Tutoring Tuesdays - January 16th, 2018

Welcome back to Tutoring Tuesdays! After a couple of weeks off of tutoring I tutored last Wednesday. I hope each of you enjoyed your extra day off this week celebrating Martin Luther King, Jr.

This week we mostly worked on 1 more or 1 less to 1,000. I focused mostly on numbers where the hundred's or ten's place changes as that is where she has difficulty. For example what comes after 299 or 349. What comes before 500 or 750. We used my new Numbers to 1,000 Penguins Race. As she showed me again if the kids write really tiny on the cards it will fit the numbers, but I recommend using a white board or the recording sheet that is included. It comes with a game board or you can use it for Scoot, Quiz Quiz Trade, etc.

That took most of the hour. Then we worked on measurement to the nearest half inch. I planned to work on the nearest quarter inch with her, but her mom told me she had just had difficulty with half inch so I used these cards for half inch instead. The answer key that comes with my Measurement to the Nearest Quarter Inch Penguins is for quarter inch, but use it as you see fit. I made them both with the box in case you want to laminate them and cut them out for a mini center or small group or without the box to be used as a worksheet. You can download this for FREE by clicking on the picture! Did I say FREE? Yup! Please leave positive feedback if you like this center/printable. Remember it cost me money to create this for you as I pay for the clip art and the fonts. Thank you!

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Fun With Penguins

One of my favorite topics to teach about each year is penguins.

Graphics above from Ashley Hughes.

I always read a lot of fun books on penguins both fiction and nonfiction.  The Tacky The Penguin series of books was a huge favorite among my past 2nd graders. For nonfiction Penguins by Gail Gibbons has always been a huge favorite among both my 2nd graders and Kindergarten students  Her books are also excellent to teach labeling and nonfiction text features.

I also am a big fan of using music in the classroom.  The Learning Station just released two versions of Penguin song.  One is animated and the other one is a live version.  Both have the motions to go with the songs making them excellent brain breaks! Let us know in the comments, which penguin video is your favorite!




For some reason the 2nd video won't show up so click HERE to see the animation video for The Penguin Song.

I also love taking them on a virtual field trip to Sea World to see the penguins live!  Check it out by clicking HERE.  Your students will love it as well so I hope you take the time to watch both of them!

I also have some fun new Penguin products that can be placed at a centers.  Check out my Penguin Multiplication Blast game that has a fun addition twist to it by clicking on any of the pictures and my fun Penguin Missing Number Equations Task Cards!  The cute graphics are from Mel at Graphics From The Pond.

Also, if you look to the left of the page you'll see new Social Media buttons that my friend Carly made for me.  You can visit her incredible blog by clicking HERE. 

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Subtraction Regroup With Food

What kiddo doesn't like eating food and learning at the same time?  When I went shopping at Wal-Mart I found these adorable Penguin crackers.  I haven't figured out yet what to use them for.  Maybe for counting for Kindergarten or patterning.  Let me know in the comments what ideas you have!

I also have a fun idea to teach subtraction regrouping (could be used for addition as well) that I plan to use when I tutor tomorrow afternoon.  Use Cheerios for the ones and pretzels for the tens!

First the child makes the number. 

If they need to borrow like in this problem let them eat a pretzel and trade it in for 10 Cheerios.

Check the one's place to see how many to eat.  In this case it's 7 Cheerios.  Yum!

Now check the ten's lace to see how many pretzels to eat.  In this case it's 2 pretzels.  Then you come up with the difference!

What kiddo wouldn't like that fun Common Core activity?  I bet they would learn how to regroup with subtraction so much quicker this way because it's concrete!  Give it a try and let me know how it works for you.  The football cards will be available soon in my shop if you are interested!

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