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Have you made your way over to Emmy Mac's Class? If not, you need too!! Emily is the author if Emmy Mac's Class and has a blog FULL of ideas, products, and inspiration! I am doing a product swap with Emily and I was lucky to get my hands on her ' Ten Frames Are Snow Much Fun ' Pack! I couldn't be more excited to share with you all of the fun my class had with it! This 69 page pack is so engaging, hands-on, and an absolute BLAST! There are 5 different math games included that focus ten frames and the numbers 1-20. My kiddos could not get enough of them! They could play these games all day! I don't even think they realized they were learning and practicing their number identification and counting skills! What I absolutely love about this pack is that it can be used to differentiate! And that is exactly what I did with these games :) Each day this week during my math intervention time, I used one of these games to play with my students. I used the numbers 1-10 for

What a busy and fun week! We had a lot to fit in to our week in just 4 days. Not to mention that it was also the 100th Day of School for us this week too! We had a blast with our Mitten Unit ! This is such an adorable story and I really look forward to reading it each year! :)         Come take a peek at our week below! Tuesday We started the week by practicing some vertical addition on mittens. My students solved the addition equation and placed it on the correct sum. I had them glue the mitten only on the bottom so that it could flap down to see the sum.     We also practiced some positional words. I gave each student a mitten and said a positional word out loud. They used the mitten to act out the word. We read the story, 'The Mitten' by Jan Brett. We focused on the title, author, characters, and setting today on our story map. Then we worked on finding the characters and writing about the setting in our 'Mitten Story Elements Book'. Wednesday Today we had a lot of f