Activities! Doubling! Halving! A Shark Swimathon and....Making New Friends!
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Hello, Everybody!
Happy New Year!
My wish for all of you is to make lots of new friends this year. Friends are the best!
This week’s featured I See I Learn story is Emma’s Friendwich / Emma hace amigos, which is all about making friends. Below is a video of me reading the story, which is one of my favorites.
Check out the links to free PDF posters (English and Spanish) of the “Closer Look” section at the bottom of this email!
This week’s three featured MathStart stories are:
Double the Ducks (a story about doubling and also about making a new friend)
Give Me Half! (a story about understanding halves and also about cooperation)
Shark Swimathon (a story subtracting 2-digit numbers and also about teamwork
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Your friend, who is so happy to have all of you as my friends!
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:
Double the Ducks (doubling numbers)
The young cowboy has his two hands full with five little ducks. They need three sacks of food and four bundles of hay. And when they each bring home a friend, it's twice as much work. For 10 little ducks, he needs double the food, double the hay and double the hands!
The first step in mastering basic addition is adding a number to itself (for example, 3+3).
• Level 2, Kindergarten / Grade 1:
Give Me Half! (Understanding halves)
When a boy tries to eat a whole pizza without sharing half with his sister, it's not pretty. Of course, she isn't too keen on sharing her juice or cupcakes. With a little adult prodding, however, they soon learn the benefits of sharing and split everything in half, including clean-up chores.
Recognizing that half means one of two equal parts leads to understanding fractions.
• Level 3, Grades 2 - 4:
Shark Swimathon (subtracting 2-digit numbers)
The Ocean City Sharks swim team—Gill, Fin, Stripes, Tiny, and the hammerhead twins, Flip and Flap—really want to go the state swim meet, but they're short on funds. If they can swim 75 laps over the next four days, the local newspaper will sponsor them. The first day they swim a total of 14 laps (75 - 14 = 61). The next day they do a little better with 17 laps (61-17 = 44) But will they make their goal?
Learning to subtract 2-digit numbers with and without regrouping prepares children for subtracting larger numbers.
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!
Emma’s Friendwich (making friends)
Emma is new in town. More than anything, she wants to make new friends. See what happens when she smiles, asks to play, offers to help, and shares her toys. Making friends is fun!
The ability to make new friends is important as young children meet one another and work and play together.
Encourage your child to make a new friend!
FREE ACTIVITY PDF
Emma hace amigos (hacer amigos)
Emma acaba de mudarse a un nuevo vecindario. Y lo que más desea es hacer amigos. Ve lo que sucede cuando ella sonríe, pide que la dejen jugar, y se ofrece a ayudar y a compartir sus juguetes. ¡Hacer amigos es divertido!
La habilidad de hacer amigos nuevos es importante mientras los niños se conocen y trabajan y juegan juntos.
¡Anime a su hijo/a a hacer un amigo nuevo!
FREE ACTIVITY PDF
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