Unit - Numbers 1 to 20

Numeracy (Mathematics) - Grade 1

Senator Buchanan School, Lethbridge
Unit Length: November 1 -
Teacher: Aquinna Brokenshire & Hudson Sheen

Unit Rationale
This unit is designed to help students learn the numbers from 11-20. The students
already have knowledge of the numbers up to ten so this is where they will have the chance to
expand their knowledge. We will take it slowly and learn one number at a time so that we are
constantly reinforcing all the numbers that have already been taught. There will be lots of games
and hands-on activities.

Unit Overview
This unit will start off with students being introduced to the numbers from 10-20. After
this we will get into learning each number one-by-one. At the end of the unit we will introduce
students to less than and more than by one or two digits.

Contextual Information
This unit is being done right after the unit of learning the numbers 1-10. Now that
students know those numbers they are ready to move onto numbers 11-20. They will learn this
through centres, worksheets, songs, and lessons taught to the class. Lots of hands-on activities
will be included.

Unit Outcomes
1. Develop Number Sense
- 1.3: Demonstrate an understanding of counting by:
- Indicating that the last number said identifies “how many”
- 1.4: Represent and describe numbers to 20, concretely, pictorially and symbolically.
- 1.6: Estimate quantities to 20 by using referents.
- 1.8: Identify the number, up to 20, that is:
- One more
- Two more
- One less
- Two less than a given number

Timeline

Class # and Outcom Materials Activities and Assessments

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Class 1 - 1.3 - Whiteboards Activities:

1.4 - Numbers 1-10 - Intro song: Count with me to twenty - Singing Walrus
Introduction to powerpoint Song. Work up to pausing randomly and have them

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Numbers 10- - Dry erase do a quick activity (make the number with a partner,
20 markers show with your fingers, write or a white board, jump
that many times, etc.)
- Review game for numbers 1-10: powerpoint with
numbers 1-10 represented in different ways.
Students write on whiteboards what that number is.
- We are going to start learning new numbers now -
watch this song to see the new numbers we’ll be
learning https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=2QbhUscTAVw (Video: Eleven, Twelve, Thirteen,
Fourteen, Fifteen from English for Children - English
For Children Songs)
- Counting numbers 1-20. We are learning about
numbers 11-20 now.
- Introduce Place value, these numbers have 2 digits
now.
- Colour by number 1-10.

Assessments:
- Pre-assessment of students’ understanding of
numbers 1-10.
- Pre-assessment of if students can already count
from 1-20.
- Formative assessment of students’ current
understanding of ten frames and place value - this
will be ongoing throughout the unit.

Class 2 - 1.3 ABCYA GAmes: Activities:

Number 11 1.4 - Number Bingo - Intro song: Count with me to twenty - Singing Walrus
- Monster Mansion Song. Work up to pausing randomly and have them
do a quick activity (make the number with a partner,
- Centre materials show with your fingers, write on a white board, jump
- Number 11 that many times, etc.)
worksheets - Teach how to use 10 frames (use two ten frames
because this one is all filled up)
Video: - Pre-assess: write the number of the day on the
https://www.youtube.com board - who can tell me what number this is?
/watch? - How would we show this number with our hands?
v=d6YPKSSMWUY Counting as a class.
- ABCYA Games (review for numbers 1-10)
- Ways of demonstrating the number of the day:
- Base ten blocks - example 1 ten, 1 one
- Object (counting to the number of the day)
- Ten frames
- Tally marks
- Numeral and word
- Centres
- Go through the worksheet

Sponge Activities:

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 - GAME: Matching cards with someone else in the
class.
- Counting in a circle game
- Dice with Whiteboard games
- Jeopardy

Centre ideas:
- Keep rolling the dice until you get 11.
- Colour in 10 frames
- Make the number in Base 10 blocks
- Count the objects
- Matching different ways of showing 11. (Which one
is the odd one out?)
- Flash cards
- Matching Game
- Colouring Sheet
- Fill in the missing numbers.
- Mystery Number.
- Printing - the digits and written number
- ABCYA Game??
- Order numbered popsicle sticks
- Fishing for numbers

Assessment:

Summative:
- Worksheet
- Checklist (circulate during centres and check
students on their ability to represent numbers in
different ways.

