Activities
Activity One
Students will make a number bonds activity mat by using a square piece of construction paper, two round pieces of construction paper, and two rectangular pieces of construction paper. This will be large enough to put unfix cubes on to compose and decompose numbers. After students master them with cubes we will start using numbers.
Activity Two
Students will make an interactive notebook with their daily story problems. I will type the story problem out and they will glue it to one side (the back of a page) of their notebook. The other side will be used for drawing and acting out their math strategy.
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There were two apples in a basket at breakfast. Tom put three apples in the basket at lunch. How many apples are in the basket? |
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Activity Three
Students will use picture books to make their own story problems. Students will pick out a picture book in the library. Each group of students (4 per group) will find a picture and discuss ways to make a story problem. Once they have made a decision on the story problem they will write it on a piece of construction paper and illustrate the picture. Students will work together until they have made a story problem for each of the students books. We will share their stories and display them in our room.
Activity Four
Students will make story problems with dominoes by using inverse operations. If their domino has a six and a two on it, they will write an equation for each family addition and subtraction problem.
6 + 2 = 8
2 + 6 = 8
8 - 2 = 6
8 - 6 = 2
Once the equations are correct the students will write a story problem for their equations and illustrate their stories on construction paper. Students will share and display their stories in the classroom or hallway. This activity helps students learn the inverse operations of numbers.
Activity Five
Students will do addition and subtraction on mats with straight pretzels and marshmallows. The pretzels will represent the tens rods and the marshmallows will represent the ones cubes. This activity helps students learn to add tens together and ones together. If they have a problem like twenty six plus thirteen, they will put two pretzel sticks in the tens place and six marshmallows in the ones place. Under those they will put one pretzel stick under the tens place and three marshmallows in the ones place. Now they can add the two tens and the one tens to get three tens or thirty. Then they will add the six ones and the three ones to get nine ones. This activity helps students learn to line up their tens and ones.
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