Life Of Fred - Apples Ch 2

We are up and running with our math and covered Chapter 2 yesterday!  We started by watching several Days of the Week videos on YouTube together.  Then we worked on the days of the week with two cut & paste worksheets as well as one fill in the blank.

 

Cut & Paste from Kids Learning Station

Fill in the blank from Cookie.com

Cut & paste days of the week from Buzz Around in Second Grade

 

We then moved on to ellipse work!  In all of the following papers I crossed out 'oval' and wrote in 'ellipse'.  We used two color by number ellipse animals as well as one circle/ellipse difference worksheet.  We explored the differences of the two by starting with a ribbon taped into a circle and worked them into an ellipse (by stretching two sides).

 

 

Ellipse color by number puppy from Cool Kids Craft Ideas

Circle/ellipse difference worksheet from Cool Kids Craft Ideas

Ellipse color by number snake from Cool Kids Craft Ideas

We finished by making ellipse & circle  Whole Wheat Pancakes with healthy Chocolate Syrup.  I made the pancakes and let the kids practice by spooning on the syrup in the two shapes.  Big hit!

Our New Friend Fred - LOF: Apples Ch. 1

After lots of research (and procrastination) we chose to go with Life of Fred for our math!  We are very excited and just finished Chapter 1.  The kids LOVE this book and I always find it in their rooms with their math journals open.  If your kids are sneaking math lessons in while you aren't looking - I would say you have chosen the right book for the job ;)

We start by sitting all together on my bed or the couch or in the backyard (anywhere comfy) and they both have Math Journals.  Their journals are run of the mill notebooks without spiral bindings since the spirals distract Tractor.  They write & draw whatever they want while we very slowly read through the chapter.  We take a few extra minutes at the end of each page for them to finish up what they chose to copy down in their journals and then move on - coming back to whatever they want after we finish the chapter.  There are a few questions at the end of each chapter that we work on and answer in their journals. 

For Chapter 1 we also worked on Math Family mini books (we plan to keep adding to these books) as well as Equation Building Cards that I found in the Target dollar bins.

We used the cards & 7 pennies to figure out the 4 ways you can use addition to equal 7 (I turned the - into + with a black marker to make room for 4 addition equations in ech house).  Then we did the same thing with the numbers reversed to go along with the last question of the chapter.

 

 

 

Math Family Printable from Teachers.net

 

We also made the clock that can be found at Thriving Third Graders.