Description
This first grade math parent letter resource includes a beginning-of-year math welcome letter plus unit-by-unit family letters to help parents understand what students are learning in Total Math and how to support math at home all year.
***This is included in the Total Math Curriculum Bundle for first grade***
Looking for an easy way to keep families connected to your first grade math instruction? This First Grade Total Math Take Home Communication resource includes a beginning-of-year math welcome letter plus unit-by-unit parent letters to help families understand what students are learning and how they can support math at home.
These take-home math letters are designed for classrooms using First Grade Total Math. Each letter gives families a simple overview of the current math unit along with helpful language and at-home support ideas.
Instead of creating parent communication from scratch each time you begin a new unit, simply send home the matching Total Math Take Home letter and keep families informed throughout the year.
What’s Included
Beginning-of-year math welcome letter
Unit-by-unit parent communication letters
Family-friendly math language
Simple at-home support ideas
Take-home letters aligned to First Grade Total Math units
Use These Math Parent Letters For
- Back-to-school parent communication
- Meet the Teacher
- First week of school
- Beginning a new math unit
- Family math support
- Home-school connection
- Math night or curriculum night
- Parent folders or take-home folders
First Grade Total Math Curriculum Units
Unit 1 Building Math Community Read more here
Unit 2 Foundations of Numbers to 50 Read more here
Unit 3 Addition and Subtraction Within 10 Read more here
Unit 5 Addition and Subtraction Within 20
Unit 6 Telling Time to the Hour and Half Hour
Unit 10 Graphs, Data, and Patterns
Unit 11 Addition and Subtraction of Large Numbers
Perfect For
First grade math, parent communication, math parent letters, family communication, Total Math, math at home, take-home folders, back to school, and yearlong math home connection.
What Is Total Math?
Download the Free Scope and Sequence
Total Math provides lessons and materials in a framework of whole class direct instruction followed by teacher-led learning to monitor, support, and deepen mathematical understanding. This multifaceted framework supports flexibility in teaching yielding high-impact instructional practices with timely and relevant scaffolding and differentiation for all learners.
4 Bundle Options:
Save BIGGEST with the TOTAL MATH CURRICULUM BUNDLE This “Everything Bundle” includes all of the components at the lowest cost. The growing bundle is drastically reduced in price as we take the time to upload all the materials we have created. This bundle provides the biggest savings and all our Total Math materials in one organized download. You will have both the instructional teaching materials and all of the aligned workstations in one organized download for the entire year. All are organized by lesson and standard, so you do not have to hunt around for anything.
TOTAL MATH TEACHING BUNDLE This teaching bundle provides all materials except the student workstations. If you are in need of core math instructional materials to support or supplement your math adoption or teacher-led learning, this is the perfect money-saving option for you. All components are aligned by standard making it easy to use as a supplemental tool for whole group or small group math instruction. Math warm-up slides, number fluency slides, math vocabulary cards, math strategies posters/slides, whole group instruction lessons, interactive teaching slides, teacher led-learning lessons, differentiated math mats and activities, exit tickets, note-taking (grades 1-2), checkpoint quizzes, pre-and-post unit assessments, BOY and EOY cumulative assessments, and more!
TOTAL MATH WORKSTATIONS BUNDLE The workstations bundle provides 640 aligned workstations in one download for the year. (There is not instructional materials in this download.) This is your math workstations for students for the year in one download!
160 Hands-On Math Stations with recording sheets and answer keys
160 Technology Math Games with ten interactive slides per game for students to practice the aligned skill. (One click to Google Classroom via Google Slides)
160 Application of Learning Daily aligned skill pages
160 Learning Log Activities Daily aligned math journal entries for a record of learning through interactive note-booking with age-appropriate and engaging activities
Total Math Grade Levels
You can always purchase these resources on TPT, however, if you are interested in school licensing, invoices, quotes, purchase orders, professional development, or any other questions, please contact reagan.tunstall@gmail.com
Reagan Tunstall and Kristina Grant
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Description
This first grade math parent letter resource includes a beginning-of-year math welcome letter plus unit-by-unit family letters to help parents understand what students are learning in Total Math and how to support math at home all year.
