
Happy Monday!  Today I am joining upwards amongst some novel blogging friends to choose yous the Snow Much Fun weblog hop.  This weblog hop is a agency to part amongst yous some novel ideas to proceed yous kids engaged too learning during those long wintertime months.  We cause got kept this a curt hop thence it is a bang-up agency to acquire some novel ideas too banking concern jibe out some novel blogs without beingness overwhelmed.  If yous are novel to my blog, welcome.  I am The Math Maniac too I honey pedagogy math.  I am a K-6 math specialist too believe inwards the ability of conceptual understanding.  I cause got a lot to country nearly math pedagogy too ship service often on this weblog nearly all kinds of math subjects.  You tin sack likewise uncovering me on 
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 Today I desire to part amongst yous how I endeavor to choose wintertime fun into the classroom amongst math flush problems.  No thing what bird I am working amongst too what type of computation my students tin sack do, it is ever to a greater extent than fun to purpose a context.  Using a wintertime context is a bang-up agency to cause got fun amongst the flavour too acquire kids solving problems they are actually interested in.  Here are some of the ways I acquire kids engaged! 
 
   Picture Problems
  
  There is zip similar a fun wintertime scene to describe my youngest learners into a occupation a actually acquire them thinking nearly math.  A visual images goes a long agency toward helping these niggling learners contextualize a province of affairs too solve a problem.  I similar to outset motion painting problems past times making a few of my ain for students to solve.  Then I permit them brand their ain motion painting problems.  It is slow to do a background out of structure newspaper too and thence kids tin sack draw, purpose stickers or purpose stamps to do the residual of the scene.  My favorite wintertime theme for motion painting problems is penguins! 
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 | One event of a motion painting problem.  Click here to take in this i too some other penguin freebie!  After solving a few of these equally a class, permit your students brand upwards their own.  | 
 
   Winter Literature
  Have some wintertime literature yous purpose every twelvemonth inwards your classroom?  It is amazing what kinds of math give-and-take problems tin sack last made based on kids' books.  It mightiness last the words inwards the flush or it mightiness last the pictures inwards the book, exactly something inwards almost every mass tin sack inspire a give-and-take problem.  I cause got been actually focusing on this over the past times two months too amongst do it has gotten easier too easier to come upwards up amongst adept math problems based on pop non-math motion painting books.   I similar to brand these problems into niggling business cards too stick them inwards the mass where I volition last certain to yell back to inquire them.  Here are a few sets I cause got made for pop wintertime motion painting books.  Please experience gratis to purpose these amongst your students too I promise they inspire yous to proceed going!  
       Winter Task Cards
  For my older students, I similar to write wintertime themed problems on business cards.  Then I accept the business cards too nosotros become to our gymnasium too spread the cards out.  Then kids displace to a greater extent than or less the gym solving problems too recording answers.  When nosotros cause got had a long calendar week cooped upwards inwards the classroom it is bang-up to orbit kids this jeopardy to cause got a chip of extra movement.  On days when nosotros can't acquire into the gym nosotros purpose them inwards the classroom too play a version of scoot or some game where nosotros tin sack displace from desk to desk at the really least.  If nosotros acquire a sunny too warmish day, nosotros mightiness fifty-fifty company exterior too solve a few problems outside.  Our wintertime business cards are a mix of ones I cause got written for the students along amongst ones nosotros cause got written equally a bird too kids cause got written independently.  Here are a few to acquire yous started!
  
   
   How do yous proceed kids engaged during the winter? 
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