Freebie for Place Value

My Freebie for the week for Classroom Freebies is a quick math center to practice place value, expanded form and base ten counting. You can get it here on Google Drive.

All the best,
Sarah

Balanced Equations and a Math Craftivity Freebie

This activity works well as a math center. I asked the children to pick a number between 10 and 20 to make their equations. We focused on addition but you could easily do subtraction or mixed facts what ever you feel your children need the most. After they wrote the equations to go with the number they chose, I had them to put that part of the lesson aside. Then I had them to color and cut out the stem and leaves and the flower. After they glued the pieces together they wrote their equations with vis-à-vis marker. We are going to take this lesson a step farther by making equation chains. Please visit again to see the other things we will be doing with balanced equations! You can download it from Google Drive here.

What Do You Love About Spring?

This is a wonderful freebie for place value study with Easter Bunnies. I'm going to put a couple in my math centers! Thanks so much to Primarily Inspired ABC
For oft, when on my couch I lie In vacant or in pensive mood, They flash upon that inward eye Which is the bliss of solitude; And then my heart with pleasure fills, And dances with the daffodils.

by William Wordsworth

Daffodils are one of my favorite things about spring. I love new the new leaves. Birds making nests and the refreshing newness of the world. What are your favorite things about spring?

Photo from here
These are lovely and would be easy to make with children. I think children will add some lovely fun and it would be a sweet gift.

A Cat with A Hat and Friends Math Centers

Well friends I am just totally crazy about what I have created for you all this week! Dr. Seuss' Birthday is coming up very soon and I wanted to celebrate with some new Math Centers. There is a missing addend match up game with 32 cards and 16 matches, a missing addend worksheet and a two digit addition worksheet for your class celebration! Everything is ready for you. You need to print, cut and copy! It is that simple. I am planning a celebration when I get to 100 followers on my blog and 200 likes on my facebook page! There will be a Target gift card and some goodies from my blogger friends! Join in the fun! Get your Cat with a A Hat Activities here!

Play Dough Tens and Ones and Self Made Word Sorts

Teaching tens and ones to first graders is always a bit tricky! You will think they have it! Then you ask them to apply it in a different way and oh my...it's time to reteach. This year I have been trying to get in a lot of variations for all kinds of learners. I love play dough and the kids love play dough so away we go with play dough for tens and ones. I simply had the children to roll ten tiny balls of play dough and then mash the ten tiny balls together to make one. They did this in math centers. The children enjoyed the activity and it gave them a concrete representation of the singles transitioning into one. The next time we do this I am going to have them decompose it after they put roll it into one. They will be happy to see play dough in the math centers. Who knew learning could be this fun?

We love using word sorts in our class. This week I had the honeys fold their own papers for the word sort. They wrote the words on the paper themselves and then cut it apart. We were learning about -ed and -ing endings. They had a word bank to choose from for the words. After they cut their words apart they found a partner and played a memory game matching the -ed to the -ing endings of the same word. They switched partners a couple of times and they loved it. I was really proud of how well they worked together. We are going to do another self made sort this week with contractions.

Freebie Two Digit Addition for Valentine's Day and a Buzzing Bee

I have been exploring some new ways to make activities and looking for some more black line art. I love color and I print my non-consumable centers in color and on card stock whenever possible but there are certain types of activities that are just better in black and white...not to mention the savings in ink. I wanted to share two sheets I put together for two digit addition. It seems like a lot of first graders are working on this skill now.

You can get your freebie here on google drive. I would love some comments on what products you use most black and white, color or a mix of the two?

St. Patrick's Day Math Freebie and a Cutie! Can you resist??

