Starting the Year

Kindergarten

Growth Mindset Lessons, Activities and Videos lay the groundwork for a Mathematical Mindset connected to The 8 Standards for Mathematical Practice. It is highly encouraged that you start your year with these lessons.

Youcubed.org has updated their Week of Inspirational Math (WIM) page and it has a new playlist feature.

Choose your own maths adventure with our interactive tools that allow you to build a custom playlist of inspirational maths activities and messages! To build your WIM week, select one video, one resource for creating a positive maths community, and one task per day and add to your playlist. Then click “See Summary” to play videos, download materials and save/share your WIM week! Check out these pre-made playlists curated by the youcubed team for first grade, middle school and high school and share your playlist on social media with #myWIM!

Feel free to create your own playlist or use the suggested activities below. There are even WIM activities for Nearpod: Kinder WIM for first week of school

You can feel free to use other age appropriate growth mindset videos, such as those found on Class Dojo.

Day 1:

Brains can grow and change

In this lesson students will be helped to see numbers through a dot card number talk and finger activities, both of which will help important brain connections.

Lesson Plan Day 1 Day 1 Nearpod lesson Good Group Work-setting norms

Classdojo Video - Growth Mindset Video 1 Video 2 Video 3 Video 4 Video 5

Growth Mindset - Sesame Street

Mentalidad Fija vs. Mentalidad de Crecimiento

Day 2:

Mistakes are powerful

This gives students the opportunities to see numbers, to consider how numbers are made up, and to engage with numbers flexibly. Some students can also start to think about factors and multiples.

Lesson Plan Day 2 Day 2 Nearpod lesson

Classdojo Video - Perseverance Video 1 Video 2 Video 3 ( You may have to log into Classroom Dojo)

Day 3:

Believe in Yourself

This activity is open and gives space for students to learn about representing in a graph with different dimensions but without numbers.

Lesson Plan Day 3 Day 3 Nearpod lesson

Kid President’s Pep Talk to Kids

Kung Fu Panda English Spanish

Sesame Street - Power of Yet

Day 4:

Speed is not important

Mathematics problems always have many ways of seeing them, many ways of approaching them, and sometimes have different answers. In this activity there are many different possible solutions, which gives students opportunity to be creative, and to discuss their sense making. Activities such as this one allow different students to feel like their ideas are valid and valued, which makes them feel more comfortable with mathematics and enjoy learning it.

Lesson Plan Day 4 Day 4 Nearpod lesson

Classdojo - Perseverance

Day 5:

Visual Math

Mathematics is a creative and visual subject! This activity gives space for students to exercise the visual part of their brain. It encourages students to be visual and make connections between decomposing larger shapes into smaller shapes or composing smaller shapes to make larger shapes. A video is replaced by students completing the activity themselves.

Lesson Plan Day 5 (the link for the video inside this lesson has been removed, it is just intended that you use the lesson)

Day 5 Nearpod lesson

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