Primary Flynn

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 ...

Online learning created many challenges for all teachers.  I teach grade Primary and for math, we use a lot of hands on materials such as counters and dice.  When my students had to move to online learning from home, it created a challenge regarding dice for some of the activities the kids would be doing.  I needed to come up with an idea that would allow the students to “roll” a die or dice for the various activities they would be doing online and that it had to be in the same spot as the activity.  I didn’t want my students to have to go to another site to “roll” a die or dice.   I created these videos that have virtual die or dice and I put the die and/or dice in random orders.  I made the videos around 5 minutes. Then I inserted the videos into the Google Slide activities.  Below is a video explaining how I used the videos with one of my online activity. The videos in this package: Single Die: Random roll #1-3 Random roll #1-4 Random roll #1-5...

My students love the Spot It Game and with the COVID19 online learning, I realized I needed to create a few games students could play with each other over their Chromebooks.   I have created Spot It games with 31 cards and 57 cards.   There are 3 one player games and 3 two player games each with the 31 cards and 57 cards.   I hope your students enjoy looking for the match.   You can find this activity in my TPT store at the following link: Spot It Games Enjoy!

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 Num...

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 cove...

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

Well, another school year has come and gone and summer is upon us!  I try to relax and enjoy the summer but I do take this time to update some of my TPT products.   One product I have been working on updating is my plant jouranl.  Here is the link to the explanation of my paper copy plant journal https://primaryflynn.blogspot.com/2012/08/plant-journal.html I have decided to update my plant journal for Google Apps specifically Google Slides.   Every year I notice my primaries are getting better at using the Samsung tablets and Chromebooks so I believe they are reading to do more projects on the Chromebooks.  You can find this package in my TPT store at the following link: Google Slides Plant Journal There is also a video explanation of the journal. Enjoy! Kemble :-)