Spooky Addition

Tomorrow is the start to my favorite month! Not only is it my birthday month, it's time to celebrate Halloween! We are not really allowed to celebrate holidays at my school... as in spend the whole afternoon dressing up and eating candy. My solution is to create cute Halloween themed standards based lessons. This activity meets the CCSS.Math.1.OA.1. I plan to do one prompt a day with my class for the whole week. They will cut the prompt out and glue it in their math journals. We will then color and solve. You could of course make them into a booklet as well. We simply do not have enough time to do them all in one day. If you grab a free download please consider follow my blog! 

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A Bunch of Boys

This year I have double the amount of boys as I do girls  My class is composed of 16 boys and 8 girls. Needless to say we are a very active bunch. There is one thing that my class is absolutely wild about, and that is Star Wars! They are obsessed! They read, write, wear, and talk it all day long. So when I saw the new phonics Star Wars book set in the Scholastic book orders I had to have it. Yesterday the book orders were delivered!

As I expected they love the books! I figured I would try to add some Star Wars love into one of their math centers for next week. The focus of the activity is to tell if the addition equality is true or false. Students will use the R2D2 and C3PO counters to help them solve! Grab a free copy of this printable below!

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Fall?

Today is supposedly the second day of Fall, here in Arizona it's over 100*! Since we have no signs of changing leaves or cooling weather, I am posting a sumer-ish freebie my class did last week. We did this as a teacher led whole group activity. However, I think it would be great for a small group guided math center. It focuses on the common core standard 1.OA.3, which is the commutative property. To prepare this activity, I simply copied it two sided and stapled to make a booklet.

 

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Welcome to Toothless Wonders! After a year of blog stalking... I have decided to start my own teaching blog! I am currently in my sixth year of teaching, and my second year of teaching first grade. I love to create fun and engaging activities and centers for my little firsties. I hope you will come back and visit often for fun standard based activities.