Hello friends! Hopefully, all of you have summer in your sights, if not already like me and wishing time would tic by {that is except this week!} I have so much on my mind right now that I felt like being lazy and not getting this post up, but I pulled it together! We had our IVF … [Read more...]
Number Sense Routines Book Study: Chapter One
Hi friends! I hope you are enjoying your Summer or getting close to it :) I am very excited to get this book study started. I am totally new to this so stick with me!Chapter OneThis chapter starts with an example of four children working through a mathematical problem, … [Read more...]
Summer Book Study! Number Sense Routines
I'm exited for my first Summer book study! I will be looking at the book, Number Sense Routines. The book is written by Jessica Shumway. I was lucky enough to be introduced to this book by my literacy coach this past year. We had the opportunity to learn and practice a lot of the … [Read more...]
What’s under the bowl? {and a freebie}
This week we wrapped up our subtraction unit with some fun hands-on games! This little easily to implement game needs only; recording sheets, bowls or cups, snap cubes {or any other small manipulative}. How to play: Students get a set number of snap cubes {we were … [Read more...]
Teaching Subtraction to the Common Core in Kindergarten!
Hello! Hello! This past week we started out unit in subtraction. I'm not sure about your little ones, but ours go straight from addition to subtraction! Some do well with the swift transition but others are still building a solid foundation in addition, so subtraction is some … [Read more...]
Count & Write to 100!
Hi friends! I hope you're having some nice weather this weekend! For some reason the nice weather just seems to make my weekend even better! :) This past week my students and I embarked on a new journey- - writing to 100! Okay, okay....writing to 100 what's new … [Read more...]
Addition Fun!
Hi friends! I will be emailing the 5 giveaway winners shortly! I've had so much fun with the giveaways, but now I have a lot to share with you about all I've been up to in the classroom!This past week we worked with our Dice in Dice for addition! The kids absolutely loved them of … [Read more...]
Bring on Spring- – Week of Giveaways 1 &2 !
It's time to bring on Spring!It seems like we either have nothing going on in life or a whole bunch of "stuff!" Currently I'm only in the middle of a fertility cycle which consists of: shots, scans, blood work, and 2 hour round trips to the Dr. We also placed an offer on … [Read more...]
More on Addition!
Even after 124 days of school this year I am still amazed at what these little ones are capable of! We've been having a blast diving in to our addition work! We began our addition unit last week and are now getting into the real "fun stuff!" We took a moment in our math lesson to … [Read more...]