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.

 

ARE YOU READY FOR SOME BASEBALL?

When introducing our weekly words, we play a little baseball game.  

All students have a sheet in front of them with the Elkonin boxes

for each word.  I stand in the front of the classroom (probably looking

silly to anyone passing by our window), and I throw out the 

word like a baseball.  Students can either catch it or hit it.  Once

I shout out the word, then they say it as they catch/hit it.

Next I ask the students how many sounds they hear.  Then

I click on the baseball that the pitcher is holding, and the boxes appear

on our flipchart.  Next I have a student help me with

each sound.  Then they write it on their Elkonin sheet.

These words go home in their binder for the week.

The students love playing the game and it gives us time

to get those wiggles out so we can focus on our words.

I have these products as a bundle or in two week increments.  Each

week has over 50 pages of materials.  

I have over 20 pages of print and go activities,

center activities, home learning activities, word wall words, 

flash card words, assessments,  a powerpoint for each week, and the

flipchart for each week shown above.  

This is the only thing we use for our high frequency words and there is always

 more than enough to get through the week!

                  

GIVEAWAY

In support of Carol from Carol's Garden, I am participating in another giveaway.  You have the chance to win 20 great products given by several K-2 teachers.  There are also two other giveaways for 3-5 and Clipart.

My product is the SPOT THAT WORD game dealing

with word families at, it, ut, ot, et.

The Giveaway starts on January 30th and ends February 10th.

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1/12/14 Center Time

2 hours without my direct instruction has never been more difficult than this year.  I don't know if it is because I've been out of the 1st grade classroom for four years and I'm rusty, or if the kids need more engaging centers than what kept them interested four years ago.  So, I revamped once again...

I added Spot that Word to our free center, which truly helped.  Once I noticed that they liked fast, competitive games, I decided to add a few more to our list.

For this game, I just typed, printed, laminated,

cut, and made an envelope with our

weekly sentences.  The words go

into the envelope (I have two sets).  

Then students race to see which group can

build all the sentences the fastest.  

Only problem - it can get sort of

loud because they get so excited and

nervous.  It's cute!  These cut-up words are in

my Words to Know packets.  I have weeks 1-32.

To see if this is something you would like, I 

have week 19 as a FREEBIE in my TPT store.  

This is a number bond flashcard set where one

student is the teacher and the other two

students race to see who can say

the answer first.  This is great for

number bond practice.

The next two pictures show a game I created to help with

tally marks, ten and ones, and numerals.  The students

play battle with these cards.  At first, it was a little

hard because I put 0 - 99 in the deck.  So, you can

imagine what it's like with 99 tally marks!  Jeeze - what

was I thinking?!?  But, eventually they got it, and

now it's a popular game during centers.  I made these, but
I have not put them in my stores - I think I'll do these as a 
Fan Freebie once I figure out how to do that. :0

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I am so excited to be participating in my first GIVEAWAY with 12 other TPT creators, so I thought I'd give away my favorite product.   My SPOT THAT WORD games are a favorite in my classroom, and I just know once you download and print, your kiddos will feel the same way. I will give away a pack of three different games (1st or 2nd grade depending on your preference).  

Spot that Word is a game that helps students with high frequency words. There are 8 different words on each card, 55 cards, and 57 different sight words.  Each student has a stack of cards with one card in the middle.  The object of the game is to say the matching word that is on your card and the card in the middle the fastest.  THE COOL THING... there is only one matching word per card, and it is your job to find it.

My students absolutely love this game, and will pick going to this free center over IPads and Computers.  To see photos, Click Here.  Below is an example.

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