Math Homework:
- Worksheets: Please complete every other problem (alternate between evens and odds so your child gets practice doing story problems AND “Vocabulary Check”/ “Test Practice” problems each week). If your child wants to do every problem they are certainly free to do so!
Please help your child read the directions/example problems and allow them to talk about the problems as they figure out the answers. - Fluency: This week, we are working on “Make a Ten”. With your timing in the plastic sheet protector (included in your blue folder), use a dry-erase marker to practice. When you’re ready, have a parent time you while you complete all 20 problems with pencil (write directly on the paper this time). Work on 1 timing each day, Monday-Thursday. Record your time and score on the paper and turn in all 4 completed timings with your math homework at the end of the week.
Here’s how we’re learning the strategy of “Make a Ten” in class:
We have been taking apart 10’s (10 linking cubes) and starting to memorize all the ways you can make a ten:
1 + 9, 9 + 1, 2 + 8, 8 + 2, 3 + 7, 7 + 3, 4 +6, 6 + 4, 5 + 5, 0 + 10, 10 + 0
Helpful Hint for “Make a Ten”: Make or pull out of a set of flash cards the combinations to make a 10 (1 + 9, 9 + 1, 2 + 8, 8 + 2, 3 + 7, 7 + 3, 4 +6, 6 + 4, 5 + 5).
Be sure to cover one of the addends on the flash cards. Your child then tells you the missing addend needed to make a sum of 10.
*We make “tens” in our head because it’s so easy to add on to 10! (7 + 4 is the same as 7 + 3 = 10 plus 1 more… 11!)
Play the game “Bears in a Cave”: Use 10 small objects to represent bears. Take turns hiding some of the “bears” behind your back (in the cave) and show your partner how many “bears” are not in the cave. They must figure out how many bears are in the cave.
You can use this game or flash cards to learn the strategy instead of the dry-erase practice. Be sure to complete the paper timing still (at least 1 per day).
Ideas for extra math practice: Math Facts Activities
2- Reading 20 minutes per day. Reading comprehension strategy: Have your child identify the characters and settings for the books you read together.
3- Spelling /Phonics: long a This week’s phonic sound is the long a sound, as in cake, wave, and late.
make
take
came
game
Review words:
chin
graph
High Frequency Words
some
**If your child is absent please have them complete a Waterford session and do a few activities on Wonders. The activities on Wonders are connected to our daily lessons. Thank you.
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