One of the things that’s awesome about being a math coach is having the opportunity to interact with so many creative teachers on a daily basis! I picked up this idea for a daily warm-up using the hundred chart in a Kindergarten classroom. Can you ever really have too many hundred chart activities?
The teacher had a laminated “100 House” with all blank spaces.
Each day, as part of the daily warm-up, the kids helped her fill it in. They claimed their space by writing in the correct number and explaining their logic. For example, if a student claimed the space for 25 they might say, “I started at 1 and went over to where the 5 space would be. Then I moved down two rows, because each row adds 10 to the number.” It’s a great self-differentiating activity because students will choose numbers within their comfort zone.
Click here to download my interpretation of the 100 House. There are four pages in the document–a blank 100 House, one with some of the numbers filled in, a sheet that could be used in a workstation for kids to practice the patterns on a hundred chart, and a blank version of the worksheet you can program. If you are fortunate to have a plotter printer at your school, you can print it poster-size.
I love this! Thanks for sharing!!
❃ Ann Marie
ABCs and 123s 4 me
LOVE IT! Thanks for sharing!!!!
You’re very welcome! 🙂
I love this site. So many great ideas for Common Core!
Thank you so much! I always love hearing that my blog is useful. 🙂
Wow. What a great activity. Love it!!!
Thanks, Amy!
Thank you for your blog pages, I am a teaching head teacher in Scotland and we have nothing like these web sites here. I have downloaded and used loads. Thank you.
Wow, Scotland! I’ve said this before, but I think the ability we have now to share resources globally is so very exciting. Thanks for stopping in and leaving a comment!
I love this idea of the house, but our coach is stressing that we begin our 100 chart with 0. Is there any way that this could be altered and have 0-9 on the first row?
Thanks
I’ll have to put that on my list! With school starting up, I might not be able to get to it right away.
I am reading teacher blog junkie but after visiting your website and using so many of your ideas and activities I am turning into a math blog junkie! Maybe this activity could be tied into math fact families? Using the same type of graphics you could probably make a window into a number’s room and show all the related facts. You do a great job and I enjoy your website!
What a sweet, sweet comment! It really made my day. Love your fact family idea. 🙂
Thanks for sharing!!
You ALWAYS have the neatest things to share…thanks a million!!!
Thanks so much for the sweet comment, Laura! 🙂
Your blog is awesome. I work for a private school where funds are even more limited than public school. I truly appreciate all your freebies. I’ve had lots of compliments about all the anchor charts in my room and many came from your site. You are a tremendous help.
What a sweet compliment, Linda! I’m so glad to be able to help out. 🙂
Love this! We will be using this with our bilingual and ESL summer school kiddos!
Thanks for sharing this great activity- this will make a great review for my firsties:-)
Donna, I love ‘Dusti’s House,’ and your creation of the teaching tools. Is there a way to add ‘just one more’ activity sheet that has the six little houses but with blanks? I’d love to have a sheet like that to practice sequencing. Thanks, Betsy in Orlando
GREAT idea, Betsy! I’ve added the fourth page you suggested!
Thanks for posting! We use the hundreds house in my classroom!
Thank you Math Coach!
My pleasure, Becky! 🙂
as always-you have given us a practical, fun idea! thanks! our school is really pushing computer lab this year and the Math is way over their head-this will help a lot!
Love this! Thank you so much for all your wonderful, practical ideas!