Fall Fun Literacy and Math Activities

I am ready to begin some of my Fall Fun Literacy and Math Activities this week.  I created seven Make Words Activities, How to Make a Pumpkin Pie Writing Activity, Fall Fun-Math Around the Room Review Activity, Descriptive Words page, two bump games (Fall Fun and Halloween), and two ABC Order Activities (Fall and Halloween).  I can't wait to use this with my students.  We have been busy with other fall activities and I know the kiddos will enjoy some of these treats over the next two weeks. Let me know what you think!

Getting into Shapes

Math is always more fun when you use food.  This week we have been learning about two-dimensional and three-dimensional shapes.  After learning about vertexes, edges, and faces, we decided to make some three-dimensional shapes.  We used mini marshmallows for vertexes and toothpicks for edges.  We made several shapes, and learned why we could not make others.

I also read one of my favorite books to the class about angles.  I just love this book!  I found a copy of it on YouTube read aloud too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aE0yle-z5uE

Eating Our Way through Math

Carb Day in Second Grade, you ask?  By the looks of this, it may seem like it!  

We put up the plastic base ten blocks, and grabbed some food to help us with place value this week. What a yummy way to learn about place value!  We used saltine crackers to represent hundreds, pretzels sticks to show tens, and Cheerios for the ones place.  Each student made their own placemat for place value.  Then we started the fun.  One did a variety of problems. I called out a number, and the students had to show me a way to represent that number using the fewest pieces of food.  Then they had to show me a different way using more pieces.  Students also had to read word form to show some number  and expanded form.  I just wrote a bunch of different problems on the smart board.  Students also partnered up, and I gave them one number to show me two different ways.  Of course, every now and then I would tell them to eat five Cheerios or a cracker.  One of my students even told me that this was a great way to teach math!  Melt my heart!  

Magical Product Swap

I was so excited to participate in the Magical Product Swap once again!  It is always fun to swap and use amazing work of others with your students.  My kiddos just loved Jessica Boschen's Money Matching and Word Problems Spring.  Jessica is a wonderfully talented creator of fabulous items and I just love her blog, What I Have Learned Too.  Check out the product I was able to use!

 

This was the perfect center activities!  Money word problems are always a skill that students need extra reinforcement with and this was the best product! 

 

Check out Jessica's Blog!!!

 

A Look Back and Out of this World Giveaway

This is a quick look back at our week full of crafts and FUN!

Hurricanes made using an old record player.

 

Fraction Kites!

 

 

 

Butterfly Craft

 

 

I am participating in Second Grade Out of this World! giveaway!  Come check out all the possibilities of things you could win.

 

 

 

You could win my How to Fly a Kite Creative Writing Unit.

Getting into Shape!

Well spring is finally here (I think it may stick around this time).  We all know what that means.  Time to get in shape!  Well, we decided to get into shape with geometry!  :)  I know pretty corny, but that is why we are teachers.  My class had a great time learning about polygons and three-dimensional shapes.  The students have learned about faces, vertices, and edges.  We had a blast creating our own shapes out of toothpicks and marshmallows.  Who does not like to play with food?!?!? 

Help with Math Centers

My brain is on overload.  For some reason, something that should be so simple is causing me to be very OCD.  I need your help!  Really I do.  How and where do you put your centers for the year?  I purchased some fantastic math centers from TPT and have the copies and student materials all ready for the 10 centers.  I just don't know where I am going to put them and how I am going to display them for the students.  This is where your advise would be appreciated (pictures even better).  Where do you put your math centers in your room?  How do you display them?  What do you put the materials in?  I have thought about in file folders taped with fun duct tape and hanging them on a bulletin board.  Please share your ideas!  Thanks a million!

Happy Teaching!
Diane