Bond, Number Bond

Last year we had a half-day conference day to talk about math vocabulary Pre-K to 2nd grade, to be sure we were all using the same language.  I got stuck on some of the vocabulary - especially number bonds and hidden partners.

My nephew always LOVED James Bond, and I still get happy when I hear the music from the James Bond games my own kids used to play with my husband probably on Game Cube, at the time.  We were never big video game players, but we did have those, and it was so much fun to hear everyone laughing when they played it together. (I was never very good at it... )

Anyway, as the meeting went on, I kept doodling- thinking what if the numbers "007" were twisted just a little to make a Number Bond, Secret Agent?! The kids could solve the mystery!

Yes. Those are the kind of notes I take at meetings.  

I sent my friend Dan (Rocking Dan, Teaching Man) the picture and said it would make a great song. And... he MADE IT!   What a great guy!  Our friend Susanna from Whimsy Workshop gave the little secret agent his wonderful looks, and Dan made him come to life and gave him a mission- to solve some number bonds.  I can't wait to show my class.  What a fun way to reinforce and understand what number bonds are!
               

Dan has so many great teaching songs on his Youtube channel.  His Friends of 10 Song is great to use for math facts, too! You can go check them out and subscribe here!

I also came up with a Hidden Partners game that my kids LOVED last year. It's so easy and a really fun way to reinforce those math facts.

All you need is 3x5 cards and a marker.  It doesn't get much easier than that! 

Basically, Hidden Partners means there are different ways to make a number. 

We make charts about Ways to Make... numbers 2-5.  

I made 3x5 cards with numbers on them that added up to our target number.  I have 17 students, so I made 9 sets of cards- for example, for "5"  I made 0,5; 1,4; 2,3; 3,2; 4,1; 5,0, 3,2; 4,1; 5,0.  So I would also play the game since there are 18 cards.

I had the children spread out, and gave each child a card with a number.  They could not show their number to anyone until I said, "Go!"

Once I said, "Go!" the each child had to walk around and find a "Hidden Partner" to go with his/her number to make 5. 

 Can you tell we played this on St. Patrick's Day?

Once they found their Hidden Partner, that team of two had to sit down on the floor so everyone knew they were paired up and done. 

The kids loved this game!  We had so much fun.   We also played it with the number four.

I made sets of numbers for 3, 4, and 5.  I just used different color markers for each set  in case they get mixed up.  You could go all the way up to ten!  

No matter what some of the Common Core may do to teachers-

 Remember this...

 

 Have a wonderful day! Thanks for stopping by!

Math Common Core and Other Classroom Books

My Kindergarteners LOVE our class books.  They are always reading them and asking to take them home to show their parents.  I laminate the pages, punch two holes in each page, use two book rings to hold them together- and they last all year long!

Today I was playing around with ideas for a Math Class Book to make next year, including lots of our Common Core Standards.  I will make the book with my children from next year's class, but here are some sample ideas I thought of so far. :)  My camera was acting up- but you get an idea. 

(for some reason that picture reminded me of The Breakfast Club group!  Anybody remember that movie?  :)

 These guys CRACKED me up! :)

 

 

 



I had to take advantage of my twins for "same."  :)

 

There are so many other ideas! I keep writing them down. I just wanted to share the idea. 

Here are some sample pages of the other class books that we made this year:

 

The first two full weeks of school are our "Color Weeks."  Each day the children wear a specific color.  We make a "Colorful Class" book and a "Crazy Colorful Class" book with silly pictures. 

 

 

 

Here is another beginning of the year book we make that helps us learn each other's names:

 

 

 

 



 

Our "Feelings" book is one of my favorites. I save this book from every year and love to look back at all of them.  This little sweetie just joined our class before Spring break, so we had lots of fun looking through this book learning friends' names.

 

 

 

 

Our "Opposites" book is another favorite every year.

 

 

 



I made a Sight Word Prezi using these class pictures, and then printed them off and made a book for each child to take home as another way to practice our sight words.

 

 

For this book, we read Block City and lots of other construction books.  I kept them out by our block area so the children could read them or use them for ideas when they created.

Then, after the children created a special block structure of their own, I took pictures and we made our own "Block City" class book.  Here are some samples:

 

 



Thanks for visiting!  :)  Happy Book-Making!

Carolyn