Kindergarten Resources
Months 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | General Resources | 100's Chart
General Terms in the Thematic Units
Bar graph, add, subtract, more than, less than, same as, length, area, volume, penny, nickel, dime, hour, symmetry, doubling, skip count
Month 1 - September
Calendar Connections: Calendar Updates 1 and 2: Exploring time and its measurement, developing and awareness of the passage of time. Measuring time on a calendar.
Content Covered: Exploring and Identifying patterns... Counting items around the classroom. Describe the location of something around the room.
Vocabulary: above/below, between/next to/behind, front/back, on, same side/different side, top/bottom
Web Resources
Pattern Blocks (NLVM): http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/frames_asid_170_g_2_t_2.html?open=activities
Counting/Number Recognition: http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/snapdragon/yesflash/how-many-1.htm
Color Count: http://www.little-g.com/shockwave/colorcount.html
Counting Fish: http://www.abcya.com/counting_fish.htm
Counting Chickens: http://www.learningplanet.com/sam/cyc/index.asp
SmartBoard Resources
Month 2 - October
Calendar Connections: Calendar Updates 3 and 4: Developing an awareness of time. Recording the sequence of events in a day and a week. Measuring time on a calendar. Figuring out how many days until an event.
Content Covered: Representing patterns using symbols (AB). Copying a pattern. Extending patterns. Sorting and ordering sets. Counting orally. Understand position words: under, above, below, in front of.” Describing something “as tall as ___________”
Web Resources
Pattern Blocks (NLVM): http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/frames_asid_170_g_2_t_2.html?open=activities
Pattern Blocks-Demonstration (Arcytech) http://www.arcytech.org/java/patterns/patterns_j.shtml
Tall, Taller, Tallest: http://www.kidport.com/grade1/Math/MeasureGeo/G1-M-MG1-1-1.htm
(Have to be able read it)
SmartBoard Resources
Pattern Blocks: pattern_blocks.xbc
Ten Frame Template - create numbers on Ten Frame with class
Lesson 3: Smart Board Activity - Mr. O
Kid Pix: Stamping Activity
Month 3 - November
Calendar Connections: Calendar Updates 5 and 6: Identifying and extending patterns on a calendar using one element. – triangle. Measuring time on a calendar.
Content Covered: Comparing patterns... Using ten frames. Exploring part-part whole relationships of a number. Developing meaning for addition and subtraction. Use of spatial words to describe movement back and forth, and from here to there. Height comparisons : taller than, shorter than, and close to.
Web Resources
Ten Frame (Illuminations): http://illuminations.nctm.org/ActivityDetail.aspx?ID=75
Apple Pickin': http://www.little-g.com/shockwave/apple.html (Number Recognition-numbers greater than 10)
SmartBoard Resources
Lesson 2: Ten Frame template - ten_frame.xbt
SmartBoard Number Recognition- put a number on board - match shape or picture to number
SmartBoard Money- create template with pennies and things data table
KidPix - Create ABB pattern
Month 4 - December
Calendar Connections: Calendar Updates 7 and 8: Using ordinal numbers on a calendar: first, second, third…. . Exploring patterns with two elements: circles and triangles.
Content Covered: Looking at the number 5 as a benchmark number. Exploring part-part-whole relationships of the number five. Developing meaning for addition and subtraction. Length comparisons: longer, shorter, or close to.
Vocabulary: map, path
Web Resources
Pattern Blocks (NLVM): http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/frames_asid_170_g_2_t_2.html?open=activities
SmartBoard Resources
Patterns - use pattern blocks on blank page to make patterns - AAB, ABB
First, Second, Third activity
KidPix: Create Patterns using shapes, stamps
Month 5 - January
Calendar Connections: Calendar Updates 9 and 10: Identifying and using number patterns on a calendar. Measuring time on a calendar.
Content Covered: Estimate and compare numbers to the number 5. more than, or less than. Count by 10s. Measure length using nonstandard units.
