Digging Through the Snow

After looking through my Facebook feed, I think it’s safe to say that MANY of you are digging your way through the snow this week!  Well aren’t you lucky?!  I was chipping away at the frost on my windshield this morning, but then it warmed up to the high 50’s and all was *almost* right in the world :)  I’ve been a little MIA this week because we’re testing our Kbabies!  Have I told y’all how much I LOVE mid-year testing?!?!  Because I honestly really DO!!  I LOVE seeing all the progress my kids are making!!!  Sure…it’s definitely time consuming…but I LOVE the results!  I’m SO unbelievably proud of my kids!!!  They just BLOW me away!!! 

Speaking of digging, did I tell y’all we got a new dog?!?!  After Nutella was taken, we were so very, VERY sad.  Then we decided to get a German Shepard {oh how I LOVE Germans!}  We decided we’d wait ‘til the summer to get a puppy so we’d have time to train him.  Well…God had a different plan for us and we were introduced to a rescue group here in Houston…PugHearts.  Y’all remember our old dog, Griffin?!?!  The world’s sweetest, fattest pug?!?!  Well, after he passed in March, we said that *one day* we’d love to add another pug to the mix.  PugHearts is this great rescue organization here in the Houston area and they had a little guy we just fell for….hook, line, and sinker.  And after we had to sign away our first born child {not really, but ohmiword…the rescue adoption process is NO joke!!!!}, we have ourselves a new member of the family.  Meet Lloyd…our sweet little 6-year-old rescue!  We LOVE him!!!! 

Okay…sorry about that.  Just a proud *mommy moment*.  Back to business.  Let’s talk math…again..shall we?!

We played another “make 10” game this week, only this time, we practiced using a number line. This is pretty much the same idea as the snowman/tens frame game I posted about HERE.  I made a giant number line out of butcher paper and took out one of my 10 cent snowflakes as a marker.

Then I hid some **snowballs*** {aka: paper circles} in the **snow** {crinkle paper}.  Each *snowball* had a number {1-10} written on it.  The kids had to reach into the snow and dig for a snowball.

 

Once they pulled out a snowball, we marked the number on the number line using our giant snowflake. Then we moved the snowflake to 10 and counted the number of spaces we moved along the way.

  

After we counted the spaces, we created number sentences to match.  They’re getting SO good at creating number sentences!!  And I love that they’re starting to understand how to *add on*!!    We recorded our number sentences on a little recording sheet in my newest math packet.  This is actually a large life size version of the activity in the packet….my kids are begging to do it again!!!  You can click the pic below if you need a few more math tub activities for winter!

TGIF{tomorrow}!!!  Happy 3-day weekend to you!!!!