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"Shaping up" with ordinal numbers

This lesson teaches students ordinal numbers through literature, and a visual memory game, and it reviews shapes, colors, and ordinal numbers with a listening and following-directions assessment.

Format: lesson plan (grade K Mathematics)

By Sue Bowen.

Ordinals concentration

Ordinals Concentration is a matching game that provides practice and review identifying ordinal numbers to ten.

Format: lesson plan (grade 1 Mathematics)

Oodles of ordinals

Children will integrate Math, Social Studies, Physical Education, Art, and Music to discover, explore, practice and enjoy the ordinal numbers “first” through “tenth.”

Format: lesson plan (grade 1 Mathematics)

By Cynthia Woolery.

Make math "bear"-able

The students will use teddy bear counters to explore addition and subtraction facts (1-10). Students will demonstrate an understanding of ordinal numbers by locating the position of their counters on their workmats.

Format: lesson plan (grade 1 Mathematics)

By Nikki Gilmore.

Learning numbers with Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary

In Mother Goose in use: Rhymes that teach, page 5

In this kindergarten lesson plan, students use the nursery rhyme "Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary" to develop phonemic awareness by rhyming words and participate in a number-matching activity to learn about ordinal numbers.

Format: lesson plan (grade K English Language Arts and Mathematics)

By Lisa Wright.

Mother Goose in use: Rhymes that teach

This collection of kindergarten lesson plans uses classic nursery rhymes to teach curriculum objectives in math, English language arts, science, and healthful living.

Format: (multiple pages)

The Little Yellow Chicken

The students will be following an integrated unit on "Helping." They will use reading, math, social studies, science, technology, and other areas of study. Students will read, as a group, the book The Little Yellow Chicken by Joy Cowley. The students will be incorporating prediction, prior knowledge, comprehension skills, and language skills for the word family "-ook", the vowel sound "e", and the exclamation mark. The technology to be utilized by the students consists of use of the HyperStudio for math review, Math Software, Graph Club to create a graph of favorite party foods, Inspiration to guide and create graphic organizers for writing, and the Ultimate Writing Machine to create their own version of The Little Yellow Chicken. They will also incorporate color words to practice the Spanish Language.

Format: lesson plan (grade 1 Computer/Technology Skills and English Language Arts)

By diane williams.

First Americans of North Carolina and the United States

This lesson will use shared reading, center time, hands-on projects, and journal writing to help learners discover facts about first Americans, particularly those in the region that is today North Carolina, while at the same time developing their English language skills in listening, speaking, reading, and writing.

Format: lesson plan (grade K English Language Development and Social Studies)

By Adriane Moser.

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Order, Order

Students seriate objects and review the meaning of ordinal numbers. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Mathematics)

Provided by: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Do it with dominoes: Looking back and moving forward

In this lesson, students show that they have mastered addition by applying the skill to playing a domino game. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Mathematics)

Provided by: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Lost buttons

In this lesson, one of a multi-part unit from Illuminations, students investigate subtraction more directly, beginning with the easier “take away” mode. They model “take away” subtraction with buttons and write subtraction sentences.... (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Mathematics)

Provided by: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Button Trains

Students describe order by using vocabulary such as before, after, and between. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Mathematics)

Provided by: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics