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Welcome to the final week of our Math Through Play Book Study!  I have been doing a lot of thinking and planning about how to get more play into math class.  I started a Pinterest board with #MathPlay ideas and it is quickly approaching 100 pins.  I will also be starting a weekly series on #MathPlay ideas here on my blog.   Here is the posting schedule for this book study: Sunday March 29th: Chapters 1-3 Sunday April 5th: Chapters 4&5 Sunday April 12th: Chapters 6&7 Sunday April 19th: Chapters 8&9 Without further ado, lets wrap up this book study! Chapter 8: Planning, Organizing and Assessing Independent Play The ideas in this chapter about planning and organizing independent play reminded me a great deal of how I try to organize and plan math centers during Guided Math time.  One of my favorite ideas is the idea of a play menu that shows kids what is available that day and helps keep them focused on the areas that are open for them to use during th...

Welcome to week 3 of our Math Through Play Book Study!  I have been thinking a lot over the past few weeks about getting more play into the classroom and have some great ideas.  I will be sharing some of these in the next few weeks! Here is the posting schedule for this book study: Sunday March 29th: Chapters 1-3 Sunday April 5th: Chapters 4&5 Sunday April 12th: Chapters 6&7 Sunday April 19th: Chapters 8&9 If you are just joining us, head to  this post  for more details!  Chapter 6: Shape and Space 3-D Shapes I love 3-D shapes and find that they are an easy thing to incorporate into play.  My students have access to a large about of block play and construction kids such as Lincoln logs, polydrons  and legos.  I would love to add Magna tiles to my rotation as my budget allows.  These toys are fun and engaging and kids can build and play with them for hours.  They are the perfect way to introduce 3-D geometry vocabulary a...

I made this quick little cut and glue worksheet to use as an assessment with some of my youngest students.  It would also work great as a homework assignment or a math center.  All you need is some scissors and glue.  (Have you tried glue sponges yet?) Grab this freebie from my TPT store ! My new set of spring theme playing cards featuring 10 frames and numerals is 50% off for another 24 hours. This is a set of cards you can prep once and use 15 times!   Read more about it here or head to my TPT store to grab it while it is 50% off! 

Last fall, I wrote about 10 different ways I was using 10 frames in the classroom.  I love using 10 frames in the classroom and keep things fresh by changing out which ones I am using as the season changes.  In Kindergarten and grade 1 I get so much mileage out of 10 frames and they really help build a solid foundation for early numeracy and additive reasoning.  I also love my 20 frame playing cards and wrote about how I use them in my classroom here ! Compare or Flip and Add War was always my favorite card game as a young child and I often play versions of war (also called compare) with 10 frame cards as well as my other place value decks .  To play this game, mix up a few sets of playing cards and give each player an equal number of cards.  Then have them flip over 1 or more cards and compare the result.  I have very young students start with flipping over one card and saying the number represented by that card.  Then whoever has the largest (or sm...

Welcome to week 2 of our Math Through Play Book Study!  I love seeing my students excited about learning math and engaged in doing mathematics.  I love seeing how young children work on big math ideas through play and am so excited to be reading this book.  After being just a few chapters into this book, I already have a few ideas for how I can incorporate more math into my own children's play as well as set things up at school to have more math play time.   Here is the posting schedule for this book study: Sunday March 29th: Chapters 1-3 Sunday April 5th: Chapters 4&5 Sunday April 12th: Chapters 6&7 Sunday April 19th: Chapters 8&9 If you are just joining us, head to  this post  for more details!  Chapter 4: Counting and Using Number Several years ago, I realized that my students were not getting enough experience with counting things and I began my Counting and Estimating Routines .  These have really helped me come a long way toward ...

Hi All!  One of my oldest TPT freebies just got a major update.  I love this game for helping kids develop fluency with adding 9!  If you have 10 sided dice and bingo chips all you need to do is print and play! Head over to TPT to grab this freebie!