2-3 weeks suggested 

Teacher Tips:

• Question 2 is an opportunity to continue the discussion of how to use math tools in the classroom for management 

• Patterns may be by letter, shape, color or even sound.  *students do not have to master patterns- it's not a standard in kindergarten but is assessed on KIDS

• Classify and sort by shape, color and size.  This is the main focus on Q2

Essential Question #2 Pretest

Essential Learning Outcomes (ELO)

 ⊡Students will make sense of the problems by counting and recounting (MP1) and then communicate this understanding by justifying their strategies and reasoning (MP3). (K.MD.B, MP1, MP3) 

Learning targets

• • I can sort items into groups.  (K.MD.B.3) 

  • I can describe how I sorted  (K.MD.B.3) 

  • I can add an item to a sorted group.  (K.MD.B.3)

∎ Major Content           ⊡ Supporting Content           🌕 Additional Content

Computational Number Talks/Strings (minimum 3 days a week) to work on computational strategies.

Kinder number talk guide printable & Kinder number talks

Addition & Subtraction Strategies within 5

Choose which strategy students need to practice.  You may find that they need many, so start with one for a week or so, then move onto another.  You are looking for efficient strategies, not mastery of all strategies.  Students may find they prefer one strategy over another or change strategies for different problems.  The goal is that they are flexibly using efficient strategies and are able to reason about numbers to fluently compute.

Addition Strategies

Subitize    Math flips subitize

Nearpod Math lessons

These are activities to give students mixed, spaced practice based on the big ideas for kindergarten math.

Manipulative tubs for exploration

• Pattern blocks

• Counting bears, insects, or buttons

• Snap Cubes