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Terrific Tuesday!

As I am typing this we’re watching Halloween on TV and I realized I 6 page views away from 60,000 views of my little bitty blog!  That’s so exciting!!  Thank you all so much for reading my thoughts and sharing my journey as a male kindergarten teacher!  I bet by the time you read this it will have happened and I will be on my way to 75,000!

Today was a terrific Tuesday!  My kids were good.  We got a lot accomplished   The weather was great.  My first Vespa ride to work was a success!  Still no name for the Vespa yet, although there have been some good ones!  Keep ’em coming!   And it was silly sock day!  So I wore my crab socks.  Crabs!

Funny story of the day!  As we were sharing what we learned this afternoon one of my monsters said and I quote:  
“I learned Spanish words!”  I guess when I talk they just hear Spanish.  Explains a lot!  That Charlie Brown teacher ain’t got nothing on me!  My students hear Spanish when I speak!

I know I normally do Technology Tuesday but I didn’t have a tech post or idea so I wanted to share a quick math intervention that I do with my students who need some extra help with number recognition.  I still have three friends who do not know their numbers so we do this every day for 3 or 4 minutes.

I used index cards to divide construction paper into 10 equal slots.  I numbered them in order.  I also made some that have the numbers in random order. 

The students say the number name and match it to the correct box.  Simple.  Quick.  And suprisingly effective.  
To make this more fun we race ourselves!  I time them to see how fast they can do it!  And then they do it again to see if they can beat themselves!  They love the game.  I love the quick number recognition practice.  And I love that it works!  And it’s a great way to see which numbers we really don’t get.  6 and 9 are apparently the nemesis for my three friends!  
I hope this is an activity you can use in your class!  
And a storage question:  I need a three drawer storage container.  What do you recommend   My pink one got broken so we need a new one for our math drawers!

And check out my Barbie bling.  You can be jealous…but don’t hate!  I confiscated borrowed this from a student.  It was crazy heavy too!  I need a Greg bling necklace for sure!

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