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Better Lesson: Ordering Numbers: Unit Review and Test

For Teachers 1st Standards
SWBAT share their knowledge through the assessment provided
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Better Lesson: Vocabulary Review/ Written & Oral Math Language Lesson Plan

For Teachers 1st Standards
SWBAT use math vocabulary to describe relationships between numbers.
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Better Lesson: Problem Solving: Act It Out

For Teachers 1st Standards
SWBAT use objects to act out ordering numbers to solve story problems.
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Better Lesson: Start At/stop At

For Teachers 1st Standards
SWBAT practice the rote counting sequence both forwards and backwards, from 1-30. SWBAT use a number line as a tool for counting. SWBAT count sets of objects up to 20.
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Better Lesson: Building Tens at the Lego Factory

For Teachers 1st Standards
SWBAT create a number using groups of tens and extra ones.
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Better Lesson: It's Elementary My Dear Watson

For Teachers 1st Standards
SWBAT identify and build numbers based on base ten language.
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Better Lesson: Tremendous Triangles!

For Teachers K Standards
Students will be able to practice working with triangles in different orientations, students will illustrate a "real world" triangular object, & build craft stick triangles.
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Better Lesson: Super Squares!

For Teachers K Standards
This lesson provides an overview of squares, along with a chance to create actual squares and an opportunity to illustrate objects shaped like squares.
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Better Lesson: Subtraction Number Stories Day 2

For Teachers K Standards
Students will be able to create their own number stories and represent them using one of the methods we have learned in this unit.
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Better Lesson: Hopping Up & Down the Number Line

For Teachers K Standards
SWBAT identify the subtraction and addition sign and understand their function by hopping a bunny up and down a number line.
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Better Lesson: Meet Allie the Alligator

For Teachers K Standards
Students will determine if numbers in a set are: greater than, less than, or equal to.
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Better Lesson: Subtraction Number Stories Day 1

For Teachers K Standards
Students will be able to create their own number stories and represent them using one of the methods we have learned in this unit.
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Better Lesson: I Am Five! Exploring the Number Five

For Teachers K Standards
Students will be able to identify the number five, identify groups with five objects and represent the number five.
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Better Lesson: Cause & Effect With "Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears" Day 4

For Teachers 1st
We are finishing up the story today. Today we are finishing analyzing the story by thinking about how the events and characters developed by the end of the text.
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Better Lesson: Discussing "Goldilocks and the Three Bears"

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Today we are picking apart this story and discussing it in great detail so that we can set the foundation for our comparing and contrasting activity on our Day 3 lesson.
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Better Lesson: Sorting by Size

For Teachers K Standards
Sorting is an important foundational skills for kindergarten students to learn. Using attribute blocks to sort by size helps students practice comparing objects and prepares them to sort by other measurable attributes.
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Better Lesson: Sorting by Shape

For Teachers K Standards
Sorting is an important foundational skills for kindergarten students to learn. Using attribute blocks to sort by shape helps students practice comparing objects and prepares them to sort measurable attributes.
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Better Lesson: Sorting by Shape Buttons

For Teachers K Standards
Students are inspired by the Button Box to find different ways to sort their own buttons, including by shape.
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Better Lesson: Oh So Cool Ovals

For Teachers K Standards
Students will get plenty of experience with hands-on practice and an opportunity to create an example of something shaped like an oval.
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Better Lesson: Spectacular Circles!

For Teachers K Standards
Students will have fun making circles out of chenille stems (pipe cleaners) and placing small circular pony beads while they practice drawing and identifying circles.
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Better Lesson: Match Me!

For Teachers K Standards
Kids love to count and build puzzles. This activity encourages them to do both! The kids count objects on puzzle pieces and match the groups of objects to the correct number.
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Better Lesson: Nine in the Sky! Exploring the Number Nine

For Teachers K Standards
Many kindergarteners come to school with rote counting skills, but they often do not understand that the numbers they can recite actually represent quantities. This lesson plan helps to make that connection.
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Better Lesson: Who Will Choose the Sorting Rule?

For Teachers K Standards
A flip chart on the Promethean board and laminated shapes keep student engagement high as they demonstrate their sorting skills.
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Better Lesson: Tasty Apple Sorting

For Teachers K Standards
In the past, we made apple tasting graphs. Since graphing isn't big in terms of Kindergarten Common Core, this is a great way to update an old tradition with a CCSS-aligned activity!