Counting and Skip Counting to 1,000

Happy April! I find springtime to be filled with happiness and anticipation (especially for Michiganders!) but also with stress as this is the last good chunk of days we have for teaching.
In the second grade classroom where I team teach, we have a pretty good number of high needs students with various issues. Two ESL brand new to America this year, two boys who are challenged to follow directions and need a great deal of support, one special ed., and she is the hardest worker I have ever seen (such a joy!), and two that are heading in that direction for the extremely slow growth they are showing, bless their hearts. Almost a Noah's Ark of a classroom, LOL. So, I have been procrastinating over taking these kiddos  into the world of 3-digit numbers when they can barely handle 2-digit. Yet, it is just a repeating pattern so why not present it as no big deal.
As I worked on gathering supports for these students, I saw the need to provide hundred charts for every hundred and I also wanted an "any hundred" chart where students see the pattern is the same as counting to 100 and can fill in the hundred they need (or just make the point and use this as a visual). 
I didn't need to use them long. And I also used them as answer keys for some of our activities- make your prediction and check your answer on the hundred chart that fits. But the most fun part of all was how big their eyes got over seeing just how many numbers there are to 1,000.
Click here to grab these on TPT and read on to hear about an extension activity I gave to my advanced students.

After my pretest on counting and skip counting through the hundreds, I had the students who showed mastery, take the hundred charts to 1,000 and cut them apart, row by row. They then glued them on strips of computer paper that I cut 2 inches wide. (along with staples for extra support) They worked in the hall to make a number line to 1,000 which took up the entire length of the hall from the recess doors to the end and it even wrapped around! This activity was a really great visual as to how large the number 1,000 really is! And every classroom passing in the hall those few days was amazed by the length of the number line. So many benefitted from this activity I am so glad I decided to do it.
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