Math!!

Adding UP!!

This week we reviewed our 1st trimester reading goals.  It was so exciting for students to see how they had met these goals!  Since we had finished that goal, it was time for us to start a new goal!  Yesterday we wrote our goals around our fluency of addition math facts.  Each child chose whether to either have a goal around their 30 second plus tests or around their 2 minute mad minute addition test.  By the end of the school year students will be required to pass a timed addition and subtraction test that included a combination of facts within 10.  You may have noticed a goal paper go home yesterday about this.  Students not only came up with their own goals, but they also came up with the best way for their parents to help them with this goal.

Here are some ways to help your child at home with math facts:

1. http://xtramath.org/

2. Addition top-it (use regular playing cards, flip over 2 cards and add them together, and the person with the highest value wins)

3.  Flash Cards

4.  Practice timed tests

5. Bump game - can be printed from this website
http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Addition-Bump-Games-Freebie-828847

Money, Money, Money!

Starting next week we will be starting to learn about money.  Our goal from now until the end of the year is to learn about the penny, nickel, and dime.  Also, we will be learning how to count the different combinations of these coins.  I have found that students learn these skills best when they are using and playing with real coins.  I will be teaching them a number or games that they will also be able to play with you at home.  In order to best teach the topic of money I will need your help.  If you could please send your child into school with 20 pennies, 10 dimes, and 10 nickels next week that would be greatly appreciated.  They will then be ready to play these games that will help them to learn the skills of counting and exchanging money.  I will have them bring this money back home at the end of the school year.