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Math Crafts for Kindergarten and First Grade Students

If you’ve visited before, you know I feel pretty strongly about incorporating crafts into the elementary classroom.  They have SO many benefits! Here are some of my favorite math crafts that are perfect for using with kindergarten and first grade students. They’re great for back to school or any time of year you want to reinforce skills in early numeracy and have a little fun!

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Kids in kindergarten and first grade will LOVE these math crafts! Make learning fun AND support number development! Skills included are: making 5 and 10, decomposing numbers, subitizing, ten frames, number lines, patterning, and more! 1d

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Math crafts are perfect for using with students in pre-K, kindergarten, first grade, and second grade who are working on number development. They align with core standards and simple, fun, and engaging to do! They're great for back to school or any time of year to reinforce early numeracy and math skills!

Happy Teaching!

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Math Craft Robot

Making Ten Robot

Appropriate for Grades: pre-K, kindergarten, first grade, second grade

Standard: CCSS.Math.Content.1.OA.C.6

Skill: making ten

Link: Making Ten Robot | More Math Crafts

This robot math craft is perfect for using with students in pre-K, kindergarten, first grade, and second grade who are working on making ten. It aligns with Common Core Standard CCSS.Math.Content.1.OA.C.6 and will fit into your math curriculum activities for teaching students to make a ten. It's fun, engaging, and simple to do!

This robot math craft is perfect for using with students in pre-K, kindergarten, first grade, and second grade who are working on making ten. It aligns with Common Core Standard CCSS.Math.Content.1.OA.C.6 and will fit into your math curriculum activities for teaching students to make a ten. It’s fun, engaging, and simple to do!

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This robot math craft is perfect for using with students in pre-K, kindergarten, first grade, and second grade who are working on making ten. It aligns with Common Core Standard CCSS.Math.Content.1.OA.C.6 and will fit into your math curriculum activities for teaching students to make a ten. It's fun, engaging, and simple to do!

Snag it HERE or as part of a Math Craft Bundle!

Happy Teaching!

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First Grade Literacy and Math Review

It’s the week that report cards are due and, as you look over the report card skills and standards, you’re suddenly thinking: Did I assess that? Did my students master that skill? I think he mastered it, but I don’t remember? I think he struggles, but I don’t have evidence? Did I teach this?!?!?!

Well, at least that’s happened to me a time or two!

Since it’s imperative to be intentional with every ounce of time and instruction, I needed a review to be absolutely SURE that my kiddos were ‘getting it.’ This reading foundational/literacy and math review pack can be used as a review of the standards, preparation for benchmark testing, as a quick assessment, or as a progress monitoring tool.  Above all, it helps you easily take note of which standards students have mastered and where there are gaps, so that you have the opportunity to reteach before it’s too late.

Are you looking for a great way to review reading foundational and literacy and math skills with your first grade students? This review packet is full of activities that are just PERFECT for helping you do just that! There are twenty days worth of review, that help with everything from phonics to word recognition to phonemic awareness to writing and more! Plus, you can try a sample day for FREE!

Are you looking for a great way to review reading foundational and literacy and math skills with your first grade students? This review packet is full of activities that are just PERFECT for helping you do just that! There are twenty days worth of review, that help with everything from phonics to word recognition to phonemic awareness to writing and more! Plus, you can try a sample day for FREE!

I would recommend doing a review activity each day in a teacher-led literacy center. This will give you the opportunity to complete the review together and take note of student success and/or gaps in learning.

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Not sure if this resource is ideal for your class? Check out a free sample!

You can learn more HERE.

If you do these reviews and catch a kiddo who needs a little bump, be sure to check out these amazing intervention activities – teachers AND kiddos love them!

Kindergarten RTI: Letter-Sound Correspondence
First Grade RTI: Phonological Awareness and Word Recognition
Short Vowel Intervention
Phonemic Awareness Intervention
Number Sense RTI

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Are you looking for a great way to review reading foundational and literacy and math skills with your first grade students? This review packet is full of activities that are just PERFECT for helping you do just that! There are twenty days worth of review, that help with everything from phonics to word recognition to phonemic awareness to writing and more! Plus, you can try a sample day for FREE!

Happy Teaching!

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Base Ten Blocks Math Craft

Base Ten Blocks Confetti

Appropriate for Grades: kindergarten, first grade, second grade

Standard: CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.1.NBT.B.2

Skill: Understand that the two digits of a two-digit number represent amounts of tens and ones

Link: Base Ten Blocks Confetti | More Math Crafts

This math craft is perfect for using with students in kindergarten, first grade, and second grade who are working with base ten. It aligns with Common Core StandardCCSS.MATH.CONTENT.1.NBT.B.2 and will fit into your math curriculum activities for teaching students represent numbers using base ten blocks. All the templates pictured are included, making this a fun and easy activity to complete with your kiddos. It's fun, engaging, and simple to do!

This math craft is perfect for using with students in kindergarten, first grade, and second grade who are working with base ten. It aligns with Common Core StandardCCSS.MATH.CONTENT.1.NBT.B.2 and will fit into your math curriculum activities for teaching students represent numbers using base ten blocks.  All the templates pictured are included, making this a fun and easy activity to complete with your kiddos.  It’s fun, engaging, and simple to do!

