Bridges Blog Archive for Grade 1

In September, Shelly Scheafer shared First Grade Word Problems that she wrote to align with Common Core State Standards. In a follow-up she writes:

Grades K-2 of Bridges in Mathematics, second edition, are available for content preview via the Bridges Educator site, an online portal for teachers. Request a guest pass to get started. Once approved you'll be granted full access to the materials and get a first-hand look at the teacher and student content as well as the support resources.

First grade teacher Shelly Scheafer discovered a web resource for math vocabulary cards that support Common Core State Standards. The site includes CCSS word lists and vocabulary cards by grade level as well as vocabulary card templates for educators to make their own cards.

On the Delaware Department of Education math page, you'll find a poster entitled "Counting Strategies" under the first grade materials.

Shannon Gilmore, District 196 Elementary Math Trainer in Minnesota, shares an idea that the second grade team at Highland Elementary recently developed. She writes, "They shrink down the Work Place Planners to 25% of the original size, copy sets of the planners, cut them apart, and then staple them inside a folder. This is a way to save paper and have all the Work Place planners ready to go for the year.

Shelly Scheafer, first grade teacher from Bend, Oregon, shares an idea for Unit 1 story problems. She writes:

The first grade Bridges curriculum provides many opportunities for students to solve and write story problems on their own. Beginning in Unit 1, students act out bug problems and use plastic bug manipulatives for telling and solving problems.

First grade teachers Shelly Scheafer from Bend, Oregon, and Melissa Rescoe from Lakeshore Public Schools in Michigan, share their ideas on the first grade Number Corner workout, Tuesday's Temperature.

Shelly writes: