Alright, a new year and a new resolution...Beef up Math Centers!
After a trip to Michael's where anything with a snowflake
is 60% percent off, I started to get busy.
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| 89 cents a bag! |
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| This was app. $1.00. It could have been less, I was getting tunnel vision thinking of all the possibilities at this point! (I can't find my receipt now to say for certain...) |
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| I scanned the snowflakes that I wanted to use. |
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| I taped the pictures of the coordinating snowflakes in the craft divider along with the scripts. |
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| The Snowflake Sort labels. |
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| Using clipart, I made a cover. I will duplicate this process with three other craft dividers using the different snowflakes that came in the package. I want at least four Sorting Sets so that each child in a group can have their own. |
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| I will cut these into half sheets and have them at the Sorting Center . |
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| As another sorting activity, I will have the children graph the number of snowflakes in their container. I will use index card file boxes for the snowflakes in this activity. |
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| Another Sort and Classify game using snowflakes in a file box along with this sheet and the sorting page below. |
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| You should be able to click onto any of these worksheets to print. |
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| I also found these mitten shapes for 89 cents a bag! These are the mittens that will be used to measure objects around the room. |
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| After reading The Mitten, we will have a lot of literacy activities to go along with the book. I also wanted some math games to coordinate with the story. We are going to practice counting by two's using these mittens and clipping them onto our "clothesline". |
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| So cute! I found all of these mittens in the Dollar Spot at Target. Woohoo! I will give each student one mitten and they will need to find their "mate". Once they do, they will clip them to the clothesline together. I will have a running chart underneath the clothesline for us to record our numbers in two's. |
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| I will use this as a follow up activity to our Mitten Match. |
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| A one-to-one correspondence practice page to use with a file box of snowflakes. |
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| Patterning... |
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| Addition number sentences making groups of five. |
I just found your blog and I love all the ideas! Thanks for providing such a great resource for other educators. :) I'm adding you to my inspiration list right now!
ReplyDeleteThank you Marlana! I appreciate the comment, I'm still fairly new to blogging and am having a great time sharing!
ReplyDeleteI was able to find the snowflakes and just love your ideas, thank you.
ReplyDeleteThank you Sandra! I used the Snowflake Sort activity in my rotation this week and made a few tweaks. It will help tremendously to have small number cards, tiles or markers of some sort for the children to mark the number of snowflakes in each sort. I will blog and show how I fixed this in class. I will post tomorrow with some photos.
ReplyDeleteThanks, again,
Julie