Multiplication Problem Solving

Hello everyone :), hope you are well!!!

Lately I have been teaching multiplication to my son. I designed a multiplication table and he is learning it by heart. I am not a fan of memorization activities his studies. I believe that reading and explaining the information within your own words is the best way to learn something. Most of the times information adapted with this methodology will be retained for meany years to come. Therefore, the multiplication table is a case apart, in my point of view. It is a system of repetition until you know it by heart.

The table is done up to 10.

I also created problem solving worksheets to help him develop his critical thinking skills, and practice multiplication. Below are a few examples.

This material is available for free on TPT. To download your free copy just click on the following link please: Multiplication Problem Solving - http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Multiplication-Problem-Solving-860696

I would very much appreciate your rating of this material after you have download it please :). Thanks.

Fabiana

Subtraction with Regrouping

Hello :), hope you had a great day!

This week my son has been working on subtraction with regrouping.  We are doing up to 3 digit number subtraction. I found a free poster on TPT that explains through a poem what are the steps to take when to decide whether or not to regroup. This poster is very helpful and helped my son to understand the context.

I put together a few subtraction sentences for him to practice.

He also resolved  word problems that I downloaded on TPT, which focused on subtraction with regrouping.

It was a very productive day. These exercises helped my son to improve his understanding in this subject, which made him very confident to even teach me how to resolve the sentences :).


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Fabiana

Insects and Spider Unit

 Hello :)))), hope you had a great day today.

I designed a new product called INSECTS AND SPIDERS UNIT: SCIENCE, MATH AND LITERACY, which is available to purchase at my TPT store. This is a complete unit which contain exercises related to science, math and literacy subjects. The aim of this unit is to provide plenty of activities and informational worksheets for the students to understand, and master the whole concept about insects and spiders. It has 126 pages  with answer key for the exercises.

The pack has the following topics:

 
Science:                       
Insects and Spiders Poster 
Insects and Spiders Vocabulary Cards  
Insects and Spiders Booklet
Cloze Activity
True or False
Fact or Opinion
Labeling Body Parts
Comparing Insects and Spiders
Life Cycle of a Ladybug
Life Cycle of a Butterfly 
Life Cycle of a Spider
Bug Hunt Observation and Writing
Creative Writing

Literacy:
Word Search
Antonyms
Synonyms
Syllables
ABC Order
Making words
Unscramble Sentences
Compound Words
Contractions
Rhyming
Blend Words
Punctuation

Math:
Addition
Subtraction
Counting Money
Playing Shopping
Patterns
Story Problems
Telling the Time
Riddles
Fact Family
Ordering Numbers
Less and More
Tens and Ones

 To purchase your copy please visit my TPT store to access the product.

Thanks for stopping by :))). Have a great week.

Fabiana

Weight

Hello everyone :)))!!! Hope you are all well.


Having a baby in the house is awesome!!!!! I love watching dad and the big brother been melted away by the little one :). My baby is a sweetheart who made us all fall in love with him the minute he was born.
My son is a wonderful brother, he is always willing to help and protect his brother. Every time the baby cries he holds his little hand to make him feel secure :) -  awwwwww!!!! This is definitely going to be a great experience for my son as he is learning to take care of a little baby, as well as being responsible, gentle and careful.

My son is also enjoying his summer break doing loads of outdoors activities with his dad,  whilst studying. This week we have been doing many interesting exercises. The following are examples of the activities he has been doing:

1. wrote the number from 1 to 120;
2. measured 10 objects in the house with inches and cm;
3. read the Bible and wrote 10 facts;
4. found an object in the house that starts with each letter of the alphabet;
5. wrote 5 words for each of the family words: ake, all, ock, ox, eat and ight;

He also studied weight. We made a scale, which we took the model from  kidsactivitiesblog.

Afterwards, we hung it on a chair and measured different types of objects to pratice: as heavy as, heavier than and lighter than. He also completed many exercises to practice weight in his Singapore Math books.

Hope you enjoyed our post. Have a terrific day!!!! Thanks!

Fabiana

Insects

Hello everyone, hope you had a great day :).

