Planning For Place Value

Even though we've still got a few more months before we return, lesson planning is still on our minds!  One chapter in our math program that we feel our kiddos often need extra support in is place value.  If you're looking for some ideas then this is the post for you!  We can't wait to share a few new products we've created, an idea that's all over Pinterest with a freebie we created to go with it, and some great interactive websites that we're sure will be a hit with our new first graders in the fall!   

Here's one of our newest additions to our 

Teachers pay Teachers Store:

 Just click the title below if you'd like to check it out!
Place Value Numbers 10-19

This place value set focuses on numbers 10-19.  There are 6 different worksheets.  Each worksheet has two versions.  There are also two games and six blank masters.

Just click below to check out this game!

Place Value Number Match

This place value game focuses on numbers 10-19 

and is also great extra practice for your students. 

Students place the cards in three piles: numbers, tens frames, and cubes.  Then they match the correct three cards together.

After all of the cards have been matched, students recored their matches on the worksheet.  See example above.

 Here's a a place value activity that we've seen all over Pinterest.  

We're excited to try with our new first graders.  

 My Second Grade Journal has a great tutorial on making these {HERE}

 We'll begin by just focusing on tens and ones.  First we'll have our kiddos move their cups and position two numbers side by side.

Then we'll have them pull the cups slightly apart to show the numbers and plus symbol.  We'll explain that five tens is 50 and then you add eight ones to the 50. 

Then we'll have them push the cups back together and explain that that's the sum.  50+8 is 58!

 Here's another example just using one hundred.  This will definitely be added once our kiddos have a firm grasp on tens and ones.  

We wrote hundreds, tens, and ones on the bottoms of the cups for organization.  We'll explain to our kiddos to place the hundreds cup down, then tens, and finally ones on top (we'll probably repeat hundreds, tens, and ones several times to help them remember the order :)  

Hoping this will help keep the cups in the right spot!

If you're wanting to go past 199, here's a picture showing a cup with 100-900.

We thought it would be nice to have a recording sheet for this little activity, so we created a little freebie that we'd love to share with you all!  

Adding in Expanded Form

Adding in Expanded Form

There are two sheets.  The first one with two addends if you're just focusing on tens and ones.  The second one is for three addends if you're also focusing on hundred.  You can click below either of the pictures above if you'd like a copy!

Finally, we wanted to share some great interactive games.  We can't wait to play these with our kiddos using our SMART Boards!  

We just LOVE ABCYA.com!  

They have a great Base Ten Bingo game that can be found {HERE}

They also have another great place value game, Base Ten Fun, that can be found {HERE}

At another site, Birmingham Grid for Learning, we found a Bead Numbers activity where students can create numbers using beads that represent hundreds, tens, and ones.  You can have the computer create questions for you, or you can select free and create your own numbers.
This game can be found {HERE}.

ict games has a fun Shark Pool Place Value game where your students can practice with tens and ones.  It can be found {HERE}.

We hope you have found some helpful ideas and wish you all a wonderful rest of your week!

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Happy Summer!

Happy Summer!

WOW, we've had a busy yet fun 2012-2013 school year and 

We are just thrilled that we have a few months off for some much needed rest and family time!  

We hope you're all enjoying your summer as well, and we've got lots to share with you.  Plus, as a kick off to summer, we're giving one lucky follower a $30 shopping spree in our Teachers Pay Teachers Store!   But first before we fill you in on this giveaway, we'd like to show you some of our newest products that we've added to our store!

We've added six different paper practice/word work activities that can easily be incorporated into your literacy centers.  Each set contains 30+ worksheets!   These worksheets work well with Treasures, our newest reading program, but if you teach first grade high frequency words then you will love these practice pages for your students.  They give great practice and are perfect for students to work independently in centers.  Just click the title above each pic below and you can head over to our store and check them out!

Spin a Sight Word
Students use a plastic spinner (or pencil and paper clip), and write the word they land on.

Rainbow Words
Students simply read, trace, and write the words in rainbow color in order to help them memorize these words

Write a Rainbow
Students practice writing the words in different rainbow colors in 
order to help them memorize the words.

Roll a Sight Word
Students roll a dice, and write the corresponding word.

Word Boxes
Students use the letter boxes to write the words.

Read Write Build
Students use the letters to cut and paste while creating their words.

At the end of each set  is a list of high frequency words that are incorporated into each word work set.

Another newest addition to out TpT store is our 

Common Core Math Vocabulary Cards.

 Included are 100 math vocabulary word cards, with both definition and pictures. These cards are great for focus walls, vocab and word walls, and reinforcement of those concepts that our first graders must know.   Just click the pic below and you can check this handy little set out!

