Five For Friday

Teacher Tip Tuesday

This week's teacher tip was about hanging decorations/posters/resources on the walls in the classroom.  

I use packing tape and then hot glue the piece i want to hang on the wall so that it is easy to take down and the hot glue doesn't mess up whatever I'm hanging. Check out my Teach Tip Tuesday link for more information.

check out my newest FREEBIE in my TPT store.  This is a weekly to do list that can be used when planning out the following week.  Write down what to expect M-F and then everything you need to do to prepare for the week on the right side.  This is also part of my teacher binder that I am still working on, but hope to post soon.

This is a craft that I have my students complete the first week of school, to get them writing and tell me about their summer. They always turn out super cute and the it is the first thing that I will hang up on my student work wall.

One of our first units in math is number sense.  I created journal activities for my students to complete each day.  It gives them practice with the lesson, and allows them to use their journal as a resource to look back on later.

It covers numbers to 100 and place value.

Last year I implemented number talks into my morning meeting.  I really liked the placement of this in the morning and how the skill really helped the students understand number sense and later helped them with addition and subtraction.  

I have made the Kindergarten Number Talk dot cards and the First Grade Number Talks dot cards for you to use in your classroom.  They are already in order, all you have to do to print and cut.  Put them together by number and have the students first tell you what the number is and then how they got that number.,

Number Talks Dot Cards

I have created the kindergarten number talks dot cards on a PowerPoint to use on the computer or to print out and use as cards. I created these for my team and other teams in my school have used the, as well.  Some teachers prefer the cards while others love having it on their computer to show the students on the smart board.  I like having the cards, but I have used it with the smart board as well.

The purpose of number talks is to get the students talking about how they see the number on the screen/card.  Some students see the dots missing in a ten-frame and other students skip count the dots shown. Even though both answers are different, they are both correct.  Each student will explain their thinking in a different way at because students think differently, and that is ok.  That is also the point of number talks. Students are allowed to think differently and come up with the correct answer.  It also builds the fluency of numbers with the students and allows them to better understand the representation of each number and what it means.

My students enjoy doing number talk cards because they get to talk about the numbers and help each other learn and explain their thinking.  You can get the kindergarten number talks cards here. Enjoy!
You can also get the 1st grade number talk cards here.