Math Counting Activity

It’s carnival week at school and we needed a counting activity that could go along with our theme. This simple art/math activity is great for little learners. What to prep: I cut out 7 inch white circles for our “glass bowl” part. Then I used a small circle cutter punch (1 inch) to make the colored gumballs. I then cut red trapezoids for the base and a small red rectangle for the top. We glued on the name strips to the top. I also printed out a small label that says “I can count ________ gumballs” This label allows that student to insert the number of gumballs they have on their sheet. First, each student had to glue on different colored gumballs to their white circle. Then, they wrote their names at the top with a pencil. For independent play, I called each student over for their one-on-one time to count their gumballs and trace their number. Remember to show students how to count using one-to-one correspondence, an early math skills that will ensure accuracy when counting. We had to hang ours in the hallway cause they were so colorful and cute!

Add ‘Em up Activities

Today in our weekly math segment, we will be talking about the importance of math manipulatives and counting materials. In early childhood education, it is very pertinent that every classroom has multiple types of counting materials available to students.

Some of my favorite manipulatives are offered by Scholastic! If you make online orders through Scholastic these babies are only about $7-$9 per set (which includes everything you need). Scholastic offers math Add ‘Em Up packages that are wonderful for independent math play.

Scholastic offers these kits at an affordable cost and the counters come in multiple colors, usually 5 or 6 of each color. The counting cards include a patterning side and an addition side. I currently own 10 of these kits and I rotate them out. . .one for each month of the school year! Some of the Scholastic counters include: apples, bears, cats, cupcakes, dogs (pictured below), hippos (pictured above), and pumpkins.

You can use math manipulatives in every area of your classroom. In art, you can count pom-poms, jumbo buttons, and jumbo beads. In math, you can use magnetic counters on boards, unifix cubes on a ten frames sheet, or even pegs on a peg board. In science, you can even count plastic bugs! Be sure to include math manipulatives that are different sizes, shapes, and colors to reinforce color recognition, shapes, and distinction between small, medium, and large.

One helpful tip when setting up your math manipulative shelf is to LABEL, LABEL, LABEL! Make sure each set of counters has its own bin (these are from the Dollar Tree and are by far one of my favorite bins for small counters) with a clear label for children to see. It’s easier clean up time, if you label the bin and put the same label on the shelf where the manipulative will go. Remember, every item needs a home so avoid mixing counters and small math toys.

Math counters are wonderful tools to enhance the understanding of patterning, color sorting, size sorting, and shapes.

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Halloween Math Spinner

Are you looking for some early childhood math ideas to spruce up your math centers? These preschool and elementary math spinners are perfect for fall! Kids learn early counting skills and number recognition with numbers 1-10. This 14 page  packet includes matching recording sheets for each spinner. Laminate them and use with dry erase markers or print individual recording sheets to use a class math lesson.

3 Preschool & 3 Elementary Spinners are Included- Halloween Theme, Pumpkin Theme, and a Monster Themed Spinner & Recording Sheet sets. We recommend printing the spinners on white cardstock and laminating for longer durability. This packet is a PDF file, be sure that you have an application compatible in order to open this file.

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1st Grade Math Bundle Pack

This packet includes over 100 pages of math addition & subtraction worksheets to use with first graders. This packet covers activities that are aligned with Common Core Math Content areas below:

1.0.A.A.1: Represent and Solve Problems involving addition and subtraction

Use addition and subtraction within 20 to solve word problems involving situations of adding to, taking from, putting together, taking apart, and comparing with unknowns in all positions, e.g. by using objects, drawings, and equations with a symbol for the unknown number to represent the problem.

1.0.A.A.2: Represent and Solve Problems involving addition & subtraction

Solve word problems that call for addition of three whole numbers whose sum is less than or equal to 20, e.g. by using objects, drawings, and equations with a symbol for the unknown number to represent the problem.

1.0.A.D.8: Represent and Solve Problems involving addition & subtraction

Determine the unknown whole number in an addition or subtraction equation relating three whole numbers

Answer Key for all questions included in the bundle pack.

Each packet is sold separately as well.

1st Grade Math Addition Pack

1st Grade Math Subtraction Pack

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1st Grade Math Subtraction Pack

This packet includes over 50 pages of math subtraction worksheets to use with first graders. This packet covers activities that are aligned with Common Core Math Content areas below:

1.0.A.A.1: Represent and Solve Problems involving addition and subtraction

Use addition and subtraction within 20 to solve word problems involving situations of adding to, taking from, putting together, taking apart, and comparing with unknowns in all positions, e.g. by using objects, drawings, and equations with a symbol for the unknown number to represent the problem.

1.0.A.A.2: Represent and Solve Problems involving addition & subtraction

Solve word problems that call for addition of three whole numbers whose sum is less than or equal to 20, e.g. by using objects, drawings, and equations with a symbol for the unknown number to represent the problem.