 

Now onto our little giveaway!  

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 Our giveaway ends on Monday, July 1st at 5:00 (PST).  

We will choose one winner who will choose $30 total in free products from our store.   

Winner will be chosen using RANDOM.org and the winner will be announced shortly after the giveaway ends!

Thanks for stopping by!

Fraction Freebie

We just ended our math unit on fractions and found an activity that's all over Pinterest, Pizza Fractions! Our kiddos had a blast creating their pizzas.  Our kids colored their paper plates brown (crust), added some red (sauce) and some orange and yellow (cheese).  Next they decided if they wanted their pizzas divided into halves or fourths.  Then they chose their toppings.  We had a chart posted (see pic below) of the toppings they could choose from.  We also had scrap paper available for the students to cut out their toppings from.  

Here are a few!

After they created their pizzas, they wrote about their Pizza Fractions and glued their papers on the back of their black construction paper.

If their pizza was divided into fourths, they used the paper that had four fraction/topping lines.  If it was divided into halves, they used the paper that had two fraction/topping lines.

If you'd like a copy of the paper our first graders wrote on, just click the picture below! 

Hope you all have a wonderful week!

Rainbow Fun

We've just ended our weather unit and thought we'd share our rainbow activity we did!

We began by reading a few books about rainbows.  

Here's a cute Sid the Science Kid Rainbow Song that helps kids remember the colors of the rainbow and gives a brief explanation on how rainbows are formed.

After reading about rainbows, we had our first graders complete a shared writing with us.  

Next we really wanted our kiddos to understand the sequence of how rainbows are formed.  We divided our kids into groups of three and gave them sentence strips with the words first, next, and finally written on them.  We also gave each group a card with a picture of rain, the sun, and a rainbow.  Each child in the group chose a picture card.  Next, the groups put their words in order and each took a turn telling a part of the sequence.  We had the kids switch picture cards and say the sequence two more times so they each got a turn with all three picture cards.  If you'd like a copy of the sequencing cards just click below!

Rainbow Sequence Cards

 Here's a cute rainbow art project our kids completed after learning about rainbows.  We gave them pre-cut tissue paper squares.  Since our rainbow had six sections we encouraged them to make a tiny row of blue and then a tiny row of indigo in the fifth section (see in the picture on the top right below).  

Just click below if you'd like a copy of the rainbow we used.  We enlarged it to fit a 9x12.

Rainbow Art

We also thought we'd share a fun cloud lesson we recently found!  If you are learning about clouds in your classroom, have a SMART Board, and are familiar with the SMART Exchange website, below is a fun interactive cloud lesson focusing on the three main types of clouds.  Our kids just LOVED the lesson!

SMART Board Cloud lesson from SAMRT Exchange

Wishing you all a FABULOUS rest of the week!

Earth Day Unit Update

We just wanted to let you all know that we've updated our Earth Day Unit!  If you've already purchased this unit, please re-download so you can get our pack with all our new updates!  We've updated the fonts and clipart, and changed the format to many if the activities.  

Here's a peek at some of the changes:

If you'd like to take a peek at our Earth Day Unit, you can check it out {HERE}

We'll be back tomorrow with some rainbow freebies!  

Catchin' up with some freebies!

So who's ready for Spring Break?  We definitely are, and it's starting to finally feel a little like Spring around here!  We're looking forward to some much needed family time.
We've been busy in our neck of the woods and we thought we'd share a few freebies that you might be able to still use, or tuck away for next year.

Even though you're all probably all done with your 100th day celebrations, we thought we'd give you a little freebie that you can tuck away for next year.  Here's a mini 100th day pack:

Our kiddos had so much ful making the poster that's in this pack.  We enlarged it to 8 1/2 x 14 (legal). Here's a picture of an (almost) completed poster:

Download our 100th Day Mini Unit {HERE} in our TpT store!

We just finished our graphing unit in math and created a few extras to go with it.
If you'd like some extra picture and bar graph practice worksheets, you can download them {HERE}

Here's a few Easter themed addition worksheets that you might be able to use next week.

We created the Easter Egg double digit worksheet because we just can't find many worksheets that help  our first graders add double digit numbers without regrouping.  

With the Easter Egg Fact Family worksheet just have your kiddos roll two dice, add the numbers together, and then finish the fact family using the two addends and sum.  We used Dice in Dice, which our kiddos just love!  Here's a little close up of the Easter Egg Fact Family worksheet:

Both worksheets can be downloaded {HERE}

Have a wonderful week!