Subitizing, perceptual (instant recognition of a quantity of objects) and conceptual (recognizing smaller groups of objects and adding them together), is an important early math skill which will aid students as they progress to more difficult topics.

Write-the-Room for Beginners:

Not sure how to teach young learners how to Write the Room, but you want to get them up and moving? Then this series was created with the needs of your class in mind.

Traditional Write the Room cards have numbers or letters on them so that the learner will know where to place their answers on the response sheet. With young learners, however, this is a step they often miss. Their responses are either in the wrong place or they are bewildered by the process and keep interrupting your group teaching time to make sure they have the right location.

With this series of Write the Room cards, placement in not important. That’s because the cards and worksheets are not numbered. They can’t respond in the wrong location; there is only one place for them to mark.

The focus of this resource is on counting objects 1-5. Included are six sets of ten cards to which young learners will refer to match the objects with the correct numerals on their recording pages.

• Counting with a five-frame
• Counting pips 1-5 on a die
• Counting shapes 1-5
• Counting tally marks 1-5
• Counting fingers 1-5
• Scatter counting 1-5

Four recording sheets are provided for each set to allow for differentiation.

• Counting 1-5 one time -- color the correct answer (Use with only 5 cards)
• Counting 1-5 one time -- trace the correct answer (Use with only 5 cards)
• Counting 1-5 two times -- color the correct answer (Use with all 10 cards)
• Counting 1-5 two times -- trace the correct answer (Use with all 10 cards)

Laminate, cut out and post the card set at various locations around the room. If you use mini-clipboards in your classroom, you can adjust the Adobe Reader setting on your printer to print two copies to a single page. Alternatively, these cards may be placed into a container for use at a learning center.

I Have. Who Has?

The focus of this packet is on subitizing/counting five-frame or dice, shapes or fingers 1-5. There are 24 cards in each game. In addition, you will need the six small Flower Activity Cards which should be copied back-to-back in advance.

General instructions: (1) Optional: Place the six small Flower Activity Cards in a pocket chart at the front of the class before game play. The flower side should be revealed. (2) Pass out an “I have. Who has?” card to each child in your class. If you have extra cards, the teacher can keep them and play along, or they may be passed out so that some students have two cards. If you do not have enough cards for your entire class, the children without cards can either share with another student or earn a special privilege, such as choosing which student will begin play of the game. (3) Select a child to begin play by reading his/her card. S/he will need to say both the quantity and the color of the objects/numeral on her/his card. (4) The student with the “answer” to the first child’s card then reads next. If a spring symbol is called, the child with that particular card comes forward to the front of the class and selects one of the Flower Activity Cards from the pocket chart. S/he then does what is revealed on the other side. Several of the cards indicate special classroom privileges which may be “cashed in” later in the school day. (5) Play continues until all the cards have been read.

Enjoy these activities!

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