Today was our first day with everyone!!!! We had a great time!!! We are all learning each other's names, which most of us know, but more importantly our personalities, strengths, and weaknesses.
This has been very helpful as we have been implementing math workshop. We are learning new math games to have as a choice, we got on sumdog today, ipads, and then time with me. Some math games that we have done include power tower, addition jenga, and addition top it. All of these games are focused on learning math facts. This will not always be the same but we will introduce new games gradually. Power tower is with flash cards and dixie cups. Every fact that you get correct you get to put a cup in place to start your own tower. Addition jenga is jenga with math facts on the blocks. If you are able to successfully able to pull one of the block out of the tower and answer the problem correctly then you can add that block to your own tower. Addition top-it is like war but instead pulling two cards and adding them together the highest gets the cards. We are using number grids to check each others facts.
I do want to comment to say that I did not make these games up. They were all seen on other blogs; guided math, chasing cheerios, and then everyday math introduced me to addition top-it.
Try some at home. I will try to post some pictures next week during math workshop of the children enjoying these games!
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