I don’t know about you, but summer fever has hit hard. We started our May BUILD tubs not that long ago and I feel like it’s already time to clean everything up and put it all away until August. I’ve been (ahem) meaning to do a May BUILD post for awhile now and my preggo self just can’t seem to 1. stay focused and 2. keep my eyes open past 8 p.m.
Now that I’m just about in to my second trimester, I think I can sit down for a few minutes and get a blog post out of my brain.
So, you all know that I love BUILD. It has been a great management tool for me this year and the perfect way to make sure that I’m including a lot of skills and ensuring that my students have a lot of hands-on activities.
Here are some of the activities that are in the May BUILD rotation.
I always have some sort of pattern block cards in my mix of tubs. I have done this since August and they love it. I didn’t start putting in the recording page until December, but you don’t have to at all if you don’t want to.
This ice cream stacking game has been a hit. The number goes on the bottom and then they have to stack the different ways that number can be represented on top of it. There are base ten pictures, number words and addition problems. Getting kids to look at numbers differently is an important skill!
This game is sort of like a “roll and cover” except they have to draw a card and find a corresponding addition problem. The first person to “cover” their board is the winner.
I have had a similar game in this tub since December but it just has a different name each month. This month it’s “beach ball” and whenever a student draws a picture of a beach ball, they have to return all of their cards to the bucket. If they get 10 cards without drawing a beach ball and answering all of the subtraction problems, then they are the winner.
The next two are the “I” in BUILD for independent reading. Really, they are filling out their own emergent reader and building their own little book-lets. I just like to let them think this is the “reading” part of math tubs 😛
If you don’t have your own base ten blocks for this activity, there are some you can print in the unit. I had students building numbers that were a little on the higher side and they rocked it. I also had them draw their base tens that they used on their boards on a recording page. If you just wanted to put the number cards in this station, that would work as well!
This is part of the “D”…doing math. It’s just a regular solve and color page. My kids kind of really love these…I think the suspense of what color it could possibly be is really exciting for them. Ha.
For this tub, they walk around the room and answer the addition or subtraction problem. They write down the number and the number word and then write it next to the matching picture on the recording page.
All of this can be found in this unit and be on the look-out for August-November BUILD stations coming soon!
