Want a fun way to review skills before the Christmas break? This cute and low-prep integer operations game is perfect for a math center, partner practice or sub plans with your middle schoolers in December. Although it is certainly not a favorite topic for any middle school students that I know, I absolutely love teaching integer operations. I love helping students visualize the "why" behind things like subtracting a negative number is the Keep Reading...
Christmas Multiplication Facts Scavenger Hunt – Grades 3-4
Would you like an easy and low-prep way to get your kids up and moving, working together and practicing challenging multiplication facts at the same time? This multiplication facts scavenger hunt is a great review before heading out for Christmas break! If you teach third grade or fourth grade (or even fifth grade!) you know how essential and foundational the basic multiplication facts are. But you also know how those really tricky facts (x7, Keep Reading...
{FREE!} Christmas Addition Practice – 1st Grade
Want some fun and festive math practice for your first or second grader this holiday? Help Santa pack his sleigh by adding all the presents! Christmas Addition Practice for first grade is a fun activity for learning or review. What do you do when you reach that point in December when every kid is bouncing off the walls and no one has any interest in learning? Combine purposeful review with fun activities! Building confidence and fluency with Keep Reading...
{FREE!} Christmas Math Activities for Preschool | Low-Prep
Looking for some fun, free and low-prep ways to tackle math concepts in the days leading up to Christmas break? This cut set of Christmas Math Activities for Preschool is a great way to keep little hands busy and learning. There is no shortage of Christmas math activities for preschool on the internet. While a quick search on Google or Pinterest may pull up pages and pages of results, it might be a little overwhelming. So I hope that this Keep Reading...
Christmas Math Puzzles for Kids {FREE!}
I know how crazy those days leading up to Christmas break can get. The kids are ready to be done, and let's face it, teachers are usually ready to be done too! It can be hard to keep kids engaged during this time. Or maybe you teach high school and you're gearing up for final exams. What are your kids supposed to do when they've finished? Well today, I'm sharing a fun, yet challenging set of Christmas math puzzles to help your kids deepen their Keep Reading...
Grow a Christmas Tree Farm! {FREE Math Game}
It's no secret that I love literature based learning. And while it might seem obvious to use literature to teach reading, comprehension and grammar, I think it's just as useful and engaging to use literature to teach and explore math! And so, at this time of year, when we are reading stacks and stacks of Christmas books, I'm constantly looking for ways to incorporate math into our holiday festivities. Today I'm sharing a Christmas Tree Farm math Keep Reading...
Easy Christmas Tree Symmetry Craft!
It's the most wonderful time of the year! But it's also that time of year when young minds are consumed with anything and everything but schoolwork. Whether you are a classroom teacher or a homeschool parent, you likely sympathize with my struggle to enjoy the holidays and make sure we're doing lots of fun activities, while also sneaking in lots of good learning. Thankfully, December is the perfect time to take a break from the norm and to weave Keep Reading...
Decorate a Christmas Tree! {Number Sense Activity}
I recently wrote about a fun and simple way to increase number sense and help kids think creatively about numbers. The "Build a Turkey" Number Sense lesson was so popular that I made a similar activity for Christmas! I was so excited to create this activity, I went a little overboard purchasing Christmas clipart. So if you like this, be sure to check back throughout December for more Christmas learning activities and printables! This Christmas Keep Reading...
Simple Problem of the Day Christmas Countdown!
There's no denying that December is one of the hardest times of the year to get kids to stay focused! All of the excitement and anticipation get the best of even the most studious kids, making it hard to introduce new topics or review old ones before pausing for Christmas break. So if you're looking for a fun way to take your kids' excitement for the holidays and use it to actually get some math practice done, try this Math Problem of the Day Keep Reading...
