This concept is based off something I saw online, but this resource has really grown over the last week to include so many more resources than when it was first developed! This resource comes with: -charts explaining each concept with pre-made pictures -blank charts for you to add your own pictures -tumble board pictures -anchor charts for each concept This resource also comes with some additional worksheets and activities that I have integrated into this PRISM Maths Concept. -problem solving thinking frames -number of the week chart -missing numbers activities -signs for boxes Check out my video below walking you through the resource pack!
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So getting ready for the school year is a hard process that involves so many things you want to do, complete and use! It really can be difficult to cull it down to things you want to try, and should try. I was 100% fixed on the idea of using Daily 3 in Maths this year. But after a big think, I actually changed my mind and developed my own Maths concept based on something I came across online. PRISM An acronym for five different stations or activities students will/can complete in Maths Time. P - Practise by myself R - Ready with a buddy I - I can use technology S - Solve in book M - Manipulative exploration I created each part of the PRISM maths concepts as anchor charts for students to view and see exactly what activities can be used. Today I introduced it in class and the students loved being able to refer back to the charts to help them make choices. You can download this resource to use in your classroom too! It comes with my anchor charts that explain each step, my resources that I have mentioned in the pictures (number of the week chart, missing numbers activity, signs for games box and problem solving charts).
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My piggy bank bingo This activity is like usual bingo but with piggy banks! Students get a playing board and put the money note cards in a pile. This game can be played whole class, groups or with buddies. Students can take turns pulling a note money and seeing whether they have that on their piggy bank in front of them. The winner is the person with all their piggy banks covered!
Alongside these resources, there are some others that I have created that interweave amongst it.
This resource is awesome for having students explore using money and purchasing food. This good work into a shop unit that you might have in class, or just to make some real life connections between money and items. There are three ways to use this resource: 1. use money to create an item of food 2. use money to add 3 items of food together and write the total at the end 3. use money to add the total of the items on the shopping list. This resource is available on my Teachers Pay Teachers page, check it out here. Show me the money! A new resource added to my Teachers Pay Teachers store today! This one involves QR codes, getting the students engaged with digital technology also. Print off the recording sheet and QR codes. Place the QR codes anywhere in the room and have students scan them. Once scanned, students figure out the amount of money on the piggy bank and write it on the recording sheet! So fun and easy to use! This resource is available on my Teachers Pay Teachers page, check it out here! Love to hear your feedback! If you have any ideas to be added to the pack too then also let me know! Email me info@mrspriestleyict.com This week's Sunday spotlight is these new maths thinking boards! A great way for students to share their learning in different ways, when solving problems. Perfect for students to love figuring out problems or other ways to explain their thinking.
These thinking boards come for addition, subtraction, multiplication and division problems; catering for all levels or areas of learning. Each thinking board has a space for the equation in the middle and a space for students to write the answer. These are also available in digital form to download and make copies of. The link to the digital versions are in the maths thinking board pack! To download this Sunday Spotlight, visit my Teachers Pay Teachers Store or click on the link here >> Maths Thinking Boards. This is another free resource to add to your classroom practice! Today we opened Room 11's Ice-cream shop (pretend of course)! This is to tie into our classroom learning about ice-creams and money. My students really wanted some way of making a shop, so I did a little bit of research on Pinterest and came across a great resource which has helped make this possible!
I created an area for students to view the menu and price list, a place for ordering and a place for making the ice-creams. Students could choose a different role: -the customer: ordering the ice-cream and paying the money -the shop keeper: taking the order and giving change if needed -the makers: looking at the orders and making the ice-creams Students had some fake money that they needed to use to figure out their order and pay the shop keeper. The price list was on our ice-cream shop wall and they had to think about what money they might need to make it. Some students needed to work together with another to figure it out, but many were successful in adding amounts together. Students then got their order and could pretend to eat it like you would a ice-cream and return it once finished. Students could also give complaints if something in their order wasn't there. It was also a great way of practicing some oral language: using manners, ordering, giving a complaint positively. It was so much fun and my class have asked if we can keep it out everyday to play with. Check out here for the link to the resource I used, it is from Teachers Pay Teachers and not one that I own sorry! Thanks ABC Nook for the resource! This week I am sharing my newly created 'My Piggy Bank' game! This game is perfect for those students learning about money, creating sets with money and adding together! We have been focusing on money recently in class so this will be a great addition to our tumbles!
