DAILY MATH ROUTINES:
Number of the Day:
Children track the number of days in school on the "Growing Number Line" and represent the number of days in school with objects. They become familiar with the numbers 1-100 and beyond, and make sense of written numbers and place value.
Attendance:
Children count, write numbers, collect data, and solve problems as they chart daily attendance.
Daily Schedule and Monthly Calendar:
Children develop their understanding of time by using a daily schedule and a monthly calendar. They apply counting and operations skills as they use, assemble and dismantle the calendar.
Weather and Temperature Observation:
Children collect, organize, and analyze weather and temperature data over time.
Survey Question:
Children collect, record, display, and discuss data that interest them by answering a daily question and surveying classmates with data questions of interest.
SECTION 1 OVERVIEW:
Children will...
- Compare lengths and explain their thinking in a social activity.
- Use shape names as they explore with pattern blocks.
- Use one to one correspondence and the cardinal principle as they engage in a counting game.
- Explore the numbers 0-9 to practice and reinforce early counting and numeration skills.
- Play an active counting game to develop their oral counting skills, including counting on.
- Count, compare and represent data about their birthday month and how they get to school.
- Create a graph showing their ages and use them to answer counting and comparison questions.
- Count out objects to represent 5 in multiple ways, and informally explore addition and subtraction within 5.
- Compose and decompose numbers and explore addition by looking quickly at dots in different arrangements.
- Use five frames to compose numbers in various ways and informally explore addition and subtraction within 5.
- Use informal language to describe, compare, sort, and contrast a variety of shapes.
- Identify and describe shapes in the context of repeating and growing patterns.
Children will...
- Play a matching game with dot cards to practice recognizing equal quantities in different arrangements
- Play a game with dot card to practice counting and comparing sets
- Examine, describe, and compare a variety of triangles and create a triangle collage
- Make a number board to reinforce counting skills and principles and visualize the "one more" counting pattern
- Use concrete nonverbal experiences to develop their understanding of addition and subtraction
- Determine the number of objects in a set when one object is added
- Sort and classify objects by varying characteristics
- Examine, describe and compare circles and create a circle collage
- Compose and decompose numbers in various ways on a ten frame and informally explore addition and subtraction
- Practice counting collections in different arrangements
- Explore rectangles and create a rectangle collage
- Invent and solve different types of number stories using a variety of strategies
Children will...
- Sort, count, compare, and graph pattern blocks by shape
- Use ten frames go to explore number pairs that add to 10
- Write and represent numbers as they begin to make individual number books
- Compare and describe objects of varying lengths
- Use positional language to follow and give directions
- Create matching representations for a number between 5 and 10
- Practice numeral recognition, counting and one-to-one correspondence as they play a game
- Represent how successive numbers refer to quantities that are one larger
- Use number cards to practice numeral recognition, sequencing numbers, and matching sets and numerals
- Roll dice and record rolls to practice counting and number writing to explore probability informally
- Play a game to practice number recognition and explore number relationships (greater, less)
- Practice number writing and other numerations skills and establish routines for working with slates
Children will...
- Classify and sort attribute blocks by shape and size and count and compare sets.
- Explore, recognize, and describe shapes by touch.
- Create a class graph of favorite color.
- Use calculators to practice reading and recording numbers to represent objects.
- Mentally compose and decompose numbers and relate quantities to 5 and 10 on a ten frame to develop fact strategies.
- Count and recognize numbers 10-19 in a movement activity.
- Combine pattern blocks in different ways to make a hexagon.
- Use connecting cubes to compose and decompose numbers in multiple ways.
- Compare the weights of objects using a pan balance.
- Learn and practice skip counting by 10's.
- Play a game with number cards to practice comparing written numerals.
- Explore the number grid and use it as a counting tool.
SECTION 5 OVERVIEW:
Children will...
- Celebrate the 100th day of school by counting to 100 in a variety of ways and creating and describing a collection of 100 objects.
- Find, record, and analyze sums of dice rolls.
- Play a cooperative game to generate combinations that add to 10.
- Use fingers to explore the concept that teen numbers represent "10 and some more ones."
- Represent and compare teen numbers.
- Identify and draw shapes from the environment.
- Model number stories with counters and the addition symbol.
- Model addition concretely by playing the "train game."
- Write numbers on scrolls to deepen understanding of the count sequence and place value.
- Combine shapes to create new shapes.
SECTION 6 OVERVIEW:
Children will...
- Use string to compare their body height to that of their peers.
- Compare and order objects by length.
- Sort, count and compare as they make and interpret a pet graph.
- Name, describe, and compare 3-dimensional shapes in everyday objects.
- Analyze differences and relationships among 2- and 3- dimensional shapes.
- Figure out and apply sorting rules as they play a game.
- Model number stories with counters and the subtraction symbol.
- Model subtraction concretely and symbolically through a game.
- Describe, analyze, and compare measurable and geometric attributes through a game.
- Play a game to practice finding combinations that add to 10.
- Practice addition and subtraction in a game.
- Model number stories with equations.