To practice memorizing our doubles, I made this game called Double Cover Up. The students take turns rolling a decahedron die, doubling the number and placing a marker over the sum. When one student has covered all of the doubles sums on his side of the game board, he wins. Simple, but the kids loved it. Download a free PDF of this game at Teachers Pay Teachers.
Trying to remember so much math vocabulary can be hard for first graders. I even have trouble remembering what vocabulary we've covered and not covered sometimes. This year I decided to write class books to wrap up each unit and summarize the concepts taught. Before we take our 9 weeks tests, we will go back and read our books to review. I have also placed these books in the "Math Books" math station - an idea inspired by Debbie Diller's new math station book.
At the conclusion of "College Week" and our study of "s" blends, we made these adorable sports pennants. The pennant pictured above is my example, but the kids glued on the clip art pictures of sports and added other /sp/ words and pictures.