Web ResourcesCounting - putting numbers in order - Number Track: http://www.crickweb.co.uk/assets/resources/ntrack.swf
Place the number tiles into the correct order on the track. There are 3 levels of difficulty.
SmartBoard Resources
Lesson 1: Ten Frame Activity - ten_frame.xbt - Number Sentences using Ten Frame
Lesson 2: Counting by fives and tens - change.xbk
Kid Pix: Create Number Sentences using stamps and text tool
Month 6 - February
Calendar Connections: Calendar Updates 11 and 12: Identifying number patterns. Identifying and using patterns on the calendar to figure out missing pattern elements.
Content Covered: Sort dominoes by sums and place them on a number line. Developing meaning for addition and subtraction. Sort 3-D objects. Counting using one to one correspondence.
Vocabulary: flat, pointed, rolls, round, sides, areaWeb Resources
SmartBoard Resources
Domino math
2D & 3D objects - Does it move? or does it not?
Graph Club: Lesson 1: Weather Words: Sunny, Partly Sunny, Cloudy, Rainy, Sunny, Dry
Month 7 - March
Calendar Connections: Calendar Updates 13 and 14: Using calendar patterns to skip count by 2’s. Understanding concept of yesterday, today and tomorrow.
Content Covered: Looking at the number 10 as a benchmark number. Counting backwards from 10. Exploring part-part-whole relationships for the number 10. Explore two–dimensional shapes. Exploring area and its measurement. Finding area using a standard unit: square inch tile.
Vocabulary: area, circle, diamond, hexagon, rectangle, rhombus, square, trapezoid, triangle
Web Resources
SmartBoard Resources
Ten in a Bed
Month 8 - April
Calendar Connections: Calendar Updates 15 and 16: Extending patterns with more than two elements (patterns) on the calendar. Identify the value of a penny and a nickel
Content Covered: Exploring three-part partitions of the number ten. Creating and solving word problems. Investigating attributes of two-dimensional shapes. Collecting and organizing data in a table. Exploring volume by ordering containers by capacity.
Vocabulary: geoband, geoboard
Web Resources
Geoboards (for demonstration) - http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/frames_asid_172_g_2_t_3.html?open=activities
SmartBoard Resources
Month 9 - May
Calendar Connections: Calendar Updates 17 and 18: Solving problems using a calendar. Measuring time on a calendar. Developing the passage of time using the hour hand of the clock.
Content Covered: Discovering fractions. Comparing two-dimensional and three-dimensional shapes. Sorting objects by weight. Ordering objects by weight. Solving problems using addition and subtraction.
Vocabulary: Weight, two-pan balanceWeb Resources
Telling time to the hour - http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/snapdragon/yesflash/time-1.htm
Telling time to hour, half hour, minute - choose a level: http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/dynamo/den/clock/index.htm
SmartBoard Resources
Month 10 - June
Calendar Connections: Calendar Updates 19 and 20: Solving problems using a calendar. Measuring time on a calendar. Using tally marks to count by 5s. Comparing and ordering numbers using symbols (<, >, or =)
Content Covered: Comparison of numbers: one more, one less. Exploring symmetry.
Vocabulary: symmetryWeb Resources
SmartBoard Resources
Sites to be used throughout the Year
Little Fingers Games: http://www.little-g.com/shockwave/games.html (Jack's Jungle, Freddie's Fast Food, Number Aquarium)Bobbie Bear - Combinations: http://illuminations.nctm.org/ActivityDetail.aspx?ID=3
KidPort: http://kidport.com/GradeK/Math/MathIndex.htm
Five Frame - http://illuminations.nctm.org/ActivityDetail.aspx?ID=74
Ten Frame - http://illuminations.nctm.org/ActivityDetail.aspx?ID=75
Grade K Houghton Mifflin - http://www.eduplace.com/kids/mw/g_k.html
Grade K eManipulatives - http://www.eduplace.com/kids/mw/manip/mn_k.html
(Counters, Coins, Bills, Connected Cubes)
Learning Planet - http://www.learningplanet.com/stu/kids1.asp