Activities! Odd & Even Numbers! Numbers 1 through 100! Metrics! And...(drumroll please)...Being Polite!
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Good manners can start a virtuous circle of goodness! “Please” really is a magic word. Knowing when to say “please,” “thank you,” and “you’re welcome” shows respect for others and demonstrates appreciation for kind behavior.
This week’s featured I See I Learn story is Freda Says Please (being polite). Freda can be pretty bossy sometimes. When she and Percy were playing “school,” she kept ordering him around, which Percy didn’t like one bit. “Miss Cathy is always polite,” he told her, then walked off to play by himself. (Miss Cathy, their teacher at Ready, Set, Pre-K, is a marvelous role model.) Freda learned quickly that manners matter! Children with good manners have more fun!
Being polite and showing good manners are important social skills that help children interact with others in a positive way.
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The week’s featured MathStart stories are:
Missing Mittens (odd and even numbers) It is summer here in the northern hemisphere, but in the southern hemisphere, it’s winter. B’rrrr. I sure hope everybody has their mittens!
100 Days of Cool (numbers 1—100) Did you know tbis book is one of six MathStart stories featured in a musical? Scroll down to listen to a real toe-tapper of a song!
Polly’s Pen Pal (metrics). Do you have a pen pal? It’s really fun. Email works, but old fashioned hand written (or typed and printed) letters sent via post office are a treat to find in a mailbox!
Your friend and pal, making sure to put his mittens away for the summer, while looking for his coolest clothes for the 100 Day Challenge, and writing a letter, using a pen,
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:
Missing Mittens (odd & even numbers)
B'rrrr. It's a cold snowy day and Farmer Bill is missing one of his mittens. The cow, three chickens and two horses are in the same pickle. Instead of having an even 2, 4, 6 or 8 mittens for their hands, hooves and feet, they've got 1, 3, 5 and 7. How odd! Can you guess who the barnyard mitten thief is?
Identifying the difference between odd and even numbers is essential to understanding our number system.
• Level 2, Kindergarten / Grade 1:
100 Days of Cool (numbers 1—100)
When Mrs. Lopez tells her class that they're going to celebrate "100 Days of School," Maggie hears "100 of Days of Cool" instead. Mrs. Lopez thinks that's a great idea, too. So for the next 100 days, Maggie, along with her buddies Nathan, Yoshi, and Scott, come up with 100 different ways to be cool. They wear funny glasses, fancy socks, decorate their bikes, even dress up in clothes from the wacky 1970s.
A number line is used to keep track of their progress.
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From the theatrical sensation, The Main Street Kids’ Club: A MathStart Musical!
• Level 3, Grades 2 - 4:
Polly’s Pen Pal (metrics)
Polly's new pen-pal, Ally, lives in Montreal, Canada, where they use the metric system. Polly and Ally have lots in common: They both have cats, like the color purple, and are just about the same size and weight. But when Ally writes that she is 125 centimeters tall, Polly needs to ask her Dad for help to figure out how tall that really is. Dad uses a baseball bat about 1 meter—100 centimeters—long as a reference, and shows Polly that one centimeter is about the width of his little finger. Dad helps Polly figure out grams and kilograms, and meters and kilometers, also by using every day references she can relate to.
The use of rough equivalents in terms of familiar objects and distances helps kids become familiar and comfortable with the metric system.
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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.
Freda Says Please (being polite)
Freda likes to play school. But when she pretends to be the teacher, she doesn’t always say “please” and “thank you.” See how her friends help Freda learn how to be polite.
Saying “please,” “thank you” and “you’re welcome” shows respect for others and demonstrates appreciation for kind behavior.
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