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Hello there, Welcome back! I am going to just jump right in with this weeks post. In elementary school one of my favorite topics were graphs, it was so much fun to see the visual representation of data even if its just silly data about favorite TV shows or sports teams. Kids love that stuff. I have found that children love to talk about themselves and to tell the world their likes. So this week I want to go back to second grade and to look at two types of graphs (I know there are more). We are going to look at Pictographs (picture graphs) and bar graphs. Here are the Common Core Standards that would be covered in this lesson: CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.2.MD.A.1 Measure the length of an object by selecting and using appropriate tools such as rulers, yardsticks, meter sticks, and measuring tapes. CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.2.MD.D.9 Generate measurement data by measuring lengths of several objects to the nearest whole unit, or by making repeated measurements of the same object. Show the measu...

Hey guys, Welcome back! This week we are taking a dive into the first-grade common core standards, and I thought i would use my concept teaching game to help me out this week. With this whole time change a review of basics was needed, not sure why but this week I'm feeling fresh and new. So the topic this week is addition, more specifically addition of one-digit numbers. Even though we are looking more at the one digit side of the addition, these resources can be modified and used for two and maybe three-digit numbers. Here are the Common Core Standards to help us get an idea of what we are looking at:      *Represent and solve problems involving addition and subtraction.           CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.1.OA.A.1           CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.1.OA.A.2     *A dd and subtract within 20.           CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.1.OA.C.5           CSS.MATH.CONTENT....

Weeeeelllllcomeee Back! So this week I thought we could go into a fourth-grade classroom.. it has been a long time since I have been in one. Maybe you have guessed it but the topic we are covering this week is time.  The Common Core Standards sticks time in the Measurement and data category so this standard states that students should: 4.MD.A.1 Know relative sizes of measurement units within one system of units including km, m, cm; kg, g; lb, oz.; l, ml; hr, min, sec. Within a single system of measurement, express measurements in a larger unit in terms of a smaller unit. Record measurement equivalents in a two-column table. The topic of converting time also follows the same standard. We as educators can save time (haha) and teach these two together.  Time was a difficult thing for me, not the whole concept really but more trying to visualize it on an analog clock. with a lot of help and the use of only analog clocks for a while, i got better and...

So this week I heard a lot of songs that had round in the name, Flo Rida's Right round was one of them so this fantastic idea of covering rounding this week popped into my head. Rounding is a third-grade math topic, but to start let's get some fun music going. If we are starting with basics, our third-grade students should: "Use place value understanding to round whole numbers to the nearest 10 or 100." (CCSS  3.NBT.A. 1 ) Rounding is a life skill; I would like to think. It is needed as an estimate maybe one day you will be throwing a party, and 55 people say they are coming, but you want some extra food to be available so we would move it to the nearest tenth, making it 60 people. But what third grader is worried about hosting a party, to make it relatable you could make an example using, well honestly I'm not sure what third graders are into these days so that might have to be up to your discretion. I liked this anchor chart that could help stude...

Welcome back! I hope everyone has had a good week. For this weeks post I will be talking about first-grade math, but precisely, shapes. As silly as this may sound shapes are actually essential to know. Int first grade students are given the foundation and basic knowledge of shapes such as sides, classification, and the beginning of their geometry journey. The common core standards provide three standards to target when dealing with first-grade geometry: CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.1.G.A.1 Distinguish between defining attributes (e.g., triangles are closed and three-sided) versus non-defining attributes (e.g., color, orientation, overall size); build and draw shapes to possess defining attributes. CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.1.G.A.2 Compose two-dimensional shapes (rectangles, squares, trapezoids, triangles, half-circles, and quarter-circles) or three-dimensional shapes (cubes, right rectangular prisms, right circular cones, and right circular cylinders) to create a composite shape, an...

Welcome Back! This week I decided to dive into the teaching of money. I am targeting second grade this week and how to teach them the concept of money. Money is going to be used in a person's everyday life, and teaching students the basics young will allow them to have more comfortability as they build on the concept. To children money might not seem like a big concept, they might need a few dollars to buy ice cream at lunch or to figure out how many books they can get with $20 at the book fair. Beginning with a refresher, helping students identify bills and coins and how much they are worth.  Here are some worksheets to refresh their money minds. Just something quick and will get their minds thinking about money They are then moving on to word problems. According to Common Core Standard 2.MD.C.8, students will be able to solve word problems about dollar bills and coins, while using the symbols $ and c(cents) appropriately. Here are some worksheets to get them goin...