KINDERGARTEN NUMBER
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COUNTING AND CARDINALITY
Know number names and the count sequence
K.CC.A.1 Count to 100 by ones and by tens.
Number Puzzles 1-20
Counting Cards (Set 1)
Literature Link: Anno's Counting Book
K.CC.A.2 Count forward beginning from a given number within the known sequence (instead of having to begin at 1).
Count on Cup
Show Two More
Cross the Decade
LET'S CONNECT!
Count to tell the number of objects
K.CC.B.4 Understand the relationship between numbers and quantities; connect counting to cardinality.
a. When counting objects, say the number names in the standard order, pairing each object with one and only one number name and each number name with one and only one object.
b. Understand that the last number name said tells the number of objects counted. The number of objects is the same regardless of their arrangement or the order in which they were counted.
c. Understand that each successive number name refers to a quantity that is one larger.
Five Frame Flash
Five Frame Numeral Match
Five Frame Concentration
Five Frame Match
Playdough Numbers
Roll and Cover (1-20)
K.CC.B.5 Count to answer “how many?” questions about as many as 20 things arranged in a line, a rectangular array, or a circle, or as many as 10 things in a scattered configuration; given a number from 1-20, count out that many objects.
0-10 Picture, Numeral, Word Cards (Set 1)
Literature Link: Ten Black Dots
Literature Link: Rooster's Off to See the World
K.CC.C.6 Identify whether the number of objects in one group is greater than, less than, or equal to the number of objects in another group e.g., by using matching and counting strategies.
Who Has More?
Making Sets (v. 1)
K.CC.C.7 Compare two numbers between 1 and 10 presented as written numerals.
My Secret Number
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OPERATIONS AND ALGEBRAIC THINKING
Understand addition as putting together and adding to, and understand subtraction as taking apart and taking from.
K.OA.A.1 Represent addition and subtraction with objects, fingers, mental images, drawings, sounds (e.g., claps), acting out situations, verbal explanations, expressions, or equations.
Towers of Five
Make Five on the Five Frame (v. 1)
Literature Link: Fish Eyes
K.OA.A.2 Solve addition and subtraction word problems, and add and subtract within 10, e.g. by using objects or drawings to represent the problem.
Word Problems: Add To Result Unknown (within 10)
LET'S CONNECT!
NUMBER AND OPERATIONS IN BASE TEN
Work with numbers 11-19 to gain foundations for place value
K.NBT.A.1 Compose and decompose numbers from 11 to 19 into ten ones and some further ones, e.g., by using objects or drawings, and record each composition or decomposition by a drawing or equation (e.g. 18 = 10 + 8); understand that these numbers are composed of ten ones and one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, or nine ones.
Teen Counting Cup
Ten Ones and More Ones (ver. 1)
Teen Match
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
Identify ordinal numbers first through tenth in a line of objects
Where is the Green Car?
Recognize, identify, and extend patterns
Complete the Pattern