We had a very busy day, but also very pleasant.  We had a friend over for tea this afternoon, which was fabulous as we spent quality time together whilst eating delicious food. It's no secret that I love cooking, specially baking :))). Hence, on this lovely occasion I made homemade bread, cinnamon rolls and cupcakes. I tried to prepare the table very vintagy but yet sophisticated.  If you would like to know the recipes please inform me and I will email it to you :).

This week we started a new subject, insects. My son has been reading many books to learn more in depth  information about insects, as well as making experiments, writing and completing exercises that involves the topic. So far, he is enjoying it very much!
The image below illustrates some of the books we have been reading this week. The books have eye-catching images, interesting facts, as well as stories to keep my son inspired and paying attention. We borrowed all these books at our local library.

 My son also did an experiment to try to catch bugs in a jar. He dug a hole, placed leaves in the jar to attract bugs and covered the jar with rocks. He left the jar in the garden overnight.

The  aforementioned experiment was conducted on Monday morning. He uncovered the jar on Tuesday morning. It rained a lot in Chicago on Monday night and the only bug my son was able to catch was a millipede. After evaluating his insect my son decided to put the jar back on the ground and leave it another day to attract other insects. I asked him to write a report of his findings on this experiment. 

Science projects are very important for our kids growth. Kids are very curios, they always have questions about everything, which is essential to develop their critical thinking skills. It is also a great tool to help us as parents to develop a strong bond with our children. Another advantage of these kind of projects is that our kids will learn faster when they see how things work. Science projects provide learning and fun that our kids need while they grow.

The following image are a few of the exercises my son completed.

I also asked him to work with number orders and comparing numbers, which I created in his math notebook.

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Thanks :))))!!!!

Fabiana

Frogs

Hello everyone :)), hope you had a good Monday!!!!

We started our week studying about frogs. Today we finished reading an interesting and very informative book called Frogs! Strange and Wonderful by Laurence Pringle. I highly recommend  reading this book as it contains everything you need to know about frogs. It talks about different types of frogs from all over the world: their habitat, their size and weight, the shape of their eyes and how it is important for them to obtain food, the way their tongue works, as well as poison frogs and its benefits, cycle of life, and much more. The book is also very well illustrated, which captures the child's attention.

My son also borrowed many books from the Froggy's series by Jonathan London. Theses books are super cute and wonderful for beginner readers.

Furthermore, my son is working with a product we purchased on TPT called Frog unit - Math, Literacy and Science by Primary Divas. So far, I am very pleased with this material. My son has practiced the life cycle of a frog, and he also answered true or false fact questions about frogs. In addition he completed fact cloze activity, which helped him to comprehend even more true facts about this amphibian. This package also provided math exercises including patterns, problem solving  and addition and subtraction. The content of this product is very useful, well prepared and easy for the child to read and understand. I highly recommend you to purchase it.

Thanks for stopping by :)))!!!

Fabiana

Making shapes with marshmallows

Today was a day that my son revised many of subjects he had studied. Some of the materials he reviewed were: plants, telling the time, coloring according to the sight words, place value, writing and shapes.

He made shapes using Kebab sticks and marshmallows, it was a super duper yummy exercise :))).

The rule was that every time he would make the shape right he was allowed to eat one marshmallow. He made it through to the end, I can inform you that in the end of the task his sugar level was quite high and made him very active and excited :). All he wanted to do was jump and run around the house with our dog (Jessie) :).

His first creation was a square shape.

 Furthermore, he designed a diamond, triangle, octagon, hexagon, trapezoid, rectangle and pentagon.

He also made a circle and oval shape using just marshmallows. 

It was certainly a very sweet day and my son enjoyed it very much. I like exercises like this because my son has the opportunity to learn, have fun and eat too :). This is an inexpensive and fun activity that capture the kid's attention, making them grasp the context of the lesson effectively.

Have a wonderful weekend. Thanks.

Fabiana

Clown

This week we are learning about shapes. We are working with our Singapore Math books, which has plenty of exercises to practice this subject.

To practice using shapes in different situations my son drew a clown, which was designed using different shapes and patterns. 

