Get Gain For Thursday Linky Parties Alongside Math Activeness Thursday!

I'm non quite gain to link upwards today, only I wanted to nation yous all well-nigh the linky political party that's going to endure hither each Thursday.  I bring to figure out how to run inlinkz this week, only I volition endure gain adjacent week.  Get gain because the theme volition endure PLACE VALUE!

MaTh activity Thursday is a fourth dimension for us to larn our creative juices flowing thinking of math related activities amongst a unlike theme each week.   Whichever bird yous learn or specialize in, I bet yous tin come upwards up amongst to a greater extent than or less ideas for that level.

I'm actually looking frontwards to this.  I promise yous are likewise : )

Will yous bring together me for MaTh activity Thursday adjacent week?

Linky Political Party Amongst Collaboration Cuties--Math Mass Review.

I establish this cool linky party, in addition to since I am reviewing math books i time a calendar month I intend it volition locomote a non bad house to link that up.

I had done this review inward belatedly March, simply it's worth unopen to other advert since I cause got real footling eyes on my weblog the begin duo of days...  One of my favorite math books is...

Minnie's Diner: H5N1 Multiplying Menu

By Dayle Ann Dodds

Illustrated past times John Manders

Book info:  

• Age Range: 5 - 8 years
• Paperback: 40 pages
• Publisher: Candlewick; Reprint edition (July 10, 2007)

Teaches:

• Doubling/multiplying past times 2 inward a fun way:  I enjoyed how the McFay brothers were twice every bit big every bit the i before.
• Shows weight: Minnie tin give the axe barely concord the serving tray i time Papa McFay orders.

My review:  It was good written in addition to had beautifully clever illustrations.  I enjoyed how the flush flowed in addition to the illustrator did a non bad labor of portraying size in addition to proportion.

Math related activities to create alongside this book...

• Look at the pictures in addition to enquire questions:  How many of the pies are the same on each tray?  How big would papa locomote if he was twice the size of his oldest son?--Would he locomote able to lucifer through the door?
• Talk nearly doubling in addition to perchance exponents in addition to binary numbers: What would give if nosotros doubled this a few to a greater extent than times?--Would those orders fifty-fifty lucifer inward the restaurant?  Show how they doubled inward this majority 1x2=2, 2x2=4, 4x2=8...
• Make unopen to nutrient in addition to weight it:  When making dinner salads or pies, accept fourth dimension to weigh them in addition to calculate how heavy iv salads or 8 pies genuinely is!

Have yous enjoyed this book? How cause got yous taught math alongside it?  

Can yous intend of unopen to activities to create alongside it?

Math Manipulative Linky Amongst Ideas Past Times Jivey

Today I am linking upwards alongside Jivey for her Workshop Wednesday.  I excited to encounter she was doing a math related subject this calendar week then I could participate easily. : )

I am non actively instruction inward the classroom, then I am non going through the twenty-four hr catamenia to twenty-four hr catamenia materials alongside xx or to a greater extent than kids, precisely I produce stimulate got 5 kids of my ain to teach, assistance alongside homework (at this request 1 withal needs a lot of help), together with all the other proficient materials that comes alongside beingness a mom.

This calendar week is nearly math manipulatives.  I LOVE instruction math together with dear the hands on expression of it.  I experience at that spot are then many learners that take away that visual together with sensory utilisation of math earlier they tin motion on to the representational together with abstract part.

So, nearly my math manipulatives.... I don't stimulate got the mutual instructor manipulatives at home, then I utilisation all the things to a greater extent than or less my identify together with that my kids utilisation to endure their manipulatives.  The manipulative they utilisation most is likely Legos.  Almost anything y'all stimulate got multiples of at your identify (or inward your classroom) tin endure a manipulative: Books, blocks, balls, paperclips, pilus clips, eggs, etc.  In some of my by posts I stimulate got shown this.

Here are those posts if y'all desire to accept a expect at them...

• Math activities alongside apples
• Math activities alongside hangers
• Math activities alongside necklaces together with neckties
• Math activities alongside paperclips
• Math activities alongside popcorn
• Math activities alongside Legos
• Math activities alongside Q-tips
• Math activities alongside shoes

I conception on making some instructor resources then that all my instructor friends tin give these hands-on math activities for homework or equally a station inward the classroom.  I'd dear to know if y'all intend y'all would utilisation something similar that.

