Number Corner (Calendar time) is 20ish minutes a day and incorporates many important skills. Components change every month.
Reviews first grade concepts in all areas to keep up our skills and previously learned skills
Previews a skill we will be working on later in the year (like reviewing shapes through number corner to prepare for Unit 6 Geometry.
Interactive and engaging, rotates activities daily
Filled with discussion and math talk
Differentiated as students connect math areas and notice patterns - some are just being exposed to skills, while others are ready to add their own expertise
Includes games with the class versus the teacher, as well as games students can practice together
Scaffolds new concepts from teacher demo, to doing together to partner or independent work
Includes workbook practice pages once we have learned concepts
**Not our room, but the new program we use!
Below are some examples of components of Number Corner to give you a feel for it.
Patterning, predicting, number patterns
graphing creation and interpreting
counting money, school store problems
fact families, addition and subtraction strategies
Time to the 5 minute
beginning of multiplication and division of sets
Measurement in metric and standard units
Place value
number stories and explaining thinking
rounding and estimation
Months, Days, Dates
2D and 3D shapes/Geometry
partitioning shapes into fractions
Predicting heights of mutliple grades. Measuring ourselves, Kindergarteners and 5th graders to compare data on a line plot. Analyzing what this data tells us.
We review time to the hour, half hour, 15 min and 5 min together and in our workbooks. We play games with real clocks and calculate adding minutes.
We study, interpret and create our own graphs based on our interests.
June - Predicting heights of mutliple grades. Measuring ourselves, Kindergarteners and 5th graders to compare data on a line plot. Analyzing what this data tells us.
One month we examine the amount of red in flags of various countries around the world as an intro to fractions. We also learn about each country and connect to geography during math. Students love it!
2D shapes are named, described, sorted and organized by lines of symmetry
3D shapes are described and sorted by their attributes
Graphing interpretation and number sentences with different parts to solve for
Practicing subtraction and 2 Step word problems