My students love to color, so I like to give them opportunities to use their crayons while doing a little extra thinking!
Place Value is SO important! The more you can play games and work with place value at home, the better. Here is a fun game to practice place value with your child. 
Continue reading “At Home with First Grade: 1 Fun Game for Place Value Practice”
Place value understanding is an important foundation for future success in math, so it is very important that early elementary teachers work frequently with these concepts.
What better way to practice then to play some games and have some fun?
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Riddle Race is a place value game where students work with several place value concepts (tens, ones, ten more, ten less, one more, one less) as they solve riddles and move along a game board. Continue reading “Place Value Games and Activities”
I love science. I was a biology major in college and I love sharing science with my elementary school students. Their excitement is contagious!
So when I heard there were new science standards coming, I took a look and my mind was blown.
I was SO confused! There were pages and pages of charts, tables, and appendices, explaining an intricate web of disciplinary core ideas, cross-cutting concepts, science and engineering practices…what?!?!?! 
This is a great routine to build number sense and mathematical fluency. It can be used as a daily or weekly activity to review the standards. My favorite part…it is really easy to implement
3 Simple Steps:
- Choose a number to be “Today’s Number.”
- Make copies or display for your students.
- That’s It!!!
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