Month of September

Your child will begin his/her math program this month.  Children will be exploring the math materials we will use this year to teach the concepts in math.  Your child will be bringing home one page of math to complete each night.  Please have your child complete the front of the page, and the handwriting on the back of the page.  Please note the directions at the bottom of the handwriting page to help your child begin to form his/her numbers correctly.  This homework should be brought back to school on the following day.  Thank you for helping your child complete his/her homework each night this past week.  I hope you will continue this habit with your child.  Please have your child practice writing his/her numbers each night.  Your child will be working with: shapes-circle, rectangle; creating a real graph; using positional words-over, under, on top of, behind, in back of, in front of, beside; counting to 10 using 1-1 correspondence; creating and covering pattern block designs; and sorting by color.

Month of October

Math skills for these past few weeks have included working with numbers 0-10 and putting these numbers in order; counting forward 0-10 and backward from 10-0; creating AB patterns; shapes-triangle and square; introduction of a penny and counting pennies to 10 cents. 

Month of November

Math skills for this month will be: counting pennies, adding and subtracting pennies, learning the parts of a clock and telling time to the hour, identifying ordinal position to fourth, showing time to the hour on a clock.

Month of December, 2008

This month the children have explored the following skills:geoboards and copying designs on geoboards, placing objects on a real graph, ordinal position to fourth place, sorting and identifying the sorting rule, estimation, identifying a dime, and creating a real graph.

Month of January

Skills this month include: identifying a penny, identifying shapes and sorting shapes according to shape, size, color, copying and extending AB and ABB patterns, exploring geoboards, using pictographs to create a graph, identifying ordinal position, using pennies to pay for items from a pretend store and using 1 to 1 correspondence.

Month of February

Skills taught this month include: identifying missing numeral from a set of numbers, counting by 10’s, identifying a dime and counting dimes to 50 cents, comparing sets and numbers through 6 using dot cubes, weighing objects using nonstandard units of measure, ordering objects by weight, identifying numbers 10-20 and ordering numbers 0-20, identifying a 1-cup measuring cup and following a recipe, identifying full, half full, and empty containers and identifying a quart container.

Monrh of March

Skills taught this month include: covering a design in more than one way, identifying ordinal position to fith place, identifying a dime and paying for items up to $1.00, creating a pictograph, comparing lengths using nonstandard units of measure, ordering four objects by length, sorting by color, shape and size, using a geoboard to copy lines and shapes, making ABC patterns, working addition and subtraction stories using teddy bears and identifying a nickel and counting by fives.