Candy Cane Math inward the Primary Classroom

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With Christmas but roughly the corner, I wanted to percentage alongside y'all five of my favorite candy cane math activities to role inward principal classrooms.  I similar using using Guided Math.  

Symmetry

Candy canes are a fun agency to innovate or reinforce the concept of line symmetry.  You tin acquire mirrors out if your kids are novel to these ideas or but brand a business in addition to conduct keep them experiment alongside making a symmetrical picture.  You tin fifty-fifty select grip of your photographic tv set camera in addition to snap pictures of students creations to brand a class book.  

Measuring 

Candy canes brand a neat unit of measurement for mensuration alongside principal students.  Mini-candy canes add together accuracy in addition to arrive possible to mensurate shorter items.  If y'all are using measure sized candy canes, conduct keep students mensurate things that are longer.  Depending on the flat of your students, y'all tin conduct keep kids mensurate to the nearest whole candy cane or acquire ahead in addition to opened upwards up the thought of fractions.  

Estimating

I am a big fan of giving students a run a hazard to estimate in addition to count inward all grades.  There are thence many math skills y'all tin innovate or review alongside an estimation jar.  With candy canes it is a lot of fun to fill upwards 2 identical jars.  Fill i alongside regular candy canes in addition to the other alongside mini ones.  See how they relate.  For to a greater extent than ideas on estimation jars, depository fiscal establishment gibe out my Counting in addition to Estimating Routines Series.  

Patterning in addition to Positioning

 If your students are anything similar mine, than chances are y'all conduct keep a pupil or 2 who struggles alongside positioning words similar sideways, upside downward in addition to to the right.  This is a neat fourth dimension to hap positioning words in addition to patterns at the same time.

Counting in addition to Tallying 

 Once y'all conduct keep had a run a hazard to role the candy canes for math, the kids are going to desire to consume them.  Have them accept 100 (or twenty or 300, etc) licks in addition to come across what the candy cane looks similar afterwards that many licks.  If appropriate for your historic menstruum group, had in addition to thence proceed rails of their licks alongside tally marks.  If tally marks aren't something y'all want/need to hap plainly one-time rote counting plant great.

Looking for to a greater extent than vacation fun for principal students?  Check out this free reindeer game or some neat penguin activities.  

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