Begin by writing the date at the top of your page. Remember the "math date" starts with the day of the month, then the month of the year (what number do we use for October?), then the year. Can you do this by yourself?. You may need to watch the beginning of the video, pausing to look at our calendar for help.
Now get ready to write our number word and tallies together. Watch the video, and work along at the same time. Pausing if you need extra time.
Now, draw the part of the number grid below on your page. Fill in the empty boxes around our number of the day. Remember that we are working in the 9s column of the chart, and how to count on and back to find one more and one less than a given number.
Today's Lesson: Exploring Counting, Matching Pairs, and Ordering by Length Today, your child will be engaging in three different activities. Please follow the directions, modifying any counting manipulatives you don't have - ex. substitute coins for beans.
Exploration A: Counting and Estimating Provide your child with a clear container of at least 50 coins. Have your child record an estimate and an exact count for the number of pennies. Writing my estimate and my count on their page. Encourage your child to count the coins and to check their count a different way. Then have them record their counting strategy on their page using pictures and words.
Exploration B: Matching Pairs Informally expose children to addition doubles using pictures of real-world items that contain paired features (you can look them up yourself, of use the pictures below to help. To help your child recognize the pairs below, encourage them to look for ways to divide the features of each picture into two equal groups. Have your child record an addition number model for each matching pair, writing 'matching pairs' as a heading for this activity on their page.
Exploration C: Ordering Objects by Length
Introduce this exploration by showing your child the Measurement Box. To prepare the Measurement Box, collect 3 different lengths of each item: pencil, crayon, paper clip, chalk, straw, strip of paper, piece of string, and book. For example, each of the 3 pencils should be of a different length. Some of the items should be close in length so that your child will have to carefully examine them to compare. Challenge your child to arrange, or line up, each set of items in the box by length, from shortest to longest. Remind your child to think about what they are doing and what they will do next. After your child complete this task, take time to encourage him/her to share his/her thinking.
Ask questions such as these:
How did you know the items were correctly arranged from shortest to longest?Sample answers: When we look at them side-by-side, they look like stairs going up. For each object, everything to the left is shorter and everything to the right is longer.
How did you decide how to order the books by length?Sample answers: We held them like we were reading them and then figured out which one was tallest. We compared the longest side of each one, even if we had to turn the book sideways.
Was it hard to tell which objects were longer than others? How did you solve that problem?Sample answers: We put them right next to each other to compare. We made sure that the bottoms of both objects were even, and then we looked at the tops to compare.
Language Arts
Daily 5 - This week in class, we were going to begin the Listen to Readingportion of our Daily 5 program. Using Kids A-Z (RAZ Kids), choose a few books to listen to. Make sure that your child is pointing along to the words as they read.
You may also choose to listen to reading from some of these other online sources linked below.
Seed Dispersal STEM Challenge (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) In this challenge, your child will be using recyclable materials from your home to design and build a representation of one of the ways seeds are dispersed. We learned about these yesterday, and in the video.
Your child will choose one of the seed dispersal methods and then collect the materials that can be used to best build a model.
When we return to school, your child will share their creation and demonstrate how it works. Be creative in finding a way to disperse seeds and how your child will share their final product with the class.
Some possible supplies you may wish to use are balloons, tissue paper, paper clips, rubber bands, straws, yarn, string, foil, tape, cotton balls, popsicle sticks, pipe cleaners, or any other materials of your choice.
I encourage you to review the design cycle that we have been using at school. Please feel free to replicate it in order to document the process of this challenge.
Design Tech
Hi 1st Graders! I hope that you all have been having a great break. I want to give you some questions to think about. After you have thought about the questions have a talk with your families about your thoughts and ideas. You do not need to turn anything in to me, but I would like you to come to Design and Technology class next week ready to talk and share your ideas.
Here are your questions: -What things do living things need? -How can we help living things?
After talking in class about what friends can do together, draw and write about what you and your friend do together for fun. Don't forget to make a cover page and color your pictures. Make a mini-book of 5 pages. You can follow the model below if you want. Bring your book to school on Monday to share with the class.