Graphing:
M & M’s, buttons, favorites.Recreation
Graphing:
M & M’s, buttons, favorites.
Sorting/classifying:
Pattern blocks, assorted materials, buttons.
Venn Diagrams:
Use Lucky charms cereal, or pattern blocks.
Make
large Venn Diagrams on construction paper.
Laminate for continual use.
Classroom Picnic: Bring a
variety of picnic foods, such as pretzels, grapes, carrot sticks, raisins, etc.
Let the students take up to nine of four separate items on a paper plate.
Have them write addition problems with illustrations to go with their
food before they eat. Make the problems on paper plates. Display these in your classroom.
Number Sense: Games that promote number sense.
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Exploring a
Dozen
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100 Day
activities
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RACK-O game
(commercial)
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Mice-O game
(description included on Games Page)
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Skip-Bo game
(commercial)
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Sink or Swim
(description included on Games Page)
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Oddball
Addition/Subtraction:
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SWAT
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Egg head
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Submarine
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In the Cave
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Cereal
Abacus
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Classroom
Picnic (see recreation section)
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Four in a
Row (description included with Handouts)
Money:
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Use real
money for classroom counting practice. We
used 1-half dollar, 4-quarters, 10-dimes, 10-nickels, and 20-pennies. Our first grade gets a “loan” from the bank.
Each child gets their counting money on loan.
They return it to the bank when they are finished and get a tour of the
bank. Counting money is easier to
keep track of, if you use an ice cream pail lid to put your coins inside when
you are working with them on your desktop.
Ø
Bake Sale,
or Used Toy/Book sale is a good way to practice counting change.
Geometry:
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Make a
“creation” using one kind of shape for a Geometry Museum.
Ø Quilting—patterns, shapes, and quilt block-make paper ones, or get parent volunteers to come in and make real ones. A small wall hanging type quilt could display all of the basic shapes.