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• This is the FREE version of Common Core Kindergarten Math. Many songs are appropriate for grades pre-K through 2nd grade. Note that these videos may include commercials and/or link to other videos on YouTube.
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Circles Go 'Round and 'Round

Teaching Ideas

• Make shapes in the air as the song plays. Alternatively, draw shapes on a whiteboard. Children can also get in a line and draw shapes on each others' backs. They will feel the shapes as they draw them.
  
• Discuss attributes of various shapes, e.g., corners, sides, curves, colors, and sizes before and after the song.
  

5 Little Monkeys

Teaching Ideas

• Act out the song with 5 little children!
• Ask children to show their fingers to help them visualize the monkeys as the song plays.
• Write a new version of the song. Brainstorm ideas. Who could the characters be instead of monkeys? What could they be doing instead of jumping on the bed? Allow children to use monkeys or original ideas when they write their own stories.

Write 0-9

Teaching Ideas

• Ask children to write numbers with their fingers in the air, with whiteboard markers, and with pencils as the song plays.
• As the whole class focuses on trying to write numbers, work with individuals who need help, e.g., forming numbers, or holding pencils properly.

Write 10-20

Teaching Ideas

• As with "Write 0-9," ask children to write numbers with their fingers in the air, with whiteboard markers, and with pencils as the song plays.
  
• As the whole class focuses on trying to write numbers, work with individuals who need help, e.g., forming numbers, or holding pencils properly.
  
• Sometimes, ask children to show the numbers 10-20 using ones and tens blocks before, during, or after the song.
  

100 Days of School

Teaching Ideas

• Ask children to show ten fingers for numbers 1-10. Then, start over for 11-20; for 21-30, etc., to show the pattern in the numbers.
• Ask ten children to volunteer to hold up hands for each ten as the song plays.
• Hold up a tens block when the song says 10, 20, 30, etc.
• Before and after the song, cover a number. Ask children to figure out which number is covered, and to explain how they know.

10 Little Monkeys

Teaching Ideas

• Act out the song with 10 little children!
• Write a new version of the song. Brainstorm ideas. Who could the characters be instead of monkeys? What could they be doing instead of jumping on the bed? Allow children to use monkeys or original ideas when they write their own stories.
  

Alligator Greater Than/Less Than

Teaching Ideas

• Act out the song. Make giant symbols by opening and closing arms, or make tiny symbols by opening and closing hands.
• Use an alligator puppet (available here).
• Do at least 2 minutes of pre-and post-activities to reinforce song concepts. Example: Ask students which numbers to compare and discuss which one's greater. You may want to refer to the 100 chart to discuss why answers make sense.
  

Alligator 1 More

Teaching Ideas

• Relate this song to other strategies, such as looking to the right of the hundreds chart to add one more.
  
• Use manipulatives to show "one more" as the song plays.
• Write equations and strategies on mini-whiteboards as the song plays.

10 Playful Puppies

Teaching Ideas

• Invite ten volunteers to act out the song.
  
• Ask children to show fingers or objects to represent puppies as the song plays.
  

Butterfly Addition

Teaching Ideas

• Ask five volunteers to act out the song.
  
• Invite children to show their fingers or use objects to represent butterflies.
  
• Ask children to draw pictures and/or write equations as the song plays and as a follow-up activity.
  

Butterfly Subtraction

Teaching Ideas

• Ask children to show how they know that e.g., 5 - 1 = 4.
  
• Create original stories, songs, or poems by switching butterflies with something kids like, such as unicorns or monsters. Ask what their characters do and write subtraction stories.
  

Count by Tens

Teaching Ideas

• Show tens in the ways listed in the song. Ask students for other ways to show sets of ten.
  
• Use ideas from the song as well as students' ideas to count by tens after the song, without the music.
  
• Teach children to draw tens blocks.
  
• Create a bulletin board. On the top, show 2 hands. Below this, show 4 hands. Continue to 20 hands to show how we can use our hands to count by tens to 100.
  

Counting On

Teaching Ideas

• Rewind to a number chart after the song ends. Ask children to choose a starting number. The class can then count starting with this number.
• Ask children to explain how they know what numbers come next.
• For a simple center, ask children to start with a new number each day. Children can write what comes next.
  

Count With Me

Teaching Ideas

• Ask children to demonstrate other ways to show 20 objects, e.g., in a row, as the song plays.
  
• After the song, ask children how to explain what they did.
  
• Talk about related concepts, e.g., what's one more than seven?
  

