Take a Peek and Free For You!

I am FINALLY finished with these: 

YES! There are 24 games in this kit that are ready to be used as Take Home Math Kits OR as games to use as reinforcement in your classroom. 

  
Most of the games meet CCSS for Second Grade, but a few are just for fun! :)

AND . . . here is one of these games from this kit . . . FREE for you to try! Click here to download from TPT. 

Enjoy your Sunday everyone . . . exciting things are happening with my day, exciting things indeed . . .  

Take Home Math Kits . . . Part II

Today I am posting a few of my Take Home Math Kits that have materials that are easy to get a hold of. I won't claim the ideas for these games but I can't site where I found each one, just know that I am not taking credit for inventing Race to $1.00 (which has been around since the beginning of time). Anyway, I hope that you can use these ideas in some way.

Another great resource for the games that I used in my take home kits is actually my state's DPI website! Go here and look for Week by Week Essentials (Second Grade is at the bottom of this page) for each of the essentials units there is a game that reinforces the skill. Some are awesome, some are just okay but I used at least 10 of these to make my kits. 

I forgot to mention in my first posting about my kits that I got the idea entirely from my buddy Jen  She actually totally hooked me up and everyone else on our grade level team. Reading is her true love but she has great ideas for math too! Thanks Jen! Check out her awesome blog Hello Mrs. Sykes.

Take Home Math Kits

I was looking through pics I had taken on my camera at school and realized that I also had some photos of my take home math kits! 

I store them in this pink crate: 

My kids sign them out in a spiral notebook. They write their name and the date and the number of the kit that they have taken. When the bring it back they simply cross it out. I was having them check out on Thursday and bring back on Tuesday but as they have become more responsible I have just let them check them out as they want to. I still have all of them with all pieces intact! 

Here is the Expanded Form Dice Game: 

I couldn't find the original for this game but here is one VERY similar with 6 digits. I would just white out three of the boxes for second grade and make a copy.

Check back in the future for more of these that I made myself! :)


In the meantime here are some links to pre-made math kits to help you get started, I used some of these ideas myself. The hardest part is gathering up all of the materials but they are SO worth it!

First Grade Take Home Kits

Make at Home Math Games

Crazy Math Quilt Game

10 Card Games to Boost Second Grade Math Skills