Today the “extra duties as assigned” part of my contract obliged me to visit our 1st grade classroom to deal with some technology drama. I love going out there to see what the littles are up to. Today they were
Unifix Letters
Dice Challenge
Looking for a new game for your middle kids? Â Make a dice tower. Â They are allowed to walk around it but not to touch it. Â The goal: Find the sum of all the faces that cannot be seen. This begins
Snake Eyes!
Working with dice enhances number sense in young children by training them to look at a group of objects (the dots on the dice) and recognize how many are there without counting. As children grow familiar with these common arrangements, they
Detail-Oriented
When kids are taught in rooms of twenty or thirty, a lot gets glossed over. Teacher doesn’t often notice whether Bobby makes his O’s clockwise or Susie adds the tens place before the ones. These seemingly harmless oversights not only