I absolutely love teaching math to first graders. There are so many new skills and concepts introduced throughout the year….
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Base Ten Blocks for Teaching Place Value
Young students often think of numbers much differently than we do. In fact, math concepts in general are quite abstract….
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How I Teach Making Ten with a Ten Frame
As primary teachers we do a lot of introducing concepts for the very first time. With this comes a big…
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Fun Calendar Time Activities
One of my favorite times of the school day is calendar time. There are so many skills you can work…
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Teaching Numbers to 10
Teaching numbers can be tricky business because there is more to teaching numbers than just counting. Many times parents will…
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Teaching Color Words; Activities and Ideas
Color words are a simple teaching task, and there are many ways to do it. I wanted to share with…
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St Patricks Day NO PREP
I have to be honest I completely forgot I had made a no prep pack. This pack is a couple…
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Doubles and Doubles Plus One
Hey All! These past few weeks have been a total craze! We moved from Lake Stevens to Issaquah. I wanted…
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Shapes and Shape Monsters
We have been learning about shapes the last 5 days in school. These are firsties so I tried to keep…
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