Formative:
- Observation during centres and carpet time.

Class 3 - 1.3 - ABCYA Activities:

Number 12 1.4 - Centre Materials - Intro song: Count with me to twenty - Singing Walrus
- Song. Work up to pausing randomly and have them
do a quick activity (make the number with a partner,
show with your fingers, write on a white board, jump
that many times, etc.)
- Pre-assess: write the number of the day on the
board - who can tell me what number this is?
- How would we show this number with our hands?
Counting as a class.
- ABCYA Games (review for numbers 1-10)
- Ways of demonstrating the number of the day:
- Base ten blocks - example 1 ten, 1 one
- Object (counting to the number of the day)
- Ten frames

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 - Tally marks
- Numeral and word
- Centres
- Go through the worksheet

Sponge Activities:
- GAME: Matching cards with someone else in the
class.
- Counting in a circle game
- Dice with Whiteboard games
- Jeopardy

Centre ideas:
- Keep rolling the dice until you get 11.
- Colour in 10 frames
- Make the number in Base 10 blocks
- Count the objects
- Matching different ways of showing 11. (Which one
is the odd one out?)
- Flash cards
- Matching Game
- Colouring Sheet
- Fill in the missing numbers.
- Mystery Number.
- Printing - the digits and written number
- ABCYA Game??
- Order numbered popsicle sticks
- Fishing for numbers

Assessment:

Summative:
- Worksheet
- Checklist (circulate during centres and check
students on their ability to represent numbers in
different ways.

Formative:
- Observation during centres and carpet time.

Class 4 - 1.3 Activities:

Number 13 1.4 - Intro song: Count with me to twenty - Singing Walrus
Song. Work up to pausing randomly and have them
do a quick activity (make the number with a partner,
show with your fingers, write on a white board, jump
that many times, etc.)
- Pre-assess: write the number of the day on the
board - who can tell me what number this is?
- How would we show this number with our hands?

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 Counting as a class.
- ABCYA Games (review for numbers 1-10)
- Ways of demonstrating the number of the day:
- Base ten blocks - example 1 ten, 1 one
- Object (counting to the number of the day)
- Ten frames
- Tally marks
- Numeral and word
- Centres
- Go through the worksheet

Sponge Activities:
- GAME: Matching cards with someone else in the
class.
- Counting in a circle game
- Dice with Whiteboard games
- Jeopardy

Centre ideas:
- Keep rolling the dice until you get 11.
- Colour in 10 frames
- Make the number in Base 10 blocks
- Count the objects
- Matching different ways of showing 11. (Which one
is the odd one out?)
- Flash cards
- Matching Game
- Colouring Sheet
- Fill in the missing numbers.
- Mystery Number.
- Printing - the digits and written number
- ABCYA Game??
- Order numbered popsicle sticks
- Fishing for numbers

Assessment:

Summative:
- Worksheet
- Checklist (circulate during centres and check
students on their ability to represent numbers in
different ways.

Formative:
- Observation during centres and carpet time.

Class 5 - 1.3 -Jeopardy powerpoint Activities:

Solidifying 1.4 -Catching Fish Game - Sing a counting song
Understanding -Counting Song- - Review ten frames - do a couple examples as a

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of Numbers class
11-13 - Catching Fish activity (Pearson Mathology Box)
Have students get in partners. They get 13 double-sided
chips. They throw them and then put all the red ones on
their ten frame and then they write the number, then the
next partner goes.
- Jeopardy game to review numbers 1-13

Class 6 - 1.3 Activities:

Number 14 1.4 - Intro song: Count with me to twenty - Singing Walrus
Song. Work up to pausing randomly and have them
do a quick activity (make the number with a partner,
show with your fingers, write on a white board, jump
that many times, etc.)
- Pre-assess: write the number of the day on the
board - who can tell me what number this is?
- How would we show this number with our hands?
Counting as a class.
- ABCYA Games (review for numbers 1-10)
- Ways of demonstrating the number of the day:
- Base ten blocks - example 1 ten, 1 one
- Object (counting to the number of the day)
- Ten frames
- Tally marks
- Numeral and word
- Centres
- Go through the worksheet

