Money money money!

Our last unit in Math is Personal Financial Literacy......Which I just call MONEY!  Even though we practice money all throughout the school year I hit it hard towards the end in a big unit.

"Shopaholic" is where the students choose two different items (newspaper clippings) and use double digit addition to find a total for the two items. (If you don't want them to carry over in their addition just make sure no digit is greater than 4 on your prices.)

This game was fun for the kids. They had a bag full of change and had to pinch some money out of the bag, then draw and count it. It was actually very challenging to just do a small pinch and not a handful!

Spill the cup is pretty simple. Each little cup #DollarTreeFind has a letter on the bottom and some change in it.  The students literally spill the cup, lol, and then draw and count the change.


The class favorite was "Scoot It" money version.  I got this from my coworker who used it in previous years at the second grade level but my students did GREAT!

They loved getting to move around the classroom and fill in the blanks on their page.

I don't think I had ever seen my kids work so well in partners as they did for this activity! #Win!

Easter Fun and Scavenger Hunt

More Easter and Math! Can you tell when I get my camera out most!

This year I did something a coworker had done at her previous school.  We had a Math "Scavenger" Easter egg hunt!

The morning of our Easter scavenger hunt we had a math review page to answer. Then I had enough eggs where each kid had to find one with the answer written on it. This blue egg is a greater than symbol! They kept saying "I found a 7! But there isn't a problem with a 7!"

This was a cute Easter writing prompt and craft one of my coworkers did.  Such a cute activity! Think it might go into our plans for next year!

Only in Texas can you find this kind of Easter basket! Haha!

Fraction fun!

We began our official study of fraction by exploring our Cuisenaire Rods (I can never spell that right!?)

We also used a little St. Patrick's Day fun to help us practice shaded parts out of a whole.

And nothing says March like Peeps and Easter!

This time of the year we are just reviewing constantly! 

Fabulous February Fun!

We did a little study on properties and characteristics using rocks as our observation. 

Then we jumped into our Valentine math tubs!

We also had a few special Valentine activities thrown into our "Word Work" station during Daily 5 rotations. The kiddos LOVED the Mystery Valentine sight word practice!

Here is one perk to having a student who's parents own a donut shop! Custom heart shaped donuts from Donutopia! And they were awesome!!!

 

This box of chocolates was given to me by a student- and this is the damage I did in one day!

Nothing like hands on with Judy Clocks! 

A little glimpse into my LLI guided reading group! They love word work! 

If you want to snag my valentine activities you can below!

First Grade Valentine Stations