Happy Monday! I am happily blogging away on my new computer, The MacStache! Can I just say I am loving this thing?! Especially the 27″ high definition monitor! OMG! Mr. Greg is a happy boy!
I am also multi-tasking! I am blogging…printing a craftivity and making CDs for my presentation tomorrow! I am doing the professional learning sessions for all grades at my school tomorrow on how I use centers in my class! Hello nervous!
Today I want to share a simple activity for your morning meeting that gets the students up and moving and helps them build their sentence skills…and punctuation skills!
How about a little sentence scramble?!?
This is a low prep, no cost activity that can be used over and over again. It can be differentiated and you can make it more and more challenging as the year goes on.
You need some index cards. Of course mine are neon because I like bright colors. Bright colors match my bright sparkly personality!
On the index cards you write the words to a sentence. The sentence can be as simple or complex as your class needs. I included the punctuation as a separate card. I included all types of end punctuation as a review.
I hand out the cards and the students stand up. The words to the sentence are mixed up. We quickly read the words and start trying to put the sentence in order.
Once the words are in the correct order, we read the sentence. We also discuss the end punctuation and re-read the sentence with correct expression.
Today we did 4 sentences and it took about 4-5 minutes of our morning meeting. That’s a quick, effective and easy review of sentences.
Now, please notice the facial expressions of my four ‘staches in the last picture. From left to right:
Enthusiastic. Bored and over it. Two more who are just enjoying themselves. And finally, she is THRILLED with this activity!
And now, how about a give away!?! OK, how about TWO give aways?!
Here are my latest common core creations! I would love to give one of each away to 2 people!
To enter, just leave a comment (with your email address) and share a simple do-it-yourself idea for a math center!
I’ll choose a winner tomorrow!
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41 comments
Would love to win the common core activities. This is my 1st year of teaching, so any resources I cherish! 🙂 One thing I have made for a math center is our decomposing lady bug. I printed out a ladybug with a line down the middle so it has two sides. I give students a cup with the amount of counters(red/yellow) we are decomposing that day. Students shake and spill and place all the yellow and red on each side. Then they write the number below. They love it and it was an easy DIY! asemelsberger@yahoo.com
What does Mrs. Lynch say?
“Me me me me me me me!!!”
Seriously, your creations are awesome and I hope to win!!!!
Forgot my email address!!!
stacey_lynch82@yahoo.com
Love all your materials.
Viggianos@sbcglobal.net
I use cards for a math center. The kids use a deck of cards to compare numbers and add numbers. liza_jane@yahoo.com
B_kelly@pauldingschools.org. I use K-cups for matching numbers and value, also could match number words. Also use them for making word families. Would be great to win!!
davenportrl@gmail.com
I use a deck of cards and we play making ten go fish. Easy, but the kids enjoy it.
Pick me!!!!!
Beatyc@k12tn.net
I pull out my buzzer buttons and we play a title game show. Only takes seconds. I use simple math fact cards and we have a little friendly competition. Not only for math, but letters, initial sounds, ending sounds, it's endless……. Oh and by the way…..PICK ME!!! LOL!
My kiddos would love this! Brannankj@gmail.com. I use Popsicle sticks as fast facts!
I wish I could tell you some grand activity but I am not creative at all. My kiddos love roll and colors using two dotted dice that I got from Highlights.
cockerill7@gmail.com
My kids love to do Add the Room activities! We do one each week, and when they see the clipboards, they get way excited! To make it interesting, I hide the last one in a secret silly place (under tables, under our plant, on the bathroom mirror, outside at our cubbies, on my assistant's shirt). Once they have found all of the other ones, they get to come ask me for the secret one!
amberpaigeprince@gmail.com
What a great idea, I have those neon index cards too! 🙂 A simple math center my kiddos love is to take die cuts or seasonal notepads and just write numbers on them. (Then laminate of course!) Then the kiddos put them in order, mine get harder as the year goes on and they love the changing background. Right now ours our hearts, before we had snowmen, trees, conucopias and pumpkins!
nhuggenberger@gmail.com
I have the fox CVC and CVC-E, so you know I'm loving the blends!! I LOVE everything I have ever used of yours–time to break out the Ninjas!! Thank you so much for being a great inspiration and creative source. For a simple practice center, I have kids use a deck of cards (numbers only) and they play the old school “battle” game–they compare numbers and the higher number gets to keep the cards. The one with the most at the end wins the battle. in the case of the same numbers, they flip another card and the higher number takes ALL of them! easy, peasy, fun and very inexpensive (Dollar Tree). Thanks again, Greg!