Sponge Activities:
- GAME: Matching cards with someone else in the
class.
- Counting in a circle game
- Dice with Whiteboard games
- Jeopardy

Centre ideas:
- Keep rolling the dice until you get 11.
- Colour in 10 frames
- Make the number in Base 10 blocks
- Count the objects
- Matching different ways of showing 11. (Which one
is the odd one out?)
- Flash cards
- Matching Game
- Colouring Sheet
- Fill in the missing numbers.
- Mystery Number.
- Printing - the digits and written number
- ABCYA Game??

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 - Order numbered popsicle sticks
- Fishing for numbers

Assessment:

Summative:
- Worksheet
- Checklist (circulate during centres and check
students on their ability to represent numbers in
different ways.

Formative:
- Observation during centres and carpet time.

Class 7 - 1.3 Activities:

Number 15 1.4 - Intro song: Count with me to twenty - Singing Walrus
Song. Work up to pausing randomly and have them
do a quick activity (make the number with a partner,
show with your fingers, write on a white board, jump
that many times, etc.)
- Pre-assess: write the number of the day on the
board - who can tell me what number this is?
- How would we show this number with our hands?
Counting as a class.
- ABCYA Games (review for numbers 1-10)
- Ways of demonstrating the number of the day:
- Base ten blocks - example 1 ten, 1 one
- Object (counting to the number of the day)
- Ten frames
- Tally marks
- Numeral and word
- Centres
- Go through the worksheet

Sponge Activities:
- GAME: Matching cards with someone else in the
class.
- Counting in a circle game
- Dice with Whiteboard games
- Jeopardy

Centre ideas:
- Keep rolling the dice until you get 11.
- Colour in 10 frames
- Make the number in Base 10 blocks
- Count the objects
- Matching different ways of showing 11. (Which one
is the odd one out?)
- Flash cards

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 - Matching Game
- Colouring Sheet
- Fill in the missing numbers.
- Mystery Number.
- Printing - the digits and written number
- ABCYA Game??
- Order numbered popsicle sticks
- Fishing for numbers

Assessment:

Summative:
- Worksheet
- Checklist (circulate during centres and check
students on their ability to represent numbers in
different ways.

Formative:
- Observation during centres and carpet time.

Class 8 - 1.3 Activities:

Number 16 1.4 - Intro song: Count with me to twenty - Singing Walrus
Song. Work up to pausing randomly and have them
do a quick activity (make the number with a partner,
show with your fingers, write on a white board, jump
that many times, etc.)
- Pre-assess: write the number of the day on the
board - who can tell me what number this is?
- How would we show this number with our hands?
Counting as a class.
- ABCYA Games (review for numbers 1-10)
- Ways of demonstrating the number of the day:
- Base ten blocks - example 1 ten, 1 one
- Object (counting to the number of the day)
- Ten frames
- Tally marks
- Numeral and word
- Centres
- Go through the worksheet

Sponge Activities:
- GAME: Matching cards with someone else in the
class.
- Counting in a circle game
- Dice with Whiteboard games
- Jeopardy

Centre ideas:
- Keep rolling the dice until you get 11.

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 - Colour in 10 frames
- Make the number in Base 10 blocks
- Count the objects
- Matching different ways of showing 11. (Which one
is the odd one out?)
- Flash cards
- Matching Game
- Colouring Sheet
- Fill in the missing numbers.
- Mystery Number.
- Printing - the digits and written number
- ABCYA Game??
- Order numbered popsicle sticks
- Fishing for numbers

Assessment:

Summative:
- Worksheet
- Checklist (circulate during centres and check
students on their ability to represent numbers in
different ways.

Formative:
- Observation during centres and carpet time.

