I’m obsessed with Target Dollar Spot erasers. Aren’t we all? We walk in, get sucked in right away to the Dollar Spot, and what do we see? These sweet little baggies full of cute erasers. Do we know what do to with them? No. Do we care? No.
I thought to myself, I probably have AT LEAST 3 baggies per holiday/season, which is about 20 different designs, and about 50-100 in each baggy, which equates to…(maybe I shouldn’t do that math)…at least 1,000 of these adorable erasers! I can’t seem to part with them as student gifts because they are too cute. And do they really erasers? I don’t know, I’ve never tried. I think they’d break right in half. Every so often I walk over to my math manipulative pile or open my box of seasonal items and BAM there’s a baggy of erasers. I thought, I really need to figure out how to use these. So here is a compilation of ways you can use these sweet little erasers for education (not just shelf life).
I listed these in accordance to common core standards, since that is how I and many other teachers teach.
(in this activity students use erasers to count by 1)
COUNTING & CARDINALITY
counting from any number forward
counting by 1’s
representing numbers with objects
comparing number of objects in two groups to be less than/equal to/greater than
(in this activity students can use the erasers to add or subtract)
OPERATIONS & ALGEBRAIC THINKING
addition
subtraction
decomposing numbers (number bonds)
making ten (ten frame)
arrays
patterns
(in this activity students use the erasers to measure the lines using non-standard measurement)
MEASUREMENT & DATA
sorting/categorizing
graphing
measuring in non-standard units
(in this activity students use a small handful of mixed erasers to represent fractions)
NUMBERS & OPERATIONS: FRACTIONS
(in this activity students use the erasers as spacers)
WRITING
picture stories/sentences
end punctuation
spacing
spelling
(in this activity students use the erasers to coverf the sound/spelling pattern, use them as phoneme tiles as they sound out the word, or cover the initial/medial/ending sounds)
READING: FOUNDATIONAL SKILLS
phoneme tiles for phonemic awareness (initial/medial/ending sounds, sound segmentation)
syllable segmentation
recognizing phonics patterns (cover the pattern)
(in this activity the students use the erasers to place them around an object to use prepositions, ex. “The eraser is under the fish.”)
LANGUAGE
prepositions
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How do you use your target dollar spot erasers? We always have room for MORE ideas!
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