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Better Lesson: Sorting by Shape Buttons
Students are inspired by the Button Box to find different ways to sort their own buttons, including by shape.
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Better Lesson: Oh So Cool Ovals
Students will get plenty of experience with hands-on practice and an opportunity to create an example of something shaped like an oval.
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Better Lesson: Spectacular Circles!
Students will have fun making circles out of chenille stems (pipe cleaners) and placing small circular pony beads while they practice drawing and identifying circles.
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Better Lesson: Match Me!
Kids love to count and build puzzles. This activity encourages them to do both! The kids count objects on puzzle pieces and match the groups of objects to the correct number.
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Better Lesson: Nine in the Sky! Exploring the Number Nine
Many kindergarteners come to school with rote counting skills, but they often do not understand that the numbers they can recite actually represent quantities. This lesson plan helps to make that connection.
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Better Lesson: Who Will Choose the Sorting Rule?
A flip chart on the Promethean board and laminated shapes keep student engagement high as they demonstrate their sorting skills.
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Better Lesson: Tasty Apple Sorting
In the past, we made apple tasting graphs. Since graphing isn't big in terms of Kindergarten Common Core, this is a great way to update an old tradition with a CCSS-aligned activity!
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Better Lesson: What Is Your Favorite Pet?
SWBAT create a bar graph to match a data set. SWBAT analyze the graph to find 3 pieces of information the graph shows them.
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Better Lesson: What Is Your Favorite Little Bear Story?
SWBAT create a bar graph to match a data set. SWBAT analyze the graph for 3 pieces of information.
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Better Lesson: Introduction to Sorting by Color
Kindergarteners find classifying and ordering fascinating. For this lesson, students learn to sort by color.
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Better Lesson: Subtraction Number Stories Day 3
Students will be able to create their own number stories and represent them using one of the methods we have learned in this unit.
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Better Lesson: Math Centers Review Previous Skills
Students will be able to independently practice graphing, teen numbers, and addition.
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Better Lesson: Put It Together and Take It Apart
Second graders increase their understanding of place value by manipulating larger numbers.
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Better Lesson: Put Together or Take Away?
First graders learn the basics of 1.OA.1 by mixing addition and subtraction word problems from day 1. The focus question is: Put together or take away?
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Better Lesson: Properties of Plane Shapes
I love graphic organizers. My students will increase their vocabularies by learning more 2D shape terms through the use of a graphic organizer.
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Better Lesson: Greater or Less?
Students will determine within number sets which digit is "greater" or "less"
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Better Lesson: I See Two. Do You? Exploring the Number Two
Students will be able to identify the number two, identify groups with two objects and represent the number two.
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Better Lesson: Learning to Sort Same and Different
Students will be able to compare objects.
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Better Lesson: Quadrilateral or Parallelogram?
Third graders discover the differences between quadrilaterals and parallelograms with everyday items found in the classroom.
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Better Lesson: What Playground Toy Should the Principal Buy for Us
SWBAT use a graph as evidence in a persuasive letter. SWBAT evaluate statements to determine which statement is true, citing evidence in the graph.
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Better Lesson: What Is Your Favorite Snack?
SWBAT use graphs to analyze whether a statement is true or false. SWBAT use graphs as evidence for a persuasive letter.
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Better Lesson: The Gingerbread Man Loose in the School Sorting
Students will be able to sort pictures that are alike and determine which group has more and fewer pictures.
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Better Lesson: One Is Fun! Exploring the Number One
Students will be able to identify the number one, identify groups with one object and represent the number one.