math

If you’ve been around TKS for a while, you know that Mr. Greg loves keeping things simple. I also understand the importance and necessity of low-prep, reusable, year-long ideas. Especially…

Confession:  I’m a Dollar Tree addict.  There, I admit it.  I have a problem. You see, I stroll around that amazing store and fill my cart up with items that…

This year, I promised my students and their families during virtual learning: when we return to in-person learning, I would give the class THE BEST KINDERGARTEN YEAR EVER! And that…

Kids love practicing math skills by playing games!  I love easy prep games that can be used in whole group lessons and then turned into a center activity.  This subtraction…

This week we’re continuing Vowel Bootcamp, working on subtraction, and celebrating Easter. It’s also a short three-day week for us so this week’s Schedulin Sunday is short! Note: This year,…

This hands-on addition activity is an easy to make and highly engaging way for students to practice addition.   It is FREE, hands-on, and easily differentiated.    And really FUN!…

Teen numbers are hard for kindergartners. Kids need to work with teen numbers using hands-on lessons that allow them to make teen numbers with a variety of tools and strategies.…

Place value, teen numbers and ten and some more are all concepts that can be a bit challenging for our students.  But when you use giant base ten manipulatives, it…

Ya’ll. It’s so important for our kids to know the different combinations to make 10. Why? Because this helps build that fluency with addition to 10, to 20, and even…

This week is 2s Day! We are celebrating Tuesday, 2-22-22 all day long on Tuesday! We’re also adding to 10 with cars, reading Three Billy Goats Gruff, and learning about…