Doing Math in Morning Meeting: 150 Quick Activities that Connect to Your CurriculumBring joy and energy to math learning without adding to your already-packed schedule! This book gives you 150 fun and engaging math activities suitable for kindergartners to 5th graders, and provides math-themed ideas for all four Morning Meeting components: greeting, group activity, sharing, and morning message. Use these guessing games, songs, chants, hands-on experiments, and more to inspire students' interest in math and help them practice skills. Each activity includes: * Easy how-to steps * The Morning Meeting component in which to use the activity * Relevant NCTM content and process standards * Specific math skills addressed * Materials needed (all require few or no materials) * Tips on preparing students for success * Math vocabulary to emphasize * Variations and extensions |
Contents
Section 1 | 21 |
Section 2 | 59 |
Section 3 | 65 |
Section 4 | 67 |
Section 5 | 77 |
Section 6 | 83 |
Section 7 | 93 |
Section 8 | 99 |
Section 11 | 113 |
Section 12 | 117 |
Section 13 | 121 |
Section 14 | 133 |
Section 15 | 141 |
Section 16 | 145 |
Section 17 | 169 |
Section 18 | 201 |
Common terms and phrases
Activity Materials needed Algebra NCTM Process Analysis & Probability Ask students Base Ten Block Batting Averages Bouncing circle clap classroom Coin Flip coins Common Core Communication Specific math Connections Specific math content or skill count Data Analysis decimals estimate example EXTENSION Hundreds Chart Identifying shapes inches LATER MATH LESSON Let students know Magical Mystery Machine mathematical Mental Math Message chart message Materials needed message portion Mixed Number Morning Meeting Morning message Materials multiplication Name Values NCTM Content Standard NCTM Process Standard Number & Operations number cards number relationships number sentence Operations NCTM Process pair partner pattern polygons Post some version practice Preparing students Problem Solving Specific Proof Specific math questions reading the message Reasoning & Proof rectangle Representation Specific math skill addressed Skip Greeting Solving Specific math Specific math content square students for success subtraction Sum Fractions Toss and Call triangle VARIATION Venn Diagrams Vocabulary Wall Message