New Winter and Christmas Math Activities! (Better late than never...)

I realize that Christmas break is only... 1 1/2 days away for some of us.  Some of you may already be on break- lucky ducks!  As I begin to dabble in the world of blogging, teachers pay teachers, and creating fun things for my own kids, I realize how *behind* I am in posting resources!  Maybe it's because I'm still collecting, creating, and planning things for my kids as this is only my second year, or maybe it's because I'm still nervous to share my things with everyone else who has FANTASTIC things in their store.  Well regardless, here are the things I created for my kids to do this week as we close on long division and do a quick unit on factors before break.

 

 These are task cards I made to use past winter break and into Winter.  There are 10 cards with each card having 12 marshmallows to sort into the "chunky chocolate composite coco" mug or into the "positively puffy prime" mug.  I figured my kids could play scoot in partners with these or they could cut and glue the marshmallows into the correct mugs.  I'm looking forward to using them on Friday!  We normally have a cumalitve math quiz on Fridays with review or unit games afterwords.  My kids love it :)

These winter task cards were created to use as scoot cards.  Students look for all of the factors for the given number and identify it as prime or composite.  They are also Winter themed so I can use them for a little longer than just Christmas ones. ;)

 I'm on a task card kick in case no one has noticed.  We just started factorization the week before break so I knew I HAD to do some Christmas themed to keep my hyper kiddos engaged. These task cards are Christmas themed with the given number in the star and the ornaments empty for the factors to be recored in.  I plan on laminating them and giving kids dry erase markers to use or maybe having my teams work together to solve each tree.  I have four kids in each team or table so it works pretty well.  I love having my kids collaborate together to solve problems.  :)








Ahhh... word problems.  These cards were used for our long division quiz.  The kids played scoot (sometimes called skiddadle) and quickly and effectively worked for 40 minutes (with Christmas music playing).  It wasn't until the end that I told them I was taking this up as quiz grade.  They all did remarkably well and loved the Christmas themed questions!  I even wrote one about our principal, my neighbor teacher, my husband Joel, and my sister.  It's amazing how making work meaningful can totally boost my kids morale and enjoyment towards math!
 

Well, this post is all about the math (obviously) stuff going on in my class.  I plan on posting an upcoming blog on everything we've done in Reading and Writing this week.  I've had so much fun planning meaningful, fun Christmas activities for my kiddos. I hope everyone has had a great week before break!  I know the full moon has totally gotten my kids out of whack!  I hope I survive!