I started my Jelly Bean Math Centers today. I sent home the donation letter that comes with the packet and I was overwhelmed by the response from parents! It just so happened that Dollar Tree had all the donations needed. The only thing I needed to do was buy a few more small Dollar Tree metal Easter buckets. As I was at the Dollar Tree, I met a parent and she so graciously took the adorable plastic chick eggs, that I plan to use with Anna Brantley’s Hippoty Hoppity Math and Literacy Centers, out of my hands and bought them for me. So nice to have supportive parents!
The kids were so excited to go to the centers and they were actually very quiet. They were really enjoying themselves and concentrating! I am also very lucky that our AIS math specialist pushes into my class for math centers and follows her group around to the various centers. Check out the photos below of three of the Jelly Bean Math Centers.
*Don’t forget to enter the “Spring Themed Fun Contest” to win the centers and more. Click {here} to enter on my blog and click {here} to enter at Anna’s blog Crazy for First.
Jelly Bean Math Centers and Dollar Tree
Jelly Bean Addition and Subtraction Center
Jelly Bean Egg Estimation
Jelly Bean Sorting, Tallying, and Graphing Center
Beth
How fun!! You may be familiar with these ideas:
*mystery sound eggs- put different items in the eggs and write a number on each egg. Recording sheet has a corresponding # and they write their guess
*addition/subtraction eggs- You can write different #'s on both halves of the egg. Twist and add/subtract
*Egg Collector- # and place 12 plastic eggs in an egg carton. Roll dice and try to empty your egg carton first by making a addition/subtraction sentences with the eggs.
Thank you for all of your wonderful ideas!
Beth
primaryconnections-beth.blogspot.com/
Deedee Wills
Super Fun!
Mrs. Wills Kindergarten
Erica Bohrer
Thank you ladies!
Miss Miller
I love your blog! 🙂
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Anna Brantley
Yay, Erica!!! Congrats on 400+ followers!!! I love the Toothy Grin activity!!! TOO CUTE:) Your ideas are A.W.E.S.O.M.E!!!
Anna
Crazy for First Grade
love2teach2day
Hi Erica,
Not sure how to spread the word but to post on a few blogs. 🙂 I want teachers to know that they are welcome to the new Math Monday blog hop:
http://love2learn2day.blogspot.com/2011/04/math-monday-blog-hop-1-and-giveaway.html
Hope to see you there!
Cindy