Mathematics - 1st Grade

• Art and Culture
  Arts activities express relationships to family and community.
• Choices and Consequences
  This activity explores the concepts of "choices" and "consequences".
• Family Responsibilities
  This activity involves jobs families have to do around the house.
• Shape Stretch
  This activity incorporates balance and movement along with many different mathematical concepts.
• Where in the World is Tacky the Penguin?
  Students will complete an art activity and a classroom graph that ties with the "Tacky the Penguin Series" by Helen Leste.

• Shape Hunt
  Students have opportunities to recognize, describe, build, and explore shapes in many different contexts. This investigation uses tangrams, or pattern blocks, in many of the activities. If these resources are unavailable, print out sets of tangrams from the Girl Tech website. Teachers may choose to add a circular object to students' tangram sets.
• Tangram Puzzles
  This two-part tangram example demonstrates the potential for high-quality experiences provided by computer 'shape' environments for students as they learn concepts described in the Geometry Standard. Describing figures and visualizing what they look like when they are transformed are important aspects of geometry in the lower grades.