Birthday Board + a Freebie

 I would love to celebrate my students' birthdays with a fun, festive Birthday Board, so I am preparing cupcakes for my classroom. I don't know exactly how would it look like. If you have some good ideas, or pictures of your chart, I would be glad to hear it, see it and try it. I made this birthday card today. If you like it and/or need it, click on the picture and download it for free.
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Order of Operations

Just a quick post to share my newest Freebie with you. This is an easy to follow worksheet for mastering addition and subtraction facts. Complete the addition and subtraction worksheets in a whole or small group setting or use them for independent practice. If preferred, send the worksheets home as homework assignments.
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Number of the Day Activities

Do you do number of the day activities with your class? It is a super effective, simple and fun activity for a daily math warm-up. I am so excited to introduce my latest creation Number of the Day Task Card Slider. You can use it in a math center to practice number recognition, to reinforce number order, sorting odd and even numbers, patterning, basic operations, skip counting. Have another idea to add to the list? Please share it in the comments below. This packet includes the following: - Slider - Camera (color, b&w) - 100 random number cards 0-1000) - 6 different TASK CARDS - Each Task Card has 9 ways to work with the number. You can differentiate easily by customizing with target pages. Like the activity you've seen so far? Just click on the image bellow. Want more Number Cards? Make sure you check out these collection.
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FREE Woodland Animal Patterning Activity

Hi there! Just wanted to share a few ideas for teaching patterns and my latest freebie I made for my kiddos this week! Understanding patterns is an important mathematical concept. Provide your students with plenty of patterning practice and you will establish a strong foundation for learning more advanced math concepts later. Here is my collection of ideas for teaching patterns: 1. Manipulatives (Unifix cubes, counting bears) 2. Toys (cars or other small toys) 3. Dot Markers 4. Stamps 5. Coins 6. Stickers 7. Lego Duplo 8. Beads (let them make bracelets) 9. Pom poms 10. Seeds 11. Fruit 12. Bottle caps 13. Make a sound pattern (clap, snap your fingers, clap, snap your fingers) 14. Create a movement pattern (jump, jump, wiggle, wiggle, wiggle, jump, jump, wiggle, wiggle, wiggle) 15. Solve a problem e.g. I have five gummy bears. The first gummy bear is yellow, the second gummy bear is orange, the third gummy bear is green. If
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Emergent Readers I Like I Don't Like Fluency Strips Freebie

Just a quick post to share my newest Emergent Readers Fluency Strips Freebie with you. This FREE Fluency Strips Set helps kiddos revise I like/I don't like/do you like? expressions. I Like I Don't Like Fluency Strips packet includes the following: 1. 48 Fluency Strips              Set 1 - I like fruit (pages 4-5)             Set 2 - I don’t like fruit (pages 6-7)             Set 3 - Do you like? (pages 8-9) These Fluency Strip Sets provide learners with repetitive text to help them learn I like, I don’t like, Do you like? expressions and fruit words. The Fluency Strips are very simple to put together. - Print pages 4-9 (print each set on a different colored cardstock). - After printing, you can laminate them if you like, cut out the pages, hole punch them and placed them on a ring. 2. Fluency Assessment - There are class and individual fluency assessment sheets so you can easily monitor students progress (pages 10-15). KEY
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