First Grade Classroom Routines

Suggestions for November/December

Counting

Numbers to 20 (before, after, between, greater, less, what comes next)

10 Frames – combos to 20, odd/even, counting

Use number line – count on, count back, how many more…?

Estimate before counting (How many students will be absent this week? How many will

buy milk today?)

Guess My Rule

Focus: Objects (attributes and characteristics – size, shape, color, thickness)

Calendar

Today, tomorrow, yesterday

Month order - What month comes before December?

Year long calendar – how many months in a year? Identify months with vacations, etc.

Missing Numbers – What is missing? How do you know?

Daily Schedule

Discuss schedule with morning, afternoon, and evening

Weather

Graph data on a bar graph - label

Measurement (includes daily schedule, calendar, coins, vocabulary such as how much

longer/shorter, taller, heavier/lighter, etc)

Intro a dime – identify and count by tens

Directly compare length, weight or capacity of objects in the room

Quick Surveys

Additional question bank - Questions for Graphing