Students choose a game playing board (the re are 3 to choose from), get a piggy bank and dice. Roll a number and move that many spaces on the game board, gathering the right amount of money for their piggy bank depending on what they land on. The winner is the person with the most money at the end! **This activity is only in New Zealand dollars so apologies for those from overseas! Download this resource from my Teachers Pay Teachers store here >> My Piggy Bank. This week we started looking at money and using fake money to create amounts for objects of food. I assumed that my students actually knew and understood the value that the coins and notes hold. But I was wrong!
So I searched for resources online and came across this awesome object with money amount resource. I used this as a starting point once I had introduced money, their value and done some basic introductory lessons. As an extension, some of my students wanted to create more than one item at once, like a shopping list! So i took this resource and created my own version but with extensions! In my Money and Food resource, students can create items of food with coins to show their beginning understanding of money. As an extension, students can then add 3 items together and write the total in the box. This could be used alongside fake money to help. As a harder challenge, students can add the items and their amounts like a shopping list, and write the total in the box. Students could use this alongside fake money too. I printed off the individual items and had them displayed in like a shop wall, so students could refer to this when working out the total amounts for this activity. This activity is a great way for reinforcing creation with money and in a real example or activity practice. This is available for purchase on my Teachers Pay Teachers Store or use the code 'moneyandfood' on my website to purchase it for FREE (for a limited time)! This week I am sharing these magic number letters with numbers from 1-100! These are perfect for your maths programme - number knowledge focus, independent activity or group work response!
For each number there is different templates depending on what you are focusing on. The numbers from 1-10 focus on easier number representation concepts like drawing a set, counting forwards or backwards or circling the number on a line. As numbers go from 11-100 there are other ways of representing the numbers! There are also blank templates at the end for your own customisation. In these templates there are over 400 combinations for 1-100 magic numbers! Find the link to the slides here, make a copy and use them in your class! 1-100 Magic Number Templates I am always looking for new ways of getting students engaged and using Seesaw in a meaningful way. The opportunities with Seesaw are really limitless and thats what makes it so great to use in any classroom!
My new Seesaw resources adapts one originally created by @mickie_mueller/@tracipiltz; which I have then modified for a reading and maths type contract activity! You can find the original here. The aim is for students to use it as a reading or maths contract over a week, and share evidence of their learning using the different tools Seesaw offers! The great thing is this can be adapted or changed to suit your students needs or levels! Perfect for any age. Each contract has five activities or ways students can document or show evidence in their learning. The reading contract is aimed around a book or study for the week, and the maths could be used for gathering evidence over a longer period of time or time focusing on a particular strategy. Both of these are customizable, just make a copy of the template and make changes that suit your class! Find the contracts here! Which one doesn't belong is a great prompting discussion within maths time. I use these a few times a week to get students to think about the possibilities and talk about their own reasoning with a buddy. These can be used within any year level, in whole class discussion, group discussion or individually!
I attended a PLD session from Donna Golightly who shared the website to these fantastic thinking prompts! I downloaded and collated some into some slideshows for you to use as well in your class! There are two sections: Which one doesn't belong - shapes Which one doesn't belong - number Click on the links above to access the google slide deck with some prompts you can use in your maths time. It is a great way to talk about different maths prompts, strategies and ways students think or interpret information. This helps students realise how huge the concept of maths can be and that their way of thinking isn't always the only way! Seesaw is the bomb and I have worked on creating loads of templates for teachers to use alongside Seesaw to share different parts of their learning. There are some for literacy (reading and writing) and also maths. The link to all the Seesaw templates are in my Google Drive that I have shared as part of this website. It has loads of other resources in it, but the Seesaw ones are also a big part of it! Check out the link to the Google Drive here, where you can get access to all the resources below plus more! 1-100 Magic numbers: perfect for a number of the day or week activity Addition 1-100 game board templates: addition 1-100 game board templates that can be used on Seesaw for addition practice Calendar Maths/number of the day: these are for senior students using Seesaw to show evidence of the number of the week Christmas maths addition templates: christmas themed maths addition templates Daily Organisers/number of the day: these templates are perfect for any age students focusing on a number of the week with different activities Handwriting templates: templates that can be used for handwriting practice HFW game boards: HFW game board templates that can be used on Seesaw for HFW practice Letter of the week: letter of the week templates that focus on a letter you might be focusing on. There are different activities for the letter Maths addition and subtraction templates: these templates are great for showing different addition and subtraction templates to solve equations or problems. Maths division templates: these templates are great for showing different ways of working out a division equation or problem. Maths multiplication templates: these templates are great for showing different ways of working out a multiplication equation or problem Number identification templates: these templates are great for number knowledge practice or identification. Practice your numbers 1-20: these templates show many different activities for numbers 1-20. Spelling templates: these templates provide different ways for practicing their spelling Word of the week: these templates allow students to practice their HFW in many different ways to reinforce knowledge and practice. Word of the week templates (second edition): these templates allow students to practice their HFW in many different ways to reinforce knowledge and practice. Click on the links to view the templates and use these in your classroom! Do you use Calendar Maths in your class?
