Now that it’s winter, it’s time to get cozy and pretend we all love cold weather 😉 I anticipate the changing of the seasons every year, but once winter hits I’m always ready for it to immediately go away, ha! I guess it’a good thing I don’t live somewhere that experiences a harsh winter {except we can’t forget the #snowpocalypse that hit Dallas in 2021}. Whether you love the cold and snow or not, I think we can all agree that winter activities are fun for our learners in the classroom. That’s exactly why I created this Place Value Snowman for students. It combines winter fun with math, and makes for a display that is SNOW cute!
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Do your students need to practice or review 2 or 3 digit numbers? There is a place value snowman for both! Students use place value blocks to create their snowman. Then, students will analyze the number that they created. You can see the differences in the 2-digit and 3-digit snowman above.
Students cut out the pieces they need to make their place value snowman. For the 3-digit snowman, his body and hat are made from hundreds blocks. The arms, hat band, and scarf are tens blocks. The hands and the scarf pieces are ones. I prefer that students work with their base ten blocks before assembling their snowman. This gives them the opportunity to move, sort, and manipulate the blocks before they have been glued down. Once they have determined the number they created, students can put their snowman together.
After the snowman has been assembled, students complete a variety of place value tasks with the number that was created. You can see that students worked with the standard form, word form, expanded form, place value block representation, and adding/subtracting 10 and 100.
To go along with the place value snowman, I created a Snowy Digits worksheet for your students. Students are given 10 numbers. Students determine if the number shown is even or odd. Then, students find the expanded form of each number. You can grab that FREE activity below. In the download you will find 2 sheets: 1 for 2-digit numbers and 1 for 3-digit numbers.
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Hey, y’all! My name is Amy Lemons and I am passionate about providing students with both engaging and effective standards-based Math and ELA lessons.
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