Activities! Number Order! Calendars! Time! And Ajay Plays Ball!
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Hello Everybody!
Gosh it’s hot outside! It’s perfect weather for baseball! Ajay is frustrated. He is having a very, very hard time with his pitching. Making him feel worse, his big sister, Meera, is really good at throwing the ball.
Ajay’s friends from Ready, Set, Pre-K remind him how he learned to do other things he found difficult at first. Practice helps Ajay build his confidence. And the more he believes he can be a pitcher, the better his pitching!
This week’s featured I See I Learn story—Good Job, Ajay / ¡Bien hecho, Ajay!—is about building confidence, an emotional skill. Having confidence as young children try new things, face new challenges, and attempt to reach higher goals, both in school and in life. Help your child take on something new!
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The week’s featured MathStart stories are:
One, Two, Three…Sassafras! (number order) When you take family pictures at the beach, do you line up by tallest to shortest? Or by oldest to youngest?
Pepper’s Journal (calendars) Kittens? Or puppies? Do you have a favorite?
Game Time! (time) Time to play soccer!
Your friend, thinking about the baseball, the beach, kittens and puppies and soccer!
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.
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• Level 1, Pre-K / Kindergarten:
One, Two, Three…Sassafras (number order)
It's picture-taking at the Lumpkin family reunion and Uncle Howie wants all the cousins to line up by age—from one-year-old Jacob to 15 year-old Tanya. "Say Sassafras!" But when Uncle Howie clicks the shutter, something always seems to go wrong. "Great galloping gillywhoppers!"
Learning to arrange numbers in order helps develop counting skills and prepares children to understand our number system.
• Level 2, Kindergarten / Grade 1:
Pepper’s Journal (calendars)
Grandma's cat Snowy is about to have kittens, and Lisa and her little brother Joey will get to keep one. Little Pepper, whose white fur is dotted with black spots, has a very busy first year. Lisa keeps track of the highlights using a calendar. Her journal is also filled with lots of nifty information about cats.
Events in people's lives are measured by time, so it is important that children understand the relationships between days, weeks, months, and years.
• Level 3, Grades 2 - 4:
Game Time! (time)
Last year, the Falcons were the soccer league champs. Can the Huskies beat them this year? The big game is only seven days away—just one week. Then it's only one day away—24 hours. Then it's only an hour away—60 minutes. At first the Falcons come on strong, scoring during the first 15-minute quarter. Will the Huskies catch up by the half, 30 minutes into the game? It's a nail-biter, right down to the last second!
The relationships between the various units of time—seconds, minutes, hours, days, and weeks—and how clocks and calendars represent these units are important concepts for children to understand.
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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.
Good Job, Ajay! (building confidence)
Ajay wants to throw a ball straight and far. He tries, but he just can't do it. Then his friends remind Ajay how he learned to do other things. See what happens when they cheer him on.
Having confidence is critical as young children try new things, face new challenges, and attempt to reach higher goals.
Help your child take on something new!
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¡Bien hecho, Ajay! (como ganar confianza e ti mismo)
Ajay quiere lanzar la pelota en línea recta y lejos. Él trata, pero no lo logra. Entonces sus amigos le recuerdan cómo aprendió a hacer otras cosas. Ve lo que pasa cuando sus amigos lo apoyan.
Tener confianza es importante para los niños mientras tratan de hacer cosas nuevas, encuentran desafíos nuevos, y tratan de lograr metas difíciles.
¡Ayude a su hijo/a a tratar de hacer algo nuevo!
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