We have now been in school for 100 days! We had a great day today full of counting. We worked on counting to 100 by 10s, doing exercises, painting dots and making sticker hats. Ask your child if they can count to 100 by 1s and 10s.
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We have been working hard on addition and subtraction strategies in class this year. We often play a game called Addition War to help with the counting on strategy. You can easily play this game with your child at home to help with their math fluency.
Addition/Subtraction War Instructions Things You'll Need:
Deal an even number of cards to each player at the table. If there are three players playing the game, discard the last card from the deck. Each player flips over their top card. The person who can add the two numbers together the fastest and state the answer wins both cards. If both players state the answer at the same time, a war occurs. In Addition War, this requires each player to place three cards face down and flip over one additional card face up. The player who states the sum first wins all the cards. Continue playing rounds of Addition War until one player has all the cards. That player is the winner. To play subtraction war simply subtract instead of add. We had a great morning today! Everyone was given $10 in paper money. There were a variety of snowman accessories you could buy including bells, noses, eyes, buttons, stick arms, and scarves. Students had to choose which items they wanted without going over their budget. There was lots of money counting going on and even a few items returned to the store. After we had all our items for our snowman, we built our new friends with socks and rice. Thank you Mrs. Carmichael for helping us today!
This week we began our unit on Polar Bears. We will be learning all about where polar bears live, what they eat, and how they adapt to their environment. We began our unit by having everyone share what they already know about polar bears on sticky notes. This week we began our Science unit on our 5 senses. We started with our sense of sight. We talked about how our eyes work, made posters on how to protect our eyes, and discussed how people adapt when they don't have their sense of sight. We looked at books with braille and created our own name in braille using beans.
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