Teachers: Check Out these Amazing Free Math Assessment Materials

At the beginning of the school year and throughout the year it’s important to have a good handle on where your students’ skills are, what they already know and what they might need more help with.

Mrs. Jones’ Creation Station has a great collection of free math assessment tools for beginning math assessment. It covers things like:

number recognition and formation
rote counting
shape identification
color identification
position words
patterns
exploring numbers

There are printables for worksheets and other materials to use in your assessments, as well as a form to fill out as they work through it. This is a wonderful resource and parents could use parts of it, too, to check how their kids are doing on early math concepts before school if they wanted. It’s great for homeschoolers, too.

Do you have any tools or tricks for math assessments? I’d love to hear about them!

[Photo via Mrs. Jones’ Creation Station.]

Looking for more resources? Check out these board games for learning Math and Multiplication?

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Summer Reading Printables and Tips for Parents

I guess this isn’t exclusively a kid’s craft or learning activity (though cutting and folding are great for developing fine motor skills!) but I think kids would love having some of these printable holiday houses around the house or classroom to play with in the holiday season. Because they’re made of paper, they’re inexpensive to make, and while there is assembly involved the results are well worth the work.

If you have a cutting machine you can use the cut files from Delia Creates to make making your own paper village that much easier. She actually cut out all her buildings in different colors of card stock and used them to decorate a wreath, but you could also put them on the mantle or on a low table for kids to play with. Make a whole small world scene complete with fake snow, little characters and other elements, and kids are sure to start making their own stories to go with the setup.

This set of houses is printed and cut out using a craft knife. It’s meant to be an advent calendar, with each of the buildings numbered and you can stick a treat inside. But you could also just play with the buildings! You can get a free download of four buildings from Little House on the Corner, or head to the post to see where you can buy the whole set.

The Mavelo website isn’t in English, but their printable gingerbread house template is super cute to use as a gift box or to play with. If you need the instructions the website is in Polish but Google Translate seems to do a pretty good job.

Bora Illustrates has an adorable little house to print, cut and assemble featuring a cat, bird and gingerbread person. You could probably print it in black and white and have your kiddo color it, too.

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