My Morning Maths program is my little baby, something I love and I have had great results with! So I thought I would share it with you a little more!
By doing this routine Maths every single day, gradually adding in extra skills and being consistent with the routine, students were able to develop incidental skills every single day – not only did my Grade 1 class know how to tell the time to the minute by the end of the year, but they could read calendars, add up money, identify numbers and develop their basic skills. Isn’t this what we all want as they move into Grade 2?
The reason I started Morning Maths stems back to when I was teaching in the USA. The school I was working at did Everyday Maths. Everyday we were given a script to work through, including what counting pattern we would have that day and monetary amount. I liked the idea, but I wanted to make it more child centred. I played around with it in the US, allowing the children to take on a bigger role, but still following the routine prescribed in the text. I also added in the Pledge every morning, just so I would forget!
It is from this experience where my current structure came from – it took a while of experimenting, identifying appropriate resources and remembered the process myself!
I started the year without the timer, with calendar work, basic odds and evens, clock times to the hour and identifying numbers. Then I gradually added in extra areas of maths to expand their skills. With this, I also added a timer. A timer encouraged the children to know the routine and to work through it as quick as they could. The video is less than 6 minutes long – that’t right, 6 minutes to get all that Maths done everyday, it hardly uses any time!
I strongly suggest you start doing something similar in your classroom. 
For more information, please click on the picture below to download a brief outline of introducing Morning Maths into Kindergarten, 1st Grade and 2nd Grade.
