Fanciful First Grade

Differentiated 1-40 number charts that are pig/farm themed. You can use them as morning warm-up, math small group, number recognition review, homework, or monthly number writing assessment.

Use these charts as a daily warm-up for the beginning of kindergarten. Each chart has 4 rows. Same format to build independence. Row 1 read the number (and/or trace the number with pencil or finger) Row 2 count and color the representational picture Row 3 trace the number Row 4 independently write the number or draw a representational picture Check out my other themed number charts. =)

Differentiated 1-30 number charts that are Easter/spring themed. You can use them as morning warm-up, math small group, number recognition review, homework, or monthly number writing assessment.

Differentiated 1-30 number charts that are St. Patrick's themed. You can use them as morning warm-up, math small group, number recognition review, homework, or monthly number writing assessment.

Quick part-part-whole Valentine's themed number bonds. You can use them as morning warm-up, math small group, homework, or Valentine's themed math practice of putting together. Use candy conversation hearts as your counting manipulatives to go with the theme or use any math manipulative that you have handy in your class. 6 English and 6 Spanish pages are included. Also, blank templates are included for teacher's convenience in order to allow for differentiation for your class. Enjoy! :)

Here's the follow up lessons I taught after spending several lessons using concrete manipulatives to build students' understanding of "The Magic 10". These are NOT first day lessons, but follow-up lessons using base ten block pictorial representation. In these lessons, students are counting to the magical number 10, whether it's 10 ones or 10 tens, and bundling that group together. They then record how many hundreds, tens, or ones are represented in each problem and write the number in standard

PLC, PBIS, Growth Mindset vs. Fixed Mindset, etc... All good things that many schools have and are embracing. I really created this for my students (because I wanted the cheesy slogans "Growth Mindset" & "Growing Dendrites" {= ), so that they can set a goal for reading, writing, math, behavior, and/or for the year. Let me know if you like my first attempt at clip art in this freebie and as always...CHEERS! =)