I would so love to win!! I like to use dice (if you put them in a clear box it keeps if from rolling all over the floor). They shake it and add the 2 numbers that show. You can also do comparing numbers and if you use 1 then it can be a form of number identification. 🙂 ncolson77@yahoo.com
Count and clip cards! I put stickers on index cards (neon, as well) and write 3 different numbers on the bottom. The kiddos count the stickers and put a clothespin clip on the correct number. Your common core creations are wonderful!! 🙂 darkowsl@miamioh.edu
Happy to have found your blog! Thanks for sharing.
hudgins.kindergarten@gmail.com
Great ideas…really enjoy your blog!
My kiddos love any kind of unusual small objects as counting manipulatives.
amy.rugaard@mnps,org
OOOOOOO! So much fun! I haven't done mixed up sentences, but my kids love singing “inspector fix it” (thanks to teacher tipster) and this would go great with it!
Thanks!!!!
Julie1133@hotmail.com
Just love your ideas!!!! My kids roll a dice write the and spell the word. Simple and not costly. The kids love it, they turn it into game! Lots of fun! Lmlandrum2007@hotmail.com
My kindies love any roll and color/cover game. We start with numbers 1-6, but about December we break out the 1-12 game. Thanks to some fabulous kindergarten blogs I have a wide assortment of games for every season and holiday. My kids also loved “snowball fight.” Numbers 1-10 (run 2 sets, one on blue snowflakes, one on white). Throw the “snowballs” for about a minute, then stop and have the kids unfold the snowflakes and put themselves in order. As we get better at our numbers we do one set from 1-20.
mwetherbie2@cherrycreekschools.org
Oops. They write the number and spell the number!!!
love the Aliens…just bought new book that will go with it! In math we take cheap paper bowls,,,mark domino style dots up to 10, then write 1-10 in another bunch to match up for quick recognition. Lastly, the kiddos count out small trinkets to make a complete set. Differentiation so easy! Wow…so would love to win! Thanks, love following you!
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so giddy i forgot important information. sipesjodie@gmail.com
faustrs@mps.k12.mi.us I love to have the children go on a shape hunt around the classroom using a clipboard. I have a paper that has boxes and in each box there is a 3D shape. They can draw or write what they find around the classroom!
Love that idea for making sentences….will be using that today!!
vwitherell@gmail.com
I wrote numbers on index cards. Then I have my kindergartners build cube towers to match the number!
garcia.katrinai@gmail.com
LOVE IT!!!! You have fantastic ideas! Can't wait to use this one today! 🙂 nelk@richland.k12.wi.us
jaclynedwards@optonline.net
would love these!
for math centers I have some dominoes and number cards. the kids have to match the dots on the domino to the correct numeral. They love it! Once they're done they can turn the cards/dominoes over and play a memory game.
I just found your blog and am so GLAD I did! My email is a_norby@Hotmail.com.
A simply math center is game of war using unifix cubes and number cards. Each kiddo draws a card, builds the number with unifix cubes, and then whoever has the highest number wins! Simple, fast, and easy! Thank you for all of you great ideas!
My kids love the number cards with a hole punched on the side to add the correct number of links. Any printed cards with ten frames and numbers with objects are my favorites.
sorry forgot email…brown.mariann@yahoo.com
I absolutely am in love with you and your blog and am soooo disappointed when you don't post. Your like a religion. Anyway, I like to do a simple domino addition center. It can be differentiated to any skill level. All you do is put a number on a cup and make sure that you have dominos that equal that number. Its easy and my little kinders love it!!
partykas@kean.edu
🙂 Stephanie
I absolutely am in love with you and your blog and am soooo disappointed when you don't post. Your like a religion. Anyway, I like to do a simple domino addition center. It can be differentiated to any skill level. All you do is put a number on a cup and make sure that you have dominos that equal that number. Its easy and my little kinders love it!!
partykas@kean.edu
🙂 Stephanie
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I would love this! I check your blog almost daily and use SO many of your ideas! An easy math center I use is to draw a line on a ziploc bag and show different ways to make a certain number using cubes or anything small!
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Kristi
titanfan311@yahoo.com
I hope I am not too late! I tried to leave a comment at school, but my firewall blocked me. I absolutely LOVE your site. I am constantly checking it to get new ideas.
A math center that my kiddos absolutely LOVE are the spin and add games that I will make for them. Depending on the season, I will make spinners that reflect that time of year (penguins, etc). They spin the spinner twice, use manipulatives and solve the addition problem. They adore it.
Anyway 🙂
laurietyner@gmail.com
Lots of ideas to do using a deck of cards or dice
Thanks for the chance to win your newest creation
a_urso@yahoo.com
baalem@gmail.com
My students love ten frames and acting out problems with on the floor in our giant duck tape ten frame. I also use math review as an exit out the door.
My kids love using the ten frames with holiday shapes I get at the Dollar Store. I have plastic hearts out with them now. bvaughan@ccps.org
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