Kindergarten Common Core
Teacher Resources
Units of Study
San Diego Unified School District (here's the District's CCSS website--lots of resources!
Kindergarten Year at a Glance
Kindergarten Focus Areas
CCSS Lesson Map
Georgia Units: (even though the state has actually pulled out of CCSS, the resources they created are AMAZING! Here's their math website.)
Year-Long planning map organized by strand
Unit 1: Counting With Friends
Unit 2: Building Number
Unit 3: Sophisticated Shapes
Unit 4: Investigating Addition and Subtraction
Unit 5: Measuring and Analyzing Data
Unit 6: Further Investigation of Addition and Subtraction
North Carolina Unit: (they have a great website for the Public Schools of North Carolina with lots of support resources.)
North Carolina Scope and Sequence
University of Texas Scope: (they have a great website called Mathematics Common Core Toolbox--check it out!)
UT Scope and Sequence-Kindergarten
EngageNY Kindergarten math resources. This seems to be everyone's gold standard for CCSS materials.
Kindergarten Curriculum Map from West Contra Costa Unified School District. Their applets seem cool, too.
Bridges in Mathematics: (the Bridges in Mathematics website)
Activity Standards Correlations
TONS of Standards-Based Activites
Yearlong Assessment
This is cool: math standards written in kid-friendly language: (From the Ontario-Montclair School District)
Kindergarten Math Standards in Kid Friendly Language
Resources from Kansas Association of Teachers of Mathematics:
Kindergarten Flip Book (FlipBooks are meant to help teachers understand what each standard means in terms of what students must know and be able to do. They provide only a sample of instructional strategies and examples.)
Kid Friendly "I Can" Statements
Math Vocabulary from Granite School District in Utah
Vocabulary Cards for Kindergarten
Kindergarten Vocabulary Word List
Compare the CCSS to the current state standards: (from Tulare County Office of Ed. A great website for resources, too!)
Math Standards Comparisons: Kindergarten
Howard County Public School System Common Core Assessments. VERY well designed assessments for each standard. Check them out!
Videos explaining Kindergarten standards from Southeast Comprehensive Center. Really interesting!
"I Can Statements" for each standard from Dr. Bobb Darnell on his website called Achievement Strategies, Inc. Check them out!
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Activities and Lessons by Strand
(activities listed are from: Illustrative Mathematics, Inside Mathematics, LearnZillion, Howard County Common Core Assessments)
Domain: Counting and Cardinality K.CC
Standard A (know number names and the count sequence):
Assessing Reading Numbers
Assessing Sequencing Numbers
Find the Numbers 0-5 or 5-10
Five By Two
More and Less Handfuls
Teen Go Fish
A1 (Count to 100 by ones and by 10s):
Assessing Counting Sequences Part 1
Choral Counting
Counting Circles
Counting by Tens
Howard County assessment page with beautiful assessments of this standard, plus more!!
A2 (Count forward beginning from a given number within the known sequence instead of beginning at 1):
Assessing Counting Sequences Part 2
Number After Bingo
Number Line Up
Start Stop Counting
"One More" Concentration
Howard County assessment page with beautiful assessments of this standard, plus more!!
A3 (Write numbers from 0-20. Represent a number of objects with a written numeral 0-20 with 0 representing a count of no objects):
Assessing Writing Numbers
Number Tic Tac Toe
Race to the Top
Rainbow Number Line
Dice Addition
Howard County assessment page with beautiful assessments of this standard, plus more!!
Standard B (Count to tell the number of objects):
Color Week
Counting Cup
Counting Overview
Number Rods
B4 (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 inwhich they were counted; c) Undertand that each successive number name refers to a quantity that is one larger.):
Counting Mat
Goody Bags
Howard County assessment page with beautiful assessments of this standard, plus more!!
Standard C (Compare numbers):
Biggest Number Wins
C5 (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.
Howard County assessment page with beautiful assessments of this standard, plus more!!
C6 (Identify whether the number of objects in one group is greater than, less than, or equal to the number of objets in another group):
Which Number is Greater? Which Number is Less? How Do You Know?
Howard County assessment page with beautiful assessments of this standard, plus more!!
