This month’s freebie includes 9 digital math problems to help your students practice adding and subtracting within 10. These fall-themed problems are self-checking & fun to use for centers, whole-group practice, distance learning, and more!
If you enjoy these free problems, you might want to check out the Fall Fact Fluency Bundle, which includes 120 self-checking problems for Google Slides (TM) plus printable record sheets. Now’s a great time to invest in math game bundles since they’re all 25% off!
In case you missed last month’s free classroom management lesson, click here to access it (plus 8 other back-to-school freebies that should come in handy as you start the new school year)!
I hope you enjoy September’s First of the Month Freebie! Thanks for reading and best wishes for the new school year!
You’ve come to the right place for free back-to-school activities! If you’re a kindergarten, first grade, or second grade teacher, you know your time and money are invaluable! Here are 9 free back-to-school activities to save time and start strong this school year.
Classroom Management Lesson
Do your kindergarten, first grade, or second grade students blurt everything they think? This free behavior activity will help kids learn the difference between minor thoughts (“brain thoughts”) and more substantial ideas (“mouth thoughts”). If you teach a primary grade, you know that kids LOVE to share. While it’s important to foster discussion and open communication within a classroom, there simply isn’t enough time in the day to let every child share every passing idea!
2. Who Am I? Class Book
Welcome students back to school with this easy, low prep writing activity! Your kindergarten, first grade, or second grade students will love creating a class book called “Who Am I?” You can use this “all about me” activity as a fun icebreaker to help your students get to know each other! Make the first day or first week of school extra fun by creating a class book and reading it together!
3. Back- to- School Fact Fluency for Google Slides (TM)
Practice kindergarten and first grade fact fluency standards with these FREE engaging, no prep, summer math centers! These June, July, and August- themed digital math activities will help your students practice skills such as 1) adding & subtracting within 20, 2) identifying addition and subtraction relationships, 3) adding within 5, and more!.
4. Back to School Bucket Lists
Are you looking for a fun icebreaker to welcome your students back to school? This free bucket list activity will motivate your class to set goals and make plans for the new school year! There are lists for kindergarten, first grade, second grade, and third grade. There’s also a generic “back to school” list that can be used for any grade. Each list is available with lines or without lines to allow for differentiation.
5. b/d Reversal Posters
Do your students struggle with b/d reversals? Use the posters included in this file as a reference for your students! Teach them that for the letter “b,” we write the “bat” first, and then the “ball.” For “d,” we make the “drum” first, and then the “drumstick.” Your students will love checking these posters as they work on mastering these tricky letters!
6. Short Vowel Word Sorts
This collection of FREE short vowel word family sorts will compliment your spelling, word study, or phonics program! They make a perfect independent activity as you assess individual students at the beginning of a new school year!
7. Pre-Primer Sight Words for Google Slides (TM)
This engaging presentation teaches the word “funny” explicitly with a variety of visual and kinesthetic activities! It’s a fun way to get your students thinking and moving during morning warm-up or ELA.
Help your students improve their number sense with this daily Number of the Day routine! Students will count the number of days they have been in school while learning to represent numbers in a variety of ways. Get started on day 1 and your students will have excellent number sense by the end of the year!
Free sample of the back-to-school and end-of-year fact fluency review for first grade
These June, July, and August- themed digital math activities will help your students practice skills such as 1) adding & subtracting within 20, 2) identifying addition and subtraction relationships, 3) adding within 5, and more!. The facts are self- checking, so your students will get instant feedback!
These free fact fluency activities for first grade are self-checking!
These activities are samples from my summer fact fluency bundle. By the way… if you’ve already purchased the Year Long Fact Fluency GROWING BUNDLE for Google Slides (TM), I just added the fall activities last week! Check your purchase on TPT to receive the updates! If you haven’t purchased the growing bundle yet, there’s still time to do so before I add the winter activities. I’m expecting to complete the winter addition & subtraction problems by the end of July, and the price of the bundle will increase then. By purchasing now, you’ll receive the updates for FREE!
Year-long fact fluency bundle for first grade math
Sample the bundle by trying the summer and spring freebies 🙂
Sample the spring fact fluency bundle for free!
In case you missed last month’s newsletter, make sure you snag your freebie before Father’s Day:
Free Father’s Day writing activity
Your class will have fun drawing “selfies” to make this writing activity extra special. These writing pagescan be used in a variety of ways. Have younger students dictate their sentences; use them during a writer’s workshop lesson; assign them as a no prep writing center; or provide copies for students to complete as “early finisher” activities! Click here for your free download!
