love2learn2day: June 2012

Monday, June 25, 2012

Math Monday Blog Hop #60 (June 25, 2012)

Summer Math Blog Hops are open for 2 weeks, both to give you time to read and time to post.

Want to participate? Visit the fabulous math blog entries--all kinds of ideas for teaching and learning math--or post an entry from your own blog. Note: Entries that are not math-related will be removed. Please link directly to your post (so we can find it!) rather than to your entire blog. Enjoy the summer!

1.	July 4th Math & Logic Puzzle
2.	Math Game: Othello
3.	Frogs & Cupcakes: Spring Symmetry
4.	Watch Me Play and Learn: (learning with recipes)
5.	Kinder Doodles
6.	Pasta Sort Three Ways
7.	Scissor Stories: Tales of Transformation
8.	Six Shape Activities That Involve Movement
9.	Baseball Math Match-Up
10.	Post-It Page Marker Math
11.	Driveway Dice Roll Board Game

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Tuesday, June 19, 2012

Organizing Your Children's Math Library

After reading The Book Whisperer by Donalyn Miller I felt inspired to update the organization of my math library. When I had a fewer books, this technique worked, but in this past year I've been using books less--only because I couldn't find them--and knew something had to change.

In her classroom Miller uses small tubs to hold books on the bookshelves. As the number of books grow, it's simple to add more labeled tubs. With the labels, it's easy to put your hands on the topic you need. I used the concept headings on my Math in Children's Literature list to label bins. Since my bins taper a bit, I lose a little shelf space, a sacrifice that's worth it when I can locate the book I need. When I bring a new book home, the book first goes on a spreadsheet, and then straight into the appropriate concept bin, where books are then alphabetized by title.

This is a great summer project! If you're looking for some summer reading, check out the current or past Math Monday Blog Hop(s). During the summer, hops will remain open for 2 weeks. Happy Summer!

Monday, June 11, 2012

Math Monday Blog Hop #59 (June 11, 2012)

Your voice has been heard! Since you're asking for summer Math Blog Hops, here we go... I'll leave this open for 2 weeks, both to give you time to read and time to post. Around here, school isn't out yet so we're in that frantic finishing-up time. But I'm excited to read your ideas!

Want to participate? Visit the fabulous math blog entries--all kinds of ideas for teaching and learning math--or post an entry from your own blog. Please link directly to your post (so we can find it!) rather than to your entire blog. Welcome to summer!

1.	Number Sense Puzzles (1-10)
2.	No Stone Left Unturned [a Time-Telling Game]
3.	Pattern Block Lessons K-5 (CCSS!)
4.	Words + Math + Seasons = Mathematickles
5.	Math in Children's Literature - BIG LIST
6.	Fun Math Day w/ a game using just your hands
7.	Miniature Multiplication Ring Toss
8.	Dinosaur-themed Logic Puzzles
9.	Ladybug Math
10.	Mr Potato Head Math
11.	Measuring Tape Math Trick
12.	Practicing Numbers 1-6
13.	Domino Math
14.	Milk Cap Math Ideas
15.	"I have, who has?" Numbers to 20
16.	Free Exploration of Math Materials
17.	Sorting and Classifying
18.	Comparions
19.	Fraction book + food = YUM!
20.	Ten Frame Cards (Free Printable for Games)
21.	Kindergarten Common Core Math- for the teacher
22.	Watch Me Play and Learn: Number Hunt
23.	Place Value at the Beach
24.	Driveway Dice Roll Board Game
25.	51 More Links in Math Teachers at Play #51