Wormy Apple Counting Strips

For a long fourth dimension now, I receive got been a large fan of using counting strips inward the classroom. They are a bang-up agency to increase a student's mightiness to rote count together with gives them a fun agency to exercise a real of import skill. The other affair I dear near counting strips is that you lot tin role them to count forwards or backward together with tin start together with halt on whatever release you lot please.

Because I oftentimes travel inward the classroom co-teaching equally good equally doing interventions, some kids cease upwardly spending quite a chip of fourth dimension amongst me together with consequently if I don't choke along my materials fresh, they acquire a chip bored. So this year, I worked on updating some of my counting strips, adding novel ones together with ones that are shorter together with longer. I too made them much cuter than inward the yesteryear together with yesteryear printing a bunch of tiny heads, I turned many of them into worms. Also instead of having them draw the counting strip through an index carte du jour or a fight of paper, I made some apples instead. This made counting strips experience fresh together with novel ane time to a greater extent than together with gave my students fifty-fifty to a greater extent than exercise amongst of import skills.

I too had quite a grouping of students this twelvemonth who needed a lot of exercise amongst release writing hence I too made these strips using a real cool point to point font. Now kids who demand release writing exercise tin describe these numbers earlier nosotros seat the strips together.

This seems to order kids a greater feel of ownership of these counting strips than when I exactly made them myself. Even if I am the ane doing the cutting together with taping, they experience similar they created it.

By making these counting strips cuter together with getting the kids to a greater extent than involved, I receive got had to a greater extent than students who desire to accept them domicile together with play (practice) amongst them in that place equally well.

I receive got used these inward grades K-2 this year. Here is a peak at how I receive got used them.

Kindergarten

This makes a bang-up whole degree lesson for kindergarten. I similar to order them the 1-100 point to point sheet. For kids who are non cook for the entire thing, I similar to start them off amongst the numbers from 1-10 or from 1-20. It is absolutely fine if some kids are working amongst smaller numbers together with others are working amongst larger ones. This is a bang-up agency to differentiate! I too volition start some kids off counting backwards yesteryear 1's long earlier others are cook at this age. Just draw the strip inward the contrary direction together with they are counting backwards! A large affair to recollect amongst Kindergartners is that they should hold upwardly counting starting at dissimilar numbers. Make certain you lot don't ever start from 1!

A bang-up house to start amongst Kindergarten students

These curt strips are too bang-up for K together with degree 1. It is a VERY adept agency to conduct house pulling through the decade. They are too less intimidating than a huge 1-100 or 1-120 strip!

First Grade

In firstly degree I actually similar making the 1-120 strip amongst the whole degree together with and hence receive got them role it dissimilar ways to exercise rote counting forwards together with backwards yesteryear 1's. I too role the strips pictured higher upwardly a lot, peculiarly when I am doing interventions on kids who demand travel pulling though those tricky decade numbers. I too innovate another skip counting strips inward kindergarten paying detail attending to counting forwards together with backwards yesteryear 10's together with counting yesteryear 5's.

These skip counting strips aid my students larn to count yesteryear 5's 10's together with 2's. I ever receive got students who are cook for a challenge together with they dear trying to count yesteryear 3's!

Second Grade

In minute grade, it is my undertaking to brand certain students are FLUENT amongst the numbers to 120 at the firstly of the schoolhouse twelvemonth together with cook to tackle numbers to 1000. I too receive got them role the skip counting strips together with become further than I would brand a K or firstly grader go. Most students who were challenged yesteryear pulling through the decade inward firstly degree are challenged yesteryear pulling through the century inward minute degree hence I pass a lot of my fourth dimension giving them counting strips that assure they educate this skill. Just equally before, I brand certain kids tin count forwards together with backwards yesteryear exactly pulling the strips inward the contrary direciton.

These strips are bang-up for minute graders or anyone who needs exercise counting through the century mark!

Regardless of which degree I am using these in, in that place are ever students who actually create do amongst putting them together together with in that place are too students who demand every minute of math education I tin order them hence I oftentimes seat the strips together for students. Stored rolled upwardly inward a shoe box, counting strips normally concluding me near ii years together with I role them real regularly.

Here is how I seat them together:

Cut strips apart together with mucilage on worm head

Place a slice of record over the gap

Fold the record to a greater extent than or less the strip

I shop them yesteryear winding them upwardly amongst the tab on the exterior that says what is on the strip together with and hence newspaper clipping them together. You tin shop a bunch of them inward a shoe box this agency together with tin ever abide by what you lot demand when working on interventions.

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