Adding Zero

Teaching Ideas

• Ask five volunteers to act out the song.
• Invite children to show their fingers or use objects to show that adding zero adds nothing.
• Ask children to draw pictures and/or write equations as the song plays and as a follow-up activity.
  

Add 1 More

Teaching Ideas

• Ask five volunteers to act out the song.
• Invite children to show their fingers or use objects to show one more.
• Ask children to draw pictures and/or write equations as the song plays and as a follow-up activity.

Add to Make 4, 5

Teaching Ideas

• Ask children to show fingers to match song equations.
• Give children tens charts and manipulatives. Ask them to show equations.
• Ask children to draw on a number line as the song plays.
• Children can write equations on a whiteboard as the song plays.
  
• Ask children if they notice anything interesting about this song!
  

Know Those Tens

Teaching Ideas

• Demonstrate how to show tens with fingers as the song plays. You can add the fingers that are up with the fingers that stay down to make ten.
• Show a "t chart" to make ten. Write "10" on the top. Then, write "0 + 10," "1 + 9," etc, below.
• Challenge children to sing without the music, while looking at their fingers or charts.

Zero the Hero

Teaching Ideas

• Act out the song.
• Write equations on whiteboards as the song plays.
• Ask children to show more ways to make zero.
  

Any Number Minus Zero

Teaching Ideas

• Ask children to solve equations from the song before and after watching the video.
• Ask children to explain how they know the answers to the equations.
• Challenge children to generate new equations that include subtracting zero. They may get excited to say, for example, "I know that 2,300 - 0 = 2,300." Alternatively, a teaching opportunity may arise if they say, "0 - 3 = 3."

Minus 1

Teaching Ideas

• Use the chart in this video for a "4 Ways" center. The students' task is to show four ways to take one away.
  
• Challenge children to generate new equations that include subtracting one. They may get excited to say, for example, "I know that 199 - 1 = 198." Alternatively, they may give you a teaching opportunity if they say, "1 - 3 = 2."
  

Do You Know Subtraction Facts?

Teaching Ideas

• Ask children to show subtraction facts in different ways. Can they think of any ways that are not included in this video?
  
• Ask children to tell stories to accompany the equations.
  

Making 11-20

Teaching Ideas

• Ask two children to volunteer to hold up hands (following along with the cartoon characters) as the song plays.
• Pause at certain points during the song and discuss how to show, e.g., that "11" really means one 10 and one more.
• After watching several times, give children ones and tens blocks so they can create the numbers as the song plays.

Ant Comparisons

Teaching Ideas

• Write down key words from this song on a chart: More, less, heavier, lighter, longer, shorter, taller, and measurement.
  
• Discuss ways to measure weight, length, and height. Also, discuss why "shorter" is the opposite of both "longer" and "taller."
  
• Ask children to generate ideas for comparing various objects, and to use the vocabulary from the song as they take measurements.
  

Name That Category

Teaching Ideas

• Ask children to create categories using items in the classroom.
  
• Create a real-life graph by lining up different objects that children choose. Next, work together to draw the graph.
• Discuss which group has the most, the least, etc.

Pentagon, Hexagon, Octagon

Teaching Ideas

• Ask children to draw shapes in the air, on whiteboards, or on each others' backs as the song plays.
• Create a chart of new vocabulary words along with pictures.
  
• Before and after the song, ask children to find pentagons, hexagons, and octagons in the environment. How can they create these shapes?
  

A Circle and a Square

Teaching Ideas

• Allow children to show the terms "above," "below," and "beside," "next to," "in front of," and "behind" using circular and square objects as the song plays.
  
• Create a chart of new vocabulary terms.
  
• Pause at 1:30 and 1:33 to discuss shapes that you see. Use vocabulary from the song to explain where they are placed.
  
• Ask children to find new objects and discuss shapes.
  

Flat and Solid Shapes

Teaching Ideas

• Ask children what they know about flat and solid shapes before the song.
  
• Allow children to hold squares, cubes, circles, and spheres before, during, and/or after the song plays.
  
• Chart song vocabulary, and encourage children to use terms to describe other shapes.
  

Solid Shapes

Teaching Ideas

• Allow children to hold cones, cylinders, spheres, and cubes as the song plays. You can give them to individual children or allow four children to stand in front of the class holding one shape each.
  
• Pause during the song to find the various shapes in the room.
  
• Include these terms in a chart, and use them regularly.
  

It's an Oval

Teaching Ideas

• Invite children to draw ovals in the air or on whiteboards as the song plays.
• Discuss other objects that are shaped like ovals. Do guided drawing lessons based on students' interests.