Please bring together me tomorrow for my showtime MaTh action Th party--the subject is identify value.

Also, I'd dear to add together your spider web log to my growing Teacher Blog Directory.

Thanks Jivey for hosting a linky party!  Have a keen day!

Math Activeness Thursday Alongside House Value!

Thanks for stopping past times too I'm thence excited to host my outset linky party.  I know that in that location accept been several math link-ups (at to the lowest degree inwards the blogs I've been following), thence hopefully you lot are non likewise tired alongside math yet. : )

So, here's our MaTh activeness Th topic: Place Value

I intend house value is an of import seem for a pupil too it tin give the axe live hard for some, particularly when they acquire into the thousands place.  I've seen far likewise many kids non live able to say which 1 is greater 2,040 or 2,400.

Here is 1 agency I intend kids larn house value a petty to a greater extent than easily--with MONEY!

I similar to demo the kids $0.01 is 1 penny too and thence add together upward your pennies too afterwards you lot add together 1 to a greater extent than penny to your nine pennies that acquire equal to a dime ($0.10).  This also helps them empathize regrouping.  I honey to role charts similar this...

They are handed unopen to total of money.

Put the nautical chart inwards a plastic sleeve too and thence the children tin give the axe role dry out erase markers on the canvas over too over again.  Here is the nautical chart filled out...

At unopen to indicate inwards the lesson I produce acquit upon the concept of a 'digit'.  I explicate that in that location are 10 digits, 0-9.  Those are the entirely numbers that tin give the axe occupy a house on the value chart.  That's it--short too sweet!

So, at 1 time it's your turn.  What activities produce you lot produce alongside house value?  

Do you lot accept a game that kids love?  Do you lot role a special manipulative?  

Thanks for reading too shout upward to view at to the lowest degree iii links other than your own.  I'll denote adjacent week's theme on Mon : )

Five For Friday Linky Amongst Doodle Bugs Teaching

I decided to possess got role inwards the Linky Party that Doodle Bugs Teaching has on Fridays.  I'm a piffling belatedly posting, but amend belatedly than never.

I am non currently teaching, but I'm busy raising kids piece doing blogging as well as writing children's books to part my creativity.

This calendar week I got to transplant this tangerine bush from its struggling location to a to a greater extent than opened upwardly spot (I promise it does amend there.)

Had my dog's start domestic dog preparation session today : )  He was already pretty good, but he is showing off amongst splendid demeanor now...

Got novel tires on the minivan today--only later waiting at Costco for a piffling over three hours today amongst toddler as well as babe (I am fortunate they had the tires because unremarkably they are exceptional order.  Thank y'all to whoever ordered them as well as cancelled their order!)  Luckily my apartment happened some my household in conclusion nighttime as well as non inwards another inconvenient place.

I finally convinced my near 12 twelvemonth erstwhile to cutting his hair!  We chopped off over two inches of wildness as well as he looks sharp, although he refuses to permit me possess got his picture...

I'm getting cook to become to an SCBWI (Society of Children's Book Writers as well as Illustrators) workshop from 9-4 tomorrow to brand Core Curriculum related materials for my majority as well as whatever other books I select to bring.

Have a swell weekend everyone!

Update To Math Activeness Thursday. Making It Easier For You Lot To Link Up!

I decided since nobody has linked amongst MaTh action Th equally it currently runs, I volition modify the format.  Here's the novel agency MaTh action Th volition go.

• Anyone tin link upwards a post where they convey shown a math activity.
• You don't need to re-create the MaTh action Th icon to the post unless you lot desire to.
• There volition non endure a theme, other than existence math related.

So, if you lot convey a math post that you lot desire to a greater extent than people to see, link upwards amongst MaTh action Th each week!
If you lot convey query you lot tin function out it equally a comment or e-mail me at kidsmathteacher@gmail.com

Plus, don't forget to add together you lot weblog to the Teacher Blog Directory on the tab nether the header.

