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Halloween is coming up and the students get so excited for it!!  This is when I love doing little Halloween games that are fun and the students can play over and over.  I use erasers and plastic spiders from the Dollar Store.  Here are some of the games we like to play in my class: Zero Wins Player A takes 10 pumpkin erasers and places them on the pumpkin and Player B takes 10 ghost erasers and places them on the ghost. Each player, in turn, spins the spinner and does what it says.  For example, if Player A spins “get 2”, Player A must take 2 ghost erasers and put them with their pumpkin erasers.  If Player B spins “lose 3”, Player B gives 3 of the ghost erasers to Player A.  The first player to end up with zero erasers wins. Spider's Web Taking turns, each player flicks the paper clip on the spinner and whatever number the paper clip lands on, the player takes that many spiders off the spider web.  Once all the spiders are off the web, each player counts h

Last year for Thanksgiving, I wanted a game that the kids could easily play and have fun.  So I bought a big styrofoam ball and a bag of feathers from Dollarama and printed out a picture of a turkey.  I taped the turkey on the front and stuck the feathers in.  The students had to take turns rolling a die and take that amount of feathers out of the turkey.  Once all the feathers were gone, the students had to count how many feathers they each had and the student with the most feathers won.  Then the students placed the feathers back into the turkey and played again.   So this year, I decided to take this idea one step further and created feathers (which I laminated) with numbers and pictures of either one die or two dice.  And the game pretty much stays the same in that kids take turns rolling either one die or two dice and either take that amount of feathers or take the feather with that number/die/dice on it.  I hot glue gunned Q-tips on the back of each feather so they would

Last March I created my Geometry fans that would be an assessment tool for me and just geometry fun for the kids.  My students LOVED using the fans with each other and at math centers.  So this year I have come up with number sense fans with a variety of numbers, dice and base 10 materials on each fan.  I am very excited to use this resource all year in my classroom.  I created small and bigger fans this year too.   This resource has been developed as a teaching tool and resource you and your students can use together or separately. These fans would be a great way to build number sense and operation sense with your students.  Students can use these fans as a reference when working on their math or at centres or with a partner. The fans are a great assessment tool for the teacher to quickly assess each student’s knowledge of number sense or operation sense. They are aligned with the Atlantic Canada Mathematics Curriculum outcomes. Included: - Small Individual Dice Fans