Day 1: It's the first day of school. You've crammed in every procedure you can think of and your kids need a little break, good thing it's math time. I begin by letting the students explore the math manipulatives we will be using throughout the year. I take the newness of it all away after day 1 when they've seen, explored and simply played with the mathematics manipulatives. Then we dive right in to the numeral 1. I begin by letting the students retrieve one thing in the classroom, this one can literally be anything (stapler, book, pencil, white board, etc.) and bring it back to their desk. We talk about numbers as a representation of something, in this case, anything. One is a base of numbers and understanding that one can represent anything is the foundation that needs to be set. We practice our good handwriting skills by tracing the numeral one in the air and then writing it on our individual white boards.
Day 2: Begin by passing out an un-counted amount of linking cubes to each student (keep it under 20 to make it easier). Have students work on creating stacks of 2 cubes. It is best to have students with both odd and even numbers of cubes so some of the stacks come out equally and others have a left-over. Discuss two's in refrence to even numbers and counting by 2's. I teach them the following counting pattern:
"Come and do the counting Rap, All you do is Click and Clap: 2.4.6.8.10.12.14.16.18.20."
*Day two I teach the numeral song to my students and we faithfully sing this with the actions every day through day ten. You can find the numeral song here: http://drjean.org/html/cds_f/sing_lyrics2.html
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