New Product! Daily Math Activities!

WHEW!  I finally finished my latest TPT product.  Our computer was NOT cooperating and some of the formatting took WAY longer than it should have.  Especially considering I had made these all year long and so all I really had to do was copy, save, and upload.   Grrr...

ANYWAY!  It's a 489 page packet of daily math activities!  Each morning my kids are responsible for completing their calendar binder.  I wish I had some pictures to better explain this, but I don't so I'll have to do the best I can.  Calendar Binders are the first thing we do each morning.  It's a great way to have them settle in each morning instead of wandering around waiting for me.  If anyone lost a tooth they record it on the tooth graph.  We use the baseball card holders to represent the day using hundreds, tens, and ones.

Then, they complete a page of activities.  The basic format is the same, but the skills change based on what we've been learning.  The pages are always a review of the past couple of days.  I also mix in some assessments for report card and conference times.  This set of activities was made to go along with the Math Expressions series, but could easily be adapted to fit any curriculum.

There are actually 2 copies of the same activities in the pack.  The first has each "number of the day" numbered for you.  The second set does not.  That way you could use them in whatever order you want!  I hope you can find this useful!  Make sure to head to my store to get your copy!



{Also, if anyone knows how to get rid of that annoying box around my name PLEASE let me know.  I have spent WAY too much time trying to figure that out as well!}

The Itch

I think I've finally caught it...the itch to start planning, prepping, and ultimately stressing over my classroom and the preparations for the year to come.  Somehow I avoided it up until this point.  Something about spending an insane amount of time last summer to prepare for the upcoming school year so that I wouldn't have so much to do during the year combined with a very stressful year planning the wedding sent me into a "no way, not happening, going to enjoy my summer" type of mind.  {Sorry - that was the longest sentence ever!}  

It's not that I haven't done anything.  I've worked on stuff...a little bit.  A very little bit.  I've thought about a lot of things.  And I've spent HOURS catching up on reading my favorite teaching blogs as well as a few new ones!  

But today, it hit me.  The itch to start.  Maybe it was the stress that finally kicked in.  I'm starting at a new school this year and the thought of getting a new classroom and curriculum ready is starting to get a little stressful.  So today I took 2 loads of things to school.  I did go last week to go through and clean out the things the old teacher left so it's a good start.  I also spent the better part of the morning doing this...

Cleaning books bins.  {Ignore the weeds.  We pay condo fees for someone to take care of them.  But they don't.  Don't get me started.}  

Baby steps, people.  Maybe tomorrow I'll print the labels that go with them.