Carson-Dellosa is a company that has tons of teacher ready materials. I was really excited to receive the following products in the mail last week:
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When I opened the Thinking Mats, I noticed right away the correlation with the Common Core. We use Go Math for our math program, and it is very rigorous and definitely builds on the strategies learned year after year. The quality of the cards was very impressive to me. Each activity comes with perforated pages that I put into baggies to keep the center together.
I have nothing but positive things to say about this product. The students are engaged and eager to play. As the students get older, sometimes they will begin to lose that spark for learning that they have when they are so young. After working in grades K-12, you can see a difference of enthusiasm for learning sometimes. My kids regain that spark when they use this :)
When to use this product: Math centers, an enrichment activity, or a great review for your fast finishers :)
How many people can use this product: This is more of a partner center or for groups up to 4 people. This is not a product I would use whole class.
The only thing I changed about our first center "Factor Flight" was taking a dry erase marker and underlining the 9 and 6 so the numbers would not be confusing for the kids (and so they wouldn't fight over the numbers!) :) Great product and well worth the money!
The Infographics activities are a great tool for me to review important concepts from our Social Studies curriculum. For example, after studying the history of New York and map skills, I had the students practice reading different graphs and locating directions and specific places on a map.
When to use this product: Perfect to reinforce a specific skill, great for early finishers and perfect for a center activity.
How many people can use this product: I would say this is an independent choice (or with a partner)
Have a great day!
Disclaimer: Carson-Dellosa sent me products in exchange for a blog post, but all opinions in this post are mine.
When to use this product: Math centers, an enrichment activity, or a great review for your fast finishers :)
How many people can use this product: This is more of a partner center or for groups up to 4 people. This is not a product I would use whole class.
The Infographics activities are a great tool for me to review important concepts from our Social Studies curriculum. For example, after studying the history of New York and map skills, I had the students practice reading different graphs and locating directions and specific places on a map.
Just like the math mats, these are thick, laminated material and who doesn't love to use dry erase?! :) The math activities were a little more engaging for all of my learners, but this product was a great way to help reinforce the material they learned. And they are all cross-curricular! As teachers we may feel we do not have enough time to do extra activities but this product combines ELA with Social Studies and even Math!
How many people can use this product: I would say this is an independent choice (or with a partner)
Thank you so much for reading! I hope you can check out these amazing products. What do you do for math centers and social studies activities?
Have a great day!
Disclaimer: Carson-Dellosa sent me products in exchange for a blog post, but all opinions in this post are mine.