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The Chick Sum Challenge
4 April 2012

Help students practise their addition skills with this chick sum challenge activity!

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These super cute chick containers were purchased at Red Dot and can be used for so many different Easter, Spring or Farm theme activities. As Easter is nearly here we have been using them to make practising addition sums a little bit more exciting.

Place 2 dice inside the chicks and shake, shake, shake! Look into the chicks to see the 2 numbers on the dice. Write these 2 numbers onto the lines on the 'Chick Sum Challenge' recording sheet. Download the 'Chick Sum Challenge' recording sheet here. Students can use their fingers, count the dots or use counters to solve the addition question. They then write the answer into the chick!

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Remember keep calm and pretend it's on the lesson plan!

Top Teacher xx

EGGcellent Words!
26 March 2012

 

Use this egg themed game to help your students practise sounding out and writing CVC words. 

 

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I play this game in small groups and have 6 laminated sheets of the' EGGcellent words' recording sheets that students write on with whiteboard markers.  If you like you could print the copies off and use it as a worksheet instead. 

Print off the 24 words (each has 3 cvc letter and  1picture tile) and laminate them. I bought a couple of packets of plastic easter eggs that separate in half to hold the tiles.

 

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Students were able to choose an egg, 'crack' it open and tip out the tiles inside. They had to look at the picture tile and use the letter tiles to make the word. They then had to write the word onto the 'EGGcellent words' recording sheet. They then put the tiles back into the egg and closed it up. 

 

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They then got to choose another egg and repeat this process 5 more times.

 

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My students thought this game was great and had fun choosing an egg and 'cracking' it open! It has really helped their confidence working with cvc words! Download it here

Remember keep calm and pretend its on the lesson plan

Top Teacher xx

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