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Holiday Hopscotch

 

Do you have extra gift boxes from the Dollar Store?   Do your little ones need to burn off excess holiday energy?   

Here’s A Fun Solution!

 

 Make and Play  

Holiday Hopscotch

Design the hopscotch path using the tops and bottoms of the gift boxes.  Secure the edges of the boxes together with clear packing tape.   

(Before playing, secure the board to the floor with tape.  Painters tape works well.)

I added calendar numbers and snowflake cut-outs.   

 If you do not have shapes available, allow the kids to decorate the plain boxes with holiday drawings and use a maker to number the boxes.

Add a holiday-shaped skipping stone.

 We are using a snowman wall hanger from the dollar store.

Remember to play holiday hopscotch several ways. Use two skipping stones and have the kids add, subtract, or multiply the marked numbers.   

For holiday skipping stones, check out your (plastic) decorations for ideas.

Happy December! 

Fishing For Facts

Time to Review

"Let's Go Fishing" reviews basic addition and subtraction facts.

Materials

"Fishing For Facts" game board ~ one per student

Math Flash Cards

2-sided counters

Directions

To take a turn, a player chooses a math flash card.  He either adds or subtracts the number sentence.  If the answer given is correct, he covers a fish on the “Fishing for Facts” math game board and the turn is over.  If the answer given is incorrect, he does not cover a fish and the turn is over.  Players take turns until time is up or until one player marks all his fish.  The player who marks all fish wins. 

Enjoy!

Sporty Eggs

Here are a few math activities for the plastic eggs in your classroom.

We are using "sporty eggs" for a few math games this month.

(Please know you can use any plastic eggs for these math activities.)

 Each student or pair of students will need a plastic egg and three dice per egg to play.

Pizza 31

Pizza 31 is a great game to developing counting skills!

The goal is to come as close as possible to 31 with only 3 cards and all of the same kind of pizza.

Perfect for a small group math station and/or as a math "sparkle" activity choice!

Click to download my recording sheets.

100% FUN!

~Michelle

 

Spot The Dot

Here's an addition and subtraction game 

for the math stations in your classroom!

Click on the game board to download the pdf.

Players take turns rolling the dice and adding or subtracting the numbers to find the sum/difference.

"Spot the Dot" and mark the answer!

Play continues until the board is covered and/or as time allows.

(...Vary the game, by using flashcards instead of dice...)

Happy Friday, Everyone!

Morning Math Fun

Just found these spinning tops at the Dollar Tree tonight!

What a great classroom "bargain"!

Here's a morning work activity to review addition!

Click the "spinning tops" document above to download the pdf.

....Haven't found the spinning tops at the Dollar Tree yet....that's ok, use dice instead!

A few weeks ago, I picked up these "Dice in Dice"at the Dollar Tree!

Another Great Math Station Bargain!

Here's a pdf for addition.

Valentine Math Bingo Game

School is closed for the second day in a row!  I just love snow days - an unexpected break and an extra good reason to have hot chocolate and cookies ~ lots of cookies!  It's also a good time for me to work on fun activities for the classroom.  Here's a valentine, math facts, bingo game.  A small group of students can play the game in pairs and switch game boards for added practice.  I plan to use heart erasers for bingo markers!  Click on the tic tac toe board below to download the PDF.