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If you like what I do here on KindergartenWorks, then be sure to subscribe today. Want to play it in your classroom too? I hope it can help your students – if they need work on those specific skills – as it did for my kinders. Some students were building automaticity with making 5 – which is a huge skill in kindergarten – and they could find the match to the missing addend cards with ease.
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It allowed me to see who was making new connections. This was excellent thinking and a good discussion. Some students began to wonder if they could cover up the opposite equation – like instead of 2 seeds + 3 empty spaces – could they cover up 2 empty spaces + 3 seeds. They began to recognize what each part of an addition sentence (the beginning half anyways) represented and could accurately find a match. Normally, we played this game on two different occasions before I saw students really starting to catch onto the concepts I hoped they would. The teacher reshuffles the calling cards and a new game is started.Īll of the game pieces and mats can easily be stored in a gallon Ziploc bag with the instructions stapled inside, facing out. And the first person to get it calls out “BINGO!” and wins the round. The aim of the game is to get three in a row – either horizontally, vertically or diagonally. If they don’t have a match they wait for the next card. If they have a match, they cover it up with a playing piece. The students look for a matching picture representation of the equation on their game mat. The teacher picks a white calling card and reads it aloud while showing it to the players. The rules for how to play are the same for any bingo game.Įach player takes a colored game mat and a handful of playing pieces to cover up their spaces. But linking cubes, counting chips or anything small will work fine. I found some cute wooden watermelon beads and they work perfectly for this watermelon-themed game. You’ll also need some kind of playing pieces or bingo chips so that students can cover their bingo spaces when they have a match. You can print the instructions and calling cards onto white paper. I recommend printing each game mat onto a different color paper it makes it easy to switch cards for a new round of play. There are 6 different game mats which means up to six students can play. This game is designed to be used in a small group of students (like as a warm-up activity during guided math).Ĭlick here to download this game. In my mind, I assume this will help build mental math skills. This was because I want my kinders to learn to visualize things filling up that space that aren’t actually there. I also chose to specifically create a very light, almost invisible, second object (the dotted circle). Think of this game as a scaffolded way for students to see an equation, see picture clues, and to find the visual match that represents the equation. This is to help students familiarize themselves with what the addends represent in an equation and for them to compare to the pictorial representations. Some of the calling cards are missing an addend to provide a challenge and help differentiate. I introduce the seeds as representing the first addend and the dotted-outlined dots represent the second addend. K.OA.4.a State the number that makes 5 when added to any given number 1-4 with objects.
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