Over the past few years, as both a teacher and person, I've developed a love of building things! It's such a great creative outlet for all the ideas swirling around in my head.
When I dove into doing small math groups 2 years ago, I started looking for and collecting building-type manipulatives that my students could use for an independent building group. Now I love to stumble upon new ones when I'm out and about and on vacation. I found an awesome toystore recently in Hopkins, Minnesota and ended up buying 2 new building manipulatives. And I've finished up a building activity card set that comes with a list (pictures and links) of all 18 different manipulatives that I've found!
When I dove into doing small math groups 2 years ago, I started looking for and collecting building-type manipulatives that my students could use for an independent building group. Now I love to stumble upon new ones when I'm out and about and on vacation. I found an awesome toystore recently in Hopkins, Minnesota and ended up buying 2 new building manipulatives. And I've finished up a building activity card set that comes with a list (pictures and links) of all 18 different manipulatives that I've found!
Most of my student's favorite thing about our classroom is our small math groups and the B for Building group. I also leave an old iPod out so kids can take pictures of their creations. They can have a friend take it, do a selfie, or put their name tag next to it so I can tell who made it. And then on my website, I post the pictures so parents and relatives can see (plus it's great motivation for kiddos).
If you know of a building material that is NOT on my list (that is suitable for this activity) please let me know and I'll add it and reward you for sharing :-)
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