Planting Arrays & A Freebie!

 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 corn!

Some of my students are still struggling with the concept
of rows and columns so we had a discussion about
things that are planted in rows and things that are held up
with columns. Being close to so many farms where corn,
alfalfa and cotton is grown made for some good examples
and was a huge help in getting my kids to connect the
horizontal and vertical direction of a row and a column.

(Feel free to grab this image if you can use it
to help your students.)

First, we used cubes and grid paper to
make rows and columns of corn.

I had students roll a die and use yellow
cubes to build their cornfields.  They “planted”
their arrays on grid paper.

We planted more arrays on the SMARTBoard
by dragging corn into rows and columns
and writing the addition sentence.

I added this little game and a recording sheet to our
math stations so students could practice independently.

Students rolled a die twice to determine the number

of rows and columns to plant then drew the array

and wrote the addition sentence.  You can also have your

students write the multiplication problem.

If you have kiddos that need help with this concept,

or you just need a little extra something for your math tubs

this week click on the picture to download the student page

or find it  {HERE}!

You can see a lot more of our plantin’ fun…

and yep, another freebie by clicking the picture above!

Happy weekend, friends! I’m headed out with my husband

for BBQ, coleslaw, and corn on the cob!