The possibilities are endless!

Boy! The end of our first year is drawing to a close and I'm very uptight about the EOGs. We finished our math book a couple of weeks ago so I am now trying to find fun ways of reviewing and assessing the kids. I want to keep them interested but I also don't want them to forget what we've worked so hard to accomplish. My morning class was 100% proficient and my afternoon class was over 92%! I am very proud of them and what they have done this year.

Some of the things I've done with my students for interesting math has been:

• Fraction Bingo
• Math Vocabulary Bingo
• Jeopardy!
• Multiplication/Division Bingo
• Multiplication Board Games
• Wrap-UpsStations (like centers using plotting coordinates, time, area and perimeter, fractions, probability, etc...)
• Flash cards
• Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader? (they LOVE this)
• Card games
• Dice games
• Sidewalk math (give them a peice of chalk with an EOG practice problem and let them work it out on the sidewalk! This gets us outside and reinforces the goal and objectives!)

The possibilities are endless! I just think they will give us more if they are having fun, their minds are fully focused, and they have confidence that learning all this "stuff" is important.

Have fun!

Blog posted by April writer Sheri Hale, 5th grade teacher at Fred Anderson Elementary School in Bayboro, NC.