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Hi Teacher,
Here are a few new ideas for your lesson plans.
- A tasty narrative writing activity
- A real-world activity to practice interpreting multiplication
- A field trip follow-up activity
Have a great week!
Tina from The Mailbox
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If You Give a Teacher a Cookie
Narrative writing
Serve up this tempting activity to boost creative-writing skills. Read aloud If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Joffe Numeroff. Then have each student make her own cookie booklet. First, she staples a supply of paper between two circular brown construction paper covers and trims the paper to match the covers. Then, using Numeroff's book as a model, the youngster writes and illustrates a humorous story about what would happen if she gave her teacher a cookie. She adds a title and her name to the front cover and then decorates both covers so they resemble cookies. Celebrate a job well done by serving a yummy cookie snack while students listen to each other's stories.
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Stop and Shop
Interpreting multiplication
Here’s a real-world activity to help students better understand multiplication concepts. Share examples of store circulars; then have each child design an ad of his choice that includes six items. For each item, direct students to list a different whole dollar price from $1 to $10. Instruct the child to also label each item with a letter from A to F. After the ads are completed, tell students it is time to shop. Have students place their ads on their desks; then, on your signal, have each student take a sheet of paper to another student’s desk. Announce a letter and a number, such as B, 3. (Keep the number between 2 and 10). The child finds the item with that letter. He uses the number with the item’s price to write an addition and a multiplication equation to show the cost of buying that many of the item. Then repeat the activity as time allows.
To extend the activity, give students a money amount to spend at each "store" and have them calculate their change or overage at each one.
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Everyone Shares
Sharing information about an experience
After a class activity, such as an assembly or a field trip, assign each student the number 1, 2, or 3. Have each student with the number 1 prepare one or more complete sentences about the beginning of the experience, each student with the number 2 prepare one or more complete sentences about the middle of the experience, and each student with the number 3 prepare one or more sentences about the end. Next, group the students, making sure each number is represented in each group. Then direct each group to prepare an oral presentation that recaps the experience.
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