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Host A Halloween Math Party!

October 29 By Linda Kamp 2 Comments

Try these easy ideas for a Halloween math party perfect for 2nd and 3rd grade! We practiced second and third grade math skills with pumpkins, spooky math center activities, and candy as place value manipulatives. #halloween #math #2ndgrade #3rdgrade

Each year my teammate next door and I throw a Halloween math party.  It's become a yearly tradition that our kids love because it's fun! We love it because everybody's engaged and still learning, and our admin loves it because it's standards based. Win-win-win! It's always a huge … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Math Tagged With: centers, fall, Halloween, MATH

Free Teacher Gifts for Halloween

October 26 By Linda Kamp 8 Comments

Oh happy day, Halloween falls on a Friday this year! My class is already candy-crazed and talking about trick-or-treating!We have all sorts of gobliny goodness planned for our little friends and I am  breathing a sigh of relief that it all happens on a Friday! Until then, I … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Halloween, Math Tagged With: freebies, Halloween teacher poem, math centers

Planting Arrays & A Freebie!

March 30 By Linda Kamp 9 Comments

Teaching arrays , rows, and columns with to lay the foundation for multiplication.

 I thought I'd do a quick post and share a little impromptu lesson with a freebie for teaching arrays we did last week. We're reviewing for state testing and since it's planting time in our classroom and in the fields around my school, we planted some arrays of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Freebies, Math Tagged With: arrays, freebies, MATH

Free Arrays And Multiplication Activity

March 15 By Linda Kamp 1 Comment

 Happy almost St. Patrick's Day! Here's a fun and easy math idea and free arrays and multiplication activities. I used little cauldrons I had left from Halloween and turned them into pots of gold! Shhh....The "gold" is Lemon Heads candy. You can also use butterscotch … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Math Tagged With: arrays, multiplication, writing

What Does The Shape Say? Part Deux

March 6 By Linda Kamp 1 Comment

Just popping in to share this new little bundle of2D and 3D shapes fun!We've been working with shapes and their attributes and last week I posted about some of the fun things we did that were centered around this chart.  You can read the post {HERE}I've … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Math Tagged With: anchor charts, MATH, shapes, writing

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