Working With Arrays And A Multiplication Freebie!

 Happy almost St. Patrick's Day! 

Here's a fun and easy math idea for working with arrays.

I used little cauldrons I had left from Halloween and turned them 

into pots of gold!

Shhh....The "gold" is Lemon Heads candy. You can also use 

butterscotch hard candy and black salsa bowls usually found 

in most grocery stores. 

They make good St. Patty's Day pots too!

Have your students use the candy to make equal groups.  They then write 

the addition sentence and the multiplication sentence in their math journals or

you can use this little recording page. 

Download this student page {HERE}

Here's a little pot o' gold writing craft to go along with your math fun.  

This St. Patrick's Day Writing pack includes lesson visuals/printable charts

for 2 mini-lessons on the history of St. Patrick's Day and defining a leprechaun.

It also includes a bulletin board display title card.

We used gold ribbon left over from Christmas to add the "gold touch" 

but you can also use yellow tissue paper.  Simply cut the tissue paper into 

1-2 inch squares and have your students squish them a little and glue them on!

Since I'm on Spring Break I'm on a bit of a roll today! I'm also blogging 

over at Owl-ways Be Inspired!  Be sure to click the button and hop over

 for another fun St. Patty's Day math idea and yep, another freebie!

Linking up with Teaching Blog Addict's Freebie Friday too!

Hop over after and take a look!