Plant Life Cycle Theme Base Ten Manipulatives

Get your class engaged with these plant life cycle base ten manipulatives for learning about place value for the hundreds, ten, and ones (units) places.

Recommended Grade Level:

Kindergarten

1st Grade

2nd Grade

• Supply List
• Coordinating Activities

Life Cycle Base Ten Supplies:

• Paper
• Laminating Supplies
• Scissors
• Clear Containers or Paper Tubes

Two levels of Base Ten Manipulatives Plant Life Cycle are included:

Ten & Ones (units) Hundreds, Tens and & Ones (units) This resource can be used as a whole-class activity or a center activity. Students will draw one card from each container: hundreds, tens, and ones (or tens and ones alone, depending on the level you are teaching) and demonstrate the number with the farm-themed base-ten blocks.

For added fun, you can do this on a “sticky wall” which is simply contact paper taped to the wall with the sticky side facing out. Otherwise, you can simply do this on a table or the floor.

I have also included cloud and sun faces to create crowns while using this as a whole class activity.

There are 32 cards for each level of learning. (For the hundreds a set of 8 cards are included for numbers like 100, 200, 300, so that students can visualize these numbers.) This resource can be used as a whole-class activity or a center activity.

1. Table of Contents:
2. Pages 5-6: Cloud and sun faces for fun crowns
3. Page 7: Base-ten blocks for teaching tens and ones
4. Page 8: Container labels for Place-value for tens and ones only
5. Page 9: Base-ten blocks for teaching hundreds, tens and ones (You will need 9 copies of this page.)
6. Page 10: Container labels for place-value numbers for hundreds, tens and ones
7. Pages 11-13: Place value numbers (If you are teaching only tens and ones, you will not need page 12.)
8. Pages 14-16: Cards for use in centers or as an alternative to the place-value numbers. (for tens & ones only)
9. Page 17: Recording sheet for tens & ones center
10. Pages 18-20: Cards for use in centers or as an alternative to the place-value numbers. (for hundreds, tens & ones)
11. Page 21: Recording sheets for hundreds, tens & ones center.
12. Pages 22-23: Alternate container labels for curricula calling for hundreds, tens and units.

Get the Plant Life Cycle Manipulatives:

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