Christmas-Themed Seesaw Math Activities

Some schools are F2F, some are virtual, and some are hybrid. Things are changing day by day. I don't know whether to make copies, break out the glitter, or get a ring light for Zoom teaching. 🤦🏼‍♀️ I truly don't know how to prepare. 

Something that actually occupies my mind and hands is creating Seesaw activities. It's quite time consuming because you have to insert each picture one at a time and I often have to remove backgrounds. I do really enjoy it though. 

Rather than reinvent the wheel I took one of my old products and decided to 2020 it! No, that doesn't mean ruin it, lol. I make it a digital Seesaw activity. I'm letting you know the printable was much easier but it's a good thing my tech skills have also improved over the years. So here it is--Christmas-Themed Seesaw Math Activities!

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Video Previews of 2 of the Activities: 

Seesaw & Google Battleship games AND a freebie!!

So after making the sight word game I was in the flow and decided to make some math fact versions. I made +0s -- +10s. Woot! Woot! 

I am very excited to try them in the class. Again, honesty here--we had a phased in approach so I haven't had my whole class for too long and we are 100% moving slower and doing a lot of review and number sense activities. Normally, we are knee-deep in addition by now. So I can probably do the +0s and +1s comfortably with the group but I'm going to wait to roll it out.

I will say they are getting pretty darn good at Seesaw. 

Oh, and did I mention I also have the Google Slides!?

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click here to see it on TpT

As promised I have a freebie for ya! This is the doubles to 10 (10 +10) game board. 

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I've been super busy with school these last few weeks. I have a nice bunch of firsties who LOVE to talk. They not only love to talk but some of them do not listen--despite passing their hearing test.

We have also adopted a new reading series this year. I think I'm getting into the routine of it though...I think. I've been making packets for it weekly and I'll finish up my packet for this week's story "Gus Takes the Train" this weekend.

I was looking at my math lesson over addition the other day and wanted to try something new. I was at school so I didn't have all the fancy clipart/fonts I normally have access to and we were out of lamination film. I made these mats super quick in Publisher, printed them, and slid them into sheet protectors. Voila. I'll do this again to practice addition and counting on concepts but I'll laminate the mats. :D

This new reading series not only starts spelling the first week (after K review) it also hits grammar really hard from the beginning. We did nouns, verbs, possessive nouns, and adjectives. Here is the poster I used last year.
I teach " 's " as being greedy and so in the apostrophe s I write "mine mine mine mine". Then we write about things we own. "Miss Cosby's dog" we illustrate it and hung them on the poster.

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4 in a Row with CVC words (get a freebie pack here & more were created in my Journeys sets)

As I mentioned sometimes my firsties have a hard time listening and some of them have an even harder time keeping their desks clean. URGH!!!

I scoured Pinterest and TpT and found a very cute version of The Desk Fairy (freebie too!!)
From:

I added a sucker & sprayed them with craft glitter from Michael's

I also got some Desk Police cards on TpT, too!

click here to get them for free on TpT from The CraZy SchoolTeacher

Are you an Apple fan? Have you upgraded to ios7? I upgraded my phone the other day and I like the improvements. I changed the Siri voice to male. I've always played around when I "talked" to Siri but here are some funny things that happened: