Maggie's Personal Learning Path

  Addition and Subtraction Flash Cards Grade Level: 1st This manipulative is useful for students to reinforce addition and subtraction concepts. The flashcards can be used to practice an array of addition and subtraction skills depending on where the students are in the curriculum. For example, a teacher can show an addition flashcard and ask students to draw a part/part/whole diagram, count on using a number line, or solve and write their answer in a laminated speech bubble. Addition or subtraction flashcards can be especially useful for students who are below grade level as extra practice. Moreover, these cards can be displayed for students to respond to in a whole class setting or a small group setting. The flashcards can even be laminated and given to students to write on with a dry-erase marker to be used as an independent practice. Materials: -Addition flashcards -Subtractions flashcards -Whiteboard/Laminated speech bubbles/Blank equations in a sheet protector -Dry-erase mar...

  Telling Time in First Grade Grade Level: 1st This lesson aims to help first graders conceptualize telling time on an analog clock. At the end of the lesson, they will know the difference between the hour and the minute hand on an analog clock. Objective: Students will be able to tell time using an analog clock.  Materials: -Analog clock -Blank analog clock worksheet in a sheet protector -Dry-erase marker -Whole-hour, half-hour, and quarter-hour worksheets Introduction to telling time: Analog clock and worksheet in a sheet protector Use a real analog clock to demonstrate different times. Adjust the time several times to demonstrate which hand means hours, which hand means minutes, and how to hands rotate around the clock.  Then, give the students several examples of a time and use the worksheet to have them draw the clock hands. By placing the worksheet in a sheet protector the activity can be done, erased, and repeated several times. This allows the teacher greater op...