If You Give A Mouse A Cookie.. Math Centers

Well friends.. I did it. I listed my first item on Teachers Pay Teachers!

I NEVER set out to sell my items.. I have enough on my plate between teaching and my Doodle Bugs Paper business.

But, I had made these centers and they were using Cheryl Seslar graphics. So, I bought her Teacher’s License and can now sell things with her graphics.. and since I own the license I can now offer 1-2 freebies a month. I plan on taking advantage of that!

So, I set up a seller’s account at TpT and I have listed my first item.. well, actually I listed 2 {but the first one is a freebie I already posted on my blog!}

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Next week will be all about If You Give A Mouse A Cookie.. and the other Laura Numeroff books with my first graders.

You will be able to download all the recording sheets at the end of this post.

So, I created a few math centers …

These number cards can be used two ways..

(1) Students can order the four numbers from least to the greatest from each card.

(2) Students can look at the card and write just the least and greatest number.

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Next up is a set of math facts- addition and subtraction cards.

These cards are not numbered so if you plan on using them in a center with a recording sheet they will need to be numbered.

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These cookie cards turned out really cute! Students can count the cookies lots of ways. We will probably count ours by 5’s but they can be counted by 1s. 2’s, 5’s, 10’s. etc..

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This is a set of number word cards zero-twenty.

Students can put them in order then write the word beside the number on the recording sheet.

I actually only do four centers so I will be using this as an extra activity for early finishers without the recording sheet with my students.

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This is a set of 30 number cards. I am going to let my students work together and put them in order from least to greatest then they have to write the numbers in order on their recording sheet.

We haven’t really talked a whole lot about even and odd in my class yet- but these cards could be used to sort even/odd.  There are 18 odd numbers and 12 even numbers in the set.

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So, if you are interested in buying these you can click below.

My picture previews on the listing are sideways.. why?? Any veteran TpT sellers that can help with that.. please do!

And the free recording sheets are  also below.

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Download here!

IF You Give A Mouse A Cookie Math Centers Unit on TpT

IF You Give A Mouse A Cookie Free Recording Sheets

A little Mouse Fun

Happy Friday Y’all!

What a week.. I feel like the last few weeks have been C.R.A.Z.Y.. and I am always rushed.. there is so much extra “stuff” going on. I was also out on Thursday- so that put me behind schedule on many things.

I also forgot my camera at home this morning- so I am missing pictures of several things we did this week. I am going to try and do a mid-week “mouse post” to show you those things too..

But, here is a little glimpse into our “Mouse Week”.

 

One of our weekly centers this week was stamping spelling words.

I make “list cards” with our spelling words so they are right there with the students. I also number the words so they know exactly where to stamp it on their paper. It’s not so important that they go in order but that they know which words they have stamped… otherwise they skip a word and then we {meaning ME} have to go back and figure out what word they skipped.

Numbering the words and the paper has SAVED MY LIFE!

 

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This poem was found at Teaching Heart but I changed it up a little bit.

**You can download the Mouse Poem here.**

Mouse graphics by Scrappin Doodle

Another center activity.. they had to cut the lines apart and glue them in order. There are copies of the poem in the center for easy reference.

We put the words in order together one morning during our meeting time.. Then I put them in the center and if they finished gluing the poem in order they could do this as a pocket chart activity.

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This is a center I made last year.. but it was WAY to easy for my first graders this year. They counted the dimes on the cards and recorded their answers on a recording sheet.

**You can download the Money Mouse Cards Here**

**You can download the Money Mouse Recording Sheet Here**

 

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These are number cards to put in order from least to greatest. We did this together then I put it away and will pull them back out next week.. and it will be part of a math pocket chart center.

**You can download the Mice Counting Cards Here**

Mouse graphics by Scrappin Doodle

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Ordinal words cards..we used these in a pocket chart to order from first-twelfth.

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This week was the first week they had an art project they had to complete on their own.

The pieces they needed were in stacks in the windowsill.. they had to get their pieces. cut them and glue them to make this simple little mouse!

 

Free Downloads

Mouse Money Center Cards

Mouse Money Recording Sheet

Mouse Trap Poem

Mice Counting Cards

 

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Have a fabulous weekend!!

xoxo, kacey

Getting Ready: week 5

 

It’s time to plan for another week!

Last week was a big blur…we had so much extra stuff going on at school that we barely had enough time to get the “must do” things in much less extra things I wanted to do. Even though all this extra stuff makes the days and the week fly by.. It’s so hard for me {and my students} to stay on track. I am BIG on a schedule and a normal routine..

But, we just keep on going.. on we are ready to talk about MICE this week!

Eek!!

The plan is to do 2 weeks of mice activities- so this week we will focus on Mouse Count. {Love that Book!} We made this bulletin board last year..

We will also read lots of Kevin Henkes’ books this week. Next week we will focus on If You Give a Mouse A Cookie.. Such fun stuff to be centered around mice.. I will be back later in the week to share pictures and a few freebies..

I also created a seller’s account on Teachers Pay Teachers.. I never set out to sell my stuff.. but I have been working on some cute things using Cheryl Seslar graphics. So, I bought the teacher’s license. She will allow 1-2 freebies a month if you have this license so I feel like it was a good purchase.

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Last week I asked about suggested chapter books to read aloud.. Here are suggestions you gave me and also a few I read ..

You can click on each picture and it will take you to Amazon to see each book.

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God Bless America!

Mouse Count

This is one of my favorite books.

This was a bulletin board we did to go along with the book.

The kids made torn paper mice.

I drew the snake but a few of them cut and glued stripes on it to make it look like the snake in the book.