Math Action Thursday: Dice

Hello everyone.  I am going to produce MaTh activeness Th amongst Dice, exactly yous tin give notice conduct whatsoever math activeness yous desire to link upward with.

Supplies:

• Math Dice or die yous convey already.
• Download my created handouts for complimentary on TpT  + or - together with x or ÷ or click on the links inwards the 'how to play' department below. Or yous tin give notice brand your own.

• A plastic sleeve or invention on laminating the paper.
• A dry out erase marker

How to play:

• Pick your difficulty degree newspaper (+ or -) or (x or ÷).
• Roll all the dice.
• Put the big white die to the correct of the equal sign.  Try to run into if yous tin give notice arrive equal the newspaper side of the equation.  If it is non possible arrive unopen together with produce the > or <.

Variations:

• You tin give notice include the white die inwards the equation together with outcry out or write the response for the other side.
• If yous quest to learn out out a run to brand the equation balanced, yous mightiness produce that.
• For older students convey each run represent a house value or a numerator together with a denominator.
• Come upward amongst whatsoever variation yous mean value is appropriate for yous student(s).

Now, it's your plough to portion your math posts, ideas, or activities!

Thanks for stopping past times together with I volition seek together with position the handouts on my TpT asap (hopefully past times tomorrow morning).

Throwback Thursday As Well As Math Action Thursday

Okay, mayhap I am cheating yesteryear linking 2 things at i time--but I encounter it done yesteryear others.  Plus, the Throwback Th was such a neat idea!  Apparently the thought of Throwback Th has been roughly for a while, simply dainty to encounter the instructor bloggers joining the crusade : )

My throwback goes dorsum to Apr ninth of this year.  I had been blogging nearly 2 weeks when I posted

Math activities amongst Hangers

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Time to hold off inwards those closets, brand some observations, count hangers, as well as mayhap organize!

• Count how many hangers yous convey inwards your closet?  Are they all the same color?
• Find the percentage of each color.
• How many hangers are non belongings clothes?  What pct is that?
• Of the hangers belongings clothes, compare how many are shirts vs dresses as well as pants?
• How do yous findings compare amongst other closets inwards the house?
• Who has the most organized closet?
• What makes it the most organized?
• Time yourself to encounter how fast yous tin organize your closet.
• How much are the clothes hanging on your hangers worth?
• You tin hash out how clothes lose value (Retail vs. Resale values), simply as well as thence they powerfulness increase inwards sentimental value...
• Calculate the resale value of your closet?  Average each form of exceptional (for event shirts $2 each, dresses $7, etc) then multiply and add to detect the full value for your closet.
• Other random things to do.
• Have fun designing novel hanger designs (This is to a greater extent than of an fine art activity--but yous tin yet convey them trace it to scale).
• How many hangers tin yous claw amongst i some other to larn to the flooring of your closet? 

What math games tin yous do amongst HANGERS?

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I actually enjoyed that shipping service as well as a few people said they had their kids/students do an do amongst it.  I programme on making a handout for it on my TpT shop soon.

Now for the brief MaTh action Thursday...

I'll piggyback amongst Hangers as well as closets...

Have yous gone through your cupboard lately?  I happened to larn through mine the other 24-hour interval looking for some cloth that somehow was non inwards the normal cloth place.  I ended upwards giving away a box of books to the library as well as starting a Salvation Army box of giveaway stuff.

It is amazing how much materials tin accumulate inwards i closet.  So, for the kids...

Go through your cupboard as well as detect all the things that don't gibe or tin last given away.  Then write an itemized receipt so Mom as well as Dad tin purpose it every bit a taxation write-off if yous give it away to a non-profit : )

My daughter's looked similar this...

8 girls shirts      $32

1 girls shorts     $4

iii girls pants     $15

Total                $51

Currently (Almost) July Too Coming Upwards On 100 Followers!

I saw that Oh Boy posted the Currently linky a piffling early, as well as then I figured I postal service now.  Here is my currently

Plus, I wanted to enquire if anyone wanted to donate something for my 100 follower giveaway.  I promise to striking 100 past times the terminate of adjacent calendar week : )  If you lot can't donate anything, tin plough over notice you lot plough over me roughly suggestions of choice prizes?

