Monday, June 3, 2013

Monday Made It, June Currently and 100 Follower Giveaway Soon!

First, I'm linking up with 4th Grade Frolics' Monday Made It linky!

So my Monday Made It is actually something I've been working on for a while with the help of my brother, but I did finish it today. I'm a big fan of old movie monsters, and one night I was trying to fall asleep and I had a thought...why not have Monster Math Fights? So I came up with this:



 Basically, this is a bracketed tournament of "monster battles." Each day two movie monsters will do "battle" by solving math problems. There are 32 different monsters!

For this first tournament, each battle consists of 5 rounds of 2-digit addition problems (with and without regrouping). The monster with the highest sum for each round, wins that round. The monster with the most rounds won, moves on to the next battle!

There are 31 battles in the tournament, with 10 math problems on each battle worksheet. That's 31 days (310 problems) of fun math practice! 

These worksheets could be used as morning work, small independent math group work, or as a fun way to start off math each day.

Full color monster cards are included to post on your board so students know who will be doing battle that day. A blank bracket, and a tournament key bracket are included as well!



Students are really motivated by this activity, and have begged for more tournaments in the future! I'm planning to make more with different math skills.

This activity is Common Core aligned too!
CCSS.Math.Content.2.NBT.B.5
CCSS.Math.Content.2.NBT.B.6

Find the first of my Monster Battle sets here on my TpT store:



The Monster Clip Art I used is courtesy of Peter Reitz (my bro!) and can be found here:


Even though I'm late to the party, I figured I'd throw out my June Currently, from Oh'Boy 4th Grade! Click on my currently, to head over to Farley's blog to see the others!



Finally, I'm at 99 followers! Woohoo! I'm preparing for a 100 follower giveaway! If you're willing to donate something for the giveaway then head on over to my googledoc sign up sheet:


It has been a crazy busy week! This is our final full week of school, but we also have Field Day next Monday and then a half day next Tuesday! Meanwhile, I'm busy packing up my classroom and getting all of my other end of year stuff done! I'm hoping to be back later this week with an update on some of our fun activities...and maybe if one more lovely person out there stumbles this way, a 100 follower giveaway!

3 comments:

  1. The monster activity is very cute and engaging for students:) I just signed up for your give-away. Is this your first year teaching a split? I have taught a 1st/2nd split 3 times and love it! I hope that you have a great summer!

    Primary Classrooms are Oceans of Fun

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  2. This will be awesome for my two boys at home (8 & 7). I'll assign each one a monster and have them "battle" each other.

    This is one of the coolest math activities that I have seen...and probably one of the few my boys will WANT to do.

    I am working on a summer slide post for my blog and will definitely feature this activity on thehelpfulcounselor.com!

    Best Wishes,
    Heather

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    1. Thanks so much! I'm excited about the product! I can't wait to use it again with my new 3rd graders at the beginning of next year!

      I'd love to have it featured on your blog! Thanks so much!

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