1-2-3 Come Use 10-Frames With Me.
As promised, I got the rest of the fall 10-frames completed this week. Pumpkin 10 frames, Spider 10 frames, Scarecrow 10 frames, Leaf 10 frames, Football 10 frames, Bat 10 Frames, Fire Safety 10 Frames and Candy Corn 10 Frames are now ready for instant download. (Whew!) Just click on the links. If you missed the apple 10 frames, or the owl 10 frames for September, simply click on their links. To view all of my 10 Frame FREEBIES click on this link.
Thinking about numbers using 10 frames, can be a helpful and easy way for students to learn basic number facts. A 10 frame is a simple graphic tool that allows people to “see” numbers.
They will help your students with number sense, place value, patterns and relationships, as well as subitizing (being able to recognize at a glance, domino and dice patterns, without having to count the dots).
There are lots of activities that you can do with the 10-frame packets besides the obvious. Use them as flashcards, examples in your pocket chart, switch up your number word wall to be seasonal, and post a themed set there. You can make laminated sets for games and/or run off copies of whatever you'd like your students to work on, and use them as a table top lesson, math center, or to make booklets.
A set of numbers, number words, and math symbols (plus, minus, equals, greater and less than) allows students to make equations (covering more standards) plus play a variety of games. i.e. Match the 10 frame to the number card, or number word, to play a Memory Match game, or play "I Have; Who Has?"
You can also use the number word cards to ask questions of "How many more to make ______?" i.e. There are 2 pieces of candy corn on the candy corn number cards. How many more are needed to equal the number on a particular card. (1 more is needed for the one card, 9 more for the ten card etc. )
Do the same with the bat number word cards, that feature 4 bats.
The scarecrow-number word cards have 2 different pictures in an ABAB pattern. Ask students which picture is on all of the even numbered cards and which is on the odd numbered cards. You can do the same with the spider number cards as they are 2 different colors.
I'm always looking to improve things, so I thought I'd make some extra tiles for you to print, laminate and cut out, so that your students can use these as matching manipulatives for the 10 frames. Use them for the above games to fill in a 10 frame. Children can also count, sort, and pattern with them. For added fun, and a sweet treat, give students 10 pieces of candy corn when you're working with the Candy Corn 10 frames. As a reward for wonderful work, students can eat a few at the end of the activity.
If there's a fall theme that I missed, that you'd like a 10-frame packet for, simply shoot me an e-mail diane@teachwithme.com and I'll see what I can do. 10 Frames for Turkeys and Pilgrims are in the works for November. I'll also be making 10 frames for winter and a set for spring as well, so if you have a request, let me know.
If you'd like some links to a few wonderful 10-frame videos and 10-frame games, click on the link to pop on over to that blog article. For more 10-Frame practice that incorporates reading standards too, try our 1-2-3 Count ____________'s With Me booklets. They are themed easy-readers, based on 10 frames. All of the above 10 frame packets, have matching "Count With Me" booklets, that would be wonderful seasonal extensions. Click on the link to zip on over to my 10-frame section, and scroll down to see all of the 1-2-3 Counting booklets.
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