Grade 1

Calendar Activities:

• Talk about what day of the week it is. What was yesterday? What will tomorrow be?

• Is the day of the month even or odd? Learn that you only look at the ones place. Have that number of students stand up and find a partner. Are they evenly paired, or is there an odd person out? If they did this in Kindergarten, it should be a quicker concept for them to pick up.

Day of School Activities:

• Add a stick for each day of school, then bundle groups of ten as they come up. Have a place value chart where the ones, tens, and eventually hundreds, can be displayed, writing the number above each place value.

• Add a penny for each day, then trade for a nickel, dime, quarter, and eventually a dollar as the days add up. You can complete the rhymes to help them begin to identify a penny, nickel, dime and quarter. Again, writing the amount above it each day.

Counting Activities:

• Using a hundred chart, count by the following:

  • 1st Nine Weeks

    • Count by 1’s to 50

    • Count by 2’s to 50

    • Count by 5’s to 50

    • Count by 10s starting at the day of the month you are on, and counting to as far as you can on the hundred chart

  • 2nd Nine Weeks

    • Count by 5’s to 100

    • Count by 10s to 100 starting at the day of the month you are on, and counting to as far as you can on the hundred chart

    • Once a week count by 1’s and 2’s instead of 5’s and 10’s

  • 3rd/4th Nine Weeks

    • Start at the day of the month and count by 2’s

    • Count by 5’s to 100

    • Count by 10s to 100 starting at the day of the month you are on, and counting to as far as you can on the hundred chart

    • Count by 3’s to 36

Weather Activity:

Color in the thermometer to show the high temperature expected for the day. Talk about which whole number it is closest to. This activity will help to begin building the understanding behind rounding, without really teaching the concept.

Time:

• Midway through the year, begin adding time into Calendar Math. Again, this should not take long, as they are only telling time to the whole hour for the 3rd nine weeks, and then to the 1/2 hour the 4th nine weeks. Perhaps they only do this 2-3 times per week. You are not really teaching time, just the very basic of telling time.

Mystery Number:

• This would be very basic to start the year, much like the end of Kindergarten, and then getting harder as the year goes on. There are examples included to the right.