We're revisiting addition and subtraction. Again. This time with facts to 18. Last week we were reviewing doubles, doubles plus one and 10 plus facts, so I created this "Alligator Addition" activity for our math center. I'm excited about it since it could be used for ANY addition or subtraction facts or skills. All you have to do to create it is write the addends on the egg halves and the sum on the alligators. It's a much cuter and kid-friendly version of the part-part-whole model we use for addition and subtraction. I traced my alligators and eggs using patterns from a book called
Making Big Books for Children Vol. 2, however the next set I make will be using the blacklines I created on the computer. My kiddos thought the alligators were so cool and really liked putting the pieces together and making them "hatch". Once the group pieced it all together, they all chose 8 facts to record and then wrote a related fact for each one. Next week we are reviewing related facts and fact families so I wanted to warm them up a little last week by including that. Plus, I always want them to have to think a little, rather than just record.
Here's a picture of mine, before I gave myself a hand cramp cutting them out.
And the card stock mess in my living room afterwards... but they turned out SO cute!
Click the preview to download the file. Just FYI, for some reason there is a blank page attached to the end that I cannot delete.
Enjoy the rest of your weekend and have a fantastic week blog friends! Only 4 more days until my spring break - when is yours?
2 comments:
this is great!! thanks!
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