C7 (Compare two numbers between 1 and 10 presented as written numerals.):
Guess the Marbles in the Bag
Howard County assessment page with beautiful assessments of this standard, plus more!!
Domain: Operations and Algebraic Thinking K.OA
Standard A (Understand addition as putting together and adding to, and understand subtraction as taking apart and taking from):
A1 (Represent addition and subtraction with objects, fingers mental images, drawings, sounds (e.g. claps), acting out situations, verbal explanations, expressions, or equations):
Howard County assessment page with beautiful assessments of this standard, plus more!!
A2 (Solve addition and subtraction word problems, and add and subtract within 10, e.g. by using objects or drawings to represent the problem):
Dice Addition
What's Missing?
Howard County assessment page with beautiful assessments of this standard, plus more!!
A3 (Decompose numbers less than or equal to 10 into pairs in more than one way, e.g. by using objects or drawings , and record each decomposition by a drawing or equation, e.g. 5=2 + 3 and 5= 4 + 1):
Bobby Bear's Buttons
Christina's Candles
Make 9
Pick Two
Shake and Spill
Howard County assessment page with beautiful assessments of this standard, plus more!!
A4 (For any number from 1 to 9, find the number that makes 10 when added to the given number, e.g., by using objects or drawings, and record the answer with a drawing or equation):
Howard County assessment page with beautiful assessments of this standard, plus more!!
A5 (Fluently add and subtract within 5):
Howard County assessment page with beautiful assessments of this standard, plus more!!
Domain: Number and Operations in Base Ten K.NBT
Standard A (Work with numbers 11-19 to gain foundations for place value):
A1 (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 then ones and one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, or nine ones):
Howard County assessment page with beautiful assessments of this standard, plus more!!
Domain: Measurement and Data K.MD
Standard A (Describe and compare measurable attributes):
Longer and Heavier? Shorter and Heavier?
A1 (Describe measurable attributes of objects, such as length or weight. Describe several measurable attributes of a single object):
How Heavy?
Howard County assessment page with beautiful assessments of this standard, plus more!!
A2 (Directly compare two objects with a measurable attribute in common, to see which object has "more of"/"less of" the attribute, and describe the difference):
Size Shuffle
Which Weighs More? Which Weighs Less?
Howard County assessment page with beautiful assessments of this standard, plus more!!
Standard B (Classify objects and count the number of objects in each category):
B3 (Classify objects into given categories; count the numbers of objects in each category and sort the categories by count):
Sort and Count
Sort and Count II
Howard County assessment page with beautiful assessments of this standard, plus more!!
Domain: Geometry K.G
Standard A (Identify and describe shapes (squares, circles, triangles, rectangles, hexagons, cubes, cones, cylinders, and spheres):
Shape Hunt Part 1
Shape Hunt Part 2
Shape Sequence Search
A1 (Describe objects in the environment using names of shapes, and describe the relative positions of these objects using terms such as above, below, beside, in front of, behind, and next to):
Howard County assessment page with beautiful assessments of this standard, plus more!!
A2 (Correctly name shapes regardless of their orientations of overall size):
Howard County assessment page with beautiful assessments of this standard, plus more!!
A3 (Identify shapes as two-dimentional--lying in a plane, flat--or three-dimensional, solid):
Howard County assessment page with beautiful assessments of this standard, plus more!!
Standard B (Analyze, compare, create, and compose shapes):
B4 (Analyze and compare two- and three-dimensional shapes, in different sizes and orientations, using informal language to describe their similarities, differences, parts e.g. number of sides and vertices/corners, and other attributes, e.g. having sides of equal length):
Alike or Different Game
Howard County assessment page with beautiful assessments of this standard, plus more!!
B5 (Model shapes in the world by building shapes from components, e.g. sticks and clay balls, and drawing shapes):
Howard County assessment page with beautiful assessments of this standard, plus more!!
B6 (Compose simple shapes to form larger shapes. For example, "Can you join these two triangles with full sides touching to make a rectangle?"):
Howard County assessment page with beautiful assessments of this standard, plus more!!
Thank you to 4th Grade Loma Portal teacher, Amy Kinseth, for creating this page of Teacher Common Core Materials. Please email her with questions or comments at [email protected].