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100 Day Chick Hunt
Students investigate how to count to the number 100 with the connection to using chicks as objects. They use cutouts of chicks and place them into the counting chart and recognize the different numerals while counting at the same time.
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Developing a Child's Sense of Place
Students develop empathy with the natural world; visual and aural senses of spatial awareness; and initiate sound and space awareness, movement, indoor/outdoor, map-making and nature activities that correlate with a child's sense of play.
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Meba Math (K-1)
Students work with counters and math mats to demonstrate number concepts. In this number concept instructional activity, students use cubes and configuration cards to show more or less than given numbers.
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Teaching Arithmetic and Math Concepts to Headstarters
Students discover early number concepts for numbers 1 through 5. In this number concepts lesson, students work in stations doing hands-on activities such as sorting colored blocks, stringing beads, and counting sticks. Students also...
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Numbers: Dig In
In this numbers worksheet, students find all the vegetables in the picture and count and color them. The vegetable name and the number of each one in the picture is listed on the side.
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Counting in twos
In this counting worksheet, students practice counting pairs of shapes on 5 lines of shapes. Students put their totals in the boxes provided.
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Easter Counting Worksheet
For this counting worksheet, students count the Easter eggs in the picture, then color or circle the correct numeral from a given set of 2 to 5.
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Guesstimate? NO Estimate!
Young scholars discover the advantage of estimation over simple guessing using number relationships. They also discover how useful a mathematical tool estimation is in everyday life.
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Recipe Card
Students devise a recipe for snack mix using four of the given ingredients. They use one cup measuring cups to mix the four ingredients in plastic zipper bags. Next, they write their ingredients on a recipe card, and as a class they...
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Monkey Subtraction
Students listen to the book Five Little Monkeys Sitting In a Tree, identify written numbers 0-9 and the symbol for subtraction; students subtract two single digit numbers using manipulatives, and recite the corresponding number sentence.
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Counting Objects
Little learners can practice counting. Each slide presents a set of objects to be counted by the class. A finger points to each object as it is counted. This presentation is short, but developmentally sound.
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How Many Ways Can You Count?
Youngsters chorally count to 100 by 1s, 2s, 5s, and 10s, and backwards from 20, using chip markers and a hundreds chart. Includes a printable chart and a teacher checklist for assessing mastery.
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Whole Number Sense
Students find the shapes that are asked of them out of a bunch of shapes. In this shapes lesson plan, students find a specific number of a specific shape with a specific size and color.
Print and Practice
Read and Draw Shapes to Number 10
In this read and draw instructional activity, students read a number at the beginning of a row, then draw that many of the shapes given, circles or triangles. Numbers 1-10 are used.
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Blind Man's Bluff
Students count to five. They use two blindfolds and a bean bag. One child is blindfolded. The other children sit close together in a circle on the floor.
Spin the blindfolded person around three times, then release. The children clap...
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Nocturnal Animals
How do those nocturnal animals see in the dark? This perplexing question does have an answer. First, little ones use their sense of touch to determine the name of a mystery object, then they listen closely to identify various animals by...
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Nature Walk
Students explore nature artists and participate in a nature walk. In this art/nature lesson plan, students discuss things artists use from nature then talk a walk to find some of the same things. Students look for different...
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Sensory Elements in the Environment
Students verbally and visually identify visual elements found around them everyday.
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Easter Counting
In this Easter counting worksheet, students count Easter baskets, then circle the number counted. A reference web site for additional activities is given.
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Math: Musical Patterns
Students employ their five senses to interpret and duplicate instrumental patterns. Following the teacher's patterns, students clap their hands and later use instruments such as bells, triangles, or cymbals to create their own "songs."
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Our Daily Five
Learners explore the food pyramid through a class discussion, hands-on experience with food items, and a floor game that helps them to identify the food group involved. Lesson extensions include the use of play money, art, and dance.
Illustrative Mathematics
Making a Clock
Have a fun time teaching children to read analog clocks with this whole-group math activity. Using large sets of the numerals 1-12 and 0, 5, 10...55, the teacher creates a large clock on either the carpet or the white board, explaining...
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Agriculture Counts
Students practice counting. In this early numbers lesson, students learn about the beginnings of agriculture and how it ties into math. Students practice counting objects related to agriculture.
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Adding More
Use this attractive worksheet to help your class practice basic addition skills. Learners answer six questions in which they add on to an amount shown.