Hey Friends! I’m so excited to be linking up with the amazing Mrs. Wills Kindergarten for some ideas to create an hands on math lesson! Hands On Ideas for Math One of my favorite ways to teach place value is with this old and trusted flip chart. My students EVERY YEAR love this thing. Every year, I say …
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Hey friends! I don’t know about y’all but the end is near! We have about 5 weeks left of school..FIVE! Seems like the year has just flown by. In today’s blog post, I wanted to share about math intervention activities. Math Intervention Tips I wanted to share with you some math interventions that really helped …
Hey friends! The past few weeks we’ve been working on counting money. I wanted to share a few strategies that really helped my kiddos! At the beginning of my money unit, I like to start out by introducing the coin value by using this printable read aloud! This way, I can model for my students through the …
Telling Time Activities for First Grade I wanted to  share some math strategies I found that really helped during our telling time unit.  My co-teachers and I found these tips really useful for teaching time in first grade. First graders often struggle with telling time, so I wanted to come up with a few different …
Hey friends. We are gearing up for Thanksgiving around our house tonight, but I thought I’d take a second to share with you some of the fun we’ve had in my first grade class working with maps ! Today I thought I’d share some ideas for teaching map skills for kids. Teaching Map Skills in …
The past two weeks we’ve been diving into teaching shapes and patterns! I tell ya, this is not my favorite math standard to teach. Just because it seems to be so easy and there’s only so many ways you can describe a shape!!! Maybe that’s just me 🙂 Nonetheless, here are a few ideas about …
Hey friends! We just finished week 5! Can’t believe it’s already half way through the first grading period! My life has been so full of meetings, planning, meetings, trainings, meetings..did I say MEETINGS?!? I am certainly glad the weekend is here 🙂 This post is all about guided math made easy! This week, I kicked …
Hey friends. I wanted to write a little bit about that first week of school. You know what I am talking about..that back to school time. In this post, I am going to share some back to school tips to help the rush. I’m kinda of *stressing out*. We officially go back August 20th…that’s not …
Hey friends! I wanted to take a minute to chat about our last few weeks! The last two weeks, we’ve done Cara Carroll’s Camping Unit! My kids LOVED this unit. I actually didn’t even get to my favorite part–the skunk creativity! I wanted to take this time to review all our writing traits that we’ve learned …
Hello! I wanted to stop and talk about how we managed word problems or story problems this school year. The end is near friends! We have about 15 days of school left! I’m currently in that review status..but I wanted to talk a little bit more about guided math and the benefits it has for …
So my husband has this hobby–it’s called HUNTING! He spend countless hours in the woods…tracking, preparing and hunting animals! His hobby costs a few bucks here and there!! Many ask me “Why do you let him do that”…well, friends, this is a marriage, I’m not keeping him hostage! But don’t think I don’t get something …