Making Ten and a Fun Free Game.

Now it’s time again for Math on Mondays!  10 frames are soooooo useful.  This week we were working on 10 frames and number concept.  I really want my students to be able to visualize those 10 frames in their heads.  It will make addition and subtraction with 2 digit numbers so much easier to learn.  So we were working as a group and I was flashing up the 10 frames with the candy corn  – see last week’s post.  But I realized that some of the children were getting bored and not focused on what they were doing.  Something I learned from all my years of teaching Kindergarten, was that you can turn simple lessons into a simple game and the students LOVE it!  It doesn’t even need to make much sense to you as an adult, just turn it into a game and the kids love it.  So I decided, on the spur of the moment, to turn this activity into a game.