Math Puzzles: Place Value, Tallies, Coins and Words

Hi!  I hope you are all having a fantastic weekend.  It's going to be hard getting up tomorrow while it's still dark out but I am really going to enjoy the sunshine later in the day.  This weekend I have been busy creating some math puzzles that I will be adding to my math centers.   Students will be looking at a number on a chalkboard on a math mat.  They will have to find the puzzle pieces with coins, tallies, place value sticks and the written word to match the number that they are looking at.  I created a puzzles for the numbers 1-120.  I will pick and choose which ones I will be printing off to start.  I will be organizing them into baggies.  Each student will get a baggie with 10 mats in it.  They will lay the mats on the floor in front of them.  Included in the baggie will be 40 pieces that they will have to look at and sort onto the correct mat.  If they have a mat with the number 50, they will have to find the puzzle pieces with 50 tallies, 50 cents, 5 tens sticks and the word 50.  They will place them onto the correct space on their mat. 

This is what a completed puzzle will look like. 

 

This is the mat with the number in the middle.

 

 

These are the puzzle pieces.

You can view more samples here....Sample.

You can find them in my TeachersPayTeachers store by clicking here....Place-Value-Coins-and-Tally-Mark-Math-Puzzles-Numbers-1-120

I hope you have a fantastic week.
Sara

Ice Castles Mall of America...Totally Random Post

So...this post is so random and so not school related.  It's been such a crazy last two weeks in our house.  I have had conferences and had to put my family on hold.  In addition to that I was working on things for school.  Today was such a fun day...and I didn't do ANYTHING related to school at all.  We took the boys to the Mall of America and it was CRAZY!  I have NEVER seen so many people there at once.  My boys have been growing like weeds, so my oldest needed new clothes.  My youngest busted out of his shoes, so he needed to pick some new ones out.  Hundreds of dollars later we had two happy boys.  After our shopping adventure, we headed to the Ice Castles in the Mall of America parking lot.  It was the best thing we have done together, in a long time.  Being the photography freak I am, I took over 400 pictures in the short hour that we were there.  People kept coming up to me asking me if I would take pictures of their families because I appeared to look like I knew what I was doing with my camera.  Okay...I was a little obsessed.  My son says, "A little????"  I am sharing a couple of my favorites with you!  I hope you are all having a great weekend.  :)

Fact Family Puzzles

We are learning about FACT FAMILIES in my class.  I created this cute little puzzles to help reinforce the skills that we are learning.  These will be going in baggies in my math centers.  Each baggie will have 4 houses with fact family number on them with the matching 16 clouds.  The kids will have to sort the clouds onto the correct house.  Each house will have 2 addition and 2 subtraction clouds on it.  You can find it here...Fact-Family-Puzzles-Addition-and-Subtraction-Common-Core-10A3.

Have fun!  Again...you can find it here....Fact-Family-Puzzles-Addition-and-Subtraction-Common-Core-10A3
Sara

The Leprechaun Trap

I came home from my 3rd and final day of conferences that I have had during the past two weeks. I was so happy to see a book the I ordered sitting on the counter.  I had to sit down and read it right away.  Who doesn't get super excited about reading brand new children's books?  This one is called The Leprechaun Trap.  Ohmigosh!!!  It is the cutest book ever!!!  I can't even wait to bring it to my class and read it to my first graders on Friday.  If you had an Elf On The Shelf this winter and enjoyed moving him around and doing creative, messy tricks with him, you will LOVE this book.  It's has exactly the same concept....only the Leprechaun does tricks every night in March until St. Patrick's Day.  On the eve of St. Patrick's Day the kids make traps and trap to try to catch him on St. Patrick's Day.   Then they will get his gold and he won't make messes the next year. 

After the first night of having the Elf in our house, I wondered whose idea it was for him to join our family!?!  I didn't feel like I was creative enough to hide him every night and after the first few days, I dreaded having to wait up at night and move him.  By Christmas time I was sad that he had to go away.  I am already thinking of fun things to do with the Leprechaun and can't wait for my class to come in every morning to find him. 

You can find the book at Amazon...by clicking below....

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You will find a letter to parents on building Leprechaun traps in my St. Patrick's Day Pack. 

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I can't wait to see my kids excited faces! :)

Sara

St. Patrick's Day Pack

I can't believe we are already starting our last week in February and March 1st will be here on Friday!  I can't believe that spring will be here before we know it.  I also can't believe that I have gotten my St. Patrick's Day Pack done BEFORE March has even started.  It is loaded with skills that our first graders need to know.  In my pack, you will find a letter to parents asking them to help their child build a Leprechaun trap.  There is a recipe for Shamrock Shakes.  There are lots of literacy center activities, math activities and writing activities.  Pictured below are some of the samples included in the pack.  You can find it here....St-Patricks-Day-Literacy-and-Math-Centers-More

You will find a letter to parents inviting them to help their child build a Leprechaun Trap.  Some pictures are included to show examples from my kiddos last year.

There is a mini book.  Some pages have pictures and some the kids will be able to draw pictures.  It has lots of facts included to tell about St. Patrick's Day.

 

Children will be able to match analog and digital clocks with each other matching times to the hour and half hour.  4 worksheets are included to go along with this.

In this activity students will solve addition equations.  They will solve addition equations and match the coins to the answer on the pots.  An addition facts sheet can be completed after.

Who doesn't love Lucky Charms?  With tis activity, you will give your kids each a baggie with cereal in it.  They will complete the graphs based on the number of each marshmallow they have.

 In this activity, students will sort words that have a ch, sh, wh or th in them.  They will record the words on the worksheet provided.

 

In this activity, students will look at words with the "R" sound.  They will notice that ir, ur, er, or ear sometimes makes the "r" sound.  They will sort this words and record 5 of each one on the recording sheet.

 



Child will sort words into piles of singular or plural nouns.   They will record them on the recording sheet.

Students will learn about contractions in this activity.  They will put puzzles together with two words and it's contraction word. 

In this activity, students will learn about future, present and past tense words. They will sort sentences into the correct columns. After sorting, they will do a worksheet.

In these puzzles students will make compound words.  They will put two words together to make a compound word.

In this activity, students will match shamrock pairs with words that mean the same thing.  They will complete the worksheet after.

Students will put pairs of words together that mean the opposite of each other.  A worksheet is included.

We will end the day by making Shamrock Shakes.

This activity is always one of my favorites.  I put each child's name on a piece of paper.  Each child has to draw a name.  They have to look at the name and write about why that person is a good friend or why we are lucky to have them in our class.

You can find these activities by visiting my TPT store....by clicking here....St-Patricks-Day-Literacy-and-Math-Centers-More

Enjoy your week!
Sara