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before after between
By maryellen

Off the top of my head I have a few activities my grade one classes enjoy. I assume you're talking about numbers to 100? To warm up, give them a 100 chart and one marker like a unifix cube, bean, whatever. Call out a number
and have them find that number, mark it, and shout out the number before it, or the number after it (whichever you're working on). You could hold up sentence strips with the words "before - one more" or "after - one less" on them.
Sometimes instead I have them count aloud on or back 4 or 5 numbers from my number. Also, you could give them two markers, call out two numbers for

them to mark, and they would call out the number in between. After several experiences with this orally, you can try it as a written activity;
42, _____ , _______ and ______, _______, 18

A group activity they love uses your poster sized 100 chart and two post-it notes with arrows drawn on them. Write down a number between 1 and 100, or draw it from a pool of cards to 100 (prevents changing minds in the middle of the game, and sometimes they all want their number to be 100) The children start guessing what it might be. After each guess, tell them "larger" or "smaller" and place the sticky notes right on the poster to show what you mean. Soon the arrows are moving closer and closer to one another as they guess in between them (if they don't guess in between, you have some valuable information for your next lesson). I let the child who guesses correctly choose the number to write down or pull from the deck, and he/she answers the class questions. After we've played this a few times, I leave it out with the post it notes and they can play it in free time.