First Grade Skip Counting (Counting Caterpillars)

This creepy crawly counting cut-and-paste worksheet is perfect for young students learning to skip count. This activity requires students to use their fine motor skills to cut out the caterpillar’s body segments and paste them into place in the skip counting sequence. Grab the scissors and glue!

This resource download includes: 

• 5 worksheets (counting in 1s, 5s and 10s)
• Answer keys for each worksheet

Tips for Differentiation + Scaffolding 

A team of dedicated, experienced educators created this resource to support your math lessons. 

In addition to individual student work time, use this maths worksheet to enhance learning through guided groups, math centers, whole class lessons, or homework assignments. 

If you have a mixture of above and below-level learners, check out these suggestions for keeping students on track with the concepts: 

🆘 Support Struggling Students

Help students who need help understanding the concepts by providing physical manipulatives for students to count and help them visualize the quantity increasing per number counted. Alternatively, use a number line or hundreds board to show the quantities and intervals of one. 

➕ Challenge Fast Finishers

Edit the resource in Google Slides to have the values go into the 100s or change the counting intervals to be skip counting values.

Easily Prepare This Resource for Your Students

Use the dropdown icon on the Download button to choose between the PDF or Google Slides version of this resource.

This resource was created by Cassandra Friesen, a teacher in Colorado and Teach Starter Collaborator. 

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