Class 9 - 1.3 Activities:

Number 17 1.4 - Intro song: Count with me to twenty - Singing Walrus
Song. Work up to pausing randomly and have them
do a quick activity (make the number with a partner,
show with your fingers, write on a white board, jump
that many times, etc.)
- Pre-assess: write the number of the day on the
board - who can tell me what number this is?
- How would we show this number with our hands?
Counting as a class.
- ABCYA Games (review for numbers 1-10)
- Ways of demonstrating the number of the day:
- Base ten blocks - example 1 ten, 1 one
- Object (counting to the number of the day)
- Ten frames
- Tally marks
- Numeral and word
- Centres
- Go through the worksheet

Sponge Activities:
- GAME: Matching cards with someone else in the
class.
- Counting in a circle game

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 - Dice with Whiteboard games
- Jeopardy

Centre ideas:
- Keep rolling the dice until you get 11.
- Colour in 10 frames
- Make the number in Base 10 blocks
- Count the objects
- Matching different ways of showing 11. (Which one
is the odd one out?)
- Flash cards
- Matching Game
- Colouring Sheet
- Fill in the missing numbers.
- Mystery Number.
- Printing - the digits and written number
- ABCYA Game??
- Order numbered popsicle sticks
- Fishing for numbers

Assessment:

Summative:
- Worksheet
- Checklist (circulate during centres and check
students on their ability to represent numbers in
different ways.

Formative:
- Observation during centres and carpet time.

Class 10 - -Jeopardy powerpoint Activities:

Reviewing -Catching Fish Game - Sing a counting song
numbers 1-17 -Counting Song - Review ten frames - do a couple examples as a
class
- Catching Fish activity (Pearson Mathology Box)
Have students get in partners. They get 17 double-sided
chips. They throw them and then put all the red ones on
their ten frame and then they write the number, then the
next partner goes.
- Jeopardy game to review numbers 1-17.
Jeopardy includes identifying ten frames, counting objects,
writing number words, identifying base 10 blocks.

Class 11 - 1.3 Activities:

Number 18 1.4 - Intro song: Count with me to twenty - Singing Walrus
Song. Work up to pausing randomly and have them
do a quick activity (make the number with a partner,
show with your fingers, write on a white board, jump

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 that many times, etc.)
- Pre-assess: write the number of the day on the
board - who can tell me what number this is?
- How would we show this number with our hands?
Counting as a class.
- ABCYA Games (review for numbers 1-10)
- Ways of demonstrating the number of the day:
- Base ten blocks - example 1 ten, 1 one
- Object (counting to the number of the day)
- Ten frames
- Tally marks
- Numeral and word
- Centres
- Go through the worksheet

Sponge Activities:
- GAME: Matching cards with someone else in the
class.
- Counting in a circle game
- Dice with Whiteboard games
- Jeopardy

Centre ideas:
- Keep rolling the dice until you get 11.
- Colour in 10 frames
- Make the number in Base 10 blocks
- Count the objects
- Matching different ways of showing 11. (Which one
is the odd one out?)
- Flash cards
- Matching Game
- Colouring Sheet
- Fill in the missing numbers.
- Mystery Number.
- Printing - the digits and written number
- ABCYA Game??
- Order numbered popsicle sticks
- Fishing for numbers

Assessment:

Summative:
- Worksheet
- Checklist (circulate during centres and check
students on their ability to represent numbers in
different ways.

Formative:
- Observation during centres and carpet time.

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Class 12 - 1.3 Activities:
Number 19 1.4 - Intro song: Count with me to twenty - Singing Walrus
Song. Work up to pausing randomly and have them
do a quick activity (make the number with a partner,
show with your fingers, write on a white board, jump
that many times, etc.)
- Pre-assess: write the number of the day on the
board - who can tell me what number this is?
- How would we show this number with our hands?
Counting as a class.
- ABCYA Games (review for numbers 1-10)
- Ways of demonstrating the number of the day:
- Base ten blocks - example 1 ten, 1 one
- Object (counting to the number of the day)
- Ten frames
- Tally marks
- Numeral and word
- Centres
- Go through the worksheet

Sponge Activities:
- GAME: Matching cards with someone else in the
class.
- Counting in a circle game
- Dice with Whiteboard games
- Jeopardy

Centre ideas:
- Keep rolling the dice until you get 11.
- Colour in 10 frames
- Make the number in Base 10 blocks
- Count the objects
- Matching different ways of showing 11. (Which one
is the odd one out?)
- Flash cards
- Matching Game
- Colouring Sheet
- Fill in the missing numbers.
- Mystery Number.
- Printing - the digits and written number
- ABCYA Game??
- Order numbered popsicle sticks
- Fishing for numbers

Assessment:

Summative:
- Worksheet
- Checklist (circulate during centres and check

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 students on their ability to represent numbers in
different ways.