A few years ago I went to a Maths PLD course where an educator was using Calendar Maths as part of her every day maths programme! I immediately fell in love with the concept and how many way you can use this in your classroom! Of course my calendar maths programme has changed over the past 3 years of me using it depending on the needs of my class. But it is still a vital part of my every day classroom practice. I have a calendar maths board that we refer to every day. Some of the key aspects taught on this are: days of the week, months, year, weather, calendar dates, number recognition, patterns and days in school. The days in school aspect is important as you really get to focus on the concept of place value - ones, tens and hundreds. When you reach 100 days at school, you get to have a 100s day party which is a fabulous time! All my classes have loved 100s day - its basically a day filled with everything 100! 100 activities, 100 number counting, 100 object building, 100 cake making! So much fun. To help share the love with using Calendar Maths, see my LTP that was devised to help teachers at my school see all the possibilities of using calendar maths within the class. You can download it and make a copy here. I also have some resources available! Check out my 100s day pack - ideal for 100 days at school with activities. Available here or at my Teachers Pay Teachers Store. Also check out my calendar maths pack which helps set your calendar maths board up! Available here or at my Teachers Pay Teachers Store. I am always looking for new ways of getting students engaged and using Seesaw in a meaningful way. The opportunities with Seesaw are really limitless and thats what makes it so great to use in any classroom!
My new Seesaw resources adapts one originally created by @mickie_mueller/@tracipiltz; which I have then modified for a reading and maths type contract activity! You can find the original here. The aim is for students to use it as a reading or maths contract over a week, and share evidence of their learning using the different tools Seesaw offers! The great thing is this can be adapted or changed to suit your students needs or levels! Perfect for any age. Each contract has five activities or ways students can document or show evidence in their learning. The reading contract is aimed around a book or study for the week, and the maths could be used for gathering evidence over a longer period of time or time focusing on a particular strategy. Both of these are customizable, just make a copy of the template and make changes that suit your class! Find the contracts here! PicCollage is one of those fabulous apps that can be utilised in any curriculum area with your students! The possibilities are endless with using PicCollage so today I am going to share some quick tips on using PicCollage!
I created these worksheets which are perfect for use with PicCollage or Seesaw! There is a little bit of everything inside this pack that can be used in both apps or just one! These worksheets are available for download from my Teachers Pay Teachers Store! Find the link here >> PicCollage and Seesaw Worksheets So let me walk you through how PicCollage works (just incase you haven't seen it before). PicCollage is basically a way to collage pictures (hence the name). It has some fabulous tools inbuilt into it! Each of these are accessible once you have chosen your picture. For this example, my students are working on a retell activity. They have their worksheet as the background, then will add drawings, pictures or text to fill in the parts. The tools you can use are: adding photos, searching the web for photos, adding text, adding stickers, changing the background colour and doodling (drawing). The first thing when using PicCollage and these worksheets is to choose your worksheet. This one here is a 'find the letter' activity that students would use to find things beginning with the letter of the week. Choose this as your background! To access the tools to add things click on the + at the bottom of your screen. You can see here I have used the 'doodle' feature to draw the letter of the week which is B. I then have inserted photos of things beginning with B from the web search and given text to each picture to explain what it is I have chosen. When you search for web pictures it is very simple! You type the word you are looking for in the search bar, look for your picture and simply tap it and then the tick! Your picture will then be added to your work and you can move it about or resize it to fit a space you have. When you have completely finished your work, tap the done button up the top and click save to library when it prompts you! Uploading your finished product to Seesaw is easy! Open up Seesaw, tap the green + and then tap camera roll. Choose your finished work from your camera roll and tap the green tick. Follow the prompts to finish adding it to your journal. You are done! Fantastic!! Easy to use and so much fun! This would be a Modification or Redefinition activity in the SAMR model as students are taking a usual drawing activity to a whole new level. Searching for images, using text, sharing it to a platform for feedback and connecting with other students in class by giving feedback! Here are two more examples of how I have used it in my class, with more to come! Hope you enjoy using PicCollage and Seesaw! |
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