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Positive Remarks Box – Establishing a Positive Classroom Environment

Positive Remarks Box – Establishing a Positive Classroom Environment

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Here’s a great way to help establish a positive classroom environment…a Positive Remarks box. I made this box many, many years ago out of an old shoebox which I decorated with construction paper and stickers. I then told my fourth grade students to be on the lookout for positive things their classmates did. When they saw one, they could write it on a little slip of paper and put it in the Positive Remarks box. To make it easy for…

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Pocket Chart Math – Memory with Dominoes

Pocket Chart Math – Memory with Dominoes

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Here’s a fun game I’ve played with kindergatners and first graders. It’s a twist on the Memory game where two cards are turned over and, if it’s a match, the cards go to that player. The one at the end with most cards is the winner. There are two ways I’ve played it. The first way is to have students match the total number of dots of both cards. The second way is to have students match a numeral card…

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Flower Pots in the Math Classroom – A Fun Project for PreK-1

Flower Pots in the Math Classroom – A Fun Project for PreK-1

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This fun hands-on activity is a great way to reinforce counting and develop number sense in preschoolers, kindergartners, and first graders. It’s best done in small groups of 4-5 students. The video below goes over the directions in detail and offers ideas for differentiation. Click here for the pdf version. Materials Needed: • 4” Flower pots, 1/student • Blackboard spray paint • Colored chalk • Hairspray • Wiggly eyes, 6/student • Popsicle sticks, 4/student • Die cut flowers, 3/student •…

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Teaching Fractions Using Money

Teaching Fractions Using Money

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Learning about fractions, parts of a whole, can be tough for a lot of kids. Finding a variety of ways to teach fractions will give them opportunities to think about and make sense of fractions. Using coins as fractional values of a dollar can be fun way to reinforce fraction concepts. I included the front and back faces (obverse and reverse) of each coin. If showing two faces for each coin confuses your child/student, just remove one of them. At…

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Shape Search with Binoculars

Shape Search with Binoculars

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Too fun! My niece and nephew, ages 3 1/2 and 22 months, have been visiting these last few days from Maryland. So, of course, I took the opportunity to weave in some math. One of the activities involved searching for shapes. To do that, we needed to make binoculars. It was a super easy project that involved toilet paper rolls, yarn, a hole punch, glue, and lots and lots of bling. I had the toilet paper rolls already glued together…

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