Math Center Fun

This is the second week my class has been doing math tubs.  And so far, so good!  I did some reading up on math tubs from The First Grade Parade.  I went to Ikea last weekend and bought new "math tubs" with numbers on them.  They are so stinking adorable!  This week we are focusing on measurement using standard, and non-standard units of measurement.  I won Reagan Tunstal's Measurement Unit!  Yeah! She has lots of great hands on centers in her unit.   

 This year we were given three i-pads for our classroom.  My students absolutely love them!  We used a measurement ap to practice measuring different animals.  

 Here is a picture of a student using pipe cleaners to measure the calendar.  Both the students and I are enjoying math tubs.  We begin our math block right after our reading block.  It's a great way to transition from one subject to another, and the students quickly learned the procedures, so they can begin math even faster!  

I had to go back and edit this post.  I found a couple of my students looking really cute while they were measuring each other.

 I also brought my boy's legos to school, and we traced and measured them in our math journals.  

Measurement

We did a little measurement review today. Each student got their own Play Doh. They made a long "snake." Then they cut their Play Doh into different sizes. It was a review on using a ruler. I had each student use a plastic knife to cut their Play Doh. After they cut it I had students line up their snakes up from shortest to longest. Of course at the end of the lesson I let them play with the Play Doh. As you can see in the pictures they used their imagination to create some type of Play Doh guy. Lots of fun! Definitely recommend this activity!