First things first&…I’m a fool! Y’all. I’m blushing red with embarrassment. For those of you who have purchased my Place Value Mystery Pictures &…and those of you who have downloaded the free preview&…I apologize. One of my firsties pointed out a HUGE mistake on the 100’s Chart this morning. There’s an 81 where there should be a 90. Yikes-a-bee! See&…I TOLD you! Pregnancy brain strikes again&…and I’m not even preggo! You can download the corrected 100’s chart by clicking on the pic below 🙂

Speaking of place value, here’s a fun little activity I made for my kids to do in their math tubs last week. It’s a snowman place value spinner!

Last week we were working on place value with teen numbers, so that’s what this particular activity reinforces. The kids spin the spinner on the middle portion of the snowman and collect that amount of ones cubes. or whatever kind of counter you want! Then they spin the spinner on the bottom portion of the snowman and collect the same amount of ones cubes as well. Then they count their cubes and see if they can make a set of ten. I always tell them, &”If you can make a 10, trade it in. &”. Then they grab a tens rod, place their base 10 blocks on the place value workmat accordingly, and then fill out the corresponding recording sheet. Y’all&…they LOVED it.

I LOVED our week of snowman fun. It was absolutely the PERFECT week to learn about snowmen because it snowed like crazy last week and the kids were SO excited! I took A LOT of ideas and activities from Deanna Jump’s Snowman Math Literacy Unit. LOVED IT. It’s not too late, so if you don’t have yours yet, go grab it!

We read one of my favorites, Snowmen at Night, and imagined what it would be like to be a snowman in that story. I had the kids write about what they would do at night if they were a snowman and then create their DARLING snowmen with marshmallows white paint! LOVED that idea.

I originally saw these cutie snowmen on What the Teacher Wants and bookmarked it for this occasion! Rachelle said that they used black paint tiny marshmallows to create the buttons the face, but I just had the kids use construction paper for everything&…except the white! They just dipped the marshmallow into the white paint and used it like a stamp.

Now&…y’all PUH-leeze take a look at mister mister’s writing below. MERCY. This one is a RIOT. I’m nervous to send it home 🙂 And this just makes me wonder what the heck my boys will be writing about when they’re in school! HA!!

I also had the kids write a 4-step how-to on building a snowman. They had to use the words first, then, next, and last at the beginning of each of their sentences. Then they got to create their snowmen using construction paper. They all turned out SO different and I love that!