As always, my store is 10% off for the first three days of the month. Thanks for reading!
It’s almost time for bed, but first let’s read some bedtime stories! Bedtime Stories will help your students practice adding 10 using ten- frames. Use this center to supplement any standards- based, 1st grade math curriculum!
Bedtime Stories is a first grade math center that reviews adding 10 with 10-frames.
First Grade Common Core Math Standard: 1.OA.A.1 Use addition and subtraction within 20
Directions: It’s almost time for bed, but first let’s read some bedtime stories! Read a story and use the 10 frames to solve the problems. Write your work on a record sheet.
Color and black & white versions to help you save on ink!
Provide manipulatives for a hands-on approach!
How to use this in your classroom:
Assign as an individual, partner, or small-group center!
Engage your students during targeted, small-group instruction!
Invite students to use when they finish other assignments early!
Prep your sub plans with ease- called away to a meeting? Unexpected sick day? Your students will love playing this math game individually, in partners/groups, or teacher vs. student on a document camera!
Fill extra time at the end of a lesson with a meaningful, standards-based activity!
Print black & white copies to send home with your struggling students for extra practice!
Help the superheroes return the stolen diaper bags! Diaper Bag Dashis a printable math center that will help your students practice using addition to subtract. Use this center to supplement any standards- based, 1st grade math curriculum!
Diaper Bag Dash is a subtraction math center that includes 4 activity mats & matching subtraction cards.
First Grade Common Core Math Standard: 1.OA.A.1 Use addition and subtraction within 20
Directions: Help the superheroes return the stolen diaper bags! Match each subtraction sentence to an addition sentence. Find the missing numbers. Write your work on a record sheet!
4 activity mats with 6 problems each & matching subtraction cards
“Directions” page, storage label, and a record sheet
Color and black & white versions to help you save on ink!
Return the stolen diaper bags by matching each subtraction sentence to an addition sentence!
How to use this in your classroom:
Assign as an individual, partner, or small-group center!
Engage your students during targeted, small-group instruction!
Invite students to use when they finish other assignments early!
Prep your sub plans with ease- called away to a meeting? Unexpected sick day? Your students will love playing this math game individually, in partners/groups, or teacher vs. student on a document camera!
Fill extra time at the end of a lesson with a meaningful, standards-based activity!
Print black & white copies to send home with your struggling students for extra practice!
Help each pirate find his or her ship! Board the Shipis a printable math center that will help your students practice adding and subtracting to make 11-20. Use this center to supplement any standards- based, 1st grade math curriculum!
First grade math center for adding and subtracting to make 11-20
First Grade Common Core Math Standard:
1.OA.D.8 Determine the unknown whole number in an addition or subtraction equation relating three whole numbers.
1.OA.A.2 Solve word problems that call for addition of three whole numbers whose sum is less than or equal to 20
Directions: Help each pirate find his or her ship! Solve the addition and subtraction problems. Put the pirate on the matching ship. Write your work on a record sheet!
Solve the addition and subtraction problems to help each pirate find his or her ship!
“Directions” page, storage label, and a record sheet
Color and black & white versions to help you save on ink!
Practice adding 11- 20 with Board the Ship!
How to use this in your classroom:
Assign as an individual, partner, or small-group center!
Engage your students during targeted, small-group instruction!
Invite students to use when they finish other assignments early!
Prep your sub plans with ease- called away to a meeting? Unexpected sick day? Your students will love playing this math game individually, in partners/groups, or teacher vs. student on a document camera!
Fill extra time at the end of a lesson with a meaningful, standards-based activity!
Print black & white copies to send home with your struggling students for extra practice!
If you teach a primary grade, you know how important it is for your students to master addition and subtraction facts. Fact fluency is a prerequisite for engaging with more complex math concepts in the later grades. We know it’s essential for kindergarten, first grade, and second grade students to learn the addition and subtraction facts, but how do we go about making them stick? Gone are the days of pure rote memorization; now, students learn to utilize a variety of strategies for adding and subtracting. We teach them to count on, count back, make 10, decompose numbers, learn doubles and doubles plus one, use the relationship between addition and subtraction, and more! It can be a challenge to find fresh, kid-friendly ways to reinforce these strategies during your daily math block. The following list includes 9 completely FREE resources for teaching addition and subtraction fact fluency in your classroom! This list includes both digital and printable math activities that can be easily incorporated into your regular math instruction.
These self-checking facts will help your students practice adding and subtracting within 20 and solving related addition and subtraction facts! You will need a free Google Apps (TM) account and a device to access these activities.