1.0.A.D.8: Represent and Solve Problems involving addition & subtraction

Determine the unknown whole number in an addition or subtraction equation relating three whole numbers.

Be sure to check out our 1st Grade Math Addition Pack HERE

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1st Grade Math Addition Pack

This packet includes over 50 pages of math addition worksheets to use with first graders. This packet covers activities that are aligned with Common Core Math Content areas below:

1.0.A.A.1: Represent and Solve Problems involving addition and subtraction

Use addition and subtraction within 20 to solve word problems involving situations of adding to, taking from, putting together, taking apart, and comparing with unknowns in all positions, e.g. by using objects, drawings, and equations with a symbol for the unknown number to represent the problem.

1.0.A.A.2: Represent and Solve Problems involving addition & subtraction

Solve word problems that call for addition of three whole numbers whose sum is less than or equal to 20, e.g. by using objects, drawings, and equations with a symbol for the unknown number to represent the problem.

1.0.A.D.8: Represent and Solve Problems involving addition & subtraction

Determine the unknown whole number in an addition or subtraction equation relating three whole numbers.

The 1st Grade Math Addition Pack from Cottage to Classroom includes: adding zero, adding one, adding two, adding three, adding four, adding five, adding six, adding seven, adding eight, adding nine, problem solving pages, number sentences, addition with dice, number line sentences, and picture addition.

Answer Key in included in this packet for easy grading

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Summer Fun: Monster Edition

School has officially ended and we have kicked off our summer program! We are starting off the week with some silly monster madness with our Roll & Write Math packet. This pack is wonderful for early childhood educators, preschool teachers, and early elementary teachers. Our monster edition pack includes 18 roll and write worksheets that cover the Dolch sight words for early learners. The activity helps children visually see the sight word and number. There is a color version and a black and white versionSight Words included in this set: a, and, away, big, blue, can, come, down, find, five, for, four, funny, go, green, help, here, I, in, is, it, jump, little, look, make, me, my, not, one, orange, play, purple, red, run, said, see, six, the, three, to, two, up, we, where, yellow, you, and zoo.

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Our monster theme week would not be complete without some early literacy activities. To make sure the students in the summer program stay on track, we have created a cut, paste, and trace activity to build up sight word recognition throughout the summer in our Sight Word Sentences: Monster Edition packet.

Our monster edition pack includes 16 sentences that cover all of the Dolch sight words for early learners. The activity helps children visually see the complete sentence, allows them to trace and write the sight word along with cutting and pasting the words into the sentence.

Sight words included in this set: a, and, away, big, blue, can, come, down, find, for, funny, go, help, here, I, in, is, it, jump, little, look, make, me, my, not, one, play, red, run, said, see, the, three, to, two, up, we, where, yellow, and you.

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Early Learning Math Concept Packs

As summer starts with backyard barbeques, ice cream cones, and long days spent at the beach. . .summer camp is in full swing! I think the hardest thing about summer for teachers is the dreaded thought of coming back in August and having a class full of students who completely forget everything they learned the previous year over the long two month break of summer. Half of our year is spent reviewing past concepts and reminding students to build on what they already know. So, in order to keep my kids brushed up on their math skills, we have created a few basic early learning math concepts packets to use for early childhood.

These packets introduce basic math skills such as number recognition, number formation, measurement knowledge, and counting skills.

Each packet includes: 1 Themed Graph (class participation), number clothespin cards covering numbers 1-12, counting mats covering numbers 1-10, pom-pom counting mats covering numbers 1-10, number tracing 1-20, addition and subtraction mats, and a measurements mat with recording sheet.

2.77 MB/ 26 Pages PDF (Acrobat) Document File
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Subjects: Math, Measurement

Grade Levels: PreK, Kindergarten, 1^st

 

1.71 MB/ 26 Pages PDF (Acrobat) Document File
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Subjects: Math, Measurement, Numbers

Grade Levels: PreK, Kindergarten, 1^st

This packet also includes a BONUS Color by Number Sheet

2.3 MB/ 28 Pages PDF (Acrobat) Document File
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Subjects: Math, Measurement

Grade Levels: PreK, Kindergarten, 1^st

All these packets can be found at our Teachers Pay Teacher store HERE

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Problem Solving: Starfish Math

This packet contains printables to use with your students when doing problem solving questions in math. The entire packet includes: 16 worksheets with a variety of problem solving level questions in a starfish theme. Each worksheet comes with an answer key.

0.81 MB/21 Pages PDF (Acrobat) Document File
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Subjects: Math, Other (Math), Word Problems

Grade Levels: 1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th

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Problem Solving: Octopus Math

This packet contains printables to use with your students when doing problem solving question in math. The entire packet includes: 12 worksheets with a variety of problem solving level questions in an octopus theme. Each worksheet comes with an answer key.

0.82MB/18 Pages PDF (Acrobat) Document File
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Subjects: Math, Other (Math), Word Problems

Grade Levels: 1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th

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