Equivalent Names and Pumpkins!

We do center activities after our weekly assessments on Friday.  Since my 2nd and 3rd graders had worked on equivalent names that week, we made equivalent names on pumpkins.  I gave each student a number and they were able to do the rest on their own. I monitored and made sure that they were using a variety of ways for making the names. Here is one below:

The leaves were done by my upper grade students (5th and 6th). I put review problems on the leaves (number sense, probability, data analysis, etc) and they had to solve the problems. Simple, I know, but the kids enjoyed it over another pencil and paper worksheet.

(Side note: I am in the Kindergarten hallway this year. They are constantly rubbing up against my door. So please excuse the curled leaves and pumpkins!)