Thanks for stopping by :))!!

Fabiana

Bird Nest

Hello everyone, hope you had a great day today. The weather was lovely here in Chicago - it was warm, the sky was blue and the sun was shining :)))) - a perfect spring day.

To welcome spring again :), my son created a bird nest, which looked very nice. The idea was taken from Kaboose. They used American moss to create the nest, and we used sticks and leaves that we picked from our front yard. The bird and the eggs were made from felt. We used paper plate to glue the artwork.

My son also wrote a note "welcome spring" and glued it onto the paper plate. The image below is the final result. It looked quite cute :)!!! This craft is very easy and inexpensive to make, as well as perfect to create when teaching about spring or birds.

I also have designed a pack focusing on shapes. In this pack you will find an uncolored version of a bunny to use to create a mosaic. I also prepared the colored shapes, which you simply need to print and cut.

Furthermore, I created four exercises focusing on shapes: the first one the student will count the number of shapes he used on his mosaic. The second one he will answer a few questions about greatest and smallest, again all related to his mosaic. The third exercise is about pattern. The last worksheet is a word search based on the name of the shapes.

This material is available for FREE on TPT. To download your free copy simply click on the following link:
http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Easter-Bunny-Mosaic-and-other-Shape-Activities

I would very much appreciate your rating on this product. Thanks :)))!!!

Have a nice day tomorrow.
Fabiana

Leprechaun Hat

Today I took my son to the dentist. Like you, I try to take him to the dentist every 6 months, and I also attempt to make sure that he brushes his teeth after breakfast, lunch and before going to bed. Flossing is also part of his dental hygiene. In my opinion, it is important to have a system which reinforces good habits to ones kids, and as they grow older, these habits are still prevalent and part of their routine.

After arriving at home from the dentist, we created a leprechaun hat, beard and eyebrows . This craft was very easy to design, we just needed to print the templates from Today's Mama website, and then assembled it- http://todaysmama.com/2012/03/printable-leprechaun-hat-craft-now-with-more-beard/. I love everything about this craft, it all looked super cute, like a proper leprechaun :)))!!!

Moreover, my son did an activity about St. Patrick's Day Inferencing cards describing green objects from Kari Radovich - http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/St-Patricks-Day-Inferencing. This cards are quite easy for my child to read and comprehend. This was a great activity to practice reading, and enabling him to practice reasoning from facts or evidences and deducing fact based conclusions that should be true.

Another great material I downloaded from TPT was St. Patrick's Day Math Fun with Lucky Leprechaun by Kayla Parker - http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/St-Patricks-Day-Math-Fun-with-Lucky-Leprechaun. My son had a lot of fun doing this exercises which included: problem solving, adding and subtracting in order to find the secret message, coloring, and a game to help the Leprechaun to find his pot of gold. One of many fantastic worksheets to practice maths, and having fun at same time.

I  also downloaded for free on TPT an exercise called St. Patrick's Day Fact and Opinion by Lili Garcia - http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/St-Patricks-Day-Fact-and-Opinion
I do recommend you to download this material as it is very easy for your first grader to read and understand. As well as practicing differentiation between a fact and an opinion.

 Hope you felt inspired by my post today. Enjoy the parade tomorrow and the weekend. Thanks :)!

Fabiana

Let's Compare

Hello :), hope you had a wonderful day!!!!!

Since last week, I have been working with comparison numbers with my son. He did many exercises, however, he was still struggling when comparing and ordering the numbers. I felt he needed extra practice before moving on to the next chapter of our math book.

Hence, I designed a set of activities for my son, and also for the teachers and parents that feel their students/children need extra practice when doing exercises involving comparison. There are 20 exercises that allow them to practice ordering and comparing numbers up to 100. The students will also be familiarized with new vocabulary such as smaller, lesser, greater, greatest and smallest.

All the activities are designed with eye catching spring pictures, which helps the students to concentrate and be motivated.

The images below are samples of the material:

 

This material is available on TPT. To purchase your copy please click on the following link to access my store on TPT:

http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Lets-Compare 

I would very much appreciate your rating and comment on this material. Thanks!!!!

Fabiana