The purpose of this activity is for students to learn a new center called Capture Squares. Students roll two number cubes and find the sum using math tools or mental methods they have developed during the unit. Students connect two dots that are adjacent to the sum on the gameboard. If that line closes the square, they capture the square and shade it in with their color. If they cannot draw a line, they roll again. The player to shade in three squares first is the winner.

• Invite 1–2 previously selected students to share how they found the value of their sums.
• Invite 1–2 students to share other strategies, including using sums they knew from memory.

The purpose of this activity is for students to choose from activities that offer practice telling and solving story problems and adding and subtracting within 10. Students choose from previously introduced stages of these centers:

• Math Stories
• Shake and Spill
• Capture Squares

• “What is one thing you learned or got better at by working on the activity you chose?”