Monday Math- Tens and Ones

Today was a two hour delay and really shortened our math block. We are working on building tens to understand tens place and ones place. Teaching this topic is a little noisy and a little time consuming!  To start, we use connecting cubes and number cards. I call out a number card, we count out the number in cubes and build tens.  At the end we see how many "left overs" we have.  It's a fun and hands on way of understanding a number. 

Happy teaching :) 

What's up Sunday?!

I am trying to be more organized and healthy this year!  On Sundays I have been prepping and packing my lunches for the whole week. I usually pack 3-4 lunches and plan to splurge at the Pizza Hut salad bar one day :).  At first I figured packing all my lunches on one day would be overwhelming and time consuming. Over all it takes me less than a half hour to prep, pack, and store!  Check out my assembly line!

I love these rectangle lunch boxes I found at Marshalls!  I also love using silicon cupcake bases for dips, sauces, and little items.

I layout all the items for the week. I hate boring lunches, so I try to have a variety of items! 

Dollar Sale!!

Stock up on some awesome winter products!!! 

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Interactive Comprehension-Summarizing

Hey Friends!  I'm Abbie Jinnings from Tales From The First Grade!

I am so excited to share with you today an interactive summarizing lesson! I don't know about you, but my students always want to tell me so much when summarizing!  I am working with them on developing an understanding for the important or "best" parts of a story!  

Let's get started!  I prepared for the lessons by setting up my anchor charts! Here is our summarizing basic definition chart.

After we set the foundation of what a summary is, I "hooked" the students on the new concept with some hands on learning.  We made a trail mix out of corn cereal, raisins, and M&M's!  As we made the trail mix we discussed how a story has lots of details and parts, just like our trail mix.   The trail mix is great together, just like all the details in a story.  As in the trail mix and a story, some parts are better than others.  I instructed the students to look through their trail mix and pick the best ingredient!  

After the students determined the best ingredient they sorted the mix.  All the children were sure the chocolate goodness of the M&M was the best! 

After a small snack of trail mix we had a discussion about the connection between the best parts of a book and the best parts of the trail mix.  From there we read the book Charlie and the Christmas Kitty by Ree Drummond.  If you have not read one of her Charlie books you must!!  Not only do I love her cooking show she is now one of my favorite authors.  Back to the lesson..  After reading we completed an anchor chart over somebody, wanted, but, so.  

We ended our mini unit over summarizing with completing a flip book over Charlie and the Christmas Kitty.  I love using flip books as a response to literature!  My students do best with illustrating the  front page and writing on the inside.  

Hope you are inspired to add some hands on activities to your comprehension lessons!  

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Merry Christmas

Meeting Goals, Number Sense, & A Little Turkey Talk

Hey Friends!

This year teachers have to make a student goal that can be measured at the end of the year.  I am focusing on mClass math number sense.  In order to ensure my students are ready for the middle and end of year assessment  I am focusing daily on a skill using a fun monthly themed format along with the task looking very similar to the assessment they will be faced with.  I want the students to be familiar to the format and the expectations.  Here are some pictures of our number sense sheets.  I have over 3/4's of the class at the end of year benchmark for missing numbers! 

mClass Math November Gobbles

This week we started our Thanksgiving centers.  Math centers are once a week on Thursday.  During this time my mother comes in and runs a small group focusing on addition strategies.  While the students are in groups I progress monitor, then run a small group on subtraction.  Here is a look at our centers this week.  

Run Turkey Run- Math, Reading, & Writing Centers

Turkey Feather Addition Freebie 

Fall Giveaway!

Head on over to Facebook to see the great Fall Giveaway that I'm doing with Allison at Stuckey In Second

We are giving away two awesome fall wreaths, made by me! The winners will be chosen on  Sunday night! I will have one winner from my post and Allison will have one from her post. Each winner will win the following:

GORGEOUS fall wreath
$10 Starbucks Card
One fall product from each of our TPT stores

TWO people will win ALL of the above! We have TWO wreaths up for grabs! Plus, that person will win a Starbucks gift card and TPT products!!!


Look for this post on our Facebook page! Be sure to LIKE the Facebook post, then comment and tag three friends in the post. Encourage your friends to "like" our Facebook pages and TPT pages! You will see the links in the comments for our TPT stores. Allison's is STUCKEY IN SECOND and Tales from the First Grade's TPT store is ABBIE JINNINGS.

Good luck everyone!!! We can't wait to share these awesome giveaway prizes with two lucky winners!

Scare & Share Blog Hop!

I am so excited to be linking up with some awesome teachers for a giveaway and dollar sale!  I am working in my own classroom on developing number sense.  To help with understanding numbers we are working on missing numbers in a set.  Click here for a spooky missing number game freebie!  

If you love the game and need help with number sense such as next number, quantity discrimination, & number facts  check out Bats, Boos, & Halloween Frights Math Centers, on sale for a dollar!  Happy teaching and hopping! 

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