Freebie Friday: Measuring

This week we have been focusing on measuring length using informal units and the letter 'Ss'. Found this great Snowman Measuring idea from Mrs Plant's Press, so I very bravely got out the white paint to make these and because I was feeling lazy we finger painted them! I forgot to take pics so I have added Mrs Plant's pic instead for the moment but I will update these next week. We painted directly onto the blue card and then drew on the features the next day with crayons. 
And incase you were wondering it was 30C (86F) on the day we did this so the only link was the letter S not the weather but it never snows here so it didn't matter :)

Today we made Paper People by tracing around our bodies and then we measured these with pop sticks. Thank goodness we borrowed 12 Grade 6s for this so there were 2 little kids per big buddy. The big kids were so patient! They did all the tracing around the bodies after I demonstrated just drawing the big outline- around hands with fingers closed and around legs placed together. The kiddos then coloured these in (with texta which they hardly get to use so this was THE BEST lol) and then their buddies helped them measure these with pop sticks. We talked about 'good measuring' with no gaps before they did this and just measuring the height from head to shoes not covering the whole person in pop sticks!

I loved the Snowman idea but couldn't find the "My snowman is..." heading anywhere. Incase you were in a rush like me I have attached free headings for both the snowman and the paper people. 

PDF version

Editable MAC version

Happy Friday!

x Bec

Make 18 Math Game Freebie

It's two weeks tomorrow until we start the new school year here, so I have the 'I have so much to do, my room isn't ready, I need to plan....' blues (a.k.a. panic attack) today! I know I'm not the only one who gets this, right? Anywho, sorry just had to share that, but now onto the freebie!

I've added a new Math game that I use all the time called 'Make 18'. 

My K-1's play this using only addition and 3 dot dice so we can 'count all' the dots. When my kiddos started to know some number facts, I'd swap one dice to a 6-sided number die and they would then start counting on from that number. For this year I have updated the template and made it pretty! If you click on the link above, this will give you instructions on how to play for the year 2+ version (using addition, subtraction, multiplication and division).

I'm only new at my store and blog so I would love you to follow me & leave a comment if you download this! 

Thanks heaps for reading,

x Bec