Math Stations: "More Than" Bingo and a Freebie!

For the upcoming school year, I am changing math time in our classroom around to make room for math stations (or math centers).  Last year I focused on whole group instruction a little too much and only had math stations about once every 1-2 weeks.  Not anymore!  I believe that math stations will help with differentiating lessons more (because I can really challenge my higher level students during small group instruction and their stations they are in, while honing in on concepts that my lower level students need more help on) as well as keeping students more engaged during math time.  

So this is what I am going to try out with Math in my schedule:

Mondays: Whole Group Instruction: Introduce a new concept & math game to go along with it (which will be put into one of the math stations)

Tuesdays-Thursdays: 10-15 Minutes Whole Group (review new concept), 30 Minutes Math Stations/Small Groups, 10-15 Minutes Whole Group (review and exit slips to check for knowledge)

Fridays: 10 Minutes Whole Group, (maybe math stations for 20 minutes?), Assessment of concept

*Please note that my math period starts out with calendar, weather, number of the day*

Please let me know if you use math stations/centers in your classroom and how they have worked for you!!

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In the midst of coming up with math stations for the upcoming school year, I put together a Math "More Than" Bingo game.  

MATH MORE THAN BINGO

Materials Needed

 -Dice (1 per student) 

-Game Board (enough for one per student in center)

-Counters/Markers to cover up spaces.

Directions

 Each student will have a game board and they will need to roll a die and cover 

up the number that is either one more, two more, three more, etc. depending on the

board that they have. When they cover up their entire board they can yell out BINGO!

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This game correlates with common core numbers and operation standards for students to be able to determine numbers that come before or finding a number that is 1 to 10 more than a given number.  

For Grade 1, this game specifically lines up with the standard: 

1.NBT.5. Given a two-digit number, mentally find 10 more or 10 less than the number, without having to count; explain the reasoning used.

You can pick up the 1 More Than and 10 More Than FREEBIE here at TPT

You can also purchase the entire packet of 1 to 10 More Than Bingo here at TPT

Please let me know if you have any math stations/centers ideas on your blogs and post the link in the comments!

I've linked up with Ms. Alley's Class for a linky party about guided math time.  Check out how she runs her math time and how others have who have linked up on her page!

Common Core: Reading Literature

I am going to be slowly going through the core curriculum content standards for Literacy and Math for first grade and making files with helpful hints for teachers and graphic organizers/assessments that correlate with those standards.  So let's start at the beginning with RL 1.1:Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.  

Here are some helpful hints for teachers when teaching to this standard and assessing.  

And here's one of the graphic organizers that I made to go along with the standard to use after a read aloud (or can be used after guided reading or in a literacy center such as a browsing basket or listening center)

Students will draw and write about their favorite character in the story.  

To get the full file (these two pages plus one more graphic organizer) you can find it here.  

Ch-ch-check back to see the rest of the common core files...once they are created, of course! :)