Formative:
- Observation during centres and carpet time.

Class 13 - 1.3 Activities:

Number 20 1.4 - Intro song: Count with me to twenty - Singing Walrus
Song. Work up to pausing randomly and have them
do a quick activity (make the number with a partner,
show with your fingers, write on a white board, jump
that many times, etc.)
- Pre-assess: write the number of the day on the
board - who can tell me what number this is?
- How would we show this number with our hands?
Counting as a class.
- ABCYA Games (review for numbers 1-10)
- Ways of demonstrating the number of the day:
- Base ten blocks - example 1 ten, 1 one
- Object (counting to the number of the day)
- Ten frames
- Tally marks
- Numeral and word
- Centres
- Go through the worksheet

Sponge Activities:
- GAME: Matching cards with someone else in the
class.
- Counting in a circle game
- Dice with Whiteboard games
- Jeopardy

Centre ideas:
- Keep rolling the dice until you get 11.
- Colour in 10 frames
- Make the number in Base 10 blocks
- Count the objects
- Matching different ways of showing 11. (Which one
is the odd one out?)
- Flash cards
- Matching Game
- Colouring Sheet
- Fill in the missing numbers.
- Mystery Number.
- Printing - the digits and written number
- ABCYA Game??
- Order numbered popsicle sticks
- Fishing for numbers

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 Assessment:

Summative:
- Worksheet
- Checklist (circulate during centres and check
students on their ability to represent numbers in
different ways.

Formative:
- Observation during centres and carpet time.

Class 14 1.3 - Worksheet Activities:

1.4 - Blank paper
Review - Papers with - Review games for all numbers 1-20 (jeopardy game)
Numbers 1-20 numbers - Hand out slips of paper with a number (1-20) on it.
- Fishing Game Have students complete the worksheet for that
Supplies (rods, specific number.
cards) - Ordering games: Fill out a number line with all the
numbers, hold a number and put themselves in
order, fishing game, fill in the missing numbers.
- Review worksheet (like Bailey’s).
- Centres for SPONGE

Assessment:

Formative:
-Games

Summative:
-Review Worksheet

Class 15 1.3 - Hopping On Activities:

1.4 Game
- Dry Erase - Review games for all numbers 1-20 (jeopardy game)
Review Markers - FINISH Review worksheet (like Bailey’s) if needed.
Numbers 1-20 - Worksheet - Hopping On Game (Pearson Mathology Kit)
- Centres for SPONGE

Assessment:

Formative:
- Hopping On Game
- Jeopardy

Summative:
- Review Worksheet

Class 16 Activities:

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 - Ordering games: Fill out a number line with all the
numbers, hold a number and put themselves in
More Than order, fishing game, fill in the missing numbers.
- Introduce the concept of more than using a number
line
- Write two numbers on the board. Draw pictures for
each number. Ask which one has more, or which
number is bigger.
- Demonstrate how to count on using fingers and
number line.

-Play the ABCYA Comparing Number Values

Class 17 Activities:
- Ordering games: Fill out a number line with all the
numbers, hold a number and put themselves in
Less Than order, fishing game, fill in the missing numbers.
- Count backwards from 20.
- Watch video - Scratch Garden - The Counting down
from 20 song.
- Introduce the concept of less than using a number
line
- Write two numbers on the board. Draw pictures for
each number. Ask which one has less, or which
number is smaller.
- Demonstrate how to count on using fingers and
number line.
- PowerPoint Jeopardy: Objects 15 soccer balls vs. 6
footballs. Count them. Which one is less? Which
one is more?

- Play the ABCYA Comparing Number Values

SPONGE: Centres

Class 18 Activities:
-Whiteboard activity: Write the number that is 1 more than
More than and 13. Write the number that is one less than 10. Etc.
Less Than

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