Last weekend my husband and I hosted the most delicious "Breakfast Bar" with our family.  The Washington Redskins were playing in London so the game started at 9:30 am.  When my sister called me and "volunteered" us to host the Breakfast Bar, we were totally up for it!  I had quite a few requests for the Breakfast Bar sign after I posted about it on Instagram so I figured I would share it with you in this post!  

I printed the sign and put it in a yellow frame from Michaels.  This picture shows the individual cereal boxes and bagels that we had.  I also made pumpkin muffins (recipe can be found here) and we had orange juice and cranberry juice. 

 

We just recently purchased new kitchen appliances and they are perfect for cooking breakfast!  My husband pretty much did all of the cooking!  In this picture we have eggs, hominy, and sausage gravy.  We had breakfast burritos with the eggs.  So yummy! 

Bacon and sausage are a MUST for breakfast!  

I made this yummy Hashbrown Casserole.  It was a really simple recipe.  You can find the delicious recipe by clicking here.

We had such a fun time enjoying the football game and eating breakfast!  Just click the image below to grab your FREE copy of the Breakfast Bar sign!

  And I also wanted to create something that you could use with your students that had a breakfast theme!

For this math activity, students pick a bacon ten frame card.  They count the dots on the card and then color the egg yolk yellow to match the total number of dots on the ten frame bacon card.  

  Included in the FREE download are two versions of the egg recording sheet.  One has numbers 1-10 and one has numbers 1-20.  This way you can differentiate the activity to meet the needs of your students by only using the ten frames that your students need practice with.  

  To grab your FREE copy of Bacon and Eggs just click the image below!

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My students love when we use food for math.  I always find that my students are so engaged and excited about it.  This is probably because they know they get a little treat when they finish!   I recently posted an image on Instagram of an idea that I thought of for tens and ones using m&m candies.

  I had the idea to use the snack size bags of m&m's for the lesson.  I may have sampled a bag just to make sure there would be the right amount of m&m's.  I planned to have my students find how many m&m's they have in their bag, how many groups of ten, and how many extra ones.  I knew it would fit perfectly with the Common Core standards we have been focusing on:

K.NBT.1a Compose numbers from 11 to 19 into ten ones and some further ones, e.g., by using objects or drawings, and record each composition by a drawing or equation (e.g., 18 = 10 + 8)

K.NBT.1b Decompose numbers from 11 to 19 into ten ones and some further ones, e.g., by using objects or drawings, and record each decomposition by a drawing or equation (e.g., 18 = 10 + 8)

 I first modeled this activity for my students.  Modeling is definitely important with our young learners so they know exactly what is expected of them.  Then I sent them off to their seats to work.  They loved it and did such a nice job with the lesson!

If you want to use this with your students, click the image below to grab the FREE download!

If you are looking for more teen number resources, check out these resources in my Teachers Pay Teacher store!

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I absolutely love using ten frame activities with my students.  I love that they help my students with subitizing, determining how many more to make ten, counting by tens, and so much more.  

  We use ten frames within our calendar routines each day by adding a counter to the ten frame to represent a day of school.  We also have different ten frame activities at our math stations.

 

I created these ten frame images representing 1 - 20.  If you are interested in using them, you can just right click and save the images to your computer! 

 

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