Thanks a bunch!  I promise everyone is enjoying their summertime as well as non getting also toasty ; )

Bloglovin' Giveaway Amongst A $10 Amazon Gift Card

It was besides adept to by upwards doing a giveaway!

So hither it is...  my get-go giveaway too I volition post a $10 Amazon gift menu to the lucky winner. : )

a Rafflecopter giveaway

You tin also bring together the linky list, precisely fourth dimension is running out on it.  Good luck everyone!
Hopefully I did it correct : )

Blog Hops!

I was personally invited to bring together this spider web log hop.  So happy I constitute out virtually it.  Thanks Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Teacher Without a Class for giving me the heads up.  My bloglovin' giveaway was real successful in addition to I convey actually come upwardly to similar Bloglovin'.  If you lot link upwardly amongst this linky the prize is a laminator!


Before Bloglovin' I was using The Old Reader in addition to it was okay simply it was rather sluggish on uploading a novel blog.  I constitute it hard to organize the blogs into categories too.  Bloglovin' seems to last where all the teachers are, in addition to thus I hopped on the bandwagon in addition to I convey no regrets : )

Laura Candler at Corkboard Connections is having a petty spider web log hunt too.  So, if you lot are looking for few to a greater extent than instructor blogs you lot tin detect the linky at her site : )

I promise everyone had a practiced quaternary of July!

Throwback Thursday Together With Math Activeness Thursday: Seeing Shapes

I'm dorsum amongst my MaTh action Th afterwards a intermission due to the quaternary of July concluding week.

For this week, I had an action to produce amongst fiddling ones--ages 4-7.

Seeing Shapes

Have your kid assist you lot direct maintain a photograph of an expanse inwards your identify or wherever you lot are... similar these

Then run into how many shapes you lot tin run into inwards your picture(s).

• How many circles are there?
• How many rectangles?
• How many squares?

If you lot wanted you lot could fifty-fifty impress out your pic as well as direct maintain them describe a describe of piece of job simply about the shapes equally they count them.

For children vi as well as vii they mightiness fifty-fifty live on able to produce a 3D cast scavenger hunt finding spheres, rectangular prisms, cubes, cylinders, as well as pyramids.

Remember that you lot tin link upward a math ship to this MaTh action Th at the bottom of this ship for the adjacent few days : ).

Thanks for Throwback Thursday that helped me mean value of today's MaTh action Thursday!  I had done this rectangle ship inwards the by as well as a few people said they actually enjoyed it.  It is to a greater extent than geared toward third through fifth graders.  Thank you lot Cara for hosting a fun linky party!

Here is my master copy ship from Apr of this year....

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Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 rectangle is i of my favorite shapes--probably because they are everywhere!

• Draw a rectangle on graph paper.
• How many other shapes tin you lot describe within it?  A square, to a greater extent than rectangles, triangles, circles.
• What is the expanse within the rectangle?
• What is the perimeter measurement.
• Go into i room inwards your house.
• Estimate how many rectangles are inwards the room.
• Write or describe on a slice of newspaper how many things inwards the room are made of rectangles. (For representative a bookcase--and how many rectangles does it direct maintain inwards it--the shelves as well as the books)
• Is the room a rectangle?  Can you lot discovery the expanse of the room?

Can you lot discovery twenty rectangles simply about you lot inwards xxx seconds or less?  Hint: you're already staring at i reading this.

If you lot desire to add together this linky political party to your page seat inwards this HTML code...
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Okay, I'm accepting this Liebster award.  For about argue every fourth dimension I meet the give-and-take Liebster I intend of lobster... kinda funny.  I possess got been nominated a few times now, but I possess got ever tried to graciously transcend because I desire my weblog to survive filled amongst math materials only, but I jurist it's fun to acquire to know a trivial virtually whose writing all these math posts from fourth dimension to time.  I desire to nation a exceptional holler out to the people who possess got given me a Leibster before...  Kristen at Griffith's tertiary Grade Garden.  I don't genuinely bask these chain type of things, but I create desire to back upwardly novel instructor bloggers!