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This math craft is perfect for using with students in kindergarten, first grade, and second grade who are working with base ten. It aligns with Common Core StandardCCSS.MATH.CONTENT.1.NBT.B.2 and will fit into your math curriculum activities for teaching students represent numbers using base ten blocks. All the templates pictured are included, making this a fun and easy activity to complete with your kiddos. It's fun, engaging, and simple to do!

Happy Teaching!

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Making Ten Math Craft

Make-Ten Friends

Appropriate for Grades: pre-K, kindergarten, first grade, second grade

Standard: CCSS.Math.Content.1.OA.C.6

Skill: making ten

Link: Make-Ten Friends | More Math Crafts

This math craft is perfect for using with students in pre-K, kindergarten, first grade, and second grade who are working on making ten. It aligns with Common Core Standard CCSS.Math.Content.1.OA.C.6 and will fit into your math curriculum activities for teaching students to make a ten. It's fun, engaging, and simple to do!

This math craft is perfect for using with students in pre-K, kindergarten, first grade, and second grade who are working on making ten. It aligns with Common Core Standard CCSS.Math.Content.1.OA.C.6 and will fit into your math curriculum activities for teaching students to make a ten. It’s fun, engaging, and simple to do!

Snag it HERE or as part of a Math Craft Bundle!

This math craft is perfect for using with students in pre-K, kindergarten, first grade, and second grade who are working on making ten. It aligns with Common Core Standard CCSS.Math.Content.1.OA.C.6 and will fit into your math curriculum activities for teaching students to make a ten. It's fun, engaging, and simple to do!

Happy Teaching!

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Free Number Sense Toolkit

Do your kiddos have a number sense kit at the ready for use during small or whole group math activities? If not, I’ve put together a FREE number sense starter kit that you can download, print, and start using NOW!

Grab this FREE number sense toolkit that includes a five frame, a ten frame, number cards 0-20, and a set of ten frame cards 0-10. Simply stash them in a gallon sized baggie, clear plastic sleeve, or dry erase pocket for simple storage and organization. They're perfect for small or whole group math activities in kindergarten, first grade, and second grade classrooms!

I find that they store VERY easy in a clear plastic sleeves, gallon-sized baggies, OR these amazing dry erase pockets. I own the neon set (pictured in the images below) and I LOVE them. They’re 9×12″ so they’re plenty big to slide toolkit pieces and activity mats in and out of with ease.

(The activity mats pictured above can be found HERE.)

You can use the toolkit for MANY different activities, and I just did a little video post if you need some ideas! Go grab a set for your classroom by clicking the graphic below 🙂

ETA: If you are not able to access the materials via the links or graphic (they’re working for some, but not others – I have no clue what the issue is!), here’s the link you can copy and paste into your browser to take you to the resource: 

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Free-Number-Sense-Toolkit-2997973

Grab this FREE number sense toolkit that includes a five frame, a ten frame, number cards 0-20, and a set of ten frame cards 0-10. Simply stash them in a gallon sized baggie, clear plastic sleeve, or dry erase pocket for simple storage and organization. They're perfect for small or whole group math activities in kindergarten, first grade, and second grade classrooms!

Lastly, here’s an affiliate link to the dry erase pockets:

Happy Teaching!

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Free Ten Frame Activity

Sooooo, do y’all love to incorporate food into your teaching? Whether it’s using marshmallows to teach place value or making a rainbow-colored cake while reading The Wizard of Oz, I LOVE to find an opportunity to sneak a little snack into curriculum 😉

So, there was no question in my mind that Cheez-its would make excellent math manipulatives. Amiright?!

This FREE printable contains three differentiated activity mats to use with cheese crackers as manipulatives! Use the large space to write number sentences, create number stories, make number bonds, write equations, count, or whatever else you can think of! Each page has either a five frame, ten frame, or two ten frames for working with numbers 0 to 20. This is a great number sense activity for preschool, kindergarten, and first grade!

This FREE printable contains three differentiated activity mats to use with your favorite cheese crackers! Use the large space to write number sentences, create number stories, make number bonds, write equations, count, or whatever else you can think of! Each page has either a five frame, ten frame, or two ten frames for working with numbers 0 to 20. This is a great number sense activity for preschool, kindergarten, and first grade!

This FREE printable contains three differentiated activity mats to use with cheese crackers as manipulatives! Use the large space to write number sentences, create number stories, make number bonds, write equations, count, or whatever else you can think of! Each page has either a five frame, ten frame, or two ten frames for working with numbers 0 to 20. This is a great number sense activity for preschool, kindergarten, and first grade!

You can snag this little freebie HERE or by clicking the graphic below.

This FREE printable contains three differentiated activity mats to use with cheese crackers as manipulatives! Use the large space to write number sentences, create number stories, make number bonds, write equations, count, or whatever else you can think of! Each page has either a five frame, ten frame, or two ten frames for working with numbers 0 to 20. This is a great number sense activity for preschool, kindergarten, and first grade!

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This FREE printable contains three differentiated activity mats to use with cheese crackers as manipulatives! Use the large space to write number sentences, create number stories, make number bonds, write equations, count, or whatever else you can think of! Each page has either a five frame, ten frame, or two ten frames for working with numbers 0 to 20. This is a great number sense activity for preschool, kindergarten, and first grade!

Happy Teaching!

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