Spider Subtraction

We made this activity to use as a math center for October while we learn about spiders and other creepy creatures for Halloween. Just print the webs and task cards on card stock and laminate. We use plastic spiders for counters that were spider rings from the party store. We cut the ring part off. Children use spiders on a web as their manipulatives to solve the subtraction problems on the task cards.

THEY LOVE THIS!

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Monthly Math

We have compiled some of our favorite math activities into Monthly Math Packs!  Inside each pack you will find a variety of activities.  You do not have to use everything!  You probably won't have time!  There are several activities that you might want to use every week…not just one day.  The skill levels are varied so that you can differentiate as needed. We have been using most of these activities for 25+ years. We have been through Math Their Way, Marilyn Burns, Math Investigations, Calendar Math and 7 or 8 different textbook adoptions.  We would love to give credit where credit is due, but we honestly don’t remember where all the different ideas came from!  Most ideas were tweaked a little to fit our style or theme, but most ideas did originate from somebody!  If it was YOU and you want credit, let us know.  We will gladly give it to you.

Here is the link to January!

Here is the link to December!

 

Here is the link to November!

 

Here is the link to October!

 

Here is the link to September!

 

Here is the link to August!

 

St. Patrick's Day FREEBIE

Here's a FREEBIE to use on March 17! They will tally 17 marks, make words out of seventeen, count and add letters in the word seventeen, draw 17, make a fact family with 17, and add and subtract with 17!!   ENJOY!

 

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Here's another FREEBIE to use in the next fews weeks leading up to St. Patrick's Day! We've all been working on numbers to 120. See how well they do when they have to Tally the Number!! If you are using our Number of The Day sheet, then you've been practicing all year!!! :D ENJOY!

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Fact Families FREEBIE

Here is an addition and subtraction FREEBIE to use for practice with  fact families. Our first graders love making the connection between addition and subtraction. They also love the challenge of making their own related number families. We always use the story of the three bears.  They can SO relate to this.  The biggest number is daddy, the middle size number is mama, and the little number is baby.  The numbers are a family that works together and there are no more bears ( numbers) in the family that can be used. 
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