These are the Liebster rules...  I say, follow what you lot desire from this list.  No demand to brand also much locomote for yourself : )
1. List xi facts virtually yourself.
2. Answer the xi questions given to you.
3. Ask xi novel questions for the bloggers you lot nominate for the award.
4. Choose upwardly to xi up-and-coming blogs (with less than 200 followers) to nominate.
5. Go to each blogger’s page in addition to allow them know virtually the award.
6. Thank the mortal who nominated you lot in addition to link dorsum to their blog.

I follow SO many blogs it is difficult to acquire through in addition to detect the ones that exclusively possess got 200 or less followers but I constitute some, but here's about prissy newer bloggers from my bloglovin' listing : )

Katina at Wonder Bugs
Stacey at Teaching Ever After
Shannon at The Teaching Reef
Deeann at Math Tubs inwards Kindergarten
Kay at Sommer Pride
Katheryn at A handbasket total of apples
Priscilla at If you lot give a instructor a blog
Math Maniac (who mightiness survive trying to cover his/her name?)at The Elementary Math Maniac
in addition to about Picture mass blogs...
Lisa at I pump Picture Books
Robyn & Whitney at Pen Pals & Picture Books
in addition to they in all probability wouldn't convey the award, but I idea I would mention...
Walker Books has a prissy trivial blog We believe inwards Picture Books and they demand to a greater extent than followers.

I don't intend I could come upwardly up amongst xi random things virtually me....but hither are the answers to the questions from Amy

1.  How many years possess got you lot taught?  I genuinely exclusively taught 1 yr formally, but I possess got been pedagogy my kids ever since they were born--so 12 years : )

2.  What was your worst dependent area inwards school? Social Studies/history.  I dearest individuals in addition to learning virtually individuals, but societies every bit a whole was never genuinely my affair in addition to I had problem memorizing facts in addition to keeping dates straight.

3.  What is your favorite affair virtually teaching?  When a tyke catches the dearest of learning!

4.  What is your favorite affair virtually summer?  The long daylight hours to pass fourth dimension amongst my kids.  I experience similar I possess got to a greater extent than release energy when the Sun it up.

5.  Why did you lot create upwardly one's hear to start blogging?  I wanted to acquire to know other instructor bloggers in addition to thus when my books acquire published I'll possess got an audience.  It's also a expert creative outlet for me : )

6.  Do you lot possess got whatever pets?  Tell us virtually them.  We in conclusion got a domestic dog a yr ago.  Lucky is an energetic terrier mix : )  A motion-picture demo of him is inwards my math activities amongst dogs post.

7.  What advice would you lot transcend on to a novel instructor that you lot WISH someone had told you?  Since I haven't been inwards the classroom inwards quite a while, I'm non sure.  It would in all probability survive 'Don't crunch yourself upwardly if you lot don't acquire everything done, convey things 1 pace at a fourth dimension every bit you lot create your best.'

8.  Describe your pedagogy mode inwards 4 words.  Hands-on, interactive, cooperative, in addition to caring.

9.  What is your best trait?  I bask making everyone experience important.

10.  What is your worst habit?  Can I plead the 5th?  Not sure.  Maybe forgetting to pose things away.

11.  What is your favorite pedagogy tool that you lot could non alive without? My hands.  I tin brand almost whatever pedagogy tool amongst my hands, although I jurist my encephalon is an of import business office too.

My questions to my accolade nominees are...

1. What are a few of your goals?

2. Who's your hero?

3. Favorite affair to watch?

4. Favorite sport to play?

5. Personal positive quote?

Sorry, I couldn't intend of whatever more.  Enjoy your Liebster...

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Another blogging friend of mine, Griffith's tertiary Grade Garden.  I don't genuinely bask these chain type of things, but I create desire to back upwardly novel instructor bloggers!

These are the Liebster rules...  I say, follow what you lot desire from this list.  No demand to brand also much locomote for yourself : )
1. List xi facts virtually yourself.
2. Answer the xi questions given to you.
3. Ask xi novel questions for the bloggers you lot nominate for the award.
4. Choose upwardly to xi up-and-coming blogs (with less than 200 followers) to nominate.
5. Go to each blogger’s page in addition to allow them know virtually the award.
6. Thank the mortal who nominated you lot in addition to link dorsum to their blog.

