1. Our Blue Ribbon Award Celebration is Friday, November 20th at 2:30pm. It's located in the New Life Auditorium.
2. No school November 25th-November 27th for Thanksgiving.
3. Scholastic Book Orders are due by November 25th. If you'd like to use these books as gifts, I can easily put them aside and get them to you without your child knowing. Just let me know, I'm always happy to find a way to make gifting books easier!
4. Please read the Time for Kids issue brought home each week with your child and use it to complete the last page of the homework packet. These are great conversation starters and a good time to practice thinking about information from nonfiction text. The magazine is yours to keep and enjoy!
5. Special Kid is Tyler!
2. No school November 25th-November 27th for Thanksgiving.
3. Scholastic Book Orders are due by November 25th. If you'd like to use these books as gifts, I can easily put them aside and get them to you without your child knowing. Just let me know, I'm always happy to find a way to make gifting books easier!
4. Please read the Time for Kids issue brought home each week with your child and use it to complete the last page of the homework packet. These are great conversation starters and a good time to practice thinking about information from nonfiction text. The magazine is yours to keep and enjoy!
5. Special Kid is Tyler!
Our math curriculum is full of math games that students learn on a weekly basis. We've learned countless games so far and we practice them often during math time. Many of them focus on mental math and number sense skills. The math games below are a mixture of games from our curriculum and games I've found online.
High Roller
Students roll the dice, re-roll the smaller number, and then find the sum. Those fancy dice are called "double dice". Students have to add the inner and outer dice together to find their number. It's an exciting way for them to get more addition practice in.
Bunny Hop
Flash Cards
Our simplest game, and yet a very popular one! I pick these up from the dollar store and have addition, subtraction, telling time, and counting coin versions.
Number Grid Puzzles
After students put the puzzles together they practice counting forward and backwards by 1s, 2s, 5s, and 10s.
Beach Bump
Great practice for adding three numbers. Students roll three dice and place their color chip on the sum. If their partner rolls the same number, they can "bump" you off. They can also lock the space if they roll the same number twice. This is quickly becoming a class favorite!
Doubles Slides-And-Ladders
Great practice for doubles facts, which students should have memorized by the end of first grade.
Those are just a few of the games we play in math. I'll try to update again this year with more math games we play!