9 addition and subtraction facts within 20 for Google Slides (TM)
Doubles facts are really important, so here’s another fun activity to help your students remember them! This one is also available in both Google Slides (TM) and PowerPoint (TM) formats.
Add doubles to build a monster! For Google Slides (TM)
This hands-on center will have your students taking numbers apart using pictures. They’ll love the zoo-themed task cards, and it includes a printable record sheet!
Practice early subtraction concepts by taking numbers apart using pictures.
The “make ten” addition strategy can be a tough one for students to grasp. These printable worksheets make the concept explicit and easy-to-understand.
2 printable worksheets for the “make 10” addition strategy
Save the campers from the volcano by counting back to subtract! This printable center includes 24 subtraction cards to practice counting back by 1, 2, and 3.
Review subtracting by counting back with 24 subtraction cards.
Help the sea turtles lay eggs! Eggs on the Beachis a printable math center that will help your students practice comparing two-digit numbers with tens and ones. Use this center to supplement any standards- based, 1st grade math curriculum!
Eggs on the Beach reviews comparing two-digit numbers using tens and ones.
First Grade Common Core Math Standard:
1.NBT.B.2 Understand that the two digits of a two-digit number represent amounts of tens and ones.
1.NBT.B.3 Compare two two-digit numbers based on meanings of the tens and ones digits.
Directions: Each player takes a game mat. Shuffle the egg cards and place them face down. Each player selects a card and counts the base 10 blocks. The player with the largest number wins the round and keeps all the cards. The player with the most cards on their mat at the end is the winner! Write your work on a record sheet.
“Directions” page, storage label, and a record sheet
Color and black & white versions to help you save on ink!
Includes a printable record sheet!
How to use this in your classroom:
Assign as an individual, partner, or small-group center!
Engage your students during targeted, small-group instruction!
Invite students to use when they finish other assignments early!
Prep your sub plans with ease- called away to a meeting? Unexpected sick day? Your students will love playing this math game individually, in partners/groups, or teacher vs. student on a document camera!
Fill extra time at the end of a lesson with a meaningful, standards-based activity!
Print black & white copies to send home with your struggling students for extra practice!
The alien is hungry for the SMALLEST numbers! Feed the Alienis a printable math center that will help your students practice comparing numbers using tens and ones. Use this center to supplement any standards- based, 1st grade math curriculum!
Feed the Alien reviews comparing number using tens and ones.
First Grade Common Core Math Standard:
1.NBT.B.3 Compare two two-digit numbers based on meanings of the tens and ones digits.
Directions: The alien is hungry for the SMALLEST numbers! Choose a game board. Shuffle the number cards and place them face down in a pile. Each player selects one card. The player with the number that is LESS than all the others gets to feed his or her alien. The player with the most cards at the end of the game is the winner.
The alien with the smallest number wins the round!
“Directions” page, storage label, and a record sheet
Color and black & white versions to help you save on ink!
Includes a printable record sheet.
How to use this in your classroom:
Assign as an individual, partner, or small-group center!
Engage your students during targeted, small-group instruction!
Invite students to use when they finish other assignments early!
Prep your sub plans with ease- called away to a meeting? Unexpected sick day? Your students will love playing this math game individually, in partners/groups, or teacher vs. student on a document camera!
Fill extra time at the end of a lesson with a meaningful, standards-based activity!
Print black & white copies to send home with your struggling students for extra practice!
Help the drivers find the construction site! Addition Haulis a printable math center that will help your students practice adding a two-digit number and a one-digit number within 100. Use this center to supplement any standards- based, 1st grade math curriculum!
Addition Haul will help your first graders practice adding within 100.
First Grade Common Core Math Standard:
1.NBT.B.4 Add within 100, including adding a two-digit number and a one-digit number, and adding a two-digit number and a multiple of 10
Directions: Help the drivers find the construction site! Choose a road mat. Drive your truck around the road, and solve the addition problems as you go! Write your work on a record sheet.
Includes 6 activity mats to help your students practice adding within 100.
“Directions” page, storage label, and a record sheet
Color and black & white versions to help you save on ink!
Practice adding a two-digit number and a one-digit number with this fun, construction-themed activity!
How to use this in your classroom:
Assign as an individual, partner, or small-group center!
Engage your students during targeted, small-group instruction!
Invite students to use when they finish other assignments early!
Prep your sub plans with ease- called away to a meeting? Unexpected sick day? Your students will love playing this math game individually, in partners/groups, or teacher vs. student on a document camera!
Fill extra time at the end of a lesson with a meaningful, standards-based activity!
Print black & white copies to send home with your struggling students for extra practice!
