Monday, July 16, 2012

Fraction Discovery Bottles

Classroom Freebies Manic Monday
After making discovery bottles for number sense and computation, I decided to try making some bottles for fractions. I used some wooden pieces from a collection of sorting objects. There are geometric shapes, as well as planes, cars and even a horse. One of the bottles contains LEGO pieces. Here's a peak at them.

Here's what you'll find in each of the bottles.
Bottle 1 – Transportation theme
Contains 5 wooden vehicles
  • 3 cars/trucks, one red, one yellow and one blue 
  • 2 airplanes, one red and one yellow
Bottle 2 – Shapes theme 
Contains 6 wooden shapes
  • 2 circles, one red and one green
  • 2 squares, one red and one green
  • 2 triangles, one red and one green
Bottle 3 – Mixed set
 Contains 6 wooden shapes
  • 2 circles, one red and one green
  • 2 squares, one red and one green
  • 2 triangles, one red and one green
Contains 5 wooden vehicles
  • 3 cars/trucks, one red, one yellow and one blue 
  • 2 airplanes, one red and one yellow
Contains 1 red wooden horse
Bottle 4 – LEGO theme
Contains 5 LEGO blocks
  • 3 large blocks, one gray, one black, one white
  • 2 small blocks, one gray and one red
I have created a packet with directions for making the bottles and one activity page for each of the four bottles. Here are a few sample pages.

Download Fraction Discovery Bottles. If you try these, please let me know what you think. If you have any other suggestions or ideas, please let me know.

2 comments:

  1. I love this idea! I am definitely trying it out! Thanks for sharing!

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  2. Oooooo this is FUN! I can't wait to make mine!

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