Tens and Ones

We've been working on looking at numbers and separating them into their tens and ones. We can take 65 and see that it is 6 tens and 5 ones. We've also been working on the reverse of this as well. We can take 8 tens and 3 ones and know it's 83. We have also been working on how to count tens and ones, by first counting groups of tens by ten and then adding the ones. For example, while looking at 3 groups of ten and 2 ones a student would count 10, 20, 30, 31, 32.
Try giving your students numbers at home and see if they can tell you the tens and ones!

Count by's

This week we are working on counting by 5's. The twist is that we are starting at ending at various count by 5 numbers. The following are examples of what we are doing.

Count by 5 from 20 to 55
Count by 5 from 55 to 100
Count by 5 from 30 to 75

Try these and others starting numbers!

17, 8 ,9

What do these number have in common? They can be used to create a fact family! Last week and this week, we have been taking the 3 numbers of a fact family and finding out the two addition equations and the two subtraction equations. Try this out with your student-on a piece of paper list the 3 numbers in an equations and then draw out four lines. Have your student write out the four equations that are in the family. Focus on correct use of plus, minus and equal sign as well as correct equations.

SumDog is coming home!

Today a letter is coming home telling about a challenge set up on SumDog.com. Log in and take a look at the website. Have fun with the math challenge! More will be coming.

January Skills

Reading

1. Daily reading for 20 minutes-try to make some of the time reading out loud to practice fluency
2. Retelling a story-after finishing a book, practice retelling the story. Focus on beginning, middle, end and characters

Writing

1. Neatness and legibility
2. Using mostly phonetic (written like it sounds) spelling- vowels may still continue to be the tricky part!
3. Uses mostly lowercase letters
4. Spaces between words
5. Writes 6 or more sentences (may not have punctuation) on a topic

Math

1. Addition with sums to 10 fluently-without fingers or counters
2. Addition with sums to 20
3. Counting to 120 by 1’s, 5’s and 10’s
4. Subtracting with numbers less than 10 fluently
5. Subtracting with numbers less than 20
6. Recognizing coins (names and values) for penny, nickel, dime and quarter
7. Counting small collection of coins with penny, nickel and dime
8. Take an addition equation and make a subtraction equation
9. Beginning to understand tens and ones

Looking Ahead:

1.      Addition sums to 20 fluently

2.      Subtraction facts from 20 fluently

3.      Reading fluently with a detailed retell

4.      Writing 10 or more sentences with phonetic and conventional spelling, correct use of punctuation and letter case. As well legible by others.