Turkey Tail Patterns

Hi everyone,  It's Cheryl Irick and I'm super excited to share my newest product with you!  It's my Turkey Tail Patterns.

I've been using it in my classroom for a couple of years, but I just put it on TpT this month.  You can be among the first to try it out as my dollar steal for October!   Grab it now and get it prepped and ready for November.  It's only $1 until October 13th.

It makes a great math display.  It looks like an easy activity, but surprisingly some kids have difficulty making the pattern in a circle and not a straight line.  It really challenges their thinking.

To do this you will need pattern blocks and an Ellison die cut machine with pattern block die cuts.

I'm lucky in that I have both of those available at my school.

Decomposing Numbers The Apple Pie Way!

Happy Fall, everyone! It's Gina from Miss Peluso's Kindergarten, here to share some Fall fun! Are you looking for ways to incorporate the Fall season into your lessons? Last year, I wanted to find a fun and engaging way to teach my students how to compose and decompose numbers. They just weren't "getting" that numbers are made up of smaller numbers, no matter how many activities we tried! After our trip to the apple orchard, I decided that a real world connection might be just what they needed! What's a better way to incorporate both real world connections and Fall than apple pie?!

I decided that the lessons would focus on "recipes" to make apple pie. The recipe would call for a number of apples, and we would figure out how many red and yellow apples we could use to get to the total number of apples that we needed.

We counted out the number of apples that we needed, and placed them in a bucket. Each apple card is double sided (red on one side, yellow on the other). One student got to shake up the bucket and dump the apple cards onto the table. 

Then, we sorted the apple cards by color so we could see how many red apples and how many yellow apples we could use in our recipe so that we met the total number of apples that our recipe called for.

We recorded our findings, and talked about how the larger number (the total number of apples) was made up of the two smaller numbers (the red apples and the yellow apples). Then, we put the apples back into the bin, and played again to see if we could make a different combination!

My students really understood the concept of composing and decomposing with this connection to a real life recipe! Of course, we had to end our week with some REAL apple pie!

Want to make some real world connections with your students?! This activity covers numbers 1-10, and is on sale for $1 through Friday!

It's A Graph Attack!

Happy Summer!

It's been a while since I posted here, but I'm glad to be back to share one of my most popular products!  My goal is to create three other seasonally-themed packs, but for now this autumn one will serve you well when school resumes in the fall!

I used the worksheets included in this pack as morning "bell ringers" with my second graders, but you can also staple them into a packet for early finishers.  I've created a variety of  "favorite thing" graphs practice pages with written response templates, included story problems that extend student thinking and reinforce computation skills, and included class "Questions of the Day" cards that you can print and laminate to use in a pocket chart and conduct class surveys, build your own graphs, and analyze real-life data!  I've also included unit vocabulary words to display on your Math focus wall.

 Click {HERE} to find it in my TpT store, and be sure to read the positive customer comments!

This resource is one of my best-sellers!

As always, thanks for your continued support and patronage of my store!  

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I am heading to the TpT Sellers Conference in July and hope to learn many new

tips and tricks that will improve my product line! 

May your summer be full of rest, relaxation, and rejuvenation!

Warm Regards,

Jennifer