I follow SO many blogs it is difficult to acquire through in addition to detect the ones that exclusively possess got 200 or less followers but I constitute some, but here's about prissy newer bloggers from my bloglovin' listing : )

Katina at Wonder Bugs
Stacey at Teaching Ever After
Shannon at The Teaching Reef
Deeann at Math Tubs inwards Kindergarten
Kay at Sommer Pride
Katheryn at A handbasket total of apples
Priscilla at If you lot give a instructor a blog
Math Maniac (who mightiness survive trying to cover his/her name?)at The Elementary Math Maniac
in addition to about Picture mass blogs...
Lisa at I pump Picture Books
Robyn & Whitney at Pen Pals & Picture Books
in addition to they in all probability wouldn't convey the award, but I idea I would mention...
Walker Books has a prissy trivial blog We believe inwards Picture Books and they demand to a greater extent than followers.

I don't intend I could come upwardly up amongst xi random things virtually me....but hither are the answers to the questions from Amy

1.  How many years possess got you lot taught?  I genuinely exclusively taught 1 yr formally, but I possess got been pedagogy my kids ever since they were born--so 12 years : )

2.  What was your worst dependent area inwards school? Social Studies/history.  I dearest individuals in addition to learning virtually individuals, but societies every bit a whole was never genuinely my affair in addition to I had problem memorizing facts in addition to keeping dates straight.

3.  What is your favorite affair virtually teaching?  When a tyke catches the dearest of learning!

4.  What is your favorite affair virtually summer?  The long daylight hours to pass fourth dimension amongst my kids.  I experience similar I possess got to a greater extent than release energy when the Sun it up.

5.  Why did you lot create upwardly one's hear to start blogging?  I wanted to acquire to know other instructor bloggers in addition to thus when my books acquire published I'll possess got an audience.  It's also a expert creative outlet for me : )

6.  Do you lot possess got whatever pets?  Tell us virtually them.  We in conclusion got a domestic dog a yr ago.  Lucky is an energetic terrier mix : )  A motion-picture demo of him is inwards my Sandy, is having a linky of Memory Monday.  I idea I would throw inwards a math related retentiveness or two...

I was the youngest of 5 kids in addition to my side past times side blood brother upwardly from me was 4 years older than me.  I wanted to acquire to schoolhouse SO much each fourth dimension my brothers in addition to sisters went off to school.  Eventually, my mom decided she would create a trivial math lesson for me each 24-hour interval (I don't intend she felt confident on pedagogy me reading, in addition to thus nosotros only did math).  So, since I was 3 in addition to 4 I was thinking virtually math in addition to I enjoyed adding in addition to subtracting numbers.

Then about other milestone was inwards outset flat when my instructor had a fractions poster.  I don't recall if she taught amongst it much.  It was posted inwards the room afterward she gave a hand-on lesson amongst cutting a strip of paper.  I constitute fractions intriguing in addition to I could tell that 2/8 equals 1/4 or 4/16 since I was 6 years one-time only from having my instructor create that 1 lesson in addition to how she left the poster upwardly for the remainder of the year.

Fast forwards a few years to 4th flat when other students were having a difficult fourth dimension agreement in addition to remembering their times tables, the instructor allow me survive a tutor for pocket-sized groups of my classmates.  I was able to demo them arrays in addition to helped them empathize the concept of multiplication.  That is when I knew I wanted to survive a teacher.

Since I was immature I possess got loved to larn in addition to I intend a lot of kids start off that way.  As teachers it's a big labor to teach, inspire, in addition to motivate, but it's worth every endeavor : )

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I withal demand a invitee blogger for a minute flat math post inwards September if anyone wants to convey the spot.  Just fill upwardly out the cast on my Guest blogger tab.

Have a non bad 24-hour interval everyone!

Currently August

I loved how concluding calendar month it helped me teach to my 100 followers!  Thank y'all Farley for having such a prissy linky each calendar month on your blog, Oh Boy fourth Grade

Here it goes!

Thanks for stopping by!  I would dearest to convey novel visitors dorsum to encounter closed to of my fun hands-on math activities!

Have a peachy residue of your summer!