Skipping Turkeys -- Freebie

I have so much to be thankful for. Sometimes it's hard to narrow it down to just one item for a post.

 Not today.

 I am thankful that the call to our local high school last Friday saying there was a gunman in the cafeteria was only a prank. I am thankful that none of my friends who work at SCHS or attend school there were injured. I am thankful that our local law enforcement and school district personnel responded so quickly. I am hopeful that others who might consider playing such a prank in the future have learned how fearful the parents and family members of those at the school felt, not knowing if their family members and friends were safe.

I am just thankful.

Now for your freebie…

These turkeys are skipping around! Your kiddos have to figure out the counting pattern and sort them under the correct heading.

Just click on the pic above to get your freebie.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Ouch!

Put a trip to The Dollar Tree on your To Do list this summer. You can usually get two packs of regular playing cards for $1.00. You can use them to address lots of the Common Core standards.

Here's a fun game called "Ouch" that uses playing cards for your math stations.

Run off the directions and standards, add a pack of cards, and you have a station you can use throughout the year.

Just click on the pic above to get the file.

I also like these Jumbo Sized cards that are just large enough to use if you want to play the game with your whole class divided into two teams, yet small enough that they won't take up all your board space.  Attach magnetic dots to the back and use them on your white board.

Don't forget to enter my giveaway for the Center Solutions Task Cards and Thinking Mats! Click {HERE} to enter! It ends tonight at midnight!

Skip Counting with Penguin Pals - Freebie!

We've been practicing skip counting out loud all year long during our calendar time, but my kiddos are having trouble applying it on paper!

I'm bridging the process with this game.

Just click on the link above to get the file. ...

and be a pal and leave me a comment!

If you like the game, check out the rest of the packet in my Teachers Notebook Shop. Just click on the link to to the right.

Holly at Fourth Grade Flipper is having a giveaway to celebrate reaching 300 followers. Click on her button below to enter to win some awesome prizes.

Halloween Fact Families - Freebie!

Since my kiddos have to be fluent with all addition and subtraction facts through twenty by the end of the year, we have been working with fact families a lot. Hand out the cards and get your kiddos to write the addition and subtraction facts for each family.

Click on the pic above to download the activity.

Fact Families

Our school is lucky to have a grant that provides fruits and veggies as snacks for our children throughout the week.

We don't think we are so lucky when it's broccoli day and our kids cram the broccoli in their desks and it sits overnight.

Imagine the smell.

Go ahead. Imagine it.

So to kill two birds with one stone, we used shaving cream to practice our addition and subtraction fact families.

I squirted the shaving cream on the kids' desks and called out three numbers in a fact family. They wrote the addition and subtraction facts in the shaving cream.

The bonus was that the smell of the shaving cream  helped get rid of that terrible, terrible rotten broccoli smell. 

I hate broccoli snack day.

Fact Family Dominoes - Freebie

We are beginning our work with addition and subtraction this week by starting off with fact families. I love using dominoes in my math stations, so I made this worksheet to make students accountable for their work. 

They draw a domino and use the two numbers to make all the math facts for the two numbers represented on the domino.

Just click on the pic above to download the worksheet.

And please leave a comment if you use this sheet. I love reading how you adapt my posts for your own classrooms.

Swinging Numbers - Freebie

Partners can practice this game in a Math station. Print out the cards and directions and give them some paper to record their answers. 

Just click on the link above to download the file.

Jack's Magic Beans - Freebie

I bought some of the clear acrylic trays divided into three compartments from Dollar Tree this summer. I added stick-on letters to label each compartment either H, T, or O. 

I'm putting the trays into a Math station with these directions for some fun place value practice. 

Students can play with a partner or alone. They toss beans into the tray and tally up the number of beans that land in each compartment. They record the number they make in standard and expanded form.

Just click on either of the pics above to download the directions and recording sheet.

Let me know if your kids like it!

Place Value Beat It! - Freebie Game with Dice - and TBA Room Tours

Grab two dice and throw them in a Math station with these directions for a quick and easy activity to reinforce place value.

Just click on the pic above to download the directions.

The authors on Teaching Blog Addict are doing a tour of rooms today, so I'm linking up. Click {HERE} for part one of my room tour and {HERE} for part two. Hope you see something you like.

Comparing Numbers - Freebie

Here's a jam-packed freebie for you! Use the cards to compare different forms of numbers with the greater than, less than, and equal cards, match the different representations of numbers, arrange the cards in order.....

Click {HERE} for a black and white version of the activity.

What other ideas can you come up with?  Leave a comment and share your idea!

Representing Numbers - Freebie

Here is a whole group activity to practice representing numbers in different ways. Students match up four different ways of representing numbers. As an extension, let all the students with expanded form line up in ascending order, all the students with place value models line up, etc.

Just click on the pic above to download the file.

Skip Counting Racetrack -- Freebie!

Common Core requires second graders to skip-count by 5s, 10s, and 100s.

My kids loved practicing on this racetrack game.

Click on the pic above to get the game.

.....and please leave me a winning comment!

Cats, Cats, Cats! - Freebie

I've been catching up on email, posting, and blogging this weekend. I was sur---prised when I opened my inbox and found an invite from Teaching Blog Addict to be an author for their site! Surprised doesn't really cover it.....thrilled....ecstatic..nervous....mostly nervous!
If you haven't been to their site yet (but I bet you have!), then go now and I guarantee you will find something you like!


To celebrate, here is some help getting your second graders to meet the Common Core Standard of mentally adding and subtracting ten or one hundred from numbers up to 900. 

Click on the pic above to download the doc.

Skip Counting Frogs - Freebie!

Common Core standards require second graders to gain an understanding of place value by skip counting by fives, tens, and hundreds within 1,000.

Click on the pic above to download the doc.....and don't skip the comment!

Ice Cream Place Value -- Freebie

Practice place value of numbers up to 1,000 with this sweet treat of an activity. Students build ice cream treats based on place value.

Click on the pic above to download the doc.

Boat Race! - Freebie

Be the first to get your boat to the lighthouse in this practice activity based on the third grade Common Core standard of multiplying whole numbers by multiples of ten.

Click on the picture above to access the doc.....and be the first to leave a comment!

Ship Shape Tens - Freebie

This activity is based on the Common Core standard that requires third graders to multiply whole numbers  by multiples of ten. 

Click on the above pic to access the doc.....and please leave a ship-shape comment!

It's Raining Facts! -- Freebie

I guess you can tell I've been on a Math kick AND a KPMDoodles.com kick. I L.O.V.E. her graphics!

This activity is adding practice to help our second graders get that addition fluency they must have by the end of the year. You might not want to put all the cards in your math station, so just choose the ones you want to review.

Click on the pic to download.....and you know I would love it if I was "flooded" with comments!

Whooooo Can Work with Numbers? -- Freebie

I've used these cute little owls from KPMDoodles.com before, but they are so stinkin' cute I had to bring them back!

This activity gives second graders practice in figuring 10 more, 10 less, 100 more, and 100 less of a number.

Click on the pic to download the doc.

Whale of an Activity -- Freebie

Second graders must be able to mentally figure out 10 more, 10 less, 100 more, and 100 less of a given number up to 900.

This math station activity can also be used a whole group review activity.

Click on the pic above to download the doc.