I'm Back! and I have Probability pictures!

Well, I'm back! This has been my first back to school season being a mom and I am proud to say that I pulled through! I am exhausted. I don't know how teachers with more than one kid do it. Anyway, I never got around to showing all the classroom pictures I took before school even begun (I'll do that later). But I did want to share the probability unit that we just finished. Yes, we just took our second math unit test. That's how late I am.

I love teaching probability and I usually do centers. I'm typically scrambling trying to pull things together at the last minute. So this year, I decided to be proactive and use my super cute clip art that I just bought from Melonheadz to create an entire probability center set. It took me a while but it definitely paid off! My students loved this and I love how it helped me with teaching the unit.

Below are some pictures showing the centers that I put together and my students hard at work. To see more of this set, you can visit my store.

Here is a closer look at some of the centers:

I promise I won't be gone too long this time (although I did say that last time). I have a ton more cool things to share, including those classroom pictures that I never got around to. I'm also working on an animal adaptations unit, and I just tried my first ever close reading (thanks to the 24 seven teacher freebie).

 Thanks for stopping by, see you soon!

FREEBIE FRIDAY: Math Workshop Games

So apparently I am back with a vengeance! I haven't posted anything in a month and a half and then two in one day...I am on a roll! This will be a quick post, as opposed to my monster post earlier. I just wanted to share the directions sheets that I made to make my math games look cuter and more organized. The games came from all around, I just retyped the directions onto a cute template.

I store all of my games in laminated brown envelopes. The direction pages are color coded by skill (addition, subtraction, fractions, etc.) to help me out when selecting games to put in math workshop. Since the games come from all over and I did not create them, I do not have any materials for you to download other than the directions sheets. However, most of the directions sheets are self-explanatory as to what items are needed to play the game. Some pages are for file folder games, which are not pictured here. If you would like to use some of these pages and you are unsure about what materials to include with the game, leave me a comment and I will let you know. Enjoy!

Click HERE to access the freebie on Google Docs.

Check out all the other amazing freebies today.

Awesome Math Site with Resources Galore!

Lately I have been researching Math Workshop, trying to find a better method and additional resources. Then, I came across THIS great site from North Carolina Schools. They have resources for K-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12. For every grade level you can find:

• 36 weeks of lessons
• game printables for workshop centers (1 per week!)
• weekly math check-up sheets
• weekly math journal topics
• blackline masters
• classroom strategies by strand 

 

Click Here to read more about different types of math workshops on a new blog I created. I decided to start Creative Classroom Ideas as a place to jot down my own ideas for the upcoming school year and then I thought it could be fun and helpful to share the site with others. Thanks for stopping by!