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Math Game - Add Three Numbers

Grade 1 and 2 Learning Tasks: Week: April 14th– 17th

Grade 1 and 2 Learning Tasks: Week: April 14th– 17th (Easter Monday is a PD day so we have not planned activities for this day.) 

The days and activities are guidelines that you can follow if you’d like; however, each day choose as many or as few options as you have time for. 

We will be providing lessons on the writing tasks on Wednesday during our 12pm meeting time online. Your child can work ahead if they chose; the lesson on Wednesday will be related to creating Acrostic Poems. Please ensure your child has their writing book, pencil, and eraser on Wednesday.  

On Tuesday and Thursday this week we will be working through some math lessons and introduce Google Classroom. Your child can have his/her math book, pencil and eraser prepared for these days between 12pm-1pm. 

Our math games will stay on our blog if you want to refer back to previous posts to change up the math games you’re playing together. 

Making Math Resources At Home

Making Math Manipulatives (TOOLS) at Home

Hello Parents, 

Today during our afternoon whole class math meeting.  I showed some homemade tools or manipulatives to help us solve math problems.  

Children's Tasks:

1. Make a list of materials they can make math tools with (that they have at home)

2. Look at this blog with you for ideas

3.  Make some math tools (a set of objects and tens and ones)

4. Take a picture of their math tools they make and post to IRIS account

Addition and Subtraction materials

Paper and pencils (markers make it more fun sometimes) are the core way to record our ideas in math.  To help think through problems at a young age, manipulatives or math tools are very helpful.  

When working with small numbers (addends less than ten ie.  4+5=___or 9-6=____ just having sets of objects is helpful

-buttons

-beads

-seeds

-blocks

-pennies

Creating a ten frames for these objects can be helpful.  You can print these examples, draw some or you can cut off two "holes" from an egg carton.  

These are very helpful, for children to visually create "ten" and see what is "left over". 

We have class sets of these little cards and use them to play games in the class.  Regular playing cards work well too, but having a copy of these for reference can be helpful. 

TWO DIGIT NUMBERS

Many children are working on Static (without regrouping) and Dynamic (with regrouping) Addition and Subtraction with 2 digit numbers. 

In the classroom the children use golden beads (or base ten blocks to help them visualize the process.  

These blocks help us "see" place value:  our units(ones), groups of ten, groups of hundred........

You can create units and tens in many ways:

-draw a line for tens and a dot for units

-lego ten strips and singles for units

-stack 10 lego blocks and single blocks for units

-group 10 popsicle sticks with an elastic band and use singles

-string 10 beads on pipecleaners and singles for units

-gluing 10 beans or buttons on a cardboard strip or popsicle stick with single beans as units

For younger math learners, physically seeing the ten (like in the case of the beans on the stick),  is more concrete, than a long stick of cardboard representing 10. 

I have put my math tools in a tupperware to keep track of them.

NUMBERLINES and hundred charts are also a helpful tool for adding and subtracting.  

You can make simple number lines on paper or tape, or you can use a ruler or tape measure.

Generating Questions: Teachers will be creating questions for students, however students can create their own problems by using:

-dice

-spinners

-playing cards

-real life information (I have 12 stuffies, 5 are bears, how many are not bears. 12-5=_____)

Once your child has made their math tools.  You can get them to make different 2 digit numbers with them.    

ex. 

-Make 52 with your tens and ones.

-Make 12 with your ten frames and ones

-Add your sister's age and your age together with your ten frames and ones. 

Weekly Learning Plan - April 6-9

Grade 1 and 2 Learning Tasks: Week: April 6^th– 9^th  
(Friday is Good Friday so we have not planned activities for this day.)

The days and activities are guidelines that you can follow if you’d like; however, each day choose as many or as few options as you have time for.

We will be providing lessons on the writing tasks on Monday and Wednesday during our 12pm meeting time online. Your child can work ahead if they chose; however, the lesson on Monday will be related to creating lists and the lesson on Wednesday will be about writing an imaginative narrative. Please ensure your child has their writing book, pencil, and eraser on Monday and Wednesday. 

On Tuesday and Thursday this week we will be working through some math lessons. Your child can have his/her math book, pencil and eraser prepared for these days between 12pm-1pm.

	Day 1		Day 2		Day 3		Day 4
Reading	Students in both grade 1 and 2 have worked hard on developing their reading stamina. They are able to independently read for 20 minutes every day. We call this Read to Self. They are also accustomed to reading to a partner for 20 minutes every day. We call this Read to Someone. You can access Raz Kids (online books) to do these reading tasks or choose reading materials from around the house. It is important that each student is spending some time everyday reading to themselves and to someone else (even if that someone else is a stuffy, as long as they are practicing reading aloud). Your child will meet with his/her guided reading teacher online during his/her schedule time in the morning. The guided reading teacher may assign reading tasks for him/her to complete.
Word Work/ Spelling	Copy words in a list and then write them in alphabetical order. Grey Group: made, over, down, did, only Blue Group: good, new write, our, me Green Group: put, different, between, name, should Yellow Group: brain, snail, bait, braid, train		Write the words in word stairs Example of stairs: t th the		Write each word in a sentence. Challenge: how many of your word work words can you write in one sentence? Remember: your sentence must make sense!		Choose one way to make your five words of the week: -  Find a stick and write the words in the mud or dirt -  Gather sand or shaving cream or sugar/jello packets and use your finger to write the words -  Use plasticine/playdoh to write the words (with your finger or a toothpick or a stick) or shape playdough into letters to form the words -  Using magnetic letter, plastic letters, foam leters, create your words
Writing	Brainstorm a list of things to do around the house and/or outside. Create list of these things (add drawings to the list).				This weekend some people may be celebrating Easter. Eggs are often used in Easter celebrations. Many animals come from eggs (turtles, birds, fish). Imagine you found an egg with something special inside. What does your egg look like? What comes out of your egg? You can use your imagination to create whatever you like.
Math	Math Game: Double Dog Dare See separate blog post for instructions on how to play this addition math game.				Math Game: I spy See separate blog post for instructions on how to play this addition math game.

Math Games - April 6th - 10th

Word Work Groups

Our word work groups remain the same as in the classroom. Students work with the words within their group, as these are a continuation of what we've been doing in class. If you want to work with all the words, feel free to expand your workload.
We do one small word work task every day as part of our work period. This is job that students should be able to do completely independently. Refer to their word work/language work books to see how they have organized their work previously.
Some students may require help to set up the word stairs. Writing sentences and alphabetizing the words is an extension to what we've done in class so for the first week, students may want some guidance.

Grey Group: 

Ethan

Kinsley

Reid

Raphael

Ella

April 6th - 9th words of the week - made, over, down, did, only 

Blue Group: 

Avani

Natalie

Maelle

Toby

Ascher

Summer

Noelle

April 6th - 9th words of the week - good, new write, our, me 

Green Group: 

Rihansh

Zackary

Micah

Autumn

Briauna

Kelsie

April 6th - 9th words of the week - put, different, between, name, should 

Yellow Group:

Anhad

Parsa

Haruto

Leyah

Nowellia

Ethan W.

April 6th - 9th words of the week – brain, snail, bait, braid, train