Room Mom 101

Hey there! Remember me? I have had this blog on my mind for a while now, but man oh man, I swear life gets busier by the day! I'm not sure if it's the age of my children and all that they're involved in, working full time and being a mom to 4, the stress of keeping up on everything at school, including RTI, or what, but yeah, you could say I've been busy! First of all, I just have to say how proud I am of all my cute little firsties. They are doing so great with reading this year and the majority of my class is on grade level. Thank you parents, volunteers and everyone else!! I think for this reason, my focus lately has been geared more towards math and what I can help them with there. We have done math centers every day this week and most of last week. Yes, that can be a little bit more work, but I think the small group instruction is so much more valuable. My first grade team sat down at the beginning of the year and mapped out what math essential goals we wanted our students to be able toachieveby the end of the school year. We then broke down our goals by trimesters so the end goal would seem achievable. Here's what we came up with.

Trimester 1 Students will be able to verbally count to 30, write to 30 (without any reversal and with neat handwriting), recognize the symbols +, -, and =, and be able to correctly use those symbols in a problem.

Trimester 2 Students will be able to verbally count to 70, write to 70 (without any reversal and with neat handwriting), add and subtract within 10.

Trimester 3 - Students will be able to verbally count to 120, write to 120 (without any reversal and with neat handwriting), add and subtract within 20.

If you are a first grade teacher, you may be aware that the new goal for first graders is to be able to reach 120 by the end of the year, where it used to be 100. We view our goals as "baby steps" towards reaching that goal. It has been such a thorough thing to do and by doing this process has opened our eyes to a lot of things we assumed the students already knew, but didn't. I am linking up to some activities I have come across that have been helpful in reaching our goals. If there is something you feel could be useful also, please leave a comment below.

Trimester 1 Number Writing Practice (FREEBIE) from I Heart Teaching.

Trimester 3

Have the students then cut their charts apart (by color) to turn it into a puzzle. The students then trade their puzzles with a friend in the class and have to put the chart back together.

In the next few posts I am going to be writing about various math ideas (centers, games, activities, etc.) and then I will be moving on to teacher appreciation. I have lots of door decoration ideas and gift giving ideas I am eager to share, so stick around...

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