Keep your little learners engaged with these Place Value Center cards which focus on two digit numbers. Students will look at the main amount represented by base ten, an expanded form, a part whole model,dominoes, fingers or place value chart then use mini pegs to clip the two corresponding amounts in the answer boxes. The activity develops skills in counting amounts up to 100 in different representations, focusing particularly on tens and ones. This is a great activity for reinforcing learning, identifying gaps in learning, intervention and early finishing tasks. If you’re wanting your learners to record their answers then use the blank answer sheet. Students should be able to access these independently and they offer capacity to use in pairs or as a small group. Once they’ve finished, students can check their own answers as the set includes answer cards with correct answers highlighted in green. These would be best placed on a key chain to keep them together and make them easily accessible. The pack includes 20 task cards (4 per A4 page) 20 answer cards and a recording sheet template. All you need to do is print, laminate and use. This time saving, little prep math center is a great addition to your first grade classroom to assess learning, your second grade classroom to recap prior learning and the homeschool environment. In the UK, this would be most suitable for Year 2 children as part of the math curriculum. Happy Counting!

If your youngsters are getting to grips with adjectives then you should try these resources to help secure their understanding and encouraging them to use a wider range of vocabulary in their descriptions. The resource pack consists of 3 no prep worksheets and 3 different center card activities which allow for progression. Worksheets 1&2 are differentiated versions, The first one is simply helping your learners to identify adjectives amongst a selection word choices to secure their understanding. If they are confident with this then worksheet 2 encourages them to select the most appropriate adjective out of the ones listed. We all know children get into the habit of using nice, good, big etc but these resources encourage them to use more interesting word choices. Worksheet 3 is a synonym activity where children are given a basic adjective and they need to identify 2 alternative synonyms for that adjective. The adjective task cards /flash cards require very little prep once they’ve been cut and laminated. Set A asks learners to choose the adjective to describe the picture and clip it with a mini peg. There are 32 cards to work with and answer cards are included. Set B requires learners to choose the most appropriate adjective to describe the picture offering a wider range of vocabulary to choose from. Again, they need to clip the answer using a mini peg. There are 32 cards with answers to choose from in this set. Where there appears to be a duplicate page, this is so that a UK and a US spelling can be included. The third set of cards asks learners to choose the odd one out. There are 4 adjectives listed to describe each picture but one is a poorer choice. Students need to clip the odd one out, then using their notebook, or lined paper, use the picture and remaining three adjectives to write a sentence with it. This should then help them secure sentence structure that involve expanded noun phrases so that they can begin to develop their own sentences during independent writing tasks. These activities are a fun way to deepen understanding and use of adjectives so that learners aren’t limiting themselves to the same familiar word choices. By using a wider range of adjectives, the quality of their writing should improve dramatically, giving them the confidence to succeed and progress to meet the required expectations of them. The resources would be ideal for first grade and upwards (Year 2 and above UK), whether you choose to use them as a main focus for your lesson, table centers, intervention activities, small group support, early finishing tasks or homeschooling. They can be versatile to meet the needs of your learners.