You know it’s a lot of cutting when you end up with blisters on your cutting hand. Hopefully, it is all worth it in the end!
My fourth graders will each have their own math toolkit to start the year! Many of the manipulatives are from Brittney Hege’s Mix & Math 360 group, with a few other items thrown in from other places. Besides the items pictured, each child also has a small plastic container for dice rolling (we all know how dice end up across the room on the floor, which they won’t be able to retrieve without being in someone else’s social distance bubble). They’ll also have 2 six-sided dice, 2 10-sided dice, 2 12-sided dice, 2 20-sided dice, and one die each for 10s, 100s, and 1000s. I figure this set of dice should cover all kinds of place value, multiplication, and area games and activities. I didn’t want to take apart my math library games, so I am still waiting for more dice to arrive so I can finish this project.