Place Value

The beginning of this school year has FLOWN by! I haven't forgotten to upload photos, it's just taken me a while to get them edited! Here are some of the things your kiddos have been working on the first couple weeks of school ...

The first day of school, we took a place value pre-test. The kids had 10 questions at their desks, and 10 questions that they had to find around the room.

We practiced place value in lots of different ways, but one of the most fun was the dice game we played. The kids each got 3 dice and 1 note card that they folded into thirds. Then, they worked with their shoulder partners to make a place value board that went from the ones place the to the hundred thousands place. They rolled their dice, and used the 6 dice to make a number that was either the greatest or least out of those dice based on what I called out. They showed AWESOME teamwork skills!

Week 2, we started math stations! Thursday and Friday the kids switched to 4 different stations. Each of their stations was 20 minutes each.

At my table, we did a 5 question quick check, then played a coin and amount matching game. The kids looked at the amounts that were on the table, and matched the mixed coin cards that were in their hands to the amounts. If they were right, they got another one.

At another station, the kids split their time in half between computers and matching addition and subtraction sentences.

At a third station, the kids worked on an independent place value assessment. Since we've been practicing using our cubby boxes as offices, they put them up all the time.

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Keep practicing those place values up to the hundred thousands place and mixed money! Practice makes perfect! Math Playground has some games that are sorted by grade and topic.

Here are a few money and place value games:

Puzzle Pics Money

Dolphin Dash Money

Zogs and Monsters

Making Change

Pop Penguin and The Place Value Race

Place Value

See ya next week for more math class work and stations!

Happy 100th Day of School!

The 100th Day of School went by SUPER FAST! It felt like we only had 100 minutes to get everything done ... and we still didn't finish! 

We started off the morning by going on a hidden picture scavenger hunt. We walked around the school and found numbers that told us what color to color them on our hundreds chart.

After we got finished with our scavenger hunt (which took a little over an hour), we read a book about the 100th Day of School and went to lunch.

After lunch we started our gumball words and stations. We started off by writing 20 words, then headed over to stations. We took a break in between each set of stations and came up with 20 new words until we got to 100!

By the end of the day, here's what our list of words looked like!

At their first station of the day, the kids matched Hershey kisses that had number stickers on the bottom to where they went on our hundreds chart.

At their second station of the day, the kids dug through sand to find 100 pennies so they could build a dollar!

At their third station, the kids rolled dice and added on those amounts until they got to 100!

At their last station, the kids colored their 100th Day crowns (which we will have to finish later in the week since only 2 kiddos got them done. We needed another hour of school today!)

At the end of the day we attempted to get through our 100 Fruit Loop necklaces. Some of the kids got pretty close!