Daily 5 in Action!!

Now that I have introduced the three components of  Math by Myself, Partner Math, and Math Work, I am ready for Small Groups. I  love small groups because this is the time that I can have interaction with a small number of students and I am able to pin point where my students are struggling and when they are excelling. 

I meet with my five group each twice a week and I teach two different lesson each week in my small group.

In the picture you see the tools I use during small group. I have a dry erase board, markers, ABC cards, build a hamburger cards, crayons, pencils, colored pencils, highlighters, and clear communication boards. 

The paper you see is my list of what group comes to me on what day. This really helps me keep up with who should be at my table.

Here is an example of what I am doing this week in small group. The yellow cards have numbers 10-99 written on them. The students work independently and draw out two cards. Then with their wikki sticks they make the greater than or less than symbol to compare the two numbers. 

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On each of my tables in my classroom I have a colored caddie with several things that my students may need during the day. I have note cards, highlighters, pencils, pencil sharpeners, crayons, scissors, and glue. Also beside the caddie is a bucket where I will supply the math manipulatives for the day's lesson. Shown below is base ten blocks and connecting cubes. 

Also shown is my Daily 5 flag. This flag tells the students where they go for the three rounds of  Daily 5. The flags move daily and are clipped on with a clothes pin. 

Math Work

After the students have mastered Math by Myself and Partner Math it's time for Math Work. Math Work is basically in my class review activities. I don't want to call them games because they're not games they are activities that practice a certain skill. For the last four weeks we have done nothing but addition and subtraction. The students have really worked hard and have learned many different ways to add and subtract. Now that we are beginning a new skill (place value) I have moved addition and subtraction to Math Work.

This space on the Daily 5 shelf is for Math Work. I have recently purchased three drawer organizers that I will label each drawer with a different activity so that the students have easy access but right now since I am only doing one activity a day I place the activity in the green tray you see in the picture below. 

 This is a HUGE skill for second grade so we will probably always have at least one activity on addition and subtraction throughout the year. 

Activities that we are using for addition and subtraction math work:

addition flashcards

subtraction flashcards

touch math cards

number line practice addition

number line practice subtraction

So after I am done teaching place value I would add some place value activities to Math Work. Right now I only offer one activity  each day but the goal is to be able to set out three or four and allow the students to choose what they would like to practice. 

Partner Math

After two weeks of Math by Myself the students and I were ready to add partner math. For the next couple of weeks we would as a class do Math by Myself and then as a class all at once do Partner Math. I did this because then I was able to walk around and assist those who needed help or those who may have forgot how to play their math game. Later on the students will learn how to work independently with out my help. 

The T-chart for Partner Math is very similar to Math by Myself.

With our math series the company made a game, partner talk, or individual activity for each lesson. For Partner Math I use maybe one a week from the math series and the rest I have made or found on teacherspayteachers. 

The students will go to our Daily 5 shelf and grab a math kit and the game board each day. Sometimes they will need a dry erase marker and an eraser to play the game. In each math kit there is: dice, number tiles (0-9), 12 red counters, and 12 blue counters. 

Several of my games require dominoes and if that is the case I will set out some on each table. 

I have had to make the rule this year that the students must play their math games at their desks because of losing pieces in the math kits. Everything else they do for Daily 5 they can choose where to sit. 

Math by Myself

Math by Myself means that the students will work on their own to complete the independent practice and problem solving problems. In my classroom we discuss where they may sit during this and we make a chart. Some of the places they may sit is on the cushions, special chairs, stools, under desks, at desks or anywhere in the floor as long as it is not close to my small group table. This is actually one of the hardest part is teaching the children how to choose a spot in the room quietly and quickly. We practiced alot!

After we talked and practice about where we can sit then we begin talking about what Math by Myself is all about and we make out T-chart.

After we make the T-chart and I explain what pages to do during Math by Myself the students get their clipboard and a pencil and find a place in the room to begin. As soon as I see a student not follow the T-chart, I will ring my bell and we all come back to our seats and we discuss the T-chart. If the same child continues to break the rules of Math by Myself I will call them over and discuss. Normally the child knows the T-chart.

I choose to start with Math by Myself. I taught my lessons and then we would practice only Math by Myself for about two weeks. Later we added Partner Math. 

Daily 5 Math

Using the math series that our school has adopted has made Daily 5 math super easy! Each lesson has a whole group lesson mapped out using maniplitives, small group intervention suggestions for each lesson, guided practice problems, independent practice problems, problem solving practice (writing in math) and also a great homework sheet that has a reteaching side and then a practice side. Math Daily 5 is very similar to the Reading Daily 5. I do not follow the Daily 5 Math exactly the way The Sisters may have mapped out but I feel like I have taken from The Sisters and turned it into something that works from my second grade classroom.

The Daily 5 is..
Math by Myself
Partner Math (Buddy Math)
Math Writing
Math Work
Math Technology

I have an hour and twenty mintues to teach math so I have not been able to use Math Technology every day during Daily 5.