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Fluency Instructional Routine: Read Regular Words
How many words can you read in one minute? Practice reading fluency, speed, and accuracy with this scaffolded lesson plan. This offers a full script if you need it, however it can also be utilized as an outline. Demonstrate the activity...
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Base Ten Blocks Rods and Flats (A)
Using visual cues and hands on manipulatives are great for conveying concepts in a concrete way. Learners are given a set of rods, they break the set up into flats, then count the rods left over to determine an answer. There are 5...
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Addition Word Problems to 20 Independent - Practice Worksheet
First-grade mathematicians are encouraged to draw pictures to help solve ten word problems. Each of the problems will require your young counters to employ counting on strategies. The resource can be used for independent practice or...
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Color Me Red If I Am a Ten
Young scholars count aloud by tens. They use a number chart to color in every number that ends in a zero and then participate in choral counting by tens.
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Ladybug Math
Students count the number of spots on ladybug wings. They add to find total number of spots on ladybug cut outs and complete the associated worksheet. They write ladybug addition story problems.
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Pumpkin Problems
Students participate in a lesson that has the intention of working on estimation skills. They use pumpkins to estimate the number of seeds are inside. They collect data for each pumpkin and compare it to the estimation. Students question...
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100th Day of School
Young scholars participate in various motor skill activities while counting to 100. These activities are designed to go with the 100th day of school. They will complete various tasks such as jumping rope, tossing, running, and catching...
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Fill the Frame
How long does it take to fill a ten frame? Partners practice counting as they play this math game- and all you need are counters! Pairs use one die, rolling one at a time. For each roll, they add that many counters to their ten...
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Phonemic Awareness: Syllables
Count the syllables in your name, now count the syllables in your friend's name. Kids count syllables as they clap out and segment words. This activity is done as a whole class and has the potential of being highly engaging. The engaging...
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Phonics: Segmenting Words with two or three phonemes
Kindergarteners build phonemic awareness by segmenting words with two or three phonemes. As the teacher says each word, the kids put up a finger for each phoneme they hear. This can also be done with manipulative such as blocks or tally...
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Growing, Growing, Gone
Budding mathematicians identify growing patterns in numbers and songs then create their own patterns. They look at number patterns and language patterns and then create their own using money and footprints.
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Organizing and Understanding Data- Guided Lesson
How many teachers are there? This is a fun introduction to what could become an actual data analysis of your school's teachers. Students examine a visual representation of teachers at a school, categorized into three subjects. Then,...
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Trick-or-Treat
Who has the most candy? Kids often have candy on the brain, so get them to learn in the process! Here is a great counting worksheet for Halloween week. Learners compare candy stashes between four pairs of kids. They count each stash,...
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Can't Start the Race Without 10 Cars Worksheet
Race cars needed! Since the race cannot start without ten race cars, kindergartners must determine how many more cars must be added before the checkered flag is waved. Space is provided on the illustrated worksheet for learners to record...
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Choosing Coins
In this mathematics worksheet, 1st graders identify what coins can be used to buy a toy train. Then they count out how much money is given and write that amount in cents. Students also trace or draw the coins to match each price listed.
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Money - Using R & R to Teach Mathematics
Second graders count up coins of money that add up to one dollar. In this money lesson plan, 2nd graders also spend money and keep track of how much they have spent.
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Addition Practice
Give your mathematicians a leg up on simple addition using this worksheet with visual aids. Similar to counting cubes, each single-digit addend is accompanied by a corresponding number of colored squares. The two colors are...
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Organizing and Understanding Data - Independent Practice
Provide your first graders with an opportunity for independent practice organizing and understanding data. The ten story prompts on this three-page activity asks learners to solve problems involving concepts of the total number of...
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Yellow
The color yellow is the star of this simple lanuage learning exercise. Learners trace the word yellow, count and sort assorted yellow objects, and color stars with the letter Y.
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The Abacus
The class reads an explanation of the how the ancient calculation tool, the abacus, works. They examine four abacus images and record the number shown on each of them.
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The Number Match Game
Kindergarteners practice matching words and symbols by playing an index card activity. They create flash cards numbered 0 to 20 and challenge each other in groups to identify the values of the numbers. Learners utilize beans or buttons...
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Morning Math
Mornings can be hard with sluggish mathematicians. Get them thinking using this set of 14 morning math problems. Pass these out or simply project them and have students complete individual problems in their notebooks. Skills include...
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Show That Number
Kindergarteners draw dominoes to match a number of objects to a given number. Numbers 1-5 are listed and illustrated with a domino. Young counters then draw the correct number of tiles and include the correct number of dots on each tile.
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100th Day Chick Hunt
Young mathematicians listen to The Wolf's Chicken Stew by Keiko Kasza and review number names on a pocket chart that shows numbers from 1 to 100. They locate 100 numbered cutout chicks hidden in the classroom and match them to the...