Have you heard the amazing news?! Team Lucky Little Learners has been working hard on creating a full year math curriculum! This 2nd grade math curriculum, called Lucky to Learn Math, is standards-based, engaging and easy to teach! This post will serve as a step-by-step guide in teaching a Lucky to Learn math lesson. So, stick around to see what all the buzz is about.
The lesson featured in this post is the first lesson of Unit 1: Building A Place Value Community. This lesson is the first of 20 lessons in a four week unit. (This 2nd grade math curriculum is jam packed with lessons and resources!) Each Lucky to Learn Math lesson includes six main components:
Each lesson plan also features the lesson objective, materials list and differentiation options. Let's walk through how to teach lesson 1.1: Count to 120 Using a Hundreds Chart.
As you can seen in the lesson plan above, we have two objectives for this lesson:
- Count to 120 by 1s from any number
- Read & write numbers to 120
The materials needed are all resources included with this curriculum!
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Warm-Up
The warm-up piece of each lesson is a whole group, get your brain in math mode activity. For this particular lesson, teachers will project the 120 chart teaching slide. (Yep, this 2nd grade math curriculum includes teaching slides in powerpoint or PDF format for EVERY LESSON!) Have students practice counting by 1s from a randomly given start number. Use teacher judgement to decide when they are ready to move on. Provide exercises while counting if movement is needed.
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Math Chat
Math chats, also called number talks, are an important part of any 2nd grade math curriculum. These chats get students thinking about numbers by explaining their thinking. The big shift a few years ago in math teaching was having kids explore the why and how of math rather than just memorizing facts…and math chats do just that! For this particular lesson, students are determining the covered up number on the 120 chart.
(This part of the lessons, as well as the sections that follow, are all found in the teaching slides. Download the teaching slides for this lesson below.)
Follow these steps:
- Ask students to tell you what number is covered up.
- Write down every answer given and have students explain their thinking.
**It is important to write the incorrect answers as well. Research has proven that students have gained huge math brain development by analyzing errors!
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Mini-Lesson
Now it is time to move on to the whole group lesson. By this time students should be in math mode and ready to focus. This mini-lesson focuses on 120 chart puzzles. Students get to be detectives! Teachers can project the puzzles slides as well as have students use the activity sheets provided. The main focus of this part of the lesson is to make sure students can easily add or subtract 1 and 10 from any given number on the 120 chart. Teachers will have to model these a few times and do several examples with the class.
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Hands-On Collaboration
Hands-on activities are an important part of any lesson. This hands-on activity allows time for students to get up and form groups, giving them a needed brain break. Once students are in the groups, hand out the 120 chart puzzle pieces. Students will have a blast putting these together! It could even be a race. Bonus tip: Laminate these for long lasting resources.
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Independent Practice
Once students have warmed up, had a mini-lesson and completed the hands-on group activity, it is time for independent practice.If you can't tell, the focus of this lesson is being a detective. The case to solve? Missing numbers on a 120 chart! Independent practice is a great time for teachers to walk around and check student understanding, help them with their work or pull small groups as needed.
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Check for Understanding
Each lesson in our Lucky to Learn 2nd grade math curriculum includes a check for understanding quick assessment to wrap up the day. This will show you which students may need more practice with the day's lesson objectives. Perhaps these students could be pulled for a small group during independent practice the next day! These check for understanding practices are super quick and informative.
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Differentiation Options
We all know students come in at all levels of math understanding. Differentiation is key! Each lesson in Lucky to Learn math comes with an intervention activity for those students struggling AND an extension activities for those students needing an extra challenge.
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Happy teaching!
Is there a way to download the Place Value curriculum all at once?
Hello Freda! Great question. Watch this video to learn how to easily download the Place Value Unit in All Access.
love this so much, when is the next unit going to be available in September? thank you
Hi Chelsey! I’m glad you are loving this math curriculum! The next unit will be launching to All Access on September 15th and launching to TPT on September 19th.
When will your money unit launch?
Hello Cathy! If you are an All Access member, you will be able to download the money unit on November 11, 2022. It will be available on TpT the following week. Thanks for this question and I am glad you are looking forward to the next unit!
When will the next unit for the math be released.
Hello Jennifer! Here is the schedule for the release of upcoming units:
Unit 5: Telling Time – LATE DECEMBER/EARLY JAN 2022/23
Unit 6: Graphs & Data – LATE JANUARY 2023
Unit 7: Measurement – FEBRUARY 2023
Unit 8: Geometry – MARCH 2023
Unit 9: Mental Math & End of Year Review – APRIL 2023
Unit 10: Multiplication & Division – MAY 2023
Thank you for your interest in Lucky to Learn Math! Have a great day!
I have been using this with my second graders….love it so much! I will be teaching first grade next year… so y’all have plans to make a first grade math curriculum???
This is a request we’ve gotten quite a few times! You never know… (wink-wink)
These are great, do you have this for the Kindergarten level?
Hello Elaine, Thanks for your interest! At this time Lucky to Learn Math is only available at the 2nd grade level. I will pass your interest along to our team though! Have a wonderful day!
What day will the measurement unit be released? Also, the youtube link above no longer works to download the unit all at once.
Hello Matoya! The measurement unit will be available at the end of February 2023. Thank you for letting us know about the broken link! HERE is a link to each unit in our All Access Membership. If you are already a member, you can download everything from there. If you are not a member, you can join and download everything for as little as $9.99/month! Here is the link to join if that would interest you. Thanks and have a great day!
Is there an easy way to download a math unit, or do I need to create bundles to download? The link in an above comment no longer works, so i didn’t watch the video.
Hello Alyssa, Here is an updated link to the demo video: https://youtu.be/ahFvfBE4m0s Thanks!
Wonderful product! I am in LOVE! Quick question… do you have 2nd grade standards included anywhere in your product? I have been sharing these products with my team, enough that admin has taken notice, and while they love it, too, they want to know how it aligns to the standards. I know standards are different based on district/state, but a general guide will be helpful as I begin to map it out for them. Thank you!
I commented about standards just a few minutes ago… I found them! Thank you for your time!
I am interested in purchasing the Math Bundle but want to know if I can access the mini-lesson digital links in the Bundle purchase without the all-access payment.
Hope to hear from you soonest. Thank you!
Hello! Great question! Yes, you have access to everything we’ve ever made, including all components of every bundle with an All Access membership. Learn more about All Access >>https://luckylittlelearners.lpages.co/joinallaccess/
You you have recommendations of how long each section of the lesson should take? Like 5 minute warm up, 5 minute silent thinking…?
Thanks
Anna, this is a great question! I added a lesson pacing guide to this post up at the top. I hope this helps! Please let us know if you have any other questions. 🙂