Pulling Teeth!

Tomorrow is my day to share on The Primary Pack and I wanted to share some dental health fun!  There are tons of easy, hands on activities to explore teeth.  Here is a sneak peak!

Today, I wanted to share my newest play dough pack.  It may be my favorite yet!  There are so many ways to use teeth, toothbrushes, and tongs to bring math concepts to life. 

 Use manipulatives to represent different math concepts.

Here are a few of the different manipulatives that we used to represent teeth.

Students can choose a card and use manipulatives to represent a numerals,

 the amount on a ten frame, the amount of tally marks,

and to represent a subtraction equation.

You can also use a dry erase marker to draw the total number of germs on the tooth.

 Students will then use an old toothbrush to "brush away" the germs.

 It is a great way to visually and physically demonstrate subtraction.

 Students will then identify the number of germs that are left on the tooth.

Students can also use the mats to demonstrate one-to-one correspondence.

You can check out my dental health packs here.

Interactive Play Dough Mats: Bubbles!

 

Kids love working with play dough!  It makes practice with any skill turn into a game!  I have a bunch of different themed play dough packs, but my daughter requested a set of bubble play dough mats.  I decided on a bubble bath pack!  You pick it up here.

 

There are two components to each set of centers:
Interactive Play Dough Mats
Students will draw cards with numerals, ten frames, or addition sentences. Students will create play dough on their mat to represent the numeral, numbers on the ten frame or addition sentence. Students will complete an extension worksheet after using this center. Extension worksheets include: counting and writing the numeral, drawing the correct number of themed objects when give a number, drawing the correct number of themed objects when given a ten frame.

 

Use manipulatives, dry erase markers, or play dough to represent the numerals, ten frames, or addition sentences.

Ten Frames and Numerals 

Addition Skills

There are bunches of prinatbles that can be used in a center, or as an extension activity.  The printables will reinforce the skills that students practice with the play dough mats.

Interactive Play Dough Mats with Numerals
Students will identify numerals and add the correct number of themed manipulatives, or use play dough. Complete extension activities in representing a number of objects with a written numeral, use one-to-one correspondence to count out a specific number of objects and draw a pictorial representation of those objects, and trace and write numerals 1-10.

Use manipulatives to trace the numerals.  Students will count out the same number of ducks.

 Students can use a dry erase marker to trace the numeral. 

 Students can count out the duck manipulatives to represent the number.

 Students can use play dough to create the numeral.  This is great for tactile and kinesthetic learners.  They can build the numeral and trace the numeral.  

Students can also use play dough to create the same number of ducks or bubbles.

 There are tons of printables to extend their learning!

Tons of fun!

Have the students color in the ducks, as they count each one.  This will help with one-to-one correspondence.

 A bunch of choices for tracing and writing numerals 1-10.

Hope you enjoy this pack!  I am giving one away tomorrow morning.  You can leave a comment here for a chance to win!  Have a great weekend!  You can pick up the pack, here, for 50% off for the next 48 hours.


Get Up and Move!!

We are in winter now and it is cold outside!!  As the weather gets colder, sometimes recess and outdoor play is limited.  As a parent and teacher, I know that kids need movement.  They concentrate and learn better when they are able to use their muscles and move around.  What better way to encourage movement, than to include it in your regular teaching routine.  Students don't even realize that they are learning when they are able to move and "play" around the room. 

So some teacher friends and I have teamed up to load you up with resources to make teaching a bit easier!  We've included tons of resources that pair movement with learning and fun.  Grab hold of student's attention with these engaging games and activities!!

 

I have two of my resources in the pack.  They are perfect for winter math!  One of my favorites is Snowball Addition!  There is a variety of centers and games to get your students interacting with numbers.  One of my favorite parts of this pack is the student made number line.  You print out the snowballs and have students create a number line on your floor.  It gets them invested in the number line.

I also provide "focus wands" to get the students to narrow their focus to individual numbers on the number line.  These are easy to make and use. 

There are individual number lines and a large class number line.  This allows students to follow along on their own personal number line.  You can work on addition, greater and less than with these number lines.  I used them with a preschooler, first grader, and second grader.  It was very easy to differentiate for each of their needs.

Here is a student "knocking on" the larger number and counting on.  It helps those kinesthetic learners to physically count on from the larger number.

We played WAR with the numeral cards.  This is great for understanding greater and less than, but still has the novelty of a game.  Moving the focus wand along the number line really helps visual and kinesthetic learners.  They are able to see the physical distance between two numbers and to actually move their focus wands forward or backward.

 We also played WAR (or had a snowball fight, as my kids called it) with addition cards.  Each player flipped over a card, moved their focus wand along the number line to add the two numbers, and determined who had the largest sum.  Great fun!

There is a set of snowball mats included in the pack.  Students will practice addition sentences with, or without, manipulatives.  Students will add sums to 10, sums of 10, doubles, and sums to 20.  We used the snowflake manipulatives that are included, as well as marshmallows.  Can you guess which was the favorite???

 Students will also be able to practice working with missing addends.  Again, there are four different sets of mats: sums to 10, sums of 10, doubles, and sums to 20.  You can differentiate for your students' abilities.

There are also a bunch of Roll & Cover games.  There are three different options.  Choose the one game boards that are appropriate for your students.  I include adding 2 dice.  Students will roll the dice, add the two numbers together, search for the sum, cover the sum if they have it.  First person to cover all their snowballs, wins the snowball fight!

Students can also work on adding doubles.  They will roll one die and add it to itself.

 The last option is rolling 3 dice.  Students can use their number lines to add all the numbers together.

I also have another great pack for getting kids up and moving!  Let's Get Hopping is such a fun way to explore skip counting.  You can check out Emmy Mac's post!  I want to be in her class :)

 

I hope your kids love these activities as much as mine do!  It's great to get them up and moving AND learning!!

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Includes 9 instant downloads and 532 pages of materials including centers, printables, author studies, crafts, lap books, and much, much more.

Academic Concepts Covered

addition to 20

missing addends

number lines

adding doubles

skip counting

subtraction to 10

2D shapes

patterns

story elements

sight words

decoding CVC words

writing

 

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