I hope you will enjoy these two free math centers. One is for St. Patrick's Day and one is a use anytime math center with a transportation theme. The St. Patrick's Day game is a -1 game and the transportation one is a +1. The highest number is 20 in both games. They are both in the same file. One of my favorite books for St.Patrick's Day is Jamie O'Rourke and the Big Potato by. Tomie DePaola. Follow or check back for some activities to go along with this book. You can get your freebie here. Now for the cutie. My daughter adopted this sweet puppy. I hope two freebies and a cutie will get your week started off right. Introducing my fur baby, Rivers, with my daughter, Emily! Enjoy your your week!

The Mitten Math and Literacy Freebie

Hi everyone I hope you have had a great week. I had the wonderful good fortune to be a featured writer at The Curriculum Corner Jill and Cathy have some wonderful ideas so please check them out! I shared a sampler unit for The Mitten. There are two math centers and two literacy centers. You can find them here This is what the freebie looks like. You are getting a ten page file!

You can also get the unit from Google Drive Here.

We are expecting wintry weather here in North Carolina again. The second Friday in a row. The neat thing is may have more thunder snow. It was really weird last week hearing the thunder and seeing the lightening everything was so bright! Enjoy your weekend! Sarah

Peace Love and Learning Martin Luther King and Anti Bullying Unit

I have posted my first large unit on Teachers Pay Teachers. It is called Peace, Love and Learning. I'm really excited about it! It includes anti bullying resources, Martin Luther King Jr. Day Activities, Friendship Activities, math centers, technology resources and more!! I have put a lot of effort into this unit and I am planning on adding more to it. There are 61 pages of resources for you to use. The first ten people who comment will have their names entered into a drawing for a free copy of the unit. Peace, Love and Learning to you all!

The Mitten A Math Bump It! Game

I have been begging, pleading and even whining for some snow here in Greensboro, North Carolina. Snow is a fickle thing in our area. One year we could have three huge snows and then no snow for a year. On the last day of school also the first day of winter we had snow flurries! Of course the kids went bonkers!! I never miss an opportunity for authentic learning so we grabbed our coats and out the door we went. The children were thrilled and so was I. When you teach little ones you have to remember that any opportunity could be the first experience for learning about something. We really don't get tired of snow or least I don't. The only time we are truly bummed out is when we miss a lot of school and we are still in class near the middle of June. Right now we are not thinking about that and we just want some snow for sledding, making snow cream and building snowmen. Since I have snow on the brain I created this math game to go with the story The Mitten. You can download the game at my Teachers Pay Teachers Store I hope you enjoy this free math game and think snow! If you do not have an account at Teachers Pay Teachers email me at idreamoffirstgrade@aol.com and put Mitten Bump It in the subject line! I will email you a copy.

Reindeer Freebie Bump It Math Game

In case you were not able to grab it last week here is my Reindeer Bump It Math Freebie. The children played it today in Math Centers and loved it!

Math Center Reindeer Bump It! First Grade and Kindergarten

I have been super busy this week. Our family helped our daughter's high school with the performance of "Charlotte's Web" I am super proud of my daughter, Olivia, who did all of the costumes! She is usually on stage so it was great to see her working in a different area. I am working on curriculum writing for our county and I haven't even put up the tree. I need to get a little busier I think! I wanted something new and festive for my math centers this week so I created this Reindeer Bump It game. I hope you all can use with your children!

Math Center Freebie Hootin for the Holidays Dice Roll

Enjoy this freebie. You will receive two dice roll game boards. One for three dice and one for two dice. You can differentiate as needed. These may be played individually or in pairs. The choice is yours. The games meet common core standards for kindergarten and first grade. The children will love these activities in your math centers.Hootin for the Holiday. Please check out my Reindeer Games Math Centers in my Teachers Pay Teachers Store. There are eight math centers ready to use in your classroom.

Ten Frame Freebie Hootin' Holiday Fun Math Center

Enjoy this freebie for your math centers. It addresses Common Core Math Standards K.OA.1 K.OA.5 and 1.OA.1 The honeys in my class enjoy these roll and cover math games. It game will help with visual memory of ten frames as well as counting and adding. You will need two dice to play the game.