Pill box for Place Value!

Such a great idea! In a meeting the other day one teacher (thanks, Freida!) came up with a great game for place value. She bought pill boxes at the dollar store and shakes the dice. Each die? :) represents a place value. The kids then use a greater than less than symbol in the middle section and turn it the correct way. Those that have trouble with the numbers use vis a vis markers to write the number on the die! Such a great and interactive game. They can also use it to play a game of bingo.



And, of course, here are some virtual dice if you want to skip the shopping trip :) .

Google Hangouts for Classroom Collaboration

Some great teachers in my district (Hi, Stephanie and Freida!) are using Google Hangouts to collaborate across campus. The possibilities with this are endless. In their case, they join the hangout using a Chromebook first, then join again with their SmartBoard computer. It seems like a long way to go, but the Chromebook has a camera :) We spent a lot of time texting back and forth to set up times, but then I realized that they could just set up a permanent link and join. If you are interested in using this tool, I put together a few directions: