End of Year Mathematics Review Set 2

Here are 5 more pages of Common Core Aligned End of Year Mathematics Review for first grade.  The image is linked.  Please play fair.  Don't claim ownership of these.  Send your friends here to pick up their own copy.  You know...the Golden Rule.  :)

Have a great week!

[Lucy Ladybug Learns About Numbers]

I know.  It's summer break.

And I'm working on materials for the first 2 weeks of school.

What's wrong with me?!  lol.

We have adopted Go Math in first grade for the upcoming school year.

Go Math is incredible!  Totally common core based.  Awesome!

But. . .chapter 1 is addition concepts.

Yikes!  We've built into our pacing guide 10 days for numeracy right at the start of the year.  I'm really excited about this Lucy Ladybug pack!

It's going to be a fun exploration of numbers 1-10 for the first 10 days of school.

Lucy Ladybug deals with one "number" each day (days 1-10).

Writing the number, reading the number word, determining even or odd, representing on a ten frame, simple model drawing (adding 1), and then the ways to create an addition equation with 2 addends and a sum of the "number of the day."

If you're a first grade teacher, this pack is a perfect start to your math year.  :)

Because it is a 21 page pack (2 pages for each "number"), the price is set at $5.

However. . .there is that 50% off sale that runs through Saturday the 16th.

$2.50 for 21 pages of number sense and mathematical reasoning.

Awesome.

But. . .you can win this pack!

All you have to do is leave a comment with your best BACK TO SCHOOL hint/tip/tradition.

You have until midnight tonight (June 12) to enter.

I'll choose 1 winner from all comments.

Good luck!

[conversation hearts] model drawing

Remember the Conversation Heart cards from yesterday?

Well, here's another activity you can do with those same cards.

This is a good introduction to Model Drawing or a good quick review of simple addition if you've been using Model Drawing a great deal in your classroom.  The lines will help your littles keep their unit bars nice and straight.

You will need an extra set of Conversation Heart cards unless you use this in a small group setting or just for a few kiddos.

Enjoy.  :)

Image is linked to the PDF download.

Please leave a little love if you take this.

Thanks!

[Model Drawing Monday] FREE download!

**Edited to add the link for download from box.net HERE! in case you're not a member of Teacher's Notebook. **

Common Core 1.NBT.4: Add within 100, including adding a two-digit number and a one-digit number. . .understand that in adding two-digit numbers, one adds tens and tens, ones and ones; and sometimes it is necessary to compose a ten.

This model drawing set is what I'm going to use to introduce this concept to my little firsties this week.  I think that using model drawing will help them SEE the need/ability to take the ones into a group of ten and then add that way.  At least that's the plan!  :)

This is a 4 page PDF download

(the "blog shot" page, 2 pages of story problem with lines for modeling including a place for students to show/tell what they've learned at the end of the week, and a sample solution showing ONE WAY to use model drawing to solve these types of problems) 

 is available FREE in my Teacher's Notebook Shop.

Feedback is much appreciated and if you could "follow" my shop, that would be even more awesome!

If you're not a member of Teacher's Notebook, you can find the download HERE!  :)

Thanks!  Have a great week!

[enVision math Topic 2 journaling printables]

As I created the Topic 2 journaling sheet, I made a few changes to better fit the needs of first graders when they are learning to use model drawing as a strategy for solving problems.

Please let me know if these are helpful to you or not.  If they aren't, I won't bother sharing the files.  :)

[enVision math Topic 1 journaling printables]

Our district uses enVision math as our main math teaching resource.  This will be our 3rd year using enVision, and truthfully, I really like it!  I think that every program has some pitfalls, this included, but for the most part, I've found that this program works really well for my teaching style.

I love the journaling prompts that are given for a quick assessment at the end of each lesson.  The journaling prompts are on the Quick Check page, however, I wanted something that was all in one spot and easy to hand out, assess, and file.  For now, I think this is what I'm going to use.  The added bonus, for me anyway, is that I can use these to help my students acquire a working knowledge of model drawing. 

These are directly from the enVision teacher's guide/student pages.  If you use enVision and are going to download/use these, please leave a comment.  Thanks!

[model drawing] more info. . .

There are many ways to use model drawing, even in a first grade classroom!  My little monsters LOVE model drawing!  It just makes sense in their brains!  It's super fun to watch them problem solve using model drawing throughout the year.

Some great resources for model drawing are:

http://www.thesingaporemaths.com/

http://www.thinkingblocks.com/

http://www.risd.k12.nm.us/instruction/singaporemathbook.cfm

http://www.crystalspringsbooks.com/index.html?stocknumber=402624 (I would highly recommend purchasing this book if you have an interest in using model drawing in your classroom!  The solution key, offered separately(http://www.crystalspringsbooks.com/402623.html), is super helpful if model drawing is a new to you).

There are some free problems to work here: http://www.sde.com/success-systems/wordproblems.asp

And solutions from prior offered problems here: http://www.sde.com/images07/ss/pdfs/Solutions6-13-11.pdf

[number bonds and model drawing] - the new "catch phrases" in mathematics

If you haven't heard of number bonds yet, chances are, you will soon!

Number bonds and Model Drawing are ways to SHOW the relationship between the parts that create a number and the actual number itself.

There is an AWESOME explanation of number bonds HERE on the Let's Play Math website.

I highly suggest you hop over and read that blog entry, but be sure to come back for this free download that will help your students understand the number bond as well as give them an introduction to model drawing.

While I wouldn't advocate doing this work page for every.single.math.fact, it certainly is effective to use as an introduction to math facts, and would be valuable to use in conjunction with teaching addition and/or subtraction.

Image is linked to the pdf download. . .