$1 Math Center Spotlight: Save the Babies

Help the superheroes rescue the babies! Save the Babies is a distance learning activity that will help your students practice two subtraction strategies: thinking addition to subtract & counting back 1, 2, 3. Use this center to supplement any standards- based, 1st grade math curriculum! Compatible with Google Slides (™) and PowerPoint (™).

$1 Math Center Spotlight: To the Moon

Send the astronauts and aliens to the moon! To the Moon is a distance learning activity that will help your students practice comparing two-digit numbers using tens and ones. Use this center to supplement any standards- based, 1st grade math curriculum! Compatible with Google Slides (™) and PowerPoint (™).

$1 Math Center Spotlight: Feed the Monster

Help the mad scientist feed the monsters! Feed the Monster is a digital, two-dimensional geometry center that will help your students practice: 1) recognizing the attributes of 2D shapes, 2) partitioning 2D shapes, and 3) analyzing composite shapes made with 2D shapes. Use this center to supplement any standards- based, 1st grade math curriculum! Compatible withContinue reading “$1 Math Center Spotlight: Feed the Monster”

$100 Teachers Pay Teachers Gift Card Giveaway!

Little Owl is teaming up with other amazing educators to give away a $100 Teachers Pay Teachers Gift Card to one lucky teacher- continue reading for details! Giveaway Organized by: Kelly Malloy (An Apple for the Teacher) Co-hosts:An Apple for the Teacher,  Mrs Wenning’s Classroom,Kamp Kindergarten, TheBeezyTeacher, Catch’em Early, Jackie Crews, Chocolate 4 Teachers, Angelica’s Resources, The Fun Factory, A Plus Kids, The Monkey Market, Sweetie’s,StarContinue reading “$100 Teachers Pay Teachers Gift Card Giveaway!”

$1 Math Center Spotlight: Pirate Parrots

The pirate parrots are lost! Pirate Parrots is an addition and subtraction relationships center that will help your students practice fact families. Directions: Help each parrot find its pirate family! Match the parrots to the pirates to complete the related facts. Find the missing numbers. Write your work on a record sheet! This printable center includesContinue reading “$1 Math Center Spotlight: Pirate Parrots”

$1 Math Center Spotlight: The Case of the Missing Number

Who doesn’t love a good mystery? The Case of the Missing Number is an addition concepts center that will help your students use bar models to find missing addends and sums. Directions: Help the detectives solve the Case of the Missing Number! Match the missing parts and sums to the bar models. Complete a recordContinue reading “$1 Math Center Spotlight: The Case of the Missing Number”

$1 Math Center Spotlight: Camp Puzzles

Your students will love this Common Core- aligned, first grade math activity about organizing, representing, and interpreting data! Directions: Match the picture graphs to the tallies and numbers to complete the data puzzles. Choose a puzzle and complete a record sheet!

$1 Math Center Spotlight: Teddy Bear Snuggles

Teddy bears + a hands-on math activity = a recipe for success in first grade! Teddy Bear Snuggles is an addition strategy center that will help your students practice adding 3 numbers. Directions: Choose a number card for each kid to show how many numbers he or she brought to the sleepover! Add the threeContinue reading “$1 Math Center Spotlight: Teddy Bear Snuggles”

3 Ways to Use Word Sorts in Your Classroom

If you teach a primary grade, odds are you’ve used word sorts in your classroom. Word sorts are activities that require students to categorize words according to their features. These activities improve spelling by getting students to compare words they DO know to words they DON’T know. Word sorts are also a powerful way toContinue reading “3 Ways to Use Word Sorts in Your Classroom”