Counting collections are a great way to help students practice counting while gaining practice recording and justifying their thinking. Students will work specifically with the numbers 1-30 to develop fluency counting and writing numbers.

Engage students in counting through fun "I Spy" activities! Students gain fluency counting and recording numbers to 30.

Now that your first graders are able to count consecutively, introduce them to the tens and ones place values. Using tens and ones blocks will make math easy and fun for everyone!

Let’s get reading and writing! In this lesson, students learn to form and recognize regular plural nouns. But the fun doesn’t stop there. Students will work with counting collections to write sentences about the objects they count.

Give first graders a sense of time by introducing them to telling time by the hour. Students who have mastered the numbers 1 to 12 will be eager to keep the class on a time schedule.

What does it feel like to take 120 steps? In this lesson, students practice counting and completing word problems up to 120.

In this lesson, your students will use the background knowledge that they have about counting and sorting to graph data. They will practice answering questions about the graph!

Students will gain fluency with adding multiples of ten in this hands-on lesson that builds number sense.

Students sketch base-ten blocks in this lesson that builds both number sense and fluency adding to 20!

In this lesson, your students will become familiar with shapes by identifying them in real life. Your students will love identifying how many sides shapes have by drawing and counting them!

This bear-y fun lesson will help your students understand addition and subtraction and reward their efforts with a sweet treat!

Your students will deepen their understanding and build their vocabulary through reading nonfiction texts and identifying unknown words.

Ever wondered how to explain what an index is to a 6 year old? Look no further! Use this engaging lesson to help your students become text feature experts.

Let’s start building numbers! Just as building skyscrapers is a visual representation of mathematics, students will use the visual representation of base-ten blocks to add—or build—onto a two-digit number.

This lesson will make solving subtraction word problems fun for students. It includes music and interaction to grab your students' attention.

It’s time to get measuring! In this lesson students determine the lengths of different towers and then put them in order from shortest to longest.

Double dominoes! Get your students excited to add with dominoes and playing cards. This lesson is a fun way to help your students continue to learn to add.

Get your students excited about adding by introducing them to word problems with three addends!

Students will be jumping with joy after this lesson that helps them practice their subtraction skills with physical activity.

As students reread nonfiction, have them draw or write new information they learn. Students then share these new learnings with reading partners.

Take the mystery out of comprehending nonfiction by becoming a text feature detective! Find clues before reading to get your brain ready to learn!

As students re-read nonfiction texts, have them classify visual features and record learnings from the captions.

It's time-telling time with this fun lesson featuring Trudy Harris' 'The Clock Struck One.' Students will learning about time with a short story and hands-on practice with analog clocks.

Put your students to the test with this lesson that helps them learn the tens and ones places with a memory game and worksheet!

Teach students to be stronger readers before they even begin reading! All they need is a book, their mind, and some sticky notes!

Combine the power of poetry and storytelling to teach your first graders about sensory language in this exciting lesson.

Who wouldn't want to split a birthday cake with their best friend? In this lesson, students will practice dividing circles and rectangles into halves as they develop an understanding of equal shares.

Drawing on various problem solving techniques, students will challenge themselves to solve word problems involving three whole numbers. Problem solving, critical thinking, and real life applications? This lesson has it all.

Every student can be a magician after this lesson in mentally adding and subtracting by 10. No previous magic training required!

Get out the dominoes! This fun lesson help students visualize how addition and subtraction are related, all while building their fact family fluency.