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This Preschool Math Number Senses is a fun and engaging workbook to help your Preschooler learn early number sense from numbers 0 to 10 with fun winter pictures to count. Inside your preschooler will work on activities such as: 1 – Finding numerals (0 to 10) 2 – Tracing and printing numerals (0 to 10) 3 – Counting sets (0 to 10) 4 – Drawing their own number sets (0 to 10) Your preschooler will have fun counting winter pictures while building up their number sense. With 67 pages of practice, your preschooler will gain valuable number sense skills which in turn will lead to success in school. You can find this activity in my TPT store at the following link: Preschool Math Number Sense Enjoy!

Online learning certainly threw a curve ball for all teachers and students.  It sent teachers scrambling to create activities to do with students over a Google Meet or Zoom meeting.  When we went to online learning this time, we only had a few days to switch and have all our activities ready for the students.   I knew I needed a quick math activity that I could show my students over Google Meet and they could use their white boards or blank notebook to show me their answer.   I would present these math slides where the students are shown a picture with a certain amount of objects and then I give them 3 different numbers that could be the answer (with one of the numbers being the correct answer).  The students put their answer down and shows it to me in the camera.  Once I have seen all the students answers, I clicked on the Google Slide and a check mark appears by the correct number. My students’ loved them.  We continued the activities when in person learning was back the following mo

My students love doing this booklet on paper.  But when we had to go to online learning, I wanted to try to recreate this as much as I could.  My students draw their number monster on paper but also did one on Google Slides. When I introduce a number, my students do a number monster to that number.   For example, if I have introduced the number 2, their number 2 monster has to have 2 eyes, 2 noses, 2 mouths, 2 ears, 2 arms and 2 legs.   By the end of the year, they will have number monsters from 1 to 10. I have created number monster slides for the numbers 1 to 10.  I have created 3 sets: black and white monsters, coloured in monsters and faux fur coloured in monsters.  You can pick which ones you will assign.  I have also included slides with different eyes, mouths, noses, ears, arms and legs. I have included some on the slides but if you want to put different ones you can. You can find this package in my TPT shop at the following link: My Number Monster Book Numbers 1 to 10 E

Hello again, My students play concentration combinations in the classroom.  I have them printed on different coloured paper.  For example, for combinations of 5, they pick a blue card then a yellow card to see if the combination makes 5.  If it does, they keep the combination, if it doesn’t they flip the cards back over in the same spot and then their partner goes.  When we went to online learning, I tried to recreate some of the activities my students know how to do.   I have the same cards my students use in the classroom but just had to put coverings over them – blue and yellow.   My students learned to pick a blue covering and move it to the side to reveal the cards underneath and then pick a yellow cards and move it to the side to reveal the card underneath.   If the bottom cards made a combination of 5, they would cut the blue and yellow covering.   If they did not make a combination of 5, they would move the blue and yellow covering back and their partner could go ne

I have created number sense slides with monthly themes.   The student looks at the number in the corner and puts down that many objects into the picture background. They are very simple slides for your students to complete. March Slides April Slides You can find this package in my TPT store at the following link: March Number Sense Slides April Number Sense Slides Enjoy! Kemble

I had purchased my own mimio about 2 years ago on ebay for a great price.  It’s one of the older models but still works the same way as the newer ones it just doesn’t look as pretty.  I wasn’t able to use it as my old classroom didn’t have an LCD that was mounted and the students got really frustrated trying to use it with all the shadows that were happening so I put it away.  This year I moved to a new school and new classroom and an LCD was mounted!!!!  I started using the mimio slowly as I started to learn how to do things on it.  For my math routine, I had purchased a lovely math calendar that the students loved using and that we always did a pattern on.   I wanted to try to have the same type of calendar that the students were used to put up on the mimio.   I was able to take advantage of creating new date cards so that every month had a pattern on them and I noticed by the time I got to the pattern unit in math, my students were awesome at patterning because we had b

My students love mental math especially when I have something new for them.  We are doing combinations of 9 right now for mental math we go over lots of different combinations.  I created these flash cards to get their little minds thinking of what's missing.  The picture below shows what one of the flash cards looks like.  The top half is shown to the students first with the bottom half folded behind and once the students give their answers as to what's in the hand that is closed, I unfold the flash card and show the students what is in the hand. The students can use their white board to show me their answer.  These flash cards have combinations from 1 to 10.   You can find this package in my TPT store at the following link: http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Whats-Missing-Flash-Cards-1-to-10-1160426 or my TeachersNotebook shop at the following link: http://www.teachersnotebook.com/product/kemble_flynn/whats-missing-flash-cards Enjoy! Kemble

I am in awe of those who post every day on their teacher blogs.  I'm on my March Break and today is the first day to actually post something on my blog in a really long time.  I've been sick for most of my March Break which is not fun but at least I can rest when I need to.  Before March Break, my students were working on combining numbers and we had gotten to combinations of 9 and I found they were struggling a bit.  So I thought I would make a concentration game for them and they loved it and I really saw how they had to think about what card they needed to make nine.  For example, if they turned over a 7, they had to stop first and think what card did they need to make 9 and they knew right away that if they turned anything but a 2 over, they did make a match.  It was really neat to watch.  I also had them make a booklet where I provided 2 different pictures - orange bears and pink robots and they had to make combinations of 9 with them.  I gave them a strip of paper

We have new math and health outcomes so I have updated my checklists.  I have also added Science checklists for each of the units for you to print off.   There are checklists for Language Arts, Math, Health, Visual Arts, Science and Social Studies.  You can find the checklist for free at my TeachersNotebook shop at  http://www.teachersnotebook.com/product/kemble_flynn/grade-primary-nova-scotia-outcomes-checklists Or for free at my TPT store at http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Grade-Primary-Nova-Scotia-Outcomes-Checklists OR  my classroom website at http://hrsbstaff.ednet.ns.ca/keflynn/Teacher%20Assessment%20Resources.html Enjoy!!   Kemble :-)

As I said in an earlier post, anyone who teaches grade Primary to Grade Three in Nova Scotia will be executing a new math curriculum.  And one of the big ideas is subitizing which is the ability to recognize at a glance a quantity of objects without counting.  Dot paper plates are always used but I find they take up so much space.  So I wanted to create something that didn't really take up that much space and that I could laminate (which I love doing) so it would last and be protected especially in a primary classroom.  This is just like my new five frame paper plate product but this product has various dot arrangements on a picture of a paper plate.   This product has various dot combinations of the numbers 1 – 5 on a picture of a paper plate which you can print on cardstock and laminate.  I like to print the dot paper plates on both sides of the cardstock to save paper and be more efficient.  I came up with the following dot plate combinatio

For the 2013-2014 school year, anyone who teaches grade Primary to Grade Three in Nova Scotia will be executing a new math curriculum.  The Manitoba Education, the New Brunswick Department of Education and the Western and Northern Canadian Protocol (WNCP) for Collaboration in Education allowed the Nova Scotia Department of Education and Early Childhood Education to adapt their mathematics curriculum to develop our new guide. So I am in the process of learning the new outcomes and developing new materials that will be useful in my classroom and with this new curriculum. One of the big ideas in the new curriculum is subitizing which is the ability to recognize at a glance a quantity of objects without counting (really not new but there will be more of an emphasis).   Most use paper plates with the dot stickers on them but I wanted to try something different, would last longer and take up less space (because if your classroom is anything like mine there is a lot of stuff).