Bridges Blog Archive for Number Corner

Have a few transitional minutes? Enjoy this clock song and activity link with your kids. Thank you to Misti Simmons, a K-1 teacher from Casper, Wyoming.

Hip Hop Around the Clock  (song)

Telling Time Games (activity)

Xtra Math is a free, online program designed to help kids master basic math facts: addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. Student accounts can be accessed from computers at home or school. Progress reports are available.

While the program can provide fact fluency support to any child, it may be an especially helpful tool in fourth grade as students work on "Quick Facts"  during Number Corner Computational Fluency, January through March.

Cathy Fernan, fifth grade teacher from Northside Intermediate School in Milton, Wisconsin, alerted me to an interesting web activity--starting soon!--that ties in with the 5th grade March Number Corner Calendar Collector, "Sunrise, Sunset." From the website, Mystery Class: Tracking Sunlight to Solve a Mystery:

In January, the Calendar Grid challenges 5th grade students to identify and build 3-dimensional objects from 2-dimensional representations. Students use front, top, and side views to create structures with centimeter cubes. If students build on cardboard sheets or lunchtrays, cube structures can be easily transported to the document camera.

Over at Little Miss Kindergarten, Mrs. Coe and her Kindergartners from Veda Knox Elementary in Arlington, Texas, decided to add their own creative twist to the November Calendar Grid.

During the month of November, fourth graders observe a "Tumbling Triangle." This Calendar Grid activity depicts a single triangle in a different location on a quadrant grid each day as it moves through a series of transformations: slides, turns, and flips. Through the pattern, students develop language and concepts of motion geometry.

In Grade 5 Number Corner, "The Mystery Grid Game" (Computational Fluency, October) captures the attention of students as they search for arrays hidden on a 10 x 10 grid. If you'd like to extend the fun a bit, consider this online game, "Looking for the Top Quark!" From the site: