Math Adoption
This year is our turn to go through the adoption process, and we will need teachers to serve on the selection committee. If you are interested in serving, please let your principal know.
Every teacher gets a voice in the choice we make. Early in the spring semester, the selection committee will present two options to the district. All elementary teachers will have the opportunity to examine the curriculum for themselves, hear a presentation from each of the curriculum representatives, and teach a lesson from both options. If you attend BOTH presentations and teach a lesson from each option, you get to vote. We need a selection made by the end of February.
This selection will be our curriculum starting in 24-25 and will last for 6 years.
Math Materials and Manipulatives
1. Apply for the Moore Public Schools Foundation Grant.
2. Talk to your Title 1 Teacher (if applicable).
3. Speak with your principal about purchasing the materials.
4. Send me an email. I will do the best I can to get the materials you need, but please try the other options first. If you have questions about what you might need in your grade level, take a look at the document below. (Prices listed are from the 22-23 school year.)
Number Sense Routines - In Person
September 19 4:30 - 5:30 at ASC (Boardroom)
or
September 28 4:30 - 5:30 at Eastlake Elementary
The Hook!
This time-telling trick will help your students remember that as the hour and minute hands move around, the hour still belongs to the number behind. Clever!
Learn more: Around the Kampfire
A Clock with Math Cubes
This telling-time game helps kids understand time both as a circular analog clock and a time line moving forward. Gather your math cubes and visit the link to see how it works.
Learn more: Teaching Special Thinkers
Using Circles to Teach Time
We love this activity since telling time is much more than just minute and hour hands on a clock. The visual representation of the smallest unit to the largest unit (and the different colors) will help students make sense of the various units of time.
Learn more: Kids Activities Blog
Playdough Time!
Create time-telling activity mats by printing a page similar to the one shown here and then placing it in a plastic sleeve or laminating it. Finally, challenge your students to roll out play dough to create the hands of the clock and “set” it to the designated time
Hula Hoop Clock
Pull out the sidewalk chalk and head outside for some time-telling practice. Hula-Hoops make perfect analog clocks, but if you don’t have any, you can still let kids play fun time-telling games by simply drawing circles instead.
Musical Clock Chairs
If your students love games like musical chairs, you can make it an educational time-telling activity. Start by printing out our free blank clock sheets here. Pass them out and have each student draw a time on their clock, then leave it on their desk. Give each student a recording sheet (included with the clock printable), then have them grab a pencil and get ready to move! Start the music and let kids dance around from desk to desk. Stop the music and instruct them to record the name and time on the clock of the desk in front of them. Start the music again and keep on going!
Shake Around the Clock!
This awesome time-telling game also gives kids some practice at creating bar graphs. First, paste analog clock faces showing various times into the bottoms of an empty egg carton, and add a marble or other small toy. Kids shake up the carton, look to see what time the marble landed on, and graph their results.
Match Up Plastic Eggs
Plastic eggs have so many uses in the classroom. For time-telling practice, make them into games. Just draw analog clocks on one half and write times (in words or digital time) on the other, then have kids match them up.
Telling Time Bingo
Bingo games are always a blast in the classroom, and there’s a variation you can play that’s focused on telling time. These analog clock bingo cards are customizable, so you can set them to match whatever time skills your students are working on, whether it’s hours, half hours, quarter hours, or to the minute.
A Second is a Hiccup (PK - 2nd)
A charming, kid-friendly way to help kids think about the different facets of time. For example, "A second is a hiccup / The time it takes to kiss your mom / Or jump a rope / Or turn around." Children will relate to the examples given for seconds, minutes, hours, week, month...
We can extend the learning by having students brainstorm their own examples as a group, then create their own book in this format.
How Do You Know What Time It Is? (2nd - 5th)
This "terrific teaching tool" (School Library Journal) provides an age- appropriate depiction of the history of measuring time--from simply observing the movement of the sun to using shadow stick clocks to our modern atomic and quartz clocks. The book also covers time zones, meridians, and more. It actually verges on covering too much information for one audience, but it's still a really interesting, good read that will leave kids feeling like questions have been answered!
Just a Second: A Different Way to Look at Time (3rd - 6th)
This is another packed, brilliantly illustrated title by Steve Jenkins, this one exploring time in the framework of the natural world--from seconds all the way up to the history of the universe.
In a starred review, School Library Journal called it "eye-catching and mind boggling" and promises that "teachers will find good jumping-off points here for math, science, and history discussions."