Happy Monday! Can I just share that the highlight of my day was that it was raining at dismissal?! True story. I help with rainy day dismissal so I asked The Mister for rain gear for Christmas and he totally came through. I finally got to wear my new rain gear today!!! People, it’s the little things that make me happy!
I admit that I am a total teaching dork. I love all things teaching. The planning, creating, the ideas, the stuff. Oh, the stuff. If it can be used (or possibly…even remotely…) in a classroom, I want it. I need it. Seriously. Amazon Prime with one click purchasing will be my downfall. The credit card bill ain’t pretty. So…when my friend Elizabeth at Kickin it In Kindergarten shared these Differentiated Instruction Cubes from Carson Dellosa, I headed to Amazon and one clicked myself a set. See, it’s evil. But oh so good!
Click the picture to see more about the shapes!
They arrived (thanks to my Amazon Prime membership…you don’t have it?! Get it! $79 a year and you get free 2 Day shipping and tons of streaming shows and video…totally worth it!) in 2 days. They traveled to my classroom and sat there. Yep.
Finally this weekend, I created an activity for the cubes! I know, right?! See…teaching stuff lures me in and then it goes to my classroom and sometimes gets lost in the glitter and sparkle and mustaches…
Since we are doing shapes this week, I decided to incorporate these cubes into our centers for the week!
I made three sets of cards for the three cubes. There are 2D shapes, 3D shapes and a set of 3D shape objects. See…differentiated.
What I love about these is that you print the cards, cut them out and slide them in. And changing these out for a new center or activity will be easy peasy! Genius things, those cubes!
They roll the cube and graph the shape. When one shape reaches the top, they stop and make their tally marks and write how many. It’s shapes and data and counting and how many. All that learning (see, one activity meeting many standards.) means working smarter, not harder!
And guess what, I’m sharing a freebie for ya!
Just click on the picture to download your free set of cards!
Click here to download your free graphing sheets!
