Danira's personal learning path

Making classwork not feel like classwork is certainly an effective strategy to allow students to enter learning with a more positive outlook. It is true that it is not always possible to make activities fun, but they must be engaging for students. It doesn't matter your age. Today I want to share this resource with all of you. It is a website called coloring squared (https://www.coloringsquared.com/) which offers free math activities combined with pixel arts. There are a wide variety of options on the website: Math Facts, Place Value, Advanced Math, Color by Number, Fractions, Decimals, and Percentages. The activities come completely ready, do not require prior preparation, and are available for different grades. If you try one of these activities with your students let me know how it goes, I have used them with my kindergarten students and they have been great!

This is an excellent option for my pre-k students. Having these task cards in the math center is an ideal way to review basic math concepts. It is also an ideal option for fast finishers or for those students who show a low ability handling basic math concepts. Many of these resources are available for free on the internet. I make sure to laminate the cards for extra durability and so the kids can use whiteboard markers to complete the activities without damaging the cards. As we progress, I am modifying the content of the task boxes so that they can have different options throughout the school year.    

This activity is an excellent opportunity to practice the different mathematical operations. It also works great as an optional activity for students who tend to finish classwork quickly. In this activity, the dice are thrown to find out what number we will be working with and on the blank space dice, I wrote the symbols of different mathematical operations. This activity worked very well for a student I have in afternoon tutoring who has ADHD and enjoys kinesthetic activities. The useful thing about the blank dice is that it works for addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division and allows you to customize the activity in different ways.

We are starting a new school year. My students are very young but every year I am more surprised with the abilities and knowledge of preschool children. During this activity, we not only worked on motor coordination and eye-hand coordination, but it was also an ideal opportunity to explore our engineering corner and build towers with the goal of counting. The interesting thing about this activity is that each student had the opportunity to build their towers with blocks of different sizes, so the quantities varied with each one of them, this gave us the opportunity to count different quantities each time and explore different numbers. This activity was very engaging for the children and has the advantage that the children could count through a movement activity.