The Family Letters are intended to be sent home at the beginning and middle of the cluster. They explain 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 Family Letters.

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.

This resource is from Tools4NCTeachers.  This tasks may be used for instruction or assessment.  The file contains a student shape cutouts for students to compose shapes to make a new composite shape.  The new, composite shape does not need to have a given name (e.g., trapezoide or square).Remix this leson to include student work samples or extension ideas.

This resource is part of Tools4NCTeachers.This packet contains exit tickets for the First Grade, Cluster 6. 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. 

This resource is part of Tools4NCTeachers.

In this lesson, students build pattern block animals inspired by literature, describe and graph the shapes used, and interpret the data by asking and answering questions to develop the concepts of geometry and graphing.