The Calendar Game

Here is my new game that I would be delighted to share with you.





As students play this game they will practice orally saying the name of the day of the week and the ordinal number for that date.  For example: "Today is Thursday. It is the eighteenth day of the month.

I created these Math Talk Cards (as suggested by Debbie Diller's book, Math Stations) to assist the students as they play the game. To save paper as you print it, I made two math talk cards per page.

Write a comment and let me know it you like it. Of course, Click Here to obtain a copy of the game from my Google Documents.

Deborah Devine 

2-D Dominoes and Flashcards that meet Common Core Standards

 Consider reviewing your daily Calendar activities and updating them to reflect the new Kindergarten Common Core Standards. Use the set of flashcards of the 2-dimensional shapes-square, rectangle, circle, hexagon and triangle to develop an anchor chart that lists "What Our Class Noticed About These Flat Shapes". The anchor chart would then grow with student information about what they are noticing about the shapes as they do activities during center, calendar, or math instructional time.

The "math talk" card (suggested by Debbie  Diller in her book "Math Work Stations") could be used while the students play the game to ensure that a rich vocabulary is being used while playing the game.   

The dominoes, which use the same images as the flashcards,  could then be used as a follow-up practice activity at the end of the month as a summarizing activity. The domino game could be played in whole group with groups of 2 or 4 students, OR be placed in a math center for small groups of two or four children. There are 5 pages or dominoes or 40 dominoes. 

Flashcards are in English and Spanish

Click here for a copy of the dominoes and flashcards in my Google documents account. 

Only one more day of school until spring holiday. Then I get to organize my home office and do our families' Tax Return.(the only time during the year that I don't like math)........... sigh.

Deborah Devine

OMG I Made a Place Value Math Talk Card to Share!

     When children compare numbers they usually say "Mine's bigger or littler."  Since we want them to vocalize why they know their number is larger, and to use the math vocabulary of greater than, less than, or equal, I made this math talk card to share with you.

      WOW,  because before this math blog party for "Math Stations" began I didn't have a blog, a google doc account, never bought graphics over the internet, purchased a blog button over the Internet from Blogaholic Designs, or had a Photobucket account! This whole experience is making me learn more about technology, blogging, and math stations. (...Gasp) I LOVE  learning new things!

Deborah