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The Family Letter is intended to be sent home at the beginning of Cluster 1. It explains big ideas of the cluster using family-friendly language. Families can also find tips for working with their children at home, digital games, videos, and books. This file contains both English and Spanish versions of the Cluster 1 Family Letter.

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This file contains images of anchor charts, bulletin boards, and centers for first grade Cluster 1. Remix this resource to share your own images!

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The intended purpose of this document is to provide teachers with a tool to determine student understanding and suggest instructional moves that may help guide a student forward in their learning. It is not an exhaustive list of strategies.

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This 1:36 minute video provides visuals, strategies, and an overview of Cluster 1: Using Numbers to Explore Our Mathematical Community. Cluster 1 is taught during the first 3-4 weeks of school.

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This packet contains exit tickets for standards NBT.1 and NBT.7. Exit tickets are written responses to questions posed at the end of a lesson. They are brief assessments which allow the teacher to determine student understanding of the concepts and skills taught that day. At the beginning of the school year, it may be necessary to display a blank copy of the exit ticket on the board and read aloud to students. As teacher reads, students work independently on their own copy of the exit ticket.

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In this task, students count on from a given number, and analyze the place value of the digits within numbers. The task may be used for instructional or assessment purposes.

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In this lesson, students explore counting patterns to develop place value understanding. Students use tools such as number lines, and a hundred chart. Additionally, the explore patterns within real world situations.

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In this lesson, students explore strategies for counting handfuls of cubes to develop the concept of place value.

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In this task, students count a set of cubes, record the matching numeral, and determine which digit is in the ones place and which is in the tens place. The task may be used for instructional or assessment purposes.

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In the first weeks of school, math talk moves may be easily modeled and practiced as students get to know each other and learn classroom expectations. There is no particular order in which these moves must be introduced. This resources contains suggestions of scenarios where these moves may be easily incorporated throughout the day.

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This is lesson one in a series of six lessons focused around developing a mathematical community at the beginning of the school year. While this lesson addresses standard NC.1.NBT.7, its primary goal is for students to learn how to work with classmates on activities related to counting and number sense and engage in real-world math situations.

Students click on numbers in sequence. On the left top side of the screen there are two sliders. The first slider allows you to choose a number to begin counting from and the second slider allows you to select the size of the steps to count in. There is a help video if needed.

Willie Worm is an enjoyable and challenging visual-spatial problem, which encourages persistence in problem-solving, as well as providing students with a purposeful reason for practicing counting and writing numbers from 1-25.