LOVING FACT FAMILIES

This year our parish has adopted the NY Engage math series, and even though our children are learning math in a different way- there are still some things that I know will help them along the way.  One thing is practicing fact families. So, I created a product that gives my kiddos some hands-on practice manipulating the numbers, and hopefully realizing that only certain numbers can be in the "house".  When we do fact families as a group, we always scream if someone (or me) puts a number in the fact family that should not be there. We scream, "STRANGER IN THE HOUSE".  I do it sometimes just because they love screaming in the classroom!

This freebie is used during center time.  The cards are to be printed with the answers on the back for self-checking capabilities.  Once your student places all the numbers in the correct place, they can turn the card over and check their work.  There are two house mats,  so two students can  put the task card in the center of the work mats and they can race to see who can build the two addition sentences and two subtraction sentences first. 

This freebie will be available on February 1st in an Ebook called "Lessons From the Heart".


                                     

                                                        

Click on the picture above to get your 
fact family freebie.

Click here to get Lessons from the Heart EBook.


To give you a sample of another teacher's product in our EBook Lessons from the Heart, Selma Dawani is offering a precious 1st grade Valentine's Day Classify and Categorize product.  This product gives students choice for categorizing their own ideas (teacher gives topic in a heart activity - SUPER CUTE),  as well as the topics below.  There are also several pages where students color the items that go together!  This packet is a great tool for differentiation.  Check it out in the link above.