***This is included in the Total Math Curriculum Bundle for first grade***
Looking for an easy way to keep families connected to your first grade math instruction? This First Grade Total Math Take Home Communication resource includes a beginning-of-year math welcome letter plus unit-by-unit parent letters to help families understand what students are learning and how they can support math at home.
These take-home math letters are designed for classrooms using First Grade Total Math. Each letter gives families a simple overview of the current math unit along with helpful language and at-home support ideas.
Instead of creating parent communication from scratch each time you begin a new unit, simply send home the matching Total Math Take Home letter and keep families informed throughout the year.
What’s Included
Beginning-of-year math welcome letter
Unit-by-unit parent communication letters
Family-friendly math language
Simple at-home support ideas
Take-home letters aligned to First Grade Total Math units
Use These Math Parent Letters For
- Back-to-school parent communication
- Meet the Teacher
- First week of school
- Beginning a new math unit
- Family math support
- Home-school connection
- Math night or curriculum night
- Parent folders or take-home folders
First Grade Total Math Curriculum Units
Unit 1 Building Math Community Read more here
Unit 2 Foundations of Numbers to 50 Read more here
Unit 3 Addition and Subtraction Within 10 Read more here
Unit 5 Addition and Subtraction Within 20
Unit 6 Telling Time to the Hour and Half Hour
Unit 10 Graphs, Data, and Patterns
Unit 11 Addition and Subtraction of Large Numbers
Perfect For
First grade math, parent communication, math parent letters, family communication, Total Math, math at home, take-home folders, back to school, and yearlong math home connection.
What Is Total Math?
Download the Free Scope and Sequence
Total Math provides lessons and materials in a framework of whole class direct instruction followed by teacher-led learning to monitor, support, and deepen mathematical understanding. This multifaceted framework supports flexibility in teaching yielding high-impact instructional practices with timely and relevant scaffolding and differentiation for all learners.
4 Bundle Options:
Save BIGGEST with the TOTAL MATH CURRICULUM BUNDLE This “Everything Bundle” includes all of the components at the lowest cost. The growing bundle is drastically reduced in price as we take the time to upload all the materials we have created. This bundle provides the biggest savings and all our Total Math materials in one organized download. You will have both the instructional teaching materials and all of the aligned workstations in one organized download for the entire year. All are organized by lesson and standard, so you do not have to hunt around for anything.
TOTAL MATH TEACHING BUNDLE This teaching bundle provides all materials except the student workstations. If you are in need of core math instructional materials to support or supplement your math adoption or teacher-led learning, this is the perfect money-saving option for you. All components are aligned by standard making it easy to use as a supplemental tool for whole group or small group math instruction. Math warm-up slides, number fluency slides, math vocabulary cards, math strategies posters/slides, whole group instruction lessons, interactive teaching slides, teacher led-learning lessons, differentiated math mats and activities, exit tickets, note-taking (grades 1-2), checkpoint quizzes, pre-and-post unit assessments, BOY and EOY cumulative assessments, and more!
TOTAL MATH WORKSTATIONS BUNDLE The workstations bundle provides 640 aligned workstations in one download for the year. (There is not instructional materials in this download.) This is your math workstations for students for the year in one download!
160 Hands-On Math Stations with recording sheets and answer keys
160 Technology Math Games with ten interactive slides per game for students to practice the aligned skill. (One click to Google Classroom via Google Slides)
160 Application of Learning Daily aligned skill pages
160 Learning Log Activities Daily aligned math journal entries for a record of learning through interactive note-booking with age-appropriate and engaging activities
Total Math Grade Levels
You can always purchase these resources on TPT, however, if you are interested in school licensing, invoices, quotes, purchase orders, professional development, or any other questions, please contact reagan.tunstall@gmail.com
Reagan Tunstall and Kristina Grant













