Activities! Carrots! Vacation! Dinosaurs! Write Your Name! And...It's National Library Week! Yay!
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Hello Everybody!
I love libraries: buildings filled with books that you can borrow! How cool is that? This is National Library Week which has everyone in the worlds of MathStart and I See I Learn is very excited. Perry the Penguin and his friends from Less Than Zero (negative numbers) are doing a happy dance on their ice scooters because they are going to the library after school!
Ajay, who adores See-and-Learn City’s Readalot Library, painted a self-portrait for the this year’s National Libary Week theme “What’s the Draw?” (Click to find the library on the map!)
I added the pizza drawing from Give Me Half! (understanding halves) because it shows three different ways to explain halves, including a visual of a pizza! Tasty!
To celebrate this wonderful week:
Visit your local library and bring friends or family along!
Get a library card and encourage your friends to get library cards, too!
Browse the shelves, join a book club, or attend a storytime. Libraries connect us to ideas, information, and each other.
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This week’s featured I See I Learn story is Write on, Carlos! / ¡Carlos escribe su nombre! (writing your name/ escribir tu nombre). This is a useful skill when you apply for a library card!
This week’s featured MathStart books are:
Just Enough Carrots Comparing amounts. Who will take out the most books from the library?
The Best Vacation Ever Collecting data. How often do you go the library? What do you like to read about? What do your friends like to read about?
Dinosaur Deals Equivalent amounts. Books on dinosaurs? Why, yes, the library has lots of them!
Your friend, all curled up in a comfy chair reading a library book,
Stuart
Mathstart is a series of 63 storybooks organized into three levels for Pre-K through Grade 4. Each story teaches a different mathematical skill.
You can buy individual books, sets by level, or a complete library! Here is list of where to find MathStart books!
• Level 1, Pre-K/ Kindergarten:
Just Enough Carrots (comparing amounts)
Young rabbit can't understand why Mom is buying so many bags of peanuts and cans of worms at the grocery store when everybody knows carrots are a whole lot tastier. Horse, he notices, has more carrots in his cart, while Elephant has fewer, though Bird has the same amount. H'mmmm… Could Mom be planning a party?
To formulate addition and subtraction equations involves being able to identify "more," "fewer" and "the same."
• Level 2, Kindergarten / Grade 1:
The Best Vacation Ever (collecting data)
The family needs a break. Everybody's always so busy. But where should they go? A very smart and practical little girl asks some key questions and charts the answers. Mom wants to go some place quiet and cool. Grandma and brother Charlie are looking for fun. And everybody but Dad wants Fluffer the cat to come along. Is there any place that'll make everyone happy?
Learning to organize and interpret data develops the ability for critical thought.
• Level 3, Grades 2 - 4:
Dinosaur Deals (equivalent values)
For dino-lovers Mike and his little brother Andy, there's nothing as exciting as the Dinosaur Card Trading Fair. Andy's in heaven on his 7th birthday when Mom lets Mike take him for the very first time. Mike really wants a T. Rex card, but to get it, he's going to have to trade. He needs three Allosaurus cards to get a T. Rex, but has only one. This is going take some wheeling and dealing.
Helping children to comprehend the concept of equivalent values is key to their understanding of equations.
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I See I Learn is a series of 16 stories that follow the adventures of the children in Miss Cathy’s class at Ready, Set Pre-K in See-and-Learn City (see map).
Each story focuses on a different social, emotional, health & safety and cognitive skill important for success in school and in life. For Pre-K / Kindergarten.
Write On, Carlos (writing your name)
Carlos wants to write his name like some of his friends can. He asks his mom for help. He practices over and over again. See how proud Carlos is to show his friends what he can do.
Learning how to write one’s own name helps a child learn how to recognize and form letters and leads to writing more words.
Writing is fun!
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¡Carlos escribe su nombre! (escribir tu nombre)
Carlos quiere escribir su nombre como sus amigos pueden. Le pida ayuda a su mamá. Practica muchas veces. Ve como Carlos se siente orgulloso para mostrar a sus amigos lo que puede hacer. Aprendiendo como escribir su propio nombre ayuda a un niño a reconocer y formar las letras y le lleva a escribir más palabras.
¡Escribiendo es divertido!
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