This week in 2nd grade, the students have been learning about Earth Day and
multiplication. I decided to incorporate both subjects into one activity for a little Fun Friday morning!
Since we are reading
Miss Rumphius, I thought… let’s make some lupines! And, how wonderful they fit with the
concept of multiplication. All you need are some paint dotters (or you could totally use regular paint, markers, or crayons). I promise you… give your students paint dotters to work with, and you pretty much become the world’s best teacher within a matter of minutes 😉
After discussing the book together, we started to make our
lupine landscape. First, students had to get their
word problems glued down and their backgrounds prepped.
I allowed the students to come up with their own numbers for how many stems and blossoms they wanted. However, I didn’t let them go over 6 stems or 6 blossoms each because often times when you give paint dotters students will keep going and going. That makes it very difficult to solve a multiplication problem when there are dots all over the page! Basically, they could have between 2-6 stems and 2-6 blossoms on each stem. We talked a lot about making equal groups and how all of our stems had to have the same amount of blossoms in order for it to become a
multiplication problem.
2. The novelty of paint dotters
3. They had freedom to create their own problems!
7 Responses
I LOVE this idea. Miss Rumphius is one of my all time favorite books. This is such a great post. I bet your kids had a ball. 🙂 Happy Weekend!
Carolyn
My kids just completed this activity. I gave you credit so now I'm supposed to find more of your ideas to use. I'm TOTALLY cool with that! Thanks for all your wonderful ideas. I love it when fun and learning come together!
Angela
Love this activity! Can I ask where you found those cool colors of Bingo dotters? All I can ever find are the primary colors.
Thank you so much for sharing! We love everything you do!
So curious how long this project takes. One hour? More? Including reading the book.
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I absolutely love your rooted in reading resources. How do you possibly for everything in? Do you have a daily schedule posted anywhere as far as the break downs of time for math, reading, science, and social studies?