Math meeting

A staple in the primary grades during the morning routine is updating the class calendar. The calendar is just the beginning of our math interactions. This post will focus on Daily Math Meeting Routines for primary grades.

This summer I read the book Guided Math by Laney Sammons. Chapter 3 was all about using Math Warm-Ups. A quote that stuck out to me was, "Participating in a variety of brief mathematical activities during the first 20-30 minutes of the day leads students to make subtle mental shifts into the world of mathematical awareness and learning." (Laney Sammons also has a book called Daily Math Stretches for K-2 that sounds interesting, but I haven't checked it out yet!) This is why I've always tried…

After much tossing and turning on this one, I have finally come up with my follow along with the morning meeting sheet. I had one that I ma...

As any parent or teacher knows, calendar math is a great way to help kids learn essential math skills. And when it comes to calendar math for 5th grade, you can use calendar pieces to teach multiplying mixed numbers.

I'm gonna be totally honest with you...I have sort of a love/hate relationship with calendar. I really really want to love it (and lately I do). I know there are so so so many skills you can incorporate during this time and it really is a good way to start off the day but I usually get to a point in the year when it all just seems the same. I added this "Today's number" routine to my calendar last year with my kidnergarteners but I've really amped it up this year with my firsties. It really…

Happy Sunday! Well I survived the four day math in-service and I came away with a few good ideas. One of which I wanted to share with you. Some schools in our district, including my own, are using Investigations. I like it overall but there are tons of other things I add from the many resources I have. For the last five years I’ve been doing math in the morning and let me tell you it’s one of the best decisions I’ve ever made. Part of my math in the morning is Math Morning Meeting, which…

I've loved looking at all of your beautiful and creative rooms these last few weeks! After working like an animal in my classroom this past week (in between all of those meetings/trainings of course) my room is complete. I've carried over the apple theme that I started last year. That made things a lot easier- although it didn't stop me from buying an insane amount of new things! Here are the pictures I took today at school. Enjoy! Room at a glance Grammar Wall (I am an ELD teacher so I have…

Using a daily math board is an essential part of my math instruction. Like a kindergarten calendar, it practices key math skills daily and cumulatively.

At the beginning of the year, it is important to teach and practice procedures for math centers before jumping into rotations and groups! I'm sharing my favorite tips for setting up and launching math rotations in your elementary classroom! I share my step-by-step process for starting math centers in 1st grade! You can also grab some free beginning of the year math games and a guided math workshop lesson planning binder with schedules, center organization, lesson planning templates, and…