Let's talk a little Everyday Math!
This year our district adopted a new program.
Many districts are changing to Everyday Math and I was very excited to be moving in this direction as Everyday Math encourages hands on instruction.
This program was not easy to adapt to as there is much to prepare for each lesson and starting a new program is not easy but boy was it fun!
I was happy to have taken part in the professional development aspect of this program and was extremely blessed as a substitute to have been given that opportunity.
Everyday Math involves 6 daily routines
1. Number of the Day
2. Calendar
3. Attendance
4. Weather
5. Temperature
6. Math Any Time
These of course are wonderful to work into your morning meeting time.
Take a look at the incredible resources the teacher I am currently in for is using .....
Calendar
This is the display she has for her calendar time ...
This is a Lake Shore product and can be found here!
What a great product ...
a little pricy right now for me to invest in but I love how she was having students work through this.
Students were completely responsible for flipping the current date to red, showing the date in full at the bottom, and writing the date in number form.
The calendar person then asked the questions to the class.
Questions may include:
What is today's date?
What day of the week is it?
What day will tomorrow be? What was yesterday?
What month is it?
Students can also discuss even and odd numbers and make number stories from the dates on the calendar.
This was awesome and really allowed the student to take ownership of his job!
I would love to have students write a number sentence for the number for the day, display money that shows the number of the day. The Hundreds chart is currently being used to count down the number of the day. This chart also includes a problem of the day which I think would be great to also allow students to ask these questions to the class.
Number of the Day
After we find out how many days we have left in school we use this fish bowl to count down.
Students exchange ten for 10 ones and together we count the days we have left in school.
Students are counting back and learning how to exchange a ten for ones.
The number of the day can also be found on another chart.
Students are responsible for changing the date using hundreds, tens, and ones in two ways:
with numbers and with blocks, longs, and cubes.
I like how students again are asking questions to other students about the number of the day.
They are taking ownership of their actions and its awesome!
After we finish the number of the day we do some type of motion that helps us count the number (kicks, jumping jacks, punches, hops, etc.)
Everyday Math encourages you to discuss the number that represents the day that comes before and the day that will come next as well.
The manual encourages teachers to use straws to build hundreds, tens, and ones to show how we take 10 ones to make ten and 10 tens to make one hundred.
This chart can be found here
Coins is also a big part of this routine and can be found on the first chart. I love how students use money and can see the exchange with money as well.
Here are some other activities that can be used with the number of the day:
Find the number in everyday life
Count the days using marbles
Count up and back from the number of the day
Add and subtract 10's from the number of the day
Collect names for the number (name collection boxes)
Tell a number story
Attendance Routines
I loved this aspect of the morning routines.
In the beginning of the year take pictures of your students waving, glue to construction paper, display students names on the back, laminate and velcro somewhere in the classroom.
(This was also a huge help in knowing who was here and who was not)
Students are responsible for turning over their card in the morning and before dismissal.
The person is responsible for writing how many students are in our class, how many are here and how many are absent. Then the student uses the numbers to make a part-part-whole model.
To extend this activity students can ask number stories to their peers about the attendance information.
Weather Routines
This routine involves students observation and recording of the weather.
It is suggested to record weather for the month in a tally chart or bar graph.
Students again take responsibility of asking others about the weather
Questions may include...
Which weather have we had the least of?
Which weather have we had the most of?
How many days have been sunny?
How many days have been sunny and cloudy?
How many more days have been cloudy than rainy?
Temperature Routines
I am sure many of you have had routines like this in your morning meeting but this one was new to me.
We displayed a thermometer in the classroom and we used this tool to display the temperature for the day.
We changed the temperature to what is was currently outside.
Students then discussed the different zones ...
What zone are we in today?
If it were 10 degrees warmer what would the temperature be? What zone would we be in?
Which temperature is cooler 10 degrees or 40 degrees?
How much cooler?
Students really began to understand this tool and how to discuss temperature as opposed to weather.
Math Any Time
This includes minute math questions provided by Everyday Math
They could also include questions from any of the charts above.
Daily schedule questions
Class Surveys - this I used to begin a new unit!
Classroom Management
This activity was not apart of our morning routines but...
I found it unique to the teachers classroom management!
In the beginning of the year students discuss classroom rules
together they sign their names to the Blurt Chart.
Students remove a sticky after blurting in class.
Students can earn back their post it if they do not blurt for 5 days in a row.
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