March Madness Addition

This week we finished up our March Madness themed lessons. They were so much fun!
One of our math centers focused on addition stories. The students got five chances to shoot an easter egg into the basketball basket I got at the Dollar Tree. 

After shooting, the students had to work with their teammate to fill out the addition story and write an equation showing how many points they made.

This center was so easy to set up and kept all of the students engaged! They wanted to see which teams could get the most points.

 

We also incorporated several other basketball activities into our lessons this week. You can see the students using the number line cards below. Click on the links below for more basketball ideas that we used. Oh, and go CATS!

Math Facts Game

Basketball Syllables by Live Laugh I Love Kindergarten

Real Word/Nonsense Word Sort by Nicki Thigpen

Madness in March Core Training by Primary Graffiti

March Madness Math

I am so excited for March Madness this year! I haven't completed my bracket yet, but you can bet the Kentucky Wildcats are going to be my champions.

We are starting to infuse March Madness into our math lessons. Today we practiced measuring with a yard stick. The two paw prints at the top are the 7 foot players, Dakari Johnson and Willie Cauley-Stein. The middle paw-print is my height and the bottom ones are the kiddos.

We took the students' pictures in front of the wall to show the height difference. Of course, they wanted to use the camera to take my picture too! (This was the least blurry one lol)

They couldn't believe the players are that tall in real life! Not many of the students knew their names right off the bat, but they knew they played for the Wildcats. One of my students was even wearing a Cauley-Stein jersey today! He was very excited.

After we had everyone measured, we discussed which students were the tallest and shortest. The students were naturally making comparisons to see who was the same height as themselves. 

Your state might not be as crazy about basketball, but this lesson could easily be adapted to any basketball team for March Madness. 

This classroom is busy cheering on the CATS!

Hello March!

Wow! I can't believe it is already March! I was up at the school yesterday getting our March Madness door ready. I had to go with a Wildcats theme. The white paper says, "We're WILD about Kindergarten!"

Go Cats! Can't wait for all of our basketball themed lessons later in the month.

This week we will be celebrating Dr. Seuss's Birthday. Each day will be a different theme (crazy hair, crazy socks, etc.)

Check out my March and April Pinterest page to get a sneak peak of what my kiddos will be working on this month.