1-digit and 2-digit MULTIPLICATION Learning Activities with Monsters

Your grade 4 and grade 5 learners are going to have a monsterously good time practicing theirmultiplication skills with the learning activity. The best part is, they’ll be up and out of their seats accessing various parts of their brain through learning. The focus of this product is 1-digit and 2-digit multiplication. However, your learners will also work on concepts including rounding, 3-D shapes, and tally marks. At each station, they’ll read the instructions, use the corresponding cards to complete the task, and determine the characteristics of their monster. Once they have completed each station, learners will use the clues they collected along the way to draw a portrait of their monster. ELA extension activities are included as a bonus. With them, learners have the opportunity to organize and write a narrative or persuasion piece. You can also choose to have them write a cinquain or acrostic poem about their monster.

This is a great activity as an ice breaker for the beginning of the school year. It can also be used to showcase learners’ work for open house or as a fun, end of the year activity. All station instructions and corresponding cards are available in a color version, as well as a black and white version. Print/copy them onto cardstock and laminate for year over year use. After the initial prep, the rest of the activity is print and go. Take a look at the details of each page below.

PAGE 1: Station #1 Instructions (full page) learners multiply two numbers.

PAGE 2: Station #2 Instructions (full page) learners count tally marks and multiply.

PAGE 3: Station #3 Instructions (full page) learners multiply dollar amounts.

PAGE 4: Station #4 Instructions (full page) learners multiply the number of birthday candles.

PAGE 5: Station #5 Instructions (full page) learners determine if the given multiplication equation is true or false.

PAGE 6: Station #6 Instructions (full page) learners multiply two numbers and round the product to the nearest hundred.

PAGE 7: Station #7 Instructions (full page) learners multiply two numbers and add 1,000 to the product.

PAGE 8: Station #8 Instructions (full page) learners count the number of faces on the given 3-D shapes and multiply the two answers.

PAGE 9: Station #1 and Station #2 (half-page) instructions.

PAGE 10: Station #3 and Station #4 (half-page) instructions.

PAGE 11: Station #5 and Station #6 (half-page) instructions.

PAGE 12: Station #7 and Station #8 (half-page) instructions.

PAGES 13-16: task cards corresponding with Station #1 (32 cards).

PAGES 17-20: task cards corresponding with Station #2 (32 cards).

PAGES 21-24: task cards corresponding with Station #3 (32 cards).

PAGES 25-28: task cards corresponding with Station #4 (32 cards).

PAGES 29-32: task cards corresponding with Station #5 (32 cards).

PAGES 33-36: task cards corresponding with Station #6 (32 cards).

PAGES 37-40: task cards corresponding with Station #7 (32 cards).

PAGES 41-44: task cards corresponding with Station #8 (32 cards).

PAGE 45: Answer recording sheet (2 sheets per page)

PAGE 46: Frame in which learners draw a portrait of their monster.

PAGE 47: Monster bio sheet where learners fill-in characteristics about their monster.

PAGE 48: Instructions, check-off list, and brainstorming for writing a narrative piece.

PAGE 49: Instructions, check-off list, and organization for writing a persuasion piece.

PAGE 50: Stationery for learners to write their narrative or persuasion pieces.

PAGE 51: Instructions and frame for learners to write a cinquain poem.

PAGE 52: Instructions and frame for learners to write an acrostic poem.