I have been STRESSING myself out lately trying to implement BUILD in my classroom :( I think it is mostly because I am a little teensy bit OCD about things, sometimes.... In any case, I fell in love with the idea of BUILD - found it on a Google hunt one day - it is basically Daily 5 but for math and you know how I feel about Daily 5 <3
BUILD stands for Buddy games, Using manipulatives, Independent work (I do independent reading), Learning about numbers and Doing math. Now here is the problem, from what I gather from some blog stalking, BUILD is used for those early finishers, but I want ALL of my kiddos Learning about numbers and Using manipulatives. Also, it seemed to me that the Doing math center was kind of a 'whatever' filler center and I feel that it might just be the most important.
After implementing all of our procedures/routines for BUILD things were going very well, I was super happy with it the first day, only problem is we spend an HOUR and 15 minutes for math..... what?! o___o I can't cut work on writing out of the day because we are running out of time for D5 no no no. I had to sit down and figure this out.
Here is what I came up with:
15 min - whole class focus lesson and guided practice (on the carpet, the kids have whiteboards for a quick CFU)
15 min - Independent practice, BUILD for the early finishers
Small group intervention
***** I have identified a small group that is in dire need of some prerequisite skills for 2nd grade math, fortunately my school uses REAL MATH which has an awesome intervention guide/student work pages/assessments etc!
5 min - BUILD
Because I want my intervention group to participate in the centers too!
Each group will have a new center each day, rather than having 5 rotations per day - arrrgh! - pretty sure that is what was taking so darn long. - See the stars on each basket?! They match their team color - this way I am sure that they will all get to play with each part of BUILD.
Here is what I have in each basket:
B: Depending on the lesson, REAL MATH is great about including games so I usually take them from there. I will try to post about them individually in the future, everyone needs to know about these awesome games.
U: For now: even and odd practice
Unifix cubes, a TENS number dice, and ONES number dice
Kids roll both dice to create a 2 digit number, they take unifix cubes for the number they roll in the ONES place, then make pairs with the cubes. Pairs: even, 1 left over: odd
I: Independent Reading
All of a sudden I have at least 10 math books in this basket, love it! Some came to me via donations and some I bought on Amazon. I will post a list soon!
L: Learning about numbers
I actually made games for this center, trying to think of games that would cover a variety of skills - they are...... wait for it..... my very first item up for sale on TPT! Check them out HERE. It took me FOREVER to make them but has turned out to be well worth it! I plan on keeping the same games all year :)
D: I will be using this center as a quick assessment from now on. REAL MATH has Daily Quizes which makes my life so much easier :) These they will have to turn into the inbox for grading.
and that is BUILD <3 Oh, I love it, the kids love it, and it will be great..... once I get the timing all figured out.
Thank you for reading my very long post, HERE is a little freebie for your time. Sports themed BUILD labels, because I am obsessed with my sports themed classroom :)
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