Grade One Choice Board

Counting collections Number Talk Guess my

Choose an amount of How do you see this image? Missing Part
nature objects to find Explain other ways you can see -Place a collection of
outside and start to 10 small items in
gather them. it.
your hand. (marbles,
or coins, rocks,
Gather a collection of macaroni)
nature items and then count them.
-Put your hands behind your back then
-Organize your counting collection in show your partner one of your hands
groups of 10 to make it easier to count. with some of the collection in it.

-Can you count your collection by 5s? -Your partner must decide how many are
still in the hidden hand.
-What counting collection could you
count inside? Challenge: When ready play with a larger
collection up to 20 items.

Shape Magic Square Measuring
Monsters Sticks
Use a variety
of 2D shapes
to make,
draw, or
paint a 2D
shape 1) Find a variety of sticks that are
monster.
different lengths. Order them from
shortest to longest or shortest to tallest.
When your monster is finished, count 2) Choose a stick. Find two more sticks
how many of each 2D shape you used. Using the digits from 1-9 only that are longer/shorter or the same
once, place the numbers on the length as your chosen stick.
grid so the sum of each row and
each column equals 15.

Fast facts Pattern Art Make a Math Book

Get out some paper and create your own
Use markers, math book to share with someone else!
Use a deck of cards
crayons, paint or
with face cards
bingo daubers to
removed. Deal out
create pattern
half the cards to each player with the
caterpillars.
cards facing down in a pile. Both players

take the card on the top of their pile and
Try making some of
lay it face up in the middle. The first
the following
player to call out the sum of the two
pattern caterpillars
cards wins both cards. If it is a draw the
AB, AAB, ABB,
cards are left on the table. Turn 2 more It could be about counting, patterns,
ABC, AABB, ABBC,
cards over and whichever player wins, shapes or adding and subtracting. There
ABCD.
picks up all the cards in the middle.The are so many math ideas to explore!

winner is the player with the most cards
Don’t forget
once all the card have been used.
antennas, eyes
and a smile!
Variation: Play with the same procedure
but find the difference.