A lot of math in a little time!

Authors: Beth Ardell, Jan Gillespie, & Patsy Kanter

NOTE: THIS PRODUCT IS A DOWNLOADABLE PDF.

Print your individual sets of monthly Every Day in Pre-K Calendar Pieces & Counting Tape Pieces to replace your worn-out or missing pieces, or as a new resource to share with your students today! 

Each month’s unique Pre-K  pattern of colors and geometric shapes for your Calendar and on a Counting Tape to 31, gives your students lots of “math to see and talk about”.  

In Pre-K, the authors have chosen to have the Counting Tape go with the Calendar Date, a more appropriate activity for preschoolers, instead of matching the Days in School. This provides repeated experience throughout the year observing both the quantity and counting sequence grow from 1 to 31. 

The pattern on the Counting Tape matches the one on the Calendar, if you choose to display a Calendar in your classroom. The linear format of the Counting Tape helps children gain experience and confidence discovering and following the repeating pattern, counting, learning the sequence of numbers, and gaining number sense for quantities growing from 1 to 31. 

The black-line masters for printing and assembling the Pre-K Counting Tape to use with the pattern pieces are provided within your PDF file to download.

Topics throughout the school year to guide your focus questions and for preview and review include:

• 1-to-1 counting, cardinality, 
• understanding number of last item counted names the entire amount 
• using comparative language (more, fewer, greater, less, same, equal)
• predicting 1 more/1 fewer or less
• reading numerals to 10 and beyond, 
• understanding teen numbers as a group of ten and some extra ones.
• matching quantities to numerals
• recognizing and naming 2-D and 3-D figures using language of geometry
• describing likenesses and differences when sorting and classifying
• learning calendar concept of Monday to Friday school days vs. weekend days
• using pattern and reasoning to predict the next day's  calendar piece

As each piece appears, students have fun responding to "What do you see? What do you notice?"  while building math language.

This PDF download purchase contains  pages of masters to print for one Grade Pre-K classroom. 
Contents: 

• 30 color pages of Calendar and Counting Tape Pieces for August-May (make 2 Copies)
• 1 color page of Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow markers
• 4 b/w pages Counting Tape
• 4 b/w pages of Month Strips

File size: 16 MB

Limited reproduction permission: The authors grant permission to individual teachers who have purchased this download to reproduce the calendar pieces, markers, month strips, counting tape pieces, and counting tape strips as hard copies only, as needed for use with their own students. Reproducing or distributing this material or portions of it in any other format is prohibited. Reproduction for an entire grade level, school, or district, or for commercial use is prohibited. For a school-wide or district-wide download license for multiple users, address inquiries to Permissions: Gillespie Kanter Group, LLC, email address:_Permissions@ GillespieKanter.com All other rights are reserved to Gillespie Kanter Group, LLC. 
You will get a PDF file.