Math

Elmer the Elephant Math & Literacy

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Elmer the Elephant Math and Literacy Integrated
 These are seriously my new favorite books! I had NEVER heard of Elmer the Elephant until a couple weeks ago when my teammate brought her son’s books up. I fell in love! So I made this Elmer Math & Literacy unit. I think the Elmer books are a great way to teach many different skills- Text Connections, Adjectives, Character Analysis, Colors… it goes on and on!

BUILD Math Stations: First Week

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First Grade Classroom: BUILD Math Stations
We started doing our BUILD math stations this week and the kids just love it. (To find out more about BUILD math stations, click here.) On Tuesday, the first thing I introduced was the I basket because that’s where they are just doing independent reading with math books. I also introduced the U basket as one of the first ones because for U they are using manipulatives, and most of my kiddos had used manipulatives in Kinder and we also practiced using them appropriately last week.

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BUILDing the Math Workshop with BUILD Math Stations

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First Grade Classroom: BUILD Math Stations
Hello teachers! Thank you to everyone who has e-mailed and asked about BUILD Math Stations. Here is an entire post dedicated to everything I know about BUILD Math Stations. Please feel free to leave me a message asking any questions. 
 
BUILD is not a curriculum, it is a management piece for Math Stations. Each letter stands for something different and you choose activities/assignments for students to complete. The BEST thing about BUILD is that you can tweak it to fit your teaching and your classroom.
 

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Mock Clock Faces

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I have gotten a lot of comments about this so I just wanted to dedicate a post to my mock clock faces! At the beginning of this past year (which was my first year teaching) my kids kept hounding me and hounding me about when we go to lunch, when we go to recess, etc. So I came up with the idea to make some clocks with the times drawn on. After they were up for a few days, my kids actually stopped asking me. Worked like a charm! :)

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