We have really been drilling place value.  It's so important to have a deep understanding of place value in order to move on to other concepts like double-digit addition and subtraction with regrouping.  We spent about two weeks on tens and ones and another two weeks on hundreds.  We used our EnVision a lot and supplemented with Amy's Playing Around with Place Value resource during whole and small groups.   Last week, I felt it was time to break out The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs .  I have posted about it before, but I wanted to share it again.   This activity took about three days in its entirety.  The first day, we kicked off the lesson with Race to 100.  Anything involving a race always gets them excited! The place value mat is from the Playing Around with Place Value pack.  I like it because it has visuals for the ones, tens, and hundreds.   Each child has a set of place value manipulatives and a number cube.  They roll the number cube.  ...
Hello, friends!  I am finally back after my LONG absence.  I have been wanting to share my weekly plans, but it would have been a picture of me on the couch or in the bed!  I have had mono for the past month and it took me down, y'all!!!  I have never been so thankful for my health!  I went back to work last week, and we are on fall break this week.  We finally got to have our apple week last week, so I wanted to share some of what we did. Here are my visual plans for ELA.  Of course, I over-planned as usual.  I have got to get that under control!! We started our apple unit with a KWL.  Then, we went on to build our background knowledge and vocabulary related to apples.   You can get the free apple vocabulary cards {HERE} . We talked a lot about how labels can help us better understand informative text.  The anchor charts are Cara Carroll inspired. The next picture is one of me being attacked by seven year olds with post-it notes.  I let th...