Activities! Cars! Coyotes! Rocks! And...Happy, Healthy Ajay!
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Hello, Everybody!
Don’t you love the carrot on Ajay’s t-shirt? It’s the perfect shirt for his star turn in this week’s featured I See I Learn story, Happy, Healthy Ajay! (healthy habits). Ajay learns that active play can be exercise. And Ajay loves to play tag and hopscotch! Do you play tag? Are you good at hopscotch? Drink plenty of water and eat healthy snacks and meals!
Learning healthy habits young sets a child up for success, both on the playground and also in the classroom. When children are healthy, they can better focus on learning.
So it’s really Happy, Healthy and Smart, Ajay!
This week’s three featured MathStart stories are:
Beep Beep, Vroom Vroom! (pattern recognition) *best cars!
A Fair Bear Share (regrouping) *best pie!
Dave’s Down-to-Earth Rock Shop (classifying) *best rocks!
Your friend, munching carrots and dreaming of hopscotch,
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:
Beep Beep, Vroom Vroom! (pattern recognition)
When little Molly plays with her big brother's red, yellow and blue toy cars, you know there is bound to be trouble...unless, of course, she can put them back in just the right order before he returns!
Recognizing and being able to extend patterns leads to the development of logical thinking.
• Level 2, Kindergarten / Grade 1:
A Fair Bear Share (regrouping)
Mama Bear wants to make her special Blue Ribbon Blueberry Pie, but it's up to her four cubs to gather enough nuts, berries and seeds. Three of the cubs go at it with gusto, adding up their treasures by arranging them in groups of tens and ones. But they don't have enough! Will their little sister—the one who spent the afternoon skipping, running and turning cartwheels—come through and save the day?
Learning how to regroup numbers is essential for solving more advanced addition problems.
• Level 3, Grades 2 - 4:
Dave’s Down to Earth Rock Shop (classifying)
Budding geologists Josh and Amy are crazy about collecting rocks. And with the help of local expert Dave, they learn how to sort rocks by different attributes: size, color, hardness and type. "We're kind of like rock detectives," says Amy. The story is filled with lots of rock facts.
Classifying objects according to attributes is a skill used throughout mathematics and science.
*Dave's shop is a real place, located in Evanston, Illinois, around the block from where Stuart used to live.
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.
20% off on book sets on the I See I Learn store!
Happy, Healthy Ajay! (healthy habits)
Ajay wants to be strong, so he can run fast with his friends. See how eating healthy foods and getting lots of exercise helps Ajay feel great—and run fast!
Learning how to eat good foods and engaging in active play help children to develop healthy habits that will serve them well throughout their lives. Staying fit and eating nourishing foods have benefits in the classroom, too. When children are healthy, they can better focus on learning.
Be healthy! It's a smart thing to do.
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