes. Our seasonal math and literacy game packs and our other math and literacy packs can be found in our TpT store.

We found some great storage boxes that hold our games perfectly. We've organized our games by month and have them

easily accessible with our other manipulatives.

We print our games on 8 1/2 X 11 cardstock and tuck the game boards and playing cards right inside storage baggies.

The little ones pieces that came with our place value manipulatives

work perfectly for playing pieces.

Our daily lessons in our new math program pretty much follow the same format everyday. After our students finish the "on my own" pieces, they can choose a math game, math flash cards, or go to a laptop and play one of the math games (our new math program has a FANTASTIC online component with games and virtual manipulatives).

If our first graders choose to

play a math game when they are done, they grab a game

(out if the choices that we've provided) off of the table along with a bowl of cubes. Then they find a place to play their game

with 2-3 others.

They take the cubes out of the bowls

and place the playing cards inside the bowls,

then grab a card (or 2 cards depending on the game)

from the bowl.

This routine works well for us and also allows us time to meet with small groups of students for extra math practice if needed.

Our first graders play our literacy games during Daily 5 as part of word work. The games are placed with our other word work materials and our kiddos can easily access them as well.

We just love how these games fit so nicely with all of our other

tubs & totes!

These labels that we've sized and outlined

to fit these boxes can be found {HERE}

Our April math journal prompts are up in our TpT store! Just click the picture below if you'd like to check them out!

We'll be back in a few days with an April word sort freebie!

Have a great rest of your week!

Clipart courtesy of Scrappin' Doodles